Sidney Pacific Graduate Community Nominations Dinner March 4

Sidney. Pacific Graduate Community Nominations Dinner March 4 th, 2008 1

Welcome! • Overview of achievements and ongoing projects of the government • Provide some inspiration on how you can make a contribution and join the government 2

Office of Residential Life • Organize residence-wide social activities – Orientation – Outings, Athletics, IM Sports – Brunches, Coffee Hours • Maintain a hub of campus-wide social life – Collaborations with organizations inside and outside of MIT – Dance Parties, BBQs • Steward financial support for events 3

Summer Events • Pool Party • Cultural Festival • BBQ 4

Sidney Pacific Orientation 2007 • Campus-Wide – Prudential Skywalk – Rock and Roast BBQ & Movie Screening – Return to Lythion Dance Party – Orientation Brunch 5

Sailing on the Charles It’s a Small World Welcome Reception Return to Lythion Dance Party 6

Rock N’ Roast BBQ and Movie Screening 7

Orientation Brunch & Plant Sale 8

Fall/IAP Social Events • Social – Masquerade Ball – Pumpkin Carving – Christmas Tree trimming • Cultural – Coffee Hours (Russian, Greek, Indian) – Mentoring Program – Movie Screenings • Outing – Isabella Stewart Gardner Outing – Blue Hills Hike • Coffee Hours and Brunches ongoing 9

Ben Renkoski Lynne Waldman Social Chair Orientation Chair Eric Lam Johnathan Lindsey Social Co-chair Dan Weller Coffee Hour Chair Orientation Co-chair Swati Mohan VP of Residential Life Christiana Athanasiou Brunch Co-chair Jessica Edmonds Hila Hashemi 10 Brunch Chair ZP Zhang Coffee Hour Co-chair Cultural Chair Kerwin Johnson Tara Sainath Athletics Chair Outing Chair

SP-wide hall events • Hall Councilor BBQ • Orientation Hall Dinner 11

Eating Clubs @ Sidney-Pacific • 2 S eating club • 9 th floor eating club • Le Petit Bistro 12

Brought to you by your hall councilors 3/2/08: Multi-hall game night 2/28/08: Unofficial eating club 2/24/08: Dessert making & tasting 2/18/08: Burritos night 2/17/08: Dumpling night 2/11/08: Burritos night 2/10/08: Back to School 2/10/08: Eating club fondue 2/10/08: Movie night 1/31/08: Ice cream social 1/29/08: IAP pizza & ice cream 1/17/08: Ice cream social 12/20/07: Holiday snacks 12/17/07: Hall dinner @ Pepper Sky's 12/16/07: Sunday study break 12/16/07: Pizza study break 12/16/07: Study break w/ pizza, drinks, and snacks 12/13/07: Dinner from Muqueca 12/4/07: Eating club 12/2/07: Thai dinner from Pepper Sky's 11/28/07: Eating club 11/16/07: Pizza & movie night 11/11/07: Family Guy 2 nd part 11/6/07: Ice cream social 11/5/07: Pizza from Beauty's 11/4/08: Family Guy 100 th episode 11/4/07: Multi-hall potluck 11/4/07: Brunch @ Zoe's 10/30/07: Hall breakfast 10/21/07: Welcome to fall 10/21/07: Dim sum @ Hei la Moon 10/20/07: Bowling outing 10/17/07: Eating club 10/10/07: Wednesday movie night 10/3/07: Multi-hall board game night 10/3/07: Eating Club (Indian) 10/1/07: Heroes viewing 9/28/07: Multi-hall salsa outing 9/23/07: Chocolate fondue night 9/23/07: French eating club 9/16/07: Know where your neighbors are from 9/14/07: Pizza social 9/13/07: Toscanini's 9/8/07: Ice cream social 9/6/07: Hall meeting w/ ice cream 9/5/07: Target trip 9/5/07: Ice cream social 8/30/07: Ice cream social 8/27/07: Eating Club (BBQ) 8/25/07: Multi-hall movie outing (Bourne Ultimatum) 8/19/07: Movie & dessert 8/14/07: Eating Club (Indian) 8/5/07: Multi-hall movie Night (Click) 8/2/07: Ice cream social 7/29/07: Dessert night 7/25/07: Multi-hall BBQ 7/23/07: Ice cream social 7/22/07: Ice cream social 7/19/07: Dinner @ Miracle of Science 7/18/07: Eating Club (Italian) 7/15/07: Movie outing (Harry Potter) 7/13/07: movie outing (Transformers) 7/9/07: Eating Club (Iranian) 6/28/07: Magnetic Poetry Night 6/11/07: Final event before summer 6/10/07: Lunch @ Pepper Sky 6/10/07: Lunch @ Asgard 5/31/07: Eating Club (lasagna) 5/29/07: Delicious Grilling (Korean & Persian) 5/27/07: Leftovers Party 5/27/07: Ice cream sundaes 5/23/07: Transition Thai dinner 5/22/07: Donuts & coffee break 5/21/07: Floor Thai Dinner 5/20/07: Study Break 5/19/07: Dinner & movie 5/15/07: Ice Cream Social 5/14/07: Pizza & ice cream social 5/9/07: Hall event … and more 13

