Your GPSS Weekly Announcements
Esteemed Jeeps,
Commercials for the Grammys during the NFL playoffs are not usually my primary source for philosophical inspiration, but given that this was indeed the case this week, I pose to you two questions as fodder for weekly discussion, debate and haterade:
- Path dependency: would the Foo Fighters be anywhere near as popular/successful as they are today if not for Dave Grohl’s earlier role in Nirvana?
- Are there any other instances of a band achieving massive commercial success, proceeding to lose their iconic band leader, and having another band member form a new band which also went on to achieve mainstream commercial success?
Food for thought, fodder for chatter. Now, on to the announcements!
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This Week's Announcements:
- 1. GPSS Mega-Mixer
- 2. Yale Tango Club Lessons
- 3. Psychology Department Colloquium
- 4. HAVEN Spanish Speakers Needed
- 5. Introduction to Management Consulting Careers
- 6. reWilding @ Yale Cabaret
- 7. HAVEN Free Clinic Video Drive
- 8. Veggie Dinner Kickoff Banquet
- 9. Yale Philanthropy Conference
- 10. McBrewgal Homebrew Competition
- 11. SOM Behavioral Research Listserve
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GPSS Mega-Mixer, hosted by EPH, Div, & Art
Friday, Jan. 20th, 9pm @ Mory’s Temple Bar
The first mega-mixer of the new year! Hundreds of free drinks and free food. $2 beers, $3 wine, $4 martinis, when the free drinks run out. All schools welcome!
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Yale Tango Club Lessons
Interested in learning to dance? Never danced before? Come learn Argentine tango in our upcoming bootcamp classes! Starting Wednesday, January 18, we will begin our 7-week series of Argentine tango for absolute beginners. Robin Thomas and Jenna Rohrbacher will be coming from New York to teach! They will show you the basics of what you need to know to get on the social dance floor. Get more info and register on our website at www.Yaletangoclub.org! We hope to dance with you soon!
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Psychology Department Colloquium
The psychology department at Yale will be hosting a Cherlin Colloquium featuring Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. (NIMH, Georgetown University) titled, "Chronic Irritability in Youth That May be Diagnosed as Bipolar Disorder." The talk will be held on Wednesday, January 18 at 4 PM in Mason Laboratory, room 211. All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to contact Stacey Blase if you have any questions (stacey.blase@yale.edu).
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HAVEN Spanish Speakers Needed
Do you speak Spanish? HAVEN needs your help in caring for our patients!
The HAVEN Free Clinic is a free primary care clinic run by students from the Yale University health professional schools. The clinic serves patients who are adults (age 18-65), completely uninsured, and who live in the Fair Haven neighborhood. The vast majority of our patients are of Latino heritage who don't speak English, and whose only source of health care is this clinic. In order to offer great quality care, we need to communicate effectively with our patients, so interpreters play a MAJOR role.
We are currently looking for fluent Spanish-speakers that would like to volunteer as interpreters at HAVEN Free Clinic for the term. Volunteers are scheduled depending on their availability, but usually around 5 times during the term.
Below is the link to the application which will be due Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 11:59pm for the Interpreter volunteer positions for this upcoming Spring Term (Feb 11 - June 2).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlJVWRFcTRSd0F2T0l1bklrdVRoTWc6MQ
If you would like more information about our history, mission, or volunteer program, it can be found on our website: http://havenfreeclinic.org/wp.
Please email hfcrecruitment@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.
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Introduction to Management Consulting Careers
January 19th, 7-9pm
Mason 107, 9 Hillhouse
Interested in outside-the-box career options? The exciting and fast-paced field of Management Consulting offers career opportunities for innovative, business-minded thinkers with JDs, PhDs, MDs, post-doctoral fellows and others.
Come join the Yale Graduate Student Consulting Club (YGCC)
(http://www.yale.edu/consulting) for our first meeting of the semester to get to know this career path, meet students with similar aspirations, and learn about how our club can prepare you for a career in Management Consulting.
Refreshments provided.
Registration: http://www.yale.edu/consulting/SignUp_kickoff.html
Following this event, do join us on Thursdays for regular case-interview practice meetings on Thursdays from 7-9pm at Mason 107.
