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March 2,
2008
confirm: baraboo
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Three of Our Community Values
Mutual Respect
Mutual Trust
Mutual Caring
Panel, chaired by Dean Salovey: "The Politics of Hate" Tuesday, March 4, 7 PM, Sudler Hall (WLH 201). The panelists are Professors Khalilah Brown-Dean, Ange-Marie Hancock, and Charles Small.
TD Room Draw begins the second week after spring break and goes for three weeks. The information meeting is Sunday evening, March 30. The TD Housing Committee comprises Bevan Dowd, Jonathan Ferrugia, Niko Bowie (co-chair), Margaret Plouffe (co-chair), Danielle Kehl, Dallas Hansen, Eleanor Wertman, and Sam Pilku. Room draw information, schedule, and procedures are available at www.yale.edu/td .Maps of TD rooms are also available at the TD web site (NETID required).
Freshmen and the Room Draw: Freshmen enter the sophomore room draw (for TD housing in their sophomore year) and must form triples, quads, quints, or sextets. Singles and doubles are not available in that room draw for sophomore year housing. A list of rooms in the draw is at www.yale.edu/td .
Check your mailbox in the TD Mail Room because the master’s office will clean out all mailboxes during spring break.
Check the Laundry Room because during spring break the master’s office will give clothes left to the homeless shelters of New Haven.
ACADEMICS
Deadline: Friday, March 7, 5 PM is the last day to withdraw from a spring-term course without having the course appear on the transcript. The form to withdraw is available in the TD dean’s office.
Deadline: Monday, March 31, 5 PM is the last day to convert from the Credit/D/Fail option in a spring term course to a letter grade. The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
SUMMER
YSEC Kroon Endowment funding to attend an environmental conference. YSEC will purchase transportation to and from the conference and pay the conference admission fee, if applicable. In some cases, YSEC may be able to supply a stipend for food, lodging, and local transportation. If you have questions about arrangements for a conference you’d like to attend, contact the YSEC co-chairs. Fill out an application and email it to the YSEC co-chairs, drop it off in the YSEC mailbox in Dwight Hall, or bring it to a YSEC meeting (Tuesdays from 7:00 to 8:00 pm in the Dwight Hall library). Applications are due three weeks before the start of the conference you select. More information from YSEC co-chairs: Kevin Currey (kevin.currey@yale.edu) , Valerie Gordon (valerie.gordon@yale.edu) , and Julia Meisel (julia.meisel@yale.edu) .
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors
Michael Manzella Summer Fellowship to support projects in cancer research, children’s causes, and the arts. Fellowship support projects in the US or abroad, but preference will be given to projects undertaken in the US. Previous fellowship projects range from research in a cancer laboratory to social service work benefiting children to an arts project that enriches the community. The average grant award is $1500, to be used toward expenses (e.g., project supplies, room/board, travel) according to a budget submitted with the application. For details/application requirements: http://www.yale.edu/iefp/acrobat/Manzella.pdf
Application deadline: March 1, 2008 [Michael was TD ‘93]
The J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize for Public Service is awarded annually to approximately twelve undergraduate or graduate students working in public service in a low-pay or no-pay internship during a summer or other term. Stipend: $2,000. For application requirements and information on past winners, see: http://www.jwsaxefund.org/index.php
Application deadline: March 15, 2008.
Internships in Diabetes Research. The Dietrich Diabetes Research Institute will offer a limited number of summer research internships to full-time undergraduate, graduate and medical students. Successful applicants will be awarded $2500 (payable through the sponsor's institution) for 10 weeks of diabetes research with an established investigator in the Northeast Ohio area. Interns also participate in weekly diabetes seminars, symposia, and experience Camp Ho Mita Koda for children with diabetes. Application deadline is March 28, 2008. Summer internship guidelines, application and instructions are available at www.ddri.org .
POSTGRADUATE EMPLOYMENT
V. Lazarus Fellowship at the Yale Sustainable Food Project: The Yale Sustainable Food Project is looking for a new Lazarus Fellow, who will serve as the Program Coordinator. The position gives a recent Yale College graduate the opportunity to work in the field of sustainable food and agriculture, to build professional and leadership skills, and to create educational programs at Yale about sustainable food and agriculture. Responsibilities of the position include: designing and running on-campus educational events (guest speakers, workshops, films, classes, field trips, etc.); directing the Harvest pre-orientation program; developing curriculum for and managing the Yale Farm summer internship; organizing a biennial conference in the field of education or advocacy related to sustainable food and agriculture; and increasing academic study and engagement with food and agriculture at Yale. This is a 1-2 year position for a recent Yale College graduate (current graduating seniors included). The fellowship provides a full salary with benefits. Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Laura Hess at laura.hess@yale.edu . Learn more about the Sustainable Food Project at www.yale.edu/sustainablefood . Application deadline: Friday, March 28, 2008
NOTES
Our snowman has fallen away and taken a different position, arms now pointing in new directions – maybe directions home for some of us. I know that with the vacation arriving soon, many of us are thinking of family and friends and places to go. Whatever our plans, I think it is important that we take some time away from campus (even and especially seniors who plan to work on their essays over spring break). Whatever our plans, our extra efforts to complete our work by Friday will pay off with more time to rest, when vacation arrives.
As I have said before, a valuable catching up over vacation will need your attention -- catching up with yourself. Take time to fall away from the familiar Yale routine and to look on a different sunrise and moonrise. Vacation is a time to let the work go if you can. On our vacations, we must try to resist the apprehension that can accompany the doing of nothing at all. Milne said about Pooh: "Pooh just is." An honorable estate, "just is." During this vacation I hope you will take the time you need in the way you need it in order to refresh who you are. Who we are, after all, means the most to each of us and to others who know and love us.
These are important points to remember as we now work hard, even with the inevitable mix of success and disappointments that we must just accept and adjust to. On vacation put that mix away. Fall away into a different position. May each of us have the restful and self-indulgent vacation that each of us needs. When we want to play, play. When we want to rest, rest. When our minds wander, let it be so. Put aside that access card, go to bed before 2 AM, and check email only every other day.
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