BHSA Town Hall -- the Liveblog
50 minutes and counting until the fun starts. Two live blogs in two days this week folks, get excited.
12:44: BURRITOS?! Hurray!
12:45: About 25 people here, including B*ll Fr*edman -- the oldest person in the world
12:46: Hmm, mostly 2Ls in here, some 3Ls, some stranger danger.
12:47: Wise observation from my handsome lady neighbor, "Room full of people who got roped into doing funding for their organization." I know I'm cursing that decision ...
12:49: M*ndi! Looking excited as always, sitting in the jury box. I pity the fool of a counsel who ever let her get past voir dire.
12:50: Oh sh*t, it's starting and I haven't finished my burrito
12:51: We're doing curriculum committee and GA funding, I assume we're doing GA funding second b/c they don't want EVERYONE to leave after the funding part
12:52: T*ny and D*n from curriculum. T*ny is awesome, he gets my vote for student rep of the year
12:53: They are talking about faculty development - they want round tables (no more square tables!). My attention is divided between this and my burrito. Burrito is winning.
12:55: Any thoughts on how teacher's could get better? Let T*ny know! Also, they'll be sending around a survey monkey who will be asking a couple of really simple questions. See the monkey, answer his questions.
12:57: Hm, we want 1Ls to feel MORE comfortable with talking in class -- that seems like the exact opposite of how I remember 1L -- and by 1L I obviously mean BizAss
1:00: And M*ndi FTW: "How much buy-in do you have from faculty? Do they really want to change? ..."
1:01: She is astounded by the questions she gets asked by adjuncts -- like, "how do I grade?"
1:02: FILL OUT YOUR STUDENT EVALS OR DIE!!!! Especially the student-to-student part.
1:03: On a similar note, did anyone else note that only 38% of eligible SF county voters voted in the midterms? At least folks got this voting right: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2FSPNM1GCC6I.DTL
1:04: D*n's got a bit of a mustache going on -- I wonder if it's for Movember (http://www.movember.com/) or just for hipster cred (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&ref=books)
1:08: oh, IMPORTANT note: Professors DO NOT have access to your reviews until ALL of their final grades are in. So, nothing you say will be held against you in grading.
1:10: This is boring, I'm bored
1:15: OKAY, FUNDING STUFF. I'm already confused. There is a board that looks like 1L civ pro w/ Trist*n Gr**n
1:16: M*nica is explaining the history of funding cuts last semester; we have a new method this semester; grad students are divided into super groups; we are law super group (and, now I'm embarrassed). Our money is minimized b/c of this super group stuff. It will effect round 3 funding.
1:18: Note, resolution 1009d happened this summer -- it was based on last year's participation or this summer's when we were at work.
1:19: Good question from the audience, "what are we doing now?" Answer: we are trying to have a voice in committees but right now everyone hates us at the GA b/c we caused such drama earlier
1:20: We are thinking about just pulling out of the GA (that's what she said?) but this is a big process and would take a ton of time to think through it
1:24: Who's the quiet handsome guy up at the front? Is that what 1Ls look like now, and if so, why haven't I been going to bar review
1:25: Okay, you may be able to supplement your GMER (general GA funding) with some of the grants and special GA funding. I'm pretty sure this is all on the GAs website though. Q from audience: can't we just make the admin cover the difference, at least now? A: hmmm
1:29: I think we might really be talking about money right now. There are four funding awards: 1) GMER (food) not merit based; 2) Grants (1 per semester in one of three categories) has some merit; 3) Travel; and 4) Contingency: this is for emergency exciting events and software.
1:32: They're sending out a sheet with all the info we need; and a couple people will be having office hours to help treasurers. I'm officially redundant. And ... PETCH OUT.
1:34: One last thing: DO NOT GO OVER ANY OF THE AMOUNTS OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY FUNDING
12:44: BURRITOS?! Hurray!
12:45: About 25 people here, including B*ll Fr*edman -- the oldest person in the world
12:46: Hmm, mostly 2Ls in here, some 3Ls, some stranger danger.
12:47: Wise observation from my handsome lady neighbor, "Room full of people who got roped into doing funding for their organization." I know I'm cursing that decision ...
12:49: M*ndi! Looking excited as always, sitting in the jury box. I pity the fool of a counsel who ever let her get past voir dire.
12:50: Oh sh*t, it's starting and I haven't finished my burrito
12:51: We're doing curriculum committee and GA funding, I assume we're doing GA funding second b/c they don't want EVERYONE to leave after the funding part
12:52: T*ny and D*n from curriculum. T*ny is awesome, he gets my vote for student rep of the year
12:53: They are talking about faculty development - they want round tables (no more square tables!). My attention is divided between this and my burrito. Burrito is winning.
