RACKHAM STUDENT GOVERNMENT
GENERAL BOARD MEETING
NOVEMBER 10, 2010
RACKHAM GRADUATE BUILDING
7:00 P.M.
I. CALL TO ORDER
A regular meeting of the Rackham Student Government General Board Meeting was held on Wednesday,
November 10, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. at the Rackham Graduate Building.
RSG President Michael Benson called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m.
Members Present:
Michael Benson, Mayela Montenegro, Cherisse Loucks, Lily Mancour, Yu Zhang,
Amit Patel, Robert Nyambati, Ethan Eagle, Mindy Waite, Katherine Fisher, Anna
Kroth
Guests:
Manoj Jegannathan, RSG Elections Director
Tien-Hueui and Cesar (both interested in running for RSG Representative)
II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Agenda is approved.
III. OFFICER REPORTS
MICHAEL:
No guest speaker today, though we usually will have them.
Next week’s guest speaker will be postponed until the next meeting because several RSG board members will
be.
RSG Elections are next week.
None.
MAYELA:
CHERISSE:
Account balance is about $17,000.
IV. COMMITTEE UPDATES
A) ELECTIONS
MANOJ:
Put flyers by the libraries. Email Manoj directly to get a hard-copy of the colored flyers to set up a scheduling
time to meet.
Everyone – please post flyers throughout your building and in another building – “adopt a building.” Get
colored flyers from Manoj.
B) LEGISLATIVE
MICHAEL:
SAGE Update:
Everyone please commit to doing some research on one of the items presented. If you have your own idea,
please share with Michael or Mayela!!
This year, UC San Diego has been added as a member. Rueckers in New Jersey will be voting on their SAGE
membership soon, so they may become a member soon. Univ of Colorado in Boulder and UVA are still
being recruited to become future members.
Michael and Mayela were at UCLA for 3 days, discussing issues ranging from campus governance to
legislative items. At UCB and Univ of Texas, grad student government and regular student government has
an agreement between them clarifying their respective jurisdictions. Questionnaire information was collected
from each university and will be shared with RSG.
On Friday, there was a forum with Vice-Chancellor from UCLA. Compared higher education to auto
industry – growth in both industries, change in demographic demand, high costs. Began discussing our
lobbying efforts
MAYELA:
Discussed legislative items.
MICHAEL:
Discussed legislative items that will be kept from last year’s. Tax fellowships, bankruptcy, immigration
reform.
Lifelong Credit – asking to increase the amount of lifelong learning credit for individuals going to graduate
school.
By next Tues – email ½-1pg of information on your respective subject. Describe what it is; should SAGE
lobby for it – why or why not; is there something interesting people should already know about.
Please suggest new lobby items if you have any!!
State Lobbying:
In January, our Senator-elect may come to speak with us. We’ll have a legislative affairs committee meeting in
the next week or two. Anna working on contacting it.
C) COMMUNICATIONS
MAYELA:
Newsletter:
We’ll be releasing a newsletter on the 15th of this month. Newsletter will be emailed out on the 1st and 15th of
every month. Each committee chair please write a short blurb on what’s going on. Will send out a request
for committee chairs shortly.
D) STUDENT AFFAIRS
MICHAEL:
RSG Social Event Policy.
Every Rep will have to attend 2 non-meeting events. Need more people to work on events, particularly the
social events. We’ll begin enforcing this harshly in January.
CHERISSE:
Were only able to sell 80 of the 100 Red Wings tickets. Needed more help in selling the tickets.
V. INDIVIDUAL PROJECT UPDATES
MINDY:
New project: Addressing GEO’s attempt at recruiting GSRAs.
ETHAN:
Endowing music fellowships/scholarships to Glee Club members.
VI. OPEN DISCUSSION
ETHAN:
Glee Club tickets available online. Ethan will be singing at another event.
MICHAEL:
When emailing rsg@umich with food orders, please send your emails from your umich account, not from
gmail or another account!
VII. ADJOURN
The Rackham Student Government General Board Meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m.