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I. Attendance and Approval of Minutes from October 21, 2003: approved

II. President’s Report: Thanks to Christina and Rebecca for a great Halloween party. Congrats to all members of the SBA who were involved in bugging the administration about putting a calendar up on the portal. The calendar looks awesome and all are encouraged to submit their events.

Corrie is working on the grad school alcohol policy. 3 other grad schools have been contacted. A draft has been prepared so after a little more work it will be submitted to Dean DeVigne.

III. VP Reports

1. Day VP

2. Evening VP

IV. Secretary Report

V. Treasurer Report: We kept a larger slush fund than last year because we knew lots of groups would be coming for ad hocs, no it is almost depleted. It is down to $5000 from $13,000. The reason it is so low is because we haven’t had much money come in. First-year programs brought in nothing this year whereas last year they brought a bunch in. Also because of the different deal of the Halloween party we made less this year than last.

VI. Class Representative Reports

1. 3L Reps: Mike and Corrie met with the Westlaw representative about the SBA taking over the TWEN outline bank. Please submit all outline, especially upper level outline to msilver@law.gwu.edu. Please format the file name so that it included the professor name, semester and class name. It will be up and running this semester but not fully functional under next semester.

2. 2L Reps

3. 1L Reps

4. LLM Rep

VII. Committee Reports

1. Academic Affairs: Uploading visiting professor reviews has been slow because of all the computer problems. At the faculty meeting they discussed joining the law school class-action suit (limiting military recruiters on campus). The curriculum committee also discussed having 6 credit clinics.

2. Alumni Relations

3. Budget & Finance: just to reiterate the slushie fund is low and its not even halfway through the year. Ad Hocs will be presented in new business.

4. Community Service: next meeting will pass out a sign up sheet for (1) the canned good drive can collection; and (2) bake sale to raise money to buy Xmas gift for kids.

5. Commencement: Dean Young called to say that we could not get Justice Kennedy as a speaker because he doesn’t do commencements. But he is now looking into getting Thomas Berganthal (sp?) or Secretary Snow. We suggested Thomas Berganthal – which is what Dean Young will be doing. He is also going to try calling Justice Breyer.

6. Constitutional Committee

7. Elections

8. First Year Programs

9. Graduate Affairs

10. Interviews

11. Judiciary: the two constitutions to be presented tonight need some changes to conform with SBA guidelines.

12. Minority Affairs

13. Pro Bono Programs: 15 people will be graduating fulfilling their required pro bono hours. This is a concern since it is less than previous years and it is far less than those that turned in sheets. The board is working on alternative spring break.

14. Program Board: Halloween was a success. We did not get SA sponsorship for the Halloween party so we are expecting a little more from then for Barristers. Working on a Barristers location as we speak. Expecting to find an end of the semester party location in the next few weeks.

15. Public Relations: the administration is shopping around for the new sign on the SBA board downstairs. SBA committee heads need to hurry up and get their pictures taken so that PR can put up a picture poster on the SBA board.

16. Student Services

17. ABA

VIII. Old Business

IX. New Business

1. CLLS Constitution: debate about whether the SBA espouses the views of the student groups under it. Decided that it is not up to the SBA to police groups and the views they express. Constitution was approved with a minor amendment suggested by the Judiciary.

2. ATLA Constitution: approved with a minor amendment suggested by the Judiciary.

3. Ad Hoc: ATLA: They were requesting money for first meeting. Plan to collect dues for some future events. SBA approved $100.

4. Ad Hoc: Feminist Forum: They are having 4 speakers from different women’s groups on the topice: what is Feminism. They plan to have some hors d’oeuvres. The SBA discussed how they should go to other sources for funding at the time. $150 was recommended, but the SBA approved $200.

X. Kudos

XI. Adjournment