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3/23/2016 Newsletter

ALDPES NEWSLETTER

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016

Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma

The University of Texas at Austin Chapter

 

Hey members,

I hope everyone is having a good week so far! If you weren’t able to make it to the meeting this week be sure to bring two donations from the GMT donations list to any office hours to make up for the missed meeting point. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 at 6:00 pm in CMA 2.306 (This is the auditorium in the basement of CMA.) 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(s).

 

Best,

Peyton Busby

Phi Eta Sigma Secretary

Fun Fact of the Week: Not all of the electrical outlets surrounding our meeting room in the CMA work.

Points

Points are here, and will be up to date by the end of the week!

Office Hours

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

Presidents: Tuesday 3:30-4:30 pm
Liaison/Outreach Coordinators: Monday 12:00-1:00 pm
Vice Presidents: Thursday 11:00-12:00pm

Social Coordinators: Monday 2:15-3:15 pm
Service Coordinators: Wednesday 11:15-12:15pm

Historians: Monday 6:00-7:00 pm
Secretaries: Wednesday 7:00-8:00pm

Treasurers: Thursday 4:00-5:00pm

Webmasters: Wednesday 4:30-5:30pm

Social Events

Intramurals

We are officially signed up for IM Indoor Soccer on Wednesdays at 9:15pm. There will be no bye weeks, meaning we will play every week from March 30th to the end of the season. All games will be played at the Rec Center (not Gregory Gym). Our team name is ALDPEPs and the schedule is on the intramural website under Coed C.

Moojo’s on the Drag

Come out to Moojo’s on the Drag and enjoy some ice cream with ALDPES! We will be meeting Thursday, March 24th at 8:00 pm (tomorrow!) See you there! Wear your shirt for an extra point!

Bowling
ALDPES will be bowling in the Union Monday, March 28th at 7:30 pm! Sign up if you are interested, as we are taking a limited number of people.  Sign up here!

Service Events

Explore UT

If you volunteered with ALDPES at Explore UT, please send proof of your attendance to utaldpes@gmail.com.

SMILE Profit Share

Come get some chicken nuggets and help SMILE fund raise for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation on Tuesday, March 29th from 5:00-10:00 pm at the Chick-Fil-A on MLK. The money raised benefits pediatric cancer treatment and research! Please be sure to take a picture of yourself at the event and email it to with a picture of your utaldpes@gmail.com receipt as well.

Brave the Shave

We will have a booth (details to come) at Brave the Shave that will help raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, benefiting pediatric cancer treatment and research! The event will be Sunday, April 10th from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm at Main Mall. Shifts will be two hours long and the sign up is here. Also, members can donate bake sale items for the booth to get points.

Honors Day

Honors Day is Saturday, April 16th from 12:30 – 4:00 pm. We are the only organization that is asked to help with this event, so it is a big deal. The link to sign up to volunteer at Honors Day is here!

Other Things

Brave the Shave/St. Baldrick’s Foundation

You can help fight pediatric cancer by using the following link to donate money to the St. Baldrick’s foundation. Every $5.00 donation will earn you one point, up to a total for five points (feel free to donate more than that though if you have the means and feel passionate about the cause though!) Meebs will be able to see who donates through the link, so be sure to put the name you use for ALDPES! Here is the link!

Writing Personal Statements Workshop

When: Tuesday, March 29th from 3:00-4:00 pm

Where: PCL Learning Lab 2 (right outside the University Writing Center)

*Receive 1 point for coming (2 points if you wear an ALDPES shirt!)

Faculty Award:

Description: Nominate your favorite professor to speak at the spring induction ceremony! Email Mary Bea at mary.bea.carstens@utexas.edu for the application!

Deadline: March 21st at 1:00 pm
Jo Anne J. Trow Scholarship

Each year, National Alpha Lambda Delta awards 36 scholarships to outstanding undergraduate members. Only sophomores (by hours) can apply.

