Special Election and General Meeting

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

4127 Sennott Square

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Minutes

Special Election

  1. Call to Order – 5:30pm

Attendance:

President- Traci NelsonHPS – Catherine Stinson

Vice President -IntelligentSystems - Anthropology- Julie Hoggarth Linguistics - Fawn Draucker

BioethicsMathematics - Onyeka Obi

Bio. Sci. -Adam RetchlessMusic- Ben Harris

Chemistry-Chad ShadeNeuroscience- Margurette Mathews

- Diane Mitchell- Beth Retchless

Classics- Nic ThornePhilosophy- Carlotta Pavese

Communication -Carleton GholzPhysics -Zeynep Isvan

ComputerScience - Paul DillonPoliticalScience- Carolina Garnye

Economics - Torsten JochemPsychology - Jennifer Cerully

Religious Studies -Patrick Hughes

English – Rebecca WiggintonSlavic-Elise Thorsen,

FrenchItalian– Eleonore BertrandSociology - Marvin Corbett

Statistics - Arnold Stagger

Geology -TheaterArts-

German–Elliot BergmanAdmin.Assistant – Debra Halpern

Hispanic -A&SGSOAdvisor- Stephen Carr

History –Julien Comte

HAA -Sara Sumpter

- Don Simpson

II.Election of the Vice-President, A&S-GSO

  • One VP nomination: Margurette Mathews
  • 100% unanimous, Margurette Mathews is new VP For FY08

III.Adjourn—5:34pm

General Meeting

I.Call to Order – 5:35pm

Attendance:

President- Traci NelsonHPS – Catherine Stinson

Vice President -Margurette MathewsIntelligentSystems - Anthropology- Julie Hoggarth Linguistics - Fawn Draucker

BioethicsMathematics - Onyeka Obi

Bio. Sci. -Adam RetchlessMusic- Ben Harris

Chemistry-Chad ShadeNeuroscience- Beth Retchless

- Diane Mitchell

Classics- Nic ThornePhilosophy- Carlotta Pavese

Communication -Carleton GholzPhysics -Zeynep Isvan

ComputerScience - Paul DillonPoliticalScience- Carolina Garnye

Economics - Torsten JochemPsychology - Jennifer Cerully

Religious Studies -Patrick Hughes

English – Rebecca WiggintonSlavic-Elise Thorsen,

FrenchItalian– Eleonore BertrandSociology - Marvin Corbett

Statistics - Arnold Stagger

Geology -TheaterArts-

German–Elliot BergmanAdmin.Assistant – Debra Halpern

Hispanic -A&SGSOAdvisor- Stephen Carr

History –Julien Comte

HAA -Sara Sumpter

- Don Simpson

  1. Approval of the Minutes from our September 17, 2007 meeting
  • Correction to name, flip YE—Mathematic representative

Correction: Onyeka Obi

  • French—Elenonre Bertrand (attended)
  • Move to approve mintues and second- 5:36pm

III.Additions to the Agenda

  • No additions

IV.Executive Council Reports

A. President’s Report

  • Senate council meeting:

1) To sign up for emergency notification go to my.pitt.edu, go to emergency notification link and sign up to receive the notification. You can not use a Pitt phone number for this.

2) Fitness for life event October 17th 2-430pm in assembly room William Pitt Union. President of senate and chancellor will be there. There will be a lot of information on health. From 7am-12 on same day will be biomedical screenings, that information is on the Pitt website. Need to sign up in advance.

3) New committee members that verbally volunteered at meeting:

Chair of Teaching award: Julie Hoggarth.

Teaching award committee member: Ben Harris

Happy Hour committee members: Sara Sumpter and Onyeka Obi

Chair of Finance committee: Margurette Mathews

  • Zeynep Isvan agrees to sit on external committee on Women’s concern for Proverst office.
  • We received responses to child care issue and will compile the information. Also, there is information in the Grad Guide regarding Child Care with information on local facilities.

B.Vice President’s Report—no report

C.Administrative Assistant’s Report

  • Up to date on reimbursements and we have around a 20,000 carryover from last year. Allocations should be done by the end of the month.

V.Committee Reports and Sign-Ups- 5:55pm

A. GPSA

  • Came out with new travel grant guidelines. Must be preapproved for funding and now two grants of $200 and $100

B. Grad Expo-- No announcements

C. Teaching Awards – No announcements

D.Happy Hour

  • PJ contacted friend who is an owner to see if they can help out, hasn’t formalized anything yet

E.Website

  • Announcement feed is up on the website. If you click icon you can add to what you use so you don’t always have to check website.
  • Can link to facebook, which will help get financial applications running on facebook in the future. The link is

F. Campus-wide Committees – External Committees- no announcements

G.Arts & Sciences Committees- no announcements

H.Grad Studies Committees- no announcements

VII.New Business

VIII.Adjourn—6:07pm

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