[HSU-CoordBoardInternal] All Community Email

[Coordinating Board]

Hi Josiah, 

The Coordinating Board requests that you send an all community email to
students, staff, and faculty with the following statement as soon as
possible. 

Best, 

The Hampshire Student Union Coordinating Board 

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In an email sent at 3:52pm on April 11th, 2014 Orientation Leaders and
Coordinators were notified that their positions would no longer be paid.
Over the last eight weeks all candidates were told that their positions
would be paid a stipend of $300 for Orientation Leaders and $400 for
Coordinators. Applicants had an understanding about the nature of their
positions and its payment going into the application process. The
college administration violated that understanding and trust. 

In light of this the HSU requests that President Jonathan Lash and Dean
Byron McCrae enact the following by Monday, April 14th at Noon: 

1. Extend the deadline for student orientation staff to accept their
positions to Friday, April 18th, at 4:30pm. Students need the time to
consider this sudden change in policy and its potential impact on their
financial situations. Furthermore, students deserve the opportunity to
discuss this change with their peers. The next Town Meeting occurs after
the deadline at which students have been asked to accept or deny their
employment offers. 

2. Release to the student body in an all community email the policy from
which the removal of payment for Orientation Leaders and Coordinators
was derived. 

3. Provide an explanation for why these changes were not communicated to
students before the application process. Students committed significant
and valuable time to the application process and should have been
notified of any conversations regarding a change in their monetary
compensation. 

We call on all students to attend Town Meeting to express their opinions
on this issue. Town Meeting will be this Tuesday, April 15th, at 8:30pm
in FPH West Lecture Hall. 

-The Coordinating Board of the Hampshire Student Union 

Mitchell Krieger F11 

Dina Amouzigh F11 

Wesley Evans F12 

Adrianna Perry F12 

Ryan Hitch F12 

Christopher Porzenheim F12 

Mike Merzel F12 

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