Sidney

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Sidney
Pacific
Graduate Community
House Council Meeting September 7, 2004
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Agenda

• Welcome
• Service Awards
• Trustee Vote
• Committee Updates
• Upcoming S-P events
• Open Floor

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Welcome

• Welcome new residents/Welcome back continuing
  residents!
• A few words from our Housemasters
• A few words from our House Manager

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Service Awards
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Service Awards

• Vikas Sharma

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Service Awards

• David Quinn

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Service Awards

• Krishnan Sriram

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Service Awards

• Jared Gross

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Service Awards

• Jennifer Cheung

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Service Awards

• Jose Alberto Ortega

• Adrian KC Lee

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Trustee Vote

• Who are the Trustees and what do they do?
• Voting on three nominees
• Lillian Dai
• Kathleen Sienko
• Krishnan Sriram

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Committee Updates
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Outreach Committee

• September 14th (Tue), 7 pm Seminar room
• GSVD
• CASPAR Orientation
• Cambridge Youth Soccer Oreintation
• Please get the word out for this event. Pizza
  will be served.
• September 18th (Sat), 830 am 2 pm
• GSVD
• Volunteer and meet new friends

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SP Audio Visual Committee

• Who are we and what do we do?
• SP residents in charge of maintaining and running
  all AV related equipment in SP, as well as making
  recommendations for new equipment and AV policies
• What type of AV systems are at SP?
• Home theater systems
• Event production/support systems

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SP Audio Visual Committee

• Home theater systems lounges, kitchens, meeting
  rooms
• Big screen TVs
• Surround sound audio
• DVD/VCR
• Video game systems (also DVD players) Xbox (3rd
  8th Kitchens), PS2
• Satellite receivers 3rd, 5th, MP Room (for
  events)

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SP Audio Visual Committee

• SP event support
• Live audio Professional mixers, speakers, mics,
  subs, etc.
• Theatrical lighting
• Video cameras

• Questions, complaints, suggestions, GET
  INVOLVED!!? Contact sp-av-chair_at_mit.edu
• Dave Quinn (944B)
• Emmanuel Munguia Tapia (207)

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Committee on Scholarly Interaction (CoSI)

• Programs and Initiatives
• Sidney-Pacific Lecture Series
• with MIT Society of Presidential Fellows.
• SP Research Fair and Poster Competition
• SP Knowledge-Sharing Network
• New for 2004-2005

Contact Vasanth Sarathy Chairman sp-cosi-chair_at_mi
t.edu
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Professor Wolfgang Ketterle Nobel Prize Winner in
Physics, 2001
Professor Noam Chomsky Leading Critic of US
Foreign Policy
Dr. Dana Mead Chairman of the MIT Corporation
Professor Robert Langer Draper Prize Winner, 2002
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Distinguished Speakers

• Professor Mildred Dresselhaus
• Institute Professor in Physics and Electrical
  Engineering
• Former National Science Advisor
• Professor George Stephanopoulos
• Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical
  Engineering
• Chief Technology Officer, Mitsubishi Chemical
  Corporation
• Professor Angela Belcher
• Associate Professor of Material Science
• Dr. Andrew Landahl
• HP/MIT Postdoctoral Fellow

• Professor Wolfgang Ketterle
• Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 2001
• Professor Noam Chomsky
• Institute Professor, Linguistics
• Leading Critic of US Foreign Policy
• Professor Robert Langer
• Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Draper Prize Winner, 2002
• Dr. Dana Mead
• Chairman of the MIT Corporation

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S-P Inventory Committee

• Items for check-out
• Movies / Playstation games
• Moving cart / Vacuum cleaners
• ZipBikes
• Cot
• Game room equipment

• Support front desk operation
• Maintain S-P inventory
• Manage rental fees and fines for late returns
• Maintain S-P café

Note Please do not take away paper cups or
coffee cups. Help us keep prices low at 50 cents
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My Account
To access MyAccount
Items available for Checkout
Terms of Service
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Items checked out in your name
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How to get email notices
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Terms of Service Agreement
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Inventory list with length of checkouts and
overdue fines
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Keep Procrastinating

• SP Coffee Hour September 8th
• SP Hall Meetings September 9th (contact your
  Hall Councilor for info)
• SP Dance Party September 11th
• Volunteer Orientation session September 14th
• Graduate Student Volunteer Day September 18th
• SP Welcome Brunch September 19th
• SP Seminar Series October 4th

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Want to get involved?
Come talk to us!
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Open Floor