I hope you are enjoying the weekend! It just started so yay!

VERY IMPORTANT TO SURVIVAL OF YOUR CLUB:

MINUTES are required of each club/organization. You must hold 3 meetings a semester and all three meetings must have minutes. Here are a few FAQ:

1)     We had a movie viewing at our meeting and that was all we did. What do I do?

ANSWER: You should always take attendance. When you take your minutes please state that: attendance was taken, a movie (state title and what it was about) was viewed, and anything else you might have gone over or will discuss at next meeting (i.e we will be discussing the fundraiser that will rock everyone socks off at next meeting, or speaker set up for next EM meeting is Dina’s awesome husband Webb, etc).

2)     We had a speaker at out last meeting and that was all. What do we do?

ANSWER:  Please see above. State attendance taken, speaker’s name and what they spoke about. You could even include question and answers, etc for those who were not present! That would be very nice of you!

3)     What is the format?

ANSWER: It can be whatever you want it to be provided it’s professional. This is an official document of your club and will be posted online. Please put title of club, date and state attendance was taken and when the meeting adjourned. Minutes typically include any recent events you discuss, any issues, finances, fundraisers, future events, conventions, etc.

4)     Why do you need these minutes?

ANSWER: Minutes are required for several reasons, the most important being if a member is absent from the meeting, they can just check up on what they missed so they can be aware of deadlines, results of elections, etc. Also, it’s in our SGA bylaws so you need to have them, it’s a way to check your club is doing activities, remaining active and being all around awesome.

5)     We have new officers what do we do?

ANSWER: Most clubs haven’t submitted minutes from the entire year, I need all minutes up until now, so even if you are a new secretary, the old secretary needs to send all three minutes from last semester. I am sure, unless you haven’t had a meeting since last semester, you should have a copy of this semester’s as well.

6)     What if we got a new secretary in the middle of the year?

ANSWER: Please see above. The old secretary should have the minutes!

When is the DUE DATE???

DUE DATE FOR ALL MINUTES FROM LAST SEMSTER AND THIS SEMESTER UP until NOW are DUE TUESDAY 02MAR10 @ 5PM.

What happens if slips our mind and we forget??

If your club does not submit minutes, you will have to come to SGA with an explanation AND you risk having your funds pulled.

 Secretaries: please email me the minutes and YOUR contact info (if it’s not outlook) so I can pass these along to the lovely new SGA secretary Nicole.

We are in the process of re-doing the website, so that’s why your minutes, for those of you awesome people who have sent them, are not up yet.

Also required by Tuesday are meeting attendance sheets to David Feaker!

 THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING!

HAVE A FABULOUSLY glorious weekend!

I have gotten quite a few emails this year re: end of year newsletters and all of that good stuff. I thought I had emailed everyone (but then again I can’t be quite sure) that since Amy Drittler does a PHENOMENAL JOB with our official LMU-DCOM publication, press, etc., there wouldn’t be a point in doing a newsletter to sum up the year or semester. She provides pictures and detailed descriptions of any club or individual activity she can get a hold of.

If you or your club does anything in the community, overseas (i.e the Ryan Rose awesome Peds adventure) please send it to her!

As far as newsletters go, SOMA does a great and really comprehensive one (go Amanda!) monthly, but as far as Class Officers or SGA goes we will wait until the implentation of new officers!

Thanks again and please don’t hesitate to send Amy all the fabulous things you do!:)

CampusLinc mentioned our very own Dr. Leo had a paper published this week in Psychological Medicine. It is titled “A systematic review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain volume,” coauthored with J. Moncrieff of the Department of Mental Health Sciences at University College, London. Congrats Dr. Leo!

We have been doing a ton to help Haiti, but here’s another way to do so, and you get some awesome study tunes!

Itunes has a Hope for Haiti Now 20 song purchase for $7.99!! Usually songs are $1.29!

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http://www.osteobook.net/

2) COSGP is an amazing resource as well! It has a ton of links for anything and everything osteopathic and also has info on the AMA, polls, hot topics, blogs, etc. Also-FYI the COSGP is not just for Presidents even thought that’s the title.

http://www.cosgp.aacom.org/

Just two resources that are 100% awesome and you have no excuse not to check them out! Also you can become fans on FacebookJ