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ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EVENING MBA ASSOCIATION
The Evening News
Volume 1, Issue 3
December, 2005
The new curriculum website
Have you ever wondered
what classes your fellow
students took to land a
job in a certain industry
or function. While we all
know that coursework
alone won't get you the
coveted
corneroffice, it is
nice to
know
what
courses
other
people interested in your
industry or function
might have taken. Maybe
you're not at the point yet
where you've narrowed
down your desired profession, wouldn't it be
nice to know (for those
overachievers out there)
how to graduate in two
and a half years? If you
have, you're not alone.
One of the hardest things
to do is try to plot your
coursework through the
program, but now with
the advent of two new
websites you can.
http://
www.bus.umich.edu/
StudentCareerServices/
JobSearchResources/
HandoutsResources/
InvestigateCareers.htm
On this website, you can
see what courses both
day and evening students
took each semester, and
where they went post-
To l e d o s e c t i o n c a r p o o l
If you live in the Toledo
area and are interested
in carpooling, there is a
functioning carpool
group you can utilize.
Contact Karina Havard
at khavard@umich.edu
for more info or to get
involved in this group.
Check the Evening
MBA Association
website for information on carpooling in
other regions.
MBA. If you don't see a
profession you're interested in, or if you have
any suggestions for improvement, please be
sure to e-mail Mary Jones
(maryoj@umich.edu) with
any suggestions.
http://
www.bus.umich.edu/
Academics/EveningMba/
ProgramPace_01.htm
On this website, you can
find out how many credits you'd need to take to
graduate in anywhere
from 2.5 to 5 years.
Together, these sites
should help us figure out
which classes we could
take, and when.
Inside this issue:
OCD Info Sessions
2
Career Development
2
Adopt-A-Family
2
SPAM! I’ve had enough!
3
Special announcements
3
Calendar & Events
4
Rock N Bowl
5
Contact Info
6
Special points of interest:
• Check out our website at
bus.umich.edu/evemba
• Be sure to read the information on how you can
help a couple of lessfortunate families this
holiday season on page 2.
• Don’t forget Dinner with
the Dean, Monday, December 12
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THE EVENING NEWS
Evening MBA OCD Informational Session:
Career Search and Internships
OCD and the Evening MBA Officers
invite you to join Al Cotrone, Director in the Office of Career Development for an informal discussion
about planning your career search
in conjunction with your MBA studies. Topics covered will include the
implications of internships for certain industry groups, access to oncampus interviewing and planning
your academic
and professional career.
The session is
designed primarily for those
who have completed at least
one semester in the program.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
5:30-6:30pm
Ann Arbor, Room D1270
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
5:00-6:00pm
Commerce Park, Classroom #3
Adopt-a-family
This year the Evening MBA Association is sponsoring several families
and children from Community
Learning Post for the holidays. We
will be providing gifts for people
who otherwise would not receive
them. There
are tags with
each recipient’s age
and his/her
gift requests.
We have
committed
to providing
each person
with a mini-
mum of $50 in gifts. We need your
help to support the families we
have been matched with. If you
would like to help out please pick
up a tag from the Evening MBA
Association display case (across
from the student lounge) with the
person’s information on it. Each tag
will be for responsible for a minimum $25 gift. If you think you can
support $50 in gifts you can take
two tags, or more. Please return all
gifts to Rosie Given’s office, E2612,
before class (or between 9:30 am
and 7:30 pm) Monday through
Thursday next week. All gifts are
due to the organization by next
Friday, December 9. The gifts
should be wrapped with the recipient’s name on the outside and
placed in a plastic bag with the family number on the bag.
If you have class in Commerce Park
only and would like to help out,
email Merrill at merrillg@umich.edu
and she can pick a tag and email
you the information. You can drop
your items in Commerce Park by
Wednesday.
Thank you for helping to make
these people’s holiday season special!!
The Evening MBA Association would like to extend a warm welcome to
the incoming class for Winter 2006.
We hope you have a fruitful and stimulating experience here at Ross.
We’re looking forward to seeing you at some of the Evening MBA events.
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3
PAGE 3
Spam: I’ve had enough!!
I'm sure you noticed that once you
were officially enrolled at the University, in addition to the barrage of
"non-spam" e-mails you received,
you were bombarded by a tremendous amount of spam. For those of
you unfamiliar with it, an internet
dictionary defined spam as
"unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant,
or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in
mass quantities." Essentially, spam is
the electronic equivalent of junk
mail. There are two ways in which
spammers get your e-mail address:
1)
They use a "spambot" or
"scraper"to browse websites randomly looking for text patterns that
resemble e-mail addresses.
2)
They use a scheme to get people to submit their addresses to
them (offering a trivial good or service, like electronic greeting cards,
joke-a-day mailing lists, dating services, even mailing lists and chat
sites, etc…). Also, they collect valid
e-mail addresses by collecting list
removal requests, so be careful not
to click on
the remove
me from this
list links.
website that requires an e-mail address, or use it to sign up for any of
the aforementioned services if
you're interested in them.
Spam sucks,
so how do
you keep it
at a minimum?
1)
The first step would be to
visit: http://
spambusters.mail.umich.edu/, and
set up their SpamBox service on
your umich.edu account, and join
the Do Not Spam List. These will
filters a significant amount of spam
from your inbox, and the site offers
some useful tips.
