Fall 2012 Current Social Events

Calling all Graduate, Professional and Post-Doctoral Students! Tired of homework? Wish you could get a break from all the stress? Come and join your fellow graduate students for fun, relaxation and good conversation. (To suggest an event or contact the Social Events Committee, email us.)

The GSA Social Events Committee plans events each month for graduate students and their families. Below are the highlights for the Fall Semester. Be sure to check back or sign up for the listserv for more event details.

Monthly Ethics Discussion Lunches

To promote discussion about the ethical issues that affect us, the Center for the Teaching & Study of Applied Ethics and the GSA will be co-hosting a FREE monthly lunch forum specifically for graduate students from across the university.

That's right: as last year’s monthly graduate student Ethics Lunches were such a hit (and who doesn’t love free food?!?), we’re bringing them back. Suggest topics that we can debate and delight over!

Officially: UNL's Ethics Center and the GSA invite graduate students, professional students, and post-docs to join a monthly conversation about ethics. We play a number of different roles in the University - in addition to being students, we serve as teaching assistants, researchers, future professionals, and current professionals. This unique position creates a relatively unique set of ethical concerns.

Check below for more details or take a look at what we did last year or the year before.

Check out events from earlier in the year.


August:
  • Friday, August 17, 2012, 11:00 am - Nebraska Union
    New Graduate Student Welcome. For details please check out Fall Welcome Events
September:
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Nebraska Union
    Professional Development: "How to write a CV," led by Dr. Rebecca J. Faber, Assistant Director-Education
  • Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - Nebraska Union
    Legislative Assembly Meeting. Join us for our monthly business meetings where we discuss current issues and initiatives, resolutions, and upcoming events. Everyone has an opportunity to speak during our open forum and your voice is important to us.
  • Friday, September 28, 2012, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Lazlo's Brewery & Grill
    "Appetizer Wind-Down". Wind down the week with FREE APPETIZERS and GSA at Lazlo's in the Haymarket! We’ll provide the appetizers, you provide the laughs!

    Meet us at: Lazlo’s Haymarket
                       210 N. 7th Street
                       Lincoln, NE 68508
October:
  • Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Nebraska Union
    Legislative Assembly Meeting. Join us for our monthly business meetings where we discuss current issues and initiatives, resolutions, and upcoming events. Everyone has an opportunity to speak during our open forum and your voice is important to us.
November:
  • Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room/212
    Legislative Assembly Meeting. Join us for our monthly business meetings where we discuss current issues and initiatives, resolutions, and upcoming events. Everyone has an opportunity to speak during our open forum and your voice is important to us.
  • Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm, Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, Unity Room/212
    Legislative Assembly Meeting. Join us for our monthly business meetings where we discuss current issues and initiatives, resolutions, and upcoming events. Everyone has an opportunity to speak during our open forum and your voice is important to us.


--> The GSA Social Events Committee welcomes your suggestions for future events (gsa_social@listserv.unl.edu).

Previous Social Events

The GSA has held a variety of different events since its establishment in Spring 2006.


Fundraising Events

At the end of the Fall and Spring semesters each year, the GSA holds a Book Drive to support various organizations by providing quality books. Many of the donations we collect go to Better World Books.

What is Better World Books?
Better World Books is a self-sustaining, for-profit social venture whose mission is to capitalize on the value of the book to fund literacy initiatives locally, nationally and around the world. Better World Books has partnered up with such organizations at the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and Books for Africa (BFA). Books donated by UNL have gone to help both of these organizations in the past. For more information please visit Better World Books and National Center for Family Literacy.

How can you help with our Book Drive?
Save textbooks that you no longer wish to keep until the end of the semester. Then, donate your books by placing them in the green and orange bins around campus. In addition, you should encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same. We will accept any textbook or book.

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Facebook Page

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