October 28th, 2019

  • Preface

    • SCC Bingo Edition round 2! Thanks Sam! Tonight the options are a SY hat, a SY fanny pack (filled with SY goodies), or the NEW SY strip shirt that is now also available for purchase in the SY College Office. :) 

    • Please keep to parliamentary order and maintain decorum. After all, this is the SY College Council. Nothing out of the ordinary here. 

    • Alex won bingo. Corruption?? 

  • Head of College 

    • Great weekend! Keep up the good work! 

  • Dean’s Report 

    • Will hold off (See housing)

  • SAC

    • Amigos night this Wednesday! Hallo-migos! 

    • Thanks to everyone who came to Oktoberfest in the stone courtyard. It was amazing! 

  • Community Service 

    • Donate clothes

    • Read your Dwight Hall newsletters

    • Take Mary’s job. Please reach out! It’s fun to be involved with SY :)

  • By-Laws

    • Did you know?: The treasurer has the authority to demand that all receipts be returned to herself and not the SY College Office. Could be cooking the books

  • Media

    • Sam is giving this committee new life! There was lots of new material from Oktoberfest!

  • Fischer Report

    • Do not crush things in your room. Don’t break things.

  • SayQueer

    • Nothing to report

  • SlaYdies

    • Trying to put together an event to support one of the Yale women’s teams (likely volleyball) sometime in Mid-November! 

  • BlackBrook

    • Nothing to report

  • College Seminar

    • Should be having dinner at Union League next Wednesday 

  • Dining hall

    • Probably will be some pop up for Halloween, but do not worry, there will still be chicken tenders. 

    • As a general rule, remember to push your chairs in when you get up!

    • Koomson Report

      • Jazzy went to Halal Guys. It was delicious. Had chicken, rice, white sauce, pita, and hummus

  • Housing

    • There’ll be an email sent out announcing positions for the housing committee to first-years

  • IMs

    • POI: Volleyball is running over 

    • POI: We won!

  • Saybrew

    • Thanks for drinking the beer and SYder at Oktoberfest! Poured more than we ever do, so proud

    • Met for beer tasting on Sunday. Delicious. Donuts. Brewed grapefruit flavored hard seltzer, hard cider using Bishop’s Orchard apples, and a lager that should be ready mid-January

  • SYHSC

    • Everyone knows of our rivalry with Branford. Well, around 20 years ago the gates between the two colleges were locked so you couldn’t pass between them during the Memorial Quadrangle transformation. We’re on better terms now.

  • YCC

    • Nothing to report 

  • Sustainability

    • Probably doing a planting day soon! Look out for it! 

    • POI: From now one there’ll be a person or two tabling outside of the dining hall on Mondays for a Meatless Monday initiative!

      •  The purpose is to encourage students to not choose meat options for the day and show the feasibility of reducing meat consumption.

      • There’ll be informational materials, an online pledge, and a cute sticker for people who went meatless. :) 

    • POI: If you do lots of shopping, are tired of the CT bag tax and want to be sustainable, there are now SY reusable bags that you can check out for free in the SY office. 

  • Old Business

    • Vandy fire drill got pushed to next Monday

  • Treasurer’s Report

    • No money left in the treasurer’s report.

      • Are you kidding? Do you mean $0.00 in the rolling fund??

  • New Business

    • POI: John is back. Can the 3 affinity groups be in the Constitution? 

      • They are. 

  • Motion to Adjourn 

    • Seconded