Social Life Programming Reorganization
So as to ensure a broader and more balanced social life between events, the Commission believes that a centralized, widely representative group of students should be responsible for overseeing the programming and scheduling of campus events. [follow-up on the recommendations in this section should be the responsibility of the Dean of Students, working with the Director of Student Activities and student leaders]

Recommendation #12:
We recommend the creation of a central social/cultural programming student board to clear large campus social events, to collect programming ideas, to plan and run events, to co-sponsor and help fund alternative events.

The Board will schedule the following locations: Page Commons Room, the Spa, Outdoor venues, Dining Halls, Field House, and multi-dorm programming. This Board will play a special role in planning traditional large campus events associated with major campus weekends such as Homecoming, Family Weekend, Carnival Weekends and others. We suggest that the Board review the impact of such events as "First Day of Loudness" and "Last Day of Loudness" as we believe that these activities do not now provide adequate alternative programming. Similarly, we believe that the Board should take steps to improve and broaden Jan Plan activities, especially for first-year students.

We propose that the 11-member board be comprised as follows:
Stu-A Social Life Chair
Mary Low Commons Vice President
Stu-A Cultural Life Chair
Coffeehouse Program Coordinator
Chaplin Commons Vice President
President of CSNAP
Johnson Commons Vice President
Student Spa Program Director
Lovejoy Commons Vice President
Two members at large*

*Two members (at-large), chosen by the outgoing senior class members of the Board and the student vice chairs of the Academic Affairs Committee and the College Affairs Committee.

The chair will be selected by members at the first meeting of the group in the fall.

The Director of Student Activities should serve as administrative liaison to the Board.

Meetings of this Board should consist of two sessions -- an open session for hearing petitions for programming ideas and funding requests and a closed session for deliberation and voting.

In the first year of the Social Life Board, members will be solicited through open invitation to the entire community and members will be selected by the following:

College Affairs Committee student co-chair; faculty co-chair of ACE, Stu-A Vice President and the Dean of Students. The board will be in place for the academic year, 1996-97. If there are other future recommendations as to the form and composition of this board, from Student Association or others, these may be sent to the Student Affairs Committee of the Board for consideration.

Recommendation #13:
We recommend that funding for activities supported wholly or in part by this board should come from the money now available for alternative programming presently controlled by the Dean of Students Office ($17,500) and an equal amount of new funds provided by the College, as well as contributions from the various groups represented.

Recommendation #14:
We also recommend that the Commons and Student Association Social and Cultural Chairs spend at least 50% of their funds on exclusively alcohol free events. The other 50% of the funds may be used for entertainment, decorations, or refreshments, but may not be used for the purchase of alcohol.

Coffeehouse
The Coffeehouse has great potential as the site of even more frequent alternative functions, especially on weekend nights. These events should be well publicized.

Recommendation #15:
We recommend that the College investigate the feasibility of enlarging the Coffeehouse. [follow-up: Dean of Students and Vice President for Administration]

Recommendation #16:
We recommend that the College employ a student program coordinator who would work in cooperation with the Director of Student Activities to assure a full schedule of events, especially on weekends. [follow-up: Dean of Students and Vice President for Administration]

Recommendation #17:
We further recommend that the budget for the Coffeehouse be increased by the College, adding $5000 to the budget currently provided by the Student Association. [follow-up: Dean of Students and Vice President for Administration]

Senior Pub:
Recommendation #18:
We recommend that the College explore the need for creating a campus pub for 21-year-olds. [follow-up: Dean of Students and Vice President for Administration]