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October 2005 Meeting Minutes

Presidents (Matt and Roberto)

- Tropical Plant Sale did not raise much money, but enough to pay for our lunch today

- Roberto will attend the next GPC meeting to address concerns regarding the lack of information from our department at a recent recruiting conference

GPC/Faculty (Kristin)

- Faculty voted to make the TEACHING ASSISTANT requirement now OPTIONAL, perhaps in the future it will become an 800 level course

- GPC would like a topic SOON for the HRT 894 spring seminar, there are very few students taking the course, this will be brought up at the next GPC meeting

COGS (Dan)

- Unable to attend the meeting

Social (Erin)

- Dow Gardens Trip: departing @ 11:00am this Friday, bring a lunch or $$ to stop and buy food

- HALLOWEEN PARTY: October 21^st @ 8:00pm @ the Horticulture Farm Bring your own drinks and music HOGS/Hort Club will provide snacks, games, prizes Costume contest

- PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST: Pick up pumpkins Tuesday, Oct. 18^th Bring them back in carved Oct. 20^th before NOON Faculty, staff, and students will judge Prizes for top 3!!!

- Broomball with Hort Club Thursday, December 1^st Midnight-2:00am??

Hort Club (Squirrel)

- Andy T’s hayride Thursday, October 20^th Don’t burn the Straw Bales

- PUMPKIN SALE Friday,October 21^st

- Fright Night @ Lugnuts Stadium Saturday, October 29^th Earn $$ for the club by scaring kids

Miscellaneous

- Jay brought a proposal asking for HOGS’ support for bringing Mark Shepard (Forest Agriculture Enterprises, LLC) to talk about agroforestry and permiculture design on November 4^th and 5^th. HOGS voted to donate $150 for support of this speaker.

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**Please send question or comments to Tara Valentino (paranick@msu.edu)