LSA Meeting Minutes
January 31 , 2007
Linguistics Student Association
Minutes for January 31, 20071. T-shirts (Andy)
a. Found a design – an eye chart with IPA characters
i. Copyrighted
ii. Andy will photoshop it to have foreign characters
2. Website (Charese)
a. Handed out forms for website profiles
i. Link to your website encouraged
b. Please send pictures
3. Unity Point elementary school volunteers needed (Lou)
a. They have many children who need help
i. Teaching ESL children skills M-F 9:00-9:50AM
ii. Teaching ESL children skills and helping with homework M-F 1:30PM-3:05PM
iii. Any help is appreciated because right now they have none
b. Transportation
i. Lou will be going and can carpool Wednesday mornings and Friday 2-5PM
ii. Route 6 Saluki Bus goes there, stops at the Student Center
c. Good for resume, especially non-native speakers who can’t teach in CESL here
4. TESOL Seattle (Cheryl)
a. March 21-24
b. Cost
i. $105 without membership
1. Registering earlier is cheaper, deadline is soon
2. Free TESOL student membership to students who submit three activities to the TESOL Teaching Resource Center
ii. Cheryl can tell you how to eat for free at TESOL
iii. Hotels are expensive during the conference, four people per room?
c. Opportunities
i. International conference, huge
ii. Network
iii. Job-hunt
1. Resume-builder
iv. Authors/Publishers
1. Meet authors and publishers of books you will likely use
2. Sometimes you can get free books
3. See the latest books
5. Chicago Linguistics Society – Applied Conference (Andy)
a. May 3-5
b. Last year
i. Theme – case and syntax
ii. Overwhelming, intimidating
iii. Lots of people doing dissertations
iv. High-profile linguists there
c. This year
i. Will find out more as it approaches
6. Illinois TESOL (Lou)
a. March 9-10, Naperville, IL
b. Early registration ends Feb 5
c. Itbe.org
d. Direct questions to Lou
7. Fundraisers
a. Basketball games
i. Dates
1. Wednesday, February 7th
a. Need two more volunteers
2. Saturday, February 10th
a. Need seven more volunteers
ii. Regulations
1. No cell phones
2. No eating the concessions
3. Matching shirts encouraged
4. 48 hours notice to cancel
iii. Penalties
1. Docked 10% for each person less than the 10 minimum
2. Docked 10% for every 15 minutes someone is late
3. We pay them if we no-show
iv. Reward
1. $200 or a percentage of sales, whichever is higher
2. Andy – last year they made about $350
b. Bake sales?
8. CESL Matters (Lou)
a. Laura wants to run small sessions, will discuss at a later meeting
9. Bulletin Board
a. March 4th
b. Need volunteers
c. Need pictures!
10. Social
a. Callahan’s/Buffalo Wild Wings/etc every weekend for fun
b. Pag’s on Tuesdays, dinner
i. $1.50 small spaghetti
ii. $2 salad
iii. $6 meal total usually