Resident Student Association
President's Report to Senate - November 26, 2001

1)       Issues

Currently handling these issues:

• Technology. ISS is working with Cincinnati Bell on a deal to increase Internet bandwidth for the 2^nd semester. Gordon Suggs, director of Technology Services in ISS, will be presenting at our November 28^th General Meeting. I invite all of you to attend at 7:00 pm in Albers 103. (Note: Albers 103 is a temporary location for this meeting)
• Honor’s Housing. Ava Jean Fiebig and I met with the Honor’s Council on November 14 to discuss housing for next year. The Honor’s Program will retain the 2^nd and 3^rd floor of Buenger. Freshman and sophomore suites will be mixed together on both floors, divided by male and female wings. Also, freshmen requesting honor’s housing will be required to have random roommates. Both of these decisions are intended to increase the intermingling among classes and give the freshman the best experience possible within the program.
• Safety of people crossing Dana Ave (Village residents). RSA is working Gene Beapuré and the City of Cincinnati on increasing the safety of residents.
• Making laundry machines free by adding laundry fee. Beverly Bobbitt, Assistant Director of Residence Life, is working to write up a proposal based on experiences from other schools. Any decisions during this academic year would be reflected in the 2003-2004 academic year.

2)       Programming

We will be holding Christmas Bingo at 9:30 in the O’Connor Sports Center. We are working in conjunction with the Gospel Choir on some co-advertising and possibility of having an additional drop-off at the sports center by their buses.

3)       Recognition

We have started our Of The Month program for recognizing contributions to those living in university-operated housing. More details on our web site under “Recognizing Contributions”

4)       Leadership & Community Building

We are currently working on appointing our apartments & houses council, which was not filled during elections.

5)       National Affiliation

A delegation traveled to Rutgers University to attend our regional CAACURH conference two weekends ago. This was an outstanding experience – we learned a lot, got Xavier’s name out there, and had fun. The delegation will be presenting what we learned during one of the remaining General Meetings of the semester.

Also, as part of on-going budget reworking, the RSA Executive will be proposing to our General Body that costs for conferences come only from fundraising and rollover funds. The SGA Allocation each year would be budgeted for programming and other operating expenses.