ALDPES NEWSLETTER
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma
The University of Texas at Austin Chapter
Hey ALDPES-ers,
We hope you all had a great break, and we look forward to seeing your smiling faces soon! Christian and I have switched things up a bit; I will be writing the newsletter now. He left a legacy, and I would like to thank him for being such a great newsletter-writing role model as he retires to take over points. Please direct your complaints about points to him from now on. Moving on, our first meeting of the semester (I hope you’re as excited as we are) will be next Wednesday, January 25th in WEL 3.502. Hope to see you all there!
Best,
Alan Stepchinski
Alpha Lambda Delta Secretary
Fun Fact of the Week: There are lots of mysteries in the world, just look around. The statues on Easter Island. How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? And perhaps most importantly, were Ross and Rachel on a break? If anyone can solve these conundrums, it’s you smart ALDPES kids.
Bonus: If you can answer any of the above mysteries, you’ll get free food at the next meeting!
Guest Speaker of the Week
This is a work-in-progress for now. Everyone is busy with the new semester, but we will have an awesome speaker for out next meeting announced by Tuesday!
Guests of Speakers Past
None for now. I suppose there are speakers from last semester and the years before that. It’s not that we don’t care about them anymore, but sometimes you just have to let things go.
Lingering Opportunities: Duckie’s Dreams
Duckie is having trouble remembering dreams right now. We will update you once he recovers.
Points
A link to the points will be here once we actually have some events!
Office Hours
Building 2609 University Avenue (UA9) room 2.112 located right behind SSB
Hopefully the new format is more helpful for finding hours you can attend. If this offends you, I am happy to change it back.
Monday 9:00-10:00 am Webmaster
Monday 1:00-2:00 pm Outreach Coordinator
Monday 3:00-4:00 pm Service Coordinators
Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm Vice President
Tuesday 2:00-3:00 pm Social Coordinators
Wednesday 3:00-4:00 pm Secretaries
Wednesday 4:00-5:00 pm Treasurer
Thursday 12:30-1:30 pm Historian
Friday 12:00-1:00 pm Presidents
TBD: Liaison
Social Events
Our amazing social coordinators will have events planned soon. Make sure to attend to get your required social point for the semester (and just have fun meeting officers/your fellow members)!
Service Events
THREE service events are coming up soon: Texas Kids Read, the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival, and volunteering with Austin Animal Center. Look for more info on these opportunities on our website/Facebook/next week’s newsletter if you want to volunteer!
Scholarships
Princeton Review Scholarship
There will be a scholarship available in the future. For now, all ALDPES members can receive a $200 discount on a Princeton Review package. Don’t miss out on this if you’re planning to use Princeton Review!
A few more opportunities will be coming up next week including a Graduate Fellowship for anyone heading to graduate school and a Study Abroad Scholarship, so check back next week for a chance at free money!
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. For those who struggle with math, that means you can earn 1 point for following both! (Points will be awarded the last week of class.)
T-shirt special
Buy one red shirt for $10! Come by any office hours to purchase shirts. (Remember cash can only be accepted at the Treasurer’s 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!)
Credit Cards
Credit cards are now being accepted! Stop by any of the officer’s office hours to pay by credit card. Be warned: there is a convenience fee! Prices for payment by credit cards are $10.28 per shirt, $13.37 per cord if you’re active, or $26.74 for both cords, and $18.51 per cord if you’re inactive, or $37.02 for both cords.
Point Opportunities
1. MEETINGS
• Meetings are worth 1 point each.
• If you miss a meeting you can make up the point by bringing two GMT Items to office hours BEFORE the next meeting.
•If you wear your ALDPES shirt to a meeting you get an additional point.
2. 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!
3. 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.
• Alex has done an amazing job with the scrapbook so far, but it never hurts to have more pictures!
4. 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 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
2. 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 convenience or grocery store), toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss.
3. 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.
Contact Us:
• E-mail address: utaldpes@gmail.com
• Our website: https://sites.utexas.edu/aldpes/
• Facebook Group: Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma
• Twitter: @UTALDPES
• Instagram: utaldpes