An Important Message from Chris...

To: SSMP 3rd Year Students

Dear friends,

RE: Residence College Application/Appeal

Refer to the matter above.
I have met En. Awang from Student Residence and Service Section (S3P), Student and Alumni Affairs Department (HEP), and have acquired the following information,

1. If the online (SMP) system display your status as “Application failed”, please do your appeal (if you want to continue staying in your residence college) as soon as possible, regardless of whether your name has been written in manually in the list of the respective residence colleges. The expiry date is 23rd May, but do not wait till last minute.

2. The main reasons for rejecting your application are (1) discipline case recorded and (2) inactivity in the residence college you’re staying in (even during the first semester of session 2008/2009).

3. There is a quota for appeal, and those who were actively involved, who have contributed to, the respective residence colleges they applied for will be given priority.

4. En. Awang agreed to help (but there’s no guarentee).

5. Any switching of residence colleges is permitted (if the one who applies for it has a strong reason) but discouraged, and all such requests should be made directly through the Student Residence and Service Section of the HEP, because they have the overall quota and master list.
MPP will appeal manually in one letter here in UMS for those whose applications were rejected, so individual manual appeal on your behalf is not necessary.

Those who have told Jian Ming their names will have a chance (not certainty) to get an answer before July – that is, before new semester starts – whether their appeals are accepted or not.
For the people who forgot to send in their name to Jian Ming or were missed-informed, they will certainly have to wait until the third week of July – that is, after the first intake of the new undergraduates – and so they must look for themselves the temporary places to stay during the period pending appeal result.

Important notes for those who are appealing:

1. In your online (SMP) appeal, please fill in as many activities as you joined during the 1st semester of 2008/2009 session and never press submit button until you have completed the form (if I’m not mistaken it’s a one-time submission – no correction allowed once form is submitted).

2. I’ll write a letter and submit it here as a manual appeal in UMS, and will send a carbon copy of that letter to Jian Ming to be posted for your reference (and only those who have duly submitted their names to Jian Ming will be included).

3. Any submission of name after the 7th of May will not be entertained.
You can SMS my numbers (0195340580; 0174072095) if you have any doubts.
Thank you.

Regards,
Chris

emailed sent to foodstep@yahoo.com : 6 May 2009 (Wednesday), 17.40pm