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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear CHASS Department Administrators,</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Could you please forward the following message to all
graduate students in your department?</span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks, GSA</span></font></p>
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<strong><b><u><font color="#6020ff" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='color:#6020FF'>The day to submit abstracts to the GSA Conference has
been EXTENDED to </span></font></u></b></strong></span></font><strong><b> <u><font color="#6020ff" face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:#6020FF'>FRIDAY,
9 FEBRUARY 2007</span></font></u></b></strong><strong><b><u><font
color="#6020ff" face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:#6020FF'>!!!</span></font></u></b></strong></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><u><font size=3
color="#6020ff" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#6020FF'>The GSA Annual Graduate Research Conference is an opportunity to
showcase your latest graduate research and potentially win a CASH PRIZE
of over $150!</span></font></u></b></strong></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font size=3
color="#20a020" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:#20A020'>INPUT:OUTPUT</span></font></b></strong><b><font color="#20a020"><span
style='color:#20A020;font-weight:bold'><br>
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<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">A Graduate Student Conference Examining
Energy, Production, & Consumption </font></b></strong><br>
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</span></font></b><strong><b><font color="#20a020" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='color:#20A020'>Saturday, 17 February 2007</span></font></b></strong><b><font
color="#20a020"><span style='color:#20A020;font-weight:bold'><br>
<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">Engineering Building II</font></b></strong></span></font></b></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Don't worry if your
abstract does not completely conform to all three themes of "Energy,
Production, and Consumption". This is a multidisciplinary
conference, so stretch your mind to think of how your research could relate to
simply producing or consuming of information, knowledge, or aspects
of identity or human expression by means of social, cultural,
historial, political, artistic, bodily, philosophical, visual, or linguistic approachs.</span></font></b></strong></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red'>Email your
abstract to...</span></font></b></strong></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a
href="mailto:inputoutputucr@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font color=red><span
style='color:red'>inputoutputucr@gmail.com</span></font></a></span></font></u></b></strong></p>
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Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by email to inputoutputucr@gmail.com
by </span></font>Friday, February 9, 2007. Please specify whether your proposal
is for a presentation, panel, or poster. FREE breakfast, lunch, and an
evening reception will be provided FOR ALL, along with a book signing by our
guest speaker, Jorge Cham, author of the PhD comic, piled higher and deeper.
There is no cost to attend or present at the conference. The GSA hopes you
consider submitting an abstract! Cash prizes will be awarded for the best
poster and powerpoint presentations from each college! <br>
<br>
Guest Speaker Jorge Cham<br>
<a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000cc"><span
style='color:#0000CC'>http://www.phdcomics.com/</span></font></a></p>
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<strong><b><font color="#0020a0" face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:
#0020A0'>TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GSA CONFERENCE PLEASE ATTEND THE...</span></font></b></strong></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
<u>GSA Council Meeting<br>
Surge 173<br>
Wednesday (</u></span></font><u>7 February 2007</u><u>) at </u><u>6pm</u><br>
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Discuss graduate student concerns, vote on issues, and enjoy FREE PIZZA! If
you don't know what the council meeting is, then you should attend and learn
how to designate a representative from your department! Start your own
departmental mini-GSA...you can even get up to $100 per quarter for events
and activities!</p>
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Lauren E. Schwartz</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PhD Candidate</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Department of Anthropology</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font> of California, Riverside</pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Riverside</span></font>, CA 92521-0418</pre></div>
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