Meeting Minutes, 2/25

Budget: Jennifer Chan

• Met with Darris re: budget. The DOS office did not account for many of our expenses, but now we should be caught up except for the Halfway through Harvard party.
  • SRB kickoff (~1000)
  • Thanksgiving (~4500)
  • Section 6 Pub Night (~500)
  • Halfway through Harvard (estimated at 1000)
  • We have approximately $7,800 left for events, but we are missing some receipts.

 

New events

• Pub night? Queenshead was successful
  • Queenshead has offered to add in HLS-specific trivia if we want to do an HLS trivia night
  • Difficult to find a weekend when no symposiums, etc. are occurring.
    • March 7
    • Possibly plan one the week after spring break as well
    • Community involvement? “Giving Back”
      • Urban Debate League needs help – volunteering, event.
      • Looking for volunteer to help plan a bigger (non-Pub Night) event – contact Amanda Mindlin.
      • Supplement the DOS-provided support during finals?
        • Event for after exams? 1L sections do their own celebrations; LLM probably will.

 

Elections

• Election committee: constitution requires 3 members from SRB, and 2 from general student body.
  • Student Body: two responses from email soliciting
    • Norman Greenberg (2L)
    • Anna Yuan (2L)
• SRB members:
  • Tara Norris
  • Emily Cusick
  • David Husband
• Will need to schedule a meeting with DOS about how the elections will run
• Get word out to student body re: elections
• Oversee any conflicts that arise over elections

 

Student Health Insurance

• Students lose HUH insurance July 30 (after graduation), which is before students take the bar and begin jobs
• Required that every school at the University is at the same schedule
• Must end July 30 to allow for new students to get on health insurance
• Alternative options
  • Cheap or free health insurance memberships
  • ABA: can get insurance for the summer after 3L year if you sign up while you are a student member
  • Dean Cosgrove will send the options to Lisa to pass along

 

Student Organization Funding: Valerie

• March will be the time for student org funding requests for next year
• 8-person board must review the funding requests
  • Must talk to organization leadership to give information about filling out the form for application
  • Valerie has met with Darris about simplifying the form and application
  • Meet 3 times in March for dinner to review the funding requests
  • Only student organizations – not SPOs or journals
  • Volunteers from SRB:
    • Paul Suitter
    • Andrew London
    • Any other interested persons should contact Valerie.
    • After these funding applications are processed, Valerie will work on filling in the SRB constitution to be more specific on the student organization issue
      • Will explain the process of forming new student groups

 

Tivli:

• DOS did not know about this, but now are looking into it now.
• Still get 4 basic networks and PBS

 

Resolution to hire more women and minority faculty memos: contact Ben Apple if interested.

Resolution to minimize use of fossil fuels (along with HKS and other Harvard schools): contact Ben Apple if interested in helping.

 

Harvard Graduate School Council

• Leadership Summit: wants student leadership from each school (would like 3 people from SRB)
• Leadership conference currently being planned, open to everyone
• Mixer between graduate schools?

1L materials review

• Dean Cosgrove has sent most of the information sent to 1Ls to Lisa
• 1Ls still need to gather all of their documents from the beginning of the year
  • 1L reps, David, and Lisa will meet

 

Survey

• Coffee issues: poll the following options:
  • Extend free morning coffee/ get refills until 10am or 11am.
  • Get rid of coffee and put in machine (like the one in Langdell)
  • Microwaves in the Hark
    • Not enough microwaves
    • Not strong enough
    • Survey will be sent to student body in the next week

 

Gmail migration

• Some students still experiencing issues with forwarding even after they re-linked their personal and school accounts.

 

Next meeting

• Tuesday, March 26 at 8pm

Present Members:

Emily Cusick

Jennifer Chan

Lisa Lana

Andrew London

David Husband

Ben Apple

Paul Suitter

Dahoud Askar

Valerie Duchesneau