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March 25,
2007
Confirm: Baraboo
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Room Draw: The TD Room Draw begins next Sunday night with an open house that is followed by an ice cream social. In a few days the schedule (below), rules, list of rooms available in the Room Draw, and maps of rooms will be available at the TD web page: www.yale.edu/td
TD ROOM DRAW SCHEDULE
Spring 2007
Information Meeting Sunday, April 1, 8:30pm, Common Room
OPEN HOUSE Sunday, April 1, 9:00 pm – 10pm
Ice Cream Social Sunday, April 1, 10 - 11pm TD Dining Hall
Senior Applications due Tuesday, April 3, 4:00pm, Dean's Office
(All room types)
Seniors Pick Numbers Tuesday, April 3, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Seniors Pick Rooms Wednesday, April 4, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Senior Clean-Up Draw Wednesday, April 4, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior and Sophomore Octet Draw
Applications due Wednesday April 4, 4:00pm
Octet Draw and Room Pick Wednesday, April 4, 5:00pm
Junior Quint Applications due Thursday April 5, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quint Draw and Room Pick Thursday, April 5, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Applications due Friday, April 6, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Draw and Room Pick Friday, April 6, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Applications due Friday, April 6, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Draw and Room Pick Friday, April 6, 5:30pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Quint Applications due Monday, April 9, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Quint Draw and Room Pick Monday, April 9, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Quad Applications due Wednesday, April 11, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Quad Draw Wednesday, April 11, 5:00 pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Triple Applications due Thursday, April 12, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Triple Draw Thursday, April 12, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Applications due (Triples) Friday, April 13, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Draw (Triples) Friday, April 13, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Room Pick (Triples) Friday, April 13, 5:30pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Applications due (Doubles, Singles) Sunday, April 15, 7:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Draw (Doubles and Singles) Sunday, April 15, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Room Pick (Doubles, Singles) Monday, April 16, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Clean-up Draw Monday, April 16, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Sophomores Pick Quads Tuesday, April 17, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Sophomores Pick Triples Tuesday, April 17, 8:30pm, Dining Hall
Sophomore Clean-up Draw Tuesday, April 17, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Slide Draw (If any) Wednesday, April 19, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
ACADEMICS
juniors
New Fall Term course for seniors with April enrollment deadline: The Literature of the Middle Passage: During the fall semester of 2007, the Yale Department of English will launch a Senior Seminar titled The Literature of the Middle Passage. This innovative course explores the literature that has been produced as a result of the Atlantic slave trade, including writing from Africa, Britain, and the Americas. The literature to be studied will include texts by Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Du Bois, Conrad, Equiano, and Baldwin. This literature reflects the huge changes in various societies that have occurred as a result of involuntary migration out of Africa. The course will be taught by Professor Caryl Phillips and Professor Caleb Smith. The course will culminate in a twelve-day visit to Ghana, from November 14 to November 25, 2007. While in Ghana, Yale seniors will meet and interact with students and faculty from the University of Ghana, attend readings by African writers they have studied in the course, visit the slave forts at Elmina and Cape Coast, and participate in a tour and program at the W.E.B. Du Bois Cultural Centre in the capital of Accra. The course will consist of 15 students, who will be chosen through a selective application process involving personal essays. While the course is primarily offered as a senior seminar for English majors, it is also open to students whose major is in a subject related to the course topic and whose record in literature classes shows proper preparation. All student applications will be reviewed and judged on the merit of their essay and an interview with the course instructors. The travel portion of the seminar will be fully funded for the participating students. For information on background reading and syllabus, the University of Ghana and participating faculty, as well as the application, please visit www.yale.edu/macmillan/middlepassage . Students must apply for the course by submitting a one-page proposal outlining why they wish to take the course and this application sheet to tara.stevens@yale.edu by noon on Friday, April 6, 2007.
sophomores
Undergraduate Art Department Sophomore Reviews: Wednesday & Thursday
April 4 & 5, Approximately 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Rooms 210 & G0-2 Green Hall
Intended art majors please sign up at the DUS office, School of Art Building, Green Hall, Room 122 as soon as possible. It is important on the day of your review, or when you sign up, to bring a copy of your updated academic record (available on request at the TD 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
freshmen and sophomores
Science, Technology and Research Scholars Program (STARS), summer session: The program is designed for students from groups that are considered underrepresented in the sciences, math and engineering. The program begins at Yale, Sunday, June 17 through Friday, August 10, 2007. To be eligible for the program, you must participate in the full 8-weeks and live on-campus for the entire program. STARS entails full-time work in a science research lab, journal clubs, and a summer course determined by the STARS program. Fun activities are also included. Participants receive a stipend of $2,000 plus free room, board and tuition. If you do not have a research lab, please indicate this on your application and a research lab/faculty mentor will be assigned to you, based on your research interests. Applications are available in the TD dean’s office and in SSS, Room 110, or contact Dean George (below) and she will email you an application. Feel free to contact the director, Asst. Dean Pamela Y. George, if you have any questions at pamela.george@yale.edu or 432-6900. Application Deadline: Friday, March 30.
