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General Body Meeting, 9/15/09

Next Meeting: 9/29/09, 3^rd floor of the GSC, 5:30-7:30.

Present: President, VPs Finance, Policy, Interim VP Communications. Reps: AAMW, Ancient History, Anthro, Applied Math, Art History, Bio, Chem, Classical Studies, Comp Lit, Criminology, Demography, EALC, Earth & ES, English, Fels, German, HSS, History, Internat’l Studies, Linguistics, MES, Math, Music, NELC, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Sociology

NB: If there is a preferred abbreviation for your grad group, please let me know!

Agenda:

I. Dinner, Remarks by President & VPs (5:30-6:10)

II. Icebreaker & Introductions (6:10)

III. VP Elections (6:30)

IV. GAPSA Elections (6:50)

V. Break into committees; preliminary meetings with respective VPs (7:15)

Details:

I. Dinner and Committees (5:30-6:30)

Pizza from Powelton. 5:45, Deirdre welcomed, outlined responsibilites of reps, handed out folders w/ outline of structure in them. Emphasized attendance.

Attendance taken.

Policy – Arthur outlined last year’s work & this year’s goals for the policy committee.

Finance – Bryan outlined duties of Finance committee – approve funding requests. This year Bryan wishes to improve formatting of finance requests. Mentioned Interdisciplinary Funding deadline – Friday, Sept. 25.

Raleigh – Suzanne read Raleigh’s statement. Two priorities: 1) publicity, and 2) academic & career programming. The latter is a new initiative.

Social Chair – will elect VP later this evening.

II. Icebreaker / Committee Choices / Introductions

Acronyms were obtained for the SAS part of SASgov. Resultant themes included prominent motifs of “social awkwardness.” Of particular note: Emily & Emily’s “Sub-Average Stipends.” J

III. Elections (6:30)

Deirdre outlined the election procedures & the responsibilities of GAPSA representatives. She also reminded us that GAPSA controls travel funding.

Are there nominations? No.

Motion to vote without ballots.

Suzanne elected VP Communications.

VP of social. Nominations: Rahilla Zata, Cindy, Claudia Scala. Neither Cindy nor Rahilla is present (R. had to leave early.)

Nominations closed.

Claudia speaks. Notable quote: “We should have more events; for example, a zombie crawl if you are into zombies.”

Motion to vote without ballots. Motion passed.

Claudia elected VP Social.

IV. GAPSA Elections (6:50)

Nominations we have for GAPSA research.

Melinda Nelson-Hurst – in NELC

Additional questions were asked about GAPSA time commitment.

Nominations were closed.

Melinda was asked about which committees she would be on; GAPSA flow chart was discussed. Priorities = overarching school-wide policies, for academic standards & funding.

Melinda Nelson-Hurst elected to GAPSA research.

Nominations we have for GAPSA professional.

Matt Closter nominated.

Cara Bumgardner nominated.

Cara spoke of her experience in networking while in a leadership position.

Matt spoke of his experience in working on SASgov’s Policy committee. Most interested in looking at funding opportunities – getting a sense of how $$ is being allocated across the board. So much about navigating post-graduate world comes down to having the right resources and connections – finding the right people within the university structure.

Nominations closed.

Open discussion.

Motion to not use the ballot – seconded. Motion passed.

Motion to vote – motion seconded. Motion passed.

Cara elected to GAPSA professional seat.

Matt elected to GAPSA professional seat.

VI. Break into committees; preliminary meetings with respective VPs present (7:15)

Meeting adjourned.