BE Board:Meeting minutes/11/19/2007

Minutes - 11/19/07

 * 1) Coordinators
 * 2) *First-year representative elections week of 11/5-9
 * 3) **Welcome Francisco Delgado!
 * 4) *Graduate Student Lounge Plans Finalized
 * 5) **plans for student lounges finalized, not much has changed since the last time
 * 6) **next door to the UG lounge
 * 7) *E-mail Digest
 * 8) **idea: instead of randomly emailing activities, email a digest of department-related announcements... maybe once/week ?
 * 9) **unanimously agree that there are TOO many emails coming out the office, every seminar annouced 3x3 times.
 * 10) **the office says this is important for encouraging participation...
 * 11) *Undergraduate Student Board Update
 * 12) **they're making Tshirts
 * 13) **parallel (to BE graduate Board) wiki/website set up
 * 14) **Get Undergraduate Social Chairs on BE Holiday Party Planning Committee?
 * 15) Social chairs
 * 16) *TGIF Wine Tasting
 * 17) **Nov 30, tech square
 * 18) **co-sponsored with diversity and academic again?
 * 19) *Holiday party on the 14th
 * 20) *BE Holiday Party
 * 21) First year representative
 * 22) *No big issues except for hardware troubles in 007
 * 23) Treasurer
 * 24) *Funds for Monthly Newsletter: we're ok
 * 25) *no IM jersey expenses this year, so we should definitely be fine w/money
 * 26) *remember to submit your receipts to Mariann with your name on them, make a copy for your records, and email me.
 * 27) Academic representatives
 * 28) *2007 Survey Results: online
 * 29) *Each committee should look thru the survey results, esp comments
 * 30) **feedback on newsletter... include new research coming out of the dept, see website
 * 31) **MIT news office: Scott going to talk with them about highlighting dept research
 * 32) **Career dinner idea
 * 33) **startup group lunches again
 * 34) *Do students want to have a general Q&A with doug? He's happy to host.
 * 35) *How to increase attendance at department seminars?
 * 36) **Topics this semester not interesting to some.. maybe having younger faculty host/invite isn't the best idea?
 * 37) **Maybe move to lunch hour and provide food?
 * 38) *ISS tomorrow
 * 39) *We want more study breaks say first years!
 * 40) Community service chair
 * 41) *Sponsorship of Toy Drive through Christmas in the City: do we have $ for this? Can we advertise this on the department website and via mass e-mails to the department?
 * 42) *Pine Street Inn (Boston) on Saturday, December 1st (Evening)
 * 43) Diversity representative
 * 44) *no updates
 * 45) Athletic chairs
 * 46) *no basketball due to lack of interest
 * 47) *Tennis took the championship in A league!
 * 48) *hockey?
 * 49) GSC representative
 * 50) *GSC Funding Board (deadline 12/3)
 * 51) **funding board: GSC gets applications for events, ~$50-$1000, shan is on it
 * 52) *GSC money to use by Feb 15 - $750
 * 53) *Two-dollar Tuesdays: nice buffet dinner at Walker, we can do it as a dept and reserve tickets (they sell out really fast)