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March 30,
2008
Hello on this chilly March night. Some Notes and News
ACADEMICS
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
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Mellon Senior Forum: Tuesday, April 1, 5:30 – 7 PM, Royal Palace Chinese restaurant (32 Orange Street), which is half a block past Bentara. Scheduled presentations include:
TJ Myelle and Alan Aberg (Mechanical Engineering), Haptics; Sarah Winters (Anthropology); Jason Karl (EP&E), Healthcare; and Patrick Hayden (History), Representations of Female Adolescence in the 1990's.
TD Room Draw Schedule this week:
Senior Applications due Tuesday, April 1, 4:00pm, Dean's Office
(All room types except Sextets)
Junior and Sophomore Octet Draw
Applications due Wednesday, April 2, 4:00pm
Octet Draw and Room Pick Wednesday, April 2, 5:00pm
Senior Draw Wednesday, April 2, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Quint Applications due Thursday April 3, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quint Draw and Room Pick Thursday, April 3, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Seniors Pick Rooms Thursday, April 3, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Senior Clean-Up Draw Thursday, April 3, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Quad Applications due Friday, April 4, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Draw and Room Pick Friday, April 4, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Applications due Friday, April 4, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Draw and Room Pick Friday, April 4, 5:30pm, Dean’s Office
STUDY ABROAD and FELLOWSHIP
Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing: The application deadline for Fall 2008 program at Beijing is Monday, March 31, 12 noon, 55 Whitney Ave, 3rd floor. Information and application: www.yale.edu/iefp/pku-yale . Questions: Amy Weber: 203.432.8685
Mentoring Session with Recent Marshall Scholarship Alumni, April 2, 5 - 6 PM. Prospective Marshall Scholar applicants are invited to learn about British
programs of study, the application process, and Marshall Scholars’ experiences in the UK. Yale Law School, Room 120.
SUMMER
Yale Summer Session New Course on Kafka: GMAN S227, Kafka's Major Works: Introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka, including novels, short stories, letters, and diaries: the paradoxical framework of Kafka’s fiction; the nature of struggle; the relationship between individual and community; worldwide reception and importance of Kafka’s works since the late twentieth century. Readings and discussion in English; texts available in the original language. Session A: June 2 - July 4. More information: www.yale.edu/summer
OTHER
Final Ethnic Counselor Movie Series’ Screening: Wednesday, April 2, 8 PM, Silliflicks. Feature Film: A Time for Burning. A Time for Burning chronicles a White Nebraska church set in 1966 as it struggles with an increasing number of African Americans moving into the community. As the Reverend of the church attempts to reach out to the Black members of the community, both their reactions and the reactions of his White congregants will surprise you in this compelling movie about religion, race, and community. Post-Movie Conversation about A Time for Burning led by Professor Andre Willis, Ethnic Counselor Josh Williams MC’08, and Freshman Zenah Hasan; featuring food and desserts from local New Haven restaurants.
NOTES
We are ready for spring but nature is going to take its natural course. And we expect it should and will while the cool air is still here, and the winds, too. I think of the swing bench in the back yard of my cottage. The wind blows it over. I right it; a weekday wind topples it again. I think, "Maybe some weights on the legs will take care of the problem." Problem? Maybe the wind and I are in a dance. She dips and ducks; I fox-trot and swing. I am playing with the wind, and the wind is playing with me. Once in the summer at the beach on a raft, floating on the swells, I thought, "I am playing with the moon." I could not see the gravity of her moves, but I rose and fell with it. The moon was playing with me and I with her. In plays and poems, the moon toys with someone, sometimes in a maddening way. I think of madcap Cyrano and The Fantastiks. Tomorrow the wind may rush again. I will raise my collar close; inside I will close the windows. The weather shows up and I am with it.
And March Madness is almost over. I have my teams, women and men (UCONN and UCLA). I know what I want to happen. I will watch with apprehension and with hope, reminding me of the push and the pull of April, that push to spring, that pull of months we thought were sent to the lockers. The cold will be over, and then its baseball and the green fields of summer. Must I hurry? Must the course of things rush to the finish, like some competition so we can celebrate at the finish? If not, what then? A present we welcome in, I suggest. I will keep my blinds open tonight to catch the lights of the night street and dawn. I will watch the dance of shadows. I will be awakened by the garbage truck across Temple Street. No problem. I will let nature's course be the innocence and presence of childhood. I will dance with the present, and the present will dance with me.
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