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GSC Orientation meeting: diversity and sexual violence events
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Mon Mar 18 18:51:11 2002
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:51:01 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Last year, for the first time ever, the grad orientation
included events on diversity and sexual harassment/sexual violence.
The reason why orientation is an ideal time to bring up these topics
(other than the fact that new students are yet to be swamped with work!)
is that sexual violence is more prevalent in the beginning of the school
year, particularly for new students and, in regards to diversity training,
MIT is often a much more diverse community than the communities many
incoming grad students are coming from.
These events were possible due to a combination of a few students
(mostly Brice and Tamara) being willing to design and organize the
events and the GSC being willing to allow new ideas so long as
students would organize the new events. We got sponsorship from
the Chancellor's Office, the President's office, Health-ed,
Women's Studies, and last but not least, the Graduate Dean's Office
(thank you, Blanche.)
Both events were of a panel of speakers format to provide for a
range of viewpoints on each topic. The funds covered a speaker
fee, advertising materials and a dessert/coffee reception to serve
as a social gathering type draw.
The time is upon us to begin planning for next fall's orientation.
We encourage anyone who would like to see these programs continued
to meet this
wed 3/17 at 5pm
room 8-101
so we can discuss a bit before heading to the GSC orientation meeting.
The more people who take an active role, the more effective these events
will be.
In hope,
Aimee
PS you don't have to be a graduate student to be interested in improving
our community on these fronts!
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:30:54 -0500 (EST)
From: LaRuth McAfee <laruthcm@MIT.EDU>
To: <gsc-orientation@mit.edu>
Subject: GSC Orientation meeting
Hi everyone!
It's that time of year again! We need to start planning for the GSC Fall
2002 Orientation and we need your help. Our first meeting will be next
Wednesday. The important information is as follows:
Date: Wednesday, March 20th
Time: 5:30pm
Place: GSC Office (50-220)
Dinner will be provided
At this meeting, we'll review what we did for last year's Orientation and
discuss improvements, changes, and additions for this year. We'll also
have elections for the new Orientation Co-Chairs. If any of you would
like to share your ideas or run for these Co-Chair positions and you
cannot attend the meeting, please contact gsc-oc-chair@mit.edu as soon as
possible.
We look forward to seeing many of you on Wednesday!
LaRuth
Outgoing GSC Orientation Co-Chair
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