REMINDER!!! Graduate Student Housing Survey

Hello Everyone,

Just a reminder that the Graduate Student Housing Survey will be open until June 21st. 

Please take a moment to fill out the survey as it would help out future grad students (who may be coming into your lab!) find an area to move to that would help.

Thank you for your participation,

Isabelle Raymond and Janey Lam
BISC Caucus Chair & Associate Chair

http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/36970751

Caucus meeting - Friday 3:30-4:30

Hello Everyone,

This is a reminder that we are having a special caucus meeting this Friday, 3:30-4:30pm (Bio grad lounge) so we can hold elections for the Treasurer position.

I have attached the agenda. It shouldn't take too long.

See you all there,

Isabelle Raymond
BISC Caucus Chair

Fwd: Caucus Elections: Treasurer position

Hello everyone,

The nomination period for the treasurer position is now closed. 

We received one nomination for the position: Dhani Kalidasan

As mentioned in my previous email, elections will be held at caucus meeting on Friday June 12th. 

We will send out the agenda shortly.

Thanks,

Isabelle Raymond

BISC Caucus Chair

Important: Graduate Student Housing Survey

Hello Everyone,

As  graduate students many of you know that searching for a place to live in a new and unfamiliar city can be an overwhelming experience. 

In order to help new incoming graduate students that are going through this process, the Biology grad student caucus has put together a short survey for current graduate students to share their thoughts about the neighborhoods that they currently live in. 

We hope that the results from this survey will benefit new grad students by providing them with useful information about how the needs of graduates are met in different neighborhoods. 

Please help out by completing the survey at http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/36970751, which is available starting today until June 21st.

The survey is very short and will take 5-10 minutes to complete. 

Please answer all questions.  All answers are confidential -- no personally identifying information will be used to display results.

Thank you for your participation,

Isabelle Raymond and Janey Lam
BISC Caucus Chair & Associate Chair

Notice of Caucus Elections

Hello Everyone,

We will be holding a special caucus meeting on Friday June 12th 3:30-4:30pm to conduct elections for the treasurer position.

In accordance with our new election guidelines (as voted on at the last caucus meeting), before we can have elections, we must allow for a one week nomination period followed by one week of campaigning (should the nominee(s) chose to do so). 

We already have one nomination for the treasurer position: Dhani Kalidasan.

The nomination period will be open for one week, starting today and ending on Wednesday of next week (June 3rd). If anyone wishes to add a nomination, they must do so before then. This will be followed by the one week campaigning period and then the caucus meeting/election on June 12th.

Thank you,

Isabelle Raymond

BISC Caucus Chair

Grad Caucus Elections

Hello Everyone,

We think that we may have found a treasurer for grad caucus. Her name is Dhani Kalidasan (Kermode lab).

We are thinking of holding a caucus meeting/elections on the 12th of June. Not the usual end of the month Friday meeting, so we wanted to quickly check with everyone in case someone has a major problem with holding the meeting on the 12th. If so we can wait until the end of June.

If no one has any objections, I will send out the Nomination email this Wednesday.

Cheers,
Isabelle

Fwd: Caucus Election Results

Correction:

GSS Rep -- Thomas Unsoeld (tunsoeld@sfu.ca)

Cheers,

- Erica

Caucus Election Results

Hello everyone,

Congratulations to the following newly (re-)elected caucus officers and representatives!

Chair -- Isabelle Raymond (iraymond@sfu.ca)

Associate Chair -- Janey Lam (jlami@sfu.ca)

Secretary -- Juliana Yeung (jyeungd@sfu.ca)

Events Committee Officers:

         -- Anna Drake (aedrake@sfu.ca)

         -- Justin Suraci (jps12@sfu.ca)

-- Brendan Connors (bconnors@sfu.ca)

Member at Large -- Erica Jeffery (ejeffery@sfu.ca)

Webmaster -- Alex Chubaty (achubaty@sfu.ca)

GSS Rep -- Thomas Unsold (tunsold@sfu.ca)

TSSU Steward -- Mike Wogin (mjw10@sfu.ca)

Faculty Mole -- Simon Goring (sgoring@sfu.ca)

Department Scholarships Committee Rep -- Rian Dickson (rdd@sfu.ca)

International Students Rep -- Muhammad Arshad (maa44@sfu.ca)

As well, all of our constitutional amendments were approved -- once it is ratified by the GSS, the amended document will be posted on our caucus website.

Have a great summer!

- Erica