Leanna Pohevitz

COMMUNITY COUNCIL CHAIR ELECT:
Leanna will assume the position and responsibility of Community Council Chair for the Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Year on May 21st, 2010 after commencement!

Here was her first speech as Chair Elect:

[[Media:May_10th_2010_Speech_for_Thank_You_Brunch.pdf|May 10th 2010 Speech Closing the First Annual Thank You Brunch]]

GENERAL:
Hi, my name is Leanna and this year from May 3rd to May 7th I am running for Community Council Chair. After serving on three of Council's four standing committees (chairing two of them during different semesters) I have begun to understand what it means to deal with Hampshire College issues. From the EMTs not getting funding, to the funding of student groups being unfair or inequitable, to we still have a long way to go. Beyond that, as far as the five colleges go we still need some support. We need more language classes, more buses, and a better integrated three-college public safety system to name a few. Vote for me and I will represent your interests in helping to solve all these problems and finally make Hampshire College feel like your home again (instead of a place where you might not even be allowed to live). If you have any questions PLEASE feel free to contact me...ljp08 I hope to serve as your Community Council Chair next year, making sure that Hampshire does better next year - setting it on the correct path.

Long story short, vote me: council.hampshire.edu From May 3rd to May 7th - Please!

Hey guys, This year I am running for Community Council Chair. Last year the elections were run in that cold dark secluded office in the back of APL and I lost after a four round tie by one vote. This year they are open to the campus so you, the students, actually get to choose who represents you. I was hoping you would choose me.

I have served on council since my first days at Hampshire literally (I went on the free mini-golf thing Council runs because I wanted to play mini-golf and here I am two years later). I have served on three of the four standing committees, chairing two of them (SafeCom and COCA) in semesters past and have grown to realize how much work Hampshire College needs on the students side. I want to do that work for you.

SOME GOALS:

To ALWAYS post meeting times and locations (so everyone can show up - since they are open meentings)

A school calendar- that works a little better for you than the intranet

Submitting information to the Five Colleges about what Hampshire needs (how about some buses that go where we want? - or a better way to know who to contact at each school you want to do some work at)

A better, less biased way of funding student groups - one that doesn't allow for a group of students to decide the merit of your event or student group, but instead helps you with making money conscious decisions.

BETTER relations with public safety. Having served as the SafeCom chair for a semester I realize that this is imperative to a happy campus, believing in the need for and trusting your public safety

coughEMTFUNDINGcough....A battle I have attempted to help fight that I will keep struggling with the administration for until some kind of institutional funding is there.

Making Hampshire feel like a place you want to spend 9 months of your year at!

Basically anything you, as a student, think would make this campus better.

Further I can't wait to represent you all to the administration. To often we are upset or frustrated and instead of uniting for change we send angry emails (and I am definitely guilty...ask me for the choice few I sent to housing!) which are never heard. Instead let me help unite us and CHANGE the awful things that make this amazing school fail us.

Let me serve as your Community Council Chair - 2010-2011 You will not regret it

oh yeah, and please tell your friends! I really would love to serve the community from this position!

Thank You Leanna Jade Pohevitz ljp08

council.hampshire.edu

Thank you!

First Year Advisor: Bong Seok Joo

Second Year Chair: John Drabinski Second Year Member: Salman Hameed

Third Year Chair: Sayres Rudy Third Year Member: Salman Hameed

ACADEMIC:
Fall 2008 Classes January 2009 Classes Spring 2009 Classes

NONACADEMIC:
This year Leanna created the student group Ahoula to help students learn Arabic without devoting five days a week to a classroom at another campus. Next year she will teach this as an EPEC course

Leanna ran and was elected to Community Council in Fall 2008 for an At-Large position. She is the current Co-Chair of COCA the Committee of Community Activites.

Leanna was also a signer for Chameleon Club For Spring 2009. Leanna is a signer for Chameleon Club, SafeCom, Pre-Law Society, and COCA.

