"GSS Review" - Activities

10.21.2009

A periodic newsletter of the Graduate Student Senate (GSS) highlighting senate business and focusing on both university and GSS-specific grad student-focused events and activities. If you would like to contribute content to The GSS Review, please contact the GSS Information Officer, Quentin Jamieson (gssinfo@case.edu)

Table of Contents

• Oct 29: Surviving Winter in Cleveland
• Oct 22: GSS Fall Health Care Forum
• Oct 29: Pumpkin Carving at Bar Cento/Bier Markt

"Surviving Winter in Cleveland," or "What to do while waiting for Spring"

JAMES HARRIS, GSS GRADUATE/PROFESSIONAL COUNCIL LIASON

Dear past and future survivors of the brutal Cleveland winter:
     Join our collective to create a fun and interesting outdoor event to slap the Cleveland Winter in the face.
     We are planning an unexpected and creative way to celebrate (not just tolerate) winter, and to create a sense of community that extends beyond Case. We will be working with Pop Up City and other community organizations on planning an event in the dead of winter. Current ideas include winter sporting competitions, outdoor art installations, live music, and wintery food and drinks to make the frigid outdoors cozier. The opportunities for creativity and involvement are endless, so let your imaginations run wild!

We are looking for ideas, inspiration, and volunteers to make this vague idea a reality. And we need YOU!

Interested in doing something this winter besides waiting for spring to make its eventual return? Join us for a very informal meeting of the minds at the GradPro Council Happy Hour on Thursday, October 29, 5-7pm, at the Jolly Scholar. Can't make it that early? Join us at the Bier Markt / Bar Cento in Ohio City on October 29 after 6pm for pumpkin carving and discussion about how to have fun this winter.

We will be discussing plans for events and sites as well as the the professional experience and networking that may result from the whole process.

Can't make it at all on the 29th? Please e-mail Emily Hornack (emily.hornack@case.edu) or Jimmy Harris (james.p.harris@case.edu) if you have ideas on how to make it through the winter together. All ideas and people are welcome!

GSS Health Care Forum

EMILY HORNACK, CHAIR, GSS HEALTH CARE COMMITTEE

GSS Fall Health Care Forum
Thursday, October 22, 4:30-6:00
Rockefeller Hall 309
http://www.case.edu/visit/tours/casequad/index.html

At the forum, we'll cover the basics on our health coverage through Case and field questions about it, and we'll also talk about what Case is doing to prevent H1N1.  The Aetna rep, people from Health Services, and student advocates will be on hand to answer questions.  Please send questions in advance to me at gss-hcc@case.edu. Free food and drinks will also be provided.

RSVP to gssrsvp@case.edu. View our flier.

Pumpkin Carving

CHRISTA WHEELER, CHAIR, GSS ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

Pumpkin Carving
Thursday, October 29, 6:00pm - later
Bar Cento / Bier Markt (1948 W 25th St, across from Westside Market: http://barcento.com/, http://bier-markt.com/)

Purchase a pumpkin beer and get a free pumpkin to carve there with all the tools and such... no clean up! :)  GSS will cover some of their delicious food for you to enjoy!  Best pumpkin wins free dinner for two!  Please RSVP so Bar Cento makes sure they have enough supplies.  A flier is attached to this email.

RSVP at this Filer Survey. View our flier.

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