Election Results!

Thank you to everyone who voted for me during the Graduate Business Council (GBC) Part-Time Representative elections! I am very excited about representing the part-time community and working with the GBC executive board!

Congratulations to the other newly elected representatives:

• Daniel Beth, M.S. representative
• Ranbo Chen, M.S. representativ
  
• Peter Dwyer, 1st year representative
• Ricardo Medeiros, 1st year representative
• Erik Monostory, Part-time representative
  
• Jason Reminick, 1st year representative
• Myrdna Vargas, 1st year representative
  

Voter Registration Instructions

Please take a moment to visit the Graduate Business Council (GBC) website on Simon Exchange to cast your ballot in the elections for Part-Time student representative:

• Log into SimonExchange
• Click on the GBC link in the upper left hand corner to get to the GBC homepage
• At the top of left hand column, click on the link for the Part-Time student elections (under surveys).
• On the purple header row, click respond to this survey.
• Finally, click on the radio buttons next to Melisa Beauchesne

I'm Hitting the Campaign Trail!

Please remember to vote (for me) in the upcoming Graduate Business Council elections. Elections will be held online through SimonExchange September 29th-October 1st.

My name is Melisa Beauchesne and I am running for the position of part-time representative on the Graduate Business Council.

Over the summer, I served as an advocate for the part-time student community during several meetings with the student services office. I raised issues such as the timing and communication of campus events. As a result of these discussions, the most recent coffee hour was moved to a later time so that more part-time students could participate. If I am elected, I plan to work with the Graduate Business Council to develop a quarterly forum where part-timers will have the opportunity to personally share their suggestions as well as the issues we are facing.

As working professionals, the flexibility of the part-time M.B.A. program is appealing but also presents challenges for building relationships with our peers because we are completing our coursework at different paces. The diversity of our life and work experience is one of the greatest assets that Simon students have to offer. In my current role as Vice-President of Special Events for Simon Volunteers, I am spearheading the “Selfless Saturday” initiative to bring full and part-time students together while giving back to the community.

As our part-time student representative, I will continue to voice our concerns and seek new ways to integrate the Simon community.

Thank you for your support.

Hurricane Gustav Relief Trip: Day 5

Today was another day full of stripping, acid, and repositioning beds.

We are on track to finish early tomorrow for a fun evening in New Orleans. I might need to take a bath in turpentine before our night on the town. Whenever I think that I have removed all the paint from my skin, it keeps popping up in funny places...

Hurricane Gustav Relief Trip: Days 3 & 4

We took the first set of after photos today!!

We finished scraping the carpet glue off the floors, painted the walls and floors, and put more beds back in place! If we keep up this pace, we are going to have most, if not all, of the dorms finished by before we leave on Friday!

We watched the WLOX documentary, "Katrina - South Mississippi's Story," to remind us why we are here. The before, during, and after footage covered by local residents presents a very powerful perspective of the storm. The before footage helps us to recognize slow progress but the need for volunteers will be here for a very long time. Three years post-Katrina, the Mississippi coast is only 30% rebuild and experts estimate that it will take another 8-10 years to fully recover (statistics from www.campvictor.org).