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Various other responsibilities are delegated through czarships. In principle, czars
are elected democratically by the grads; in practice, czars often choose their
successors and the voting is a formality. As the name suggests, czars typically
have complete reign over their domain. Czars are determined in a meeting held
in the fall, long enough after you get here that you'll have figured most of this
out. Here's some of the current czars:
Czar Czar: Jay. Serves as a voice for the grad students in
interactions with the faculty, goes to faculty (or subcommittee)
meetings as appropriate for issues affecting grads, interacts with
the dept. manager, assesses mood of grads, interfaces with dept to
keep guide up to date.
RSI: Katherine/Kathy. Grads often suffer from repetitive stress
injuries; this person interacts with the appropriate part of UCSC to
make sure our desks are set up ergonomically.
Head TA: Ryan. Runs training for new grads; available as a resource
throughout the year.
GSA Rep: Nick. Goes to grad student association meetings,
represents our interests and keeps us appraised of what is going on.
TA Union Rep: Nick. Keeps us aware of happenings in the TA union.
Computing: ???. Interacts with faculty, NICS, and the academic
computing group.
Colloquium Supplies: Kate. Manages the schedule of which grad sets
up supplies, and handles the replenishment of said supplies.
Colloquium Lunches: Sally. A group of grads has lunch with the
colloquium speaker every week; this person organizes the schedule
of who manages the lunch.
Morning Coffee: Jenny. Organizes schedule. Now the dept handles
*getting* supplies, which makes this job easier.
Grad Store: Kevin. Supplies and handles the finances of the
"Grad store", which is ISB 255 and has drinks, snacks, and some
meal items.
Telescope: Mark. Keeps track of the dept. telescopes; helps out
with faculty who have (small) telescope needs.
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