ASCOCC Meeting Entices Inquiries

On January 29, the seven members of COCC’s student government sat down for their weekly meeting to discuss campus issues and happenings. With four journalists and a concerned member of the staff body attending this meeting, it was kept very professional throughout the hour and a half meeting. To kick things off, Mrs. Erin Foote Marlowe spoke as a concerned member of COCC and had a list of fallacies and solutions for them that she presented to the ASCOCC staff. The members were very patient and respectful, allowing Mrs. Marlowe the floor before arguing each point seemingly for the sake of arguing. The most time was spent on unfair funding for The Broadside, COCC’s student run paper.

“There is no mechanism for disagreements within ASCOCC,” said Marlowe.

“We have to represent the people that are personally attacking us even if they don’t want us to,” responds GREYBEARD.

After almost an hour of discussion and debate, the committee dove into their other topics of discussion. This included an info fair wrap-up, plans for many student activities. The exciting plans included a student Country Night and a possible Battle of the Bands concert to raise money for “Pennies For Peace”.

There was also an approval to spend $2,625 on 750 custom made ASCOCC t-shirts and commercial requests that included solar water heaters, green energy fuel for COCC vehicles, and more recycle bins. Members also briefly discussed doubling the bandwidth for the entire COCC campus.

Next on the agenda, the ASCOCC board had to decide whether or not to spend over $2,000 to fund a trip for the Anime Club to travel to Seattle for a Japanese culture convention. Seeing as one of the ASCOCC members is also a member of the Anime Club, the proposal passed with only one member voting no.

After all this, the weary members of ASCOCC finished their meeting discussing the approval to pay video contractor Rob Walker $3,000 for the spring term for his work on ASCOCC’s website and other jobs and duties on campus.

All in all, the seven people sitting across from each other did their job in that hour and a half, as drudging as it might have been. Money was spent; decisions were made, and there was much left to ponder over a time to come.