Executive Board

The Chairman of CSH serves as the "head of E-Board", supervising the activities of the Directors and presiding over our weekly House Meetings. The Chairman is also the primary spokesperson for House, representing the interests of our members in communications with RIT and the rest of the world.

Normally the Chairman cannot vote on E-Board decisions. However, if the directors' votes are split, the Chairman casts the tie-breaking vote.

"Eval" is responsible for connecting with the RIT student community, as well as screening, accepting, and orienting new members. Eval is why current members are here today!

Computer Science House is always looking for new members. You can learn more about membership on our Membership page. If you would like to visit and tour the floor, or sit in on a class with a CSH member, let the Eval Director know and he/she can arrange this.

Financial is responsible for managing CSH's finances, collecting quarterly member dues, and hatching new fundraising schemes. All of our money goes towards new resources and project components for members to use; CSH is a registered non-profit organization with an annual self-generated budget.

Dues are $35 per quarter for on-floor membership, and $30 per quarter for off-floor membership (required for off-floors to gain card access to floor and use certain services).

History's primary responsibility is keeping the line of communication between CSH and our alumni open. We believe members should have a well-developed sense of House's origins and accomplishments; along these lines, History keeps the past alive through the yearbook, Coredump newsletter, floor displays, archiving, updating the media database, and managing alumni relations. History also coordinates alumni storytelling nights and other traditional events.

"Imps" is responsible for keeping our living space respectable and comfortable. The Imps director delegates projects that improve the physical aspects of floor, such as painting, cleaning, building, and organizing House's resources. While we may not be the tidiest group of people, we like to take care of our floor, and it shows.

The OpComm director, together with a group of technically skilled members known as RTPs, is responsible for maintaining CSH's servers and network infrastructure. Becoming an RTP allows members to develop and practice skills that are essential for working in computing fields. If you have any questions about House's technical resources, the OpComm director should be your first stop.

OpComm is one of two positions that is not elected by a House-wide majority vote (the other is R&D). Instead, the current RTPs choose one of their number to be the OpComm director, using whatever means they agree on. This can happen multiple times per year, and does not have to follow the normal E-Board election cycle.

R&D is responsible for creating new and useful things for House, and creating not-so-useful things that are just a whole lot of fun! By organizing seminars and keeping technical projects on track, the R&D director encourages members to expand their knowledge and gain experience with a variety of computer software and hardware.

R&D is one of two positions that is not elected by a House-wide majority vote (the other is OpComm). Instead, members submit nominations for the position, and the current E-Board interviews the candidates and ultimately elects one of them to be next year's R&D director.

College may be a lot of work, but it should also be a lot of fun! Social is responsible for planning and running various social events, some of which can be seen on our Traditions page. Here at CSH, we believe that the best kind of fun is fun that is shared. Got an idea for a new event? Run it past Social!

Social is the only E-Board position that allows "dual directorship"; while technically a single member could take the role, this rarely occurs. In E-Board decisions, each of the two Social directors gets half of a vote.