Minutes of Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003

MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Riley Wilson; Argonaut Advertising Manager Abigail Bottari; GEM Editor Jessi Bacon; Argonaut Editor Brian Passey; KUOI Station Manager Sarah Long; Argonaut/GEM adviser Brian Beesley; ASUI representative Carrie Joslin; Student Bar Association representative Andrea Schiers; Student representative Kate Heady; Student representative Diana Crabtree; KUOI adviser Jeff Kimberling; Argonaut advertising adviser Michele Kimberling.

Chairman Wilson called the meeting to order at approximately 5:05 p.m. in the Chiefs Room of the Student Union Building. Wilson began by calling for department reports and then moved on to other media topics.

ARGONAUT ADVERTISING: Bottari reported that Argonaut Advertising is working on a restaurant guide as well as a winter recreation guide. She also said the graduation issue, including My Baby is Graduating, was coming up. Bottari said Argonaut Advertising had been running smoothly.

ARGONAUT: Passey said he would be traveling to Dallas, Texas, with Beesley, Bacon, and Argonaut News Editor Abbey Lostrom for the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers convention. He also announced he would be accepting three awards for members of the Argonaut team at the conference  a first place for page design, a second place for news story and third place for editorial cartoon.

GEM: Bacon said she too was getting ready for the upcoming conference in Dallas. She added that members of the Gem staff set up a table outside the Graduation Information Pick-Up in the Commons recently. Bacon said the staff was also working on a second bookstore display.

KUOI: Long announced that In Cue had been produced and distributed across campus and the community. She added that KUOI has live coverage planned for the city elections happening this evening.

GEM COMMITTEE: The Gem Committee did not meet in the interim. Beesley said the board is the starting point for a larger discussion among the Media Board to sort out options for the yearbook. He added Pat Harts Publication Editing class is taking on a project regarding the different options that the Gem or university yearbooks in general have. Beesley and the other members of the board agreed the Gems future should be a priority for the board as alternate plan needs to be hammered out before budget planning time.

PHOTO BUREAU: Beesley stated that the financial proposal for the Photo Bureau is the only remaining detail to the project and should be ready by the Nov. 18 meeting. Wilson asked if the project could be held until early spring semester, enabling the board to focus on the Gem for now. Beesley said he did not foresee a problem with holding off on the project until early spring.

LOGO: Nomusa Ndbele was not able to make the changes to the logo that the Media Board has asked but will email it to Beesley when it is ready; he will in turn distribute it to the members of the board.

QUORUM BYLAWS: The bylaw addition in italics below was presented to the board. Joslin motioned to pass the addition, it was seconded by Bottari and the bylaw addition passed unanimously by the board.

Section 2.02 Once a meeting has reached a quorum for a meeting, the board will remain in quorum, at the discretion of the chair, for the remainder of the meeting.

MISCELLANEOUS: Jeff Kimberling said Mitch Parks has hired a new technician, Chris Holmes, and he has quite a bit of experience working on Web sites. He has already done some work on various Web pages, and Beesley said Holmes is using WSUs Student Publications Web site as a prototype for the UI Media Boards site.

Joslin motioned to adjourn, Passey seconded and the motion passed unanimously. The Student Media Board meeting adjourned at approximately 5:25 p.m.

-- Minutes submitted on 11/11/03 by Stacy Carroll, Student Media administrative assistant