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9/30/2015 Newsletter

ALDPES NEWSLETTER

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma

The University of Texas at Austin Chapter

 

Hey Members,

I hope everyone is having a great week so far!  If you weren’t able to make it to the meeting last week, 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 6:00pmin 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: Since ACL is fast approaching….Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon

Fun Fact of the Week: Meebs is having a quarter-life crisis right now in office hours…This is why you guys should come to office hours!

Fun Fact #2 : Today is Mary Bea’s (our Liaison) birthday! #22

 

Points

Will be updated soon (next week’s newsletter!)

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 (THIS WEEKEND!) Wear your ALDPES shirt and come  support your fellow ALDPES members as we go for gold (and earn a social point)!

Come out and support your fellow UT classmates and ALDPES members as the UT University Orchestra plays their first concert of the year on October 13th at 7:30 pm at the Bates Concert Hall (1 University Station E3100 Austin, TX 78712, Austin, Texas 78712).  Admission is free! 🙂

We will be having a profit share at RED MANGO on Wednesday, October 21st after the meeting. Come out and enjoy Fro-Yo with ALDPES Peeps and help us raise money for ALDPES!

 

Service Events

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

Texas THON is great organization that we are going to be helping out! Here is a link to register with our team! There is also another opportunity to get points buy participating in a fundraiser to help raise money for Texas THON (more information to come at the next meeting)!

Other Things

Personal Statements Workshop: October 6th from 4:00- 5:00 pm, location in CLA 0.126!

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 are $20 for active members and $30 for inactive members(This is for both ALD and PES; individually cords are $10 for active members and $15 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 additionl 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 secretarieswithin two weeksof 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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