As every week, Bwog’s dedicated and experienced Engineering Student Council Bureau Chief Finn Klauber reports everything going on in SEAS student government. This week there are mold problems, Oktoberfest, and basketball-related free tuition.

ESC met last night to give a round robin-style slew of updates. Luckily for your humble correspondent, this meant that the ESC meeting ended before 10:30—which is always a good thing. Relevant updates from each position are recorded below.

Student Body President

  • ESC took a few minutes yesterday to discuss/nominate a representative for the Inter-School Governing Board (IGB) and an alternative representative for the Student Adjudication Panel.
    A meeting with Scott Wright regarding the EC mold problem did not pan out very well. Wright explained that the Facilities workers paint over the mold with a special type of chemical that is supposed to kill all mold spores. However, after continuing to see mold in treated rooms, the President was hard pressed to agree with Wright that the mold has been treated completely. Tangentially, Wright claims that Columbia will have all its dorms air conditioned within the next 30 years.
  • The JED Mental Health Task Force is continuing its efforts to improve Columbia’s mental health problems. Of course, all these meetings are confidential and we haven’t seen much adopted from JED in the past two years, so who can say what’s really going on.

VP Policy

  • After meeting with Jessica Prata, ESC is hoping to reestablish the “Green Fund” which went inactive a few years ago. The Fund aims at funding sustainability projects which students manage, but was shut down a few years ago due to lack of proposals. ESC is thinking about how to reboot thiss and market it better to SEAS students.

VP Student Life

  • Everybody’s favorite on-campus pep rally, Basketball Mania, is happening in Levien Gym on October 25th. Athletics wants students to be more involved this year, so the dunk contest judges will be elected and athletics is sponsoring a set of prizes for making a half court shot, making layups, etc. These prizes range from free coffee for a semester all the way to a semester’s worth of free tuition.

Class of 2019

  • If this is not the outside of Lerner, I am dropping out

    Representatives for 2019 across the schools are working on October’s Lerner Pub. As every year, this means an Oktoberfest-style celebration in one of Columbia’s outside plazas. It’ll be the week after Homecoming. Hopefully there’s some great Oktoberfest swag which will be given away.

Campus Affairs Representative

  • ESC discussed briefly COÖP and CUE, specifically whether everyone who applies should be able to attend. The Campus Affairs Rep will be meeting with Aaron Gomez, Director of Orientation, to discuss expanding these programs to more pre-frosh at Columbia.

 

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