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March 26,
2006
confirm: baraboo
Hello again in this season of the Room Draw. Some Notes and News
ACADEMICS
Deadline: Monday, March 27 at 5 PM is the last day to convert from CR/D/Fail option in a spring term course to a letter grade. The Course Change Notice form for this conversion is in the TD dean’s office.
Seniors: Remember, you may apply no more than one course credit earned on the CR/D/Fail basis in any distributional group toward satisfaction of the distributional requirements for the bachelor’s degree.
Freshmen: Remember, you may apply no course credit earned on the CR/D/Fail basis toward satisfaction of the distributional requirements for the freshman year or for the bachelor’s degree.
Mellon Senior Forum: The Forum will meet this Tuesday, March 28 at Royal Palace Chinese Restaurant (32 Orange Street), 5:30 to 7:30 PM. Presenters are: Emely Martinez (Psychology): "High-Fructose Corn Syrup & Farm Policy"; Melisse Morris (East Asian Studies - China); Pascal Noel (Economics): "Subsidize This! The Creating of an American Biofuels Market"; and Victoria Liu (Political Science).
TD ROOM DRAW
All information about the room draw is available on the TD Home Page: www.yale.edu/td . Information is also available on the bulletin board on Town Hall. As the draws occur, results of the draws will be available at the Home Page and the Bulletin Board in Town Hall.
Posted are the Room Draw Rules, the Schedule of the Draws, the Rooms Available in the Draws, the Room Draw Application, and maps, all of which you can see and print from the TD Home Page.
The members of the TD Housing Committee are: Jacob Leibenluft and Elana Rosenthal, Justin Presant and Raquel Kellert (co-chairs), Jonathan Ferrugia and Bevan Dowd, and Niko Bowie and Margaret Plouffe.
The schedule of the Room Draws this week is:
Senior Applications due Tuesday, March 28, 4pm, Dean's Office
(For all room types)
Seniors Pick Numbers Tuesday, March 28, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Seniors Pick Rooms Wednesday, March 29, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Senior Clean-Up Draw Wednesday, March 29, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Quint Applications due Wednesday, March 29, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quint Draw Wednesday, March 29, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Applications due Thursday, March 30, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Draw Thursday, March 30, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Applications due Friday, March 31, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Draw Friday, March 31, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
OTHER
Sophomores: Teacher Preparation Program Enrollment: “Enrollment will begin in early April. Prior to enrollment you should meet with the Director of the Program. You can make an appointment by calling 764-8308 or by e mailing suselle.goubourn@yale.edu. If you have already had an appointment, the enrollment information will be e mailed to you. If you have any interest come talk to us now. For more information see our website at www.yale.edu/tprep or look in the Blue Book, page 567.
The Teacher Preparation Program is designed to complement your major and give you a number of different options when you graduate. There are three tracks; a secondary track – for grades 7 to 12 – and, an early childhood track - birth through kindergarten. Full program completion results in a public school teaching license. Elementary Explorations helps to prepare for private school teaching or selecting a well match post graduate program. The options within each are described below.
The Yale Teacher Preparation Program offers: Undergraduate programs of study for public school certification in Early Childhood (birth to kindergarten), Secondary (7th to 12th grade), History/Social Studies, English, Spanish, French, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, General Science, Music, and A Graduate Program in Urban Education Studies. Enrollment for sophomores takes place in early April. Further information at www.yale.edu/tprep ”
NOTES
The light is changing and changing things. The TD tower is pinker in the evening light, trees and their buds are looking purple, and aqua has replaced deep winter blue in our overhead evenings. Soon, as the earth moves, the afternoon sun light will reflect onto our upper courtyard from the gold building behind TD.
And the light also lightens our steps during these lengthening days. If only it would warm up some more, although I am not complaining right now; I see others seeming to be wishing in the warm because I see the volleyball net is out and ready and I see a few sitting on the grass in the still, only-slightly-cool air. We are eager to spend more time outdoors, more time in t-shirts and sandals, more time with the sun in our faces and on our shoulders.
As our semester begins to close, nature starts to open up. Today I walked up Whitney toward Peabody Museum and over the old stone retaining wall, I took another look into the back yard of the president's house. There is a good view over that wall and through the decorative iron fence along it – all at eye-level. The tall white pines in that yard will soon accessorize their majesty with dog wood, flowering cherry, and dandelions. The morning light on the grass tells me so. And I thought I hear a bird, and not that incongruous (to me) bird I heard after our snow storm.
All these sights, real and imagined, lighten my step and even lighten my head a little. The anticipation of spring gets my hopes up. As I walk I find myself noticing signs of new life, even along Chapel Street where I try to find the daffodils poking though the ivy that like a necklace sets off the gateway to Vanderbilt Hall. I cannot wait for nature to be fully dressed because you know what that means: we wear less. It will be spring; it will be summer. Bring the light on!
PS: For anyone who might like to know such things, the backyard of the president’s house is one of the few remaining examples of the work of Yale’s first landscape architect, Beatrix Ferrand. She did similar work on other campuses. In my ofice I have a book about her (with pictures) if you want to take a look.
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