Opening:
The meeting of the BPKSA was called to order at 11:30am by Megan in the BPK Graduate Student Lounge.
In Attendance:
Megan, Jordan, Emily, Meghan, Joanne, Anas, Arash, Brian, Omid, Arlo, Aaron, Jaskarn, Bedir, Alam, Darleen.
Open Issues:
Careers in BPK outline and progress (Tuesday Jan 17)
Review of speakers with Darleen
Darleen will arrange MD
Possible Student Med-school students will be asked by Megan
Physio Students – Matt butt will ask some, Darleen will find more contacts
Strength and conditioning – John wants to, so we will try to confirm with him; Derek Hanson is other possibility
Megan will re-contact John and check if he would also like a table
Dietitian – Darleen will help arrange one, still looking for a student
Lab tours – aerospace lab to be determined, molecular cardiac physiology lab is confirmed
Exhibitors we would like to come and host a table – Palmer, Oregon chiropractics, western state
Exhibitors we still want to arrange – BACK, Oztrekk, BCIT, Thompson Rivers U (Omid arrange), Fortius (Ran arrange), Kwantlen, Nursing (Ran arrange), Zajac ranch– we will see if Sophie will help arrange some of these for us.
Darleen will see if high school students want to come to participate
Darleen asking if E-digest is working, or do we prefer direct email, or Facebook updates?
Trying to reduce email fatigue
Many people want an update on facebook as well – Darleen will start updating
Kin Week – (Thursday Nov 17th, starting around 11:30pm)
Food after Monday presentation (Webinar)
Thursday starting at 11:30 to host KIN fair
Tables arranged to have fun items
Profs to present interesting things on tables maybe, showcase labs
Agreed to spam all profs with invitation to the event, and try to ask any who are interested in hosting a table – Angie can help arrange
Some fun items are stored in BPK storage; Sophie can give us access to borrow
Other possible tables – BNSS, exercise in motion, Personal training club, Brenda
For Wii – will want to check if smartboard can be used for Wii, Joanne to ask King, otherwise we will rent from AV services ($97)
Need to arrange food – Liza will help arrange
Fall social arrangements
Probably Changed to Climb base 5, due to pricing issues. We will check with Behavioral Neuroscience.
Clothing sale
Booked AQ tables next Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning
Megan can be there all Tuesday, Jordan can do most of Wed.
We will have doodle poll sent out to arrange times.
Photoshoot
Wed 11:10, meet at Saywell hall.
Otherwize other option for those that cant make it on Friday
Expansion of fuel facility
SFU has limited power, so we cannot do very much to stop the expansion, BUT!
A committee is arranged to discuss the issue; anybody can sit in on the focus group
Adjournment:
The meeting of the BPKSA was adjourned by Megan at 12:20pm in the BPK Graduate Student Lounge. The next meeting will be held on Thursday Oct 27, 2016 at 11:30am in the BPK Graduate Student Lounge.