The Chinese Scholar and Students Associate is distributing the 2010-2011 Chinese restaurant and grocery discount card. Our program is joined by many very high-rated local Chinese businesses.
The complete list of business partners can be found at our website www.pittcssa.net.
Highlighted partners that have been contracted are Little Aisa in oakland, Yongfa grocery store in Strip district, China Star on McKnight Rd, Szechuan Express in oakland, Lin's Hair studio in strip district, Maimam Pizza, Sakura in Squirill Hill, New China Inn on center Avenue, and Hokkaido seafood buffet on the way to waterfront.
Many businesses are still joining !
We're distributing the discount card on "Pitt has Got Talent" National Day and Moon Festival Talent show, Oct 2nd Publich Health G23 starting from 6pm. We will have staff to work with you and distribute cards to you before the show starts.
We charge 3 dollars printing fee for students, and 5 dollars for faculty and staff.
Please bring your Pitt ID and exact amount of cash for registration.
Thank you very much!
Shang Gao
President, Pitt-CSSA
Talent Show
CSSA is proudly hosting “Pitt has Got Talent” - National Day& Moon Festival Talent Show. We sincerely invite you all to come and celebrate the two big holidays with us! There will be amazing and exciting performances from 7pm-9pm. Mooncakes and snacks are also provided. We will also give out raffle presents to winners of the night. So please grab your friend and come to join us for this exciting moment!
Time: Oct 2nd 7pm
Location: Public Health G23, University of Pittsburgh.
We have a new BBS now :)
Because our old BBS has some spam issues, we are moving the BBS to a NEW ADDRESS! That is a new start. Come and join us!
Pitt CSSA badminton Club is recruiting new members!
Dear Pitt CSSA Badminton Club members,
Welcome (and welcome back) to Pitt CSSA badminton club! This is Fanyin He, the new coordinator of Pitt CSSA Badminton Club. In this fall term, club will continue hosting series of activities. Please check the following information you may concern:
Membership Fee: $20.00 per member per term. The money is used to buy shuttlecocks, so that you don't need to bring shuttlecocks to the game! In addition, Pitt CSSA will provide financial aid to us.
Fresh Blood Recruiting: We are still looking for some fresh blood to organize our club activities.
Please send your information (Name, Cell phone number, and Email address) to Fanyin He (farahh37@gmail.com) if you want to be a member or/and to organize the club.
If you have any other questions, you are also welcome to contact us at this email address.
Our first activity will start at 7:00pm next Tuesday (September 7th). Enjoy!
Sincerely,
Pitt CSSA Badminton Club
WE ARE RECRUITING!!
Dear All,
CSSA is recruiting new members. If you want to assist us working on providing our Chinese students and scholars better and more colorful social events and activities, please do not hesitate to contact us and extend your interest. We are recruiting assistants for every Vice President, and also sports club leaders. There will always be team-working among all members and through every event and activity. So please do not worry if you are unfamiliar with what you have to do. We will help you out. Please reply to your email with your brief resume with your name, department and past student organization experiences. Also please indicate your interested position(optional), tell us your contact email and phone number.
The possible available positions are the following.
VP of Communication: in charge of website update and emails
Assistant of Website Management
Assistant of Art and Design
Assistant of Logistics
Assistant of Entertainment
Assistant of Sports
Assistant of Public Relation
Assistant of Finance
Director of Volunteers
Director of Movie Club
Thank you very much and I do hope to see you all very soon!
Shang Gao
President, Pitt-CSSA
Graduate Student Assistant, CI-Pitt
Ed.D Student, ADMPS, University of Pittsburgh
Spring Festival 2010
Please join us in celebrating the Spring Festival 2010(The Tiger Year)!
Like in the past, we have performances and free dinner prepared for you. Please take a look at our ticket reservation page for details.
Date:
Saturday, Feburary 13th, 2010
Time:
Tea House:
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm (free bubble tea, snacks, games, movies and prizes!)
