1st General E-MEMO

E-MEMO sent out on Wednesday - October 5th, 2005 by Sherene Cheah

Thank you for becoming part of the ASEAN GSA and welcome to all our new and continuing Eboard officers.

1. Seeing that we all have different schedules - I believe that the best way of communication is through email. We will try to meet whenever possible, but emails should be our primary means of communication.
2. We are having problems gaining access to our listserv [GSA-ASEAN-LIST] - CIT it trying to remedy that, however our chances of recovering the listserv does not look good. We may be required to create a new listserv if we do not regain access to the current one.
3. Our website has not been updated for a year now , unfortunately. Our previous IT/web manager appeared to have abandoned the project and with the maintenance and financial upkeep of the website; it has detered us from redesigning and reaccessing the webpage. I have therefore created a new webpage - thanks to the FREE online community blogs. Our new communication website is now at http://www.aseangsa.blogspot.com . I plan to post the club's plans, schedules, minutes of meetings, annoucements and updates to the website. Theerefore, if anyone were to miss out on email communications, the website should be the best way to obtain information.
4. Our club has been allocated a total of $500 for this year's (2 semesters) activities. It's not a lot but we managed to stretch the amount out last year (e.g.: co-sponsoring other clubs' events, resfreshments/snacks for film showing, Spring/ end of year party for our club members & friends
5. This semester's event: ISSS's International Education Week in November. We will be showing a documentary about Cambodia - on the story of Bophana, a Cambodian tragedy. ISSS has yet to confirm with us the date for the documentary showing. The requested date put forth on the form is November 16th, a Wednesday and is scheduled for an evening viewing, and hopefully that date will work out. We have requested for a TV & VCR for the documentary.
6. Last year's showing, we provided snacks to all our attendees. About $50 was spent on snack items (e.g. box/can drinks, chips, cookies,etc.) We anticipated about 20 attendees but we managed to attract almost 30 attendees compacted in one of the smaller SU rooms. Would we (the club) like to obtain this sort of snacks/refreshments for our documetary viewers this year? Please let me know.
7. There is the second GSA Senate meeting later this evening. Vida and I will be attending it and will update you on the changes, updates and annoucements from GSA.
   I hope that we could all get together. A good idea would be to also participate in one of the GSA happy hours. They usually provide food/drinks and open bar to members at places like the Steer on Main street or Pearl Street Brew. It would be a good chance to not only meet up with everyone but also others from other clubs and graduate departments.