Present: Chad Mank, Benjamin Boas, Kyle Evans, Justin Glavis-Bloom, Brendan Hargreaves, Tal Itzkovich, Jimmy Kaplowitz, Jennifer Kuo, Allison Kwong, Katherine Lamm, Damian Maldonado, Michael Morgenstern, Jackie Newcomb, David Pacheco, Laura Supkoff

Absent: Dean Forsberg, Adam Axler

1. Meeting begins at 12:03 PM
2. Program House
   1. Will meet Thursday and come up with an application for new program houses
      1. Fraternity and Sorority are trying to start up
3. Lottery
   1. Brendan and Justin will have a meeting with Rosario on Friday
   2. Lottery meeting this week
4. Policy
   1. Survey hasn't been approved by Dean Forsberg. Has it been sent out?
5. Post-lottery survey with Chad Mank
   1. Full-scale survey
   2. All students feelings on entire lottery process
      1. How it worked and didnt work
   3. He will provide it to Brendan.
6. Squatting Proposal
   1. "We need to increase squatting"
   2. Students in systems where squatting is allowed, pressure is taken off.
   3. Allow rising seniors in suites
   4. Allow rising juniors in singles
   5. Allow rising juniors and seniors singes and suites
   6. If less than 50% returnn, they are instead put on the waitlist
7. Discussion
   1. Last year, we added the system for rising seniors in singles
   2. Doesn't necessarily decrease fairness--people could have gotten those kinds of rooms.
   3. Theoretically could have the same housing for three years.
   4. If rising seniors squat a lot of suites, the process puts pressure on rising seniors who no longer have the second chance to get the best housing.
   5. Do we want to discourage mixed groups? Maybe average their grade level to see if it falls under a senior number
   6. Will more people go on or off campus? We don't know.
   7. It's too much change in one year to be able to debrief accurately.
   8. Can program houses expand into a squatter's room?
      1. After super-deadline day, ResLife can work out those conflicts
      2. In the end the program hosue has priority and the student would move to a comparable space.
   9. Program houses do their own lottery so within the lottery they can allow squatting.
   10. They will not allow pre-lottery pull-ins, but if current occupants leave after the lottery it is more acceptable
       1. Makes it harder to pull in a suite over multiple years.
   11. People who leave in Spring give up rights to the room
   12. what is a reasonable guess for how many will chose this?
       1. Chad: a lot lower than you'd think
8. Motion to support 1A, rising seniors in greater than one 7/2/2
9. Discussion about 2A, rising juniors in singles
   1. Many who would want to keep it will have gotten it off the waitlist
10. Motion on 2A, 1/10/0
11. Motion on 2B, 1/10/0
12. Zac Townsend is worried that ResCouncil is upset about UCS' handling of Student Storage
    1. We are not.
13. Meeting adjourned at 12:51 PM.

Submitted by Michael Morgenstern, Residential Council Secretary 2005-2006