Elizabeth Sedran brings you the highlights from this week's General Studies Student Council meeting.
A new way to party-plan: GSSC broke down the order of their event-planning forms. For the sake of transparency, members said, all events will now first be proposed with an Event Idea Form. Then, once approved, an Event Proposal Form with cost estimates and an A-form to request funds will be submitted. After the event, an Event Debrief Form will be used to record what happened and leave a record for later years. No events will be planned without this process.
Funding acronyms streamline process: There was a discussion about the meeting between the Joint Council Cosponsorship Committee and Activities Board at Columbia. Due to restructuring, the Activities Board at Columbia (ABC) no longer wants to devote the time or funds to handle funding appeals from student groups. There’s a large overlap between ABC and the Joint Council Co-Sponsorship applications as it is, and ABC would hand over the entire appeal process but assist in screening requests so unreasonable appeals wouldn't be made. GSSC would support this change, but would give less money to ABC as a result.
