Education Pioneers Information Session

Friday, November 20^th, 12pm

Pound 202

Please join Education Pioneers, a leading human capital organization, for a presentation on its Summer Fellowship Program on Friday, November 20th at 12:00pm.  The Education Pioneers Fellows Program is a paid, full-time, ten-week summer program where talented graduate students in business, education, law, policy, and other disciplines (“Fellows”) work at effective schools, districts, charter organizations and Foundations (“Partners”) in order to support a mission critical scope of work.  In addition to working full-time, Education Pioneers provides a unique cohort experience that is a series of professional development sessions focusing on current education reform topics, with numerous networking opportunities, and access to an extremely talented pool of fellow graduate students who share a common passion for change.

During the presentation, Education Pioneers will give an overview of the organization, the program, and the application process. We look forward to seeing you there!  Pizza will be provided.

Opportunities are available in Boston, Chicago, DC Metro Area, Houston*, Los Angeles, New York City, and Bay Area – *Tentative 2010 Launch

Visit www.educationpioneers.org for more information and to apply online.  Please note their first application deadline is December 15th! Education Pioneers encourages applicants to apply online as soon as possible.

THANKSGIVING FOR THE TROOPS

Come eat delicious food and raise money to send packages to troops

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7pm

Tickets on sale this week and next at the Hark, 12-1pm!

Tickets are $10 for all you can eat and drink, or $5 with a gift from the list below (we’ll have boxes!)

A special HL Central bar review at Tommy Doyle’s to follow!

• beef jerky (no pork)
• powdered Gatorade (or other powdered drinks)
• dried fruit
• calling cards
• toothbrushes
• baby powder
• Gold Bond
• playing cards
• antacid tablets
• ChapStick
• Pop Tarts
• cereal bars
• protein bars
• Q-Tips
• hard candy
• mints
• chewing gum
• Tylenol/Motrin
• sunblock
• Visine
• batteries (AA)
• tampons and pads
• ground coffee

-Student Government

November 21: Harvard-Yale game @ Yale. Want to go to New Haven in style and be a part of the action with other Harvard Graduate Students?  The Harvard Graduate Council is sponsoring tailgate packages including transportation, drinks, food and game tickets, available here: www.HarvardYaleGame.com

Due to overwhelming request and feedback, we’re going back to a pub night on the later side! Details for this week’s pub night are below.

Student Government Weekly Pub Night

Thursday, October 8

7:00-8:30 pm

Queenshead Pub

Come unwind and enjoy free drinks with your fellow students!

Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, Sept. 29: Information Session with LUNCH (Pound 108, noon)

Thursday, Oct. 1: Student Government Pub Night at Queen’s Head 5:30-7:00 pm (free beer and wine).

1Ls: Come early (at 5:00 pm) to meet your Student Government and learn more about elections!

Friday, Oct. 2: Student Government candidacy statements due at 11:59 pm.

Wednesday, Oct. 7 – Friday, Oct. 9: Student Government Elections

A quick look at our recent accomplishments:

• Student Government Pub Nights: very popular weekly happy hours for students, with free beer and wine (starting this year on Thursday, Oct. 1!)
• Faculty-Student Lunch Program: every year, we arrange for students to have free lunches with distinguished HLS professors.
• Organize and distribute Unofficial Course Evaluations each semester.
• Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the grade change to Dean Kagan.
• Solicited, collected, and presented student feedback regarding the switch to the Early Interview Program to Office of Career Services.
• Formed and headed a student committee to meet with President Faust on the new dean search.
• Changed news@law in order to allow students to plan their weeks more conveniently.
• Convinced administration to buy toasters for the 2008-2009 free Monday morning bagel breakfasts.
• Obtained Splenda, strawberry cream cheese, and Heinz ketchup in the Hark.
• Worked with Restaurant Associates to respond to vegetarian students’ needs, including increased quantity of vegetarian sushi and better vegetarian labeling.
• Increased quantity of sweat towels at the Hemenway gym.
• Successfully advocated to see the Hark re-open from 2:30-5:00 to serve students’ needs in 2009.
• Distributed bags filled with candy and faculty advice to the 1Ls when they received their grades.
• Created a database of 3Ls willing to give 2Ls advice on applying to law firms.
• Dodgeball tournament (co-sponsored with HL Central and the intramural sports).
• Approved of many new students groups in 2008-2009.

