SidneyPacific 20032004 House Government Leadership Retreat

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Sidney
Pacific
Graduate Community
July House Meeting
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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Agenda

• Summer Events and Initiatives
• Orientation

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SP LAN Party 7/23

• Classic PC games
• Starcraft
• Worms Armageddon
• Quake 2
• Networked Halo
• Please donate
• 4 TVs
• 2 Xboxes
• 11 Xbox Controllers
• 2 copies of Halo
• Suggestions welcome!

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July 22nd 2006 Graduate Summer Picnic (Mihir
Mehta)

• Collaborative effort with Edgerton, Ashdown,
  Eastgate, Westgate
• Live band
• Catered food
• Sports
• Children
• Call for volunteers
• Contact sp-social-chair_at_mit.edu

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S-P Outings (Jessica Edmonds)

• July 15, 9 AM Singing Beach Trip
• July 20, 5 PM Taste of Cambridge
• July 29, 7 PM Shakespeare in the Park
• August 5-6 (tentative) GSC White Water Rafting
  Trip
• August 18-20 White Mountains Camping Trip
• PLEASE SEE OUTING COMMITTEE WEBPAGE FOR MORE
  INFORMATION

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Shuttle Update (Natalija Jovanovic)

• NW Shuttle afternoon service will not be
  cancelled
• NW Shuttle will run through 635pm
• NEW NW Morning service during the regular
  school-year 10-minute intervals
  approximately 730am-930am

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Rents (Rob Wang)

• Off-campus market
• Cost of Living
• Comparison to other schools
• Stanford
• Berkeley
• Carnegie-Mellon
• Princeton
• Caltech
• Lower our rents, contact
• sp-president_at_mit.edu, dna_at_mit.edu

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Outreach August 5th BBQ (Bryce)

• MIT Club of Boston BBQ
• Alumni
• Prefrosh
• S-P residents
• Need help with BBQ, mixers, S-P tours
• Call for volunteers
• Contact sp-outreach-chair_at_mit.edu

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Resources

• Drum set
• Xbox 360
• New computers

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Orientation 2006Sun, Aug 27 Sun, Sept 17

• We need volunteers !!!
• Sign-up sheet
• e-mail sp-orientation-chair_at_mit.edu
• Leaders
• Large events
• Small events
• Helpers
• Publicity
• Free T-shirt for all organizers/volunteers!

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Orientation 2006 Preliminary Schedule
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Pre-Orientation Small EventsSun, 20 Aug --
Mon, 3 Sep
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2005 T-Shirt Design
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2006 T-Shirt Design Contest

• Have an idea for the 2006 Orientation slogan and
  design?
• Send it in by Wednesday, July 12!
• If yours is selected, you receive a 25 prize!

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Open floor