From owner-info@gso.bu.edu Fri Apr 16 19:24 EDT 1999 Received: from gso.bu.edu (GSO.BU.EDU [128.197.60.71]) by cs.bu.edu ((8.8.8.buoit.v1.0)/8.8.8/(BU-S-10/16/98-v1.0a)) with ESMTP id TAA23475; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by gso.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/(BU-S-02/10/97-v1.0)) id TAA10623 for info-list; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.10.2]) by gso.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/(BU-S-02/10/97-v1.0)) with ESMTP id TAA10619 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cs16.bu.edu (rip@cs16 [128.197.10.115]) by cs.bu.edu ((8.8.8.buoit.v1.0)/8.8.8/(BU-S-10/16/98-v1.0a)) with ESMTP id TAA23467 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Pitts Received: by cs16.bu.edu (8.8.5/Spike-2.1) id TAA11169; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:24:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199904162324.TAA11169@cs16.bu.edu> To: info@gso.bu.edu Subject: GSO - summary of Thu, Apr 15, 99 meeting Sender: owner-info@gso.bu.edu Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text Content-Length: 6365 Status: RO Here is a summary of what we did at yesterday's Graduate Student Organization meeting. Our next general meeting will be on Thursday, April 29, 5:30-6:45pm. --Rob Summary ======= 1. Committee Reports Financial, Academic and Research Committee ========================================== (Formerly the "Funding Committee". Their new e-mail is far@gso.bu.edu.) Gareth Roberts reported for this committee. - They're still working on a set of guidelines for advising at BU. - Their speaker for a talk on "Intellectual Property" still hasn't committed to a date, so they expect the talk may have to be deferred until the Fall. ---- They also wanted to call attention to 2 conferences: Harvard recently had a teleconference on "Grad Student Mentoring" and COCAL will be having a conference on "Academic Labor" (including grad students). Contact far@gso.bu.edu for more info about either of those. Healthcare Committee ==================== Rob Pitts reported for this committee. The committee's talk on "Student Healthcare" (4/6/99) went well: - 18 students attended. These seemed to be mainly (or all) grads even though undergraduates were invited as well. Students asked many of the questions that were discussed as important at previous general meeting. Committee members asked those questions not covered by other students. - An additional representative from Student Health Services, their Associate Director, attended as well (giving 2 representatives from Student Health Services and 1 from Chickering). - Ads for the talk made it into both the Bridge and the Daily Free Press (DFP), but they both misprinted the date of the talk (see topic 3 below about how Bridge announcements end up in the DFP). Currently, they are working on: - Writing up the questions and answers from the talk. These will be placed on the Healthcare Pages (http://gso.bu.edu/healthcare/). - Finishing up a few write-ups that were deferred while organizing the Healthcare talk. Housing Committee ================= Both committee members will be taking qualifying exams this weekend, so they did not report. Liaison Committee ================= Gary Garber reported for this committee by e-mail. - Although GRS doesn't want to do a BBQ for the Fall new student reception (recall that this is due to it being ruined if there is bad weather), they are willing to do a BBQ as a separate grad social event in the Fall or Spring. - We cannot place the NAGPS insurance plan flyer (they have a 1-page flyer that promotes the plan) in mailings to new students. GRS's main concern is that it would seem as if GRS was endorsing the NAGPS plan, and since there isn't a formal financial relationship between NAGPS and BU, they don't seem too keen on the idea. GRS says we can hand out info on the NAGPS plan at our table at the Fall reception and we may be able to mention the plan in our own GSO flyer (which we can include in mailings). Social Committee ================ Cassandra Celatka reported for this committee. April's Social event will be billiards at Boston Billiards: - It will be on Wednesday, April 28th, 6:30pm - Pool tables go for approximately $8/hour, HOWEVER, since Wednesday is "Ladies Night", the cost is reduced by 25% for each woman at a table (so >= 4 women makes that table free). - Students should be able to pay for their drinks as they order them or can probably run tabs if they like. - They are not yet sure what money we will get for snacks (from GRS) and what we will be able to purchase. Steering Committee ================== Dave Morgan and Jen Wenner reported for this committee. Their report consisted of a presentation/discussion of the articles in the "Constitution, Bylaws, etc." section below. 2. Constitution, Bylaws, etc. The Steering Committee is leaving some extra time for students to comment on the "Committees of the GSO" article (since the text of Part I is new). The "Officers of the GSO" article is essentially done, but students have a little more time to comment on that as well. The main discussion concerned the "Department Representatives" article. Out of that discussion, the need for a "Meetings" article became apparent. One member suggested having 2 kinds of meetings, a regular general meeting where committees report (and where Dept. Reps. are welcome) and "special meetings" called when issues need to be discussed (at which Dept. Reps. would be required to attend). Remember to send your comments on articles (that have already been sent out by e-mail) to steering@gso.bu.edu. 3. Advertising in BU Newspapers The Healthcare Committee provided some additional information on this based on their experience with the "Student Healthcare" talk: Bridge ------ Event announcements in the Bridge are published on Friday's. According to their secretary, you need to send in the announcement the Friday before the publication date (in some cases, you can get away with the Monday before the publication date). Sending the announcement via calendar@bu.edu seems to work fairly well. They do edit your announcement text (you may want to submit and verify ads over the phone (at 353-2752) if you are concerned about how they will edit your ad). To that end, they currently only list phone numbers for "more info" on an event. They do not list e-mails (although the secretary said she'd ask the editor about possibly changing that after we requested it). Those submitting event announcements should first look at the format used for announcements in the Bridge, to make sure all the usual information is provided. Event announcements in the Bridge are also listed on BU's web site (http://www.bu.edu/calendar/) (under one of several categories). These announcements are sometimes also automatically placed in the Daily Free Press' announcements page (more about Daily Free Press listings at a future meeting).