update 11/1

Stay Informed!



Every Monday
6pm IISC meetings in Room 20 @ 741 Valencia. All students welcome.

Every Wednesday
1-3pm New College Community Pot-luck and Info-share in the Cultural Center


This Thursday November 1st

12-2pm School-wide Meeting - Law School – 50 Fell St.



This Thursday November 1st

7pm Gathering to Discuss the Transformation of Community Space. Food, Drink, Discussion, Information, Art, Dialogue, Vision, Murals, Chalkboards, Bulletins, More.

741 Valencia St. Rooftop.



Monday November 5th

5-6pm Potluck & Free Food Share in the Café, all welcome.

organized by Student Support Network
(more info below)




Student Council Report Back 10-29-07



Present:

Alex, Writing & Consciousness

Kirsten, Undergrad Wkday Humanities

Lizzy, Undergrad Wkday Humanities

Will, Law School

Neil, Media Studies

Jeremiah, Alumni: Teacher Education Program

Tony, Undergrad Wkday Humanities



Topics:

*Begin to formulate our own Student Directory. Phone numbers, email addresses and department

-Broken down by department? Asking program directors for student contact info

-Facebook brought up as a possible tool



*Student Support Services

-a group of students organizing to provide mutual aid to one another during this time of accelerated stress (both financial and emotional)

-to join the listserv, send an email to ncstudentsupport- subscribe@ yahoogroups. com

-some ideas we threw out about this plan included cook-outs, community dinners, getting in-kind food donations from local grocers/vendors, freebox, tenants rights information, squatting casa loma if people are being displaced.



*Follow-up to School-wide meeting. It was very inspiring to see that many people showing up for New College. There was sentiment expressed about the desire to see that momentum continue, possibly by holding a School-wide meeting every other Friday. Also proposed was Student Council sponsored Forums: This is an idea for the Student Council to do something public demonstrating how we’re trying to engage in a dialogue with others about what’s happening at new college right now. We asked if Matt could make up some new posters for another school-wide meeting for Friday the 9th 4-7pm.



*Updates Needed from Student Reps on Presidential Search Committee (Animal, Pamela, Sarah, who else?).

Student Council needs to remain in contact with those students who hold seats at the committee.

We need a report from you as well as continued dialogue to ensure that you are representing the interest of students (or at least attempting to, to the best of our ability as an Interim Student Council). Students have a significant voice on the committee, so we should make sure we have a clear idea of what our goals are.

This is a 3-part request coming from those present at the last two IISC meetings:

Please send us a report on the meetings you’ve been having around selecting a new Interim President. Also, please let us know your thoughts, perspectives, decision making process, political process, debates, etc. Also, please try to attend the next student council meeting on Monday.



*Creamery - multi-purpose classroom with radio broadcast facilities and sound system

We want to know - is it going up for sale or not?

What can we do to increase student engagement with the space and facilities?



*Jeremiah visited the meeting. He has solid experience in student council building, organizing and reform. He said he’d look over our charter and help where he can.





Forwarded Message: more info about Monday’s Free Food Share - Please help spread the word ( ! )



Hello Hungry Students,

It looks like some people will be doing free food/food share beginning
on Monday, hopefully in the cultural center. The space is not
confirmed yet but I will post it when I hear.

Students from the Social Movements class talked about this last night.
Anyone who wants to bring food is welcome (pot-luck). Anyone is
welcome to come and eat. If we can do this often, it may help some
students (or staff/faculty, if they want to come) cut down on food bills.

I think that ideally we could do this mon, wed, fri. every week until
we don't need to do it any more. But let's just start with Monday and
see how it goes from there.

ABOUT ASKING FOR DONATIONS:

Asking bakeries for day-old bagels and bread, asking markets for food
donations, is all good. To be honest with potential donors, I would
suggest NOT asking for donations on behalf of New College, but rather
on behalf of an independent person (you), a student. Unless people
would like to go ahead and talk with admin and get the 501c3 tax ID#
for the school and a letter on letterhead explaining the situation.
But of course if you don't want to do all that you can just say to a
potential donor that students are doing pot-luck dinners because our
financial aid is on hold because New College is being audited by the
DOE and our funds are temporarily frozen. So that people understand
the parameters of our cause, you might let them know that we expect to
be doing this only temporarily (about 5 weeks), until (hopefully!)
funds are released.

I write this because I am wary of a situation that could start a panic
in our community; I just think we should take care to deliberately
explain our situation in a way that lets any potential food donor
understand what's going on.

SO HERE'S THE IDEA:

MONDAY 5 PM
Free Food/Potluck (bring something!)
OPEN TO ALL

Space to eat, talk about student emergency support ideas, space to
talk about what's going on in general at the school, etc.

Student Council meets Mondays at 6pm so hopefully that group will
GROW, too. All interested students are invited to take the time to
check out those meetings as well, conveniently happening right after
this dinner.

Be in touch through the list about this... hopefully we will get a
good group of people together for Monday!

-brooke

brookelober@ yahoo.com

ncstudentsupport- subscribe@ yahoogroups. com