VPA Sez

Hello wonderful mathies!

I am your Vice President of Awesome (or Academic... I forget) for this spring term of 2010. I am responsible for anything and everything in MathSoc academically (and no that doesn't just mean the exam bank, though I am responsible for that too).

Some things that I have done and will be continuing to do this term:

• UAPC (Undergraduate Academic Plans Committee): work with profs and other individuals in improving future major plans for students. Currently looking into the possibility of adding CS343 to the core courses in the cs major plan before CS350.
• CEC (Co-operative Education Council): working with other society execs and CECS personnel to improve the co-op experience for students.
• FedS (Federation of Students): working with FedS exec and councilors to address any issues that may arise with involvement with MathSoc. The first meeting was mainly filling committee seats. I'm the CRO for FedS this upcoming term ;)

Some other things that I will be doing this term:

• Senate Undergraduate Council: Not sure what I'll be doing there yet. I'll keep you posted.
• Lunch with the Dean: I'm excited for this :D. I've already met him once before and he seemed like a really nice guy. I can't wait to have a chance to poke at his mind for what he has planned.
• Exam Bank: I will be working extensively to update this. The reason it hasn't been updated for a while is because there were plans to automated so that profs submit it directly but seeing as that is going nowhere fast I will be creating incentives for you, the students, to submit any midterms and or finals that you have that aren't already posted online. These are most likely going to be in the form of CnD gift cards or novelty items gift cards. So start rounding up those exams and stay posted for updates on that.

And now for some non-VPA related stuff that I have been up too. I've been working with Kumar (the VPF) to improve CnD by doing things like fixing the Slushie Machine working!!! :D

So stay posted because this will be happening this Summer!

Andre Magalhaes
VP Academic, Math Society
vpa@mathsoc.uwaterloo.ca