Fall Banquet

Everyone should remember that tonight is the Fall Banquet. Be there or be square. 5:30 at the Ramada Inn.

Geology PDF Library

I'm working on a sideline project to build a PDF library for UND Geology students. We all have PDFs laying around that we've bothered to scan, or to ILL, and in order to reduce the scanning/waiting time and effort, it makes sense for us to dump our PDFs in one place. This would not be accesible online (copyright issues), but would be a central computer.

If you would like to contribute or help out, please let me know.

Matt BK

September Newsletter

The first issue of The Beta Zeta is out and about. You can download it here.

Upcoming Events

Regular Meeting Number 8:
Wed, Sep 19th, Noon, AUG Lounge (Leonard Hall 7)

Department Picnic:
Wed, Sep 19th, 5 pm, Lincoln Drive Park

Department MeetNGreet:
Thu, Sep 20th, Noon, Leonard Hall Lobby

Third Thursday Lecture:
Thu, Sep 20th, 6:30 pm, Leonard Hall
Terry Bailey: "From Log-Slipping to 3D Workstations: The Changing Times in the Oil Industry"
UND GGE Alumnus, EERC

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Office

In case people didn't know, we have an office located in Room 42, Leonard hall. Feel free to use it if you need a quiet place to work, or for holding committee meetings.























































Here's a photo of the AUG lounge too:

Notes for next week

Hi everyone, here are some things to think about for the Beta Zeta meeting next week, Wednesday at Noon.
-Beta Zeta Executive Committee

In this email:
* Dues
* SAC funding for travel to GSA
* Call for submissions to The Compass
* Call for submissions to the newsletter
* Call for committee chairs
* Travel to Sigma Gamma Epsilon National meeting
* Research posters

******Dues******
Current members of Beta Zeta Chapter of SIgma Gamma Epsilon need to pay DUES for the next year! Pay dues to Matt Burton-Kelly. There are NO local dues, just national dues.

New members: $40 (includes initiation fees)
Old members: $15




******SAC funding for travel to GSA******
We're going to try to get SAC funding for travel to GSA in October. If you are interested in going to GSA, show up to the planning meeting THIS FRIDAY (Sep 14th) at NOON in the AUG lounge.





******Call for submissions to The Compass******
We're going to try to submit an issue of The Compass by the end of the calendar year. The way it generally works is to get a bunch of papers and submit them together, so then they can be published together with our name (Beta Zeta Chapter) on the issue.

Anything you want to submit that is research related would be acceptable, including senior research and revised term papers. Questions? See Matt Burton-Kelly ( matthew.burton.kelly@und.nodak.edu).

The deadline is set for Wednesday, November 21st. This is right before Thanksgiving break.




******Call for newsletter submissions******
If you did anything over the past year, we want to hear about it! We're working on a newsletter for the students, which will also be distributed to intro classes and labs in order to increase interest and participation in AUG and SGE.

We have the ability to do full-color photos as well as text, so anything is acceptable, even abstracts with diagrams.
Please submit what you have ASAP to Matt Belobraydic ( matthew.belobraydic@und.nodak.edu).




******Call for committee chairs******
The following committees are to be formed. If you would like to chair or serve on a committee, please talk to Matt Belobraydic. Remember, the execs can't do everything!

1. Newsletter. To produce a multipage (monthly?) newsletter that covers student activities, departmental happenings, and upcoming AUG and SGE events.

2. T-Shirts. To deal with all things t-shirt, including design, sales, ordering and distribution.

3. Winter Banquet. To organize the Winter Banquet, including food, drinks, venue, promotion etc.




******Sigma Gamma Epsilon National Meeting******
The Sigma Gamma Epsilon National meeting will be held in Iowa from October 19th-21st. We would like to send at least one delegate to represent the newly revitalized Beta Zeta chapter. If you are interested in this, please talk to one of the executive committee members.




******Research Posters******
Thanks to Dr. Hartman, we will soon have bulletin board strips in the basement (dungeon) hallway of Leonard to hang our research posters up on. If you've got one to show off, hang it up! Also, if you have recently done an oral presentation rather than a poster, you can print your slides (or a selection of them) off on poster paper and have it covered by GGE. For more information, talk to Joe Hartman ( joseph_hartman@und.edu).

Vote on Options for the Scholarship Investment Account

On September 5th, SGE members voted on the future of the invested $11,500 to fund the scholarships given each year by SGE to field school attendees.  The four options for the money included:

    1) leave it in the current moneymarket account at 2.6% interest
    2) switch it to a six month CD for 3.75% interest, then revote in March
    3) switch it to a 12 month CD for 4.25% interest, then revote in a year
    4) pull it out of the school completely and invest it ourselves, but we lose our tax-exempt status.

SGE voted to place the invested money in a 6 month CD with an interest rate of 3.75%.  The transfer of funds should be finalized by 14 September, and the organization will have to revote on the placement of the money at the end of February or early March.

Tanya