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Subject: Grad. Assoc. - summary of Wed, Oct 29, 97 meeting
Status: RO

Hello-

I was a little disappointed that there weren't very many people at
today's meeting (in light of the fact that only 3 people mentioned they
could not come).  I was hoping to get a group concensus on some issues.

Nevertheless, this points out the need for a regularly-scheduled, weekly
meeting.  Therefore, please each send my your nightly schedules (say
after 4pm) so that I can find a time that accomodates most people.

The main things we decided on are the following:

- Chris Richardson will continue to discuss the idea of a rally with
  CAS depts.  In this way, when the time is appropriate for a rally,
  we will have all the "rally issues" sorted out.

- A few of us are looking into making an appointment with the dean so
  that we can discuss the issue face to face.  My hope is that in a
  grad. assoc. meeting soon, we can come to a concensus on what we
  are pushing for, e.g.,

  + Just $1,000 more for continuing TFs? 

    OR

  + $11,500 for everyone?

    AND

  + Do we want to make sure that any solution to the disparity
    doesn't leave anyone with lower pay than they currently have?

- We also suggest that letters to the dean are CCed to the board of
  trustees, so that they get exposure to our concerns.

Thank you,

--Rob Pitts