Brought to you by your hall councilors 3/2/08: Multi-hall game night 2/28/08: Unofficial eating club 2/24/08: Dessert making & tasting 2/18/08: Burritos night 2/17/08: Dumpling night 2/11/08: Burritos night 2/10/08: Back to School 2/10/08: Eating club fondue 2/10/08: Movie night 1/31/08: Ice cream social 1/29/08: IAP pizza & ice cream 1/17/08: Ice cream social 12/20/07: Holiday snacks 12/17/07: Hall dinner @ Pepper Sky's 12/16/07: Sunday study break 12/16/07: Pizza study break 12/16/07: Study break w/ pizza, drinks, and snacks 12/13/07: Dinner from Muqueca 12/4/07: Eating club 12/2/07: Thai dinner from Pepper Sky's 11/28/07: Eating club 11/16/07: Pizza & movie night 11/11/07: Family Guy 2 nd part 11/6/07: Ice cream social 11/5/07: Pizza from Beauty's 11/4/08: Family Guy 100 th episode 11/4/07: Multi-hall potluck 11/4/07: Brunch @ Zoe's 10/30/07: Hall breakfast 10/21/07: Welcome to fall 10/21/07: Dim sum @ Hei la Moon 10/20/07: Bowling outing 10/17/07: Eating club 10/10/07: Wednesday movie night 10/3/07: Multi-hall board game night 10/3/07: Eating Club (Indian) 10/1/07: Heroes viewing 9/28/07: Multi-hall salsa outing 9/23/07: Chocolate fondue night 9/23/07: French eating club 9/16/07: Know where your neighbors are from 9/14/07: Pizza social 9/13/07: Toscanini's 9/8/07: Ice cream social 9/6/07: Hall meeting w/ ice cream 9/5/07: Target trip 9/5/07: Ice cream social 8/30/07: Ice cream social 8/27/07: Eating Club (BBQ) 8/25/07: Multi-hall movie outing (Bourne Ultimatum) 8/19/07: Movie & dessert 8/14/07: Eating Club (Indian) 8/5/07: Multi-hall movie Night (Click) 8/2/07: Ice cream social 7/29/07: Dessert night 7/25/07: Multi-hall BBQ 7/23/07: Ice cream social 7/22/07: Ice cream social 7/19/07: Dinner @ Miracle of Science 7/18/07: Eating Club (Italian) 7/15/07: Movie outing (Harry Potter) 7/13/07: movie outing (Transformers) 7/9/07: Eating Club (Iranian) 6/28/07: Magnetic Poetry Night 6/11/07: Final event before summer 6/10/07: Lunch @ Pepper Sky 6/10/07: Lunch @ Asgard 5/31/07: Eating Club (lasagna) 5/29/07: Delicious Grilling (Korean & Persian) 5/27/07: Leftovers Party 5/27/07: Ice cream sundaes 5/23/07: Transition Thai dinner 5/22/07: Donuts & coffee break 5/21/07: Floor Thai Dinner 5/20/07: Study Break 5/19/07: Dinner & movie 5/15/07: Ice Cream Social 5/14/07: Pizza & ice cream social 5/9/07: Hall event … and more 13 Hall Councilors 307 days in office 120+ hall events 14

Hall Council 2007 -2008 15 2 N 1 Austin Minnich 3 S Chris Dodd 5 S Chris Chuang Jack Chu 4 N Monica Martinez. Bravo Leslie Rogers Chair Alex Mc. Cauley 6 3 N 2 S 4 S Rosaria Chiang 7 Carol Hua 8 David Uniman Galen Li 5 N Daniel Klein 9 Emily Shen Hoda Eydgahi