She is a member of CBD the Culture, Brain, And Development Student Group Favorite Quotes Favorite Movies Favorite Books

TRAVEL
Guatemala - Volunteered in Spring Break 2009 Turkey - Took a Class in May Term 2009 on Turkish Politics Egypt - Spent her summer in Cairo, Egypt studying Arabic, both Fusah and Ahmea, on a United States Department of State Scholarship

PROJECT TRANSPARENCY:
For her hampedia class Leanna is creating Project Transparency. Starting with recorded audio from the Community Council Meetings



COUNCILNEED TO KNOW
General Information About Community Council

What Should A Member of Community Council Expect? 

Knowing The Community Council Agenda

Knowing The Community Council 'Minutes' Policy

Community Council in the College Archives?

Task Forces 

Focus Groups 

Parliamentary Procedure 

How an Idea Becomes a Motion Becomes a Law 

Governance at Hampshire College

Hampshire College Board of Trustees

Committees of the Board of Trustees

The President, The Faculty, and The Administration of Hampshire College

Governance Committees at Hampshire College

The Schools of Hampshire College 

Student Involvement in the Reappointment of Faculty

Community Council

Community Council Standing Committees 

Officer Positions of Community Council and its Standing Committees

All Community Meetings

Student Affairs

Community Council Elections Procedures

Elections Procedures

COMMUNITY COUNCIL:
This Fall 2009, Leanna Pohevitz is running for an at-Large position on Community Council. To Vote From September 24th 2009 at 9:00am to September 27th 2009 at 9:00pm visit http://tinyurl.com/councilfall2009 Click on which housing you live in. Then vote! I would prefer if you voted for Leanna for obvious reasons, but if you can't vote anyway! It's important to have a say in your school.

Here is Leanna's Fall 2009 Statement:

"Hey, Leanna here, I don’t know how to describe myself as the perfect officer to elect for Community Council without giving you all dog qualities so here they are, I am responsible, reliable, friendly and loyal.

Last year much of my days were filled with the chaos of Community Council (virtually everyone can attest to this). I served as a Co-Chair of COCA – the Committee on Community Activities (that planned Hampshire Halloween 2008, and Spring Jam 2009 and funded a myriad of on-campus events) served on SAFECOM, COCD, and obviously, as an at-large member of Council. In my time away from the office, and let’s be honest, my other classes, I managed to begin Project Transparency. To start, I held a vote in council to have meeting minutes recorded, and documented in different ways, as well as made a compilation of different helpful sources available on Hampedia for members and people interested in Council affairs. I worked to keep both Council and sub-committees (notably COCA) up to date with information and meeting minutes.

My goal was, and remains, to ensure that all students have a much better comprehension of what is going on in the organization that can serve as a bridge between the students, professors, staff, faculty, and community. That council, through transparency could truly become what it is intended to be, a common, neutral ground, where all can meet to discuss mutually inclusive concerns that meets weekly, with subcommittees all throughout the week.

I am running for Community Council because I feel I can adequately express a Hampshire Students interests. I have lived through the dorms and Greenwich, woken up at 3am fire alarms, had a bike come out from underneath me because of an icy campus (alright… and my failure to adequately ride bikes), pulled literal all-nighters, that turned into all-weekenders to have nothing completed, taking an EPEC, independent study, Jan-Term, May-Term abroad, and five college courses. Hit every silly speed bump and frustration, from duplications to the computers to desks with some valuable piece of leg missing, inevitably working for 1 hour + on a slanted surface. Watched people say more than they know, and know about more than they say. I even pulled off a couple passing classes and in early September passed Division 1!

Despite all of the above, I have found time to fall in love with Hampshire, by slowly but surely molding it into the place I want to complete my college experience in. My goal, is to make that infamous Hampshire Bubble as perfect as possible for everyone stuck inside it. I will listen to you and do my best to figure out what would make both our lives easier and better.

Within the first few weeks of office, I will be working on two major resources, one a better version of a calendar, because I personally am sick of walking past flyers, getting excited and stopping at one, to find out it happened last night. I will also be working on a Hampedia linked resource of language-learning for students who want more than just Chinese and Spanish on Hampshire Campus.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions (literally anything and I will try my best to answer it). Box 1353. OR if you feel like venturing to the illustrious donuts, I reside in the third, 17D. "