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1. Plant more trees on campus

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   Jack Rosenthal shared this idea  ·  April 14, 2017

2. Crosswalks on Campus

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   The Sophomores are taking this on as a project.

   If you would like to talk to them directly their office hours can be found at USG’s website here: http://mines.orgsync.com/org/usg/officers

   -USG

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   Jack Rosenthal commented  ·  October 08, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   If you read the campus policies, pedestrians have the right of way everywhere on campus, regardless of the presence of a painted crosswalk.

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3. Actually Use the Emergency Alert

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   The Mines administration in conjunction with Mines PD are in the process of re-vamping the mines app which will contain a more comprehensive emergency alert function. In addition they are trying to implement a ‘notification’ system that will function like the alert system, in regard to non-pressing matters.

   -USG

   Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  October 08, 2015

4. Pedestrian crosswalks on Washington Street

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   This is a concern that has been brought up with the Golden city council, but this is a Golden city street, and Mines has no direct control.

   Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  October 08, 2015

5. Dead Day Coffee

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   UPDATE:
   The sophomore class reps forwarded this suggestion to Sodexo and this year’s Dead Day, Starbucks was indeed open from 7:30 to 11:30am on Dead Day. Thanks for the suggestion and happy we could help!

   Sincerely,
   USG

   Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  October 08, 2015

6. EPICS department should be redone or get better funding

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   Hi there,

   We just want to let you that the Epics department is actively being evaluated and restructured by university faculty at the moment. All your concerns should be address through this.

   Love,
   USG

   Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  October 08, 2015

7. Periodic Table Themeing

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   This has been brought up, and there is currently a committee looking into making this happen!

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   Jack Rosenthal commented  ·  October 08, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   Or they could rename it to "let's be honest its just diggers den where slate used to be" and everything will be OK.

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8. There shoud be a trashcan and cigarette disposal outside of weaver so we are not forced to litter.

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   Due to the minimal support on this issue we are going to decline your request. Plus you are never forced to litter, you are just unwilling to find a trashcan out of arms reach.

   Love,
   USG

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   Jack Rosenthal commented  ·  February 02, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   You aren't forced to litter. You are just lazy.

   Also, cigarettes are gross.

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9. Email Lists

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   AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

   Here is the quote from the comment on this post from Jack Rosenthal:

   “You can change your subscription preferences at mailman.mines.edu, just type in your mymail address and you can get the password for the list preferences emailed to you.

   I like changing the lists to digest mode, I get one email per day from each list with a digest from all the posts from that day. Helps keep the inbox clean.

   Additionally, you can set up filters through the gmail web interface, simply have it mach all emails with [ugrad] (or whatever list) and dump them in their own folder."

   Thanks Jack!

   Love,
   USG

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   Jack Rosenthal commented  ·  February 02, 2015  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   You can change your subscription preferences at mailman.mines.edu, just type in your mymail address and you can get the password for the list preferences emailed to you.

   I like changing the lists to digest mode, I get one email per day from each list with a digest from all the posts from that day. Helps keep the inbox clean.

   Additionally, you can set up filters through the gmail web interface, simply have it mach all emails with [ugrad] (or whatever list) and dump them in their own folder.

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10. The Wellness Center needs to be open on the weekends.

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    AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

    Hey!

    After many conversations with the Director of the Health Center and Student Life, it has been decided that keeping the Health Center open on the weekends is not feasible. Trading the high level of care and great services students receive during the year for staying open extra days is not an option.

    Fortunately, the new Urgent Care Center on Heritage and 6th has quick, friendly service and has reasonable co-pays. It is an ideal option as it is close and open 24/7.

    Love,
    USG

    Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  February 02, 2015

11. There's no place to tie up my horse for the day.

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    AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

    We’re going to have to neigh this one.

    Love,
    USG

    Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  February 02, 2015

12. digger den open later instead of mines market

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    AdminMines USG (Undergraduate Student Government, Undergraduate Student Government) responded

    Below are all the details associated with this issue:

