Reservations, Elections, and Google Groups
by Advocate Staff
Adjunct Project
Keep up to date with the DSC’s Adjunct Project at http://opencuny.org/adjunctproject/.
The Adjunct Project exists to advocate for the rights of all graduate students working as adjuncts in CUNY, and liaises with other labor organizations to fight for fair working conditions.
Reservations!
If you check in at www.cunydsc.org, you’ll find that you can now check Room Reservations for 5414, 5409, and 5489 along the left-side tabs. Similarly, you can retrieve the form for room reservations at our website, www.cunydsc.org, and submit to dsc@cunydsc.org for processing via email. Very easy!
If you wish to borrow our coffee urns, that form is also at www.cunydsc.org. Isn’t progress wonderful?
Please note the various rules and responsibilities that go with reserving DSC rooms and coffee urns – up to and including accountability for the student events that go on in the rooms, and the care and upkeep of DSC property. These rules and responsibilities are clearly delineated in the forms you fill out, so there are no surprises!
To-do List: Elections!
As you read this, elections have begun: keep checking www.cunydsc.org/vote for constant updates on the election, and for complete instructions on how to participate (the same ones you hopefully received on a beautiful blue-green-on-white postcard, or in print in The Advocate, or in an email forwarded from your APO, EO or DSC rep or someone else…). Your voice matters! It always does!
Remember: no paper ballots this year! Go green, and participate. It’s your vote, your voice, your DSC!
The DSC Webpage
Have you checked out the website lately? www.cunydsc.org continues to be a hotbed of excitement, with news, information, and direction on the issues of the day. Remember to regularly visit www.cunydsc.org to keep up to date with the DSC!
DSC Group Page
Have you joined the DSC’s Google Groups page? It is free and available to all students, and provides you with direct access to many important announcements, as well as allowing students to post their own messages and receive replies from other students. Of course you can elect to receive no messages through this system, even after you are registered.
Once you are registered with the group, you can configure your profile so that you receive messages in one of four ways:
- No emails at all (you go to the group page to view posted messages)
- Individual emails
- Digest emails in abridged form (you receive one email per day with the headings of recent postings)
- Digest emails (you receive one email per day with the full body of recent messages)
It takes less than a minute to sign up and gives you more control over how you receive information. You don’t have to have a Gmail account to register with the group. You can visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/cunydsc.
DSC Calendar
The DSC has the following meetings scheduled. Guests are always welcome.
Plenary Meetings (all plenary meetings are held in room GC 5414)
April 24, 6:00 p.m.
May 8, 5:00 p.m. (2008 – 9 reps)
May 8, 6:00 p.m. (2009 – 10 reps)
Steering Committee Meeting
May 15, 5:00 p.m., room 5409 (2008 – 9 and 2009-10 Steering Committee members)
Other Committees of the DSC
Please check on our regularly updated website, www.cunydsc.org, for listings of other meetings of the DSC as they are scheduled and published to our website.
Chartered Organization News
In accordance with DSC Bylaw 2.6, the DSC Steering Committee voted to initiate the de-chartering process of the following four groups on March 6, 2009:
Association for Computer Machinery
The French Interdisciplinary Group for 17th Century Studies
The Future is Green Club
International Socialists’ Organization
Each of these groups have failed to submit rosters, activity reports, or check requests for at least the past three semesters.
It is the DSC’s preference that these organizations be re-activated, rather than de-chartered. Re-activation will entail the submission of a valid roster as well as a group constitution. Please consult DSC Bylaw 2 for what constitutes valid rosters and constitutions.
Please contact Gregory Donovan, the DSC Co-Chair for Student Affairs, if you are interested in “re-activating” one of these groups: dsc@gregorydonovan.org.
Up-to-date information on this de-chartering process can be found at: http://cunydsc.org/index.php/DeChartering_Process
A Word from Members of the Media Board
We are pleased to announce that James Hoff has agreed to return again as Editor-in-Chief of the Advocate. James has been, for so many years now, an active presence in our community, steering the Advocate’s content to aggressively protect the rights and privileges of our students; his continued leadership will guarantee that the Advocate will continue to be a well-designed, well-executed monthly newspaper serving the needs of the graduate student community at the Graduate Center and beyond.
We are also committed to encouraging students to be more involved with the Advocate. Part of the mission of the newspaper is to address concerns across disciplines that affect student life at the GC.
Please continue to read the Advocate–whether in print or on the web (a web presence we hope will be improved over the next year for easier navigation and readability).
Please consider writing for the Advocate–a variety of voices is so crucial to creating a newspaper that accurately reflects the rich tapestry of our community. Information is available on the Advocate website and via email at advocate@gc.cuny.edu on how to become a part of the Advocate–your student newspaper.
And if you have praise or concern regarding the newspaper, please feel free to direct it to the DSC at dsc@cunydsc.org, and they will forward it to the Media Board.
Rob Faunce, Chair, Media Board
Denise Torres, Member, Media Board
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