<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Sorry to spam you, but I made a typo and I think getting names right is important:<br><br>
Nasir (Nas) Almasri
was elected to be the next chair of the Diversity & Inclusion
Subcommittee
(corrected below.)<br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Nicholas<br clear="all"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-size:small">--------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:small">Nicholas Triantafillou</div><div style="font-size:small">Co-chair for Housing and Community Affairs '17-'18</div><div style="font-size:small">MIT Graduate Student Council </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 8:01 PM, Nicholas Triantafillou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsc-hca@mit.edu" target="_blank">gsc-hca@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,<br><br></div><div>Here are some of the major events from the meeting and the minutes. My apologies for any typos or any important things I may have missed in the highlights.<br><br></div><div><b>Highlights/Lowlights:</b><br></div></div><div><ul><li>Unfortunately, there were no candidates for either HCA chair position. If any candidates come forward, we will schedule a special election meeting. It would be ideal for GSC cohesiveness if new chairs were elected before the GSC Leadership retreat on the 27th and 28th of April.</li></ul><div style="margin-left:40px">If you or a friend think something about MIT is broken and are willing to make noise and do some work to get them fixed, let us know. Malvika and I will be happy to meet up to help you figure out how you/they can contribute most effectively to improving conditions for graduate students at MIT (maybe by being an HCA chair!) and to share some lessons learned that might help with whatever role you/they take on.</div><ul><li>In happier news, I'm very glad to report that Nasir Almasri
was elected to be the next chair of the Diversity & Inclusion
Subcommittee. I'm confident that DIS will be in good hands under his
leadership.</li></ul><ul><li><b>To Subcommittee Chairs: </b>Remember to send us your budget proposals, including both the request and how you plan to use it. We'll need this by April 27th/28th. If you can give us some information about how important each use is to you, that would be helpful. It would also be helpful to know what non-GSC funding you anticipate, if applicable (sources and numbers). Malvika and I would be happy to meet up to look over your budgets and to make sure that we have all of the information we need to advocate on your behalf.<br></li></ul>
<ul><li>Several grad dorms seem to have trouble getting promised repairs/upgrades to happen in a timely fashion. HCA chairs + GSC officers will see if we can get things to happen more quickly, or otherwise increase accountability for this sort of thing.<br></li></ul></div><div><div><b>Minutes:</b></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQZp8rv-zAKppLOkLRLpbKXvOWr_WmANErec04Ub7V8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>document/d/1LQZp8rv-<wbr>zAKppLOkLRLpbKXvOWr_<wbr>WmANErec04Ub7V8/edit?usp=<wbr>sharing</a><br><br><br></div><div>All the best,<br></div><div>Nicholas<br></div><div><br><div><div class="m_-8633138249568349975gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------</div><div style="font-size:small">Nicholas Triantafillou</div><div style="font-size:small">Co-chair for Housing and Community Affairs '17-'18</div><div style="font-size:small">MIT Graduate Student Council <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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