Minutes from 2006 Dec 3

Attendees

Dave, Mike (facilitator), Rob, Nick, Eric, Jason, Jon, Tim, Chris S, Possum (minutes)

Message Board

The AnarchistU message board has not been payed attention for a while, and currently primarily contains spam messages. It is going to be fixed up, and given an official URL (perhaps forum.anarchistu.org).

Website

Mike has some ideas to improve the AnarchistU-website's visual appearance and usability. He suggested discussing his ideas with Possum. Possum promised to add him to the web-committee administration mailing list.

Miscellaneous

Chris says Ryan's film class is coming along. Co-facilitator Ashar is likely to not be involved.

Class proposals

Chris proposed a class called the Politics of Addiction, which was approved. It was recommended that he try to ensure the class is accessible to non-academics. Chris ensured he had this in mind.

Eric talked of a class he wanted to propose on mysticism. Concerns were expressed that it had a New Age slant, and shared with other New Age classes a bias toward neo-liberal society and white, middle class culture. It was recommended that Eric incorporate some anti-oppression ideas into his outline, which will be presented at the next meeting.

Dave also briefly discussed a course-idea which he will propose at the next meeting.

Future Meeting times

The third Sunday of every month was agreed upon as a fixed general meeting time, starting with February 21. For now at least those meetings will be held at 519 Church from 3:00 to 5:00.

Upcoming "Emergency" Meeting

There are many pending issues the group did not get a chance to discuss, including:

• promotion
• ad hoc list
• accessibility issues
• meeting times
• TAR (Anarchist conference in Toronto)
• end-of-term party
• U of T group status
• AnarchistU Mailing lists

Thus, it was agreed upon to have an "emergency" meeting on Sunday Dec 17 to discuss these issues. Additionally, we will discuss Eric's class proposal, and Dave's class proposal.

Next Meeting

The upcoming meetings are:

• Emergency meeting for discussing tabled events
  • Sunday December 17 from 3pm to 5 at 519 Church

• Regular General Meeting for class proposals and other issues
  • Sunday January 7 from 3pm to 5 at 519 Church

• First meeting to comply to the new scheduling regime
  • Sunday February 21 from 3pm to 5 at 519 Church