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NEWS & ACTIVITIES Sunday, Oct. 12, 2003
Dear Post-baccs,
This has been an exciting week for the PPS. On Thursday we held our
first ever General Meeting with nearly 30 students in attendance. That
evening we had a happy hour at Cav's that brought more than 20 people of
various backgrounds out to share conversations and meet students
previously unknown. This e-mail will be lengthy, so I'll end the
narration here and just get to the point. Election Results
At the first General Meeting we held elections for five
Director-level positions. In fact, we were able to add a previously
overlooked committee to our agenda after a excellent suggestion by one
of the students in attendance. After these elections, we have solidified
the PPS leadership for this academic year.
The Executive Board
Chair: Richard T. Kiok
President: Neil Puri Vice President: Marichris Ancheta Secretary: Chioma Nkwocha Treasurer: Asghar Rizvi Directors
Directors of Social Events: Diana Chan & Jen Steinhoff
Directors of Career Development: Robin Suda & Doug Tansey Director of Public Relations: Bidisha Sinha Director of Community Service: Jennifer Deyo Director of Academic Resources: Tamara Johnson We are all tremendously excited to be working with one another and
hope to provide some fun, exciting, and informative events throughout
the year. If you have ideas or would like to work with one of the above
committees, please feel free to talk to any of us. If you are uncertain
about whom to contact, just send me an e-mail, and I will put you in
touch with the appropriate people.
Please join me in congratulating our newly-elected Directors! Campus Tour (Friday, October 7, 2003 at 2PM)
Part of the mission of the PPS is to become a gateway between our
program and the greater Penn community. Toward that end, the PPS has
organized a campus tour especially designed for post-bacc students to be
held on Friday, October 17 at 2 PM (immediately following the Jefferson
Medical College workshop/presentation). We will meet in Perleman
Quadrangle just outside the west doors of Houston Hall. There is no rain
date scheduled for this event, so we'll go rain or shine. I expect this
tour to last approximately 1.5 hours. Stay for as much or as little as
you'd like.
Come out and become more acquainted with Penn's campus. Hear the
stories about campus landmarks (e.g. "What's up with The Button?" and
"Why are people selling toast on the days of home football games?").
Learn some of the history of our school and its many firsts. Any Penn
alumni that are interested in helping out can contact me directly.
We hope that this event will help people begin to feel more apart of
campus, rather than strangers just visiting. Listserv (to subscribe, e-mail
penn-pps-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)
PPS has established its own listserv that we will be using to
disseminate information to our members. The listserv is open to anyone
interested in entering health professions of any kind. We hope that it
will be a less formal forum in which to interact with one another; it is
meant to supplement, rather than compete with, the official pre-health
listserv that Dr. Hunter uses to post her messages.
The PPS listserv is being administered through Yahoo! and has a very
easy subscription process (I've already tried it). In order to
subscribe, please send an e-mail to
penn-pps-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
You will receive an automatically generated message with a link and/or
button asking you to confirm your subscription request. Should you have
any problems, please contact Chioma.
Please feel free to use this listserv to organize study groups, ask
for bar/restaurant suggestions, find people for pick-up basketball or
football (hint, hint), or whatever you feel that you need help with.
However, we do have the ability and reserve the right to block messages
from anyone that we feel is abusing the listserv. I'm confident that
everyone here is mature enough to set reasonable limits (even those of
us that send the same message three times in a day).
Any concerns regarding the listserv apart from subscriptions can be
addressed to me. Online Calendar
Another Yahoo! feature that we intend to use is their
online
calendar. We will be using this calendar to keep track of events
relevant to post-bacs including exams, important registration dates,
speakers, presentations, happy hours, and other PPS events. You can help
us out by adding your exams to the calendar (there's a link on the
left-hand menu of the listserv homepage).
We hope that students and administration alike will use this calendar
to see when common post-bacc events are scheduled. That way, if the PPS
or Dr. Hunter is scheduling anything, we can all check to see times that
will be bad for large numbers of people. Website
We are in the process of trying to get some web space to put up a PPS
website. We are in search of a webmaster and web designer to help us
create our brand. If you have any experience or want to express your
creative energies, please contact Bidisha. We
are still trying to decide what to do with the site-to-be, so if have
ideas or would like to see anything in particular included in the
content, please let us know. If you've read this far, congratulations! I applaud your diligence. This
will be one of the last messages I will send to the listserv regarding
PPS activities. By the end of next week, all PPS e-mails will be sent to
the PPS listserv. I thank you for your patience and promise that you
won't get this more than once. As always, please feel free to contact me
with questions, comments, or concerns.
Rick |
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MORE PPS NEWS
You can find more news about
current PPS happenings as well as information relevant to the future
health care environment. If you have information news that you
think PPS should know about, please send an e-mail to the officers at
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