IHC Minutes: May 4, 2005
meeting called to order in Avery
absent: Brandi Cossairt, Michael Chang;
guests: Daniel O'Hanlon (for Brandi)
- Erik reports that he is now officially the Avery Chancellor.
- Scheduling committee interviews
- Committee interviews starting at 10pm on Friday (SAC 33).
- Signups will go down Thursday afternoon, and another set of signups
will go up next to SAC 33 right after lunch.
- Storage space during South House renovations
- There may be very little storage space that is readily accessible
during the renovations.
- Long term storage will probably be available at St. Luke's,
which will be open to students when necessary, but this will
not be very convenient for equipment used daily
(such as Fleming athletics/social equipment).
- Peter gives a report on Tuesday's meeting with the architects in charge
of the South House renovations
- Each light fixture in rooms will have two halogen bulbs, and they
can be switched on and off independently.
- The rooms will have more comfortable carpeting then the earlier
samples we saw.
- Housing cards are due next Monday (5/9) for all students who are
living in unaffiliated housing for the summer.
- The SAC and Trunk Room are now supposed to be empty. Probably
everything in it will be thrown away soon, so students should be
warned to move their stuff out.
- The new and old IHC dinner will be held on Monday, 5/9.
- The manner in which joint ASCIT/IHC committee appointments will be made
has still not been determined.
- There will be a meeting tomorrow at Parsons-Gates 112 about mural
policy.
- Summer leadership conference and Caltech Leadership council
- Erik reports that Caltech is going to send 5 students to a leadership
conference over the summer. The goal is to train potential future
student leaders.
- The Caltech student leadership council is choosing who goes - they
would like to send a mix of freshman and sophomores from all of the
houses.
- Multi-purpose mods - Fleming and Ricketts will be sharing the
multi-purpose mod near Fleming and Dabney and Blacker will be sharing
the multi-purpose mod near Blacker (as was decided by the previous IHC).
- Spaces for summer housing
- Jenny reports that Page gave a list to housing with some people living
in doubles as singles. Although they had left open the required number
of spots for summer students, Tim Chang then said that Page needed to
reserve more spots for summer students rather then have so many students
living in doubles as singles.
- Final summer housing numbers must go to housing by 5/16.
- Dan reports (from Ewen) that housing is suggesting that they would
like some singles to be saved for summer students and for the mods to
be single gender. The IHC agrees that these requests can likely
not be fulfilled.
- Peter reports that, under California law, people must be allowed to
use the bathroom for whatever gender they self-identify as, so
single-gender bathrooms don't work so well, anyway.
- Stewardship Committee
- The IHC believes that the Stewardship Committee has the following
role with respect to damage to Houses: When damage to a house is
brought up by students or by Housing, the Stewardship Committee will
decide whether the damage is the responsibility of students or the
responsibility of Housing to pay for. Then, if they decide it is the
responsibility of students to pay for the damage, the house involved
decides whether the house as a whole is responsible, or only
individuals.
- The representatives to the Stewardship Committee should also
actively look for and report damage to their houses.
- The IHC discusses whether or not there should be an appeals process
in case a student and their House disagree on who should be
responsible for paying.
- We resolve to produce a document that clarifies the exact role of
the Stewardship Committee.
- In particularly, the Stewardship Committee doesn't really have
anything to do with murals and paint on the walls. (Unless they are
classified as damage.)
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- Challenges and Choices application deadline is May 13.