The Chinese Scholar and Students Associate is distributing the 2009-2010 Chinese restaurant and grocery discount card. Our program is joined by many very high-rated local Chinese businesses.
Highlighted partners that have been contracted are Little Aisa in oakland, Yongfa grocery store in Strip district, China Star on McKnight Rd, Szechuan Express in oakland, Lin's Hair studio in strip district, Maimam Pizza, Sakura in Squirill Hill, New China Inn on center Avenue, and Hokkaido seafood buffet on the way to waterfront.
Many businesses are still joining !
We're distributing the discount card from this Wednesday through Friday, and next week Monday and Tuesday during lunchtime.
The location is WPU main floor by Jazz Display. We will have a big sign saying " CSSA discount CARD distribution"
The specific times are
Wednesday and Friday (Nov 11th and Nov 13th) 11:30 am to 1:30pm
Thursday (Nov 12th) 11:50 am to 1:30 pm
Monday and Tuesday (16th and 17th) 11:30am to 1:30 pm
We charge 3 dollars printing fee for students, and 5 dollars for faculty and staff.
Please bring your Pitt ID and exact amount of cash for registration.
Thank you very much!
Ying Yang Nov 10, 2009
Halloween Party 2009
Time: 7:30 pm, Saturday Oct. 31
Location: Dining Room A WPU
Features: Costume show, fun games. Small gifts will be provided as rewards for the most popular costume
show participants and winners of the games.
To take advantage of this service, please advise students to arrange for their flight to arrive in Pittsburgh on one of the previous listed dates.
Students are only allowed to register for ONE date.
Students are only to register for themselves and traveling family members, please advised them NOT to register for other new international students traveling with them.
Students will receive detailed information about the pick-up times and the meeting place after they register.
Airport registration is cut off 72 hours in advance of the pick-up date.
Students must register for a pick-up date at least three days prior.
There will be a job recruitment event held by Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and organized by Pitt CSSA on April 18th, 2009. If you are looking for a career path in China, please come to the event! For requirements and available positions, please check out in the poster. We hope to see you there!
Chinese Students & Scholars Association
University of Pittsburgh
The server of CSSA email account has some problems sending our weekly news and emails to Gmail accounts.
If you have registered using your Gmail account but missed or never received our emails, please change your contact email account to others,
such as hotmail or pitt.edu.
Please send your updated email accounts to sorc+cssa@pitt.edu. We appologize for the inconvenience or any trouble caused by this problem. Thank you!
SCARY Movie Night for Halloween
Celebration of Halloween ~ It's haunting time!
Scary Movie Night!
When: Oct 26th (Sunday) 7:00--9:00 pm
Where: WPU Assembly Room
Movie: 画皮“Hua Pi” (Painted Skin)
To All New Students: Chinese New Student Welcome PARTY !!!
Time: August 16th (Saturday), from 4:30pm to 7:00pm
Location: Kurtzman Room on main floor of William Pitt Union.
Most important information will be provided to help you settle down in US, such as social security number (SSN), banking account, credit cards, transportation, shopping and dining in Pittsburgh, cell phone communication and many others.
Pizza and drinks will be provided for free. Please make sure you will be there with us!
We are going to issue CSSA Discount Cards and renew old cards by adding stickers on the back. Cards are valid only with sickers after October, 2008.
Every Friday 12-1:30p on the fifth floor of WPU from August 23 through September 27: 1. Renew your card with the sticker for $2. 2. Get a new one for $3 if you do not have one yet.
Note:
Little Asia ONLY provide discounts for paying CASH for the following year. The discount is 12% off.
>>>>> ATTENTION: NEW STUDENT AIRPORT PICK-UP <<<<<
Urgent!! For New Students: If you have registered OIS pick-up, please go with OIS staff at the airport. If you have found someone else to help you, PLEASE PLEASE make sure that OIS knows your plan, so that they don't have to wait at the airport till 1:00 AM at midnight, just waiting for you and wondering if you are safe.
