Graduate Organizing Group (GOG) - University of Rochester

Position	Name	E-mail
Speaker	Aviva Dove-Viebahn Website	adovevie(at)mail.rochester.edu
Treasurer	Kuldeepsinh Rana	rana(at)che.rochester.edu
Social Chair	Laurel Issen	lissen(at)bcs.rochester.edu
Forum Chair	Matt Moynihan	mmoy(at)lle.rochester.edu
Advocacy Chair	Vicky Pass	vpass(at)mail.rochester.edu
Web Developer	John Bershaw Website	jbershaw(at)earth.rochester.edu

Speaker
Acts as the liaison between university administration and faculty, and graduate students of the College, bringing forward graduate student concerns to the attention of university administration and/or faculty. The GOG Speaker also sits in on some GOG Committee meetings and organizes Officer elections at the start of the academic year.

Social Committee Chair
Organizes social events which are a fun break from regular work, and also allow graduate students from different departments to meet and get to know one another. Past events have included: wine & cheese events, skiing, ice skating, a canal boat cruise, bowling, and salsa dancing lessons.

Forum Committee Chair
Fosters discussion between graduate students concerning topics that cross disciplinary boundaries. The Forum Committee hosts workshops, seminars, discussion panels and invited speakers. In the past, the Forum Committee co-sponsored conferences on womens' studies, epistemology, and film studies.

Advocacy Committee Chair
Works for material change that will benefit all graduate students. In the past, the Advocacy Committee has sent a student to D.C. to lobby for tax reform at the national level, worked to improve the bus service, and helped to keep health care costs low.

Treasurer
The Treasurer's role is to oversee the budgets of GOG and its Committees, liaise with the university GOG administrator and to process requests for reimbursement submitted by GOG officers and representatives for approved GOG events and meetings. The Treasurer also handles GOG refund requests.

Secretary
The Secretary takes minutes of the GOG Officer and Annual General Meetings and distributes the minutes to the GOG Webmaster and its Officers and/or the graduate student population (as applicable). The Secretary also forwards GOG communiques to the College's graduate student population via the college_grads mailing list. The Secretary is also in charge of card access requests to the GOG lounge.

Web Developer
The Web Developer's role is to maintain the website including all hosted applications (forums, photo gallery, etc.). In addition, he/she solicits information and resources from other officers and UR students for inclusion in the website. The web developer also shares GOG promotional responsibilites (i.e. flyer and poster design).

GOG Officers

Information on Forums and Officer Positions