The Insert
The Insert is a section of the Vector devoted to the activities and
goings about of the Graduate Student
Organization. This section was written by Alan Dove. Comments or suggestions
should be directed to the e-mail
form.
The GSO has been busy lately, mostly with shows and
outings (the latter being trips to various places, not the activity
of publicizing the sexual preferences of prominent figures). In addition,
our annual barbecue is coming up in
June, and a few other activities aimed at serving you better are in the
offing.
In March, Tiffani Cook organized a
trip to see Cirque du Soleil, and after debating whether it should
be "du" or "de," the 40 people who attended had a great time. As usual
with such events, tickets sold out almost instantly, and the price was
incredibly reasonable. Other shows this spring included a trip to
Stomp, organized by Mike
Beck, and tickets to Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes and
organized by Judy Masucci. Mike Beck also led outings to two
chamber music concerts, which would easily have been worth paying full
price to see.
In this category, the upcoming events include tickets to see the Kirov
Ballet (organized by Sophia
Sarafova), a trip to the Cloisters for the annual Medieval Fair (no
organizer yet, but we're searching), and an outing to the new IMAX film,
Wings of Courage, which may be organized by Ben Lewin (the student, not the editor
of Cell).
Always on the frontier of the Information Age, the GSO has now set up an email mailing list. There are around 30
people on the list now, and if you want to contact all of them
simultaneously, you can send mail to gso@columbia.edu. The list is mainly for
those students who show up to meetings occasionally and are actually
interested in the day-to-day minutiae of the GSO. For the rest of the
students, who simply want to know what's going on next, we soon hope to
have a
Web page up and running. If you
don't know what a Web page is, you can legally classify yourself as
technologically challenged, and may qualify for a tax break. Ricky Sucgang will be working
on assembling the page, but inside sources have suggested that he would
welcome any help, as his spare time now consists of the 15 minutes
between walking into his apartment and falling asleep. Ben Lewin is responsible for
maintaining the mailing list, and you can reach him at gso-request@columbia.edu.
The GSO has undergone a major change of management lately, so please
pardon our mess. Sara McGee
resigned from the position of Chair, and Mike Livstone replaced her. Mike has
been doing an excellent job of keeping the meetings under control - no
small task with this group. Ben
Lewin has quit his post as Scribe, and has been replaced by Mike Beck, whose minutes are always on
time. Leora Hamberger is still the
Treasurer, and Sophia Sarafova is
still the Vice Chair, but they are considering changing their names to
Mike for the sake of consistency.
As always, the GSO Wednesday movie
series will continue through the summer, even when everything else
shuts down. The Summer schedule will be posted in the bulletin board in
the lobby of Hammer.
The Insert is part of the
Virtual
Vector.
Written by Alan Dove, editing and Page Design by
Richard Sucgang.
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