1. Sidney Pacific Graduate Community House Council Meeting
September 7, 2004

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

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

4. Service Awards

5. Service Awards
Vikas Sharma

6. Service Awards
David Quinn

7. Service Awards
Krishnan Sriram

8. Service Awards
Jared Gross

9. Service Awards
Jennifer Cheung

10. Service Awards
Jose Alberto Ortega
Adrian KC Lee

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

12. Committee Updates

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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)

17. 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
Dave Quinn (944B)
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia (207)

18. 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
Contact:
Vasanth Sarathy
Chairman

19. 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

20. 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

22. 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

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

24. Items checked out in your name

25. How to get email notices

27. Terms of Service Agreement

28. Inventory list with length of checkouts and overdue fines

29. 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

30. Want to get involved?
Come talk to us!

31. Open Floor