Location: Upper Sayles
Time: 8:30 am
Present Danette DeMann, Daniel Groll, Fadi Hakim, Kristen Vellinger
Absent Chris Clark, Joe Concannon, Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Ellen Farnham, Sara Hooker, Forrest McKnight, Fred Rogers
Secretary: Claire Milsted
Handouts: We each have a copy of the rough draft of the report, typeset in LaTex. Ellen, who is sick, dropped by at the beginning of the meeting so she could show us her edits. The rest of us discussed our edits in person.
Mostly, we discussed possible changes to the formatting. We should aim to be consistent in our use of bullets; this means that a few things that are randomly un-bulleted will have to be bulleted. We may change some of the page breaks. There are also a few weird-looking Os and backwards appostrophes.
There are a few other changes we will make, many of which are wording changes. We can be in communication about this over email.
Another problem is length. The main body of the text is 36 pages, but the appendices are even longer. We discussed several possible strategies for making our document shorter. Perhaps we will eliminate the full text of the past-resolutions referenced in the policy. We should run this issue past Fred or Jason though.
Future Plans
We need to send out an email discussing the attendance policy with current members; there has been a lot of unexcused absenteeism this past term.
Danette informed us that she will be out next meeting.
Perhaps we should also start working on getting an official budget for CRIC; it would create less uncertainty than the current policy of requesting money from the Treasurer’s office on an ad hoc basis.