Student Government Association

External Affairs Committee (EAC) Agenda
28 April 1998

A.  Open discussion of new business.
1.  A good time to suggest issues for EAC.
B.  Sub-committees:
1.  Pedestrian Safety.
a.  ‘Selfish twits’ apology.
b.  Costs conferred to innocent people…externalities.
c.  Presumptions:
1.  Fault is irrelevant—human suffering is.  
2.  There is no easy solution.
2.  Endorsements for Local Government Candidates.
a.  Discussion of what is important to students.
b.  Presumptions:
1.  No single-issue choosing of candidates.
C.  The 21 April General Senate Meeting.
1.  Disappointments:  Small, medium, and large.
a.  Small: Respect for the committee.
b.  Medium: Solidarity in Senate.
c.  Large: Senators must be perspicacious, or quiet.  
2.  Resolution #11-01.
a.  Vision and the bigger plan.
b.  Can we agree?
D.  Adjourn.

Can We Agree?

à The Single-Family Definition was designed to control the University student population.
à Students can be noisy and disrespectful.  To stop noise and disrespectful behavior, choose the most effective and fair option:
1.  Approach a: Ban students.
2.  Approach b: Ban noisy students.
à The Single-Family Definition, as currently written, limits student living in neighborhoods by occupancy rather than by improper behavior. (Approach a.)
à The principles supporting Resolution #11-01 do not exclude students from neighborhoods, absent improper behavior.  (Approach b.)
à Defining a universal performance standard is not feasible, seeing that morals are relative to time and culture.
à A-CC could have imposed strict performance standards on students, but has not.
à Considering that Resolution #11-01 is not binding on the A-CC Government, which option is the best to pursue?
a.  Suggest a higher occupancy limitation rather than performance standards. (Families.)
b.  Identify specific performance standards for the Commission to adopt. (Moral Relativism.)
c.  Suggest a joint student-community committee to discuss reasonable behavior. (Participating in loss of freedoms.)
d.  Do something else. (I’m game.)
e.  Do nothing. (Not an option.)