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The Graduate Student Senate would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who worked with us, participated in a Grad Student Organization, came to our meetings and events, read The Voice, supported our walk to Dartmouth, and participated in University committees. It was a memorable year, and we feel honored to have represented such a talented and diverse group of people as the UMass Amherst Grad Students. Be proud of yourselves for finishing another year - especially one as markedly tumultuous as this one. We will fondly remember serving you through these rough times.
The University depends on Graduate Students to keep it running everyday, and sometimes the administration slaps us in the face anyway, by making us pay new fees. We at GSS have done our best to argue against these fee increases, in small meetings with Administration, on task forces with Faculty and Staff, and in grand gestures like the walk. It will be up to all of us in the future to continue participating in ways that make our voices heard, even when it seems we do not matter. I look forward to the new GSS Officers' first moves, and I hope we can all support them in their endeavors.
As a final note, I want to recognize the efforts of Nahir Otaño Gracia, who served as President for most of this academic year. As I have attempted to step into her shoes in the last month and a half, I have been moved by just how amazingly and gracefully she performed the endless tasks required of this position. I want to thank her for the tireless work she did for all of us, for nearly a year. Anytime you see her, give her a big hug and say "Thank you," because all of our lives at UMass have been impacted by her avchievements.
We welcome Zhun Xu, President, Tiffany Yee, Vice President, and Li Gu, Treasurer for 2009-2010. Good luck!
xo,
-Scott Salus, President |
