October 24th, 2012

Today’s Agenda

• Tailgate Recap – Backs the Bears Shirts• Kaitlyn Rothaus – Life on the Grad Line• Food Drive• Intramurals• GSA Procedures• Committees – Recap

Tailgate Recap

• Great job Brittany Fitz!• Any suggestions for next year?

Backs the Bears Shirts

• T-shirts for $7

Kaitlyn Rothaus

• Life on the Grad Line• Handling Finances in Graduate School

Tuesday, November 6th – 12:30pm-1:30pm, Fentress Room (SUB)

Food Drive

• Donate to Salvation Army• Pickup days: November 1 and November 15 (at

GSA meeting)• Incentive for winning department?• Foods needed:– Canned meats- sardines, chicken, tuna, spam– Canned vegetables– Any non perishable food items specifically- peanut

butter, rice, beans, pasta, flour, sugar, hamburger helper

Intramurals

• Drifit jerseys- only $10!• Contact Caleb_Stein@baylor.edu

Car Decals

• $2

GSA Procedures

• Reminder:– All committee activities must be cleared by GSA

as a whole and by the executive council– Executive council & Dr. Rios will work with

administration and represent GSA– i.e. letter being prepared for Brother’s

Management - initially policy committee, taken over by executive council

– We will help with your ideas!

Committees

• Social– The Social Committee is comprised of sub-committees that plan the GSA

mixer tailgate, GPD picnic, and any other events the committee deems appropriate.

• Academic– The academic committee is comprised of two sub-committees, the ISF sub-

committee and the Grant Writing Workshop sub-committee.

• Policy Taskforce– The policy taskforce is concerned with advocacy for graduate students at

Baylor with building the GSA’s profile and reputation in the university. The Policy Task Force will serve as a forum for discussing the work of GSA representatives on several university-wide standing committees. The Policy Task Force will also take up ad hoc issues raised by members of the GSA.

October 24th, 2012