11-11-2007 Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Graduate Student Association General Council Meeting

November 11th, 2007

Meeting starts at 7:08pm 11/11/2007.

Approval of agenda. Agenda approved.
New Business:
1. Recognition of GSOs:
  1. Not yet introduced: Radical Faculty & Grad Student Org; No member of Radical showed up.
2. Proposals from the floor? No proposals from the floor.

Issues of the day
1. NJPIRG referendum – they need more grads
  1. Please vote for NJPIRG. If you have not voted, please proceed to the stand set outside of the meeting area and vote before you leave.
2. Cancellation of January meeting + Spring Allocation deadline (1/31)
  1. Deadline for funding application for Spring is 1/31/2008, which will leave us enough time to evaluate and review the applications and vote for the decision on 2/10/2008.
  2. No opposition, 1 abstention for cancellation of January meeting. The meeting will be cancelled.
3. Football tickets for Pitt for family and friends
  1. There still will be a lottery system for tickets and tickets to the winner of the lottery will be sold at $20 each.
4. Public Safety Advisory Board meeting 11/19 (11-1pm): feedback and reps.
  1. There has been several robberies on campus. If anyone has anything to say about the safety issues on campus and would be like to be the representative of GSA, please feel free to contact us (email Ryan Fowler, email address can be found on GSA website).
  2. (Ryan Fowler): will go to the meeting and try to report in the December GSA regular council meeting.
5. Feedback on judicial/integrity system.
  1. (Ryan): There was a senate meeting on this past Friday, in which we were given a report on accreditation of University. It appeared that Rutgers is doing well.
  2. There has been efforts to revamp the judicial/integrity system. To report major infractions is an onerous task on TAs. The task involves so much effort that the professors tend not to report these major infractions and as a result, minor infractions are usually reported and people committed these minor infractions got expelled by school, which is apparently not fair. Please email Ryan a summary or discussion regarding any experience that they have with the judicial system (length of time, size of the task… etc) and any academic integrity issues.
Reports
1. GSA Officers:
  1. Halloween Party?
    - (Charlotte): The party was a success. Some photos were uploaded to the GSA picassa online album and some have not been uploaded. Please go and check out the pictures. If anyone here has any more idea about coming up with parties, we would definitely like to hold more for our students.
  2. RCSSA/Soccer Club tournament
    - Some group in DE was upset by some decisions made in the soccer tournament and sent angry letters to a few presses, including the daily Targum, and to the president of Rutgers as well as the president of the GSA, accusing RCSSA of embezzlement . During the meeting, representative from RCSSA reported that the issue has been resolved.
2. Internal Committees
  1. Request for new ISAC chair
    - If anyone is interested, please apply. Responsibilities include one social hour every two weeks and some other tasks that will not take too much time. The chair does not need to be an international student.
3. External Committees
  1. University Senate / BOT
    - It was the first BOT meeting in the semester, and was very introductory. Nothing really important came up in the meeting.
  2. EC of the Graduate School (Ryan Fowler)

Administrative Assistant & Events Coordinator (Benjamin Peters and Ben Arenger)
1. There are a lot of checks waiting to be picked up. Please stop by after the meeting if you believe that there should be a check for you, even if you have not received any email notification yet.

Questions and Announcements