Doctoral Student Retreat 2009

Date: Monday, July 27
Location: Room 234 in the Danforth Center
Meeting Time: 9:00 am start time (continental breakfast available by 8:30 am)

Free Food!: Continental breakfast (to include coffee, tea, juice, pastries and fruit) ----- Lunch at Blueberry Hill in The Loop (walk over together at the end of the meeting, approx 12:30)

Department Picnic 2009

When: July 17, 2009, 4:00 pm
Where: Forest Park at Picnic Ground #7 (The pavillion with the big red roof, located here: http://tinyurl.com/nomnomnompicnic)
RSVP: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=clBwdjUtUW5PaXp2QXRHd3ZrblNWV1E6MA

Exec Board Minutes - 7.14.2009

In attendance: Gazi, Ruosi, Greg, David

1. Retreat Scheduling
   • Possible dates: 7/27, 7/28, 7/31, 8/3, 8/4, 8/6, 8/7 (best dates for Roman and Buhler)
   • Last week of July is Infocom
   • Secretary gets married August 1
   • SIGGRAPH is first week of August
   • Leaning toward 7/27 or 7/28
   • Decided on Monday 7/27
2. Finding Representative Groups
   • Ethnic Representation
   • Lab Representation - require one person from every lab - DL to send email
   • All 4 officers will attend
     
3. Topics
   • Arch. class required?
   • Grad student input into hiring
   • Bad DSS talks should be remediated - possibly do over in front of faculty
   • Solicit ideas at picnic
4. Picnic Planning
   • Gazi will rent truck/pick up grills/coolers
   • Ruosi and Greg to shopping (trying to find Sams Club)
   • Madeline has rental agreement
   • Caitlin has volleyball net
   • Some people are baking
   • Need volunteers to clean up (David)
   • We have volunteers to grill
5. Lack of Happy Hours - David to email Ruoyon
6. No Summer Talk Series yet
   
7. Budget
   • We have money to spend, let's spend it
   • Using last years budget