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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Student Group Leaders,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please take note of the following announcements:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>-> Virtual CPW Materials</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-> GBM date 4/15/20, 5:30-7:30 PM ET</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-> The ASA is recruiting!!!</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">-> Unrecoverable losses including future revenue</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Prepare your materials for a virtual CPW</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ASA has been working with the TechX DevOps team to build a virtual CPW Midway site, and next week we will be soliciting materials from
student groups to populate this site with as many groups as we can! We aren’t 100% sure what the exact final product will look like, but we will at bare minimum be asking for your group’s contact info and a short blurb. If you have media you’d like to represent
your group, whether visual (ie. pictures or videos), audio, or web, start preparing that now! We’re hoping to design a site that allows each group to populate its own club’s information so we don’t have to do that all manually on our end: those logistics will
be sent out as soon as we have the tool up and running. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We’re also planning how to manage each group having its own Zoom call on CPW weekend that this site would direct to on that day -- the current
idea is to keep it at the same time as the normal Midway would be (1-3 PM ET on April 18th,) but those details are still being finalized. We recognize that no time will work for every student and every timezone, but we’d like the calls to happen all at once
to keep that same feeling of walking through the Midway and hopping from one conversation to another. As well as asking for groups to send their contact information (and any media/web links if we end up needing to upload those from our end,) next week we will
be asking for student volunteers to host a Zoom call for interested groups. Stay tuned!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Admissions is also actively seeking out ideas and input on how to virtualize the MIT experience for admitted students -- visit <</span><a href="https://community.mitcpw.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://community.mitcpw.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">>
to see what they have planned and submit any ideas you have or events that you’re planning to do to get on the official schedule!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">General Body Meeting 4/15/20, 5:30-7:30 PM ET</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our updated General Body Meeting will be the evening of April 15th from 5:30-7:30 PM ET. We will send out an agenda including documents to
review before the meeting and Zoom link at least one week before that date. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The same rules apply as for a normal GBM: FSILGs, graduate dorms, and club sports may attend if they wish to
<b>but are not required to do so</b>. Groups are still required to send one member per group, but you may represent as many groups as you like, and each attendee can only exercise one vote. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We recognize that there will inevitably be groups that have no members who can attend: understanding how crazy life is right now, we’d like
to avoid any situation where groups get penalized for not attending the GBM, so there will be online make-up resources that should make it easy for no one to miss any information. However, important topics including SOLE’s relationship with student groups
will be discussed and the new board will be elected, so it’s still important that you make an effort to attend the meeting. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ASA is recruiting!!!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">During the upcoming GBM, we will be electing the officer positions for our Board, and are actively recruiting anyone who is interested in joining
the ASA at any level! This year will be a particularly challenging one as we enter a semester dealing with the personal, financial, and logistical impacts of COVID-19 on our campus community, and we want anyone who is interested in helping solve problems and
supporting student groups through the next year to join us!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We will have space in all parts of our board -- any position (space, funding, groups, secretary, president!) could be filled by any interested
party. You can find information on all positions on our board here: <<span style="background:white">bit.ly/2vyu7ID>, and apply using this form if you are interested! <</span></span><a href="https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/start/395752"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/start/395752</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Unrecoverable losses including future revenue</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We’ve heard that some groups have losses that the current unrecoverable loss form doesn’t explicitly have a category for, including expected
revenue from events that won’t be happening any more. If that’s the case and you have any financial loss in any way that will cause your group to lose money, fill out the form anyway! <</span><a href="https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/start/393416"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://engage.mit.edu/submitter/form/start/393416</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">>.
If you lost money due to cancellations or budgeted for having money that you won’t be receiving any more, we want to know so we can support you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This is also a reminder that this form is explicitly for ASA student groups, and not other MIT parties.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As always, email
</span><a href="mailto:asa-exec@mit.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">asa-exec@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> with any questions or concerns you have
at this time. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The ASA Executive Board</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://asa.mit.edu/about-asa/board-members"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">http://asa.mit.edu/about-asa/board-members</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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