Northcott, Boyer given awards

Student Council (StuCo) President Anuj Mittal began this week's StuCo by discussing Tuesday morning's honor code committee meeting.

"Some people argue that making an honor code would improve the mentality of students," Mittal said. Consideration involves looking at honor codes from other schools and deciding if it would be more appropriate to expand the current ethic board constitution or to draft a different honor code. There will be a town hall meeting to discuss the issue of an honor code on April 17 in Remsen 1, from 8-10 p.m.

Homecoming weekend is coming up two weekends from now with activities planned by both the Alumni Association and the Athletic Center. Activities will include the Recreation Center dedication on April 12 and a lacrosse game on April 13.

Treasurer Noel DeSantos reported that the Student Activities Commission (SAC) has $26,111.92, up from $7,714.14 at the same time last year. The new budget passed almost unanimously, with one abstention.

Secretary Manish Gala discussed the upcoming elimination of the jhunix e-mail accounts. Students should be receiving e-mails regarding the changeover to a new e-mail system.

Gala reminded all that it is still possible to make nominations for the Student Excellence Award for Leadership and Service (SEALS). The SEALS selection will occur on April 16.

DeSantos spoke about his meeting with the Dean of the Library, where he discussed the complaints of student groups about Garrett room use. He is also attempting to have Board of Elections (BoE) booths placed on M-level instead of near Caf Q in order to encourage voter turnout.

Junior class Representative Chris Cunico announced the winners of the Excellence in Teaching Awards. Dr. Felicity Northcott of the Anthropology Department won the award for professors, and Mike Boyer of the Physics Department won the award for teaching assistants.

Freshmen StuCo members are trying to "elongate the meal plan," as Freshman class Representative Charles Reyner put it. They planned to "dormstorm" on Tuesday night to get signatures on a survey requesting that meals be available to students on the days that they return from vacations. Currently, students on the meal plan cannot get lunch or dinner on the day they return to school at the end of breaks.

On Saturday, 500 tickets to the Spring Fair Roots performance will be available at the Mattin Center to JCard holders.

Sophomores gave no report this week.

Numerous requests for funding came at this point. The Korean Students Association (KSA) requested money for its eighth annual cultural banquet. This event will be a key part of the Asian Prospective Weekend, a weekend intended to encourage prospective Asian students to attend Hopkins. The KSA's goal is to raise enough money to ensure that prospective students can go to this banquet for free, while current Hopkins students can buy tickets for $20. The event will be held at PSINet Stadium. StuCo gave the KSA a block grant of $500 for the event, with the stipulation that extra funds be returned.

Kavaser made a $300 funding request for Baha II's transportation and leis, and it passed.

Freshman Vice President Megan Coe requested $300 for Saturday's Battle of the Bands. Six bands will be playing in the Mattin Center courtyard between 3 and 7 p.m.. Each band to play for 30 minutes. Bands will include Tube, the Perks, At the Wheel, and Old Man Meyer. The Battle of the Bands will be going on at the same time Roots tickets are available in the Mattin Center and at the same time as the Sodexho dinner on the Beach. "$300 to make 1000 people happy sounds like good economics to me," said DeSantos, and the request passed.