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I. Good Morning/ Introduction of New Members
- Phillip Myer
II. Minutes- Need to Appoint a Secretary
III. Old Business
a. Babcock Street Project
- Will be wrapped up sometime in October
b. Panthereum completion data
- Not definite- 3 to 4 weeks out
- Top is holding up the work
- Going to have fountains spitting out water on the sides
- Facilities is going to be putting a project update on FIT and FACT forums
c. Smoking Areas
- Stephen Hanna’s report
- Recommended making one area in the dorm quad for people to go smoke, and make it aesthetically pleasing
- Move cigarette disposals
- Need more permanent places in front of Skurla and Crawford
- Maybe start a trial period and see how it goes- start in Res Quad then fan out to rest of campus
d. New Student Housing Subcommittee
- Issue: centralized vs. decentralized housing; food services; infrastructure and security
- Going to look at history of proposals and surveys that have been done
- Going to prepare scenario comparisons for on and off campus living
- Going to review actual plans of previous proposals
- Renovate quad?
- Keep housing in north of campus?
- Going to look at sophomore requirement for living on campus
- Would pose a problem for Greek housing
- Possibility of year round Southgate housing
e. New Dining Facility Subcommittee
- To meet later today
f. International Students- Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh
- Religious and cultural problems with housing and dining facilities
- They want to cling together and prefer living off campus
- Uncomfortable performing religious practices in front of other students
- Ramadon- They have to eat at dawn for the holiday and eating facilities are not open at the time
- They are going to be give bagged breakfast to eat at sun-up
- The students have taken academic classes at home and want FIT to give them credit for those classes
- ELS- teaching in rooms with a mix of 101 and 103 class levels
- Grad students want a waver of the GRE requirement
IV. New Business
a. Panthereum Dedication
- No one assigned this task
- Frank, Zac, Tom, Doug, and Greg suggested for a subcommittee
- Need to look into this further
b. Website Update
- With respect to archiving old and new minutes
- Also want to make website more dynamic & get it out into FIT population
- Considering adding a suggestion box online or in the Sub for students to add more issues
- PUBs or Webmaster need to make the link on main website more noticeable
c. Subcommittees- QOL Issues
- Want to create an undergrad subcommittee to deal with issues
- Need to improve communication between organizations on campus
- Invite leaders of other groups to our meetings
V. Miscellaneous
- Talked about the small number of graduation tickets students are given
- Going to try to have an overflow room in Olin
- Try to increase diploma size
Next Meeting Tuesday, October 17, noon, 7th floor of Crawford
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