Minutes from the DAC Senate Meeting

Question and answer session

Why is the VP of programming, not vote

Apart of the structure of that was agreed upon

Why do we need this ?

We have groups like "senate"

In what capacity can you do more than senate

Senators graduate and loose interest in what they do

Need something more consistent

Need some thing to be sustained

Senate deals with more with various projects

Not trying to do "more" with senate

Working more with senate to work on what ever will fall in the realm of diverslity on campus

Student groups cannot really sustain excitement for diversity on campus

Student groups doing other thing

For this racial profiling example, how would the DAC react?

Ther is no single committee that works specifically with diversity

People want to do something in the community, but don't know the resources

Can direct students to other resources on campus

About the relationships

Senate is more policy oriented, the DAC

Hard for senate because it is individually project based

Clarify, how is the DAC different than Connect 4?

• Take a look at the spare slide!
• Dac is more policy oriented than programming
• Dac is student union body, pres and treas. Training
• Helps with overprogramming
• C4 is events focus,a nd programming focused
• DAC is more policy recommendation oriented
• Connect 4 is still anew organization
• Project based with individual members

Opinion of Roundtable

• Very successful
• Talking about how to further relay our end ideas/mission
• Really helpful perspectives

Thoughts on how Diversity training is not  a programming body?

Dac members would go to another members event

We would Privide the training, not plan the "event" (that will be planned by the student group)

Jill Carneghi

1. Great thing- institutionalizes ideals of what
2. 2
3. Why restrict yourself to no budget?
1. Might need that one day
2. Put your money where your mouth is and where your
3. Look at the OTHER spare slide
4. If a budget is needed, we could appeal under the executive budget/appeal
5. Annual operating budget would be 0 for the
6. In theory: why not have a line item budget

Could Connect 4 be considered a subsidiary comitte?

-dac coprogramming with other individual groups

Senate Discussion

• Very well presented
• Having a body which is able to communicate wtievery body on campus
• Concerns
• Is there conflictt with DAC providing resources.  Isn't that a VP Programming job
• Is it more than an advising body
• Vp programming- is for coordinating non overprogramming
• Vp programming will advise in the overprogrammming sense
• Dac is ultimately trying to facilitate programming amongst student groups

• Just because this isnt a programming boad doesn’t mean that they cannot do anything
• Can work with student groups
• Putting on non-budgetary programms
• Who will continue monitoring the email address for racial profiling incidences
• Does this legislation reflect what is presented  in the legislation
• Encourage more programming by other student groups
• Collaboration
• That’s why it is in student union

Advertising to the ENTIRE Wash U community

Concerns:

Downside: add more complexity to SU's complex organizational structure

Don’t see what the DAC will be doing  on a week to week basis

A lot of overlap with other organizations

Are there other ways of creating these goals OUTSIDE of the DAC

Purpose slide freaked her out, reads like programming group; should focus mission statement on policy

Ammendment proposed-committee that will address issues and coprogramming

Vote of the ammendment: raising of placards:

See NEW legislation: ammendment has been made

DAC gives a positie vibe

Motion to vote now:7 for voting, opposed:

Vailed

Back in discussion

Why isn't VP Programming doing this?

Diversity in unclear

This is NOT just about PROGRAMMING

Dac is there for students who will want to start initiatives

More hesitant because it is so simiilar to connect 4

It should be better thought out and do more

Point of clarification

Senate can amend the legislation at any ppoint

There is a lot of oversight between the legislative bodies

How can we (international grad students) program with undergraduates?

Great to have an authority figure to go to

Programming takes a lot of energy

Not having that as a priority will allow that council to focus on reaching out to other graduate students

STL community wants to reach out to Washington University studsents

Will  be able to connect the STL entities, as well as Wash U community

Having a roll call vote on the vote to vote (confusing right)- failed

Actual vote to vote- 13 for, 10 opposed

Abstain 2

Failed

MOVE BACK TO DISCUSSION

Opinions  on dac making its own constitution

Not important to have weekly meetings

Interest in other groups

Cs 40 supports this and want too use this a s a resource (Pat)

Membership question: point of clarification: must have attended one previous meeting

Motion to ammend: change f.1- voting members present instead of entire voting membership (friendly ammendment)

Alex: Concern: too large to have a budget

Rather see the vp  programming appoint a diversity initiatives chair before establishing the DAC

Alof of change

Analogous to the green commitees

Takes time to have this organization to grow

Not hard to twak along the way

Should really pass this,and make sure it passes in tresury

We can tweak this and make this better

DAC is not a passive resource

Question: not enough for the DAC to do

e.g. WU/fused does constant things, even though there is nothing required for big programming each week

Is the dac active or passive?

Interesting point

Argument: fema: only really need for natural disaster and catastrophe, only needed when a catastrophe to happen

Important to have an established structure to step

Have to be planning and working with everyone

Point of clarification c.1-  cabinet can be defined by the constitution (size can change)

Senate was once apart of treasury, and it was brought up (would  senate have anything to do

Need is there!

Don't have a body

Need a figure head

Merits its own organization and inititiave

Vp of programming wouldn't relally focus on diversity and these needs ona daily basis

Helpful to have another group focused solely on this issue

Mike Saksvick

Paralysis by analysis

Need to stop talking about the braod stuff

Constitution wil l work out the details

Vote on the motion: legislation to create diversity affairs council:

Roll call vote 22:2:1

Non-voters: Alex Cooper and Pat Kelley

Treasury will be seeing this next week