MINUTES
OPA - Section of Students in Psychology (SOSIP)
November 5, 1998

Chair: Sandra Jackson
Secretary: Karen Fergus/Kim Gordon
Present: Pavla Reznicek, Alberta Pos, Jason Ramsay, Allan Eng, Steve Biggs, Teri Sota
Regrets: Kim Watson

1) STUDENT INVOLVEMENTS ON OPA COMMITTEES
Governance, or Board Development Committee - Sandra Jackson 
Primary Care Reform (currently have done all that can be done and waiting; there will be more to do in Jan/Feb) - Alberta Pos

2) FINANCIAL STATUS OF SOSIP
- We have approx. $4000 in our account
- Lynn Levy - $800 to Mark Watson - lost cheque may have an addition $800 coming to us
- Sandra to write up financial statement for Dec. 1st
- transfer account from Jason to Steve
- need to determine how much money we will be receiving from membership dues in order to make a decision about how much we can donate back to OPA

3) MENTOR PROGRAM
- Jason would like some volunteers to help with coordination
- would like to expand the program as much as possible for students and practitioners
- wait until the New Year to get the program up and running.

4) WEBPAGE UPDATE
- Steve expects to have the page up by mid December
- there is no cost to tag the page on with OPA's site
- hope to have the address in the next couple of weeks to be able to announce in the newsletter, will also announce on OPA's web site

LISTSERVE
- waiting to hear from York to find out if will be able to have the listserve through their provider 
- if not may take a little more time to find another free provider

5) THESIS CONTEST UPDATE
- Steve has e-mailed the information out and is waiting to hear back from people
- tried to solicit judges from Toronto area and beyond
- deadline not yet determined
- prizes are $50 for Masters; $100 for Ph.D.
- also approached Caversham and Futureshop for further sponsorship.  Open to other suggestions of who to approach.

6) NEWSLETTER
- distributed a draft for members to see
- submit any pictures and/or descriptions of yourself (disc or hard copy) to Allen at aeng@credit.erin.utoronto,ca, or to Karen's mailbox at York  by December 19th.
- should be prepared to be mailed out for November 27

7) RORSCHACH WORKSHOP PROPOSAL
- Pavla presented the workshop proposal
- Tentative Date: start Thurs. Jan 19th at 6:30
- $500 plus covering photocopying materials, parking, and workbook; total approx $650
- so with 15 people, that is a cost of approx $43 each (plus cost of workbook)
- recommend that students pay a non-refundable deposit, on a first come, first serve basis
- also ask if students want to order the workbook or not (as some students may already own it), charge one price for workshop alone, and another for workshop plus book	
- contacting Caversham to see if we can get a deal (or free copy) if buy in bulk.  If not, Pavla will order
- Pavla and Sandra will make up a contract
- Allan reported that OISE has a room (an incredible room at that) available Thursday evenings; Sandra will check to see what the capacity and availablity of the OPA Board room is - determine location at that point
- Sandra and Pavla will e-mail the final details and costing to executive members at which point we can decide whether we want to try to make a small profit or operate at cost.
- we can let students from other areas know that if they send proposals for workshops that they would like in their areas, SOSIP can provide some funding support.
- open invitation to all students via the newsletter, e-mail and webpage if up before Dec. 15th

8) BILLETING PROJECT
- haven't done much work on this, perhaps table this to develop for next year.

NEXT MEETING: January (or earlier if need be)