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NOTE: No minutes were recorded for the February 2007 Meeting, the
following are various emails including the agenda sent out by GSG
Chair Shin-Yi Lin prior to the meeting and a follow-up email sent
out after the meeting.
--Bob MacGregor, GSG Corresponding Secretary
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GRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY AGENDA
Wednesday, February 14, 6pm (2 hr)
Frist Campus Center Room 309
I. Call to Order and Assembly Business (5 min.)
A. Seating of New Assembly Members - Dan Raburn
B. Approval of the Minutes (Sep-Mar) -- Shin-Yi Lin
II. Special Guest (45 min.)
A. Andrew Kane, Director of Housing
III. Reports (45 min.)
A. Chair - Shin-Yi Lin
B. Events Board -- Alex Ntelekos
C. Priorities Committee/Child Care -- Chris Bienia, Jeff Dwoskin, Aaron
Schurger
D. Valentine's Day Event
E. Career Mixers
IV. Decision Items (15 min.)
A. Events Board Elections
B. Elections Committee/Election Plan
C. Campus Relations Chair
V. Adjournment
(Next meeting March 14, 2007 at 6pm in Frist 309)
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Hi Assembly,
Here's a heads up on the important child care discussion we will be
having at tonight's meeting:
1) I would like Jeff and Chris to frame the discussion by giving their
PriComm discussion.
2) Aaron Schurger will then present the petition that he is asking the
GSG to endorse.
3) Joan Girgus (the faculty chair of the child care committee) and Karin
Sigloch, our Health and Life Chair, will be present to answer any
decisions.
I look forward to a vigorous discussion tomorrow!
Shin-Yi Lin
GSG Chair
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From Aaron Schurger
Date Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:19:19 -0500
To CHILDCARE@Princeton.EDU
Subject Student Child Care Assistance Program: petition against
spouse-work requirement
Some of you may have already heard about the petition that has been
circulating, asking that the spouse-work requirement be lifted from the
Student Child Care Assistance Program. Attached is a copy of an essay
that I have written explaining why I think the requirement is misguided
and what it says about the divide between the values of the
administration and the values of the parents in the community. This is a
significant issue, not just for the people that it directly affects, but
because of what it means in terms of our collective values. This essay
has been sent to local newspapers as an op-ed piece, and will also
appear (in a shortened form) as a guest article in the Princetonian.
I will also attach a copy of the petition itself. If you are so
inclined, you may print out a copy of the petition, collect some
signatures on it (including your own), and then send it back to me via
campus mail (Aaron Schurger, Department of Psychology). The best and
most efficient way to help out is to collect signatures from faculty,
grads, and staff in your department - i.e. people that you see on a
daily basis, or whose office is just down the hall or downstairs from
yours.
Tomorrow evening, I will be presenting this issue before the Graduate
Student Government, asking them to endorse the petition.
Best regards,
Aaron
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Hi Assembly,
I want to thank you for sticking around late last Wednesday. Please read
the following short reports that were left over from February. There's a
lot of stuff that needs to be addressed at the March meeting.
1) Chair's Report
2) Alex's V-day dance budget request
3) Future GSG dates
4) Results from Childcare discussion
Shin-Yi Lin
GSG Chair
1) ChairŐs Report
Shin-Yi Lin
14 February 2007
Leadership changes:
-Steve Hassani stepped down as Academic Affairs Chair.
-Donna Sy would like to become Campus Relations Chair. We will approve
at our March meeting.
-Cori Anderson would like to fill the remaining seat on the Events Board
for the spring semester. The following people from the fall roster were
interested in remaining on the Events Board: Harvey Stark, Dave Franco,
and Rose Ndong. We will approve the roster at the March meeting.
What we've been up to:
-Jeff Dwoskin and I participated in an internal review of the graduate
school office and the OIT focus group.
-I was asked to participate in an interviews for promotional videos the
Graduate School is working on this year, with the help of Elizabeth
Dorman (the new alumni relations director in the Graduate School
Office).
-I helped revise an OIT publication for incoming graduate students.
-The Ivy Summit delegation gave our presentation to the CPUC on Monday
February 12 (the presentation was emailed to Assembly earlier).
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2) Alex's V-day dance budget request
Here's the notes that Alex wanted me to share at the last meeting to
frame the $3000 requeset. We will need to officially approve this
request at the March meeting.
1. Please give my apologies to everyone, saying that a colleague in
my research group is getting married at this time and I have to attend.
Make me look a little bit good, I Ôve been working like a dog.
2. The VŐDay party for this year is estimated to cost $4,500 to
reflect the fee increase (last yearŐs budget was $2,500).
3. Last year we had it in Frist and got $1,000 from them which we
donŐt expect this year since we are having it in the Carl Fields Center.
4. The APGA has not responded yet to the amount they are willing to
fund us with (we asked for $1000).
5. VP Dickerson has offered $500.
6. The GSG has budgeted for the event $1,000, so for the moment we
have a total of $1,000+500=$1,500. We need another $3,000 (assuming that
APGA never responds).
7. This $3,000 I suggest they come out from 2 sources: Surplus+Events
Board. Events Board has already funded 11 events but has a remaining
balance of about $13,500 dollars. We donŐt want to end the year with a
huge surplus in the events Board but most of the events are expected to
happen this semester. The surplus of the GSG from last year is also
about $3,500.
8. Here is the proposal then: $1,000 from GSG Surplus and the
remaining amount (up to $2,000) from the Events Board.
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3) Future GSG dates
Per Brookes request to discuss the future GSG meetings dates, here are
the dates for the rest of the year. If anyone would like to adjust any
of the dates, please bring it up at the March meeting.
3/14
4/11
5/9
6/13
7/11
8/8
9/12
10/10
11/14
12/12
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4) Results from Childcare Discussion
GSG Exec will draft a letter from Assembly to the Graduate School
focusing specifically on the way in which the childcare policy may
preferentially affect international students. We will send this to
Assembly in advance of March meeting to accept comments and revisions.