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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 00:35:31 -0500
To: pax
From: tn godshall <timng@goshen.edu>
Subject: paxminutes 9/2

Hello all on the paxnet. I will be sending minutes from our meetings out every week via email as well as a brief calender of anything we should be aware of in the upcoming week. Minutes will also be posted in the pax office and probably in the union at the opinion board. If anything is incorrect or omitted in this, please let me know.

Calender for this week:

Meeting at Westlawn lounge or lawn Tuesday the 9th at 5:30 pm (bring any photos of last year's pax events to make display for club day. Also, think about what ways you are interested in being involved this year in pax so we can perhaps form some committees on the 9th)

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Minutes for Sept. 2, 1997 meeting to open the year.

-meeting commenced ON TIME! (yay - good precedent)

1. Established some positions:

-Mara Kauffman and Chad Martin will be contacts with Ruth Krall
-Tara Swartzendruber and Meg Poag will be SS reps
-Chad Martin will facilitate meetings for the time being
-Tim Godshall will take notes and send emails (position to be passed around)

2. Club Day:

-Anne Horst and Heather Ruark agreed to spearhead (i love that word) an informational pamphlet to hand out. To be ratified/added to at sept. 9 meeting
-Bring Photos of Pax events to Sept 9 meeting for display at table
-Paxie the Peace Bell will again be our mascot
- painting party Tuesday night to prepare for Club day on Wednesday
-Tim volunteered to spearhead breadmaking effort in order to pass it out at pax table
-Sign-up sheet for pax email list to be at club day table (Bryce will update pax email list)

3. Networking with other groups - a list of some:

-CPT (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
-SEAC (Student Environmental Activism Committee)
-Aaron Kreider
-St. Joe Valley Green Party
-ICPF (Intercollegiate Peace Fellowship)
-David Cortright
-Other Campus Clubs

4. Goals for the year were discussed somewhat

-Be involved with global, local, and personal issues
-balance our affirming the positive, having fun with decrying the evils of society so that we become neither too silly nor too somber

5. We talked about some structuring of the group:

-We'll go with committees responsible for specific projects. Some concern was raised as to the potential for committees to create a hierarchy in which individuals in committees are making decisions for the rest of the group. We acknowledged this concern and stressed that focus of the groups should be nitty gritty detail with the weekly meeting time for deciding courses of action and hearing reports from committees.
- Time for discussion of issues to be during letter-writing sessions to keep meetings from running too long

6. Old business to follow up on:

-Downtown shoppers Guide
- Brooke, Anne and Tim will meet Saturday to organize existing info and bring proposition for further action to Tuesday meeting
-Keep letter-writing nights going
-Check in with Mary Linton regarding campus environmental program
-Mediation between campus groups, individuals, and Goshen neighbors

7. New ideas thrown into the stew:

-Global Greening conference in Indy. in november
-Petitioning in the neighborhood/campus for rally at School of Americas
-Peace Film Festival (Bryce to spearhead)
-Sponsoring Dances of Universal Peace (get in touch with Megan Ramer of campus ministries to see about co-sponsoring with them)
-Leafraking and other small service projects
-Burma Awareness readings for 7 weeks (Tara Swartzendruber with info)
-Protesting death penalty trial in Goshen in near future
-Getting speakers to come to GC and to pax meetings (Rich Meyer)
-Redoing simple living month
-Being homeless for several days as EMU group did
-Lobbying for a Spanish-speaking cable station
-Mock draft
- contact Susan Mark Landis/ Don Blosser and network with other colleges to do it up right
-Marriott composting and garden (contact aaron Kingsley)
-Pax webpage for easy communication and to alleviate email load

8. Adjournment

-We also adjourned the meeting on schedule at 6:30!
-Leigh and Rachelle brought the idea of opening and/or closing with a song/prayer. We closed singing Dona Nobis Pacem in a 3-part melodious round. Not bad.

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