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USC Board Report The USC exec team provided us with details about their board retreat, which took place over the summer. This 50-pg report is posted on the USC website if you’d like to read it. To read the report, visit:

President’s Report Andrew Forgione - Mustang express - Spoke: Indoor Seating Area (UCC Atrium) - Strategic Plan Update - Cell phone reception on campus - Cell phone charging stations - NAME of the new student lounge??? - Direct Taxi lines

VP Campus Issues Marissa’s Executive Report - Safe Sex Awareness Week - The Condom Game oneinfourcollegestudents.com - Mental health working group

VP Student Events Nicole’s Executive Report - Beginning the selection process for: O-Week Coordinator! - Clubs Community Training Sessions are ongoing. -Upcoming Events include: HAUNTED FOREST & ZOMBIE PUB! Maya Angelou = tomorrow! - Throughout the year, there will be student life programs running in the USC lounge. Keep an eye out!

VP University Affairs Pat’s Executive Report - London passed new by-law (which allows us to legally stop at the LTC stops) AKA: good news for the Mustang Express -USC is now part of City Symposium (Monthly speaker series) - See-Click-Fix App. = will be released soon! - Erin Uberig is new host of Fuss on the Buss

VP Finance Jen’s Executive Report - renovations to lounge = complete - under budget & bean-bag chairs - Faculty Council Grants: - first installment is out! - There is now a DEBIT machine in the Spoke kitchen and at the Spoke Cafe.

VP Communications Eliot’s Executive Report Check out the new web layout: westernusc.ca - Photos & videos are always up on the website! - There will be contests & giveaways (for the latest news updates)

SURVIVAL BOX A Richmond & Tower Production - comical play about survival - tickets now on sale now - can buy tickets at InfoSource - location: the ARTS project - dates: Dec. 2nd-5th

Finance Standing Committee Motion to update the USC Travel Policy - changed the hotel (accommodation) allocation to include # of rooms, instead of # of people. - (ex. if 3 exec stay in a hotel, they can share a room, instead of paying for 3 individual rooms.)

C.I. Standing Committee (Campus Issues) - “Purple Bikes” is in need of a new location. - A working group has been created to further research this issue and consider future location possibilities and feasibility.

Communications Standing Committee - the committee looked at media outlets on campus. - analyzed how the USC and students are interacting with these outlets.

S.E. Standing Committee (Student Events) - looked at & analyzed survey results from a previous USC survey that asked students for event suggestions - students wanted more big concerts & small concerts - the committee feels that the USC has come a long way in reaching these goals - Various constituencies and the USC have held concerts over the past few years