Media Board Meeting
February 8, 2008
Student Center
Blue and White Room
Present: Matthew Barnes, Alexander Estrom, Lisa Gorski, Maurice Ledoux, Gilbert Gigliotti, Jason Sorensen, Wayne DeRoy, Sean Tan, Ravi Shankar, Chris Boulay, Justin Kloczko, Karen Ritzenhoff, Susan Sweeney, Vivian Martin, Tiffany Moffo Simpson, Amanda James (University Assistant)
I. Welcome
Mr. Barnes called the meeting to order at 12:10p.m.
The minutes from the November 9, 2007 meeting were reviewed.
The minutes were corrected to reflect that Dr. Ritzenhoff was present at this meeting.
Motion: (Estrom/Ritzenhoff) To approve the November 9, 2008 Media Board Minutes.
Motion Passed (9 Yes, 0 No, 1 Abstained)
Mr. Barnes asked everyone to introduce themselves.
II. Student at Large Position
We do have an open Student at Large
position open, and applications were passed around so Media Board members could
hand them out to anybody interested. One of the former applications has decided
not to run for the position.
III. Sharing
The Recorder
The Recorder passed around the ethics policy that was drafted last semester. It outlines many things, including profanity, artwork and political organizations. The newspapers does not want any editors to be involved in any political organizations. This will be on their website so staff writers have access to it. If there are any questions people may email ccsurecorder@gmail.com. This ethics policy will be used as a guide and any future editors will have the option of using it as they see fit. Mr. Estrom highlighted the part about editors not being able to be involved in student government and pointed out that the thinks that is important. Ms. Sweeney drew the boards attention to the final page and paragraph, as it regards a conversation she has ahd with the academic integrity committee in the past. It says that if there are any instances of plagiarism that the newspaper will handle it and suspend the individual from the newspaper for a period of time until they reeducated. In the past they have required the offender to meet with Ms. Martin. If the intent is malicious it may require more than that. In the future she would like the board to have a conversation about whether they would take action of a person was malicious in their plagiarism.
They are also in the process of changing their advertising position and incorporating it into the business manager position, therefore Mr. Boulay will be handling the advertising. They are also looking for a new assistant newsperson.
They are also trying to give club sports more coverage.
The Helix
The Helix just returned from the AWP conference in NYC. They were pleasantly surprised with the magazines and that the printer shipped them to the conference for The Helix. This event will occur, February 26th and also be on Mr. Gigliotti’s radio show.
The Helix also has a possible interest in bringing speakers and authors to the campus as a part of a diversity initiative grant. Part of this program will occur at the Hartford Public Library and they would like to bring part of this program to campus, and have poets from around the world lecture in the classroom. The event at the library would occur May 3rd and they would like these poets to come to CCSU earlier in the week. Mr. Estrom wanted clarification and wanted to know what the connection between the event at the Hartford Public Library and the event in the classroom and what the poets would be doing once they arrived on campus. Mr. Sorensen said that they would be participating in classrooms as well as having a forum of about 5 poets. However, the details are not all figured out they just wanted to bring it to the board at this time. The event at the Hartford Public Library is a part of the diversity initiative grant that came after the incident at with The Recorder. This will be a reading, but the thought is to bring these poets earlier so that they can come to campus. Mr. Barnes wanted to know how the event in Hartford will be connected to The Helix. Mr. Shankar said that these two events are separate and that they would only ask for funding for the event on campus. Mr. Estrom is concerned that it would not be appropriate for the board to fund an event that is in conjunction with an off-campus event. Mr. Barnes suggested that The Helix bring a proposal for money to the next Media Board meeting. The Helix website is currently online. Ms. Sweeney said that The Helix could use the computer that The Dial used, because The Dial no longer exists. SUBOG is currently in the process of looking at space in the Student Center. The Helix submitted a proposal and would like permanent space for meetings and computer equipment. Ms. Sweeney suggested looking into getting a meeting room in the building of Continuing Education.
The Dial
The Dial was not present but it was announced that they mailed their DVD
yearbook out at the beginning of the semester to students who signed up to get
one.
WFCS
Over the winter break WFCS went off the air for 6 days to redo all the wiring and make sure everything was up to fire code. During this time they updated their training manual. They have held signups for information sessions to become a DJ and have a favorable response. WFCS is looking to diversify their broadcast by playing different types of music. They are broadcasting more sporting events this year and next and are looking into getting headsets that cancel out background noise eventually.
IV. Food for Thought
Mr. Barnes announced that the official date for this program will be on May 1st in the afternoon. There will no longer be a panel discussion at night as previously discussed because there is a conflicting event. They are currently in the process of brainstorming when to have this panel.
V. Budget Requests
Ms. Sweeney passed out the budget information to the media organizations. These budgets exclude program money. Ms. Sweeney mentioned that she will be meeting with Off-Center to discuss their budget with them.
The Recorder is looking for money to send some of their members to a
College Media Advisors conference which will be held March 16th-March
18th. They are currently estimating that they would like to bring 12
editors and the cost would be about $8600.00. Ms. Sweeney suggested that The
Recorder sort out issues with their budgets before hand, because they are
currently showing a negative balance. Therefore, we will need to discuss this
during the next meeting.
The Helix said that their biggest concern is going to bid for the next publican and are concerned about the cost of that, and may need supplemental funds.
The Recorder is in need a printer as the printer in their office has stopped working. This would be money from the Media Board Hardware Account.
WFCS would like to submit and request for new computers. This would also be from the Media Board Hardware Account. They have spoken to IT and have ensured that the computer would be secure.
Motion: (Ledoux/DeRoy) To approve $3900.00 for three new computers for WFCS.
Motion Passed (10 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstained)
Motion: (Gorski/Ledoux) To approve $3200.00 for a printer for The Recorder
Motion Passed (10 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstained)
Mr. Gigliotti wanted to make it clear that he believes that if The Helix needs a computer at a later date that any money that needs to made available is, so that they can purchase this computer.
VI. Other Business
Ms. Moffo Simpson announced that the student center will close in May through August. If there are any requests by media organizations to have access or space these requests need to be forwarded to Mr. Barnes. There will be a meeting on February 14th and Mr. Barnes will be in attendance and be able to share those concerns. It seems that this may be the biggest problem for WFCS.
Meeting adjourned 1:20 p.m.
Last updated: Tuesday March 11, 2008