12:55: Any thoughts on how teacher's could get better? Let T*ny know! Also, they'll be sending around a survey monkey who will be asking a couple of really simple questions. See the monkey, answer his questions.
12:57: Hm, we want 1Ls to feel MORE comfortable with talking in class -- that seems like the exact opposite of how I remember 1L -- and by 1L I obviously mean BizAss
1:00: And M*ndi FTW: "How much buy-in do you have from faculty? Do they really want to change? ..."
1:01: She is astounded by the questions she gets asked by adjuncts -- like, "how do I grade?"
1:02: FILL OUT YOUR STUDENT EVALS OR DIE!!!! Especially the student-to-student part.
1:03: On a similar note, did anyone else note that only 38% of eligible SF county voters voted in the midterms? At least folks got this voting right: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2FSPNM1GCC6I.DTL
1:04: D*n's got a bit of a mustache going on -- I wonder if it's for Movember (http://www.movember.com/) or just for hipster cred (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&ref=books)
1:08: oh, IMPORTANT note: Professors DO NOT have access to your reviews until ALL of their final grades are in. So, nothing you say will be held against you in grading.
1:10: This is boring, I'm bored
1:15: OKAY, FUNDING STUFF. I'm already confused. There is a board that looks like 1L civ pro w/ Trist*n Gr**n
1:16: M*nica is explaining the history of funding cuts last semester; we have a new method this semester; grad students are divided into super groups; we are law super group (and, now I'm embarrassed). Our money is minimized b/c of this super group stuff. It will effect round 3 funding.
1:18: Note, resolution 1009d happened this summer -- it was based on last year's participation or this summer's when we were at work.
1:19: Good question from the audience, "what are we doing now?" Answer: we are trying to have a voice in committees but right now everyone hates us at the GA b/c we caused such drama earlier
1:20: We are thinking about just pulling out of the GA (that's what she said?) but this is a big process and would take a ton of time to think through it
1:24: Who's the quiet handsome guy up at the front? Is that what 1Ls look like now, and if so, why haven't I been going to bar review
1:25: Okay, you may be able to supplement your GMER (general GA funding) with some of the grants and special GA funding. I'm pretty sure this is all on the GAs website though. Q from audience: can't we just make the admin cover the difference, at least now? A: hmmm
1:29: I think we might really be talking about money right now. There are four funding awards: 1) GMER (food) not merit based; 2) Grants (1 per semester in one of three categories) has some merit; 3) Travel; and 4) Contingency: this is for emergency exciting events and software.
1:32: They're sending out a sheet with all the info we need; and a couple people will be having office hours to help treasurers. I'm officially redundant. And ... PETCH OUT.
1:34: One last thing: DO NOT GO OVER ANY OF THE AMOUNTS OR YOU WILL NOT GET ANY FUNDING
posted by Petch at 11:54 AM
18 Comments:
I am predicting someone takes a legal and shits all over everyone.
A legal has jumped the shark.
I spent the last hour grousing about having to go to this meeting. Now I find out Peter's going to be liveblogging and I'm so excited!
Peter, quit commenting about yourself.
I want to know how many men/women at Boalt are in love with Mindi.
I am.
I wrote her this haiku:
Mindi, with pants high
Attitude makes us weep, for
Tears reflect beauty.
1:00, I can see no reason to restrict your enquiry to people "at Boalt."
-SWM from Class of 2010.
This is painful. I feel misled by the all-caps description of this meeting as both "IMPERATIVE" and "CRITICAL."
Actual G-Chat Conversation from inside room 140:
Person 1: I'm 2 minutes away from leaving.
Person 2: I'm 1 minute away from dying. any chance you could drag my body away with you
Person 1: Yes.
Perfect cover.
Person 2: "Gotta get this dead guy outta here before he starts stinking this place up. Oh wait, this conversation is already doing that. BOOM ROASTED"
Person 3: I like that I'm narrating why I'm dragging a dead body out of the room.
If this meeting does nothing more than summarize the funding guidelines set forth in the GA funding meeting/funding handbook, I'm going to be deeply unhappy.
With black wings cometh
Deep unhappiness knowing
A lunch wasted; gone
An actual gchat
Leaves us embarrassed readers
Humor evades some
1:07, are you Poetic dreamer?
Petch is new to blog
Doesn't know the link button
Is right there on top.
"I pity the fool of a counsel who ever let her get past voir dire." Great line.
can someone please liveblog the townhall forum with Edley today?
Not to worry 11:22, I'll be liveblogging it.
Correct answer: movember, hipster cred, and i want to see if puberty is working yet.
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