What is GRUF? What is BG? What the heck is GRUF you ask? Well, it's all of you! GRUF is the affectionate nickname for the buildings that you live in which represent the Graduate, Upperclass, and Family housing here at USC. Are you looking for a way to get involved and improve the quality of life for you and your fellow GRUF residents? One of the best ways to get involved in your residential community is by joining URSC. URSC is USC’s residential student government. Each year residential students are elected at the beginning of the year to serve as volunteer student leaders. Learn more about URSC here: http://ursc.usc.edu/ Building Government or GRUF BG (as we like to call it!) represents YOU and your community and sends four representatives to URSC for their weekly meeting on Wednesdays from 6:30pm-8pm. GRUF BG meetings take place on Wednesdays at 5:45pm in TCC. We want you to get involved in our BG so our residents have a voice for improving the quality of life off-campus. BG plans fun social, cultural, educational, and recreational programs throughout the year.  Seen here is the 2010-2011 GRUF Building Government. Please check back for a picture of our 2011-2012 GRUF BG members. CHAIR Name: Reza Ardekani Email: dehestan@usc.edu Funding Rep Mahdi Azmandia Email: azmandia@usc.edu Programming Rep Paul Wu Email: yenpowu@usc.edu Advocacy Rep Matt Lahana Email: matthew.lahana.2013@lawmail.usc.edu Building Government Advisor Amanda Dickinson Beirne Email: gruf.usc@gmail.com/abeirne@usc.edu BG Positions Chair & Vice Chair He/she creates the weekly agendas, directs the meetings, meets regularly with his/her BGA, and represents the building government to the university community. URSC Representative for Advocacy He/she attends the URSC meetings every Wednesday, meets with Administrators, and serves as each community‟s advocate for university-related problems URSC Representative for Funding He/she attends URSC meetings every Wednesday, serves as a resource for the RA staff, BG, and residents in his/her community for URSC funding applications, and provides information regarding other forms of funding that can be obtained for community events. URSC Representative for Programming He/she attends URSC meetings every Wednesday, works in collaboration with URSC to put on large-scale events, and is a resource for the building government organizing programs of many different types.
Community Outreach Representative Meets with the URSC Community Outreach Coordinator as requested, and organizes community outreach programs for his/her community in collaboration with their individual building government. Housing Intramural Challenge Cup Representative Meets with the URSC HICCup Coordinator as requested, and initiates the formation of community teams for all HICCup-related activities. Recognition Representative Coordinates with URSC BG Liaison to recognize the hard-work done by volunteer students, and helps keep up the motivation of the team. Peer Review Board (PRB) Representative The Peer Review Board consists of USC students who meet once a week to hear incidents. The Board will have an advisor, someone who is familiar with PRB, who will help facilitate their board. Each student involved will be offered time to ask and answer questions regarding their case, sometimes resulting in multiple sessions to resolve a case. There is a training for this position. Secretary
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