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November 26, 2006
confirm: baraboo
Welcome home after some rest and relaxation (I hope). Some Notes and News.
ACADEMICS
Deadline, December 4: The Deadline to apply to for Directed Independent Language Study. Information about the program is at http://cls.yale.edu/dils . Questions to maria.kosinski@yale.edu
Deadline, December 8: Last day to withdraw from a fall-term course (with a mark of W on the transcript). The form is available in the TD dean’s office.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
November 30 is the deadline to Relinquish Housing for Spring Term 2007. All that is required is a note addressed to me that states you will not live on campus next term if you are this term. For students who will study abroad next term on a Junior Term Abroad or on the Yale-Beijing Program or at Yale-in-London, it is assumed you will not live on campus next term and, therefore, a note to relinquish housing is not necessary. If you are planning to take a leave of absence or move off campus next term, however, a note is necessary. Failure to relinquish housing by the deadline will incur a fine of ¼ of the room charge for the spring term. If you have question or concerns, please do not hesitate to talk to me.
Mellon Senior Forum Meeting is Tuesday, November 28, 5:30 PM, Dean Loge’s apartment. Presentation to date: English major Samantha Close will present an essay on "The representation of women in the graphic novel, 'V for Vendetta.'" If a senior wishes to be included to make a presentation at this meeting, contact diane.charney@yale.edu.
TD Annual Holiday Dinner, Saturday, December 9, 2006, 5:00 – 7:00 PM.
FELLOWSHIPS
Juniors
Summer Traveling Fellowship (Bates Fellowship) informational meeting at 7:00 pm Monday, November 27th, Jonathan Edwards College Common Room. Competition for the Summer Traveling Fellowships is open to juniors (or students for whom 2007 is their final summer) in Yale College who give evidence that their educational experience would be significantly enhanced by a project of independent study and/or research outside of the continental United States. The selection committee always expects the proposals to be for independent projects, although it occasionally allows accompanying enrollment in a formal program of study (not supported by the Fellowship). The deadline for regular applications is Friday, January 26, 2007, followed by interviews in February and announcement of awards not later than Friday, March 8, 2007. Application materials are available in the TD dean’s office. Note: All applicants must also register on the Yale Grants & Fellowships Website. http://studentgrants.yale.edu/welcome.asp
Sophomores
Mellon Mays and Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowships Information Session, Thursday, November 30, 2006, Asian American Cultural Center, 295 Crown Street (between York and High), 5:30-7:30pm, Dinner will be served. The fellowship is designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities, who will purse PhDs and subsequent careers in academia. Students are chosen during the spring semester of their sophomore year and are provided with fellowship funds to pursue research projects during their junior and senior years, and to pursue full-time research during the summers between sophomore and junior years, and between junior and senior years. Each fellow works with a faculty mentor throughout their time as a Mellon Mays or Bouchet Fellow. Fellows are also required to attend regular meetings and programs throughout the academic year. The Fellowships are open to Sophomores interested in teaching and research at the college and university level. Those interested are encouraged to attend the November 30th Information Session. For more information contact: Dean Saveena Dhall, Director of Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships saveena.dhall@yale.edu AND Kaysha Corinealdi, Coordinator of Mellon Mays and Bouchet Fellowships kaysha.corinealdi@yale.edu). Additional information and the 2007 Application can be found on line at http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/fellowships/mellon.html or http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/fellowships/bouchet.html
OTHER
The Yale University Art Gallery's newly renovated Louis Kahn building will reopen on Wednesday 6 December, 12 noon - 10pm. Opening day festivities will include food and drink. The Wednesday event is exclusively for the Yale community. Questions to paull.randt@yale.edu .
NOTES
Welcome home. While you were away, if you were, some heavy rain came and went. We are now together on our common ground, in our community on the land. The Gingko greets you, now without its last leaves of fall. With the leaves gone, often we see for the first time what was until now hidden -- buildings, lights, the roll of the land. Under the bare trees and gray sky I find I notice color where before I saw none. Luce Hall seems yellow. The buttons for the college gates are a brighter green than before. The skin of Gibbs Lab is the blue sky it once blocked. The lights in the dining hall and TD Library are warmer. Our campus shows itself anew under natural and incandescent light. Twilight comes early as the sun rushes from southeast to southwest, and across the western sky are the washes of dusk yellows, purples, blues -- colors so transient and so elemental that they darken and are gone even as we watch. The stars are clearer and seem closer in the chilly November air. My sight refreshed, I welcome the symmetry of our Temple Street gate and the TD tower seen against the evening sky. Home again, I will try to pause again -- pause anew -- during the fast forward of these final weeks as we will begin to shudder in our scarves, pocket our hands against the cold, and stuff ourselves into coats.
And the cooler wind. Hal Borland reflects on the winter wind: "It roars in the night, an elemental voice; it whistles at the house [and TD] corner and it rattles the shutter and the pane. Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth . . . . It is a homeless wind, forever on the move." Imagining the wind this way, it may connect us to our friends and family. Maybe we just came from there; maybe wish we had. I am comforted when I think the wind that blows against my face also may blow against the faces of the ones I love, even those far away. In this way, the wintry windy currents keep us "in touch." Our friends are here (and there) for us.
Two more weeks of classes remain. Someone said the final 10% of any work seems requires 90% of the effort. It certainly can feel like that sometimes. We may think of our limitations in the cold currents and in our rooms with so much to do. Of course we want to do well, and I (for one) know I must accept the personal disappointment of doing some things only so-so. Also, maybe we cannot finish all we started in the ways we planned. Accepting and living with our limitations takes practice, alas. Mighty practice. No matter. We must have the confidence that we have succeeded before, in class and out, at Yale and other places. And our friends are here (and there) for us. There and here at home. Best wishes to all of us in our place of finishing as best we can and in our latitudes of learning to feel the currents of our connections to each other here and to others far away. And we still can voice our joy when we want to. Feel at home.
Dean Loge
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