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IHC Minutes: February 16, 2006

meeting called to order in Chandler

absent: Joey Koehler

guests: Brandi Cossairt, Peter Foley, Matt Walker, Jenny Hsiao

  1. The IHC briefly discusses whether or not it is a problem that Avery elections are not until third term.
  2. Stewardship Committee discussion:
    • The Stewardship Chair, Eddie Truong-Cao, has expressed an interest in having, along with the whole Stewardship Committee, a greater policy role.
    • It is the understanding of the IHC that the purpose of the Stewardship Committee is to officially determine whether specific instances of damage to the Houses is accidental, wear-and-tear, or intentional, and to serve as a liaison to Housing and the Physical Plant to expedite the process of fixing maintenance issues.
    • It is also the understanding of the IHC that the Stewardship Committee would not assign blame to individuals. If damage was determined to be intentional, it would be up to the House responsible to determine whether it should be paid for by the whole House or by individuals involved. (For example, so that damage caused during House events such as construction of a House party, would be paid for by the entire House.)
    • Possible issues to follow up on:
      • Some of the House damage reps have reported that Houses have been charged for a number of breakages this past year that were really just the result of normal wear-and-tear (especially in the mods, which are shoddily constructed). The IHC should check whether any Houses have had such unfair charges.
      • The fire policy now has punitive fines, which is not really in line with the Honor Code. The IHC would like either for these fines to be eliminated or for CRC/fire violations to no longer be called "Honor Code violations" automatically. Arturo will follow-up on this with the old and new BoC and CRC chairs.
  3. Page House has lost their "signature book" (which contains signatures of all past and present Page-boys). They would really like to have it back, so if any House presidents or their House members have any idea where it is, they should inform Page.
  4. Seven-day Task Force recommendations have officially been presented to Margo Marshak, and Margo Marshak presented them to the Faculty Board. The Faculty Board did not seem to have strong feeling one way or the other on the recommendations (except for Ken Farley, who may have specifically want the additional auxiliary money to come from undergraduates).
    • The task force is meeting again soon.
    • Margo Marshak has the final decision as to whether or not the money will come from other parts of Student Life and Auxiliaries, we will still have 7-day board, or to somehow try to operate at a larger loss than budgeted for.
    • The IHC would like to see a follow-up task force that would neutrally evaluate alternative proposals for making back the money that 7-day board would have.
  5. About 15-20 people have expressed interest to Craig in sitting in on Dean Curry's institute finances seminar class.
  6. The IHC needs to check with Tom Mannion about when the South Houses are slated to open -- we (or the North Houses) may want to hold some kind of welcoming or "welcome back" interhouse party around then.
  7. The IHC still needs to follow-up on why many student-faculty committees to which the IHC appoints students still have not met.
  8. Jeff Kranksi reports that the MHF-purchased heat lamps were $50 more expensive than expected, so each House that requested one should pay Dabney an extra $50 or should request a slightly-cheaper model.
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