Clark University Speakers Forum

 

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At the October 23rd meeting of Speakers Forum, $500 was allocated towards bringing The Beehive Collective, an art group that focuses on geopolitical topics, to Clark. This event will be held on Wednesday, April 30 and will be sponsored with Peaceworks and with several other groups.

 

In addition, Speakers Forum unanimously voted to delay the formal allocation of funds towards bringing a Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, to Clark until a pricing agreement can be reached.

At the September 18th meeting of Speakers Forum, $7,500 was allocated towards bringing Eve Ensler, well-known feminist activist and creator of The Vagina Monologues. This event will likely be held in early March and will be sponsored with the Vagina Monologues and with several other groups.

 

In addition, Speakers Forum decided to delay a vote on allocating funding towards bring The Beehive Collective to Clark until a suitable date can be found.

The first meeting of Speakers Forum of the academic year was both successful and productive.

 

$1,950 plus travel expenses was allocated towards bringing Robert Hastings, a UFO expert. This event is also likely to be sponsored by the SPOC. This event will be held on Wed. October 24.

$1,200 was allocated towards bringing Jennifer Boylan, an author and transgendered professor to Clark. This event is also being sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Affairs and Difficult Dialogues. This event will be held on Tues. November 6.

At the November 27th meeting of Speakers Forum, $200 was allocated towards bringing a representative of LINK (Liberty in North Korea). This event will be held on Wednesday, January 23 and will be sponsored with Asian Cultural Society and with several other groups.

 

We  also discussed amending the Speakers Forum charter and purchasing a podium. A formal vote on these issues has been postponed. 

Speakers Forum officer elections were held at Tuesday, March 18th's Speakers Forum meeting. All new officers will officially take office at the last Speakers Forum meeting of the year. The new officers are as follows.

President..................Elisha Buhler
Vice-President..........Sam Rubin
Treasurer...................Chris Traft
Publicity Director.....Becky Steinberg
Secretary...................Emily Levesque-Gottlieb

Congratulations to all new Speakers Forum officers.

At the December 4th meeting of Speakers Forum, $3200 was allocated towards James Adomian to Clark. This event will be held on Friday, January 25 in the Grind at 9pm and will be cosponsored with PEC and UCAB.

 

 

By a unanimous vote of the students present at the meeting who made up 2/3 of the voting members of Speakers Forum, the impeachment provision of the charter was removed in favor of an automatic removal in the case of three (3) absences, and the updated charter was ratified.

 

We agreed to not buy a podium, since using a podium in the UC is free of charge. We also agreed to further seek sponsorship for the Feminist for Life in an attempt to book one of the group’s premier speakers.