Graduate Student Council General Meeting Minutes Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 5:30 PM PRESIDENT REPORT / VICE PRESIDENT REPORT (Justin Richardson) Dartmouth College inter-graduate school meeting o Working to arrange a meeting with all the stakeholders from Geisel Student Government, Tuck Student Government, and GSC Meet the new Dartmouth president: 10:00-11:00am this Saturday, January 12 for donuts and coffee on campus o Details on Facebook event page GRADUATE STUDIES REPORT (Kerry Landers) Need one volunteer from every department to write letters to alumni in their program o See Kerry Landers for more info ACTIVITIES REPORT (Gilbert Rahme, Lisa Jackson) Winter Semi-Formal is coming up on Saturday, February 2 o Sober Monitor and Set-up sign-ups were passed around o Hanover Inn Status Representatives voted on what food options they preferred It will be a full cash bar First 50 people that attend who bring 3 cans of food for Upper Valley Haven will receive one free drink ticket (coordinated effort with Grad Relief Team) ACADEMIC REPORT (Rich Lopez) Interdepartmental Tea to bring students from all departments together in an informal setting FINANCE CHAIR REPORT (Adrienne Perkins) Finance Report o Waiting on a few forms and payments from different clubs/groups o $1789 still remains to be handed out to funding request groups SECRETARY REPORT (Yash R. Patankar) Public Transportation – one of the longstanding issues within the community o Email Yash to learn more and help out as part of the Action team STUDENT LIFE REPORT (Ronald Bucca) Results of the GRT food drive o Congratulations to PBS for the most cans Dental and Vision Care committee update o February meeting for lobbying efforts for dental/vision for next school year o Potentially a voucher system could be put in place in the meantime 1 o The Dental and Vision Care committee will approach practitioners in the community to see if they’d like to participate in offering discounts/packaged deals to grad students o Work in progress on secure internet to off campus housing MLK Poverty Symposium o Help distribute posters around campus about MLK day of service events o January 31-February 2 a variety of workshops, speakers, movies will be offered See calendar of events on the GSC website or contact Ron Graduate Student Relief Fund o Slowly getting funding, but donations are welcome o Will explore different ways of getting more funding for this GSAC REPORT (Dan Durcan) Recap: Christmas event at Canoe Club was successful! o Thanks to Ruth Kabeche and Zach Williams for helping out Proposed upcoming events include, look out for dates/times on FB and GSC website: o Skiing o Ski lessons o Thursday or Friday night skiing at Whaleback o $200 of GSAC budget went to the graduate ski weekend, coming up in March o Winter Carnival event – likely at 3 Guys BBQ (second weekend in February) o Indian cooking night o Lebanese cooking night o If you have other ideas - contact Dan NORTH PARK REPORT (Regina Salvat) Proposed upcoming ideas (some in collaboration with Dan’s events): o Rock climbing o Skiing Skiway and/or Whaleback o 3 Guys pub night o Indian cooking night o Cross country skiing/ice skating event GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Zach Williams: Contractors in the area have offered expertise/tools to anyone willing to go help with Hurricane Sandy clean-up efforts in The Rockaways o Still working on a date (travel, accommodation would be provided) ACTION ITEMS December Meeting Minutes Approved Broke off into individual Action Teams 2