Sidney Pacific Graduate Community House Council Meeting September 7, 2004

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

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

Service Awards

Service Awards Vikas Sharma

Service Awards David Quinn

Service Awards Krishnan Sriram

Service Awards Jared Gross

Service Awards Jennifer Cheung

Service Awards Jose Alberto Ortega Adrian KC Lee

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

Committee Updates

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), 8:30 am – 2 pm Volunteer and meet new friends

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

SP Audio Visual Committee Home theater systems: lounges, kitchens, meeting rooms Big screen TV’s Surround sound audio DVD/VCR Video game systems (also DVD players): Xbox (3rd & 8th Kitchens), PS2 Satellite receivers: 3rd, 5th, MP Room (for events)

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@mit.edu Dave Quinn (944B) Emmanuel Munguia Tapia (207)

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@mit.edu

Professor Wolfgang Ketterle Professor Noam Chomsky 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

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

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

My Account To access MyAccount Items available for Checkout Terms of Service

Items checked out in your name

How to get email notices

Terms of Service Agreement

Inventory list with length of checkouts and overdue fines

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

Want to get involved? Come talk to us!

Open Floor