GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
Bingham Humanities 300
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Graduate Student Council Meeting
7:30pm - Thursday, February 5, 2015
Present:
Arts and Sciences: Anthropology – Neha Angal; Biology – Nick Short; Chemistry – Kelsey Sparks; Classical and Modern
Languages – Mandy Brown; English – Keri Mathis; Fine Arts – Tracey Eckersley; Geography and Geosciences – Victoria
Montgomery; History – Katherine Morrison; Humanities – Femmy Rose; Mathematics – Ryan Luke; Physics and
Astronomy – Geoffrey Lentner; Political Science – Sean Welch; Psychological and Brain Sciences – Nicholas Holt;
Sociology – Shawn Rolfe; Urban and Public Affairs – Aaron Stephenson; Women and Gender Studies – Cassandra Collier
College of Business: Entrepreneurship – Shankar Naskar
College of Education: Education and Counseling Psychology – Dominic Schmuck; Health and Sports Sciences—Amy
Walden; Leadership, Foundations, and Human Resources – Charles Edmiston; Teaching and Learning – Kristin Harbour
Dental School: Oral Biology – Saira Ahmed
School of Medicine: Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology – Katie Harman; Audiology – Mary Beth Duncan;
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Catherine Cobb and Jamaal Richie; Microbiology and Immunology – Sabrin
Albeituni; Pharmacology and Toxicology – Marcus Stepp; Physiology and Biophysics – Anastasia Keller; Speech and
Language Pathology – Emily MacIntyre
School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies: Interdisciplinary Studies – Angie Carlson
School of Nursing: Nursing – Anna Jorayeva
School of Music: Music – Israel Cuenca
School of Public Health: Public Health – Victory Osezua
Speed School: Civil and Environmental Engineering – James Wong (proxy); Computer Engineering and Computer Science
– Abdallah Eteleeb; Electrical and Computer Engineering – Ahmed Soliman; Industrial Engineering – Luis Cardona
Absent:
Arts and Sciences: Communications; Justice Administration; Pan-African Studies; Theater Arts
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
Bingham Humanities 300
Thursday, February 5, 2015
College of Business: Accountancy
Kent School: Kent School
Speed School: Chemical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering
Called Meeting to Order at 7:35 pm
GSC Executive Council elections
 Election results:
o President- Femmy Rose
o Internal Vice President- Benjamin Leamon
o External Vice President- Brandon McReynolds
o Treasurer- Mahsa Badami
o Info Chair- Neha Angal
o Travel Administrator- Ryan Luke
o Senators-at-Large- Angie Carlson and Kelsey Sparks
 All candidates presented brief comments in support of their nomination/election
Officer Reports:
 President – Jasie Stokes
 January pop-up lounges were successful; HSC pop-up lounge was especially successful
and had 90 people attend
 Call for papers and posters for the symposium and research fund due on 2/15/15; we
need to get as many applications as we can in; only 1 application for research fund so far
 Internal VP – Keri Mathis
 Requesting information regarding workshops and other professionalization efforts
happening in departments across campus; would like to combine these efforts with
PLAN when possible (and appropriate)
 External VP – Benjamin Leamon
Sodexo Negotiations Wish List
Sustainability
· 30% minimum for locally-sourced (250-mile radius) foods
o Increasing to 50% over the life of the contract (Food Hub partnership?)
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Wage parity with UofL wage floor
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Significant ($0.50 - $1.00) discount at all Sodexo-owned locations for reusable water
bottles
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Replacement of plastic utensils with compostable equivalents
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
Bingham Humanities 300
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Adding New Locations
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HSC dining options, food trucks, etc. – possibility of add’l mandatory plan for HSC
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SoM, CoB, and College of Education - Simply-to-Go / “coffee & fast casual”
o Needs evening hours, and to be closer to these three buildings. Tulip Tree doesn’t work,
because the walk is too long, and if there’s a line, students miss class
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Coffee option in the SAC while Jazzmans is down. Lines at Einstein’s and Library are too
long, and will only be longer without the SAC option
Policy Changes
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Flex Point expiration waiver for students with mandatory summer classes (e.g. Speed)
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Swipes at all/most Sodexo-owned locations, even if it means the swipes are worth less
o 2-3 swipes for a meal, but limit how many swipes can be used per week (ex: 30)
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To-Go option for dining halls (perhaps costing 1 extra swipe)
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Simpler opt-out policy
On SAB/ELSB
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SENATE PROGRAMMING BOARD INTERVIEW DATES
ENGAGE LEAD SERVE BOARD
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Friday, February 13 (10am – 3pm)
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Friday, March 27 (Time TBD*)
CONTACT: advisor@engageleadserve.org
STUDENT ACTIVITIES BOARD
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Friday, February 6 (5:30pm – 9pm)
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Saturday, March 28 (Time TBD*)
CONTACT: stu.neff@uoflsab.org
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Travel Administrator – Ryan Luke
GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
Bingham Humanities 300
Thursday, February 5, 2015
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explicit instructions about what to do on the email
meet with the UBM give them our Travel Expense Vouchers; these TEVs need to go to
Ryan NOT Controller’s Office
 funded over 200 people; currently on waiting list for the rest of the year
 would like to fund 25 more people for travel
 funding after May 1, you can fill out the form for summer funding
Information Chair – Katie Wilson
 No report.
Treasurer – Behnoush Abdollahi
 spent our budget for Fall but have requested Spring budget and carry-over for last year
Old Business:
 Updates on Student Fee Resolution
o Student fee resolution: asking for student representation on fee committees across
campus
o please email jprose01@louisville.edu; or gscpres@louisville.edu after reviewing the
resolution
New Business:
 Approval of Minutes for Meeting on January 8, 2015
o Minutes approved
 Questions for SGA Candidates
o What type of Provost would they like to see hired? (Femmy Rose)
 please send requests for questions to Ben Leamon:
benjaminleamon@uoflsga.org; he would like to send these to the Chief Justice by
Monday at 5pm
 Travel Funding Announcements
o See Travel Administrator report.
 Constitution Reading
o Reading tabled to make further revisions.
Announcements:
 Announcements
o Feb PLAN events (see handout)
o GSU event: A&S departments, GSU is having elections at the next meeting on Wed
March 11, social hour at 7:30 in this room and meeting starts 8:30; nominations will be
taken before
o French Film Festival: five films and 3 showings for each; 5pm and 8pm on Thursday;
3pm on Friday; free; February 5 - March 6; Floyd Theatre
Adjourned at 8:48pm