Guest Speaker:  Texas State Employee Union 
     Wants to unite graduate students
     Tuition waver for graduate students TA/RA?s

 Guest Speaker:  Career Center
     Want departments to post all position through them
     Want to get positions off campus
     Want students to fill out web registration and post resumes online
     Have job posting

 Issues to pursue:  Schools have separate graduate student organizations.
     Need to meet with them and at least get a rep to coordinate with.
     
 Ways to promote the club:  Have a GSC rep at orientation
     Have a GSC rep at registration
     E-mail list: department can mass e-mail from within

 Accomplishments:  Got Banner for GSC
     Dance scheduled for Feb 1st.
     Working on outside movie

November 12, 2001

Jobs    -  Mahesh talked to Don Davis, president of
    the computer lab about the labs being small and how some of the
    employee only seem to have minimal computer skills.  
    Don Davis said it was University Policy that the computer
    lab staff only needs to have a limited amount of knowledge.  GSC
    agreed to work on the issue to extend the computer lab hours back to
    3am and hire graduate students for those hours.

Jobs    -  a Grad student commented, "School of Management doesn't seem
      appoint TA based upon GPA.  It appears that TA's are appointed by
      Professors.  Also grad students in Computer Science are getting TA
      position in the School of Management."

Jobs    - a representative from the Career Center stated that although
       they are small that they are in the beginning stages.  The Career
       Center is mainly for finding jobs off campus.  The Career Center is
       contacting small business in an effort to have more co-op positions 
       and not just rely on the larger tech industry.

Issues  - Mahesh stated that he spoke to a representative from the
     Library.  He reported that the Library hours are short due to
     security and financial reasons.  Mahesh proposed that they keep at
     least the lobby open til 3:00am

Issues  - need more tables/study areas at the library

Issues  - Copies - students get 20 pages per credit hour enrolled free. 
      Thereafter, they pay 10 cents a page.  It was suggested that this is
      standard procedure for most universities.  This is not an issue that
      GSC is going to pursue at this time.  We will look into it in the future.

Issues  - Why do Computer Science students have to take professional &
      Technical Communications?  It does not count towards graduation.

Issues  - A student at the meeting stated that, "Waterview  Apartments
      have lots of fees and are against foreign exchange
      students."  The student recommented this web sight: 
      www.waterviewsuck.com

Issues  -A student suggested that, "The university needs to change
        lights on the tennis courts to day light savings time."

Fund Raiser Ideas- Cowboys games--need to send a blast e-mail

Fund Raiser Ideas- Host a graduate student dance

Fund Raiser Ideas - See what kinds of Tele-marketing is available 

Fund Raiser Ideas - ask wealthy graduates from UTD for money

Fund Raiser Ideas - Show foreign movies at the Theater and sell popcorn

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President - Mahesh Sadarangani
Vice President - Venitta Bennett
Secretary - Bassam El-Hajj
Treasurer - Cindy Jaynes
Sponsor - Dr. William Burgett


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