Greetings everyone!

It is I, your brand new President.  Okay, lots of stuff to go over.  I put
everything under big headings for clarity.

CONSTITUTION
Our constitution must be submitted for review the fall semester of every
odd-numbered year (which means it is due again.)  There have been a few
changes to requirements, mostly just specific sentences which must be
included somewhere in the document.  Here are the changes:

Article III: added the sentence "The Anthropology club shall not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age,
gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, marital status or
political belief."

Article IV: the words "a Faculty Advisor" are replaced by "as an advisor a
full-time member of the University faculty or staff"

Article V: two additional sections added:
Section 3. The Anthropology Club is not affiliated with any parent
organization, and this Constitution, subject to the terms of the University
of Oklahoma Student Code, is the sole governing document.
Section 4. The Anthropology Club is subject to Local, State, and Federal
Laws.

So, as you can see, mostly just legal stuff to keep the University happy.
Technically, we need to call a special meeting to approve changes to the
Constitution, however time is running very short to get all of the paper
work turned in to UOSA.  I am going to submit the revised constitution
today.  If you feel that we do need a special meeting to legitimize the
constitution, please email me and I will call a special meeting next week.
We will properly vote on the changes and I will re-submit the paper work.
If no one emails me about this I will assume that everyone is okay with it.
And please bear in mind that our constitution will not be accepted if these
passages are not included.  I swear I haven't changed anything else.

Alex, I will email you the revised constitution so that you can update the
website.

MEETINGS
The meeting minutes from yesterday should be going out soon.  We decided to
have a meeting every two weeks and now we need to know when to hold it.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays did NOT work for a lot of people, so if everyone
could email me times on Mondays and Thursdays that would be good I'll
schedule our next meeting post haste.  (I think that the Grads have Rm 511
Thursdays at 6:00, if we want our meeting at that time we need to hold it in
a different room.)  Also, I am incapable of pleasing everyone. I will
schedule the next meeting at a time that works for the MOST people, if you
are not among that number than you can keep up with events through the
meeting minutes and the website.

MISC.
The YMCA will be holding a triatholon Saturday Sept. 24th at 6 am
(participants will have to be there by 5:45 am) and would like volunteers to
help with the event.  Basically this was just something that was shoved in
our mailbox.  I cannot do it (I'll be out of town) and unless at least 6
people email me saying they want to participate, I am not going to contact
the YMCA.  Plus, I think several other organizations on campus are sending
volunteers, I could probably get you in contact with them.

Publicity week is Tues. Wed. and Thur. of next week and I think we are going
to have a booth.  Our lovely Vice-President Devon is in charge of that and I
think an email will be going out soon.

I promise that my subsequent emails will not be as long as this.

DeAnna Dear