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The graduate student union, advocacy organization, and government at Western University. Local 47 of CFS. W: Sogs.ca

HAPPENING TOMORROW! Join the Western Grad Student

HAPPENING TOMORROW! Join the Western Grad Student Music Club (@uwogradmusic) for an open door JAM SESSION! All musicians, professional or amateur, are welcome to attend. Come with your instrument (optional) and your enthusiasm for music, stay for the socializing and community connection.

📆October 10th
🕰️ 4:30 - 7:30pm
📍SEB, room 44 (GES lounge)
☕ Light refreshment provided

In gearing up for our 2024 Wellness Week in Octobe

In gearing up for our 2024 Wellness Week in October, we've teamed up with @andasanas, a local yoga studio in #LondonOnt, to bring SOGS members enhanced wellness opportunities this year!

💰SOGS members can receive a 20% discount off
🧘 all DROP-IN CLASSES (yoga and meditation), 10 CLASS PASS, & COLLECTIVE MEMBERSHIPS
📆 from now until April 30, 2025!
➡️ Use code: SOGS20

Join the Western Grad Student Music Club (@uwograd

Join the Western Grad Student Music Club (@uwogradmusic) for an open door JAM SESSION! All musicians, professional or amateur, are welcome to attend. Come with your instrument (optional) and your enthusiasm for music, stay for the socializing and community connection.

📆October 10th
🕰️ 4:30 - 7:30pm
📍SEB, room 44 (GES lounge)
☕ Light refreshment provided

Love to watch movies? Want to watch some criticall

Love to watch movies? Want to watch some critically acclaimed French Films with us?
Join our French Film Club (@uwofrenchfilmclub) for a whole new season of screenings!

📽️ Fall 2024 schedule:

October 4 - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
October 25 - Frontiers

🕰️ 6pm
📍NCB, room 293
🍽️ BYO snacks and drinks

Register to participate: 🔗 in bio.

#gradlifewesternu

In August, some of our Executive went to Toronto t

In August, some of our Executive went to Toronto to attend the @cfsfcee's Graduate Student Caucus meeting with grad reps from all over Ontario. They were there to discuss the state of higher education in Ontario, grad student advocacy, and more!

😍 Shout out to our President, @cherinchung, who is the Grad Caucus chair, and our VP Advocacy, @iamjazzrae, for their continued support of grad student advocacy at SOGS and at CFS.

You're dripping with talent. 🍦 Join the Western

You're dripping with talent. 🍦 Join the Western Graduate Student Music Club (@uwogradmusic) for another instalment of OPEN MIC NIGHT! All types of performers are welcome to sign-up and perform.

📆 Thursday, October 3rd
🕰️ 7pm
📍The Grad Club (Middlesex College, room 8)
🔗 Registration form link in bio

It's that time of year again where we bust out our

It's that time of year again where we bust out our fire pit and host our annual BON FIRE NIGHT on the @uwogradclub patio! This year we've got loads of S'MORES packs for the bon fire and LIVE LOCAL MUSIC (tba).

📆 Friday, September 27th
🕰️ 8pm - 10pm
📍Grad Club patio
🎟️ $5
🔗 Link in bio to buy tickets

For newcomers to Canada, S'MORES are a cultural tradition! S'mores are a sweet treat made of chocolate and marshmallows sandwiched between two graham crackers that are cooked over an open fire. It's yummy gooey goodness. Don't worry, we've got gelatin free marshmallows for our plant-based and halal friends!

#GradLifeWesternU #WesternU

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconc

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, our Pride Commission (@sogs.pride) will be hosting a special instalment of QUEERLY BELOVED CINEMA! Join us on campus for a film screening, critical discussion, and camaraderie! 🧡

🎥 SMOKE SIGNALS (1998; PG-13)
📆 Monday, September 30
🕰️ 7pm
📍 Middlesex College, room 105B
🍽️ Movie-style popcorn for attendees; BYO drinks and other snacks
🔗 Registration link in bio!

Smoke Signals is a coming of age film dramedy about two friends, Victor and Joseph, who go on an adventure to retrieve the ashes of a deceased parent. The trip is the means for Victor and Thomas to explore their identities and what "Indian" means to them. The characters are part of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho.

In 2018, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

#NDTR2024 #NDTR #GradLifeWesternU #WesternU

The SOGS Sustainability Committee is co-hosting th

The SOGS Sustainability Committee is co-hosting the Forest City Tree Festival on October 4-6 on Western's campus 🌳

Event details, map, programming, and more: https://linktr.ee/FCTF

Knowledge = power. Did you know that SOGS members

Knowledge = power. Did you know that SOGS members are represented by their elected dept/faculty representatives at SOGS student council? We hold council meetings on the last Thursday of each month (except for December).

Here's what happened at August 2024 Council:

✅ Members ratified to SOGS Committees
✅ Council approved the dissolution of the Ombudsperson position and changes to SOGS' disciplinary procedures.

For the full August Council package, with appendices, see link in bio.

#gradlifewesternu #studentgovernment #highereducation #westernu

Welcome back, #westernuniversity grad students!

Welcome back, #westernuniversity grad students!

We’ve got orientation events scheduled from Monday September 23rd to Sunday September 29th.

