After much confusion over where the Oct. 30 ASI meeting would take place due to the 40th Anniversary of the 1968 Student Strikes, the meeting finally began 14 minutes late at the Delmy Rodriguez Conference Room in the Cesar Chavez Student Center.

Senior Representative Sean Timon Horan’s Phase 1 of his SF State Social Network can begin underway after the board passed $2,000 to go toward its completion.

“This will be an online community built for students on a local level,” Horan said.

Horan has spent the last eight months researching for the social network. After the completion of Phase 1, Horan will have a solid idea of how long and how much it will cost to create and keep up this social network. Phase 1 will include employing a technical advising consultant, a server assessment, various analysis meetings, and initial site set-up.

Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Dr. J.E. Safford’s main concern is keeping all student information confidential throughout all phases. She was asked to sit in on meetings taking place for Phase 1 to ensure student confidentiality is honored and later commented that other university personnel will take part to ensure this as well.

During Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting a transfer student from Skyline Community College expressed interest in becoming the Behavioral and Social Science Representative. Graduate Representative Laura Alarcon supported her, however because President Natalie Franklin had already nominated history graduate student Frankie Griffin, the woman could not be added in to the vote.

In a vote of six to three, Frankie Griffin was voted onto the board. Omar Flores, a junior double major in education and business, was voted in as the Education Representative unanimously.

In addition, the following motions were approved by the board:

• $300 to the Ceramics Guild for the “Esther Shimazu Artist Presentation” taking place Nov. 4 in Fine Arts room 194.

• $258 to the Graduate Students Association’s “Prospective Graduate Student Workshop” taking place Nov. 12 in the Richard Oakes Room of Cesar Chavez Student Center

• $300 towards the Indian Graduate Association’s “Utkarsh,” on Nov. 1 in the Richard Oakes Room in Cesar Chavez. This motion was finally passed after clarifying that it was an event to promote diversity and in no way a religious event.

• $300 was approved for the Zeta Phi Beta Inc.’s “Blue and White Week” to educate people on issues such as domestic violence and healthy relationships Nov. 17-21.

• $809 to Student Kouncil of Intertribal Nations (SKINS) for the event honoring the memory of Richard Oakes in Jack Adams Hall Nov. 12-16.

• $300 to the Students For Integrative Health event for “Alternative Approaches to Health” to be held in the Holistic Health Center on Nov. 13.

• $300 to the Zeta Phi Beta Inc.’s “Finer Womanhood Week,” a week dedicated to empowering women in March 2009.