2)
Another practice is to set up a
sacrificial e-mail address (yahoo,
hotmail, etc…), and use that on any
Congratulations!!
Sara Patel and husband Jay celebrated the birth of
their first child (a baby girl) in October! Amira Jay
Patel was born on Thursday, October 6 at 12:58
p.m. at the University of Michigan hospital. She
was 5 pounds, 11 ounces (so tiny!) and 19 inches
long. Sara is taking this semester off from classes
but expects to return in the Winter term.
3)
In order to avoid having your
e-mail address harvested when it is
posted online, you can either post
it as a picture file (.jpg, .gif, etc…), or
you can add some text to the address that a human correspondent
will (one hopes) know to remove:
frankNOSPAM@umich.edu. Be especially careful when putting your
e-mail address in a "mailto:" link on
webpages.
While the above won't eliminate all
Spam from your inbox, hopefully it
should weaken the onslaught and
redirect it to another e-mail address. For more information on
minimizing spam please visit:
http://www.caube.org.au/
avoid.htm.
You and a guest are cordially invited to attend
A Wine and Cheese Reception
Honoring the Fall 2005
Evening MBA Graduates
December 16, 7—9 PM
Quenzel Room, Michigan Union
RSVP to Rosie Givens
rgivens@umich.edu
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THE EVENING NEWS
Schedule of Events
• 12/7—Happy Hour at
Leopold’s in Ann Arbor
December 2005
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
• 12/8—Networking
Lunch, Bennigan’s in
Ann Arbor
• 12/12—Dinner with the
Dean, 0750 Wyly (in the
basement), between
5 pm and 8 pm
• 12/16—Wine and
Cheese Reception for
Winter 2006 Graduates
• 1/13/06—Networking
Lunch, LaShish West in
Dearborn
Fri
Sat
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Honor Policy reminder
When we accepted our applications we
all signed the Honor Policy and I bet
most of us forgot (I know I did) because
it seems like such a no-brainer. Well
occasionally it helps to be reminded of
such things, so here it is:
“We the members of the Ross School of
Business community—students, faculty,
staff—commit ourselves to do our work
and perform our duties honestly. We
understand that in striving for excellence in performance, our personal and
institutional integrity is our most precious asset, and accordingly, we will not
knowingly act in ways which erode that
integrity.
Because we are an academic community, honesty in our academic work is
vital. Accordingly, we pledge neither to
cheat nor to tolerate cheating.
We pledge neither to plagiarize nor to
use the work of others without proper
credit. We pledge to share community
resources, such as facilities, library materials, and computing hardware and
software, in ways that are responsible
and that comply with established policies and with the principle of fairness
We will treat each other with respect.
We will honor the dignity and value of
each member of our community. We
will fulfill our commitments to each
other. We will extend these same courtesies to our guests.
We value both cooperation and competition as means to high achievement.
We are free, indeed encouraged, to
cooperate to assist each other’s learning, except in those instances when
student members of the community are
directed or expected to work individually. We will compete for the purposes
of stimulating high performance and
raising standards. However, we seek
competition that is constructive, and
which is professional, not personal, in
nature.
Finally, we accept adherence to the
Honor Policy as a condition of membership in the Ross School of Business community.”
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3
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Evening MBA Rock'N'Bowl
(A.K.A. Fall Rendezvous 2005)
On Friday October 21, 25 evening MBA students and guests met at the Garden Bowl in downtown Detroit to flaunt
their bowling skills. Professor Clyde also stopped by to join us for a few frames. Kevin Ferrell took home the "1st
Annual Evening MBA Rock'N'Bowl Cup" for the highest game of the night. Jason Paradowski and Pete Grivas came in
second and third. Vamsi Chenepalli received the award for "best effort." Most of the rest of us proved that we won't
be giving up our day jobs (or our evening MBA classes) to join the PBA Tour any time soon.
ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EVENING MBA
ASSOCIATION
Connecting Evening MBA’s with each other and the
Ross community!
Check out our website!!
bus.umich.edu/evemba
Primary Goals of the Evening MBA Association:
•To provide professional, academic, and social
networking opportunities for Evening MBA students.
•To ensure continual Evening MBA student representation and perspective in Business School
affairs.
•To contribute to the enrichment of the larger
Business School community by partnering with
other programs and clubs within the school.
Evening MBA Association
Commit tees and Contact information
President
Events VP
Mindee Elam
Amit Mantrow
melam@umich.edu
mantrow@umich.edu
Academic Affairs VP
Finance VP
Marwan Rateb
Sriram Gopalan
mrateb@umich.edu
gopalans@umich.edu
Career Development VP
Rajeev Jain
rajeevj@umich.edu
Marketing & Communications VP
Merrill Guerra
merrillg@umich.edu
Technology VP
Paul Singh
gpsingh@umich.edu
SECTION LEADERS
Ann Arbor
Ravi Dixit
rkdixit@umich.edu
Detroit
Bharani Yerramalli
Community Service VP
Emmanuel Legbeti
legbeti@umich.edu
Corporate & Alumni Relations VP
Vineet Kumar
vineet@umich.edu
bharani@rocketmail.com
Farmington Hills Emmanuel Legbeti
legbeti@umich.edu
Lansing
Pete Grivas
pgrivas@umich.edu
NEEDED: Toledo, Kalamazoo, Troy, and
Royal Oak