Thursday, October 29, 2009

Diwali 2009

Diwali 2009

Date: November 1, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm onwards
Location: Student Union Ballroom A & B (The University of Akron)

For Ticket Reservations, pickup and purchase contact
Kranti Kumar
(434)-258-3844

Ticket Sales at Student Union, Near Union Market
Oct 29-Oct 30
11:00 am TO 3:00pm
Tickets priced at $10 (UAkron Students)
$13 (For others)

Tickets sales at the door on the day of the event are priced at flat $13.

For more details about the event
contact

Ashish Jagtiani
(330)-475-9347
avj2@zips.uakron.edu

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Member Registration

Sign up with the Indian Students Association at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=wJUdZ2sLzqoLjDhWBRPRiw_3d_3d.

The details will be used to keep you updated with the activities of the organization.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

ISA Elections '09-'10

If you are interested in leading the ISA see our previous post.

Election Date: TBA
Location: TBA
Time: TBA


Meet the Candidates

1. President
Ashish Jagtiani
M A Riaz

2. Vice President

Mukesh Kumar Chippa

3. Secretary

Kranti Kumar Mamidisetty

4. Treasurer

None

5. Public Relations Officer

None

6. Sports Secretary

None


7. Web Admin

Skanda

ISA elections for '09-'10

Nomination deadlines extended to : Friday,Sept 11, 2009

At this time we would like invite nominations for the following posts:-


1. President
2. Vice President
3. Secretary
4. Treasurer
5. Public Relations Officer
6. Sports Secretary

7. Web Admin

Nominations can be sent in via e-mail to isa.drishti@gmail.com and carbon copied to pn7@uakron.edu with the following information:-


1. Name
2. Program of Study
3. Number of Academic semesters spent at the University of Akron
4. Number of Academic semesters remaining at the University of Akron(approximate)
5. E-mail(University of Akron only)
6. University ID No.
7. Contact Number.

8. A short description about yourself and how you would contribute to the ISA committee (to be posted on website)

9. Link to gozips website (For post of Web Admin only)

All nominations should be seconded via e-mail. A person can not second his or her own nomination. Seconders can not be members of the present ISA committee. The seconder should send in the following information via e-mail:-


1. Name
2. Program of Study
3. E-mail(University of Akron only)
4. University ID No.
5. Contact Number.

The deadline for receiving nominations and the seconding of nominations, with complete information as stated above, is 5 PM on Thursday the 27th of August. .

The eligibility criteria for the above posts are as follows:-

I. For the post of the President:-

1. The person should have spent at least one complete academic year at the University of Akron prior to Fall 2009 (i.e. enrolled from Fall 2008)
2. The person should be a student at the University of Akron for at least one complete academic year beginning Fall 2009
3. The person should be in good academic standing (GPA of 3.0 or more)

II. For the post of Vice president,

1. The person should be a student at the University of Akron for at least one complete semster beginning Fall 2009 (i.e. enrolled from Spring 2009)
2. The person should be in good academic standing (GPA of 3.0 or more)

3. It is recommended but not required that the person should be a student at the University of Akron for at least two complete academic year beginning Fall 2009

III. For the remaining posts :-
1. The person should be a student at the University of Akron for at least one complete semester beginning Fall 2009 (i.e. enrolled from Spring 2009)
2. The person should be in good academic standing (GPA of 3.0 or more)

In addition to the above requirements (see section III ) for the post of Web Admin the minimum requirement is the knowledge of HTML. The candidate is to provide a link to a page designed with his/her information on the page and should be posted on the his/her gozips space

We encourage candidates to send a brief synopsis of what executive/team experience they already have and what plans they have for ISA in the coming year, if elected.These will be put up on the blog (www.isa-drishti.blogspot.com) as soon as we receive nominations that have been seconded and deemed eligible.

Every member of the ISA can send in questions in the form of comments and the candidates can reply via comments. All comments will be moderated for language and form.

Any candidate engaging in spamming, and/or campaigning/canvassing on public forums(e.g. yahoo groups) and/or social networking sites(e.g. orkut,facebook) will have their candidacy disqualified, without exception. All discussion and comments should be civil and directed to the ISA blog via comments which will be moderated, as stated previously.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Spring Party!!!


Avail your tickets today!!!
Location: Student Union Concourse, adjacent to Union Market
8th and 9th APRIL - 10:30 AM- 3:30 PM


Cheers
ISA

Thursday, March 5, 2009

FREE Pool and Bowling Night !!!

Hi All,

The ISA welcomes all the new students to The University of Akron!
Welcome to Drishti,
Indian Students Association at UA


We are kicking off the year with a FREE pool and Bowling Night at the Student Union pool and Bowling alley
on the 7th of March from 8.00 p.m onwards to 10.00 p.m

Feel free to drop by with friends and family and enjoy the evening with us!
hope to see you there...

Cheers
ISA Team