About 75 students attended Student Assembly's first meeting of Winter term on Tuesday night, during which the Assembly passed a resolution in support of a "Leadership Social."
The social, to be held on Jan. 17, will bring together the leaders of about 30 different student organizations as well as Dartmouth administrators. The resolution in support of the event was planned by Josh Jacobson '09 and the Assembly's Student Organizations Committee.
The event's goal, Jacobson said, is to "introduce all the student leaders on campus to the administrators that they'll be working with and also to each other so that they can all find common goals."
Elections for a new representative to the Assembly's Membership and Internal Affairs Committee were also held Tuesday night. Alessandra Necamp '09, a transfer student from St. Lawrence University, was elected to the committee, which is in charge of the Assembly's membership as well as the appointment of Assembly members to college committees.
Student Body President Tim Andreadis '07 and Vice President Jacqueline Loeb '08 were both pleased with the high level of student attendance.
"I was pleasantly surprised," said Loeb. "I hope most of them stay."
Loeb noted that, because it was the first meeting of the term, the Assembly's agenda was more basic.
"The first meeting of the term is always a more informational meeting," Loeb said. "We sort of have to just give the basics."
During the meeting, Parliamentarian Jaromy Siporen '08 showed students a Powerpoint presentation explaining the Assembly's debate and legislative procedure.
Student Body President Tim Andreadis '07 enumerated gender-neutral housing and the Sexual Assault Awareness Committee as two of the Assembly's main projects this winter.
During the meeting, Andreadis said that gender-neutral rooms will definitely be a housing option next fall, though questions remain about whether two-room doubles will be offered and whether the housing will be scattered throughout dorms or isolated to certain floors.
Andreadis also said the Dartmoose mascot will again be an important issue for the Assembly this term, although more student support is needed before involving the administration.
Andreadis said that the controversy over the Indian mascot this fall makes finding a new mascot more urgent; he said he believes settling on a mascot will stop students from referring to the discontinued one. The Assembly is currently soliciting artists' renditions of a new mascot.
Andreadis was elected in the spring of 2006 after conducting a campaign stressing women's rights, sexual assault
Last term, Andreadis said the Assembly's key accomplishments were a discussion behind Dartmouth's mascot and the Committee on Standards Task Force Report.
