Subject: Email from Health Educator re: CADS survey

From: Caltech Directory <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:30:34 -0800

To:  	All Registered Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Subject:  Caltech Alcohol and Drug Survey (CADS) 
- you could win a prize - take it before 2/28

From:     Jane Curtis, M.A., Health Educator

Date:	   February 9, 2007

Dear Student,

Thank you for opening this email.  It contains 
important information about the 2007 Caltech 
Alcohol and Drug Survey (CADS).

… I am inviting all currently registered students 
to take the 2007 CADS survey, designed to gather 
accurate alcohol and drug usage data among our 
students.  It will greatly assist me in my 
efforts in assessing current programs, and 
developing new ones.

… The 2007 CADS web-based survey is online and 
you need to be 18 years of age to participate. 
Every registered Caltech student will receive an 
email from SurveyMonkey.com on February 12 with 
the hotlink to take this confidential and 
voluntary survey.  Do not delete the 
SurveyMonkey.com email; the link to the CADS 
survey is embedded in it.  The subject line will 
be:  Caltech 2007 CADS Survey.  You will not use 
any Caltech identifying information to take it 
and you will need to complete the survey in one 
sitting, which typically takes about 20 minutes.

… By completing the survey, you will be entered 
into a random drawing to win one of 10 individual 
prizes, including a set of Bose headphones, 
Melting Pot and Target gift certificates, iPod 
nano, iTunes and more. There is also a cash prize 
for the undergraduate house that receives the 
highest response rate, and a cash prize if the 
GSC is successful in having more than 50% of the 
graduate students complete the survey.

… Your name or e-mail addresses will never be 
associated with your responses.  You may answer 
only some questions, or you may choose not to 
participate in the survey at all. You have been 
assigned a unique ID number, embedded in the 
SurveyMonkey.com address, in order for the secure 
server to manage your online survey input.  To 
ensure confidentiality, ID numbers are destroyed 
before data are compiled and shared with me.

… Data transmission is encrypted and firewall 
securities are in place. After you submit the 
survey to the secure server, you will receive a 
message thanking you for taking the survey.  In 
March, prize winners will be notified via email 
to collect their prize in my office (Center for 
Student Services Bldg., Room 248).

… There may be some personal discomfort with the 
content of certain questions.  For example, there 
are sensitive questions concerning illegal drug 
use or questions asking if you have abused 
prescription drugs.  If after taking the survey, 
you experience emotional discomfort or need 
assistance, please contact me at x2961 or the 
Student Counseling Center at x8331.

Thank you for your honest answers and time.

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