<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:white;text-align:center;background-image:initial"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Become a GSA Officer for the 2012-2013 school year!</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center;background-image:initial"><font color="#6600cc"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Be a voice for all graduate students and h</span></font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ey, these are paid positions!</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#cc0000">All you need to do is submit a paragraph to</font> </span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,204)"><a href="mailto:president.gsaucr@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">president.gsaucr@gmail.com</a> </span></span><font color="#cc0000" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">by</font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><b>April 8th</b></u><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,204)"> </span></span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#cc0000">telling us why you would like to be a GSA officer!</font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:large"> </b></span></div>
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<font color="#006600"><font size="4">Not sure what the GSA Officers do? Blurbs about the six positions are below and online in the GSA Constitution</font> </font></div><div style="text-align:center">(<a href="http://gsa.ucr.edu/documents/Constitution053007.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://gsa.ucr.edu/documents/Constitution053007.pdf</a>):</div>
</font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"><br>• The <b><u>President</u></b> represents all graduate students to various campus leaders, oversees the overall operation of the GSA office, works with presidents (undergrad & grad) from all other UC schools on systemwide concerns, and chairs the Graduate Student Council. </font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"><b>Position is year round with a monthly $500 stipend.</b><br><br>• The <b><u>Executive Vice President</u></b> acts as the liaison between UCR and the other UCs, and keeps grad students up-to-date on pertinent state and federal issues that affect them and works to get students invested on issues outside of Riverside. </font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"><b>Position is year round with a monthly $500 stipend.</b></font><div><font size="4"><br>• The <b><u>Vice President of Academic Affairs</u></b> works with departmental mini-GSA organizations to make sure that the needs and concerns of our entire graduate community are addressed. </font></div>
<div><font size="4"><b>Position is Sept-June with a monthly $400 stipend.</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><br>• The <b><u>Public Relations Officer</u></b> throws a Grad Bash for all grad students once a quarter providing an opportunity for you to informally meet other UCR graduate students, and makes sure you get fed for free simply by attending any meetings and events hosted by the GSA. </font></div>
<div><font size="4"><b>Position is Sept-June with a monthly $275 stipend.</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><br>• The <b><u>Health Insurance Committee Chairperson</u> </b>works in collaboration with the Student Insurance Coordinator at the Campus Health Center and with the UCSHIP Committee, comprised of current graduate students and advocates on our behalves to ensure that we are fairly represented in matters pertaining to our health insurance. </font></div>
<div><font size="4"><b>Position is Sept-June with a monthly $275 stipend.</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><br>• The<b> <u>Finance Officer</u></b> makes sure that our budget is being maintained, wisely spent, and adequately supports our organization’s needs.</font></div>
<div><b style="font-size:large">Position is year round with a monthly $225 stipend.</b> <font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br><font color="#993399">It is recommended that you to contact the current officer to ask questions about what he/she does on a daily basis before deciding to declare for candidacy. Each of the officers' contacts can be found through this link: <a href="http://gsa.ucr.edu/Officers.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">http://gsa.ucr.edu/Officers.html</a>. </font></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" color="#993399"><br></font></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-align:center;font-size:large"><font color="#993399">Elections will take place April 23-27.</font><font color="#663333"> </font></span><font color="#663333"> </font></div>
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