- Fight the War on Fun. With or without the support of the administration, we will restore the storied senior tradition of 40s on 40 to its rightful glory, and provide weekly Senior Night drink specials at local bars. We’ll provide nightlife guides for pubs and clubs, movie screenings, museum events, concerts, and more. We’ll let you know each week what’s good in our, or any, NYC hood! We’ll demand relaxed party restrictions for seniors from ResLife, and help streamline the process of party approval for Greek communities. Finally, we’ll greet the spring with a better Bacchanal Week that isn’t hampered by major restrictions on alcohol consumption. And why not…let’s try to beer back in JJ’s!
- Class-wide Events. We’ll hold regular, fun events, both on and off campus, that involve as many people as possible—not just 40 friends—like movies on the steps during nice weather, extra delicious study breaks, comedy shows, and more.
- Class Day Speaker. For the culmination of our college experience, we’ll invite a class day speaker who is more than a big name, but is exciting, relevant, and will speak to us with feeling and wisdom. We’ll select someone who cares about our class, and who our class cares about hearing.
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Career Services and Alumni Connections. By Commencement, you will have put four years of hard work into receiving a Columbia diploma. You should feel a sense of accomplishment unburdened by fears of unemployment! To that end, we’ll work to improve career education and alumni connections, especially in neglected fields like service, the arts, non-profits, and NGOs.
- Alumni Lunch. Host regular luncheons with successful young alumni in all fields.
- Columbia Club. Introduce students to the resources available at the Columbia Club.
- Career Fair. Plan and host an arts career fair that brings art, design, and drama graduate schools, advertisement and design agencies, architecture firms, galleries, studios, auction houses, museums, the NEA, and more, to you.
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Communications between Class and Council. To solidify a cohesive senior class, a trustworthy and functioning system for the exchange of information must be in place. Furthermore, CCSC must be a vehicle for voicing student demands in a most effective and efficient manner.
- Office Hours. Every week, your class council will hold office hours—on the steps during nice weather—otherwise in Lerner, at convenient times in order get feedback from the class.
- Class Website. The present website is sorely underused. Regularly update the site with class-related news and events, provide quick feedback for student ideas and concerns, and as we move toward graduation, convert the site into a location to stay connected as alumni.
- Class Email. Emails should be concise, informative, and fun to read. We will also begin using video updates to inform the class of upcoming events.
- Quick-Response. In the event of divisive campus events, such as last semester’s hunger strike, we will be proactive about finding solutions satisfactory to all parties, beginning with open forums and conversations that bring disagreeing groups together in constructive discourse.
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Advertising for Campus Events. Going to school in New York City is great, but we sometimes forget about all the great things our classmates are doing on campus. It doesn't help that the only way to advertise events is to use your printing quota to put up posters that get torn down before anyone sees them.
- Event Website. Create a website that advertises events in order to reduce flyer usage. Newly formed groups will receive special attention on the website.
- Taskforce.Create an advertising taskforce to help campus groups that lack the personpower to advertise their events through intensive postering. This taskforce will put up flyers for groups, especially small or new groups that don’t have the ability to advertise well. They will do so on optimal days to maximize exposure before posters are taken down.
- Flyering Regulations. Only one flyer per group will be placed on each bulletin board, thereby decreasing wasteful paper usage while giving groups fair exposure. Flyers will be collected when taken down, and if not recycled, their blank sides may be reused by interested students for note paper.
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Environmental Policy. Only LE:MON yellow can make Columbia blue go green. Here are a few of the reforms we want to implement to ensure our class leaves a legacy of environmental awareness and action.
- Institute dorm carbon credits to increase reliance on renewable energy…students will have the option to pay a small fee (10 dollars) to have the energy they use be offset with effective carbon credits.
- Send information to students and their families about effective carbon credit programs during times of high travel, such as at move-in and move-out, commencement, and before breaks.
- Free shuttles or metrocards to the airport during breaks to reduce use of single cabs.
- Increase LEED rating on Manhattanville buildings, and make a commitmet to gold LEED standards or higher on all as yet unplanned building and renovation projects. In the case of renovation projects, each renovation need not make the building gold, but should move toward the eventual goal of such a standard.
- Establish a public, binding timeline for the completion of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC scheme, with a tentative timeline for further reductions in carbon outputs after the scheme is implemented.
- The university wouldn’t allow companies to spam your inbox, so why do they let them send junk mail to your Lerner mailbox? Let’s stop this practice, and reduce the amount wasted paper in junk mail.
- The heaters are always too hot in winter! Let’s downsize by reducing the heat flow in dorms, and waste less energy.
- Make double sided printing mandatory for coursework and for class handouts.
- Require the purchasing of 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper.
- More energy efficient computer labs and terminals, with energy efficient settings on the computers.
- Place bins in computer labs and libraries for reusable one-sided pages that would otherwise be thrown out or recycled. These pages can instead be used by interested students as note paper. The same goes for old flyers printed on one side.
- Use biodegradable plastic bags at campus dining locations and at the bookstore and library.
- Have CU sign on to Earth Hour 2009.
- As information comes in concerning per building energy consumption, a timeline for immediately fixing the easiest problems of energy waste, and a longer timeline for renovating the older buildings with the most costly problems.
Insert these words into the university missions statement: Likewise, the university recognizes the importance of its location and dependence on the planet Earth, and proactively considers the positive and negative impacts that its actions may have on this unique biosphere and its present and future inhabitants.
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