Sage Minutes
April 4, 2007
4:00 p.m., 3132 Wescoe

Attending: Jen Humphrey, Norma Desmond, Heather Bastian, Keri Behre, Amy Hume, Ryan McCarty, Angela Kordahl, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Katie Egging, Emily Bobo, Angela Glover, Jessica Isaac, Daryl Lynn Dance, Nate Williams.

Minutes approved.

Presidents’ report: Nominations for SAGE committees and leadership are due by Friday, April 10.

Keri suggests that we have an official historian or photographer for SAGE. It’s not known if we would need to change the constitution for such a position.

We want to thank all those who attended last Sunday.

Four students are sought for student visits. Volunteer for lunch or dinner. Jessica opted for lunch, and Katie, dinner.

The computer laboratory looks like someone’s basement. We need a storage solution, perhaps plastic containers on wheels? That would be convenient for transporting books to a book sale later. A one-time investment. Could we store them any where? We’ll look into the cost and report back.

Secretary’s report: Minutes from last meeting sent out, so contact me with corrections.

Treasurer’s report: $582.45

First-year liaison: Nothing to report

Academics Anonymous: Micah had exams and couldn’t be here. We’ll likely have an academics anonymous later this month.

Advisory: Been talking about the bylaws. The new version of bylaws has been approved.

FSE: One more workshop has been added about the new 101 class. It will be a panel discussion. There will be syllabi available on the FSE web site.

Grad Assembly: Received an email about a statement that other grad students are sending to the provost regarding dismissal of voting privileges in hiring decisions. The question is, should we participate? It seems like another instance where the university has ignored or affronted graduate students. The crux of the issue is that legal reasons were cited as the prompt for the rule, when legal concerns weren’t the issue.

Motion to sign accepted.

Discussion. We could send a letter of support or could ask the group to redraft it; as written, it directly asks to reinstate voting rights, and we didn’t have them to begin with. Most of this is a rhetorical gesture, asking the university to acknowledge our participation. Should we draft a letter of support?

Letter approved and signed.

Grad committee: Revising English 800.

GTAL: No meeting

Lecturers and Readers: Tuesday, April 10, will be Eric Lindquist event. If you have ideas for other lecturers or speakers, please let Nate know.

Library: We are meeting on Monday. Topics include preservation, serial cuts, spending of Endowment funds.

MFA – No one present.

Professionalization skills: Wednesday April 25 we will have a workshop on academic publishing.

Public & Alumni relations: nothing to report.

SAGE Advice: Nothing to report.

Social committee: Do we want to do an end of the year pizza night? Last year’s was not well attended. Maybe we should do something at Replay or Louise’s.

Summer Institutes: The institutes are a go. Both are listed for 2007 enrollment catalog. There is scholarship money available.

Supplemental funds: Nothing to report.

Web site: We now have information about travel awards and who received them online. We are seeking more photos for the web site as well.

Old business: Mabel Fry Committee – we have lots of letters to go through. Awards ceremony is in May.

New business: Keri has been a good treasurer and John has been a great president. On to next year.

Meeting adjourned.

Minutes submitted by Jen Humphrey, Secretary.