Graduate Student Association
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Notes from the February 2003 GPSF Meeting

GSA colleagues:

Here are a few items to pass along from the Grad Student Senate meeting this week:

-- Reminder that student elections are Tuesday, Feb. 11. The well- organized fellow running unopposed for grad student president, Dan Herman, is likely to win. Less crtain is passage of a student activity fee increase. Grad student officers are promoting the increase, the first in a long while. They say is likely to benefit us.

-- We also can vote, as I understand it, for what we might call the overall (undergrad) president. Officers suggest some candidates are more interested in carrying grad student issues (raises in TA pay, child-care services, academic issues) than others. Current President Jen Daum is pitching nothing but grad-student issues at upcoming board of trustees session. (Let's hope she brings up parking.)

-- Jonathan Lillie won a small allocation of $60 for continuation of NMEDIAC -- Journal of New Media & Culture. He hopes to acquire a little more next month.

-- We need to do some GSA brainstorming to encourage more JOMC folks to submit funding proposals next year. The School of Public Health got $400 this week for a "unity day." We could do that. (We could have a picnic under the trees they just cut down. :-0)

-- A faculty/student committee continues renovation of Honor Court rules to add more clarification. New to rules: disruptive behavior in classroom and sexual harassment. Some professional grad schools (not ours) are seeking to create their own courts. Business School is hot on its own justice system.

Last and unrelated:

-- For those who haven't heard yet -- and grad students seem to be outside the loop on these things -- the Hanes parking lot just north of Carroll Hall is apparently not going to last much longer. Guess what, MORE CONSTRUCTION.

Memorial Hall, the old theater that has been empty all school year, will be expanded. Workers will tear down the stage area and build a new, extended version that will eat up the parking lot. Work just started and will last until July 2004 (which is a completion date at least four years earlier than the work going on though at least 2008 behind Carroll Hall).

Here's a link to the UNC construction page:

http://www.fpc.unc.edu/CIP/Projects.asp?Project=14

Take care,

Glenn Scott

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