Resources • Added over 150 movies/series to the movie library • Computer Upgrades: Purchase of 9 new computers, FP monitors and a new scanner • Purchase of additional piano • Upgrading Zipbikes • Outings to classical concerts, Jazz clubs, theater, aquarium, plant shows • Extension of permanent arts collection • Started drama group • Improvements in Aquarium maintenance (new filter and new fish) • A/V upgrades for MP, seminar room, lounges • Improved key checkout system • Regalia Ph. D graduation gown rentals • Additional inventory database and more… 16

Office of Resources Bike Coffee Hour Blue Hills Hiking Trip Artist Reception 17 Bonsai Workshop

SP-MORE Sidney Pacific – Move Out Recycling Exchange • Collected any reusable items over the summer from residents who moved out and distributed them to new incoming residents for free • Donation of boxes of clothing to Goodwill 18

Matt Abel Romain Levy A/V Chair Aquarium Chair Robin Stewart Jun. Jay Tan A/V Co-chair Charles Lin Arts Chair Aquarium Co-chair Michelle Sander VP of Resources Vivienne Sze Inventory Chair Tim Chen Daniel Myers Music Chair Bikes Chair Adrienne Li Plants Chair 19 Chia-hung Wu Controller Chris Mandy IT Chair

Office of Information • • 20 Web server backup Photo sharing / photo contests All-inclusive inventory system SPTV shuttle tracking Poster “barcoding” Newsletter improvements Overall: Day to day maintenance of systems and effective communication within SP and between SP and the MIT-wide community

Unified Publicity Interface Requests from within SP and the wider graduate community Website SP-Anno SPTV Interface flyers SP calendar/website • Task tracking • Streamlined and efficient • Archival of all material • Feedback on request status • “My created requests” view • Foster communication 21

Michael Eilenberg James Lee SPTV Co-Chair Karthik Balakrishnan Publicity Chair Wendy Iskenderian VP of Information SPTV Co-chair Jonathan Ragan. Kelley Publicity Co-chair Matthew Walker Jeewoo Lim Newsletter Chair Photofile Chair Biliana Kaneva Web Co-chair 22 Wen Liu Web Chair Kai Iamsumang Web Co-chair

Outreach • Turkey Drive – 29 Turkeys to Margaret Fuller House – 14 Turkeys to Bread and Jams Shelter • Treat Wrapping – Over 60 bags of treats • GSVD – Charles River Conservancy 23

Cross-departmental Learning Sangeeta Bhatia “Tiny Technologies and Medicine” Eric Grimson “Image Guided Surgery” K. Daron Acemoglu “Rethinking the Wealth of Nations” Farish Jenkins “Fins to Limbs: The Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Tetrapods” 24 Barry Rosen “US Grand Strategy, Concensus, and Critique” (March 20 th)

External Organizations • Work with the GSC-HCA: – Dental Plan – Cost of Living – Northwest Shuttles • Work with the GSC-AC (and other dorms/offcampus): – Scheduling events – Collaborative efforts • Work with Ashdown: – Brunches funded for 1 calendar year (with possibility of permanent funding) 25

Collaborations • Ashdown and SP Brunch • SP and Chinese Student Scholars Association Olympics and Pool Party • SP and GSC-Orientation Committee International Cultural Fair, Prudential Skywalk • Ashdown, Off Campus, SP, and GSC-Activities Committee Bowling Trip • Ashdown, SP, GSC-Activities Committee, and Harvard-MIT Dance Parties • Edgerton/Ashdown lent SP dance floor • SP lent Edgerton projector 26

Ardavan Farjadpour Yuri Loktionov Scholarly Interactions Housefellows Liaison Natalija Jovanovic Mihir Mehta GSC Representative External Relations/Alumni Nan Gu President Anusha Kothandaraman Outreach 27 Shirin Pillay Theta Representative

Sidney-Pacific is the one of the premier student groups in terms of organization and professionalism Division of Student Life Visiting Committee Student Activities Financial Office Trial Program 28

Sidney-Pacific Executive Council Why run for spec? • Make a contribution to graduate student life and the Sidney Pacific community • Satisfaction from serving the community • Decide what events and initiatives occur in SP • Gain valuable leadership experience, management and social skills • Make Lifelong friends • Enjoy weekly dinners with the housemasters 29