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			<h2>Why Join ACM?</h2>

			<p><strong>ACM's objective is to advance computing as a science and
			profession. </strong>As a student chapter, we must dedicate
			ourselves to accomodating the needs of our fellow students as an
			investment for brilliant minds in academia and successful men and
			women in business.  Subsequently, for you, the undergraduate, here
			is our offer:</p>

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					<h3>Resume Building</h3>
					<p>Through participation in skill building workshops,
					engagement in local projects and involvement in
					international competitions, your portfolio will be
					unmatched for internships and jobs.</p>
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					<h3>Skill Building</h3>
					<p>No experience you say? No problem. We begin by equipping
					our members with the skills necessary to achieve their
					goals such as exploring new programming languages and
					developing for the web.</p>
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					<h3>Career Success</h3>
					<p>As of 2012, the unemployment rate in our industry <a
					href="http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Mobile-Java-Developers-Hard-to-Find-Dice-691423/"
					target="_blank">hovers around 3.5%</a>, far below the
					national average. There is an increasing demand for
					technology professionals. We plan to secure your career in
					this industry.</p>
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					<h3>International Competitions</h3>
					<p>Feeling competitive? Only members of an ACM chapter are
					allowed to compete in the the nationally renown <a
					href="http://icpc.baylor.edu/" title="ACM-ICPC"
					target="_blank">Intercollegiate Programming
					Competition</a>. We hope to send a team to the World
					Finals.</p>
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			<h2>2012-2013 Board: Who Are These Guys?</h2>
			<p>These fine, young gentlemen here have been through best and
			worst of times for ACM. They are dedicated to preserving the vision
			and achieving the objectives of this student chapter. If you see
			them in the Irvine wild, say hello sometime.</p>

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					<h4>Gio Borje</h4>
					<span>Chair</span>
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					<h4>Kenneth Baldauf</h4>
					<span>Vice Chair</span>
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					<h4>Muhammad Zaman</h4>
					<span>Historian</span>
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					<h4>Raymond Thai</h4>
					<span>Corporate Outreach</span>
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					<h4>Brian Wang</h4>
					<span>Treasurer</span>
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					<h4>John Lin</h4>
					<span>Resource Acquisition</span>
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					<h4>Anthony Hoang</h4>
					<span>Microsoft Student Partner</span>
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					<h4>Sharat Chandra</h4>
					<span>Secretary<span>
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					<h4>Alexander Nicolau</h4>
					<span>Faculty Advisor<span>
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					<h4>Alexander Veidenbaum</h4>
					<span>Faculty Advisor<span>
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			<p>Additionally, there are several graduate students and professors
			that support our efforts: <a
			href="http://www.cogitolingua.net/blog/" title="Eric Hennigan"
			target="_blank">Eric Hennigan</a> for moral support, Alex Thornton
			for organization advice, Dan Hirschberg for algorithm help, and
			Alexander Nicolau and Alexander Veidenbaum as our faculty
			advisors.</p>
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			<h2>What is "Big ACM"?</h2>
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				<p>ACM is an initialism for the Association of Computing
				Machinery. We refer to <a href="http://www.acm.org/"
				title="ACM" target="_blank">Big ACM as the national
				organization</a> while we are a student chapter of this
				national organization.</p>

				<p>ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific
				computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as
				a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's
				premier Digital Library and serves its members and the
				computing profession with leading-edge publications,
				conferences and career resources.</p>
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				<h3>ACM Benefits</h3>
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					<li>Access to Leading Edge Publications</li>
					<li>Professional Networking</li>
					<li>Discounts and Special Offers</li>
					<li>Participation in Programming Competitions.</li>
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