[Nfb-or] Student Meeting

[T. Joseph Carter]

The 19th or 20th works better for me than next week does, I think.  
My professors are at it again.  I'll cope--I always do--but there is 
a definite and concerted effort to interfere with my academic 
progress.  I continue to not have the decency to just fail like a 
blind person should.  *grin*

Paccini's was not as quiet as I'd hoped when we were there, and they 
don't really have a meeting room.  Plus, if we go there for dinner, 
it's often very busy.  If we don't have many more than we did last 
time, the same time might work out okay.

ORABS needs to have a board meeting in the near future as well.  
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings aren't good for me (I have 
class.)  I want to discuss times for this on the list so that anyone 
who wants to listen in may have the opportunity to do so.  Art 
Stevenson will be there to make sure our first proper board meeting 
goes well.

We may also need to schedule a few things around Representative 
Gelser's silliness with this attempt of hers to close the Oregon 
School for the Blind.  Blocking this is taking up far too much of our 
time right now.  She wants the school's closure to be resolved in 
April with closure taking place by September.  My goal is to make 
sure that by the end of April she is wholly convinced that closing 
our school is a terrible idea--for her as well as for us.

Joseph

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:08:43PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
>
> Anyone else have a preference of activity? Bill says hiking or climbing,  
> Joseph says climbing sounds fun.
>
> Another option is to do just meet at a cafe/restaurant again (how about  
> Paccini's again?) and decide there for a climbing/hiking activity in the  
> future. Want to try for next week?
>
> Haben
>
> T. Joseph Carter wrote:
>> Some of us are very outdoorsy.  Others not so much (or not at all).  I  
>> love the idea of having another meeting, and I like the idea of  
>> scheduling some other events to get blind students active together  
>> (our isolation has been the greatest problem thus far), but I wonder  
>> if we're not big enough for an event that several of us wouldn't be  
>> interested in.
>>
>> Rock climbing sounds like fun.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:58:12PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
>>> Hey Joseph,
>>>
>>> I would love to have another meeting in Portland! We need to divide  
>>> up  the labor of sending letters to agencies for the blind and  
>>> schools in  Oregon. What do you think of combining the business  
>>> meeting with hiking,  tandem biking, rock climbing, or social  
>>> dancing? Hiking would involve no  costs, rock climbing and social  
>>> dancing would be about $10 per person,  and tandem biking would, I  
>>> have to say, probably be out of our financial  reach to organize. I'd 
>>> be fine with the food or meeting room, of course.
>>>
>>> Joe Orozco is the webmaster of the NABS website and he made it sound  
>>> like he could easily have a site up for us. If I understand you   
>>> correctly, Oregon definitely needs a website so since Oregon will  
>>> get  one, might as well have the student page at the same place. 
>>> Right?
>>>
>>> How do you all feel about a regional event with Washington and Idaho?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Haben
>>
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