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9/23/2015 Newsletter

ALDPES NEWSLETTER

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma

The University of Texas at Austin Chapter

 

Hey Members,

Thanks to everyone who came out to the meeting! If you weren’t able to make it tonight, swing by office hours with two canned goods so you can make up for the missed meeting point! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, October 7th at 6:00pm in PHR 2.108 (Note this is a different room than the last meeting!). If you bring $10 you can buy one of our awesome shirts, which get you an extra point every time you attend a meeting or an event while wearing it! Also, every member of ALDPES is given a certificate for being inducted into the club, so come by any office hours to pick up your certificate (you can put it on the fridge 🙂 !)

 

Best,

Peyton Busby

PES Secretary

Song of the Week: Keep Your Head Up by Andy Grammer  because midterms are almost over!

Fun Fact of the Week: At the end of this week we will be 1/3 of the way through the semester! YAY!

 

Points

Will be updated soon!

Office Hours

Building 2609 University Avenue (UA9) room 2.112 located right behind SSB

Presidents: Monday 1-2pm Senior Ambassadors: Wednesday 4-5pm Liaisons: Thursday 4-5pm Vice Presidents: Tuesday 2-3pm Social Coordinators: Monday 5-6pm Service Coordinators: Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm

Historians: Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm Secretaries: Wednesday 7:15-8:15pm

Treasurers: Monday 3-4pm

Webmasters: Thursday 9:30-10:30am

Social Events

This semester ALDPES has an Intramural Volleyball team! We will play on Sundays at 3:00 pm on the second floor of the REC Center starting October 4th. Wear your ALDPES shirt and come  support your fellow ALDPES members as we go for gold (and earn a social point)!

Breakfast Tailgate!

Come join all of your fellow ALDPES members as we get ready to cheer on UT to a win against Oklahoma State. We will have those amazing Hook’em Horns donuts! The FUN will start at 11:00 am on Saturday, September 26th in the courtyard next to the Littlefield Dorms on Whitis Avenue!

 

Service Events

Austin Animal Center

Come volunteer with us at the Austin Animal Center on September 27th from 4:00-6:00pm! Sign up to drive or be driven to the event here!

The address for the Austin Animal Center is: 7201 Levander Loop, Austin TX 78702

Tree Planting with TreeFolks!

Become one with nature and help us plant trees (no experience necessary) on Saturday, October 17th from 9:00- 12:00pm. To sign up for this event go to this link 🙂 !The sign up for the car pool is here!

The location of the tree planting is: Gus Garcia Recreation Center, 1201 E Rundberg Ln

Other Things

Personal Statements Workshop: October 6th from 4:00- 5:00 pm, location TBD!

T-shirt special: Buy one red shirt for $10, get a blue shirt for $5!  Come by any office hours to purchase shirts (remember cash can only be accepted at the Treasurers’ office hours though!)

Graduation Cords: Cords (for each organization) are $20 for active members and $30 for inactive members. Come by any office hours to purchase (remember cash can only be accepted at the Treasurers’ office hours though!)

Point Opportunities

  1. MEETINGS
  • Meetings are worth 1 point each
  • If you miss a meeting you can make up the point by bringing two canned goods to office hours BEFORE the next meeting.
  • If you wear your ALDPES shirt to a meeting you get an additional point.
  1. DRIVING TO AN EVENT
  • Get 1 extra point for volunteering to drive other members who need rides to an event
  • Must tell the officer in charge if you can drive BEFORE the event to get a point
  1. EVENT PICTURES
  • You may receive 1 point for turning in 8 quality photos for each service and/or social event you attend.
  • You can choose to turn in a total of 16 quality photos for a maximum of 2 points per event.
  1. POINT CORRECTIONS
  • An updated points list will be sent out on a regular basis, to give ALDPES members a chance to check that all their points have been counted correctly. Any discrepancies or mistakes must be reported to the secretaries within two weeks of the spreadsheet being sent out. After the two-week deadline has passed, no changes can be made to those events/points.

 

Important Policies

  1. POINT POLICY
  • Of your points, in order to be considered an active member, you must have the following:

– At least 1 social point (i.e. you must attend at least one social event) – No more than 5 donation points

  • Old members need 12 points, new members need 9 points

 

  1. CANNED GOODS POLICY
  • If you miss a meeting, you can bring 2 CANNED GOODS to OFFICE HOURS to get your missed meeting point.
  • You must turn in the canned goods BEFORE the next general meeting.

 

  1. WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
  • Instead of getting a ridiculous number of emails for sign-ups and meeting reminders, we will be sending out a weekly newsletter every Wednesday!
  • Sign-ups and everything else you used to get weekly will be linked in the weekly emails.

 

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