During last year and this year, we all experience that new students registered for OIS pick-up and never show up. OIS stuff and our CSSA volunteers have to wait for them till late midnight, which is very tiring and frustrating.
PLEASE make sure that you either go with OIS, or let them know that you have someone else to pick you up. Thank you so much!!
If your flight is delayed, or for some reason you cannot arrive in Pittsburgh on time, please find some way to call us at:412-600-3108.
18th Annual University of Pittsburgh
Kennywood Picnic
On Saturday, September 13th, 2008 (Pavilion #5, 11:00 am – 11:00 pm)
FunDay Pass to Kennywood Park on Sept.13th including FOOD!!! Just for $16 (usually $32 at the gate) Seniors (55+) for $8 and kids ages 2 & under are free.
ONLY University of Pittsburgh students and employees are eligible for this price.
(need to show your Pitt id, but you can buy as many tickets as you want).
Tickets are on sale at the WPU main floor, ticket office (just by the side of information desk) from 9:00 am to 4:45 pm during weekdays. CASH ONLY. First come, first serve!
***************** Coordinated by the Staff Association Council Office (412-624-4236) ********************
As we all know, a strong earthquake jolted the southwestern China at 2:28 pm (Beijing Time), May 12th, 2008. Since now, over 34 thousand people have been killed by this 8-magnitude quake, and even more have been injured.
Pitt CSSA is calling for donation to help people in the disaster area. We'll gather the donated money and send it to the affected people through the Consulate General in New York. For your convenience, we just opened a PayPal account for this special event.
Pitt CSSA is a non-profit organization registered in Pitt campus. We'll publish all transactions of donations online and provide receipts by request. In order to protect your privacy, we'll use initials to name the donors, unless you give us the permission to show your full name.
MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY!
YOU ARE HELPING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE!
Step 1: Bank name: PNC Bank, ABA #: 043000096
Step 2: To credit Eureka Bank, Acct #: 01023765
Step 3: To further credit Chinese Student & Scholar Association (CSSA), Acct #: 0120121851
Address:
3455 Forbes Avenue at McKee Place,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(There is $15 fee for us to accept the wire transfer per transaction, in addition to the fee related to the sender's end, so we encourage people to send it through check or paypal)
2. Donate by check:
Payable to: CSSA
Mail your check to:
Jing Wang
3725 Dawson Street, Apt.1
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
OR if you want send the check through campus mail, the campus address is :
Jing Wang
School of Nursing
360D Victoria Building,
3500 Victoria Street,
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
*Jing Wang is the treasurer of CSSA
**Please indicate "China Earthquake Relief" in the memo area of the check.
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) at University of Pittsburgh will be holding a two-day event to support the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as well as show the facts about Tibet.
Olympic Signature Drive
Time: Tuesday, April 29th 11:00am-7:30pm} Location: WPU Bigelow patio & lawn. Main Theme: A peaceful name-signing drive to support and promote the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on authorized Olympic banner "One world, one dream"! To express and write down your wishes, blessings and comments! To make paper cranes as the symbol of best wishes!
Facts about Tibet
Time: Wednesday, April 30th 11:00am-7:30pm Location: WPU Bigelow patio & lawn. Main Theme: Educative poster session to address current issues about Tibet and distortion of media propaganda! With videos and posters, it is time that we show the facts and truth in Tibet.
Please join our event and spread out this message to your friends!
To support our event, please wear CSSA t-shirts if you have!
Volunteer recruitment for these two events
Want to support us more? Please become one of our volunteers for these events! Simply reply to yingyang02@gmail.com . You don’t have to be a member or registered student to volunteer.
A Chinese Performance Event on April 29th
When: April 29, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.
