LSO
Officers Meeting
Positions open since Marisa
and Kyle left
Co-chair – Phil (Phil bar? SpecPhil?)
Student Faculty Liaison – Steve pending confirmation from
Steve
Colloquium – Greg
DGC position is still open
What do the dues do?
Coffee
hour – traditional, but several people currently have conflicts with the before
colloquium time slot
T-shirts – much discussion with little agreement in
recent years
Ideas and suggestions for
other uses of LSO money
Working papers/occasional papers
Weekend workshop (potentially leading to working papers)
Near the end of the semester
Inclusion of
undergraduates?
100 word abstracts
What does LSO do? What do we want to be doing?
Colloquium
Social organization of students
Workshop
Grad mentorship (buddies) to new students
Dues
Currently $162 in the funds – enough to cover at least
one workshop, plus?
Discussion of raising dues
Keep
them at $5 for now, possibly raise to an additional $5
next semester if needed to fund workshop, etc.
Colloquium
Current schedule in faculty hands, matters pending
Hopefully will be cleared up ASAP
Paperwork for official MSU
organization needs to be done
Agenda for general meeting,
to be held on Thursday, September 11th
Updates
on most of the items above
Date
for weekend workshop
Setting
up your website – very few people have them