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To: mkoziol Subject: Faculty meeting of 8/25 CC: Milena, does this gibe with your recollection of events? -J ====CUT HERE===== Friends, Yinzers, Graduate students. Lend me your ears. The first faculty meeting of the 1998-99 academic year kicked off in whiz-bang fashion. Lunch was a very simple pizza from Pizza Perfecto (which, I have to say, was not quite perfecto) and soda from PsyCoke. First, I'll quickly go through Bobby's announcements. For those of you in a hurry, there's really nothing interesting here, so skip on to the Core discussion. 1. The annual meeting is Sept. 3 in Rangos hall, after which we will be moving to Schotz (the faculty dining room) for the party. There will also be a DJ this year, so no more of the Schmaltz duo. The exciting thing, though, is that Bobby has "a lot of good zingers." I'm praying that she meant the kind that are cake with the cream filling that you get out of the vending machine. 2. H&SS has divided the Information Systems major, which had previously been in SDS, into four majors. This is really not relevant to any of our lives, so the details kind of whizzed by me. There is also now some sort of joint admissions thing between H&SS and MCS. Marcel referred to it as a "dream come true." It's sort of a haze after that. Something came up about a new program involving finances going on line in October. Once I determined that this program wouldn't be funneling money into my bank account, I stopped paying attention and focused on my pizza. 3. The new wing is on schedule to open its doors next fall, though it won't be entirely up to speed until January 2000. No discussion was made of space allocation issues, so the rumor about sticking psych grads in the basement remains a well substantiated rumor. 4. The subject pool meeting is tomorrow (8/26) at 5pm in Porter A18C. They have something like 1000 people entered into the subject pool right now, which is apparently a lot of people. Vicki says that the subject pool has "reached new heights." Brian answered with the witty rejoinder that, "if it's a pool, shouldn't it be depths?" Ha ha ha. Anyway, the solutions proposed for dealing with this deluge are that people can post 2 credit experiments immediately, that they will be scheduling a large questionaire answering session that students can attend (or several of them) and that Mike Scheier is going to start posting for roughly 1 million people to fill out his questionaires.
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