House Meeting

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2005
Sidney
Pacific
Graduate Community

• House Meeting
• May 3rd, 2005

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Agenda

• Service Awards
• Housemaster Welcome
• House Council 2005-2006
• Housing
• Upcoming events
• Open floor

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Service Awards
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Service Awards

• JP Kurpiewski

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Service Awards

• Jonathan Winter

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Service Awards

• Panayiotis Lemonidis

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Service Awards

• Waleed Farahat

• Kevin Ryu

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Service Awards

• Nick Senske

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Service Awards

• David Oertel

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Housemasters Welcome
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Founding Philosophy

• Offer convenient housing location commuting to
  campus
• Create a high quality, safe and dynamic
  residential environment which supports students
  personal, social, and educational development
• Foster a sense of community within the residence
• Allow for formal and informal student, faculty
  and staff interaction
• Support student responsibility in the development
  and governing of residences

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Our Mission

• To establish the infrastructure and initiate the
  programs that best engage the residents of
  Sidney-Pacific within the dormitory and MIT
  communities as friends, neighbors, students,
  scholars, professionals, and citizens.

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House Council Development

• March
• SPEC nominations dinner (3/1)
• April
• SPEC elections (4/5)
• Hall Councilor elections (4/17-4/20)
• Official SPEC transition (4/19)
• Cabinet interviews (4/20 4/21)
• May
• House Council meeting (5/3)
• Transitions (all May)
• June
• Endicott House Retreat (6/5)

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House Council2005-2006
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Executive Council
President
VP Residential Life
VP Resources
VP Information
Chair of the Halls
Associate Housemasters
House Manager
Housemasters
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Office of the President

• What do we do?
• Represent the community externally to
• MIT Administration
• The broader graduate community
• Recruit Housefellows
• Outreach
• Interfacing with community groups both within and
  external to MIT
• CoSI Seminars
• Interface with KAQ sorority

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Office of the President
CoSI
GSC Rep
Theta Rep
President
Outreach
Housefellows
External Relations
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Office of Resources

• What do we do?
• Outfitting the building
• Lobbying/Purchasing
• Installation/Inventory
• Deploying
• Inventory Database
• Desk Check-out infrastructure
• Guidelines for maintenance and use of equipment
• Art Gallery
• Plants
• Stewarding Financial and Physical Resources
• Securing funding, establishing budgets,
  developing reimbursement system
• Working closely with House Manager and outside
  vendors to order new equipment, repairs
• Encouraging student involvement in upkeep of
  residence

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Office of Resources
A/V
Aquarium
Plants
Arts
Facilities Support
VP Resources
Bikes
Music
Controller
IT
Inventory
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Office of Residential Life

• What do we do?
• Organize residence-wide social activities
• Orientation
• Parties
• Outings
• Brunches
• Cultural Coffee hours
• Ballets
• Movie Nights
• Ski Trips
• Interfaith Talks
• Athletic Events
• IM Sports
• Collaborations with other MIT organizations
  dorms, student groups, departments

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Office of Residential Life
Athletics
Brunch
Social
VP Residential Life
Coffee Hour
Outing
Cultural
Orientation
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Office of Information

• What do we do?
• Develop residence-wide publicity system
• SP-ANNO
• Bulletin Boards
• discussion lists
• SPTV
• Webpage Spotlights
• Archival of Events
• Online photofile
• Newsletter
• Data Storage
• SPIDir
• Publicity Archive

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Office of Information
Newsletter
Web
VP Information
Photofile/Archive
SPTV
Publicity
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Hall Council

• What do we do?
• First point of contact for residents
• Organize hall events
• Represent residents of the hallto the House
  Council
• Mediation and counseling
• Work together to create the community that is S-P

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Hall Council
Floor 1
2 North
Floor 9
2 South
Floor 8
3 North
Floor 7
Chair of the Halls
3 South
Floor 6
4 North
5 South
4 South
5 North
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Housing
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Housing

• Residents with Renewable Housing Contracts
• New officers participate
• Renewed/Terminated contract by May 2nd
• Available rooms will be listed online by May 6th
• In-house moves MUST be completed by August 20th
• Submit online ballot with top 10 choices by May
  11th
• Results posted by May 16th
• Secondary room assignment process late May /
  early June
• First-year residents who get re-assigned to S-P
• 2nd year Senior Segues

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The Year Ahead

• Engage residents
• Build a stronger community
• New innovative events and initiatives
• Further develop the Sidney-Pacific culture and
  identity
• Have fun!

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To kick off the new year

• What do we have coming up?
• Open Mic Night, May 11th at 9pm
• PhD Comic Strip, May 12th at 430pm (Rm. 26-100,
  Stata Center Student Street)
• Acoustic BBQ, May 13th at 4pm (Stata
  Amphitheater)
• Brunch, May 22nd (Multi Purpose room)
• Inauguration events all week!

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Open Floor
Q
A

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White Noise, White Light
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2005
Sidney
Pacific
Graduate Community

• House Meeting
• May 3rd, 2005