The Council of the Princeton University Community met yesterday to discuss reports from the LGBT student services coordinator and the Task Force on Health and Well Being. USG President Matt Margolin '05 also gave some concluding remarks about his vision for the undergraduate student body.
Task Force on Health and Well Being
Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee '69 delivered an interim report from the Task Force on Health and Well Being, which recommended the creation of a new space combining better fitness facilities with a new health care center and improved counseling resources.
"What we need is a multipurpose facility that aims to do for fitness and wellness what Frist has done for campus life," the report said.
The report also addressed deficiencies with the University's current health and fitness facilities.
"While Dillon Gym (including the Stephens Fitness Center and the pool) plays an absolutely critical role in University life, we do not believe that its current size and configuration can meet existing needs, much less the needs that we believe will inevitably increase in the years ahead," the report said.
The task force suggested the expansion of University health plan coverage to include dependents and improved childcare facilities for graduate students with children.
"There seem to be a number of University policies and practices that were initially designed to discourage graduate students with children from applying to Princeton or to discourage graduate students at Princeton from having children."
LGBT student services
Debra Bazarsky, LGBT coordinator, reported on the resources available for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
Bazarsky said that the University has already made positive steps toward addressing some of the LGBT community's concerns. In the past year, the University has included material about LGBT resources in admissions brochures and improved programs for freshman during orientation week. However, she said the there is still need for a building to house LGBT resources.
President Tilghman, who was in attendance at the meeting, said she supported the proposal, and that the University needs to "give [the LGBT groups] a more central space."
"It's practically important and symbolically important," Tilghman said.
Faculty tenure
Before the presentations, U-Councilor Allison Arensman '04 questioned the extent to which teaching ability and student opinion were taken into account during faculty tenure decisions.
Tilghman said she encourages students to write letters to the Dean of the Faculty concerning professors about whom they feel strongly.
"Those letters are taken very seriously, and become a permanent part of that faculty member's file," Tilghman said.
She added that the list of professors being considered for tenure is published each fall and the administration solicits student comments with advertisements in the 'Prince.'
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