McKinsey Partner's Perspectives Series
Wednesday, Jan 25th, 6-8pm
Registration http://www.yale.edu/consulting/SignUp_PartnerSeriesMck.html
Dick Foster (Ex-Director and Senior Partner at McKinsey) will sit down and chat with YGCC members about his perspectives on career, business, consulting, work-life balance, and beyond.
Refreshments provided.
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reWilding @ Yale Cabaret
Friday Jan. 20th & Saturday Jan. 21st, 8pm & 11pm
"There is a place between civilization and wilderness, where an alternative community has set down roots and use of the past tense has been outlawed. It is a society of the foreign and forgotten, the lost and the seeking, where guitars play stories people don't speak about. Today, someone new arrives and she's asking the wrong questions. Enter a haunting, a hidden woodland community of memories and mysteries, strange humor, complicated beauty, private stories and live music"
Tickets available here: http://yalecabaret.org/event/rewilding
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HAVEN Free Clinic Video Drive
HAVEN Free Clinic is holding an *Exercise Video Drive*! They are starting an exercise video library that patients can check out for home use. Any exercise videos in any format that you no longer use would be greatly appreciated! Drive starts 01/03 and ends 01/20. There will be boxes set up at the YSN Student Lounge and at Marigolds (367 Cedar St). If you have any questions please contact sarah.gilbert@yale.edu or gladys.rodriguez@yale.edu.
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Veggie Dinner Kickoff Banquet
As you stumble back into the cold contemplation of academia from your vacations afar and near, I'm pretty sure the last thing you want to do is cook for yourself. That’s why we have Veggie Dinner. Our friends at the Forestry School started Veggie Dinner several years ago as a way to enjoy good food with great company and with minimal effort. In exchange for agreeing to cook one meal a semester with one or two friends, you can attend one dinner hosted by another member each week. If you were part of the great tradition last semester and want to stay a member, your membership will remain active so you don’t have to sign up again. Full details to follow, a kickoff banquet will be held on January 24th at 7:00 PM in Bowers Auditorium (Sage Hall 205 Prospect St.) and a sign up will be circulated in the coming weeks.
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Yale Philanthropy Conference
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 @ the Omni Hotel, New Haven
The Yale Philanthropy Conference is an interdisciplinary forum for current and future leaders focused on the business of social change. It is also one of the signature social sector conferences hosted by Yale SOM. Register before December 16th to get the early-bird student price of $30!
The Philanthropy Conference is a great opportunity to engage with peers from other graduate schools and hear from leading practitioners in philanthropy, including this year’s keynote speakers Jed Emerson from Impact Advisors and Judy Samuelson of the Aspen Institute. Other highlights include an interactive lab on social impact metrics, and break-out sessions featuring experts drawn from across the social sector.
Visit the website to register and browse the exciting lineup of speakers: http://community.som.yale.edu/philanthropy/.
Please email Philanthropy@som.yale.edu with any questions.
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McBrewgal Homebrew Competition
"Back by popular demand, we invite all G&P & Postdoc homebrewers to prepare for the 2nd Annual McBrewgal Fest Homebrew competition and tasting, to be held in early April 2012. More details will be announced in the coming months. In the meantime, start brewing! Required for entry is a 6-pack (or a 6-pack's worth of beer - 72 oz.) of beer. Please note, this is not a BJCP/AHA sanctioned event. This event is sponsored by the McDougal Graduate Life Center."
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SOM Behavioral Lab Research Listserve
Every year, researchers at the Yale School of Management conduct hundreds of studies that require people like you to participate. The Yale SOM Behavioral Lab wants to offer you the opportunity to participate in such studies, for cash! Compensation is typically $5 but is sometimes more than that, and the studies generally take around 30 minutes to complete. The studies are simple, fun, quick, lucrative, and a contribution to important scholarship!
Recent studies have involved word problems, trivia questions, playing video games, watching films, etc. Studies are usually conducted at a convenient location near the center of Yale's campus, such as LC.
To join us for our $5 Friday survey sessions, please send an email to elab@yale.edu with the word "Subscribe" in the subject line. If you subscribe to our email list, we will contact you periodically to invite you to participate in upcoming studies.
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Until next time,
-John Dags
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