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Campus Progressive Meeting - Notes 01 September 2004, Elisa

Attendance: Adam, Al, Blake, Connie, Elisa, Lamya, Michelle, Pascale, Uduak, Yehuda, Zahra

Facilitator: ummm... Uduak? Notes: Elisa

Issues in chronological order:

Week of Welcome - 7 & 8 September
Zahra has arranged for us to have our very own table at the Week of Welcome along the Friendship Walk. Runs Tuesday and Wednesday 11am-2pm. Connie and Elisa have printed materials for distribution which they will leave in our cubicle at the Maxson Ctr. (USU 3rd floor). Volunteers: Blake – all Tuesday; Michelle – Wed, 10-12; Al – Wed. 11-12; Lamya – Tue. 1-ish, Elisa – all Wed.; Adam – Wed. 10-12. Others can drop by depending on schedules. Feel free to come by and support us.

The Need for Regime Change! Speaker event - 7 October
Zahra has been very busy while all of us were lazing around during the summer and has already contacted ANSWER and set up the clearance through Student Life and Development for a speaker event on Thursday, October 7 at 12 noon: “The Need for Regime Change” with Preston Wood (remember him from “Iraq: One Year Later” last semester?) of ANSWER at the Speakers’ Platform. Elisa will reserve the PA system through A/V and design a flyer so we can get the PRC finalized with SLD. Alphabet soup anyone?

Ideas for Future Events – Dates to be determined
We all agreed that this is a fine time to show multiple films and documentaries on campus. Last semester, we had a successful screening of Uncovered: Whole Truth about War in Iraq in the Beach Auditorium. Suggestions for other films include: Life and Death, Outfoxed, The Corporation, Uncovered (again), 4th World War, etc. Uduak is looking into the financial details of getting rights to show Fahrenheit 9-11 and co-sponsoring with ASI program council a Nov. 8th showing of a film on dissent v. disruption.

Uduak let us know that ASI Treasurer Rebekah Smith is trying to establish yet another ASI position to patrol club spending. Basically, she wants to create a cabinet position for “Inspector General” to make sure ASI-granted funds are not misused, even though there are already multiple tiers in the bureaucracy designed to eliminate this problem. It seems to be designed for surveillance of cultural organizations, which usually receive large grants. Uduak will report back to us on the developments.

Random Issues and Announcements
- Zahra reserved USU-304 as our official meeting room for the semester
- Zahra! got us a cubicle in the Maxson Center to use as a sort of office headquarters.
- ZAHRA arranged for us to use the Union Display Case during the second week of Oct. for promoting our club & activities

MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE IN USU-304 ON WEDNESDAYS THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER AND HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE WEEK OF WELCOME

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