4/11 Meeting Notes

[Kumar]

Minutes from today's meeting:

Petition on American Sign Language

• - The Deans have been emailed and we are waiting to hear back from that
• - Proposal will be ready by Monday and will be up on a Google Doc
• - We need to (1) finalise the proposal and (2) find a professor to sponsor it by Friday

Talks

• - Wednesday: Puerto Rican Striker Speaks
• o Flyers are already up
• - Thursday: Columbian Speaker
  
• o Co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Romance Languages Department
• o Flyers are ready

Kiss-in (April 7^th, 1pm)

• - Nationalize!
• o Flyer and proposal are finished – available on the Students Occupy Boston Google Group
• o Contact friends in other universities, point-persons in each school
• o Especially people in California because they are organized
• - Locations: Outside the Bank of America?
• - “Trickle in because trickle down doesn’t work!” (Rachel is hilarious)

Somerville Hearing

• - Tomorrow (4/12) at 6pm, meeting on whether to turn unused boys & girls club into housing
• - People should go!
• o City Hall, 93 Highland Ave, Somerville
• o Bus 88 from Davis Square towards Sullivan at 5:30pm (talk to Kate)
• o https://www.facebook.com/events/404620139563944/ 
• - We get to use the “Students and Workers Stand United for Somerville” banner, a Spencer Beswick original

Petition on altering the Residency Requirement

• - Eight semester graduation requirement
• - Aliza’s working on a proposal to abolish the residency requirement and make it so that you need only 34 credits
• - Investigate how best to proceed
• - Decision made to develop contingency plans in case we need them in the future

There was also some brainstorming on further April actions. To be continued at next meeting.

[Ryan Clapp]

Looks great, really glad we're talking about residency requirements