October 4, 2021

Commission Member Reveal! 😱

In this email: Commission Members, first LT meeting & first Student Council meeting.

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Hey besties,

To not keep you waiting any longer, I'll start off this email with the long-awaited reveal of the commission members:

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Community (Leader: Antonio)

• Nina Kovic

• Florine Cramer

• Eryne de George

• Eugenio Macías

• Danilo Simic

• Carla Roturier

• Ángela Blanco

• Ana González (Lulu)

Sustainability (Leader: Mareike)

• Ahmed Al-Nusairi

• Maya Atkinson

• Anna Levin

• Wilma Decker

• Michelle Marchesini Vanegas

• Pija Marija Kopač

• Helen Lloyd

• Servane Guilleaut

Welfare (Leader: Meri)

• Asja Sahovic

• Diego Flores

• Juulia Seppälä

• Guusje Van Der Salm

• Sabrina Lane

• Bianca Mori-Zegarra

• Bonga Nsimbini

• Merel Rodenrijs

Residential (Leader: Aure)

• Sophia Duttenhöfer

• Lucia O'Farrell

• Daniel Strangward

• Karolína Večerková

• Rejna Resić

• Fausto Vega

• Keya Shah

• Kristina Celebic

Integration (Leader: Iman)

• Maja

• Farah

• Lazar

• Van

• Marcello

• Tara

Academic (Leader: Iris)

• Kyrylo Fomin

• Alicja Zdanowicz

• Oliwia Kaluzna

• Ema Dimitrova

• Zeynep Aydoğan

• Carlos Samuel Olmedo Iñiguez

• Ena Jovanović

Food (Leader: Pavel)

• Eve Weinzirl

• Jelena Čerkez

• Lyra Salihu

• Lana Vasić

• Jasmina Begović

• Fatme Hawarin

• Emma Kiehm

• Jacob Cheney

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There were a lot of applicants, and I have seen the commission leaders struggle quite a bit, sadly enough not in the ability to make everyone happy. It's over to commission leaders now, which will all make a group chat with their commission members to try and figure out the first meeting.

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Leadership Team Meeting 29/09/2021 and 30/09/2021

Fridges

Students are allowed to keep private fridges within their rooms this year. While a more detailed policy is being made, please assure that your fridge is clean at all times. Furthermore, the LT has informed us that they do not plan on allowing private fridges in the next year.

Abrašević Assemblies

Abrašević will be used for assemblies from now on, which would allow students to be able to comfortably sit down inside instead of being on the school’s courtyard.

Check Outs

Although there is still no permanent solution to check outs during the weekend due to the pandemic, the LT will be working towards giving the students more liberty in regards to check outs if the pandemic situation allows it. The current policy is only a temporary solution that will most likely be changed, and will be evaluated every three weeks.

Velić on Weekends

The school will attempt to introduce number locks in Velić, which will allow students to access Velić by themselves on weekends when it is usually locked.

Canteen Usage

The canteen is open not only during meal time, and can be used as a common area by students to get drinks and snacks, or just to relax. Note that the canteen must be vacated for 30 minutes after each meal to allow the staff to clean it.

Other

• Novi Sušac will receive a fire alarm system next week. Taps are being installed.

• Sušac washing machines will be fixed and students will receive usage instructions.

• Staff Representative for the Student Council will be assigned.

• Additional fire equipment will be provided to residences.

• First aiders will receive training.

• The school is looking into finding a way to allow minors to get their COVID-19 vaccination.

Written by Tin, Y1 Representative

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First student council meeting:

We had our first meetup with the student council. So the newly appointed leaders of commissions and student leadership team, and a representative of the student of colour union and the lgbt+ union. Here are the meeting points:

Making notes of meetings:

in order to ensure good communication, at start of every meeting one person in the student council is to be appointed for making and posting notes. Notes will be posted on the UWCiM app. Also everytime a commission has a meeting or the leader has one, notes have to be posted. All notes have to be posted the same day or one day later. Every student receives the weekly newsletter from this app, so all the student council activities will automatically be sent in there weekly.

Email addresses:

new email groups have been made: to contact the student council use studentcouncil@uwcmostar.ba and to contact the SLT only use slt@uwcmostar.ba. Each commission is to make an email address as well, which will all be easily made accessible through the app.

Forming of commissions:

all leaders to send their forms to the SLT by Tuesday 5 pm. The SLT will then make one big form in which student can sign up for the commissions, and send that out Tuesday. The application for commission membership will close on Saturday night, and the leaders of commissions are to choose their members on Sunday and share the names on the app and with the student council. The election committee will look at all of the applications and evaluate whether the leaders have been fair in their selection. Every commission will have 6-8 members.

Commission alignment with LT member:

each commission is aligned with one LT member.

• Food/residential/welfare – Dipika

• Academic – Vicky

• Community/sustainability – Ljubica

• Integration – Haris.

Meeting times:

The LT meeting times are every Wednesday at 16:15. The Student council will meet biweekly- still to be decided when/where. Respective commissions are to meet biweekly to, preferably not right after student council meetings.

Anonymous LT meeting points:

Student leadership team will send out a form on Tuesday for students to use throughout the year, in which points can anonymously be brought up. Automatically, if someone fills it out, that will be sent to the student council email address.

Written by Julie, Y2 rep