Minutes from GSS Meeting, 1/28/99 (Edith Schwede and John Martin recording) In Attendance: Jenn Skidmore, John Martin, Danielle Freudenheim, Edith Schwede, Ashish Panchal, Tom Hund, David Vanik, Michelle McCoy, Karen Tucker, Shama Mohammed, Rich Charnigo, Beth Summers The GSS met in the Thwing Spartan Room at 11:15 a.m. on January 28, 1999. A Health Insurance Committee report was given by Karen Tucker, who welcomed two guests from the dental school to provide information on a student dental plan offered by the CWRU Dental School. Her report is sent under separate cover. Karen also distributed flyers from the Dental School offering students with a current college ID a free dental cleaning and screening on Saturday, February 13, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. For more info call 216 368 0686. The Students Organization Committee submitted three organizations' requests for GSS recognition. 1) ASHA Cleveland - 15 for, none against, no abstentions: Recognized 2) Lambda Grads - 15 for, none against, 1 abstention: Recognized 3) Campus Bible Fellowship- 2 for, 12 opposed, 1 abstention: Not Recognized John Martin announced that the V-Fund was approved by the CWRU Board of Trustees. A certificate was sent to GSS and a letter from the president to Ed Verhosek. Five senators volunteered to serve on the Student Organization and Allocations Committee (note: this committee replaces the former Student Organization Committee). The new committee will meet next week to elect a chair and develop a plan for informing grad students of the new grant program and receiving and evaluating requests. Tom Hund reported that GAInS will be announcing plans for a Spring Event soon. The event will be an evening of foods of the world and a speaker. Proceeds will benefit the homeless coalition. GSS Committee reports included Minority Affairs Committee, PSC, Educational Programs of College of Arts and Sciences Committee, Faculty Senate, University Health Plan, Graduate Studies Committee, and NAGPS. FS Minority Affairs: Is planning another forum for the spring Presidential Search Committee: Met with Prs of board of trustees. Selection process is moving along Educational Programming for CAS: Met Faculty Senate: Faculty have expressed concern over the pending renegotiation of the relationship between University Hospitals and CWRU. Students with concerns about this issue should contact jcm2@po.cwru.edu. University Health Plan: Will look into treatment of pre-existing injuries. We could be getting prescription cards soon. Grad Studies: Still forming post-grad policies. NAGPS: Regional will be in Bloomington, Indiana March 26-28 this year. Nationals will be in Columbus, OH next November. Activities Committee has arranged a Theater Night for February 18 at 8p.m. at Eldred Theater. The Shakespeare play is Richard III. Grad students may request two free tickets for this performance. More information will be forthcoming. Danielle Freudenheim reminds senators that Activities Committee hopes to organize intramural softball teams. Interested students should e-mail her at daf5@po.cwru.edu GSS is arranging for a band to play at the Spring Festival. Spring Fest is primarily sponsored by the University Programming Board (undergrads) and will be held on April 24. John reminded senators that elections for next year's senators will be held April 1. Officers will be elected either the first or second week in April. Meeting adjourned at 12:15 p.m. From daemon Fri Jan 29 09:52:17 1999 Received: from cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu by grendel.astr.cwru.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/28Jun94-0533PM) id AA22885; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:52:16 -0500 Return-Path: owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Received: (majord@localhost) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.4) id JAA12755; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:52:08 -0500 (EST) (from owner-grads@po.cwru.edu for grads-out) X-Authentication-Warning: cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu: majord set sender to owner-grads@po.cwru.edu using -f Received: from grendel.astr.cwru.edu (grendel.ASTR.CWRU.Edu [129.22.148.19]) by cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu with SMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.4) id JAA12709; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:52:03 -0500 (EST) (from martin@grendel.astr.cwru.edu for ) Received: by grendel.astr.cwru.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/28Jun94-0533PM) id AA21338; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:52:03 -0500 From: John Martin Message-Id: <9901291452.AA21338@grendel.astr.cwru.edu> Subject: GSS Minutes To: grads@po.cwru.edu Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:52:03 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO Minutes from GSS Meeting, 1/28/99 (Edith Schwede and John Martin recording) In Attendance: Jenn Skidmore, John Martin, Danielle Freudenheim, Edith Schwede, Ashish Panchal, Tom Hund, David Vanik, Michelle McCoy, Karen Tucker, Shama Mohammed, Rich Charnigo, Beth Summers The GSS met in the Thwing Spartan Room at 11:15 a.m. on January 28, 1999. A Health Insurance Committee report was given by Karen Tucker, who welcomed two guests from the dental school to provide information on a student dental plan offered by the CWRU Dental School. Her report is sent under separate cover. Karen also distributed flyers from the Dental School offering students with a current college ID a free dental cleaning and screening on Saturday, February 13, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. For more info call 216 368 0686. The Students Organization Committee submitted three organizations' requests for GSS recognition. 1) ASHA Cleveland - 15 for, none against, no abstentions: Recognized 2) Lambda Grads - 15 for, none against, 1 abstention: Recognized 3) Campus Bible Fellowship- 2 for, 12 opposed, 1 abstention: Not Recognized John Martin announced that the V-Fund was approved by the CWRU Board of Trustees. A certificate was sent to GSS and a letter from the president to Ed Verhosek. Five senators volunteered to serve on the Student Organization and Allocations Committee (note: this committee replaces the former Student Organization Committee). The new committee will meet next week to elect a chair and develop a plan for informing grad students of the new grant program and receiving and evaluating requests. Tom Hund reported that GAInS will be announcing plans for a Spring Event soon. The event will be an evening of foods of the world and a speaker. Proceeds will benefit the homeless coalition. GSS Committee reports included Minority Affairs Committee, PSC, Educational Programs of College of Arts and Sciences Committee, Faculty Senate, University Health Plan, Graduate Studies Committee, and NAGPS. FS Minority Affairs: Is planning another forum for the spring Presidential Search Committee: Met with Prs of board of trustees. Selection process is moving along Educational Programming for CAS: Met Faculty Senate: Faculty have expressed concern over the pending renegotiation of the relationship between University Hospitals and CWRU. Students with concerns about this issue should contact jcm2@po.cwru.edu. University Health Plan: Will look into treatment of pre-existing injuries. We could be getting prescription cards soon. Grad Studies: Still forming post-grad policies. NAGPS: Regional will be in Bloomington, Indiana March 26-28 this year. Nationals will be in Columbus, OH next November. Activities Committee has arranged a Theater Night for February 18 at 8p.m. at Eldred Theater. The Shakespeare play is Richard III. Grad students may request two free tickets for this performance. More information will be forthcoming. Danielle Freudenheim reminds senators that Activities Committee hopes to organize intramural softball teams. Interested students should e-mail her at daf5@po.cwru.edu GSS is arranging for a band to play at the Spring Festival. Spring Fest is primarily sponsored by the University Programming Board (undergrads) and will be held on April 24. John reminded senators that elections for next year's senators will be held April 1. Officers will be elected either the first or second week in April. Meeting adjourned at 12:15 p.m.