GSC
Graduate Student Council
2002 Meeting Minutes

Fall 2002 Aug - Dec
Our monthly first Monday of Month Meetings were held. We continue to go to all the SOFT meetings (Funding).

Summary
We met with Dr. Jenifer and presented him with a proposal for putting computers at Waterview, putting a convience store on campus, extending Library hours, access to accounts during the summer, RA/TA stipend increase that corresponds to the professors increase and job security due to the economy, etc.

We Continued to go to Library Committee Meetings. We are working on a proposal for extended library hours/ our proposal continue on the agenda. We are working on extending privilages of student over the summer semsters as we are aware that may student are not able to access their account over the summer.

We encouraged graduate student to run for office in Student Government Association, thereby beginning to fill the 28 graduate student positions in SGA. We now have 3/4 graduate students representatives in SGA...our very own Taras/Secretary of GSC is on the board of SGA now.

We are planning our annual dance for the spring. Summer 2002 May-Aug
Our monthly first Monday of Month Meetings were held. We continue to go to all the SOFT meetings (Funding).

Summary
School wide trip to the zoo was planned and organized by GSC/with the International Student's Services Office finalizing and carring out the event. The event was a success.

We Continued to go to Library Committee Meetings. We are working on a proposal for extended library hours/ our proposal continue on the agenda. We are working on extending privilages of student over the summer semsters as we are aware that may student are not able to access their account over the summer. We discussed this issue with Dr. Jenifer. April 22
The last three weeks have been general work meetings. We continued to collecte petitions for the library hours and print outs. We continue to get letter of complaints about the Library A/C. We worked hard to promote the Elections for SGA president, vice-pres, and Graduate senators. We have three graduate student in SGA. There are many more positions for graduates students in SGA for those interested in running in the fall. We incourage graduate student to participate in SGA. SGA has a large influence on campus and substantial financial backing ($40,000.00).

We are looking into setting up a committee for getting more job on/off campus and co-op positions. Jajan came to our meeting is hopefully going to head up this committee.

We decided to have elections in the fall shortly after classes begin. Bassam, GSC Secretary, is leaving to return to Leban (he didn't get a visa) Taras will be our new secretary. We decided to have a trip for graduate students to Six Flags over Texas this summer. GSC is supporting the UTD Buddy program.

We have a Meeting with the Library Committee on Monday to discuss the print out and library hours as well as the A/C problem in the Computer Labs.

We have not forgotten about the TA/RA who didn't get a paycheck the first month they worked.

We are going to have a bake sale Thursday May 2 from 11-5. Please come and help!

We have a mail box in the student organization room. Please e-mail us and continue to check out our web sight and we are working on getting work station in the student organization room.

We will have monthly meeting over the summer and will resume our weekly meetings in the fall. April 1
GSC participated in the Passport to America sponcored by Multi-cultural Center. There was a large turn out and it was a great suscess. Thank you Stephen and Alexander for helping us. March 25
We continued to collecte petitions for the library hours and print outs. We started Fencing Club and Yoga/Meditation. We are waiting for the next Library Meeting.

March 1
12:30 Library Committee Meeting
Dr. Golden (Head Chair of Committee) invited GSC
We were present however our proposals did not reach the table at this meeting (however Dr. Golden has them in hand and everyone is aware of them). The next meeting in six weeks we hope to get our issues heard.

3:30 Venitta Bennett (GSC Vice-President) & Cindy Jaynes (GSC Treasurer) met with Dr. Sall (Director of Library) and Tom Koch (Pogram Director/Public Relations Coordinatior) who eager listened to our requests and requested a letter for any further negotiations and ideas to solve the issues.

Feb 27
GSC was present at Dr. Jenifer address. We spoke out verbally our views and we handed him our proposals.

Feb 25
Discussed petitions for the Library and printouts. Paul Tran (pres. of SGA) attended.

February 4 & 11

Discussed: having a bake sale for Valentine's Day

Discussed: continuing with our petitions, ect.

Feb 18

Valentine's Day booth was a success

We now have a savings account

Report is in from our One World Cultural Ball with was a SUCCESS! We broke even finanically. We want to than SUAAB for the SOFT money and the Multi-Cultural Center for their donation for help with the security. Thank you cards were sent to everyone.

January 28, 2002

Thank you for attending the GSC meeting last Monday. Hope to see you more
in the upcoming meetings. Here are the points discussed in the meeting:
 *  Maneesha is going to be in the committee for the issue of the number
    of printouts allowed for each student.
 *  Itaru and Alexander volunteered to help in updating the GSC website.
    You may want to contact Cindy to tell you where to start from.
 *  Venita and Bassam and Stephen to prepare drafts for the library
    proposals, to be ready for the next meeting on Monday. We need to
    know who to send these proposals to.
 *  Bassam will contact Mercury paper to discuss the probability of
    writing an article about the library issue and some other GSC issues.
As for Friday, we would appreciate any help, we can always use an extra
hand. If you can be in the Galaxy rooms by 6 to 6:30 that would be great
to help in the setup and food and so on. So see you then...

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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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