The first meeting opened with the establishment of executive quorum, which will be set at three for all official, constitutional functions.
The issue of a constitutional amendment as it relates to quorum was set as the first item on first club meeting's agenda.
The confirmation/appointment of officers took place, with the following results:
President: Allison Deutsch
Vice President: Christine Vanberkum (possibly)
Secretary/Treasurer: Jesse Wozniak
Social Chair #1 / Webmaster: Jeremy Riley
Social Chair #2: Kimberly Seavey (possibly)
The Listserver is up and operational and can be contacted by e-mailing crim-club@uni.edu.
The website for the Criminology Club is http://www.oocities.org/unicrimclub and is soon to be updated by Jeremy and linked to the dpartmental website.
In semi-related news, Jeremy also has a digital camera that we can use for picture taking purposes.
There will be a trip to the Mental Health Institute to take place Thursday, September 18th (rain date is the 25th), with students leaving at 3:30 pm in hopes of a 4:00 pm tour.
Full group meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of every month at 5:30 pm in Sabin Room 27. (The first will be on Tuesday Sept. 9th) Officers / planning group will additionally meet every fourth Tuesday of the month at 5:30 pm at locations TBA (the next one will be on Tuesday Sept 23rd).
Dr. Muzzatti will announce the first meeting using the Sociology Department's mailing list. He and the officers will also advertise it in their classes and by posting flyers. Alli and Jesse will bring sign-up cards to the first group meeting. Future meetings will be similarly promoted, as well as with the use of the new listserver.
The meeting concluded with a brief discussion about the possible speakers/events for the coming year. Some suggestions included: an FBI agent, attorneys (prosecution, defense, immigration), police officers, a battered women's shelter worker, a rape crisis counselor, a victims' advocate, a visiting Criminology professor, a person who works in the area of white-collar crime (toxic dumping, securities fraud, etc), and a trip to Denver, CO. for the American Society of Criminology's conference in November. Officers will continue to explore these and other possibilities, as well as solicit suggestions from the general membership at the first club meeting.