Minutes for March 19, 2009

March 19, 2009

Wyatt Carss
Robyn Smith
Lingam Lakshmanan
Michael Hoyle
Ali Tremblay
Martin Lindsay
Shaun Zanin
Jason Lapp
Sacha Bagasan
Kelvin Lau
Mike Quigley
Mike McNeely
Eddy Alyoyuse
Rituraj Gupta 
Chad Chabot 

Motion to Approve Agenda (Wyatt C, Ali T: All, 0, 0)
Motion to Approve the Minutes (Lingam L, Chad C: All, 0, 4)

CPES Updates:
- Discussed o-week and abolition of minors
- Major Discord, cheap Beer at Doogies, Monday, March 23, 2009
- Issues with the minors will be decided around the beginning of April
- It was said that a number of other institutions are eliminating minors but, a number could be 0
- So far no convincing proof that any other institutions are eliminating minors
- Maybe make a motion that SOCIS is for or against the idea of removing minors
- There are not enough people at this meeting to represent all CIS students behind such a motion
- It’s better to set up a poll on the website and go from there
- People may have chosen University of Guelph just because of the minors that are been offered
- Money will be saved from the updating and maintaining of the minors if the minors were removed
- The courses from the minors will still be offered
- Department meeting will be on Tuesday, and the following Monday. If you wish to attend, e-mail the chair and ask to go as a guest
- Post information about this issue on the next newsletter
Motion that SOCIS holds a poll and advertise the poll in CIS classes and the newsletter (Wyatt C, Chad C: all, 0, 1)
- O-week information is tabled the end of the meeting
- For more information, please visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cpessc/

Brass Taps Social Night:
- Will be on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the Brass Taps at 5:30pm.
- Free pizza and subsidized beer.

Pop Run:
- Most likely go for a pop run soon
- Maybe get the pop when Roboticon volunteers go to Costco

Paintball (Professors?):
- Get professors to come to this event.
- This will increase the number students willing to attend if staff members come
- Go Talk to professors in person after we send to e-mail them

Where's Waldo?:
- Someone dresses up as Waldo and participants have to find Waldo across campus
- Jamie F is not here to talk about the event
- Maybe running the event on March 25, 2009

LAN Gaming Night:
- Maybe run the event April 2, 2009
- Get the SRM form done tonight

Art Event: 
- 3D workshop was suppose to run last week, but due to CS Games, did not happen
- Thinking about to run it next week
- Decided on March 24, 2009 at 7:30pm at the Mac Labs

O-Week Events:
-  The Orientation Team want the events to be academic; such as, how to use Blackboard
- CPES disagrees with this idea
- SOCIS will focus on SOCIS’s own o-week’s events, but is willing to help out CPESS with their event(s)
- Maybe start up a forum and have someone deal with the paper work, preferably someone living in Guelph
- Could start of a committee
Motion to form a committee to organize events for o-week and Shaun Z will be the chair of the committee (Robyn S, Mike H: all, 0, 3)
- Please stay after the meeting if you are interested in joining the committee
- Note that at least 3 people will have to be at the first event of o-week