{"id":80,"date":"2010-02-08T19:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:36:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T23:36:18","slug":"feb-4-2010-mit-grad-student-council-legislative-action-kick-off-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/2010\/02\/08\/feb-4-2010-mit-grad-student-council-legislative-action-kick-off-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 4, 2010: MIT Grad Student Council Legislative Action Kick-Off Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Grad Student Council Legislative Action Kick-Off Meeting<br \/>\nThursday, Feb 4, 6-7P<br \/>\n50-220 (Walker Memorial) MIT<\/p>\n<p>MIT&#8217;s Grad Student Council (GSC) Legislative Action represents graduate student interests in Washington DC. They work with the National Assoc. of Graduate-Professional Students to lobby the government for issues including creating a federal tax-exempt status for stipends, removing the H-1B visa quota for advanced-degree holders, and promoting open access to federally-funded research. Members will get to meet with members of Congress and government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Read about their last trip at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tech.mit.edu\/V129\/N54\/GSCwashington.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tech.mit.edu\/V129\/N54\/GSCwashington.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0 GSC Legislative Action Subcommittee (<a href=\"mailto:gsc-lasc@mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\">gsc-lasc@mit.edu<\/a>)with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Grad Student Council Legislative Action Kick-Off Meeting Thursday, Feb 4, 6-7P 50-220 (Walker Memorial) MIT MIT&#8217;s Grad Student Council (GSC) Legislative Action represents graduate student interests in Washington DC. They work with the National Assoc. of Graduate-Professional Students to lobby the government for issues including creating a federal tax-exempt status for stipends, removing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-february-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/societyofscientists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}