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GSS Update -- Aug 25, 2008
1. Grad Social Fri Sept 5
2. Wireless internet access in grad lounge
3. Info for students traveling to the USA
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1. Grad Social Friday Sept 5.
Come out to the Highland Pub next Friday for a welcome (back) grad social, starting at 4:30 p.m. Enjoy some free pizza and cheap beverages with other grad students brought to you by the TSSU and the GSS.
2. Wireless internet access in the Grad Lounge: The Grad Lounge (MBC 2212), a comfy area with couches where grad students can work, eat lunch, or hang out, now has internet access. If you'd like to connect to the wireless network, drop by MBC 2205 or email gss-secretary@sfu.ca to get a password.
3. Travelling to the states? New Homeland Security Regulations.
The following is from the UVic grad newsletter in April, but sounds like useful info for SFU grads too:
Clea Moray
President, Graduate Student Society
GSS Update -- Aug 25, 2008
1. Grad Social Fri Sept 5
2. Wireless internet access in grad lounge
3. Info for students traveling to the USA
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1. Grad Social Friday Sept 5.
Come out to the Highland Pub next Friday for a welcome (back) grad social, starting at 4:30 p.m. Enjoy some free pizza and cheap beverages with other grad students brought to you by the TSSU and the GSS.
2. Wireless internet access in the Grad Lounge: The Grad Lounge (MBC 2212), a comfy area with couches where grad students can work, eat lunch, or hang out, now has internet access. If you'd like to connect to the wireless network, drop by MBC 2205 or email gss-secretary@sfu.ca to get a password.
3. Travelling to the states? New Homeland Security Regulations.
The following is from the UVic grad newsletter in April, but sounds like useful info for SFU grads too:
There are some new rules between the US Homeland Security and Canadian Border services that may affect researchers and others attending conferences, or doing presentations in the United States.--
In essence Homeland Security has the right to copy, scan, review and withhold, laptops, external drives, blackberries, cell phones etc from anyone travelling to the United States. [Uvic] has already had several instances where research findings and presentations were withheld at the border and the information destroyed and equipment never returned. In one case no other copies of the research existed.
Please ... be sure to save copies of materials you are taking to the US and to email yourself a copy of your presentations so that in the event that your laptop is detained, you will at least be able to access the presentation when you arrive at your conference... .
Clea Moray
President, Graduate Student Society
