Simpson College Student Government Association

SGA Minutes 2.15.17

Call to Order

Roll

Minute Approval

Reports

Student Body Vice-President Pierce:

• Roses- Lewis

Student Body President Sydney:

• Buzz App
• Greek Picture
• Professor Epperson thank you note
• Next Course Volunteers Needed!!!
• United Methodist Reaccreditation Forum
  • Thursday, February 23rd from 1:45-2:30 in Hubbell II.

Senior Class President Ishaya David :

• Flag football on campus day
• Lunch on campus day
  • Need a budget request
• Newspaper ads, Kyle
  • Open up to community for more service jobs in Indianola
• Trash the professors?
  • Used to be a tradition
  • Continue to bring it back
  • Discussion on the name being very negative
    • Nick: Professors though it was hilarious and it brought the community together. It was well attended, and it increases the togetherness.
    • Casey: From a first year perspective, this is what I liked about Simpson.
    • Ishaya: This will be well thought out, and we plan to set rules and guidelines to make sure nothing too negative will come out of it.
• 8 T-Shirt designs, wanna see?
  • Ishaya: My laptop won’t connect to the internet, sorry.

Junior Class President Nick Laning

• Budget Requests
• Implementing  Conference Reports and End of Semester Reports completely
• Moving ahead on projects, got an idea this week from Pierce and assigned it right away, good example
  • Nick: Pierce messaged me on a weight room improvement project

Sophomore Class President: Tre

• Alternating Schedules
  • Drew is still working on the schedules
• Parking Tickets (Tre & Drew)
  • Notifying people of their ticket
  • Chris Freichs
  • Still working with the lady
• The day on the hill project
• EPIC Challenge (Britney)
  • Draft questions
  • –What advice do you have for young women entering the workforce?
  • –What are the sources of resistance for girls and women attempting to enter your fields?
  • –How did you get into this work?
  • –How can men be helpful allies in elevating the voices of the women in their lives?
  • –What was your first leadership experience?
  • –Is it difficult trying to balance your successful careers and your personal lives?
  • Additional questions
    • What problems did you face when getting started?
    • Who has been the most influential leader in your life?
    • What obstacles did you overcome as a leader?
      • How did you overcome them?
    • What changes could be made for women to obtain success?
      • What changes have already been made?

First year class president Lewis

• We sent Prof. Epperson flowers
• Revamping the Website (Drew)
  • Status with Rich
    • Doesn’t have access to website yet
    • Changing
      • Descriptions
      • FB and Twitter connection
      • Description of things
      • Description of Committee’s
      • Upload minutes
      • Link a word.press
      • Waiting on Oscar
• Meeting with William Penn

Any other reports

• Food Committee
  • Signature dinner, you can vote for the food.
  • Vote in Pfieffer, vote with papers in the boxes that look like valentines
• Advocacy Committee
  • Equipment checkout is in place
  • To checkout, there is a list on the info desk, and they right their information
  • Tre: Put posters in places where the athletes go that would need materials  
• New major
  • Interactive
• Charging Tables
  • Casey: We found a new company, Rich is going to a convention and will talk to the company there. Pictures will be uploaded to FB

Old business:

New Business

• Budget Requests
  • Mu Sigma Kappa- $820 for Nostalgia Event, I sent an email description
    • Cody: Seconded
  • It’s a music chapter that no longer requests dues from members.
  • The event last year was very well attended
  • Nick: I will talk to them about finance rules
  • Motion Carries
• $6,000 sitting in the budget
• $90-95,000 in the capital improvement budget
  • We can’t tell exact numbers because the business office uses methods from the 1970s

General Discussion

• Flood light issues
• Make sure if you have issues/questions/need things you talk to Pierce and Sydney
  • Pierce: “I can be a nice person sometimes”

Announcements

• Rich: Senior only bingo tomorrow in Hubble at 8pm
• Blake: Pre-Health 21st 5-7 chilli cookoff
• Morgan: KKG second kappa con Queso 5-7pm, enter your queso
• LA trip fundraiser
• Dance Marathon is this weekend
• Hump Day Ha’s tonight at 10pm
• Polar Plunge this weekend
• Underground tomorrow night, new perspective students will be there
  • Pierce will be reading tweets on why he is single
• Cheer tryouts , there is a FB page, you can register online, they need more people
  • Cody: “So I could apply?”
  • Emma/Casey : “You can!”
• All campus formal next Saturday – candyland theme

Adjournment

-7:33pm