    On Thursday, January 15th, Undergraduate Student Government had our first meeting of the semester. The main topic of the evening was Mines Market. With the opening of Mines Market and closure of Slate Café, there were changes in the hours of Digger Den. Mines Market is now open late at night while Digger Den’s hours were cut back. Also the previous to go option where students were allowed to grab anything Slate was offering that day was replaced with a to go sandwich with two sides. This has caused a lot of upset with the campus. As a result, USG asked a few staff members involved in this decision making process to come and speak about why this decision was made and take input on how things could be improved. Rebecca Flintoft, VP of Student Life, Gayle Witzke, Campus Dining, and Susan Fukushima, Campus Dining, were the staff present to speak.
    First the reasoning behind the decision to switch the late night hours from Digger Den to Mines Market was discussed. One reason was that the location is closer to the majority of residents on campus. Another was that they wanted to showcase the new location, make it more of a “hang out” area for students who live on campus. It is more cost effective for them to run Mines Market than Digger Den since producing food in a made to order style is more expensive. They did look into the numbers of people who went to Digger Den after hours and honestly just thought that Mines Market would be viewed as a reasonable replacement for Digger Den late at night.
    Obviously Mines Market is not a suitable replacement for Digger Den after 7pm. There have been over 1000 votes on What’s Your Beef and several complaints on social media about the switch. We brought up every concern that we heard to the three staff members. The main issue is that there aren’t enough options. Students used to have a wide variety of full meals to little snacks at Digger Den and now their only options are pizza and salad. This issue is only going to get worse when students start having common hours and need something to eat after or when the semester starts getting harder and people are up late studying. Also, for students with evening classes that go past seven, only having one food option for dinner is unacceptable. Another concern is that there are hardly any options past seven that are healthy. The salad bar recently opened but that is it. Students were also concerned about options for gluten free or dairy free food for people with food allergies, but it was explained that there is always gluten free or dairy free option all that you need to do is ask for it!
    The next big issue was that Mines Market is a terrible option for people without unlimited meal plans. Getting into Mines Market costs about $9 dollars where as at Digger Den you could get a full meal for $5. This doesn’t really affect people with unlimited meal plans because they would most likely use a meal swipe at either location, so cost is the same. But for upperclassmen or anyone on a lower tear meal plan it is an issue. Anything lower than unlimited only gets two meal swipes a day so if they use those up they have to use Munch Money to get food past 7 and that costs them significantly more than Digger Den. And then anyone without a meal plan is paying out of pocket $9 for food they may not even want that much, but it is now the only option at that late hour. Also, Mines Market is like Slate where there isn’t anywhere to sit unless you pay to get in, so this really reduces the atmosphere that Digger Den had. Several freshman would go there weekend nights and hang out, regardless if all their friends were eating. Now this hang out spot is gone.
    USG communicated to the staff that the beset option would be to reopen Digger Den and close Mines Market past 7. However, the response to this was that there would be some ‘serious repercussions’ for doing this. This may include taking away hours from other locations like Subway or raising the prices at Digger Den. We think this is ridiculous since its essentially the exactly the same cost and same plan as what was happening last semester. Unfortunately, we don’t know what we could do to prevent that from happening.
    The Sodexo staff were very open to all of the feedback we had to give them about Mines Market. So, they have started implementing a few things to make it better for the students. First, they agreed to allow people to take full to go bozes of food again, which is great! Anther change they are going to start making is rotating food options from night to night and trying to have at least two or three options available a night. That way it’s not just pizza all the time. Also they are working in bringing in a la carte options. This includes snacks like they used to have at Digger Den like ice cream, candy, fridges for drinks, etc. That way people who want to grab a snack to take back to the dorms or upperclassmen without meal plans can get a cheap snack. Also they are going to have the option to take pizza to go so that students can take it back to their dorm. We are really hoping that these changes help and we will be continuing to be giving feedback to Sodexo so that they can continue improving.
    One thing to point out is that Digger Den is being replaced next year with more restaurant style options. It’ll be similar in that it’s made to order food and there will be lots of options like grill food, maybe sushi, Mexican, etc. Once this is open it will have the late night hours like Digger Den did. So Mines Market should only be open for the late night for one semester. Still, we are doing our best to make sure that there are adequate late night options for this semester.
    Overall USG wanted to convey to the three staff that the school is solely responsible for the food options that on campus students have. Since it’s mostly freshman, they don’t have cars to transport them to locations downtown. They are forced to spend thousands of dollars on a meal plan already and should not be forced to buy additional food because their options are so terrible. Switching Digger Den and Mines Market hours back to what they normally were will apparently have ‘serious repercussions’ and we don’t know what we can do to prevent that. USG is trying very hard to make sure that Mines Market is improving. We really appreciate hearing what people have to say and want to hear if the proposed changes help or if they don’t help. Any feedback you have will be taken to Sodexo so that they can continue to make changes.

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    Hi!

    I just want to remind you all that we have a meeting tonight at 6pm in Petroleum Hall where we will be discussing this issue. We will have a speaker present who was involved in this decision so please come with questions or concerns you’d like to express. The more the merrier!

    Love,
    USG
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    Hello,

    Our first USG meetings are next week. We will be sure to bring up these concerns in our executive meeting and the council meeting. General council meetings take place on Thursdays at 6pm in Petroleum Hall and are open for anyone to attend! We hope we can help sort out this problem for you guys soon!

    Love,
    USG

    Below are all the details associated with this issue:

    On Thursday, January 15th, Undergraduate Student Government had our first meeting of the semester. The main topic of the evening was Mines Market. With the opening of Mines Market and closure of Slate Café, there were changes in the hours of Digger Den. Mines Market is now open late at night while Digger Den’s hours were cut back. Also the previous to go option where students were allowed to grab anything Slate was offering that day was replaced with a to go sandwich with two sides. This has caused a lot of upset with the campus. As a result, USG asked a few staff members involved in this decision making process to come and speak about why this decision was made and take input on how things could be improved. Rebecca Flintoft, VP of Student Life, Gayle Witzke, Campus Dining, and… more

    Jack Rosenthal supported this idea  ·  February 02, 2015