SUMMER FELLOWSHIP and SUMMER JOB
TD freshmen, sophomores, and juniors
The Bergin Fellowship, established by the Mott Woolley Council of Timothy Dwight in 1988, is a grant awarded to several TD undergraduates for summer study, an internship, or work experience. In the spirit of its namesake, the fellowship is designed to foster equal opportunity and to encourage personal initiative and experience. The fellowship is intended to allow a TD student to undertake a summer experience from which he or she would otherwise be precluded for financial reasons. $6000 will be awarded this year; this money will go to no fewer than three Timothy Dwight freshmen, sophomores, or juniors. An individual applicant can request a maximum of $2000 for the summer experience. Applications are available in the Master’s Office and must be submitted by Friday April 6, 2007 at 5:00 PM.
To apply, please include the following documentation:
A complete application form for the Bergin Fellowship
A written proposal of no more than one page that details the applicant’s summer plans. The proposal would describe how the summer study, internship, or work experience is relevant to the applicant’s past experience and future plans. A description of how the summer experience will enhance the TD community should be included.
An estimated budget for the proposed activity. This must include an itemized list of how you anticipate specifically spending your fellowship.
A brief statement explaining why the fellowship is financially necessary to undertake the proposed summer plans.
If awarded a fellowship, each successful applicant must provide receipts of expenses to the Master’s Office upon his/her return the following year. Furthermore, each fellow will be expected to give a presentation on his/her summer experiences to the TD community after his/her return to Timothy Dwight in the fall.
If you have any questions, contact any Mott Woolley representative.
Yale Farm Summer Internship: The Yale Sustainable Food Project is looking for interns this summer. If you're looking for gainful (and tasty) employment, it could be a match made in horticultural heaven. Application deadline extended to April 6.
The Yale Farm summer internship offers six Yale undergraduates the opportunity to learn about and gain hands-on experience in sustainable agriculture, food production in the Northeast, and local food systems. Interns learn the theory and practice of sustainable agriculture through practical work at the farm and through lectures and conferences. By preparing and sharing meals from the farm, they have the opportunity to experience the direct link between the land and food. The 2007 application for the Yale Farm internship is posted at http://www.yale.edu/sustainablefood/farm.html . Applications are due April
6. Contact laura.hess@yale.edu with questions
OTHER
Freshmen
"What Matters," an informal conversation with Dean Betty Trachtenberg: Tuesday, March 27th, 7:30 pm in the Freshmen Lounge (Bingham lower level room 003). Free Food! This event is part of a series for freshmen sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and the Yale College Dean's Office - a glimpse at "what matters & why" to several Yale College administrators and faculty.
NOTES
As I write this, I think of that school writing assignment: “What did you do over your vacation?” I think this now as a teacher because I have a story. It is not a story of all my vacation, just one afternoon when I went to Murray’s 80th birthday party. I know Murray because his wife was my boss at Yale at one time, and we have kept in contact since. So, I was invited to his 80th. Murray, you need to know, is in good health and is, in fact, still working as a radiologist at New York hospital. He is reticent by nature, reflective and thoughtful. He also has a quality we hope to find in our elders: wisdom that he came by honestly by reflecting on his experiences. In a phrase, he has all his wits about him, and I look at him as someone whose qualities I hope to have earned by my 80th birthday.
That said, he stood at the head table in a small restaurant in Westport to make a few remarks. He began by telling a little joke about an unnamed speaker who asked, after talking for too long, “Oh, can you in the back hear me?” A reply came, “Yes, but I would happily trade places with anyone who cannot.” We laughed, of course, and I took note that in the room were some of his old friends: a childhood friend who also went with him into the Navy, two roommates from medical school, and co-workers of so many years at the hospital that the cafeteria has a table reserved just for them. He continued by telling some stories about his life and making some points along the way, like Aesop.
I want to tell you what he said about happiness. He said he was happy to have such good friends and a good family (including grandchildren who were there, whom he named because children like that). He said those whom we should most avoid are those who think they know what we need to be happy (I thought of totalitarian regimes). He said that for each of us, we must look after our own happiness. He said that because he was happy, he was also doing the rest of us a favor because we need not be responsible for his happiness. “I am happy as a favor to you.” We laughed at the logic of that, which felt familiar even as it felt novel to hear it put that way. He said he loves his work so much he wonders how anyone does anything else.
He was asked how he met some of his friends in the room. Each, surprisingly but not so as you will recognize, was a chance meeting. He met one in Switzerland on the street because they each noticed they were not Swiss (he said their shoes gave them away). They got talking, discovered they were both named Murray, and then arranged to room together, which lasted four years in medical school. He and his wife met a couple from Italy on a train in Europe at one time, and they have been visiting each other since.
He stopped about 15 minutes later with a loud singing of happy birthday. All the time he talked it was about him but in a most generous way it was not about him; it was about us as he stood there before us, talking briefly about his life. I kept thinking of that exchange: “Nice to see you.” The reply: “Nice to be seen.” His brother in law said some touching things, and his old friends quibbled with him about some of the facts in the stories about them. We returned to our food and table talk.
Afterwards, I told Murray I admired him for his friendships. With his wry but wise humor he said, “Because I make friends slowly, I hold fast to the ones I have.” And they to him, clearly. We must admit we do like witnesses to our lives, our whole lives. I do not know if this is much of a story from your point of view, but I do know that Murray’s presence at his table and in the room will stay with me for a while. His generous relationship to himself, to life, and to all of us in the room was his gift to us on his birthday. Our being in that room as witnesses on this day in his life was our gift to him. Likewise for us in TD, I like to think. See you around the courtyard.
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