Well, I have been prodded for having taken so long, but here are the minutes
of last Thursday's meeting.

November 19, 1998 7:30PM Votey 207
Those Present: Josh Steinhurst [Pres.], James Taylor, Dan Mccutcheon, Ian
Gorton, and Michael Gray.

We talked about:

1]Plans for next semester:
a] Social Activities
        We agreed that we need to have more of these. [We had NONE this
fall] Possibilities include:
        * Hiking [Either winter or spring]
        * bowling
        * pizza-putt [inside miniature golf]
        * a trip [i.e. Boston computer museum + Boston]
b] Workshops/Talks/Lectures
        People seem to like these! Let's do more.
        * IBM is interested in coming again with another topic.
        * We should look around for another employer to come in and give a
different perspective.
        * Ergonomics/RSI A couple of people have expressed interest in
having a workshop about this. I have found the person on campus who is
responsible for this and he is willing to come in next semester and give a talk.
        * Programming in the EMBA-CF UNIX environment. This should be done
at the beginning of the semester to be most effective.
        * "What is CS?" We could try to get a presentation to answer this
subtle question. This way when someone asks you what you study you can say
something besides 'programming'
        * It was suggested that the faculty could give little lectures on
what it is that they research. We would try to aim it for about the
sophomore level and up.
        * Get guest lecturers for topics that are not taught as classes here.
2] Faculty Hiring
        This was just a heads-up. The department is hiring two faculty
positions this year. The search committee _really_ wants input. There will
be open sessions for comments at the beginning of next semester so be
thinking about it!

3] CSSA Elections

        We will hold elections at the beginning of next semester.

The meeting sort of wound down by 8:30

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We have been asked by the E-Week organizers to do something for engineering
week this year. It is in February. Any thoughts?

Recorder: Mike Gray
Typist: Josh Steinhurst [I did this in a rush, so ask if you have any questions]

TTYL
Josh