ALDPES NEWSLETTER
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
Alpha Lambda Delta | Phi Eta Sigma
The University of Texas at Austin Chapter
Hey ALDPES-ers,
Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a great summer! We had our first officer meeting of the year tonight, and we are all very excited to bring y’all some amazing new opportunities this semester.
Now I know the question on everyone’s mind: when is the first ALDPES meeting?? Well, I’m happy to tell you that we will be returning to our normal schedule of meeting every other Wednesday starting next week. Our first meeting of the year will be next Wednesday, September 6th in ETC 2.108 at 6:00 pm. Wear your ALDPES shirt to show your pride and earn an extra point. See you there!
If you recently graduated, congratulations! Please follow the link at the bottom of the email if you wish to unsubscribe; we cannot take you off the list if you just email the account asking to be removed.
Best,
Alan Stepchinski
Alpha Lambda Delta President
This Week’s Guest Speaker
Coming next week!
Previous Guest Speakers
None yet, obviously.
Miscellaneous Events
Lots of great workshops, profit shares, and study hours will be coming your way soon.
Points
A link to the points will be here once we actually have some events!
Office Hours
Office Hours start next week, so please don’t try to show up on Friday this week. Or on Monday next week. We won’t be in the office then either.
Building 2609 University Avenue (UA9) room 2.112 located right behind SSB
Monday 11:00-12:00 pm Historians
Monday 12:00-1:00 pm Senior Ambassador & Pillars Coordinator
Monday 1:00-2:00 pm Social Coordinators
Monday 3:00-4:00 pm Outreach Coordinators
Tuesday 9:30-10:30 am Liaison
Tuesday 11:00-12:00 pm Service Coordinators
Wednesday 9:00-10:00 am Treasurers
Wednesday 10:00-11:00 am Presidents
Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm Vice Presidents
Friday 1:00-2:00 pm Webmaster & Secretary
Social Events
9/6 – Food trucks on 26th St. after the meeting
We have our first social planned already! If you want to grab your social point, show up to the 26th street food trucks (at the corner of 26th and Rio Grande) after the first meeting around 7:00! Wear your ALDPES shirt for an extra point.
Service Events
The awesome service coordinators are busy planning right now, so look forward to getting some volunteer opportunities in September.
Scholarships
Apply for a chance to win free money soon!
Other Things
Scrapbook
We are always working on the scrapbook for ALDPES. If you attend any event this semester or cherish a specific meeting speaker/ice breaker, email ALDPES your pictures and captions! Point allocations are still being decided at this time.
UTALDPES Follow Train
If you follow @TXALDPES on Twitter you can earn a half point. You can also earn a half point for following txaldpes on Instagram. Put them both together, and you earn yourself a whole point! Just email our account with your usernames during the last few weeks of class.
T-shirts
We are still selling red shirts for $10 but only have L and XL left. New shirts will be coming later in the semester! (Sadly, only treasurers can accept cash, but any officer can take check or credit card.) Wearing a shirt to any event will earn you an extra point, so these help a lot in becoming active.
Graduation Cords
If you’re really ahead of the game, 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
Stop by any of the officer’s office hours to pay by credit card for all your ALDPES purchasing needs. Be warned: there is a convenience fee! Prices (subject to change) 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 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.
• You 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 to show up, you will lose a point!
3. EVENT PICTURES
• We are developing the rules for pictures now, but we will make it easier to earn points!
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 secretary 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)
– At least 1 miscellaneous point (we recommend study hours or workshops, but a separate social or service event can count as well)
• Old members need 12 points, new members need 9 points
2. DONATION POLICY
• We are looking into this policy for this year. More details in the next newsletter.
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: @TXALDPES
• Instagram: txaldpes