From owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Wed Mar 22 17:52:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: from babar.INS.CWRU.Edu (majord@babar.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.213]) by fafnir.astr.cwru.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA31044 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:52:06 -0500 Received: (majord@localhost) by babar.INS.CWRU.Edu (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id RAA16443; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:51:56 -0500 (EST) (from owner-grads@po.cwru.edu for grads-out) X-Authentication-Warning: babar.INS.CWRU.Edu: majord set sender to owner-grads@po.cwru.edu using -f Received: from imo-d08.mx.aol.com (imo-d08.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.40]) by babar.INS.CWRU.Edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) id RAA16345; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:51:50 -0500 (EST) (from RJCharn2@aol.com for ) From: RJCharn2@aol.com Received: from RJCharn2@aol.com by imo-d08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id 3.43.2613564 (4366) for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:51:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43.2613564.260aa859@aol.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:51:05 EST Subject: Meeting report 22 March 2000 To: grads@po.cwru.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 41 Sender: owner-grads@po.cwru.edu Precedence: bulk Status: RO Report for the GSS Meeting of 22 March 2000 Attendance: Rich Charnigo Graham Cormode John Martin Adam Majewski Sathaporn Laksanacharoen Tom Hund Laurie McFarland Dan Kerr Tom Merk Tina Smith Gail Bromley We had several committee reports. The V-fund awarded $1585 to 19 people; John Martin noted that the funds were distributed more evenly over different fields of study than in the past. Preliminary interviews for the Diekhoff Award are underway; a meeting of this committee, to discuss the arrangements for final interviews, is likely to be held during the second week of April. The Activities Committee reported that two sponsors have been found for the (semiformal) May 6 dinner / dance event. A topic of concern was how to deal with the issue of alcohol consumption without insulting responsible drinkers. Ideas proposed included selling beverages after dinner (rather than having them available for free) and having taxis or designated drivers on call. [Having this said, I should add that the sentiment of GSS is that no problems are anticipated, but we don't want to be in a difficult or tragic situation if something unexpected arises.] GSS is also sponsoring musical groups at the Spring Festival. The activity of softball is cancelled for the spring semester. NAGPS is having a regional conference in Minneapolis on April 15-16. We can send two people. Contact Tom Hund or go to www.nagps.org/region/midwest for information. The International Buddy Program is looking for representatives from each academic department to make contact with international students during orientation (first week of classes); science and engineering majors are especially needed. [More information should be available later.] The Graduate Studies committee of the Faculty Senate recently had a meeting of "stakeholders" to discuss aspects of the electronic dissertation. While a direction in which to proceed has not been firmly established, students' concerns have been aired and are well understood. Dan Kerr emphasized two of them: Departments/students wanting dissertations to be available on library shelves in written form will be accommodated. Also, students will likely be able to submit their dissertations electronically without having them available for people to read on the Internet for a period of a few years; the committee at present seems willing to go with a 5-year delay, but Dan has indicated that he will seek a 10-year grace period. [Please note: The electronic dissertation is only in the discussion phase. Nobody is going to be required to submit a dissertation electronically for at least a couple years (more probably, three or four), though the option may be there as soon as next year.] The meeting concluded with nominations for GSS officers (2000-2001). Persons nominated are: John Martin, corresponding secretary; Tom Hund, treasurer; Rich Charnigo, president. Nominations may still be made to John Martin before the next meeting. We do need a vice president and a recording secretary for next year. [Current president Adam Majewski indicated at the meeting that he would not accept a nomination; current vice president Tina Smith informed me in correspondence that she would not seek to continue as VP next year. Thanks for your work as officers, Adam and Tina.] R. Charnigo