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September 30,
2007
Confirm: baraboo
Hello on this fall night with the moon on the rise. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
Community Values: It is our expectation and hope that we live each day in a community of civility, thoughtfulness, and mutual respect. It is expected that we will seek to understand others as well as ourselves, and that we will bring no harm to ourselves or to others. We are a community of citizens with responsibilities as well as rights, and we are a community of friends.
Part of our friendship and citizenship is to help each other. You may, therefore, want to note (perhaps put in your cell) the resources listed below. At a moment when you can help another or need help yourself, you will be grateful to have quick access to these resources. Sometimes we or someone else needs a professional in addition to a friend.
Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources & Education (S.H.A.R.E): 203-432-6653
Campus Police for Emergencies, including medical and fire: 203-432-4400 (111 from a land line)
Mental Health and Counseling: 203-432-0290
University Health Services after hours (including Mental Health): 203-432-0123
Substance Abuse Counseling: 203-432-1891
Peer Health Educators : 203-432-1892
Walden Peer Counseling: 203-432-8255
University Chaplain's Office: 203-432-1128
Dean Loge’s home (after hours): 203-432-8534
2-Walk: 432-9255
Minibus: 203-432-6330
Lockout: 203-785-5555
Taxi: 203-777-7777
TD Mail Room: Check to see if you have mail. Student mail delivered to Timothy Dwight College is received in the Master’s Office, which then puts that mail in student mail boxes (by room number) in the TD mail room. The mail room is the last door on the TD porch just before the steps to the main gate.
Quiet Hours: Sunday - Thursday nights, quiet by 11 PM. Friday & Saturday nights, quiet by 1 AM.
To make an appointment to see me: See Trish in my office or call her at 203-432-0754.
ACADEMICS
Yale 101: The Yale College Dean's Office and the Office of Freshman Affairs announce a series of workshops and presentations, called "YALE 101, The Freshman Year." Topics will include study skills, time and stress management, and how to take full advantage of available resources on campus.
The first workshop of the year is "Listening and Note-Taking Skills" that
will take place on Sunday, Sept 30, at 7:00 pm in LC 101. It will be
repeated on Monday, Oct 1, at 4:30 pm in LC 101. The presenter, Mark
Schenker, Associate Dean of Yale College, has offered this very popular
workshop for many years to help students develop strategies for taking more
useful notes during class.
No sign-up or registration is required, but bring a notebook, and a pen or pencil with you. The presentation lasts one hour.
STUDY ABROAD
Internship Opportunities with the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
*Study during the spring semester on the Peking University-Yale University Joint Program
*Stay in China to intern with the Summer Olympics.
*Contact Program Coordinator Amy Weber (amy.weber@yale.edu) for more information.
CAMPUS JOB
Dwight Hall Marketing Fellows Program: Selling a Better World
Imagine the savvy used to sell cigarettes and SUVs could be redirected toward selling something positive -- like public service. Dwight Hall is recruiting Marketing Fellows who will work within their own residential colleges to build student participation in the Hall, Yale's independent center for public service and social justice. Learn from other fellows and an advisor seasoned in marketing for non-profits. Gain experience in marketing -- the most sought-after skill in many business environments and often the most sorely needed skill in the advocacy community. This is a 6-8 hour weekly commitment and includes a stipend or an hourly rate for work-study eligible students.
To apply, please visit http://www.dwighthall.org/docs/marketingfellows.doc. Applications are due on Tuesday, October 2nd.
Please email johnny.scafidi@yale.edu with any questions.
NOTES
I have been thinking about mutual respect and about boundaries. And that reminded me of a story Aldo Leopold tells in A Sand County Almanac. One January he followed the tracks of a skunk through the snow. As he did so, he was distracted along the way by the sounds and marks of other animals. And then he says: “Finally the track enters a pile of driftwood, and does not emerge. I hear the tinkle of dripping water among the logs, and I fancy the skunk hears it too. I turn homeward, still wondering” (Leopold 5). As I read this, I note that Leopold does not cross the skunk’s private boundary but instead turns back. Certain skunk attributes may have supported Leopold’s discretion, but it is my point that I think Leopold was respecting the skunk as a creature as valuable and worthy as he. He may have been curious or tempted, but he did not trespass.
Mutual respect is about seeing and treating others as subjects in themselves and not as objects of our own ambitions and desires. Leopold extended this notion to what he calls his land ethic to “enlarge the community of interdependent parts to include the soils, water, plants, and animals or, collectively, the land” (Leopold 219). And as creatures we are citizens of the land in general and especially of our present place, our common college ground. That citizenship includes respect for one another as we acknowledge our dependence on one another and that our caring for one another is a high value for all of us here. We are indeed lucky to have the community we have in this residential college.
And let me go this far: Rendering respect to others is a way to respect oneself. That Leopold picks the skunk, for instance, suggests to me that our respect must extend even to those who seem beyond it. Leopold, I think, especially shows himself respect when he tries to understand and give respect to a creature so unlikely as a skunk. We have such giving and showing available to each of us each day – whatever the preconceptions and motivations we may attribute to others and ourselves. We can approach to understand, we can honor the boundaries, and we can turn homeward. And, of course, we can still wonder as every day we try to teach and to learn from each other.
Dean Loge
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
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