March General Body Meeting
Monday, March 2nd 6:00pm
Newcomb South Meeting Room
Welcome
Updates, New, & Reminders
Harold Goss, UVa Libraries
All books were recently moved from Alderman to other locations
Turnaround times as of today (on average):
LEO: 3.2 business days
ILL: 6.6 business days
Renovations are for the whole building, and are mainly focused on getting the building up to code
Will preserve the look and feel of rooms like the Harry Potter room (McGregor room)
Graduate student housing updates
U-Gardens students will have priority placement at Copley (should already know)
If the move-out date doesn’t work for you, email housing; buildings not going offline until end of August
Rent will be pro-rated
Reached out to third party property managers to discuss options
Can use I-20 or visa for identification and application purposes
Full-time UVa students can be pre-approved if using a student ID or acceptance letter
Call the property manager first, and confirm that the property manager will adhere to what they’ve told UVa housing
Student health insurance/building updates
More than half of the graduate students on the student health insurance are subsidized
Next year there will be ~15% increase in premiums (expected, going with the market)
Radiology will be in the new student health building
Contact Kellie Gildersleeve (student health liaison for health insurance) if you have questions about insurance: https://www.studenthealth.virginia.edu/staff/kellie-gildersleeve
Department updates
Committee Updates
Honor Committee (Adam Huckaby & Charlotte McClintock)
Two referenda on the ballot for Honor, but neither passed because not enough people voted
One of the referenda is an impeachment process for Honor members
Honor research grant
Applications due March 8
Anything related to community building
University Judiciary Committee (Kyle Chattleton & Jacob Botsford)
Update on UJC amendments
Changing “hate crime” to include gender expression, but fewer than 10% of the student population voted, so not included
Student Council (Jason Evans)
Concern over treatment of Chinese people with the coronavirus of the government
Working on drafting a letter
Food pantry is open in Newcomb
If there are any ideas to bring up to the Student Council, please contact Jason
Initiatives Committee (Rob Dyer & Natalia Perez)
Fee for gym access over the summer will not be waived; working on getting some outside fund or other avenues
Grad guide is in progress
Social Committee (Tyler Wake)
Event with Engineering School: Bring-Your-Own-Boardgame, outdoor event
In Crozet, VA
Passenger van/bus for April 25 (Saturday)
Potential Random Row event with food trucks (potentially first/second week of April)
Research Committee (Shalmi Barman & Jeremy Eberle)
Two successful workshops on how to give a talk and open scholarship principles
Huskey Research Symposium will be March 4, 2020 (Byrd Morris room in the Small Collections library)
Three different sessions, five presenters per talk
Brian Nosek is the keynote speaker (5:05pm – 5:45pm)
Wine and cheese reception in the solarium of the Colonnade Club (6 – 7)
Need volunteers to help set-up and manage some aspects of the event (contact Jeremy)
Finance Committee (MJ Nilayamgode)
No requests for funding this month
If you have funding requests, please submit.
For the Good of the Order
Elections for 2020-2021 academic year will start next month
If you know of someone who you want to nominate or would like to be nominated, email Emma and we will vote in April
Achintya nominated and voted in for 2020-2021 as representative for Honor Committee