VIP reception will be followed immediately after the performance
Where:
Upper St. Clair High School, Auditorium
1825 McLaughlin Run Road
Upper St. Clair, PA 15241
Thank you for your generousness in the snowstorm donation! We have received donation of more than400dollars from different individuals! CSSA has added up the total amount to500dollars and sent the check to the Chinese Consulate General in New York in early March. For the snowstorm donation, the Chinese Consulate General in New York has set up a special department during this period and will send all the donations from different Chinese students organizations back to China!
We are so happy and touched to see so many of us stand out and support our country and people during difficulties and tragedies, and it's CSSA's great honor to send your greetings back to China! We will let you know the donation follow-up from the Chinese Consulate General in New York! Hope you will always be supportive to Pitt-CSSA!
The CSSA basketball club plans to organize a men basketball team to participate in the Pitt Intramural Game every Fall term. If you are enthusiastic about basketball and can attend our weekly trainings in the summer (every Sunday afternoon), you are welcome to join us!
Meanwhile, we also plan to organize a women basketball team (not for competition, just for fun). The training time will be the same with men’s team. So any female members who are interested in playing basketball are welcome to join us too!
For those interested, please send email to Yue Zhang (zysxqn@hotmail.com), indicating your name, gender, and email address. Thanks!
Dance Party ! (March 23rd )
Location: WPU Assembly Room
Time: 7-11pm on March 23rd
>>>> There will be professional dance teacher
Go Hiking!!! (The Hiking Event on March 15th)
As the weather will be getting warmer soon, it's time for us to shape up and getting rid of the little tummies we accumulated throughout the winter :)
The fitness club is organizing a hiking event again in Frick Park on March 15th Saturday. This time, we will have two teams, one is the 9 mile run team, and other being the medium level hiking track team. Because of my ankle injury, I will lead the hiking team.
Please email your name and phone number to yingyang02@gmail.com if you'd like to join. You will receive the park map, the track to follow, the bus lines and specific address after we receive your email. Also a volunteer to lead the 9 mile run team is needed.
the upcoming performance of “Peony Pavilion” (Mudan ting)
The Asian Studies Center and the Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh are pleased to announce the upcoming performance of “Peony Pavilion” (Mudan ting), a beloved Chinese opera classic, by New York’s Chinese Theatre Works troupe.
This is a one night only event to be held on Thursday, March 6, 2008, at the CAPA Theater, located at the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts at 111 Ninth Street in downtown Pittsburgh, PA.
Ticketsare available via ProArtsTickets by calling (412) 394-3353 or for purchase online at http://www.proartstickets.org. Ticket prices are as follows: $25.00 for general tickets, $10.00 for students and seniors, and $5.00 for children under 12.
For more information, please contact Katherine Carlitz at kcarlitz@pitt.edu or (412) 648-7371.
Donation: Please write a check or money order payable to CSSA, and send to 6823 Penn ave. pittsburgh PA 15208. We really appreciate your kind help.
If you have any questions please send email to Bowen Liu or Wan Zhu
A sever snow storm has rampaged throughout provinces in northwest and southeast China, mostly along side Yangzi River drainage area. This storm is not like what we have seen here in Pittsburgh or anywhere around this region. It is a storm claims near a hundred people’s lives, crashes more than ten million houses, affects about 80 million people, and costs almost one billion dollars lost.
Percy Shelley said about two hundred years ago: “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” and I will say today: “winter will no longer be freezing, only because of you!”
Greeting Letter from Consulate General in New York
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Saturday February 2, 2008
Location: Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall (4141 5th Ave)
Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA)
at University of Pittsburgh
· Poster designed by Yiqun Chen
Sponsors: The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, the Chinese Consulate General in NY, Graduate and Professional Student Association, Confucius Institute, Asian Studies Center, University Center of International Studies, the office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, Office of International Services, GlaxoSmithKline’s Asian Employee Support Network.
Movie suppliers: East Asian Library, Blin in North America
Collaborators in Spring festival stage show: Chinese Association for Science and Technology - Pittsburgh Chapter (CAST-P), Oriental Star Dance School
Special thanks: Twisted Runway, Fedex Kinko's
Yao Ming is Coming! (Hoston Rockets @ Cleveland Cavaliers)
Location: Quicken Loan Arena, Cleveland, OH.
