Minutes for BC Meeting 12/4/15
In Attendance:
Paul Gramieri (treasurer)
Pierre-Alexander Lowe
Manny Morales
Tess Frenzel
George Ward
Aditi Krishnamurthy
Keshav Pant
Mohamed Ramy
Jacob Silverman
Silvia Sotolongo
Vivian Yee (minutetaker)
1. Charles Drew Health Professions Society
 First Meeting and a dr. martin visit
 Counceling center first time meeting
 Write in for prehealth before internships are due
 Premed discussion
o Students don’t really get to meet each other and meet other tas, so
want to have a discussion between prehealth students
o Foster community between students
o Is food integral?
o Food doesn’t seem integral
 Honorarium but don’t need to pay for transportation
o 25 people will attend
 no regular TA for biology, so want publicity for this
 Motion to fund all but food for prehealth discussion – 7,0,0
2. ACSU
 Student activities fair – want supplies for decorations for it
 Can’t fund this since this is for student affairs event, money should come
from them
 Want to have party in powerhouse with a DJ
o Want to make 5college event
 Wave your flag weekend – culture weekend
o Different cultural food for the dinner
o Usually get a large attendance rate
o See decorations as integral
o Paid last year for this
 Carnival is usually attended by 50-60 people
o Will have very diff decorations from the dinner, so need diff ones
 Already have 25 or so people interested in business conference
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o Will need 6 rooms
Will probably go to student activities for food since it will be a large sum
o Paul – if this is a big event that will draw lots of people, should be able
to give them a larger sum under a different rule
o Manny – shouldn’t be a first time event, should show precedent that
the costs and audience was that high (is harlem ren and wave your
flag)
o Jacob – need to go beyond large turnout, need some sort of binding
option? Need to have a way of quanifying the way who go
o Keshav – no way to force people into things however. Could try to put
foods and events in ‘tiers’ and how to fund that
o Ramy – no thin line between integral food and cultural food
 Paul & Jacob – could be considered the same thing as well
o Keshav – could put cultural food under integral food?
 Jacob – not mutually exclusive
Tier idea?
o Keep intro food and discussion food at 50
o Then BC can use their discretion to put event into a tier of how much
to fund
o Manny – this could be seen as pre-evaluating the value of an event
o Manny – can include a clause that this is for clubs that have proven
that certain event has this type of turnout to have the ability to get
additional funds – need to look at precedence
o Paul – concerns about future uses of discretion
o Manny – continuity of BC members?
o Keshav – new BC could also make a new rule to negate this
o Paul – ‘hallmark events’ get more? Should this be quantifies (over 150
people for the past 2 years)?
What are criteria of hallmark events?
o Had the event with 200 people or more in attendance
o Should have happened already once in the past – must have been the
prior year
o Paul – could have variability though?
o Manny – if it’s a large event, shouldn’t have this type of variability
o Would still have funding through student activities for this trial period
anyways
o Keshav – should attendance be only counting students?
o Change to 150 students?
o Application for a ‘hallmark event funding’ that gets considered by BC
o Should fill out form to request for hallmark event funding
 # of people last year
 times they’ve had this event
 have they sought cosponsorship
 amount requesting
Motion to fund – 7,0,1
3. Amherst College Mountain Biking
 Has not come to discretionary for the past year
 Now run by Juan and Tasha
 They currently have 7 bikes and only one is for women
 They want 4 bikes, 3 for women 1 for men
 Need a lot equipment for the bikes
 Padded shorts for new people
 Bike rack for van because PVTA only has one bike for two racks
 Bike rack could allow them to carry 7
 Clipless shoes means that it clips
 Trying to make the club more inclusive and accessible to different
genders and skill levels
 There is a shoes’ clip for the clipless shoes
 By this request trying to revitalize the club
 Have 20 regular people that attend
 Where are the current bikes kept?
 Manny thinks we shouldn’t fund it because to get a budget you need to
exemplify the ability to do it
 Should they be affiliated with the outing club?
 Paul wants them to prove that they can follow guidelines through
budget
 Currently a storage crisis in the socials
 Manny wants to fund it through discretionary because we would have
to cut stuff from other clubs to fund them
 Paul says they haven’t had a cub budget for the past three years
 We should fund them through discretionary in the Spring when it’s
possible to fund them
 7-0-1
4. Chess Club
 Pierre would like to fund everything
 Paul would like to not give chess a club budget
 Come for discretionary
 We’re just zeroing it
5. Newman Club
 Make sandwiches for the Holyoke kids- is this a giveaway?
 Paul says it’s not our place to be philanthropic
 Retreat
o Requested 900 but should be
 Valentine’s day dessert event- bring in elderly people to talk about their life
together
 Last Newman dinner of the year with pizza from Antonios
 No Antonio’s dinner that’s not integral
 Schwemm lecturer
o Public lecture on privilege and power
o Local clergy included focusing on divisions within the church
o Racial divisons on emphasis with the church
o 7k but we’re only contributing 500- enough people will show up this
is fine
o Motion to fund spring retreats
o 7-0-1
6. Men’s Club Soccer
 Travelling at least once a week
 Requesting balls but we’ve funded balls in the past
 Soccerballs don’t last very long though
 Ramy’s played soccer all his life he knows okay?
 Manny argues balls are balls
 Paul is bringing up a video about Schweddy balls
o Despite saying we need to be productive though
 George really likes the video
 Paul is making Sylvia late for her formal by making her watch the whole
video
 Paul loves this video
 Manny insists if you don’t watch the video it sounds like a porno
o How does he know what a porno sounds like though?
