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March 24,
2008
confirm: baraboo
Welcome home under the full moon and the bright stars. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Room Draw begins on Sunday, March 30 with an information meeting (attendance not required), 8:30 PM in the South Common Room. The meeting is followed by a TD open house (9 – 10 PM) and an ice cream social (10 – 11 PM). 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 and TD dean's office.
Freshmen and the Room Draw: Freshmen enter the sophomore room draw (for TD housing in their sophomore year) and must form triples, quads, quints, sextets or an octet. 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 .
ACADEMICS
Mellon Senior Forum: Tuesday, March 25, 5:30 to 7:30 PM, Bentara Restaurant. Scheduled presenters are: Jonathan Ferrugia (EP&E),Coors Field and Denver Downtown Development; Regina Goldman(American Studies),The Suburban City; Travis Nelson (Math), Finite Distortion Mapping: An Introduction to the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Theorem; and Doug Lieblich (History), Satire in Civil War.
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. [The sophomore card is not correct about this deadline].
Reminder for the Class of 2008: A student may apply no more than one course credit on the Credit/D/Fail basis in any distributional group toward satisfaction of the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree.
Reminder for Classes of 2011, 2010, and 2009: No credits earned in courses completed on the Credit/D/Fail basis may be used to fulfill any of the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree.
Undergraduate Art Department: Sophomore Reviews. Tuesday & Wednesday, April 8 & 9. Tues. 1:00–6:00 pm and Wed. 9:00-6:00 pm, Room 210, Green Hall. Intended Art majors pleas sign up at the DUS office, School of Art, Green Hall, Room 122. It is important on the day of your review, or when you sign up, to bring a copy of your updated academic record (available at your Dean’s Office). At the time of your review, you must present a cross section of work completed during your undergraduate courses here at Yale. Please come fifteen minutes early for your appointment. If you have any questions, call Nancy Keramas at 432-2608
SUMMER
Volunteer Opportunity in Zambia: This volunteer opportunity is for a Yale student or recent grad with the drive and the heart to help these children with HIV/AIDS. This volunteer will work closely with "Barefeet Theater", an NGO that uses theater and dance to encourage children to leave the streets and live in centers where they can get some of the support they need. The NGO combines the outreach programs of Barefeet Theater with mobile health clinics, counseling, and other forms of support. Contact Harry Flaster (JE 2005) at harry.flaster@gmail.com for more information. The ideal candidate is someone with compassion, leadership skills, and a sense of adventure. Harry V. Flaster Center for Infectious Disease Research Zambia (CIDRZ) Mobile: +260 966 832 018, +260 976 068 041
POSTGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES
Research Position: Roger K. Pitman, M.D. and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is seeking a talented college student to begin a two-year research assistant position in his laboratory after graduating this Spring. The job will involve performing memory reconsolidation-blocking experiments in rodents in an attempt to find novel treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Typically, the research assistants gain admission to high-level medical schools or graduate schools in psychology or the neurosciences. For more details, contact Dr. Pitman directly at 617.726.5333 or roger_pitman@hms.harvard.edu.
NOTES
Welcome home. It is brighter now as the days grow longer and the clock jumped forward. There is much to look forward to as we greet one another, tell our stories, and renew our community of friends. It’s good to get away, even for only a short time, and its good to be back – maybe even rested and renewed by the places we visited and the refrigerators we raided.
We cannot help but bring some of where we were back here with us, sights we hold in our mind’s eye, voices of loved ones and strangers in other places, and food that went down as well as our heads on different (and maybe softer) pillows. All these and more return and walk with us and our luggage into the TD gates. For a few days we may be in several places at once, even though physics says we cannot. Our minds may continue to wander even as our bodies do not.
Also, we may see things here we have not noticed, now that we have been away, through our traveled and refreshed eyes. Now is also the time between cold and warm, of what has been and what will be, in a way marked by our own wandering and by the standing persistence of the daffodil and crocus. The sun will come through our windows again in the morning and greet us, together again.
Our way is to look back and forth as we return and slowly resettle into this place we can call home. We laugh and smile to see and listen to each other, to catch up and catch on, to straighten a desk and bed that are strangely unfamiliar for now. It’s a juxtaposition of missing the ones we just left and greeting the others we have missed. It’s also a time to kick up and hang around together again after being apart. Let us do just that.
See you around the courtyard.
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