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October 15, 2006
Confirm: baraboo
Hello on this glorious fall day. Some Notes and News
ACADEMICS
Deadline: Midterm, October 27, 5 PM. Last day to withdraw from a fall-term course without having the course appear on your transcript. The Course Change Notice form to withdraw from a course is available in the TD dean’s office.
Deadline: November 10, 5 PM. Last day to convert from the Credit/D/Fail option in a fall-term course to a letter grade. The Course Change Notice form to withdraw from a course is available in the TD dean’s office.
Sophomores and Juniors:
Deadline to apply for spring-term 2007 Term Study Abroad is Monday, October 16. Information and applications for study abroad for Yale Course Credit at the IEFP web site: www.yale.edu/iefp .
Sophomores and Juniors:
Yale at Peking University, Beijing, Information Session, Monday, October 16, 6-7 p.m., OISS, 421 Temple Street. There is still time to apply for the spring semester to study at China's flagship university for Yale College credit. The Peking University-Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program in Beijing is now accepting applications for Spring 2007. Sophomores and juniors are eligible. Although the deadline is Monday, October 16, 2006 at noon, late applications will be accepted on a case by case basis.
The following students currently enrolled in the Program are willing to be contacted by prospective students. Please feel free to get in touch with them and get your questions answered directly and candidly.
Jennifer Harris: jennifer.a.harris@yale.edu
Han Xu: han.xu@yale.edu
Cynthia Liu: cynthia.liu@yale.edu
Kristina Mois: kristina.mois@yale.edu
Margaret Shea: margaret.shea@yale.edu
Gary DeTurck gary.deturck@yale.edu
Luci Fonseca: lucineida.fonseca@yale.edu
Michael Schmale: michael.schmale@yale.edu
Alexa Verme: alexa.verme@yale.edu
Andrew Krause: andrew.krause@yale.edu
Jenny Holmes: jennifer.a.holmes@yale.edu
Luke Palder: stuart.palder@yale.edu
Ben Jacobs: benjamin.jacobs@yale.edu
Brittany Robinson: brittany.robinson@yale.edu
Suching Teh: suching.teh@yale.edu
For further information and an application, see: http://www.yale.edu/iefp/pku yale/index.html, or contact Cameron Gearen in the Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs at <cameron.gearen@yale.edu>.
TUTORING
TD Resident Writing Tutor: The TD Writing Tutor is Diane Charney. Her office is in the basement of TD, room 006, and her email address is diane.charney@yale.edu. She has regular hours, which are posted at www.yale.edu/bass/tutoring . For your information, a Yale College student may seek the help and advice of any tutor in any residential college.
TD Resident Math and Science Tutor: The TD math and science tutor is John Challis. His office is also in room 006, his email address is john.challis@yale.edu, and his schedule is available at www.yale.edu/mstutor. For your information, a Yale College student may seek the help and advice of any math and science tutor in any residential college, and these tutors have specialties that are noted at the web site.
Yale College Tutoring Program: This tutoring program makes it possible to receive tutoring in other subjects, such as non-English languages, economics, the sciences, courses designated QR, and courses designated WR (in addition to the college writing tutor). The forms to request such tutoring, which is free, are available in the TD dean’s office.
Writing Partners: Yale College Writing Center: (www.yale.edu/writing) engages and trains Yale students to serve as Writing Partners at the Center to help with student writing and editing. Check out this tutoring program at http://www.yale.edu/bass/tutoring/partners/.
CITING SOURCES and ACADEMIC HONESTY
The Yale Writing Center website (www.yale.edu/writing) has important information about the correct way to cite sources in your papers (to avoid plagiarism, for instance). At front page of the web site at the top right is a tab “Writing at Yale.” I strongly suggest you take look. I suggest you do not assume you know yet how to correctly cite sources in your papers, regardless of your preparation for Yale.
The TD Writing Tutor and the teacher of the class for the paper are also excellent resources about citing sources correctly and can answer any questions you have about doing it correctly. As we engage the ideas of and information from others in our papers, we need to acknowledge them because that is honest and because in that way the reader can know what ideas and information are yours and the result of your own efforts.
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
Study Abroad with Yale Summer Session, general information meeting on Tuesday, October 17, at 4:30 in WLH 208 or next Wednesday, October 18, at 4:30 in WLH 208. 2007 programs will be discussed, including program costs, sources for funding, course credit, and questions. Further information at www.yale.edu/summer . Questions to summersession.abroad@yale.edu
International Internships Student Panel, Wednesday, October 18, 6 PM, UCS, 55 Whitney, third floor. Seven students talk about their international internship experiences last summer – from the New York Times West African Bureau to the Cabinet of the Belgium Minister of Finance and a global marketing firm in Kazakhstan.
OTHER
New Student Bereavement Group Now Forming. The student bereavement group is a six week group experience for students that have experienced a significant loss. It will meet on Mondays at 6:30 p.m. beginning on October 16 and running through November 27.
Meetings are held in the Lovett Room, which is in the basement of Battell Chapel. The Lovett Room has a private entrance off of College Street--the door is marked. Although sponsored by the chaplain's office, the group is not religiously based, and is open to students of any religious persuasion or perspective. No pre-registration is needed. Students should just attend the first meeting. If you cannot attend the first meeting, attend the second. After the second meeting, however, the group will be closed. For questions, contact Rev. Susan Olson, group coordinator, at 432-9485 or susan.olson@yale.edu
Community and Public Service Opportunities through Dwight Hall. For more information about Dwight Hall, its projects, and its member organizations, visit www.dwighthall.org. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Dwight Hall Newsletter at the D-Holla listserv, email dhall.pr@gmail.com with either the phrase "D-Holla: subscribe" in the subject line.
NOTES
Last year at this time a red-tail hawk caught my eye as I drove up I95. It rode the thermals on that sunny day, wings and tail feathers spread, its head cocked slightly, scanning the ground below the trees. Further on I saw another one. Occasionally, one is seen above our campus, like some stray sea turtle who visits a distant shore on its way to another place. A strange circumstance.
As I wrote once before on a Sunday before Parents’ Weekend, “circumstance" is a word on my mind as that weekend approaches. Each of us comes from different circumstances, and those different circumstances affect our different lives here. Maybe family will visit you on Parents’ Weekend, maybe not; maybe our “midterms” will be over, probably not; probably we are a little behind in our work, maybe a lot.
"Circumstance" in these examples is a concept that can separate. Another sense of the word, however, lifts me (I am grateful to Jose Ortega y Gasset). "Circumstance" comes from the Latin "circum" ("around") and "stare" ("to stand"). He uses the word to name that which is, that which is around us -- the given of the actual world, the fact of it. In this sense, each of us stands before the same circumstance as each of us has individual circumstances. As I watched those soaring red-tails, I thought of my perspective from the ground at 65 mph, and I thought of the hawk’s from above. Best of all, though, I thought of the hawk and me together, part of our shared circumstance of cooler October air, actual trees doing their actual standing (especially our Gingko), the buildings that are our college and New Haven, and the welcoming grass of our courtyard.
Like that red-tail, may we also be lifted by our place in common, the built and natural world around us, and the imagined thermals from the ground we share and call ours. Whatever your circumstances -- and standing with you amid our circumstance in common-- I send you my encouragement and my wish that you have confidence as you prepare for your tests and write your papers and problem sets. And, on Parents’ Weekend, if you know someone whose family is unable to visit that day, maybe you can join your circumstance with theirs and invite that someone to join you and your family.
See you around the courtyard.
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