AGSU Executive Meeting Agenda
November 22, 2012
12-1 pm
Call meeting to order: 12:03pm
Motion to Pass Agenda: Steve Dorland, Hamna Anwar (seconded)
Members Present: Steve Dorland, Emma Yasui, Michelle Cameron, Norie Romano, Nicole McFayden,
Hamna Anwar, Lara McFadden, Kathleen (Kate) Rice, Matthew Pettit, Bess Doyle, Steffan Gordon
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Computers and communications
o Issues with webpage (still down, Matt and Lara to work on it) and ink (no more printer
ink; changing password)
o Updated AGSU constitution to be made available on the AGSU webpage
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GSU updates
o Meeting summaries (last meeting discussed the anti-corporatization of student
research; motion is still in progress (a few divisions had issues with the term
“corporatization”; statement to be reworded)
o Talk by UWO Law Professor about Access Copyright, on November 22, 4-6pm at 15
Devonshire; about a license agreement the University signed on to and the mandatory
ancillary fee student’s pay.
o Meeting November 22, 6-8pm at the GSU about direct democracy, talking about setting
up general assemblies within each department.
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CUPE updates
o Unit 4 (St. Mike’s lecturers and TAs) went on strike last Friday due to issues dealing with
job security, strike ended Nov 22; Ratification vote to happen on the morning of Nov 23.
o Unit 3 [post-doctoral] gearing up for their round of bargaining; Motion on voting
whether Unit 1 should support Unit 3 formally in their effort to fix the ratio of jobs; lost
over 100 positions in the last few years, Unit 3 members being pushed into Unit 1
positions; less jobs for graduate students but more post-doctoral opportunities.
o Quality of Education Workgroup, next meeting on Monday November 26. Motion
passed a few months ago regarding the question of should administration continue to
push for categorization of teaching styles e.g. tutorial hours and sizes; Admin is claiming
that it’s not hours and sizes that matter but teaching styles.
o Ratification Meeting for Unit 1 in February: Minutes have gone missing. Reconstructed
what they could remember, call for people who were present at the meeting who have
any records.
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Treasurer
o paying the Ancillary services, depositing cheques (head grant), updating financial
information, including how much money in total was spent on Fall Wine and Cheese (All
bills have been paid that were received on the wine and cheese; finalizing spreadsheet
for September and October, and expenses for the Wine and Cheese, expenses around
200-300; working on a more organized binder; no more printer money; 210 dollars of
printing fees deposited on November 6th).

Vis-à-vis
o Facebook page active; micro-blog plan to be initiated; not getting many submissions;
sending call for papers to other schools, particularly McMaster
o Tutorial organized with the UofT Libraries open journal systems management person
o Planning to have a launch party for next issue in either December or January, might be
done in tandem with one of the coffee breaks
o Maximum page length of articles submitted is 25 pages; turnaround time on submitting
articles is, at most, a couple of months.
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Social coordinator
o Coffee Breaks? Tentatively UTM coffee break is next Wed 28th from 2-4pm; for St.
George, it will be Tuesday 29th; UTSC coffee break to be determined (thinking about
doubling up on breaks for next semester; center for ethnography a potential site to host
the break)
o Thursday November 29th; last pub night of the month; merged with mentorship event.
o Winter Wine and Cheese (event on Friday December 7th, from 6:30-9:30pm)
 JCR booking confirmed [sound system – contribute a collective playlist]
 Invitations to faculty and advertising to department [invitation for faculty
members; emailing professors individually; Sophia will be collecting responses
 Ticket and drink prices – like last year? (3 dollars per drink)
 Door prize or not? (raffle for door prize; accepting donations)
 Who will be there to help, and what can people bring? Cheese? Make a doodle
doc for this… [people to sign up to be at the door; be in charge at the raffle; get
different beer selection; determining who will be bringing/doing what for the
event next meeting, Thursday December 6th
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Other Business?
o Medusa: applying to SGS for a conference grant for Medusa; we now have 700 dollars
with expectation of more coming in; (500 for SGS; 150 from UTM); There will be a
presentation prize; will be compensating for transportation; March 23rd or 24th booked
for event
o Serious search for someone to be on linguistic anthro hiring committee at UTM (Norie
Romano volunteered)
o Upcoming job search (closing January 15th) for East Asian Archaeology position at UTM,
also looking for rep
o Job talk tomorrow at 1230pm by Ed Swenson and Bianca Dahl about the job interview
process.
o Open Mic/Music Jam Session to be organized next semester at the harvest noon.
Meeting adjourned: 1:08pm.