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February 10,
2008
Confirm: Baraboo
Hello as we bundle up on a very cold night. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Freshmen Representatives for TD Housing Committee: If you are interested in serving on the TD Housing Committee, let your freshman counselor know. Two representatives from the Class of 2011 are needed, one male and one female. The housing process (room draw) begins the second week after spring break and goes for three weeks. Those three weeks each year are the time commitment. These TD members of the housing committee can give you an idea of the duties and responsibilities: Bevan Dowd, Jonathatn Ferrugia, Niko Bowie, Margaret Plouffe, Danielle Kehl, and Dallas Hansen.
Mellon Senior Forum: Tuesday, February 12, 5:30 – 7 PM, Anna Liffey’s. Presenters include: Flora Mendoza(Latin American Studies and Humanities) ,Protest Performance in Chile&Argentina; Alice Wang (Film Studies) a short, narrative film; Annie Hirschhorn (History of Art),The Photography of Robert Adams; Maya Bernadett (History of Science, History of Medicine), “Native Americans and NASA: How a small Indigenous Nation made a Big Impact in the History of Telemedicine”; David Gottesman (History),The Spanish Inquisition.
WRITING CENTER RESOURCES
Tutoring resources: Students may make appointments with a Residential College Tutor or drop-in to get help from a Writing Partner. Both of these services are described on our website, www.yale.edu/writing. Here's the favor: may we send a student tutor to the first or last five minutes of your class to promote the tutoring services? He or she will simply remind students that we're available and hand out a card with our schedule. Please let us know if you are willing to let someone come by. Thank you!
Web resources: "Writing at Yale," a guide to using sources well (and avoiding plagiarism), is also available on our website. Students can also find there models of good student writing from a wide range of Yale courses. www.yale.edu/writing
SUMMER
Study in Dubrovnik, Croatia Information Session: Yale Summer Session five-week course of study in history and culture in Croatia, History and Culture of Southeastern Europe, led by Yale faculty members Ivo Banac and Jasmina Besirevic Regan. Outside of class, students will have the opportunity to explore Dubrovnik on their own and through organized program activities. Croatia lies on the Adriatic Sea and has been long renowned for its beauty. When: Wednesday, February 13th, at noon; Where: Trumbull College Dining Hall.
PRIZES
Seniors
Competitions for the John Addison Porter and Theron Rockwell Field Prizes. A brief description of each prize and an application form (same form is used for both prizes) is available at:
http://www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/porter/
http://www.yale.edu/secretary/prizes/field/
A completed application form must accompany each entry. To ensure fairness, entries will be accepted no later than 5:00pm on Thursday, April 3.
FELLOWSHIPS
Juniors and Seniors
Fulbright Grants Information Meeting, Tuesday, February 12, 7:00 pm at IEFP, 55 Whitney, Room 369 (3rd floor). The grants support research, or teaching abroad, offering academic-year awards to over 140 countries. Two and three-year jointly-funded scholarships are also available to Oxford (UK). Speakers include former Fulbright Scholars from Yale. These fellowships have an early campus deadline (September), so it is important to get started soon. There will be ample time for questions. This meeting will be held only once this year.
Juniors and Seniors
Major UK Fellowships Information Meeting, Wednesday, February 13, 7:00 pm at IEFP, 55 Whitney, Room 305 (3rd floor). Included are the Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes, Churchill, Gates, and Other Major UK Fellowships. This meeting provides an overview of the application and selection processes. These fellowships have early fall deadlines. Speakers include Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholars from a number of disciplines. There will be ample time for questions. This meeting will be held only once this year.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Intramural Training and Education oversees one of the largest and most successful scientific training programs in the nation, where over 4000 students contribute to scientific discoveries made daily in laboratories at the NIH. Learn more about NIH Training programs at www.training.nih.gov .
CAREER SERVICES
Non-profit Career Fair. Lanman Center, Payne Whitney Gym, Friday, February 8, 11 am - 2pm. More than 40 organizations will be on hand to meet with students and discuss
full-time and summer opportunities.
NOTES
I look out the window at our sliver of a moon, on its way from full and then to be full again. A cold promise. I see the evening star close by, bright in the clear night. I see the clouds grayed by the moonlight. The scene lifts me. It lifts me as the dancer does when she extends her arms like a bird, raises them like wings, and lifts one leg to raise her body. Lifts me as the northern lights made the whole world a magic place on a cool Maine summer night once when I was hiking Ktaadn.. February is ambivalent, so cold in its earlier sunrise and later sunset, those times of day that correspond with private anticipation. I hear birds in the morning, maybe the same birds whose flutter echoes down my chimney. I keep expecting some bird to pop into my room from the flue. Not yet. First they and I must make our passage through February's contradictory gifts of cold sunrise and fiery sunset.
And with such thoughts I see the bright reds that anticipate Valentine's Day, suddenly in the flashing red light on the ring of a girl at the train station and less suddenly in a flower and a red jumper. As I see these human and natural signs of a coming day, I cherish my memory of human and natural warmth. And, passing into February, I anticipate both in and out of season. Valentine's Day, although invented, may bring a February correspondence with our affection for others.
There is such a long continuum of affections, and we barely have adequate names for each of them. That is fine because the magic of affection does not need words. A pause to greet someone says, "I acknowledge you." Closer and lingering, our eyes may say, "I know you." I asked a TD alumna what from her informal education at Yale meant the most to her. She paused, told a story, and summed up: "They went out of their way to do something for me." The promise of affection is always in season. February will pass, the moon will return to full, and the dancer will rise from the floor.
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