Speakers Trust Meeting – Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Present : Paul Toner, Jens Wagner, Colleen Piker, Michelle Szelewski, Brendan Hogan, Laura McDonnell, Sean Farrell, Abigail Whiffen

Absent: Rakhi Patel, Tim Wachter, Matt Hahne

MINUTES:

Senator Mitchell
1. Declined $10,000 offer we proposed
  1. We budgeted $10,000 and the dean will guarantee an additional $6,000
  2. Ideas for co-sponsoring? (ADR???)
    1. email to all student organizations
  3. Discussion
    1. Should we go back with a $15,000 offer?
    2. Our budget is $24,000 for this academic year, do we want to pay the difference to have a great speaker?
    3. Go to organizations first, then pay the difference out of our account

Unanimous vote to pay out of Speakers Trust account the remaining $4,000 + travel/expenses of talk

Josh Hill is stepping down from the Trust.
Symposium
1. Nothing happening right now, may be postponed/on hold
2. Costs will not be very high – War College to co-sponsor
Lunch Speakers
1. Discussed two years ago – program where local figures and friends of the school are invited to speak to small groups of students during lunchtime
2. Would set up in classrooms…to check on best times/rooms
3. Goal = 2-3 this semester
4. Everyone on the Trust to try to secure one lunchtime speaker
5. Sean Farrell to check on room availability and best times
6. Trust will pay travel and do lunches
7. Abigail to draft a form letter/invite
8. Start ASAP
Need to talk to OUTLAW re: transcript for law review for February speaker (Colleen)
Email to Organizations re: speakers for the spring & directing to our website (Jens)

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, January 21 at 7:00 in 032D

For next time:
Brendan – Local speaker
Abigail – Form letter and update on Bollinger
Colleen – Update on OUTLAW re: transcript for Feb. speaker
Sean – Email to organizations, lunch speakers, Fairfax prosecutors from Sniper case
Jens – Local Speaker, email to organizations, Peter Egan (Chairman, Transparency International)
Michelle – Local Speaker (Todd Platts?)