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8/31/2016 Newsletter

ALDPES NEWSLETTER

Wednesday, August 31st, 2016

Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma

The University of Texas at Austin Chapter

 

Hey members,

Welcome back from the summer! ALDPES is still around just like you (unless you graduated and didn’t unsubscribe)! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 at 6:00 pm in CAL 100 (South of the Tower). There will be free food (maybe not pizza?) and new officers to bring in the new semester! Hope to see you all there.

 

Best,

Christian Rivera

Phi Eta Sigma Secretary

Fun Fact of the Week: The Steeplechase in the Olympics originated in England. People raced between towns and used steeples as markers. The hurdles are meant to symbolize the stonewalls and the water simulates the rivers they ran through. Now it just looks odd.

Points

Points eventually will be here. They are still a thing.

Office Hours

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

Presidents: Tuesday 1:00-2:00 pm
Liaison: Wednesday 10:00-11:00 am

Outreach Coordinators: Thursday 4:30-5:30 pm
Vice President: Tuesday 9:30-10:30 am

Social Coordinators: Monday 1:00-2:00 pm
Service Coordinators: Wednesday 12:00-1:00 pm

Historian: Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm

Webmaster: Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm

Secretaries: Thursday 3:30-4:30 pm

Treasurers: Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm

Social Events

Moojo’s on the Drag

Come out to Moojo’s on the Drag and enjoy some ice cream sandwiches with ALDPES! We will be meeting Wednesday, September 7th at 7:00 pm (after the meeting) See you there! Wear your shirt for an extra point!

Bowling
ALDPES will be bowling in the Union Wednesday, September 21st at 7:00 pm (after the meeting)! Sign up if you are interested, as we are taking a limited number of people.  Sign up coming soon!

Service Events

Portraiture

Volunteer at Portraiture in the Park with United Way on Sunday, September 18th from 12:00-3:00 pm! Sign up will be out soon along with more information. Unconfirmed reports say there will explorations of portraiture, booths and people embarrassing themselves on a karaoke stage!

Other Things

Scrapbook

We are always working on the scrapbook for ALDPES. If you attend any social or service event this semester or cherish 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 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
  • If you sign up to drive and fail spectacularly, you will lose 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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