Minutes from the October 3rd meeting

10/3/2011

We’re official!

All events need to be approved before being posted. Sometimes takes as long as a day.

Film Series

First film is today at 4:30 in room 5230

Treasury Update

Vote to digitize the records. Approved!

We have about $500 in our account at the start of this year

Fundraisers

Mugs and/or t-shirts. Planning right now for a November/December start date.

- Potential to sell them during the pizza fundraiser. Possibly give free coffee with mug purchase.

New Logo

Next meeting we’ll talk about what we think, if we want additional/alternate logos, etc. You can check it out on the Mentor Match poster

Majors Fair

Need to make a poster

Mentor Match

Tons of people have expressed interest (20!), but they’re mostly archaeologists. Cultural TAs should promote it in their sections.

If you’re interested in being a mentor, contact Tegan or Cappy.

Diversity Letter

Not done yet, but it’s getting close. If you’re interested in adding or contributing to it, contact Joe or join the AnthroAction facebook group.

Once it’s done, we can submit it to local newspaper, etc. We should come up with a plan closer to when it’s finished.

Grad student conference?

We have the Colloquium series, but it might also be a good idea to have people gather and present on one day (including people from other universities).

- Money? How much would it cost?

- Where on campus would we hold it?

- Faculty sponsor? Good first step might be to propose the conference at the next faculty meeting.

- If not a formal conference, we could invite people to spend a couple minutes talking about what they’re studying. It would open up the opportunity for new connections to be made in the department, and to promote some grad student camaraderie.

- Maybe start small with a one day conference in lieu of the Colloquium Series next semester?

- A “7 slides, 7 minutes” style mini-conference? Another information option.

Speaker funds

AnthroCircle is elegible to apply for funding to bring speakers to campus.

- Unclear how much money is offered. Won’t cover all the costs, but may be as much as a couple thousand.

- Geared towards undergraduates. If we can also figure out how to appeal to the broader university community we have a better chance of getting the grant.

Is this the same as the University Lecture funding? Alison has put together one of those applications before and has the materials.

Bring ideas for speakers to the next meeting

Colin Goddard

He’s a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre speaking on the dangers of bringing guns to campus.

How can we support him? Space, publicity, etc. We can’t reserve space through AnthroCircle, but we can petition the department and see what they can do.

Anthro recipes

Submit recipes to Matthew and he will post them to the blog. If we get enough we can consider making a book.

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