February 3, 2020

  • Head of College 

    • Ski trip coming up this weekend

      • Won’t be many seniors because it’s the same day as masquerade :(

    • The following week (the 15th) there’s the Potluck at Biggs

  • Dean’s Report 

    • Read his emails! Scroll all the way down

  • SAC

    • Superbowl party last night which was exciting

    • Next Amigos is next week for Valentine’s Day

  • Community Service 

    • Donate clothes 

  • By-Laws

    • Did you know?: Today is the day of elections 

  • Media

    • No new posts 

    • Eye for what’s beautiful so let Sam know

    • POI: Repost Dean Lafargue’s IRIS run pic

  • Fischer Report

    • POI: How’s the laundry room situation?

      • Seems better than before

      • New washers have been working well unlike the old ones, but a lot of water on the floor 

    • POI: Chris interested in setting up a thrift store down there, so if ever too many clothes / donation pickup not coordinated, could do that if people were interested and okay with that

      • We used to do that. Did it once in the Fellows Lounge and raised around $100 for Columbus House 

  • SayQueer

    • Nothing to report 

  • SlaYdies

    • Stuff in the works 

  • BlackBrook

    • Chewing the Fat discussion with 2 chefs at the House on Wednesday that Dean Lafargue will moderate about healthy soul food! 

    • Beginning of events by Chewing the Fat and the Cultural Houses, many of which involve learning to cook or eating 

  • College Seminar

    • Stay tuned this week or next for an email about interviews 

  • Dining hall

    • Food conversation tomorrow at Yale on York with Elizabeth Falkner from Iron Chef and Top Chef 

    • If anyone is interested in this position, talk to Joey! He’s a senior 

    • POI: Getting Caesar salad everyday? 

      • Garlic cloves won’t happen, but the salad will be asked about  

      • Ben the frosh really wants garlic cloves 

    • POI: Before break, there was talk about feel bad / specialty food expressed by the boss of Yale Dining

      • Happened after results of survey from last May 

        • We were ranked second to last with Branford being last despite us having the same kitchen  

    • POI: Can we ask about sun butter in the fridge? 

    • Koomson Report

      • Carrie had a beef stir fry lo mein in the stiles dining hall

  • Housing

    • Reach out to Dean Lafargue if you want to be on this committee! 

  • IMs

    • Still winning! Up 53 points from Hopper!! 

  • Saybrew

    • Brewed successfully this past weekend and served at the Superbowl party 

    • Let Saybrew know if there’s a SY event you want someone to serve at perchance

    • Let Sam know if you’re interested in taking this over. It takes more effort to restart a club than to keep it going, so please don’t let it die! Sam will teach you, and it’s not that hard 

    • POI: A number of people here that are/will soon be 21 

      • You don’t even have to be 21 to do it! Most of the process is nonalcoholic 

  • SYHSC

    • We all know and love the Tyng cup, but the Gimbel Cup is lesser known and awarded each year for highest GPA. SY has 11, the most of any college and the next highest is 7. We’re by far the wittiest and already won the Sheffield for highest STEM GPA! 

  • YCC

    • YCC voted to support the Yale Endowment Justice Coalition as you’ve seen in your emails 

    • Read the catch up 

  • Sustainability

    • Straw poll of how many would use a compost bin if there was access to one 24/7?

      • Many! 

    • Goal is to put it somewhere it can be accessed when the servery part of the dining hall is closed in case people forgot to compost in the larger dining hall bin during regular hours 

  • Old Business

    • The Budget meeting happened! 

  • Treasurer’s Report

    • Supposedly $0.00 although that is not how the money works 

  • New Business

    • POI: When is committee forming time? 

      • If you’ve been attending, you might know the interest in forming a committee to look at the artwork in the dining hall and seeing if we can diversify the stuff not essential to SY’s history 

      • About 8 people responded positively to this and were emailed and more could join! 

      • SCC should show its commitment to thoughtfulness in artwork and making this process ongoing and hold it accountable. More people would learn of it as a committee 

      • POI: Would there be meetings?

        • Yes, but fairly infrequently. With the YUAG or Prof Near or amongst themselves. Potentially monthly emails or just weekly SCC updates

      • POI: In perpetuity?

        • Depends on the goal

        • Could be about art in our public spaces period. Aiding the HOC as curator of the space in getting student input

        • The dining hall is but one space in SY 

      • All in favor of making a SY special committee?

        • The SY Art Committee 

          • That’s SAC

        • Special Committee of Art 

          • Motion passes! 

    • Call back to the fact that Joey has held the Dining Hall position since first-year which is rare. Roger would like to rename the Dining Hall Report the Kamm Report in honor of Joey

      • Passes!!! 

      • Super wholesome and well-deserved 

    • POI: Am I (Mikayla) the new Community Service rep?

      • Yes 

  • Elections

    • Starting top down. If the person is running unopposed there is just a show of hands, if not, voting by ballot which will be counted in another room 

    • Reading of the roles. Outlined in the email that Alex sent. 

    • President

      • Sarah Force is nominated and accepts

        •  Super excited! 

    • Vice President 

      • Jesse is nominated and accepts

      • Also excited, especially to be a VP to a woman! Hopes this trend continues in 2020. 

      • Happy we experienced this together, more important than the Iowa Caucuses 

    • Treasurer 

      • Donasia is nominated and doesn’t accept

      • Sam is nominated and accepts!

        • Excited! 

    • Secretary 

      • Ben the frosh is nominated and accepts

        • Hooray!!! 

      • David is nominated and doesn’t accept 

    • Prof Near is excited for next week 

    • Motion to thank the old board from Ben! :) 

      • He is already doing better than me haha. It’s been a fun year, I hope people have been enjoying these minutes! 

  • Motion to adjourn

    • Seconded