Minutes from the October 16th, 2007 Executive Committee Meeting
(Twomey late; Christopher and Adamson absent)
• President Josh Payne called the meeting to order at 7:06pm.
• Traveller Student Chair, Yinyan Li ’08, gave an update on the Traveller program to the EC. She asked that if any EC member or other student had ideas for improvements, please put them in writing and submit them to the Traveller Committee at liy@wlu.edu.
• Payne reported to the EC on his visit to Woodberry Forest School the day before. Payne, accompanied by Professor Gunn, Owings Fellows Walker Williams ’07 and Mark Snoddy ’08, and Ring-Tum Phi Editor Jacob Geiger, discussed W&L’s Honor System with the high school students. Payne was impressed with the WFS students and had only positive things to say about the experience.
• Payne told the EC about an email he received from Professor Pleva, who stated that many of his students don’t actually know what the pledge says. This surprised many of the EC members, who believed the pledge was posted all over the classroom buildings. Payne asked the EC to investigate this next week to see if there are classrooms that needed pledge signs.
• Payne reported on his conversations with the Admissions Webmaster regarding the official explanation of the Honor System on the Admissions Website. Payne asked the EC to give suggestions as to what the website should actually say, in order to most efficiently clear up this matter.
• Payne reminded the EC of the Classroom and Gym Access issue. He appointed Vice President Jordan Campbell the chair of this matter. Junior Representative Rich Cleary asked to remove his name from this matter, and Senior Representative Smith Gardner recanted a personal story from Fall Break when he was prohibited from using one of the new Holekamp Hall rooms because he was not a member of a group.
• Payne adjourned the meeting into closed session at 7:45pm.
• Payne reopened the meeting at 7:54pm.
• The EC approved the minutes from last week’s meeting.
• Payne discussed his upcoming meeting with the Board of Trustees and requested suggestions from the EC on topics to discuss. The EC discussed the importance of proper law school representation at the meeting, particularly with the proposed changes to the law school curriculum. The EC also discussed the potential spring term changes and brainstormed on the best way to get students to understand the current spring term debate.
• Payne adjourned the meeting at 8:30 pm.