And better than ever! The first Student Gov Pub Night this year will be at Queenshead on Thursday, October 1, from 5:30 to 7:00 (we’re mixing things up, keeping it real…you know how it goes).  We’ll send out a reminder email but mark it in your calendars now!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Tired of studying for finals? Go on a date – or twelve. Here’s a report from HGC rep Nilab Rahyar ‘10:

Single? Want the chance to meet other single Harvard graduate students?
Try Speed Dating!

When: Thursday, May 7th
Appetizers and sign-in begins at 6:30pm–Please arrive on time. We need
everyone there for dates to begin.

Where: Vinalia Restaurant Lounge and Wine Bar
101 Arch Street
Boston, MA 02110
(Near Park St. and Downtown Crossing Stations)
www.vinaliaboston.com

Cost: $10 (via pay pal)

Registration Details: Due to the popularity of these events, and to make the
registration process more fair, everyone who registers for opposite sex speed
dating will be placed in a lottery for a spot at the event. We will notify you
if you have been randomly selected by email on Monday, May 4th. If you
are not selected you will be refunded your registration fee. We hope that this
change ensures that even if you’re not at your computer the moment registration
opens, you still have an equal chance of going to the event!

Dating: Round robin style, 2.5 minute dates. We have space for opposite and
same-sex speed daters.

Sign up online at: http://harvardspeeddating.com/ Registration ***opens*** on
Friday, May 1. Enjoy!

For questions about speed dating contact:harvardspeedating@yahoo.com

Brought to you by the Harvard Graduate Council

Cheers,
Ashley

UPDATE: Dodgeball was a huge success: lots of beer was drunk, balls were thrown, and beers were thrown…

Sixteen teams competed, and congrats to the winning team: “Wish this were softball.”

The HLS Student Government is pleased to announce the return of a great institution: DODGEBALL.

Friday, April 24, you will have license to drink (free) beer and then throw red balls off of your classmates.

Get your teams together. We have room for 16 teams made up of fifteen or more players. The tournament will be a one-afternoon event near the Hark. The opening round will start at about 3:30. The Championship Game should be finished by 7:30.

We understand that getting 15 people together may be difficult, so we will allow you to submit partial teams of either 5 or 10 players. These partial teams will be grouped together to form the proper number. Because of the time and space constraints, priority will be given to the full 15 player teams.

The sign ups will start Thursday, April 15 at noon, first come first serve. We will send another email that morning with these registration details, but have your teams ready!

Tonight’s Hark Pub will be cosponosored by SALSA.  Be sure to come out for some great food and great drinks.

The Harvard Graduate Council is sponsoring two events in the immediate future:

1. A talk with Steven Pinker, entitled “Language as a Window into Human Nature.” Thursday, April 9th, at 7 PM in the Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall.  

2. Harvard Graduate Leaders Summit. Monday, April 13th, 5:30 PM in Paine Hall. This will be a gathering of more than 140 leaders of student groups from across HLS’s campuses. Register here (free dinner included): http://www.harvardleaderssummit.com/

David

Here’s yet another great event that you might want to know about.

Brian

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2009 International Arbitration Conference at Harvard Law School

The Organizing Committee of Harvard Law School’s International Arbitration Conference would like to invite you for a one-day conference on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. This year’s conference is entitled “Overcoming the Future Challenges to International Arbitration”.

The speakers will include Mr. Brian King, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ms. Anne Marie Whitesell, Of Counsel at Dechert and the former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and more than 10 other academics and partners from various universities and International Arbitration Law firms from around the world.

There will be lots of great discussion, free food (starting with a sumptuous breakfast) and many opportunities to network.

Don’t have a job yet? Well, come learn about one of the growing fields of law in this contracting economy. It is well known that 6 months to 1 year after a major crisis, there is a spike in domestic and international litigation. If you speak more than one language, this could be the job for you. Join the partners for a satisfying lunch at Harkness Commons South.

More information at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/calendar/?tru…

and: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5…