March 2nd, 2015

MEETING MINUTES

March 2nd, 2015

Master’s and Associate Master’s Report

Dean’s Report

  • Course drop deadline is this Friday!

Committee Reports

SAC (Saybrook Activities Committee)

  • Great Insomnia Cookies study break.
  • Viva’s Night will be on a Wednesday.

Community Service

  • Layla is investigating having Saybrook go work in a soup kitchen.

Facilities

  • Exciting update: Aadi will speak to Master Near about facilities needs. He is looking for a working list of needs before Spring Break.

Intramurals

  • E-mail about playoffs was set.
  • A Hoops, B Hoops, C Hoops, and Hockey.
  • Master Hudak described the floundering state of IMs…we have some work to do! Troops, rally!

Sustainability Committee

  • Food waste report was published.
  • Saybrook so far has the least amount of waste.
  • Watch out for an Earth Hour and St. Patrick’s Day event after the break.
  • Sustainability Service Corps is trying to get spring salvage done earlier – if you have clothes or materials you don’t want anymore, bring them to YHAAP. Watch out for an e-mail from Ihna! (This is too have less things to move around at the end of the year). Put your heaters at the lowest settings, too! At 1 or 2.

Dining Committee

  • We will have concrete floors after the Spring Break in the dining hall. Only after this semester will the wood paneling be replaced.
  • Potential idea: drawing murals on the floors.
  • Posters that were damaged during the flood are being restored.

Media Committee

  • Follow the Media Committee @SaybrookCC..

Saybrook Historical Society Committee

Bylaws

  • In honor of future master Near, did you know that the word fish appears exactly zero times in the Saybrook Constitution.
  • (Some wish to change this.)

Housing

  • Check the Housing page on the Saybrook website!
  • Is the Google Doc on the housing website online?

YCC

  • Solid meeting: Dean Holloway was present (for the first time!)

Brewing Club

College Seminar Committee

  • Next year’s seminar: Myth, Magic, Miracle: Reading & Writing the Unreal, taught by Courtney Sender, a Yale graduate.

Araba’s meal

  • Barely ate any of the chicken

Old Business

New Business

Brainstorming things Aadi can talk to future Saybrook Master Near about.

  • Laundry machines not breaking regularly.
  • Treadmill and the general state of the gym.
  • Study Rooms upstairs being somewhat sound proof.
  • Game room.
  • Replacement for the loveseat in the common room because of loose springs.
  • Fix the Saybrook glider! (the cornerstone of Saybrook social life when it’s warm outside)
  • Artwork in the hallways of the basement! At least some pictures to put up on the walls of the basement.
  • New pool cues in the basement. And ping pong paddles.
  • Better insulation of the windows, especially in common rooms.
    • B11, sewage smell, for instance.
  • Drafts in the dining hall.
  • Every 40 minutes, the TV in the TV room goes to static.
    • Has happened in Game Room, TV room, entryway B.
    • TV room: total of 3 batteries for 6 remotes.
    • Not clear what anything does (system itself).
  • Rubik’s Cube painting – missing square.
  • Storage during the summers – we’ve been going down in the number of boxes available.
  • Ventilation in the Squiche so that we don’t all have to share the (mmm, mozz sticks) smell.

If you think of anything, please e-mail Aadi (try to do this before Friday!)