***Only students initiated into Alpha Lambda Delta between January 1 and December 31, 2015 are eligible to apply.

     Requirements

  • Complete the form by typing your responses directly into the computer.  Do not print the form and fill in the blanks by hand.  Handwritten applications WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
  • Be sure your responses are confined to the space allotted on the application form, except for the 250-word essay, which should be attached on a separate sheet.
  • Be sure you sign and date the last page of the application form.

    Additional Items

  • Complete official transcripts from each college or university you have attended.
  • Letters of recommendation from two references (professors, TAs, etc.)
  • A third recommendation will be given from University of Texas at Austin ALD chapter selection committee.

*IMPORTANT*

  • Your application will be reviewed at the chapter level.  If your application is selected by your chapter to be forwarded to the National scholarship selection committee
  • Do not submit your application directly to the National Office. Applications submitted directly to the National Office WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
  • All forms and recommendation letters need to be submitted to the National Liaison (Lizzy Robinson) at Office Hours (Mondays 12-1pm) or by a separate meet up BEFORE THE DEADLINE. You can email Mary Bea at  mary.bea.carstens@utexas.edu for the separate meet up time or any questions regarding scholarships!

Deadline: March 28th at 12pm (in the office)

More details and info: http://www.nationalald.org/index.cfm/scholarships/trow-scholarships/

Princeton Review Half Scholarships

We are giving away 4 this semester. Deadline: April 25th at 12pm

If you are interested in applying, please email Mary Bea at mary.bea.carstens@utexas.edu for the application!

*All ALDPES members automatically receive $200 off a course. To get the discount, you must register for the class in person at the Dobie office. The Princeton Review staff will verify your member status with me!

Most Outstanding Member Award:

Have you been really active/are you planning on being active in ALDPES this semester? Then apply for the Most Outstanding Member Award! The award is worth $500 for the member with overall greatest participation and commitment.

*Apply closer to the deadline to have the best chance of receiving the award because points matter!

Deadline: April 25th at 12pm

If you are interested in applying, please email Mary Bea at mary.bea.carstens@utexas.edu for the application!

By Stander Intervention Training

This is the training module covering bystander intervention that each UT club must complete. Please use the link to view the presentation and send us an email detailing the three most interesting/important facts from the presentation to receive a point.

Scrapbook

We are currently working on the scrapbook for ALDPES this year. If you attended any social or service event from last semester or remember a specific meeting speaker/ice breaker, email ALDPES a two to three sentence quote for half a point! Also, if you send in four quality photos you can receive another half point!


UTALDPES Follow Train:

If you follow @UTALDPES on Twitter you can earn a half point. And you can also earn a half point for following utaldpes on Instagram. So, if you follow both you can earn 1 point! (Points will be awarded the last week of class.)

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 $26 for active members and $36 for inactive members(This is for both ALD and PES; individually cords are $13 for active members and $18 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 service point (i.e. you must attend at least one service event)

– 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. GMT DONATION POLICY

  •  If you miss a meeting, you can bring items from the GMT donation list to OFFICE HOURS to get your missed meeting point.
  • You must turn in the items BEFORE the next general meeting.
  • Missed Meeting Points:

You need to bring 1 bottle of medicine to make up for a missed meeting point.

Or you can bring 2 of the other items (ex. toothbrush, toys, glasses, etc.)

  • Donation Points (you can only receive up to 5 donation points):

2 Medicines for 1 donation point

Or you can bring 3 of the other items to receive 1 donation point (ex. toothbrush, toys, glasses, etc.)

  • Items needed:

Medicines– Kids Multivitamins, Adult Multivitamins, Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, tums, antidiarrheal, children’s motrin, prenatal, vitamin C, iron, b complex,

Other Items- Stickers, small cars, coloring books, Crayons and small toys (cars, barbies, etc). And also eyeglasses (the pre made prescription ones you can buy at any convenient or grocery store), toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss.

  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 everyWednesday!
  • Sign-ups and everything else you used to get weekly will be linked in the weekly emails.

 

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