Pres. Evaluation Group – Tuesday @ 8

Hey everybody,

Just letting you know that the presidential evaluation working group will be meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the common room of Gamertsfelder Hall on East Green. Anyone who didn’t sign up for the working group but who has changed their mind should feel free to show up. We’ll be sitting down to decide exactly what it is that we want to do so that we can bring our plans to the meeting on Thursday.

One crucial point: please show up *AT THE FRONT DOOR* of Gam. I’ll need to let you in and haven’t mastered the art of bilocation yet.

- Nate

A little post-protest picketing, anyone?

So for those of you who are still fired up after today’s protest and the super happy chat with Dr. Krendl that followed it, AFSCME Local 1699 will be picketing the football game tomorrow. They’ll be meeting in the Ping parking lot at 10:30 A.M. and then leaving for Peden Stadium at some point after that. I’m pretty sure they said they’d be picketing until 3:00 P.M.

The protest was awesome. Everybody who spoke, worked on signs, worked on the banner, passed out flyers, etc., and everybody who just showed up, made it really effective in my opinion. Whoever came up with the chant deserves a medal. Good job guys. Student power!

- Nate

Picketing Reminder

Hey guys, just wanted to remind everyone that AFSCME Local 1699 is still picketing every day outside the College Gateway. I walked by earlier and noticed that there wasn’t anybody from SDS there; I wasn’t sure if the picketing was going on elsewhere today or if it was just a case of nobody being able to make it. Anyway, I know we’re all extremely busy planning for Friday’s protest and I’ve personally been sick and haven’t been able to make it, but they can still really use our support whenever we have the time. I’m going to try to stop by the College Gateway tomorrow for at least an hour or two (probably between 1-3) and it would be great if anyone who has time could join me.

- Nate

Our Flyer

This is our flyer, more or less. You may actually see these floating around already since the union has asked if they can start distributing them now and since the OU College Democrats may or may not use some parts of it (but if they do, they assure me that they will credit us). Dave Logan is printing this and I will bring them with me to the picket line tomorrow.

- Nate

The Post Gets In On the Action

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that my web column about the union lay-offs was published in The Post yesterday. Also, Jesse Hathaway has an equally good if not better column in today’s print edition, but it’s also available online.

- Nate

Picketing Opportunity Saturday

I totally forgot to bring this up during the meeting. This Saturday at Peden Stadium the Athens High School boys’ basketball team is hosting the World’s Largest Simon Says Competition, trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records. I’m guessing there will be quite a bit of press coverage as well as student participation and that seems like a good opportunity to picket re: the union lay-offs. It’s at 1:00 P.M. at Peden Stadium. Just thought I’d throw that out there.

- Nate

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