LSO Officers Meeting September 4th, 2008

 

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