Free Pizza and free drinks for everyone!!

Topic: Employment Options--International Student & Scholar 
Services and Immigration Laws

When: Friday, March, 10th, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Where: Illni Union Room 405
 
Speakers: Lawyer SCOTT WARMUTH  & Lawyer MIKE SHI 
U.S. Immigration Attorneys and Counselors, and founder of 
law office of ScottWarmuth

Content:  
Issues on F-1 or F-1 OPT status
Issues on changing status to H-1B
Issues on immigration petition based on NIW (National 
Interest Waiver) 
Issues on the recent visa retrogression for students born in 
Mainland China


Lawyer SCOTT WARMUTH got his PHD at Oxford University. 
Lawyer MIKE SHI got his PHD degree at UC Berkeley.

Both of them had professional experience more than tens of 
years on immigration and law issues.

Chinese students and scholars Association 

CSSA一年一度的卡拉OK比赛即将拉开帷幕。本次活动，奖品丰富，机会
多多。本次比赛，每位参赛选手不仅能够获得一个展示自己才艺的舞
台，还都将会获得一份精美的礼品。现在仅有3个参赛名额空缺，跃跃
欲试的同学不要再犹豫了，请火速报名。另外，所有到场的观众都有机
会获得幸运观众大奖（三等奖三名，二等奖二名，一等奖一名）。

时间：1月28日 晚6:30
地点：Union Room ABC, （免费入场）。

特邀评委：朱飞达，李玥，张莹。
主持人：俞振华，蒯玲云。

本次比赛流程如下：
1， 开场。
2， 第一轮(分组比赛)。
3， 游戏/抽取幸运观众三等奖。
4， 第二轮(PK赛)。
5， 游戏/抽取幸运观众二等奖。
6， 第三轮(决赛)。
7， 颁奖/抽取幸运观众一等奖。
8， Disco舞会


让我们相约除夕，在歌声中掌声中迎接新春的到来！谢谢大家。

报名及相关事宜，请联系 zyu1@uiuc.edu

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 22:42:13 +0800
>From: "Samuel Liu"   
>Subject: Recruiting Info from MICROSOFT MSN Technologies China   
>To: "Samuel Liu" 
>
>Greetings,
> 
>Microsoft MSN Technologies (China) is a newly established
team located in both Shanghai and Beijing, China, focusing on
both global product development and China services innovation.
 We are expanding and are looking for elite Chinese students
aboard with great interest in working in MSN group China to
join us. Full-Time employment positions as well as their
responsibilities are listed below: all the positions are
located in Shanghai, China. 
> 
>1) Program Managers (PM) 
http://www.microsoft.com/college/ft_pm.mspx 
>2) Software Design Engineer (SDE)
http://www.microsoft.com/college/ft_softdeseng.mspx 
>3) Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET)
http://www.microsoft.com/college/ft_softdesengtest.mspx   
> 
>Being one of the most dynamic groups in MSN, we have already
shipped the first-ever profitable Microsoft service in
China--http://mobile.msn.com.cn  ;
Windows Live Favorites-http://favorites.live.com
 ; Windows Live
Ideas-http://ideas.live.com  , as well
as owning the entire paid signup services for Windows
Live/MSN.  If the startup culture suits you and shipping
products & services is what attracts you, our team is the
place to be! 
> 
>We would appreciate it if you can pass this information on to
all your members and other Chinese students.  Please reply
this mail if you have further interest regarding the positions
or would like to apply one of them (in this case, please
attach your resume).
> 
>Thank you, 
> 
>Best Regards
> 
> 
>MSN Technologies China 
>Jan 2006

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• COMMUNICATIONS
• COMPUTER SCIENCE
• MANAGEMENT
• PSYCHOLOGY
• HR

Dear Friend: 

Do you know that over four million school-age children are
deprived of education in China due to poverty?  Do you know
that in particularly poor areas of China, 15% of children have
no access to education?  Despite of the government’s recent
subsidy policy to promote free 9-year education, 
many poor regions cannot yet come up with the budget to
implement the policy.  Based on the feedback from our local
coordinators and inspectors,the new subsidy policy had only
been implemented in a few of our support sites. 
 
The children should not be victims of poverty.  They should
not be excluded from classrooms while waiting for a policy’s
implementation.  If you would like to help those children,
please kindly consider doing so through Overseas China
Education Foundation (OCEF), a non-profit, non-governmental,
non-religious, all-volunteer organization with 13 years 
of track record of helping under-privileged children in rural
China. 
 
Since 1992, OCEF has distributed over 10,000 financial aid
packages to impoverished children in China, donated over
62,000 books to 77 rural schools, and rebuilt/repaired 6 rural
school.  Collection of student information and delivery of
financial aid are carried out 100% by our volunteers, and we
do not go through government agency at any level.  We 
guarantee that your donation will go to only the most needy
children. 

