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15.0pt">Fellow Graduate Students,</span></p>
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15.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> Get involved</span>:</span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">GSA Council Meeting</span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">GSA Conference Travel Grant Survey</span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Get Involved in the Community</span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Chancellors Inauguration: Living the Promise</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:
15.0pt">GSA Council Meeting, <b>TODAY</b></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">
Wednesday 3/4/09</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Our final council meeting of
the quarter will be held Today Wednesday March 4<sup>th</sup> at 6pm in Commons
355.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We have several important
announcements and a funding request presentation.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>The meeting will be President Cortez’s last meeting of the
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:
15.0pt">Women’s Basketball vs UCSB, <b>Tomorrow </b></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt">3/5/09</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Come cheer own our Women’s
Bball as they take UCSB in a battle for a Big West title at 7pm in the Student
Rec Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What is more, there
will be giveaways….For you graduate students: save your ticket stub to enter a
drawing for a free ipod at the end of the season.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><b>LETS PACK THE HOUSE, WHO’S SIDE? R’SIDE!!!!</b></span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:
15.0pt">GSA Conference Travel Grant Survey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Our Conference Travel Grant
Committee has issued a short survey that you should have received in your
email.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please take the time to
complete it, here is the link to the survey in case you have deleted our
previous email:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times-Roman;color:#173694"><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=81_2bBX1sbFa5FKLzb6K1MTQ_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=81_2bBX1sbFa5FKLzb6K1MTQ_3d_3d</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Get Involved in the Community</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">We would really love to have
some members of the UCR Graduate Student Association participate as judges in
the Corona-Norco Science and Engineering Fair. The judging takes place at
Norco High School on Saturday, March 7, 2009 from 7:00-11:30am. You can
contact Sarah Ryan (AAO GSOE) at </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:ArialMT"><a href="mailto:sarah.ryan@email.ucr.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#426436">sarah.ryan@email.ucr.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> and she can put you in touch with the fair
coordinator.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Copernicus Project is
proud to announce its family education initiative, "CoperniKids' Families
for Success". The family workshops take place at the César Chavez
Community Center-Main Auditorium located at 2060 University Ave. Riverside,
CA 92501 from 6:00-8:00 pm on alternating Monday nights. </span></p>
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text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The purpose of the program is
to empower families from the Inland Empire with the resources and knowledge to
support their student(s) on the road to college, as well as offer opportunities
for students interested in engineering, science and mathematics. If you
are interested in participating either as a volunteer or as a university and/or
community expert please contact Kenisha Williams (<a href="mailto:kenisha.williams@ucr.edu"><span style="color:#426436">kenisha.williams@ucr.edu</span></a>).
Upcoming sessions are on March 9, March 23, April 27, May 11 and June 1.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:
15.0pt">Chancellor’s Inauguration: Living the Promise 3/17/09</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Please join us for the
inauguration of Timothy P. White as eighth Chancellor of the University of
California, Riverside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our
Chancellor wishes this event to be about the campus, not so much about
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The theme for the event
is Living the Promise, we hope to see you there. The event will begin at the
Student Recreation Center at 10 am on March 17<sup>th</sup> 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please save the date and plan to join
us at this celebratory occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>There will be a Reception at 11:45 am providing <b>FREE FOOD</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> for all who attend.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Stay tuned as there will be a series of campus wide
festivities leading up the big event.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">I have a few more weeks left
in office so be sure to contact me if you have any questions, suggestions,
comments, or concerns and I will be sure to act on them or pass them on for the
rest of the board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I strongly urge
you all to get involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Join us
on our virtual community on Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Hope to see you soon!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Always at your service,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt">Alex Cortez</span></p>
<br>-- <br>Alejandro Cortez<br>PhD Candidate<br>Cardullo Lab<br>Biology Department, EEOB<br>University of California Riverside<br><br>President<br>Graduate Student Association<br>University of California Riverside<br><a href="http://www.gsa.ucr.edu">www.gsa.ucr.edu</a><br>
Office: (951) 827-3740<br>Fax: (951) 827-6358<br><br>"One's greatest nemesis is one's self when one dares not to think openly" -<br>Anonymus<br>