AHEC meeting minutes
2008-05-29 19:30 Crafts Lounge (back to list)
- Lottery update and June lottery
- Housing wishes to do another potential in-house lottery shortly; several desirable rooms have become available and this would give seniority point holders a chance at these rooms
- There is a possibility this may be difficult for us to run in short notice.
- 483 graduate students will be living in Ashdown in fall. Except for the above new vacancies Ashdown is now full.
- Potential new officers
- Energy officer roles and ideas
- Someone in charge of promoting environmental friendliness at Ashdown
- Idea: Sell green products at coffee hour once a month?
- Idea: Education about being green in NW35?
- Idea: Wait till we get to NW35 before creating new positions, or nominate individuals particularly interested/knowledgeable about issues such as energy
- Idea: Change name to "sustainability" officer or something else: recycling should also be part of the role
- Mentoring officer, mentoring program for undergraduates in Ashdown
- Idea: Mentoring program for undergrads
- Idea: Encourage learning in living environment
- "Floor" officers
- Issue: How to divide building? Horizontally, vertically, some other way?
- Solution: Let's try something and see how it works - we will go for 1 officer on first floor, 2 on each of 2nd-5th floors, tentatively. This also keeps the current state of ~60 residents per officer region.
- Orientation materials
- Pamphlets on various aspects of Ashdown house to hand out during orientation
- David and Dheera are working on this
- Move schedule and Orientation schedule
- Issue: Warehouse does not want to do the Harbor Cruise reception this year; should we take it up to continue this? How to cater/provide food?
- Ashdown dessert event
- Ashdown dance party
- Ashdown welcome/opening party
- Todo: Get a calendar and plan out exact dates soon, minding GSC and other events
- Tentative move schedule: 11-Aug move housemasters, 12-Aug move AHEC and resident officers, 13-Aug move nonresident officers, 14-15 Aug move everyone else.
- Idea: free food all day during the moves?
- Orientation mentor program
- Last year it worked but this year we are all "new" to the building so tentatively, no