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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Fellow Undergraduates,</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>

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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To address this issue, the <a href="http://ua.mit.edu/people/council/" target="_blank">UA Council</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> has created the UA Ad Hoc Committee on Student-Administrator Collaboration. The committee will complete this task by researching past collaboration between students and administrators, garnering student and administrator feedback, and working toward outlined expectations and best practices for both groups in the future.</span></font></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Membership on the committee will consist of two representatives from the UA Executive Team and one representative from each of the following organizations: the Interfraternity Council, the Living Group Council, the Dormitory Council, and the Panhellenic Association.</font></span></p>

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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">If you have any questions or input for the committee, either now or in the future, please feel free to email </span><a href="mailto:ua-sac@mit.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ua-sac@mit.edu</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></font></p>

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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://ua.mit.edu/people/committees/#student-admin" target="_blank">UA Ad Hoc Committee on Student-Administrator Collaboration</a></font></span></p>

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