LSA Meeting Minutes
October 4, 2000
Linguistics Student Association
Minutes for October 4, 2000The regular business meeting was called to order at 12:12p.m. President Micky Mayes was presiding.
New Business: Next meeting is November 8, 2000 (Wednesday 12:00 in Thebes Rm of Student Center). Be prepared to vote on the Constitution (LSA). Get in touch with Micky if you want a copy of the present one. A motion was passed to let Micky Mayes use part of our allotted webpage programming space (we are not using it) for his thesis project.
President: The AAAL conference is early next year (Feb or March?). Talk of a pre-conference meeting in February with Dr. Angelis and Tom Leverett is possible. Details not known.
Vice President: Various avenues were discussed to acquire funds in which LSA is eligible.
Treasurer: LSA current balance is $437.71 in savings and checking. LSA faculty advisor might be needed to help acquire USG funds.
Fund Raising: We need ideas! The car wash has been nixed due to the imminent colder weather.
GPSC: No report.
Social: A potluck picnic at Turley Park will take place at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday October 21, 2000. It is free to al LSA dues-paid members; the cost is $1 for non dues-paid members. Anyone can come, all are invited (bring something). Please SIGN UP to bring a dish, utensils/paperware/drinks, etc… on the door of the mailroom by the LSA events calendar. There is no alcohol permitted. We’ll have lots of fun playing volleyball, frisbee, even softball, so mark your calendar!!!! Any other ideas call Jill at 529-1071. SPREAD THE WORD!!
ISC: There is a fall soccer tournament presently. A schedule of semester events to be set up Oct. 19. An ethnic night is supposedly coming up (date?).
CESL: No report.
Linguistics Curriculum: Meetings will be first Monday of every month, Usha Lakshmanan is the Chair. Issues and concerns about course numbers will be discussed at next meeting.
Web master: No report, visit the site at: www.siu.edu/~lsa
Lecture Series: There is a meeting Oct. 12 at 1:00 with Nelly to discuss the series. Office #: 4335. There is an interest in getting a ‘bigname’ linguistics person here to speak, possibly Stephen Pinker.
Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m.