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Ch-ch-changes abound for CCSC and its bylaws…and there’s a dose of classic obliviousness too. Expert Joe Milholland reports back from the jungle of bureaucracy that is student government. 

Along with grammatical changes and lengthy discussions on how long they should allow discussions to run, the Columbia College Student Council made some notable changes to its by-laws on Sunday night – although they will not vote to approve all these revisions until their next meeting.

• The CCSC president is now only required to send out one email a month, instead of one a week.
• The Elections Board is now officially funded by CCSC. The by-laws also state the council has to fund the Academic Awards Committee—a rule that lead to confusion at the meeting. Among the council, the only person who had heard anything about the Academic Awards Committee was the VP of Policy Vivek Ramakrishan, who was approached by someone who claimed to be a representative of the committee at the activities fair. This representative said he shared the table with CCSC. According to Ramakrishan, VP of Communications Grayson Warrick, who was previously the Academic Affairs Rep (but was not at Sunday’s meeting), had never heard of the committee. VP of Finance Sameer Mishra is looking into this committee.

• The VP of Finance is now advised to make F@CU allocations – the amount of money each undergraduate student council gives to governing boards, which in turn fund student clubs – roughly proportional to the amount of students in each school.
• College Days is one of the events the VP of Campus Life is suggested, but not required, to carry out (the previous by-laws had mandated a number of certain events for the VP of Campus Life to do, but that list did not include College Days).

Updates:

• The Policy Committee is “actually making sure ODS [Office of Disability Services] tells students when Dodge elevator is closed.” It is also setting up a gender-based misconduct task force.
• According to the University Senators, “SAC [Student Affairs Committee] hopes to have an executive summary of the Quality of Life Survey results out later this week.”
• The Communications Committee is preparing its Bacchanal Survey.

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