Planning+Meeting+Minutes

Feb 15, 2013
 * NETS III Meeting Minutes**

Met at Mark’s house from 11-1.

Suggested agenda: We started the meeting discussing this prompt: I suggest that we explore the nature of public discourse about important policies facing the country (gun control; taxes and budgets; commitments to labor agreements; continuation of use of drones, Gitmo, etc.) I am not interested in debating any of those __specifically__--rather //look at how the debates play out in the media//,particularly cable news. The intent is to feature our journalism folks. We have some significant journalism expertise relative to that area in both our FT faculty, PT faculty and alumni. // We concluded that the focus of the panel would be the following question: //// In what ways do media mores distort public discourse? // The group suggested the following panel: // Becky Lavally (PT), Molly Dugan(FT) and John Ortiz(Alumnus) // // Becky will contact Molly and John to discuss their interest, availability and if appropriate their approach to answering the question. // // Larry Culler is willing to MC the event. // // We have chosen //// Wednesday // April 17, 2013 // as a complement to the Alumni groups’ March meeting. April 17 was our primary choice and the availability of the university restaurant also necessitates that date. Mark reserved it for // 4:30 to 7:00 PM //. //// Once the room is confirmed, Mark will order food. // // The university restaurant in the Union: the Epicurean // // The department has some dollars about $500 that we access through Carly. // // Flier, //// University Bulletin; //// Facebook (CSUS page); //// Twitter (Alumni account); //// ComS Faculty and ComS Grad listservs; //// ask Holly to announce to Hornet staff // // ComNETS wiki See //// http://comnets.wikispaces.com/ // // Carmen will bring her camera to video tape the sessions so we can post them to the wiki for those who could not make the event //.
 * Discuss theme and panel
 * Assign contact responsibilities
 * Plan the time allocations for the session
 * Choose a host/MC
 * Choose date
 * Location
 * Assign responsibility to reserve location and equipment
 * Discuss all means of promotion
 * Other topics...