The Annual CSE Holiday Party

The CSE Holiday Party is an annual gathering in celebration of the many different holidays that seem to happen on or around December in many different religions and cultures. And besides, it's been a few months since the Pit Party, so we clearly need another excuse for us all to get together and talk, eat lots of food, and drink a bit as well.

The Party typically occurs on the Saturday between the last day of instruction and the first day of finals during autumn quarter. Examples of such days would be Dec. 9, 1995. When there is no such Saturday, because the Registrar (or whoever decides such things) likes to confuse us, then someone like the 1996 Holiday Party Coordinator will just have to wing it.

The Party starts at around 6pm and ends around 10pm.

Attendees

All CSE faculty, staff, and grad students are invited to attend.

Events

Listed below are just some of the things that typically happen at the Party. Actual events in any given year vary.

• People arrive (usually between 6pm and 7pm).
• People eat.
• People who have children allow said children to participate in a gift exchange with relatively simple, understandable, and non-adversarial rules.
• The grad students perform a skit.
• Dr. Computer Science and Engineering answers questions you asked!
• The faculty perform a skit.

Responsibilities

The Party has several groups of responsibility which the Coordinator and Assistants to said Coordinator shepherd people into. Of course, people are welcome to volunteer for these positions, instead of waiting to be shepherded!

Potluck Food

Please bring food to share!

Shared food can fall into many categories, including:

• Salads
• Vegetarian Main Dish
• Main Dish Containing Meat
• Dessert

Beverages will be provided.

Skits

As noted above, Tradition says that both the faculty and the graduate students organize a Skit to perform during the Party. The Coordinator will find two Directors, one for each Skit. The Directors are designated Assistants and will use the powers invested in them to assemble Writers, a Cast, a Crew and whatever other Personnel they need to carry out the Skits.

Volunteers

And what would a CSE party be without volunteers! Most of them are grad students.

• 2-3 Shoppers, who are requested to make a trip to Price/Costco and possibly Safeway to purchase supplies for the Party shortly before it begins.
• Emergency Shopper, who will be on call to make a run to Safeway if we run low on something during the party.
• 3-5 Interior Designers, who are requested to design and implement an arrangement of furniture for the Party shortly before it begins.
• 3-4 Sanitary Engineers and Interior Remodelers, who are requested to undo the hard work that the Interior Designers did to rearrange the furniture and the Attendees did to create a reasonable-sized mess.