A rundown of GROW’s 9/28 meeting for your general perusal!

-Alexa reported on the Gender Collaborative luncheon. The calendar of upcoming gender-related events will be circulated to the GROW listserv. She also talked about the possibility of an Open House-type event for all of the groups housed in the basement of Keefe, but that project would need someone to head it. Related issue: Must solve the mystery of who is or is not using the Women’s Center, so we can ascertain what needs to be kept and what can be thrown out.

-GROW is hosting a screening of A Powerful Noise on October 14th in the Campus Center Theater. The event is being co-sponsored by the Asian Culture House, who are taking care of funding the food.

-The bathroom campaign should be done by later this week; fliers will be handed out at next Monday’s meeting for distribution by GROW members.

-Fall Ball!: We chose Pro Mujer as our charity for this year. We also discussed our options for music; as of now, we are planning to hire a campus jazz combo for the first few hours, and then rent equipment to self-DJ the later part. Everyone should come up with songs they’d be interested in playing. If we can price it and get AAS to fund it, we could still hire a DJ. In any case, we need to contact Student Activities or someone similar to find out where we can rent sound equipment.

-A student came to us to ask us to sponsor her effort to get the Feministing College Tour to come to Amherst, since it is much easier to get funding/approval as a group. We accepted.

-And then we had an informative session on bride burning.

Great meeting, everyone. See you next week, same time, same place.