Time: Feb 19th. (TUE), 7:00pm ET
Come on guys! There is the chance to watch Yao Ming, King James, and other NBA super stars on Feb 19th at clevenland, 2 hours driving from Pittsburgh. This year the CSSA want to organize a group of people to watch the game and cheer for our proud Yao Ming.
>>> The CSSA will buy the tickets all together. We will provide two types of ticket:
Type 1): cheap but far (around $5), e.g. Section 200
Type 2): a little bit expensive but very close to the field (around $50), e.g. Section 120
>>> NOTE: 1). The ticket price is SUBJECT TO CHANGE when we actually buy the tickets. 2). We want all of us to sit TOGETHER, so we will only provide two types of tickets.
>>> REGISTRATION
Any one who is interested in the event please send email to zysxqn@hotmail.com bythis Friday night (Feb 8th.), 11:59pm EST.
>>> In the email , please provide information including: 1). Your CELL PHONE NUMBER. We will call you to confirm your tickets. 2). Whether you can DRIVE there or you will NEED A RIDE. We encourage anyone who has a car to drive there. All the persons in a car will SHARE the gas and other possible fees. 3). Which types of ticket and how many tickets you want.
>>> Suggested Email Format: Your Name: Cell no:
No. of Ticket:
Type of tickets:
Drive (how many seats left) or need a ride?
>>> IMPORTANT: 1). You pay for the ticket and drive yourself there. CSSA is only responsible for the ORGANIZATION and is NOT responsible for any occasion happened during this event. 2). Once you confirmed, you MUST pay for the ticket NO MATTER whether you will actually attend the event.
>>> PAYMENT We will distribute your tickets at departure. At that time, please bring CASH or CHECK to fetch your tickets.
>>> DEPARTURE: We will depart at 3:00pm (EST) Feb 19th. in front of WPU, and come back to Pittsburgh around 1:00am (EST) Feb 20th.
Chinese Culture & Olympic Exhibition(Jan. 28th, 2008)
· Poster designed by Chengchen Li
2008 Chinese Spring Festival: Stage Show & Tea House
Time: Feb. 3rd, 3pm-midnight
Location: William Pitt Union, Kimble Gallery
Since some people didn't pick up their tickets during our tickets distribution, we still have about 75 tickets for the Spring Festival Free Dinner. If you are interested, please come to our event on Sunday, Feb. 3rd to get the ticket at the registration table at the entrance of Ballroom, WPU. Whoever comes first will get the tickets. So, please come early and attend our tea house!
BTW, the stage show doesn't require ticket, this ticket is for the free dinner before the stage show.
· Poster designed by Yiqun Chen
2008 Chinese New Year Celebration (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Saturday February 2, 2008)
Note: This is a CASTP's event
Tickets:
VIP $20 each, Adults $10 each
Children (18 and under) & Students $5 each
Location: Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall (4141 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213)
Tickets selling exclusively for Pitt Student and Scholars will be on Jan 28th at PITT CSSA Chinese Culture & Olympic Exhibition at WPU 3PM-7PM
For ticket researvation/purchase at other time, please email timanwang@gmail.com
For tickets and detailed information, please contact:
Discount: 10% off if pay by cash
Address: 3725 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA15213 Tel. 412-687-6288 Fax: 412-687-1182
Upcoming Events
Time
Location
· Karaoke event
Nov. 17th
Dining Room A WPU
· Movie show
Nov. 30th
Engineering Auditorium
Basketball Tournament
The CSSA Basketball club of University of Pittsburgh will hold a Basketball Tournament against West Virginia University. It will be held on Sunday, Nov 11th 12:30-14:30 at Trees Hall.
We cordially invites you to participate in this game and built a cheer team.
Card Distribution 2010
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