On Sunday, January 30, the ASWC Senate voted down a proposal to dedicate $15,000 from the Travel and Student Development Fund to fund a yearbook. The yearbook staff plans to revise the proposal and re-present it to the Senate in the coming weeks.
In order to help combat this problem of rising class sizes and course compression, the faculty voted in November to create a Curriculum Committee with the express purpose of coordinating the academic schedule across departments. When the committee was first proposed it included a student representative. This was done to have the insight of the students when making decisions about what times classes should be offered. In a later revision of the proposal, however, the provision for student representation was taken out over concerns about privacy.
The chosen color of the Sunday, Nov. 14 ASWC Senate meeting was green--unanimously.
On the agenda were two resolutions throwing ASWC support behind environmental initiatives and a vote on appropriating...
Whitman released its 2010 Annual Security Report, including crime statistics for the calendar year of 2009, last Friday, Oct. 1. The college discloses the statistics in accordance with the federal Clery Act.
Most notably, between 2008 and 2009, reported sex offenses on-campus and in students' off-campus houses fell from 18 to eight. Reported incidences of aggravated assault fell from two to zero. Meanwhile, reported burglaries rose from two to seven, robberies rose from zero to two and drug violation referrals rose from seven to 30.
ASWC voted unanimously during its Sunday, April 21, meeting to finalize its budget for the 2011 fiscal year, which totals $462,400. In addition to funding eight new campus clubs and organizations, the budget allocates more money to its Travel and Student Development Fund as well as to campus media groups.
ASWC student representatives are working together with members of the faculty and staff to put the finishing touches on the Student Grievance Policy, a procedure by which students can present formal complaints to the college. The policy is scheduled to be reviewed by the Academic Council during its April 28 meeting and if approved, will be submitted for the faculty to vote on during its meeting on May 12.
The Student Life Committee approves an ASWC-introduced revision to the Academic Dishonesty policy. The proposed changes would give professors more input in penalties for improper citations and plagiarism. The Faculty Committee must approve the new policy for it to take effect.
Following up a successful inaugural run last spring 2009, ASWC and the Whitman Outdoor Program have teamed up to offer free bus rides to Bluewood Ski Resort every Saturday throughout the month of Feb. 2010.
In the footsteps of deceased President Andrew Jackson, ASWC held its first Big Block of Cheese Day to gather student voices on a variety of pressing campus issues.
First-year Calvin Atkins walked briskly across Ankeny to the ASWC offices in Reid to learn his fate in senate elections on Monday, Sept. 21. For him, the news was good: he will be on ASWC's Finance Committee.
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