The document provides information about upcoming events at Student Activities including a winter brunch on December 11th, flyer workshops on Photoshop and InDesign, tips for making class announcements, reserving rooms for winter quarter, and various requests to help keep the office tidy. It encourages coordinators to RSVP for the brunch, attend the flyer workshops, save promotional materials for a scrapbook, use blue tape on walls, return borrowed items like staplers, and pick up stray tacks.

1. Coordinator’s
Winter Brunch
December 2008
Thursday, December 11th
From 10am –12pm
(or until the food is gone!)
We invite each Coordinator and a guest to
attend. RSVP at the Front Desk.
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Flyer Workshop Series!
Upcoming Dates:
2-4pm
SLARS are due:
Mac Lounge Monday, December 1st
Flyer Workshop Series
Photoshop: Tues, Dec. 2nd
Forget Word! Come learn these cool programs InDesign: Tues, Dec. 9th
so you can make hip flyers for your group’s
events! Coordinators’ Winter Brunch:
Thursday, December 11th
Photoshop—Tuesday, Dec. 2nd
InDesign—Tuesday, Dec. 9th Room Reservation Forms:
Turn in Before Winter Break
Space is limited, RSVP at the front desk or by emailing
the outreach coordinator at stuact1@evergreen.edu What everyone’s talking about at Student Activities

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Student Activities is hiring!
Student Activities is hiring an Office Assistant for 12- Tips on Making Announcements (continued)
15 hours per week. This position is a competitive stu-
dent employment position of $9.00 per hour. Hiring
If you do not hear back from the faculty, it is likely be-
for this position will take place Fall Quarter 2008 and
cause they are busy serving their own students.
work will begin on or about Monday, January 5,
Sometimes the faculty is very busy, and email and
2009. Work will be during Winter and Spring Quarter,
phone just aren’t good methods for connecting. In
and not be available during Evaluation Week.
this case you can try arriving to the classroom early,
and catching the professor before class begins. Ask if
The primary purpose of this position is to provide as-
you can take just a few minutes to make an important
sistance to the Student Activities Office and to Regis-
tered Student Organizations with a high-level of cus- announcement. There’s a chance that the professor
tomer service and clerical support. might ask you to come at the end of the session in-
stead or perhaps on a different day, but likely they’ll
More information is available at the CAB 320 Front give permission to announce right then.
Desk or by calling 360-867-6220 Application dead-
line is Thursday, December 4th
Finally, come prepared. Bring some flyers, posters, or
at 5pm.
perhaps your contact information on small slips of pa-
per. You could also write your contact information on
Farewell and best the board (just remember it might get promptly
wishes to Haley! erased when class begins).
Haley, one of our Office Assistants, has been with us All in all it takes a bit of work, but class announce-
since last year. This December, after 2 1/4 years at Ev-
ments are a fantastic way for your group to connect
ergreen, she is graduating with an emphasis in psy-
with those working on similar issues that are happen-
chology and family studies. After graduation, Haley will
ing in the classroom.
head back to her hometown of Boulder, CO, where
she’ll work as an assistant to a psychologist and occu-
If you have any questions about the process or want
pational therapist, practicing integrated listening sys-
tems. to help making a class announcement, talk with the
Outreach Coordinator who is happy to meet with you!
When asked what she’d miss most about Student Ac-
tivities she said: Hearing Andy and Mary belt out show
tunes on Friday afternoons.

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Tips on Making Student
Activities Announcements in Class Hey, Check out that Calendar!
One way to get the word about your group’s events or
We’ve brought back the
meetings is to make announcements at the begin-
planning calendar so that
ning or end of class sessions. Here are some tips on
groups can keep each
how to effectively communicate with professors other in the loop about
about arranging class visits. their future events. By
using the calendar, we
First, you’ll need to research relevant courses that can try to prevent a con-
relate to your event or your group’s mission. Make flict in room reservation
sure you get the name of the professor, the date, and and double booking two
time that the class meets. You can find this informa- S+A events at the same
time.
tion as well as the name, email and phone number of
the professor online at:
When your group is planning an event, coordinators
http://www.evergreen.edu/classschedules/
can add their event to calendar in the color purple.
Purple = tentative event.
Second, get permission from the professor. Each pro-
fessor is different and may prefer different methods
When all of the paperwork is in, (TPW + CPR), and
of communication. You can start by calling or send- your event is official, coordinators can rewrite the
ing an email stating what group you are with, what event in Green. Green = definitely happening!
you’d like to announce, and how long it will take.
Having the class schedule nearby is helpful so you If your event becomes official and isn’t changed to
can list off a few dates that might work for you. If you green by the week of your event, the Outreach Coor-
leave a message, make sure you give a contact email dinator will update the calendar to reflect the change.
or phone number that you check often. Leaving your
A list of weekly group meeting times will also be
workspace phone number may make it more difficult
posted next to the calendar on the Bulletin. This list
for the faculty to reach you, so consider leaving a per-
will be the same as the one that is emailed out each
sonal email or phone number to make it easier to
week on TESCrier. If your group isn’t on this list and
connect.
would like to be, talk with Nikki at the front desk.

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Save those flyers! *Knock, knock, knock.*
Be sure to save your posters, -Who is it?
flyers, handbills, and any -Housekeeeeping!
newspaper articles from your
group’s events for the Stu- Here’s a few requests for you to help keep
dent Activities scrapbook. the office in tip top shape. Use me
You can turn in a copy of for walls!
your flyer to the front desk Save the walls!
each time you have an The blue tape is the superior
event, send an email ver- sticking agent for taping to walls,
sion, or hand them in together at the end of doors, and windows. Duct tape
each quarter. We don’t want to miss your con- can be good for hanging banners
tributions, so get them in! Any questions? See on the railings and the front dis-
Nikki at the front desk. play window, but it also has the
power to rip off paint, leave a
trail of sticky residue, and beat Chuck Norris in an
arm wrestling match. Choose wisely, friends.
ROOM RESERVATIONS for
Thumb Tacks, Ouch!
WINTER QUARTER
Please pick up any wandering tacks.
Reserve your meeting rooms! In order to secure a They puncture tires on wheel chairs
meeting space for Winter quarter, your group and unwelcomed surprise for shoe soles.
must submit a reservation form to your advisor
before winter break. Stop in and see your advisor
Calling all Staplers!
to get a copy of this form. When you return from
break, you should find a confirmation form in your
If you borrowed a stapler for
mailbox. Be aware, sometimes space scheduling
projects or flyering, please re-
will have to assign a substitute room. Be sure not
turn it to the workspace when
to advertise your Winter meeting times until
you are finished. Many are cur-
you’ve received confirmation that you’ve received
rently missing in action.
the space you requested.