8PM

I. Attendance and Approval of Minutes from September 23, 2003: approved

II. Frank Scaduto, Technology Committee: IT people updating computers, everyone is unhappy but it will just take time. New computer systems in the library; much faster. About the Cisco cards: too bad for those who don’t have them because the school is going to stay with them. Frank mentioned that he could do some price comparison online and send out a group email. We have a new program to prevent new worms from slowing up the system. It should be installed and going by the end of the year. The new Stuart lab is open and great. IT people don’t know why people get kicked off the wireless but it may have to do with the amount of access points we have. Once they put in more of those they hope the problem will be resolved. As far as complaints to the web-mail system: we got rid of the old one because that system had been phased out. We chose this one as opposed to the one that the undergrads have because that one is expected to be phased out in the next few years.

III. President’s Report: thanks to those who registered a GW email account.

1. Printing: talked to Prof. Carter and she didn’t know free printing was an issue. We need to find out approximately how much money people spend now on printing and she will consider the issue.

2. Alcohol policy: Dean DeVigne suggested we write out a grad school policy. Most of the reasons behind the undergrad policy do not typically apply to grad school. We would have to get the other grad schools involved and Dean DeVigne is willing to present it to the school.

3. Clerkships: spoke to administration on this issue. Corrie suggested that they write letters to the students and judges. Administration said they would be getting professors to call. The SBA members made comments saying that phone calls look bad. We don’t want this to reflect poorly on GW and a letter would be better.

IV. VP Reports

1. Day VP: Intra-club council meeting:

- created an organizations calendar but this is a moot point since the administration will be putting up a calendar that organizations can list things on.

- Created a presidents list serve

- Records office now has a list of all presidents for room booking purposes.

2. Evening VP

V. Secretary Report: contact list is ready. Pictures for SBA board will be taken after the meeting.

VI. Treasurer Report: We got $28,500 from SA. We are not going to appeal because this is a good amount and we want to keep relations good. We can still go to them for co-sponsorships. Also they are trying to get the law school onto the web-voting system that the undergrads and most grad schools are on.

VII. Class Representative Reports

1. 3L Reps: is anyone researching the Deans list issue? Possibly the curriculum committee.

2. 2L Reps

VIII. Committee Reports

1. ABA: the annual meeting is the 17^th and 18^th, people are encouraged to come. There is a small firm job presentation on the 8^th.

2. Academic Affairs

3. Alumni Relations: new mentoring forms are being placed in the mailboxes. There will be a mixer on the 27^th.

4. Budget & Finance

5. Community Service

6. Commencement: do we want to have the ski trip? We talked a lot and issues such as the fact it lost money last year and the possible date were discussed. It is up to the committee in the end. There are plenty of other activities the money could be spent on.

7. Elections: 1L elections worked out fine. LLM elections ran into some problems but there was a hearing and a winner was declared.

8. First Year Programs

9. Graduate Affairs

10. Interviews

11. Judiciary: just wanted to point out that the term length of LLM representation has not yet been determined.

12. Minority Affairs

13. Pro Bono Programs: the fair was held last week – got 50 new sign ups. Every year there will be an annual reform project. They will identify the issues, research it and present some ideas to councils or the appropriate representative. This year the issue is animal welfare.

14. Program Board:

- Thirty Thursdays: first one is this week from 4-6.

- Bar Review: this week at Madams Organ sponsored by Lambda Law. Next week HLSA is doing it.

- Halloween Party: stuff is in the works. Talked about whether $20 all you can drink or $10 2 hour open bar is a better idea. SBA members were split on the issue. We also have to be concerned about profit because the party always brings in huge amounts of money.

15. Public Relations: new SBA board will be on the first floor in one of the lounges.

16. Student Services

IX. Old Business

1. Answers from Dean Morrison: mentioned in presidents report.

2. Clean-up signs: administration wants SBA to help put up clean-up after yourself signs in the lounges.

3. Committee selection: interviews are done and the new members were approved.

X. New Business

1. Certification of Elections: certified.

2. Law Revue: thinking of doing an alternate after-party to save some money. The show will be February 28.

XI. Kudos

XII. Adjournment