 Ask big questions
 Sylvia is not glad she stayed and has chosen to leave
 Now that Sylvia is gone Paul has stopped the video
 Jacob is clearly disappointed Sylvia has left for a formal with another man
o Our hearts are with you Jacob
 Manny insists the price for balls are too high
 Is there any connection between men’s and women’s soccer in regards to
balls?
 They want to buy a whistle and a coaching clip board
o Ramy found one for 20 bucks
 Good on you Ramy
 Sideline bench
o George is offended by this request
o George is an athlete and says he knows about benches
 Captain band
o Bands are cool according to Manny
 Travel
o DO THEY travel once a week? –Manny
 500 is too much for transportation because that’s every single week- Paul
 Current goals have broken- the ones the use are broken
o Small orange goals broken that club soccer use
 Manny wants to zero to see if they come on Sunday to make sure they need it
 Keshav found a clipboard for ten cents on amazon prime
o Now it’s 1.70 he takes it back
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George is calling out club sports
o #varsityprivilege
 Drafting a list for what clubs sports should be funded for
 Coaching clipboard necessary because it has a field on it
 6-1-0
7. GlobeMed
 overtime for val workers not paid last year
 Where will color wars happen?
o Normally
 Color Wars
o “My issues with the giveaways is the things they giveaway”
o Shirts zeroed as giveaway
o Staff Banquet
 Banquet
o Seniors are thanked and celebrating the year
 Black Women, Land, and Police Symposium
o Food not integral to this event
 Motion to fund Paul’s edits
 7-0-1
8. Amherst Political Union
 Bring in speakers – have five requested, 1 of which is a placeholder
 Manny – Fund the named speakers – have them come to discretionary for last
speaker or come appeal Sunday.
 Thoughts on many publications – Why should it be printed?
o Publications may print too many copies – many leftover copies
 Publication website
o IT’s system (CMS) is too restrictive to fund the site they’ve made
o Keshav – Do we pay for other publication websites
o They could use some of the free publication options
 We can’t fund websites – so we can’t fund Wordpress subscription
 What relationship do they have with the political science department
o Work with them for funding with large speakers.
 Motion to fund 1-6, and 8b
 8-0-0
9. Amherst Dance
 Aditi - What happens to costumes?
o Can be reused, but often not practical due to different performances
o Should tell the club to make sure they keep them, but the request is
reasonable
 Motion to fund all
 7-0-0
10. Swing, Salsa, and Ballroom
 Attended significantly by 5-college students
 Worth figuring out attendance by Amherst students
 8-0-0
11. Amherst College Women’s Rugby
 Ramy – Do they have balls?
 Hotel rooms? – Out of state tournament ~30 people
12. Traditional Games Club
 Should come to discretionary for games
 Not specific about which games they’d like to purchase
 Haven’t used discretionary in the past – should be made aware of it
 Motion to zero
 8-0-0
13. KSA
 Utensils are not happening for every event
 Zeroing utensils
 Asian Night Market 1000 dollars for food
o Give 500 for cultural food
 Get a calendar of events
 Creation of a calendar of events for next semester
 Go from 100 to 50 for decorations
 Add 50 to table cloths, table covers, etc.
 Hoddeok Night
o Pancake filled with syrup
o Pierre is probably allergic to it
o Korean pancake
o Utensils could be for preparing the food
 Zero hoddeck but give them money for cooking night
 7-0-0
14. Hip Hop Club
 Doesn’t have a club budget because they never applied for one even though
they’re eligible
15. Rhythm and Shoes
 All funded
 7-0-0
16. Green Amherst Project
 3 events
 Teach In Materials
o Costumes for interactive artistic component
 GAIA
o Money is for shipping
o We should half the funding for the magazine based on our perceived
readership
o Table it until tomorrow so we can get in touch with Lindy?
 Thanks for coming up with a great solution Pierre
 7-0-0
17. Amherst Element
 7-8 people are involved
 2500 is for color printing
 Distribute copies in Keefe and Val
 7-0-0
18. Argentine Tango Club
 Five College Event
 Day of Tango
 20 people every week but max 6 are Amherst students
 Milonga-40 people come to the dance
 Tango was unsuccessful at recruiting people last semester
 Zeroed completely so they come and explain how they’re going to get more
than 6 Amherst people coming to their club and justify the 4000 dollars spent
on the instructor
19. Fencing Club
 Zeroed grounding strip because it’s super expensive and just for practice
 7-0-0
20. Culinary Club
 Culinary did not request any money this semester
 Pie day is during spring break so cancel that
 Paul and Jacob have birthdays the 30th and the 31st and they are pumped
about it
 “My arch nemesis shares my birthday.”- George Ward. “She goes to John
Hopkins and I hate her.”
o “Why do I hate her? She’s the worst.”
o Aditi agrees that she is the worst
o They went to the same sailing school together, they were in town the
last summer, and she’s the worst.
 Did not get budget last semester
 Funding 1 and 2
o 7-0-0
21. Riding Club
 11 member plus 1
 14 rides per show
 Transfer to show place
 Motion to zero
 14 people
 12-13 compete
 Zero transportation so they can look for vans, half financial aid,
 7-0-0
22. Pride Alliance
 One party policy
 0 QT party fund Queer Prom
 Pride & Allies Week
 5-0-1