Minutes 9/20/11 - General Body

General Body Minutes 20 Sept 2011

1. President introduces committees
   1. Ana committee doings working in tandem w Evelyn on occasion
   2. John committee important
   3. Gabe committee and events
   4. Policy: Scott informs: last yr did pottruck decrease, against previous slating for increased price.
      1. Policy is good
      2. A lot of really good work gets done on that committee, please join.
      3. If particularly keen, get in touch w us as Policy VP is still open, email us or stop by afterward: election will be in 2 weeks
   5. Evelyn has no committee – she is a solo maverick.
   6. Quick straw poll:
      1. finance: 8 bodies
      2. Social:  7
      3. Policy: 7
      4. Public affairs: 7
   7. Attendance taken; absences listed below include those depts. without reps last year, yet to provide reps this year, and merely absent today as follows:
      1.  (chemistry [no rep since 2010], criminology [no rep since 2010], intl studies [no rep since 2010], relig studies [no rep since 2010],
      2. econ [2011 rep not yet replaced], german [2011 rep not yet replaced], romance lang [2011 rep not yet replaced],
      3. and pure absence: applied geosciences-Liz Wordell)
      4. raise of hands to assign reps to committees. End result:

Dept	Rep	Committee
VP Social	Gabe Sessions	Social
East Asian L&C	Frank Clements	Social
History of Sci	Nadia Berenstein	Social
Lauder	Wes Whitaker/Kaitlin _______	Social
Math	David Lonoff	Social
MLA	(Andres Centellas)	Social
Organ Dynam	Rachel Apanewicz-Delgado	Social
Philosophy	Thomas Noah	Social
Physics	Prashant Subbarao	Social
VP Pub Affairs	Ana Schwartz	Public Affairs
AAMW	Steve Renette	Public Affairs
Biology	Ali Diaz-Miranda/Lukas Chmatal	Public Affairs
Comp Lit	Allison ____ /replacement	Public Affairs
Earth & Env S	Kim Litwin	Public Affairs
Linguistics	Dimka Atanassov	Public Affairs
Poli Sci	Daniel Moak	Public Affairs
Sociology	Aliya Hamid Rao	Public Affairs
VP Policy	Person X	Policy
Anct History	Morgon Condell	Policy
Anthropology	Susannah Fishman	Policy
Art History	Will Schmenner	Policy
Demography	Abhijit Visaria	Policy
Fels	Dennie Zastrow	Policy
History	Anthony Pratcher	Policy
Near East Lang	Charlotte Rose	Policy
South Asia St	Phil Friedrich	Policy
VP Finance	John Qi	Finance
Applied Math	Wei Han	Finance
Class Studies	Lydia Spielberg	Finance
English	Alice McGrath	Finance
Mastr Env Stud	Candice McLeod	Finance

---Oops, finance got so short (once I eliminated duplicates for reps who will not be present simultaneously as they were tonight)!  We should take some (I propose 2?) from Policy (currently 8 members); although Social also has 8, we decided in GB meeting their surplus is a practical necessity.  Public Affairs final count 7; Finance final count 4.  If my proposal accepted, final counts will be:

Social – 8

Public Affairs – 7

Policy – 6*

Finance – 6*

* There are a potential 8 more members of the GB who may be added to any of the necessary committees upon said reps’ first meeting.

1. Break into committee meetings.
2. Reconvene: Scott discusses GAPSA rep need: meets every other Wed, includes reality show-style heated debates; Robert’s Rules; motions seconds, points of order, points of information, recognizing reps—entertaining. Scott giggles. Usually catered in a pretty nice way and after every single meeting they take you to a posh happy hr either distrito, city tap house or some dive bar and let you take after it.
   1. Participation in GAPSA is useful and good for all those reasons.
   2. We always like to start with SASgov reps—because you are already more plugged into what’s going on with your school, your school govt (although anyone in SAS can be a gapsa rep). we always open it up to you first though for obvious reasons. Also $1.8m budget and rep of 12,000 students looks good on resumes.  Research gets more money than proif and that makes them mad but it hinges on our filled chairs.
   3. Interested parties?

                                               i.     Scott Ordway – r* to retire after tomorrow’s meeting

                                              ii.     Ana Schwartz - r

                                            iii.     Dennie Zastrow - p

                                            iv.     Prashant Subbarao - r

                                              v.     Nadia Berenstein – r

                                            vi.     Anthony Pratcher – r

                                           vii.     *considering

                                         viii.     *considering

                                            ix.     *considering

                                              x.     *considering

1. Scott Ordway motion to adjourn
   1. Motion seconded
   2. Meeting adjourned