<div id="1euu" class="ArwC7c ckChnd"><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Dear Grads,</p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
</p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The GSA would like to wish everyone good luck during finals week and we hope you have a fantastic spring break!<br></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In this week's newsletter, you'll find information regarding: </p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><b style="font-family: georgia,serif;">1. Last Call for the Grad Experience Survey<span> </span><br>2. Call for abstracts: GSA Grad Research Conference<br>3. GSA Elections for the
2008-2009 School Year!<br></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">4. GSA Conference, Consilience: Call for Volunteers</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">5. WASC wants to hear from you!!! Thursday March 13</span><sup style="font-family: georgia,serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">,
2008</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">6. GSA Research Awards</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">7. It's Raining
Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget Subcommittees Chairs!</span><br><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">8. Grad and Professional
Students Testimonials about Financial Aid-Fill out one Today</span>!<br></b><b><span style="">9. UC,
CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@ CalPoly </span></b><b><span style="">San
Luis Obispo</span></b><b style=""><span style="color: navy;"> </span><br>10. Building a Grassroots
Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office of the President (UCOP)<br>11. Call for Grad Student Art<br></b></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Please read below for more
information.<span> </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><b>1.<span> </span></b><b>Last Call for the Grad Experience Survey<span> </span></b>
</p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The GSA wants to know
about your graduate student experience here at UCR, so we've created a
survey.<span> </span>Please check your UCR email for
the link to the survey (from <a href="mailto:gsaucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsaucr@gmail.com</a>).<span> </span>Fill it out by <b>March 14th, 2008</b><b> </b>and you'll be entered in a drawing to <b>win a free
ipod shuffle or external hard drive</b> … its your choice! Questions/comments can be sent to <a href="mailto:gsaucr@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsaucr@gmail.com</a>. <span> </span></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><b>2. Call for abstracts: GSA Grad Research Conference<span> </span><sup></sup></b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">The GSA is currently conducting a call for abstracts for our
annual research conference. This year's conference is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, June 7, 2008. This year's keynote speaker will be UCR Associate Professor
of Biology, Cheryl Hayashi. We are currently accepting abstracts for both poster
presentation and talks. Please submit your abstract to the following e-mail address: <a href="mailto:UCRGSAResearchConference@gmail.com">UCRGSAResearchConference@gmail.com</a></p>
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2008-2009 School Year!</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Want to be more involved with GSAUCR? Run for office! GSA
Elections are coming up, and we want YOU to run! The 6 elected officers in GSA
are President, Executive Vice President, Vice President of Academic Affairs,
Public Relations Officer, Health Insurance Committee Chairperson and Finance
Officer. For more information about each position and for an application form
please visit the GSA Website at<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="https://webmail.ucr.edu/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g1f9841a4b506cbf97a4796c1460e4ccc8khp2h7k0l&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgsa.ucr.edu%2F" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://gsa.ucr.edu/
</span></a></span><br>
<br>
To apply for candidacy, please fill out an <a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/documents/candidate_intention_form_002.doc"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">application
form</span></a> and email it to <a href="mailto:gsaelection@yahoo.com"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204);">gsaelection@yahoo.com</span></a> by the March 31<sup>st</sup>,
2008 deadline. If you have any questions, please contact the GSA EVP Louise
Hendrickson at <a href="mailto:evp.gsaucr@yahoo.com"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204);">evp.gsaucr@yahoo.com</span></a>.
<br>
<br>
<span class="style32">Important Election Dates: </span><br>
<br>
<span class="style32">March 31st </span><span class="style32">5pm</span><span class="style32">: Deadline to submit an
application for Candidacy</span><br>
<span class="style32">April 9th: Council Meeting for Candidate Speeches</span><br>
<span class="style32">Elections Run April 14th </span><span class="style32">8am</span><span class="style32"> to
April 18th </span><span class="style32">5pm</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b>4. GSA Conference, Consilience: Call for Volunteers</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Our annual GSA conference chair, Vanessa Miller, is looking
for volunteers. Sign up as we strive to
make it the biggest conference in GSA's history. For more information contact: <a href="mailto:gsaucr@ucr.edu">gsaucr@ucr.edu</a></p><p style="font-family: georgia,serif;">--------------------------------------------------------- </p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b>5.<span> </span>WASC wants to hear from you!!! Thursday March 13<sup>th</sup>,
2008</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">The Western Association for Schools and Colleges (WASC) is
an organization that provides accreditation to higher education institutions in
California and Hawaii.<span style=""> </span>UCR is undergoing
this accreditation process.<span style=""> </span>The WASC
visiting team has requested to meet with students in a forum on Thursday March
13<sup>th</sup> 2008 from 12:30pm-1pm in Commons 260.<span style=""> </span>Please come by and share your experience as a
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span></span></b><b>6. GSA Research Awards</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">Applications for the GSA Research Awards will be available
next week.<span style=""> </span>In addition to the
application form, you will be asked to provide an abstract of your work and two
support letters from the faculty.<span style=""> </span>We will
provide you with an application once we receive and review your abstract.</p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="">7.<span> </span>It's Raining
Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget Subcommittees Chairs!</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Governor's proposed budget cuts $332 million from the UC system,
which translates into fee hikes upwards of 30% and possible enrollment halts.
