2019 Committee Lunch

Date: Wednesday 3rd week, Trinity 2019 (2019-05-15)

Present: Michael O'Connor (President), Thomas Laver (Vice-President (Administrative)), Ethan Stewart (Secretary), Daniel Gonsalezpavesio (Treasurer), Frederick Lynam (Lindsay), Calvin Runnels (Dr. WHO), Joe Stephen (Foody), Anna Brainin (Foody), Jack Briggs (Sports Rep), Francesca Back (Sports Rep), Benjamin Elliott (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Leyla Manthorperizatepe (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Jamie Barnes (Access and Admissions Officer), Jai Thakrar-Curtis (Access and Admissions Officer), Donghyun Kang (Affiliations Officer), Arun Gharial (Charities and RAG Officer), Conor Callaghan (Charities and RAG Officer), Jake Dealtry (Student Disabilities Officer), Rory Dangelo (Entz Officer), Bruno Atkinson (Entz Officer), Michael Beattie (Environment & Ethics Officer), Beatrice Boileau (Environment & Ethics Officer), Naa Ntodi (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Tanya Wijesekera (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Xinyu Luo (International Students Officer), Jane Ngarmnil (International Students Officer), Thomas Laver (Housing Officer), Josh Willetts (LGBTQ Officer), Leoni Loughlin (LGBTQ Officer), Daniel Rastelli (Website & Computing Officer), Natasha Fisher-Pearson (Women's Officer), Imogen Rivers (Women's Officer)

Agenda

College Parents
An Abundance of Emails
Balliol and Colonialism
Charity Auction
Funds for new table tennis net
Game of Thrones Screening

Minutes

College Parents

Thomas Laver tells the committee he has opened up parent applications. The structure is the same as previous years, but he encouraged third years to apply and more have applied. He is still pushing for a more regimented structure for parents.

Sulaiman asks if contact will happen sooner, as it took a while for parents to make contact in his year. Tom says he will try to get people to do this, but can make no promises.

 

An Abundance of Emails

Michael worries that frequent but sporadic JCR emails are annoying, and asks if we should concentrate them into two regularly occurring emails. Some frequent emails are about welfare teas, co-options and ballots.

Thomas thinks some things are too important and should have one email. People agree that its usually not too much of a bother.

 

Balliol and Colonialism

 

St John’s (Oxford) are doing a project about their historic association with colonialism and Balliol is going to do something similar. There will be a seminar series as well as proper research into it by students and fellows. Michael tells committee there’s a meeting tomorrow with the college master and some tutors. He invites people who are interested to come to that. He notes that we’ll have a JCR meeting once we have an outline of the proposal.

Charity Auction

The charities/rag reps say the charity auction planning is going fine. Conor will post again on the Facebook page. He notes the current funniest item going for auction is the opportunity to go for a pint with the porter.(Editor’s note: If I recall this ended up going for well over £50) Bruce is also doing something for it. With regret, the committee decides that the chance to slap Francis shouldn’t be allowed to be auctioned.

Funds for new table tennis net

Sulaiman says the net on the table tennis isn’t good and the chef at hall who often plays there thinks we should get a new net for £25-30. The current net is held up with spoons. Whilst the committee thinks this is funny, there is agreement that the humour of this is outweighed by the impact on the table tennis.

 

A motion passes to spend £30 on this.

Game of Thrones Screening

Entz officers explain that GoT screening will now be done in LR 23, as was too loud in JCR for people on the staircase and it’s Trinity term so people have exams coming up.