This year, OCEF has approved 2250 financial aid applications
from rural children who are in imminent danger of dropping out
of school unless receiving sponsorship starting the next year.
 If you wish to learn more about the hardships facing these
children, I invite you to read our student stories at 

http://www.ocef.org/student-stories.html

http://www.ocef.org/photo/online


If you are interested in helping one or more of them, I
sincerely encourage you to make donation through OCEF and/or
become our volunteer by visiting our web site at www.ocef.org. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me or email ocef@ocef.org if
you have any questions!   We appreciate your kindness. 
Sincerely, 

Gan Liang, Ph.D. 
President 
Overseas China Education Foundation 
gan.liang@ocef.org 
Phone: 281-364-0055 

• The Intro Slides (37M)
• The Opening Flash
• Program Slides
  • 大部分节目Slides
  • 走进西藏 （PPT, MP3)
  • 魔术表演
  • 古筝独奏
• Volunteer List Slides
• Final Movie Clip
• Discount Card Slides
• Posters （Color, Black&White, Name List)
• Photos
  • by CSSA PhotoClub (Part I)
  • by CSSA PhotoClub (Part II)
• Videos
  • processing ...

应Cosmopolitan Club的邀请，CSSA将于8月25日（周四）晚7：30举办一个以中国文化为主题的 ” Coffee Hours”。

Cosmopolitan Club是UIUC一个由来自多个不同国家的国际学生组成的俱乐部，每周举办活动推广国际学生之间的文化交流，该俱乐部主页为 http://www.prairienet.org/cosmo/。

我们也希望借此机会传播中国文化，给UI国际学生提供了解认识中国文化历史和现状的机会。活动的主要形式将包括介绍中国文化和现状的讲演，现场古筝演奏，以及随后的自由交流。CSSA也将在现场提供卡拉OK供大家娱乐助兴，欢迎光大中国学生学者前来参加交流。

时间：7:30pm. Aug, 25th
地点：307 East John Street, Champaign, IL

• 帮助管理CSSA各项活动预算/Make Budget for each event
• 联络学生会各部门/Coordinate with Chinese students clubs
• 向学校申请经费/Apply for U of I funding;
• 争取赞助/Find sponsorship;
• 向学校管理机构预定活动房间/Room reservation for CSSA's activities;
• 办理打折卡/discount card;
• 管理和其他学生组织合作事宜/Work with other organization

1. departure from Champaign (Lafayette) to Wisconsin dells on Sat. morning
2. camping, BBQ, campfire party on Sat. night
3. water parks (we'll help with the group discount) http://www.noahsarkwaterpark.com/
4. scenery boat/duck tours (we'll help with the group discount) http://www.dellsboats.com, http://www.dellsducks.com
5. fishing, boating, horse riding, etc.

1. your name (write “volunteer” after your name if you want to help with the trip)
2. number of participants and names
3. your email address
4. your phone number(s)
5. can you provide ride
6. If you have camping gear such as tents

1. 所有新开户的中国学生如果选择在National City Bank 开户,并将每月工 资直接打到此新开个人账户，银行将于第一笔直接存入款到帐60天后赠与$50作 为回报。$50 会直接存入该帐户（学校支付学生工资时，通常会要求学生提供一 个银行账号，每月工资会定时转入该账户。学生可自行选择使用账号，也可随时 更改）。There is no 最低开户额。
2. 每位新开户同学可获赠一件UIUC logo 的 T-shirt, 价值$10
3. 工资直接入帐的顾客，存款可享受到存款利息。（通常情况下，其他银行对 这种基本的checking 账户是没有利息的，相当于0利息的活期存款账户）
4. 考虑到因为新同学通常需要老生帮忙提供交通才能去银行开户，银行将为帮助 新生前往银行开户的老生提供$10的Walmart or Sam's club 的gift card。通常情况下，需要是银行已有的顾客才能得到这种referer的reward， 但是通过和银行协商，老生只要表明自己是帮助同学前来开户的即可。
5. 免费网上银行服务，如查询账户余额，支付帐单等。

• Chen Yixin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Starting this fall, he will join the Washington University as an assistant professor.
• Liyan Liu is a visiting scholar of English as an International Language. She will provide valuable opinion regarding career development from a comparative perspective.
• Xiaoying (Jenny) YI is going to get her M.S. degree in Actuarial Science of Applied Math at U of I in August. She has landed an actuarial assistant position at Allied Insurance Company, which will start this summer.
• Yi Cui is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science. Starting this fall, he will join the EECS faculty of Vanderbilt University as an assistant professor.
• Yuan Xue is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Starting this fall, she will join the EECS faculty of Vanderbilt University as Assistant Professor.