If the state continues to divest from higher education, students are in
for floods of debt! Tell the Budget Subcommittee to STOP THE RAIN!!!
You can sign a postcard at a GSA event, at the GSA office or online at
the GSA website: <a href="https://webmail.ucr.edu/wm/mail/fetch.html?urlid=g1f9841a4b506cbf97a4796c1460e4ccc8khp2h7k0l&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgsa.ucr.edu%2F" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html </span></a></span><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">& GSA will send it to the legislature for you! Tell your grad
and professional student friends! </span><br style="">
</p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal">For more information please contact the GSA Campus Organizing
Director Ching-In Chen at <a href="mailto:echen014@student.ucr.edu">echen014@student.ucr.edu</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="">8. Grad and Professional
Students Testimonials about Financial Aid-Fill out one Today!</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><br>
</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Are you a
grad student greatly impacted by student debt? Do you pay your own fees
or take out loans to pay for grad school? Do you care about your
financial aid package is administered? GSA is collecting surveys from
grad and professional students about how they would prefer their financial aid
packages to be administered! Fill out a loan testimonial at a GSA event,
at the GSA office or online at the GSA website: <a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html</span></a> Make
sure your voice and your experience is heard!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information please contact the GSA Campus
Organizing Director Ching-In Chen at <a href="mailto:echen014@student.ucr.edu">echen014@student.ucr.edu</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><b><span style="">9. UC,
CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@ CalPoly </span></b><b><span style="">San
Luis Obispo</span></b><b><span style="color: navy;"> </span></b><b style=""><span style=""></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="">Have
you been working to make your campus environmentally or socially sustainable?
We would like to hear your story!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="">The
Seventh Annual <span style="">UC, CSU, CCC
Sustainability Conference</span> at CalPoly San Luis Obispo is looking for
student leaders who are reducing their campuses and their own environmental
impact and working towards a more environmentally, socially and economically
equitable world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="">Deadlines: <br>
</span><span style="">Poster proposals due </span><span style=""><span style="">June 1, 2008</span></span><span style="">.<br>
</span><span style="">Registration open<span style="">s in March
2008.<br>
</span>Conference dates<span style=""> July 31-</span></span><span style="">Aug 3, 2008</span><span style="">.<br>
<br>
For more information, visit the GSA Website at <a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html">http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html</a> or
visit the conference website at: <a href="http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://sustainability.calpoly.edu/">http://sustainability.calpoly.edu</a>
and click on the <span style="color: rgb(254, 0, 0);">Call for Proposals</span></span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="">10. Building a Grassroots
Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office of the President (UCOP)</b></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">UCOP recently met with UC Students in an effort to build a grassroots
coalition and to establish more lines of communication between UC students and
UCOP.<span style=""> </span>UCOP wants to register as many
students as possible at <a href="http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.ucforcalifornia.org</span></a>.
Please sign up, so you can let UCOP know what issues are of importance to you,
how you feel about rising fees, and anything else you want them to know about.
Pass the link on to your friends, parents, and fellow students.<span style=""> </span>In addition, as more students get involved, a
blog will be created so that students can comment directly to UCOP about how
they feel regarding rising tuition costs, etc.<span style="">
</span>There is also a Facebook page…so again…sign up! </span></p>
<p style="font-family: georgia,serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.ucforcalifornia.org/"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.ucforcalifornia.org</span></a> <br><a href="http://uci.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6756592601" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://uci.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6756592601</span></a> <br>
<a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/advocacy"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">www.universityofcalifornia.edu/advocacy</span></a></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">--------------------------------------------------------- </span><br>
</p><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">11.<span> </span>Call for
Grad Student Art</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span>
<p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you are a musician,
have a demo tape/CD that you would like to have featured in our lounge……If you
are a writer and would like to display your work on our poet's block or story
wall….If you have paintings, that you would like featured in our art
gallery…..Please contact Alex Cortez: <a href="mailto:gsaucr@ucr.edu" target="_blank">gsaucr@ucr.edu</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If you would like more
information, please go to the GSA website or contact the GSA at </span><a href="mailto:gsaucr@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">gsaucr@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.<br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Riverside</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">CA</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">92521</span>
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