Check out the full schedule and register for events here (link in bio, too): https://sogs.ca/orientation/

@westernuniversity @westernuinternational

Congratulations to Amalie (PhD candidate, Biology)

Congratulations to Amalie (PhD candidate, Biology) and Jeff Hutchinson (PhD candidate, Physiology & Pharmacology) on welcoming their firstborn child! 👶

Amalie recently stepped down as our @GradCast committee chair to focus on more important things. Thank you, Amalie, for everything you have done to make #gradlifewesternu the best it can be. 🥰

An additional congratulations goes out to Jeff for submitting his dissertation, "The Role of Sex Hormones in the Intervertebral Disc." Jeff will defend in October. 🍾

#HigherEd #GradSchool #PhDLife #Parenthood #WesternU

🤔 Why care about a possible CUPE 2361 strike?

🤔 Why care about a possible CUPE 2361 strike?

Firstly, without these incredible folks, #WesternU campus would not be clean or safe. Secondly, one of the complaints CUPE 2361 has with the employer is chronic understaffing, high workloads, and low wages. The problem: There are not enough support staff to provide high-quality services in residences, classrooms, offices, labs and washrooms. SOGS expects fair wages and safe working conditions for our community friends and sister unions.

In response, the SOGS Executive Committee sent a letter of solidarity to key WesternU admin, including President Allan Shepard. Read the letter. ➡️ Read the letter -- LINK IN BIO!

@cupe2361

✊ Over the weekend, our President, @CherinChung,

✊ Over the weekend, our President, @CherinChung, and our Membership Services Manager, Jessica Reilly, braved the rainstorm and showed our support for CUPE 2361 members – caretaking, landscape services and trades workers at Western University! Cherin delivered a short speech of solidarity at the rally and community lunch.

🤔 Why care about a possible CUPE 2361 strike? Firstly, without these incredible folks, #WesternU campus would not be clean or safe. Secondly, one of the complaints CUPE 2361 has with the employer is chronic understaffing, high workloads, and low wages. The problem: There are not enough support staff to provide high-quality services in residences, classrooms, offices, labs and washrooms. SOGS expects fair wages and safe working conditions for our community friends and sister unions.

To best support CUPE 2361, consider sending a message to Western's administration in support of the workers who keep the campus running. Tell them to negotiate a fair deal that reflects the rising cost of living and substantial gap in wages. ✊🏾📢

Shout out to our incredible Facilities Management crew, Nicole DeGouveia, who ensures our office and the grouhnd floor of Middlesex College is kept clean and safe!

@cupeontario

Recently our Front Office Support Staff, Kayla Dav

Recently our Front Office Support Staff, Kayla Davies, graduated from her Master's of Library Information Science! We're so proud of her. ❤️

Graduating or defending? Make sure to book the Goblet of Knowledge at the @uwogradclub! Learn more at
➡️ www.uwogradclub.ca/reserve-the-goblet.

#IDrankFromTheGoblet #GradLifeWesternU

Here's what happened at the SOGS June 2024 Council

Here's what happened at the SOGS June 2024 Council meeting:

✅ Council approved updates to the Conflict-of-Interest policies.

🌐 Read our past council summaries: sogs.ca/past-council-summaries

#KnowledgeIsPower #StudentGovernment #StudentUnion #GradLifeWesternU

This spring, our former VP Finance (2023-24), Sair

This spring, our former VP Finance (2023-24), Sairam Gajavelli, finished his Master's in Anatomy and Cell Biology under the supervision of Dr. Shawn Whitehead! We are so proud of Sairam's achievements and his contribution to #GradLifeWesternU. We can't wait to see what the next chapter of Sairam's life has in store for him. 🥺💜

We love to see our members celebrate their achievements at the @uwogradclub and drink from the Goblet of Knowledge. Graduating soon? Remember to book the Goblet at ➡️ uwogradclub.ca/reserve-the-goblet.

@sairamgaj

#IDrankFromTheGoblet #GradSchool #HigherEd #WesternU #MastersDegree #GradLifeWesternU

Our former Gender Equity Commissioner, Jaclyn Sieg

Our former Gender Equity Commissioner, Jaclyn Siegel, wasn't able to formally convocate during the COVID pandemic, and recently returned in June to belatedly celebrate finishing her PhD! Dr. Siegel is pictured on the front steps of Middlesex College with her partner. We are so proud of Jaclyn's achievements and contribution to SOGS. 💜

Jaclyn completed her doctoral research in the Department of Psychology on feminist identity ambivalence, or the uncertainty many people feel about their involvement and alignment with feminism, under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Calogero.

Did you know that Jaclyn is famous on X (Twitter)? Her tweets are often shared by grad student and higher education focused accounts. Follow her: twitter.com/jacasiegel.

@jacasiegel

#WesternU #GradSchool #Convocation #HigherEd #PhD #GradLifeWesternU #IDrankFromTheGoblet

On August 21st, the SOGS crew walked the London Pr

On August 21st, the SOGS crew walked the London Pride Parade as a official supporter of the parade! Huge shout out to our executive, Pride Commissioner, staff, and campus friends who came out to celebrate our local community.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

🏳️‍🌈 On June 25th, our Pride Commissioner, Tyson De Moura, gave a short speech at the WesternU's Pride in the Atrium! 🏳️‍⚧️

#Pride2024 #StudentUnion #WesternU

Last week our 2024-25 Executive hosted our first a

Last week our 2024-25 Executive hosted our first annual Partner Reception at the @uwogradclub! So many of our campus partners, stakeholders, and community friends came out to celebrate SOGS, eat great food, and chat with people from all over the #WesternU campus.

A HUGE thank you goes out to our amazing Grad Club management and kitchen teams for putting on a lovely, elevated catered event. If you have a special event coming up that you want hosted on campus, consider booking with the Grad Club! ➡️ www.uwogradclub.ca/catering

#GradLifeWesternU #HigherEd #StudentUnion #StudentAdvocacy

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