As the chair, your job would be to set the meeting calendar for the committee and report back to the AGS Council on committee business. If you have any interest in creating social events for your fellow graduate students, then this is the committee for you.

I'm resigning because I have way too much to do. This committee only meets once per quarter so the commitment is rather negligible. Think about it. If you're interested, get in touch with me or someone else from the Executive Committee.

Starting sometime soon, probably by March, the Phoenix Grill will be serving bottled beer. The campus community has asked Student Affairs to provide additional venues on the campus that serve beer, and in turn have asked Aramark to do just that.

Although details aren't all worked out, the Phoenix Grill will most likely be staying open longer, however it will not serve beer until after lunch. The proposal is to start beer sales after 4 PM and keeping the Phoenix Grill open until 11 PM Mon. through Wed. and until 12 AM Thurs. and Fri.

The Phoenix Grill is not an 'interim' pub nor will it replace the Anthill Pub and Grill. AGS is actually quite excited about these changes to the Phoenix Grill. The Business and Social Committee is looking forward to sponsoring events such as sports play offs, dances, live performances, and the like.

The Business and Social Committee will hold its meetings this quarter on the third thursday of every month until the end of the quarter. The meetings will start at 11:30 AM and end at 12:30 PM. We will meet at the Phoenix Grill.

Since I neglected to call a meeting for last month, this quarter we only have two scheduled meetings. We will most likely have an additional meeting in March should we have enough interest in organizing an AGS party.

I would like to remind everyone that unless people volunteer for this committee, there will be no AGS sponsored social events this quarter. Last quarters meetings were routinely held with only 2-3 council members present.

The calendar has been published as an iCalendar at http://www.ags.uci.edu/webdav/AGS%20Business%20%26%20Social.ics. The meetings will also be entered into the AGS website's calendar.