GSC BoD Meeting
Thursday, November 2, 2000
Directors present:
Alex Backer, Tanja Bosak, Marco Casari, Catherine Cornu, Bob Gingrich, Will Green, Anil Hirani, Ying Huang, Michael Johnson, Tobias Kippenberg, Jose Mumbru, Athanasios Nenes, Tim Lesko, Steve Pracko, Nick Pornsinsiriak, Claude Seywert, Hui Wu
Directors absent:
Magali Billen, Jeff Bergthorson, Will Dunbar, Michael Fleming, Serena Guarnaschelli, James Harrington, Fok-Yan Leung
Guests:
Tim (from Scuba club)
Chair Alex Backer presiding. Nick is moderating the meeting (to keep the meeting shorter).
a. Introduction of guests
Tim (timothy@its) from the scuba club to ask for funding
b. Additions to the agenda
None.
The scuba club wants to fund an outing to the movies to see the diving themed movie “Men of honor”. The event is open to anyone and will be next Friday. They request $100 (or $1 per person). The BoD votes to fund this event (Tanja and Tobias abstain; Marco is opposed).
To foster attendance at the BOD meetings, Alex wants to have food. So far we haven’t had food since we oppose it when distributing the clubfunding money. Furthermore having food at the meetings does not contributed to further our mission. An argument in favor is the fact that the meetings are open to anyone and thus technically any grad student can show up. Alternatives to the GSc paying would be that everyone pays for his lunch or each one brings their lunch. There’s a vote on having pizza once. Opposed are: Claude, Steve, Mike, Ying and Hui. Catherine and Anil abstain. Thus the proposal to try it once is accepted. Fok is in charge of this.
Alex suggests to introduce attendance requirements for the GSC directors. Maybe people should excuse themselves if they can’t come. Alex proposes to revoke BoD membership if there are 6 or more absences (out of 12 meetings) without reason. The proposal is accepted with Bob and Claude opposed and Ying, Catherine, Will and Alex abstaining.
Catherine wants to resign as Newsletter editor. This is the only paid position on the board: $50 per newsletter. The newsletter is published monthly and it is not such a big job. The editor should be member of the BoD. Steve could replace Catherine until April (new BoD). If you’re interested, inform Catherine; otherwise we will open it to the campus.
The scuba club wants to fund an outing to the movies to see the diving themed movie “Men of honor”. The event is open to anyone and will be next Friday. They request $100 (or $1 per person). The BoD votes to fund this event (Tanja and Tobias abstain; Marco is opposed)
We got some feedback:
Some students want more live Jazz events. Ying and Tanja volunteer to look into this (Steve will be consulting).
Other students want another visit to JPL. We will check it out.
Of the 4 options we had concerns about last time we looked at this subject, only Ma has changed their text in the catalogue. The new Ma guidelines look fine to us. About the remaining options:
CS: they restarted the process. The delay is due to the fact that the option rep changed and the faculty expanded. However now the students are actively involved in writing the new guidelines.
APh: Steve will follow up (again)
Ph: the physics students seem to be ok with the current arrangements. However the BoD thinks that it needs to be revised as right now the advisor is the only recourse for students.
There will be a brainstorming meeting on this subject on November 17 during lunchtime at Chandler. Interested directors are: Jeff, Will, Fok, Jose, Alex, Tobias, Michael, Thanos, Marco, and Anil.
Please put up the posters for this event!
There is a suggestion of organizing a shuttle to Westwood after our GUSH’s. Jeff and Fok will look into this. Renting a schoolbus would cost us about $75 per hour. Maybe we should talk to Parandeh Kia about funding possibilities.
III. ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Retreat summary
See the email to the BoD by Alex about this
b. GUSH review
The last outdoor GUSH with band was a great success. We should try having more bands for the future.
c. Wine tour
The wine tour has been delayed until next term since Thanos has no time to organize the tour at this point in time.
d. ELS
The speakers for this year have been selected. The first lecture will take place after Thansgiving and is by Gabriel Krieman (Bio/CNS).
e. Clubfunding
Next year we will distribute guidelines about how we evaluate the proposals to the various clubs. We might have to set some new ones. This year they were decided upon by the clubfunding committee after the fact. Next year we should have a special meeting open to every director were we set the guidelines and then we send off the committee with those guidelines to do their job. This would eliminate some of the discussions we had this year.
f. Company visits / Shadowing program
Tim will be the GSC liaison person to the CDC. He will work with them on company visits and on the possible establishment of a job shadowing program.
g. Meeting with Dean
There will be a meeting with the dean to talk about lab and course reviews, the technique, competitive stipends, etc.