10/27/2007

UCSD GSA Grand Pizza Party

Friday 10/26

As a tradition, UCSD GSA sponsors free food party every quarter, with Oct. 26 set as the date for this Fall. It had to cancel the large-scale party on-campus this time due to the SD wildfire and UCSD closure for the whole week, but the pizza ordered could not be canceled . Considering many UCSD graduate students live in mesa, GSA decides to deliver the free food at the Cafe Vista @ One Miramar complex. Here is the notifying emails, which I copied here for memory :)

Email from Justin, one of four CSE representatives in UCSD GSA
"
The Fall Grad Free-for-All costume party was canceled due to the fires. But there's going to be free food tomorrow evening at Cafe Vita in Mesa/One Miramar. Cafe Vita is the new coffeeshop that's opening up in Mesa/One Miramar and is located directly underneath the Residential
Services office near the new enormous parking structure.
"

Forwarded Email from Griffin @ UCSD GSA to GSA representatives
"
Hey Reps,

So, the free-for-all is canceled but it was too late to cancel the pizza order. So we're going to have a big pizza party tomorrow night, starting at 5:30PM at cafe vita(one mirimar)

Since this is a last-minute event, and traditional advertising channels are closed PLEASE TELL PEOPLE!

And if it makes you feel better, wear a costume.

I hear some displaced graduate students have ended up in the mesas, so hopefully this pizza giveaway can be GSA's relief effort too.

Griffin Brungraber
Graduate Student Association, VP Campus
"

Two 9#ers - Zhiheng and Yun came to SD for IMC 2007 and visited us after the conference. In their respective flight from San Jose and Philadelphia to San Diego, they spotted the fires from the air, with Yun even sensed smokes on the air. Following a 1-hour tour on Black's Beach close to the west entrance of UCSD, they joined the Grand Pizza Party and experienced sort of free-style UCSD. Though we missed the more crowded and more fun atmosphere as the past parties at Porter's Pub on campus, we still have lots of graduate students around, enjoying mingling with each other and the delicious pizza, either standing or sitting on the beautiful mesa lawn.

Wish we will resume normal campus life next week, with everybody safe and more strong.

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