[Gsc-anno] Announcements 4-28-04

[GSC Secretary]

GRADUATE  STUDENT  COUNCIL  ANNOUNCEMENTS

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                         Wednesday.April 28.2004

GSC Meetings
Activities Committee: Kickoff

Opportunities to Get Involved
1)  Join Funding Board
2)  Help Incoming International Students
3)  Become a Mentor for First Year Grad. Students

Special Announcements
1)  MIT Corporation Student Member Elections
2)  Muddy Charles Pub Survey
3)  MIT Police Survey

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G S C   M E E T I N G S

Activities Committee: Kickoff | April 30th 5:00pm 50-220


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O P P O R T U N I T I E S  T O  G E T  I N V O L V E D

1.  Join Funding Board

Call for nominations for the graduate student at large representative to
the  GSC Funding Board:

The GSC Funding Board is a six member panel that is responsible for
allocating a $100k annual budget to support graduate student groups in a
variety of ways.  One member of Funding Board is a graduate student at
large representative, who is appointed by the Council.  The graduate
student that fills this position does NOT have to be a GSC representative.

Duties of the at large rep to the Funding Board:
1)  The at large rep must be able to make the Funding Board meetings, which
meets a minimum of eight times annually.
2)  As with the other members of the Funding Board, the at large rep must
be fair, and be able to judge student group requests on their merit.
3)  Duties related to the acquisition of capital equipment that the GSC 
will make available to student groups.

Nominations for this position are now open, and can be sent to
gsc-treasurer at mit.edu

2.  Help Incoming International Students

GSC's Academic Research and Careers committee is looking for 1-2 direcotor(s)
for the award winning Airport Shuttle program. The director(s) of the program
will achieve the following skills:

-- program planning and execution
-- organization & management
-- group leadership
-- working with various departments/offices/ISO

If interested, or want to learn more about the program, please contact
gsc-arc at mit.edu

3.  Become a Mentor for First Year Grad. Students
Want to help new incoming international graduate students transition at MIT?
GSC's Academic Research and Careers committee is looking for a chair-person for
the International Graduate Student Mentorship program. This is a great way to
have a good, long lasting impact and recognition among the incoming graduate
students. If you are interested or need more information, please contact
gsc-arc at mit.edu


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S P E C I A L  A N N O U N C E M E N T S

1.  MIT Corporation Student Member Elections

Cast your vote now at http://alum.mit.edu/about/elections/corpballot/ to
elect an '02, '03, or '04 graduate to a five-year term on the MIT
Corporation, the Institute's board of trustees. Only graduates who
received a degree in 2002 or 2003 and those expected to graduate in June 2004
are eligible to vote in this election. It takes only a few minutes to review
the candidate profiles and cast your vote. Polls close on April 30. Vote
today!

2.  Muddy Charles Pub Survey

The Muddy Charles Pub Board of Governors is currently running a survey at
http://web.mit.edu/muddy/survey/ to explore possible improvements and get a 
better understanding
of the MIT community's views on the Muddy Charles Pub.  Every survey 
respondent that includes
their email address will be entered into a drawing for $100 in Amazon.com 
vouchers.  The winner
will be notified by email after the drawing has taken place on May 12th, 
and please remember that
only one entry is allowed per person.

3.  MIT Police Survey

The MIT Police Department recently received a grant from the Graduate
Students Office to develop better ways to serve graduate students, and
they have prepared a survey (available on our Safety and Community
Programs Page) to guide them in their efforts. Please take a moment to
download and fill out this survey - it may be sent back to them via
interdepartmental mail to the Community Policing Unit, W31-215.

http://web.mit.edu/gsc/www/studentlife/safety/MITPoliceSurvey.pdf


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Graduate Student Council
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
142 Memorial Drive, Room 50-220
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: 617.253.2195
Fax:   617.258.9274

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