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The MIIS MIIS OKTOBERFEST Happy Hour will be on Friday, October 16th from 5-8 pm.
Sponsored by NET Impact and the German Club
Also, there will be a “Beers for Books After Party”
8 pm @Indian Summer
Have a drink…It’s for the kids!
$1.00 from every beer or well drink will be donated directly to the Room to Read Organization [...]

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HOPE Fundraising for Victims of Typhoon Morakot will be held in the Samson Center from 12-2 pm, October 12-16.  Raffle tickets will be sold and the cost is $2 for 1 ticket and $5 for 3 tickets. 
The raffle will be held on Friday, October 16 at 6pm during Happy Hour. Prizes include gift certificates for: Jamba Juice, [...]

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Dear MIIS friends,
We have an urgent request coming from another local school.  There is a young Burmese speaking woman, enrolled in ESL, who is in an urgent/emergency situation.  The counselors trying to assist her need a translator.  If you, or anyone you know, knows Burmese and is able to assist, please get back to me [...]

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 Rising International, an international non-profit, is looking for women with  developing country backgrounds to attend and be their honored guest for their upcoming  gala, Faces of Hope, on Saturday, October 10th at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach. 
 Rising International’s mission is to end world poverty in this lifetime by empowering  the world’s poor, especially women. They [...]

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The great MIIS tradition of cross-cultural lunches returns this next Tuesday
and Thursday, September 15 and 17. They start at 12:15 sharp in the Holland 
Center courtyard.
For the last five years, about 250 students and 30 faculty and staff have
taken part each fall. There will be  5 or 6 crosscultural lunches during the first half of fall [...]

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For the fifth year in a row, there will be an exciting cross-cultural retreat
at the magnificent redwood tree park at Big Sur. You can choose to go this
Sunday, Sept 13 or you can go on Sunday Oct. 4th. The crossrcultural
interacting experiences will be facilitated by Professor Peter Grothe, who
teaches intercultural communications courses at MIIS.
The bus [...]

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Please see this flyer
miis-fc-tryout-flyer
for more information about how you can tryout for the MIIS Futbol Team.  Tryouts for the Fall 2009 Team are on Saturday and Sunday (8/29 and 8/30) at 12:00-2:00 pm and Thursday (9/3) at 12:00- 2:00 pm.  Meet in front of the MIIS library 15 minutes before schedules try out for rides [...]

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All MIIS Students,Exchange email accounts are now available to all students registered for the Spring 2009 semester.
You will soon receive an email, through your FirstClass account, from the MIIS Helpdesk containing your new Banner ID and activation instructions.
You may begin using your account immediately following activation. Please activate your new Exchange email account for use [...]

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Dear all,
After a successful launch of the first edition of the Pathfinder, an online journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, I am happy to announce that we are getting ready for the second edition (scheduled to go online in January 2010). The Pathfinder is geared towards furthering the understanding of conflict and proposes innovative approaches [...]

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