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Meeting MinutesFebruary 20, 2003 Meeting Start time: 8:10 GRASP (Rachel): -The program has been added to the syllabus for Woman Studies 213 -We will be speaking for 2 classes on Wednesday Feb. 26 at 10 am 145B of the Student Union. -Friday Feb. 28 we will be a third class at 1pm. -During Spring Break we need to find a panel to do a GRASP on March 12 at Daemen College. -There will be a meeting Tuesday Fed. 25 at 6pm for people who haven’t done a GRASP to get a chance to sit down with Rachel, even those who have done GRASP with Shaun are encouraged to come to just to reinforce what will be happening. -Please sign up and help us out. We want to have the best panel possible. Fund Raising (Ed): Candy/Scratch Cards -Not many people voiced interest last week- but we need to know who is interested so that we can gage accurately how many cards to order. -The Candy is $1 a piece at $650 a case. These seem to be something people were interested in -Do we still want to do the scratch cards or just candy? -We have a loan payment coming up, as well as the Fashion show and NAPA Social. Your support is very much needed to make these events successful. -After raising issues before the club, the e-board will decide issue. Banquet (Cory): -March 27 is the date for our spring banquet to be hosted jointly with Out Law. -The topic this year will be SONDA- the transgender anti-discrimination bill. -Camille Hopkins will be our keynote speaker. -Antoine Thompson who helped draft SONDA will also be speaking as well as Byron Brown and Sam Hoyt. -Tickets will be $15 for students, $30 for non-students and $20-$25 for Professors/faculty. -The e-board will have 5 free tickets going to members who have gone about to help out through the year. Out Loud (Cory): -Fashion Show and Speakers night are planned for March. -Millennium Fashion will be giving a free show in the student union -We are looking into having the show in the Union, during the day as per Cory. -Hoping to work on image and show that we do more than drag show. NAPA and LGBTA (Cory) -Our organization and NAPA have helped each other out throughout the last couple years. -Annually they have hosted a social for graduating seniors which has been attended by several members of the LGBTA. -This year they have had a bad year and aren’t able to host the event, they have several seniors, included Maria, whom several of you may know. -We have offered to help them out in and co-host the event with them. They are looking to see if they can get access to their budget for money, and have agreed to handle the advertising. -Tomorrow Feb. 21 there will be surveys around the office from Sub-Board I, they are looking to gain information and help people learn about Sub-Board I, so please take the time to fill one out. -Tuition Hike letters are around the office. They count for points in the penny wars as well as participation points for the club, please submit them through LGBTA. -Penny Wars are going to be held on Feb 21. Please bring in your pennies. Pennies will count as points along with Tuition hike letters. All foreign coin, silver or paper money will count as negative points. -Thank you for all those who helped put the stickers on the condoms that counted toward our community service for the year. -Thanks to Cory and Josh for their help in the mailing for the banquet from Kevin in Out Law. -Lorenzo and Kevin were our raffle winners for the night. Meeting End time: 8:30