Notes from the Quality of Life Subcommittee Meeting
 November 1, 2006
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 Gimmel (GSA), Rominsky (GSA), Merritt, Slaughter, 
 Kopp (ex-officio), Diehl (Chair)

 Agenda: Potential priorities for this year's Qol Subcommittee
 * Summary of Efforts from Last Year and What Remained Unfinished (Diehl)
 * Discussion with GSA (All)
 * AOB 

 Summary of Efforts from Last Year and What Remained Unfinished (Diehl)
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 HTD recapitulated the presentation from the Sept. 15, 2006 UEC
 Meeting for the benefit of the new GSA. The slides from that talk are 
 available at 
 http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/fermilab_users_org/qol/Diehl-9-2006.ppt

 The hope was that we could identify priorities on which to focus
 effort this year.  It turned out that everything is important 
 to someone. So we will focus on everything.


 Discussion with GSA
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 Career Night is a high priority in the new GSA. They met about it
 very recently and some ideas were described to us. There was more 
 emphasis on professional development/skills than in previous yrs
 Career Nights, which previously tended to focus on career alternatives.
 Emphasis on the former could be within the scope of our work 
 in UEC/QoL.  QoL greets this with enthusiasm and will find ways to help.

 It was noted that there is no equivalent to the GSA organization for
 Post Docs.  There may have been in the past but it seems to 
 have fallen apart. It was also noted that a few Post-Docs were
 organized enough to run "University of Tevatron". 

 
 AOB
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 Elizabeth Freeland has been organizing, on a trial basis,
 a "Career-Life Lunch" (she hasn't settled on a name for it).
 Initially, it has been aimed at the young women scientists. 
 She sees the "format as informal with a a guest who has experience 
 in navigating career + life issues (life being personal life, family
 etc.)".  She said that "much of the conversation (of the 1st lunch) dealt 
 with how best to manage a scientific career and have children".  
 She notes she "would like to eventually include dual-career couples 
 w/ or w/out children and perhaps have a lunch focusing on the two-body 
 problem with a husband-wife pair of physicists as guests."
 She expects to have the lunches at frequency of about 6 weeks.  
 Her email is Eliz@fnal.gov.

 The QoL has accumulated a list of roughly 40 female Users
 who participate in onsite sports or are interested in doing so.
 This is as a result of the initiative in the Spring by Heather Hall 
 along these lines. The list was distributed to the GSA and returned to 
 Heather.  The GSA and QoL are looking for someone to help organize this.
 
 There is a tidbit from the Wilson Hall Space Committee (from YK Kim's email):
 "Thanks to PPD and AD's understanding, help and coordination, we will be 
 swapping a section of offices between WH12 and WH13 so that neutrino people 
 will be together on the 12th floor and accelerator people will be together 
 on the 13th floor.
 
 Issues in the input queue, not including those listed in these 
 notes, or its references, include:
 Recycling in Wilson Hall and the Village.
 Are there enough Fermi bicycles?
 Bicycle parking at Wilson Hall.
 Rideboards and carpooling. JG interested in making a wiki.
 Public transportation availability.
 Health care for visitors.