Meeting Notes for February 15, 2001

A. Introduction

1. What is the majors' union?
The majors’ union is an organization dedicated to enhancing the experience of cultural anthropology affiliation at Duke. We exist as a potential medium between students and faculty, an event planner, an informative source, and a link to administration. You can contact us at anytime should you have questions or requests with regards to the department.

2. Who are our officers and how can I contact them?
Robby Hutchison President arh4@duke.edu 613 – 2803

Corinne Martin Vice-President cem5@duke.edu

Kelly Fayard Treasurer knf2@duke.edu

Anna Luty Secretary aml10@duke.edu

3. How will the website be utilized?
Finding a time when everyone who wants to attend the meetings is difficult. While the CAMU will continue to hold physical meetings, this website will enable us to do much greater planning with a greater number of people through the use of the discussion forum (talk). Furthermore, the site will soon develop a web database of academic and internship opportunities for CA students. This site will be our link to each other enabling us with fast and easy communication.

B. Activities

1. CA/BAA mixer
Date: TBA

A little over a decade ago, the field of anthropology split into two distinct fields of study. Since then, these two fields have had fairly limited contact with one another… until now. The CA and BAA majors’ unions would like to invite all CA and BAA department affiliates to the first ever Duke Anthropology Mixer. Details TBA

2. Study/Intern opportunities

It’s not always easy to figure out academic or employment plans outside of Duke when you’re a CA major. CAMU would like to help by establishing a database of opportunities which will be displayed from the CAMU website. This, however, represents a task that requires a good deal of time. In order to help us out, if you should come across anything of interest that you would like to send into the webmaster, it would be posted for all CA majors to see.

3. Faculty/Student activities
Outside of the classroom, limited faculty/student interaction takes place. This simply shouldn’t be the case with our happy family of a department. Rather, CAMU would like to see a regular interaction between students and faculty OUTSIDE the classroom. Some of the activities in the works is a student faculty barbeque (Date: TBA), student faculty lunches, and a possible cultural fieldtrip.

C. Closing