The GAA would like to wel­come back it’s mem­bers for the 2010–2011 school year. Our first gen­eral meet­ing will be held on Tues­day Sept 7th at 11 AM. We will be meet­ing in SWAN 218 as usual, and there will be free pizza! We would also like to extend an invi­ta­tion to all the new and old stu­dents who would like to become mem­bers. Feel free to come to the meet­ing to see what we’re about, and to get any ques­tions answered.

We will also be host­ing a wel­come back pic­nic on Thurs­day Sept 9th from 5:30 — 8:00 PM. The pic­nic will be at Prof. Smith’s house, and direc­tions will be made avail­able online and in SWAN 220 begin­ning next week. There will be free food and drink, as well as music, games, and weather per­mit­ting boat rides/swimming in the lake. If you need a ride please sign up on the sheet posted in SWAN 220 on the GAA office door.

Any ques­tions or con­cern con­tact Logan Cashin (e-mail or 989–600-5317)

Wel­come to my lit­tle cor­ner of the web­site! I plan on using this col­umn to share my knowl­edge with you in an effort to enrich your expe­ri­ence here at Fer­ris. I want every­one to be able to go on to suc­cess­ful careers in print­ing, and my goal here is to expand your abil­i­ties to make you a more desir­able per­son when you enter the job market.

Con­tinue reading…

At the request of our Pres­i­dent I have cre­ated a new cat­e­gory for the explicit pur­pose of reviewing/recapping events. While only the lat­est post will be dis­played I encour­age you to check out the cat­e­gory page every week or so to see what’s been going on at our events. Con­tinue reading…

I know that many GAA mem­bers opt to use e-mail appli­ca­tions rather than access­ing the Gmail inter­face through the web browser. The major down­side to using an appli­ca­tion is the lack of auto-fill for addresses within the GAA’s domain. To help alle­vi­ate this irri­ta­tion I have com­piled a list of all the e-mails in our domain that can be eas­ily loaded onto your com­puter. Con­tinue reading…

One Last Hurrah

Posted by: Logan Cashin Activities > | Apr 26, 2010

 

As the year comes to a close you’re prob­a­bly busy study­ing. While the GAA is not nec­es­sar­ily advo­cat­ing neglect­ing your stud­ies we are going to host one final LAN party. We’re going to be play­ing some CoD4 to help unwind in this last week before exams. Come join us in SWAN 220 on Wed. the 28th at 7:00 pm

Bowling Night

Posted by: Logan Cashin Activities > | Apr 20, 2010

 

Come join the GAA for bowl­ing night at The Gate on Wednes­day from 9-11pm. Ques­tions or com­ments should go to Kameron James

I’ve been work­ing on pro­vid­ing a Face­book updat­ing method that is a lit­tle faster than what I came up with on Mon­day. Right now I’m try­ing out a nice FB App called “RSS Graf­fiti” that will take the RSS feed from the web­site and post it as shared links on our Face­book page. All of the posts that get made from now on should have a link to them both on the Face­book fan page, and on our Twit­ter stream. If you expe­ri­ence a prob­lem with this please let me know ASAP so that I can try and cor­rect the prob­lem. This fea­ture should be car­ry­ing over to the new design that is com­ing soon, so any kinks should be worked out before then.

Once again, sorry for any exces­sive alerts/updates/tweets you may have received today.

If you haven’t already noticed, there are a cou­ple changes going on with the site, and the GAA in gen­eral. I’ve added a new tab on the top nav­i­ga­tion bar that will have all of the min­utes from our var­i­ous meet­ings. The side bar has two new links as well. One if for the dig­i­tal ver­sion of our GAA hand­book for new mem­bers, and the other is a link to our weekly agenda for our gen­eral meetings.

We have lots of other great things planned to make the web site bet­ter, and to get more infor­ma­tion out in the open for the pub­lic and our mem­bers. Bran­don is work­ing on chang­ing the theme of the web­site around to be more like a site and less like a blog, and hopes to have it done by the end of the semes­ter. And I will be work­ing on assem­bling sev­eral doc­u­ments on how to uti­lize all of our ser­vices to make it eas­ier to stay in touch, and up to date, with the GAA

We’ve got two great par­ties com­ing up this week, so make sure you keep your sched­ules open for them. (details at bottom)

First up we’ve got a Pro­file Pic­ture Party at Brandon’s. We will have the base­ment stu­dio set up to take some high qual­ity shots for your Face­book pro­file pic­tures. We will also be able to take some seri­ous pho­tos for the dig­i­tal com­pos­ite, your port­fo­lio web site, pass­port, or what­ever else you may need a photo for. Be sure to dress appro­pri­ately for your photo’s use, and bring props if you want to get goofy!

After that we’ve got a LAN Party being held at Swan. It’s time to dust off the XBoxes and TV’s once more! Come pre­pared for some con­sole gam­ing action, and pos­si­ble some com­puter gam­ing as well. If you’ve got equip­ment you can bring it is always appre­ci­ated. Bring snacks and drinks if you want em.

Pro­file Pic­ture Party
Brandon’s Apart­ment (ask Bran­don or Logan for direc­tions)
Wed April 6th –  7–10 PM

LAN Party
Swan 218/220
Thur April 8th – 7-?? PM

If you haven’t already, please fill out this form regard­ing the con­tent you would like for your photo/profile on the vir­tual com­pos­ite page we are work­ing on. This will be hosted on the GAA site when com­pleted, and can be used as method of get­ting your résumé and port­fo­lio out in the open.