<p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear Grads,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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In this week's GSa newsletter, you'll find information concerning:</span>
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<p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. GSA Council Meeting TODAY Nov 7th 6pm, Commons</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Graduate Diversity Summit Nov 19</span><sup style="font-weight: bold;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 8:30pm-1pm,
UNEX
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</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">3. Graduate Student Night at The Barn<br>
4. UCSA
Student of Color Conference (SOCC) @ UC </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santa Cruz</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"></span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">5.
The Search
for the next UC President</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
6. Register
to vote!<br>
</span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. Letter to
UC Professional Students from UCSA Graduate and Professional Committee Chair</span><br>
</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Please read below for more information! <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">1. GSA Council Meeting TODAY Nov 7th 6pm, Commons</p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal">Come join us for our second meeting of the year.<span style=""> </span>We will be holding elections for the Finance
Officer, please come meet the candidates.<span style="">
</span>Please come by at 5:30pm for food and refreshments at our GSA office
(Commons 203).<span style=""> </span>The meeting will start
promptly at 6pm in the Senate Chambers in the new Commons adjacent to our
office. The agenda is available on the GSA website - please download a copy if you want one during the meeting!<br>
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<p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. Graduate Diversity Summit Nov 19</span><sup style="font-weight: bold;">th</sup><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 8:30pm-1pm,
UNEX</span><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""></span>Registration is open through Nov 14<sup>th</sup><span style=""> </span>(lunch will be provided) <a href="http://diversity.ucr.edu/">http://diversity.ucr.edu
</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, contact information: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:diversity@ucr.edu">diversity@ucr.edu</a>
(951) 827-6223/4<br>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">3. Graduate Student Night at The Barn</span>
<p style="font-family: georgia;">The GSA Party Committee and Student Life are proud to present the (rescheduled) first ever Graduate Student Night at the <span name="st">Barn</span>
(Building 358 on the online campus map). This extended happy hour
event, featuring free food, entertainment, and giveaways, will take
place on Thursday, November 29th from 5-9pm. Come meet your GSA officers
and fellow graduate students! Please remember to bring your ID as
beverages may be available ;o) For more information, contact Kristy
Richardson, the Public Relations Officer, at <a href="mailto:krich003@ucr.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">krich003@ucr.edu</a><span>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. </span>UCSA
Student of Color Conference (SOCC) @ UC </span><span>Santa Cruz</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"> </span>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The UCSA
Student of Color Conference (SOCC) will be held at UC Santa Cruz this year on
November 10-12th.<br>
* Learn to organize your Student of Color Community<br>
* Build unity<br>
* Participate in safe spaces where race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality
and disability will be actively discussed </span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>GSA UCR
will pay for all transportation, registration, lodging, and per Diem for GSA
UCR grads that attend this conference. The deadline for applications was Oct 25<sup>th</sup>,
at </span><span>5pm</span><span>,
in order to have expenses paid by GSA. <br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>If you have
any questions or are interested in attending, and have not signed up officially
at this time, please contact the GSA EVP Louise Hendrickson at <a href="mailto:evp.gsaucr@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">evp.gsaucr@yahoo.com</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span>. </span>The Search
for the next UC President</span></span>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The UC is
looking for a new President of the system, as President Dynes resigned in
August. UCSA just appointed students from across the system for the Student
Advisory Committee. <br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span></span>The
committee wants your stories/concerns! Tell us: What are things that make it
hard to attend a UC? What do you want the next UC President to work on to make
the UC better for students? Don't let these questions limit you; we want to
hear about any problems or concerns. Post or send your stories on the UC
Student Association Blog at: <a href="https://webmail.ucr.edu/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g1f2df210eeddf8e6ca3e8fb6087a841f4khp2h7mkl&url=http%3A%2F%2Fucstudents.blogspot.com%2F" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://ucstudents.blogspot.com/
</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;"><span>6. Register
to vote!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Voter
registration cards are available in the GSA office. Stop by to fill one out if
you have just moved to CA, if you have moved recently, or want to update your
political party or any other information. <br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>GSA will
mail the form in for you; just leave it with the GSA EVP Louise Hendrickson or
the ASUCR EVP Alex Johnson at the GSA/ASUCR offices!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7. </span>Letter to
UC Professional Students from UCSA Graduate and Professional Committee Chair</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span> <br>
Dear UC Professional Student,<br>
The UC Regents this past September agreed to a 3 year fee-increase plan
specifically for professional students. This plan calls for increases of
approximately 7-13% a year.<span> </span>If you are
in school now and have three more years, you could be paying almost 150% of
what you pay now in fees by your last year! <br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>While some
professional students may graduate and pursue lucrative careers in their
respective industries, there are more than just a few of us who are interested
in public interest work. Unfortunately, without loan repayment programs, as
fees increase (and public interest work salaries remain low) it becomes more
and more prohibitive for us to give back to the communities we wish to serve. <br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>At present,
the UC Student Association is trying to gather data from individual
professional schools from all ten campuses regarding their own in-house loan repayment
programs. We are hoping to consolidate this information to argue for more
institutional funding for these programs. The Regents affirmed their
interest in this endeavor by adopting a supportive amendment to the fee policy
passed in September of this year. If you, or anyone you know, are
interested in helping us in this endeavor (specifically by researching the loan
repayment program options at your school), or if you are simply interested in
learning more about loan repayment programs, please email: <a href="http://ahnika@gmail.com%20/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ahnika@gmail.com</a> (UCSF Medicine).<br>
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Good luck
to you in your studies! </span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>-Ahnika
Kline</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>UCSA
Graduate and Professional Committee Chair</span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia;"><span>UCSF
Medicine and PhD.</span></p>
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<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: georgia;"><span></span><span><br>If you would like more information, please go to the <span name="st">GSA</span> website or contact the <span name="st">
GSA</span> at <a href="mailto:gsaucr@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
gsaucr@yahoo.com</a>.<br><br><br></span></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;">Graduate Student Association</span><br style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">203 Commons</span><br style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">University of California Riverside</span><br style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">Riverside, CA 92521</span><br style="font-family: georgia;">