October 9, 2024

call to order 11.31 AM

attendance:

ryan katia joshua

interns:
toma yuen - cs major 1st meeting | to learn about human rights, kavi, zoe, angeles, ella, yansy, nishita, eddie, emma - cs or math, tristen, leo, bryan, miles

minute approvals
oct 16 ryan - katia seconds
nov 6 ryan - katia seconds

maritza: 2 more weeks of meetings for sre to get things done
winter: budget and finance heavy
confirms if meeting time is still same, katia confirms

public comments
katia: brought up to senate regarding approved club posters being taken down, will bring up again in today’s senate

kavi: spoken to la voz, student newspaper feels they cannot politically be active, released paper newspaper came out after elections
nishita: increase in searches for "what are terrorists", shows entire country does not have sufficient education, can do it within de anza with la voz
kavi: big proportion of reporters feel they cannot express themselves politically, kavi’s quote was split "election is important, democracy can only do so much…" cut into "election is important"
feels that he has been misrepresented
katia: has had dasg-related issues with la voz regarding misrepresentation, not getting someone’s name correct, misquoting
ryan: la voz has had issues with accurate representation in the past, generative AI used for an SRE senator’s quote
kavi: la voz is special entity, not connected to dasg; build up pressure that they must change, we cannot do anything internally
ryan: dasg does fund la voz
katia: have external students give feedback to la voz, la voz must report on what they did with money (e.g. conferences)

announcements

• coming to an end
• CTE fair workshop in main quad (career training e..)
• destress announced soon (week of activities in collaboration with clubs)

POW
katia: bylaw meetings start in winter qtr
joshua: spring - planning cultural week, work during winter
start equity workshops next quarter (HEFAS undocumented students, uncertainties and misinformation after elections, a lot of international students are abandoning visa statuses and becoming undocumented, president-elect may start deporting students & students fear their statuses may be revoked and abandoning visa statuses, which is dangerous)
talked with hefas: workshop on informing international students 
talked with matsuko: ad-hoc committee - make de anza sanctuary campus, ensure students (esp undocumented) are safe, details TBA
workshop: steps students should (not) take regarding visa statuses
equity 1-1 workshops

working on holding student police accountable
student concern form - cannot have students provide us information we cannot have

interns can draft proposals for equity workshops, grassroot democracy
intern projects due next week/week after