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December 3, 2006
Confirm: baraboo
Hello in anticipation of some wintry weather. Some Notes and News.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
2007-2008 Freshman Counselor Applications are now available at SSS 105. They are due on January 31, also to SSS 105. Students who will be abroad or on a leave of absence for spring term can request and submit applications before they leave and should see me before they leave.
TD Holiday Dinner is Saturday, December 9, 5 – 7 PM in TD Dining Hall. Caroling follows at 7 – 8 PM in Master T’s house with eggnog.
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.
Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors
Registration for Spring Term 2007 is Tuesday, January 16. Pick up your registration Packet in the TD dean’s office between 8:30 AM to 5 PM on January 16.
Freshmen
A required registration meeting for freshmen is on Monday, January 15, 9 PM, TD Dining Hall. Freshmen pick up their registration packets at that meeting. Failure to registrar by 5 PM on Tuesday, January 16 incurs a fine of $50.
On-line Pre-registration for Introductory English Courses for Spring Term: Online pre-registration for spring semester introductory courses will be available beginning at 9 a.m. on December 4 and will remain open through Friday, January 12, 2007. At any time during this period students may view the scheduled sections and pre-register for the section of their choice at ( www.yale.edu/english/undergraduate.html) and following the pre-registration link posted there. Once they’ve made their selection, they will receive an email confirmation.
Please note that to secure their place in the section for which they pre-registered, students must attend ALL meetings of the class until the end of the second week of classes. If they miss a class without informing the instructor beforehand, their place be filled by any students waiting to be admitted to the section.
Resources at the Writing Center. As you know, the Writing Center provides many resources for student writers, especially handy as they work on their final papers. Among our most valuable services are the Writing Tutors in every Residential College, the student Writing Partners who work at the Writing Center, and the resource "Writing at Yale," a section of the Writing Center website that gives advice about writing papers, using sources, and avoiding plagiarism. Visit www.yale.edu/writing to learn more about how the Center can help you.
FELLOWSHIPS, SUMMER INTERNSHIPS, and PRIZES
Information Meeting: Yale International Bulldogs Programs. International internship programs for summer 2007. December 6, 7 PM, Career Services, 55 Whitney, 3rd floor. wwwyale.edu/career/students/intern/itl_bulldogs.html
Information Meeting: Applying for Fellowships and Competitive Internships with Spring Deadlines: Tuesday, December 5, 5 PM, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd floor. Sponsored by the Yale Office of International Education and Fellowships (IEFP). www.yale.edu/iefp
Sophomores and Seniors
Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes encourage undergraduate to collect books. Two prizes: One of $1000 for seniors and one of $700 for sophomores. Applications are available at the reception desk at Beinecke Library. More information at www.yale.edu/printer/vansinderen or email stephen.parks@yale.edu. Deadline: January 19.
Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors
National Security Education Program (NSEP) David Boren Undergraduate Scholarships support “study abroad in countries outside Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Appropriate and integrated study of a foreign language is required for all proposals . . . . Awards provide financial support of up to $10,000 per semester or up to $20,000 per academic year. . . . Undergraduate applicants may apply for study in summer 2007, fall 2007, and spring 2008. Awards for summer study are not available to juniors or seniors unless they are majoring in science or engineering. . . . Candidates are encouraged to submit applications for a full academic year.” Applications are available online and at IEFP, 55 Whitney Avenue. Further information at www.yale.edu/iefp/fellowhips/individual/nsep/html Campus deadline: January 18.
Seniors
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award of $10,000 supports proposals or work in an established public service organization for one year anywhere in the world. Details and application available at IEFP or www.nationalgridus.com/education (Click on Public Service Award). Submit proposal to National Grid by February 15.
Richard Light Fellows to support intensive language study in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Each applicant or prospective applicant for this fellowship must attend on the information meetings. The next meeting is Tuesday, December 5, 4 PM, 55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd floor, rm 369. Further information at www.yale.edu/iefp/lilght
Writing Contest for WR Courses: The Writing Center invites you to submit a paper to the second annual Writing Center essay contest, which celebrates writing from all courses that fulfill the writing requirement—courses marked as WR in the YCPS. Up to ten winners will receive a $50 gift card to the campus bookstore and have their winning essays published on the Writing Center website.
Although the new distribution requirements only apply this year to the classes of 2009 and 2010, many WR courses include sophomores, juniors, and seniors: all students enrolled in these courses are eligible for the contest. There are more than 150 WR courses in 35 departments. If you don’t know whether your course fulfills the WR requirement, you can check the online course site http://students.yale.edu/oci/search.jsp or on the Writing Center website http://www.yale.edu/bass/ug/wr/index.html. You may submit one paper from each WR course you’re enrolled in.
The deadline for fall term submissions is Monday, January 8, you are urged to submit a paper before you go home for break. Details for submitting your essay are listed below.
Timeline: The fall term deadline is Monday, January 8. But because the contest covers both terms, winners will not be chosen until August 1, 2007. Results will be posted on the Writing Center website. Eligibility: You may submit one paper from each WR course you take in 2006-07. Submission format: Papers must be submitted as Microsoft Word or RTF documents, sent as attachments, to writing@yale.edu. Include a first page that has your name and all of the following additional information.
Name (Take your name off of the other pages of the paper.)
Residential College
Year (2010, 2009, 2008, 2007)
Concentration
Email Address
WR Course Name and Number
Professor
A 2-3 sentence summary of the assignment
Paper title (a title is required; be sure also to include the title on page 2)
Your submission must include the following statement, followed by your name:
By submitting this essay, I attest that it is my own work, completed in accordance with University regulations. I also give permission for the Writing Center to publish all or part of my essay as an example of good writing in a particular course or discipline, or to provide models of specific writing techniques for use in teaching. This permission applies whether or not I win a prize, and includes publication on the Yale College website or in a booklet prepared for Yale College students.
NOTES
As I now consider the weather that is supposed to arrive tonight, I remember the day I took a walk across the Green in the evening to see the glistening of a light snow on the sidewalks and the grass there. No one else was crossing the Green. Park benches were empty in the cold. The surfaces of the city and Old Campus cast their dim and bright lights on the walks and the trees. As I circled back, I crossed the parquet of bricks under the archway at Hendrie Hall and caught the reflected light off the tarmac of the parking lot. It was a Sunday night like so many before a week of classes, tests, and assignments. Even so, the light snow renewed the surface of things.
I know there is more than shine to surface. Each of us has a surface, bright on one evening and dim on another, and each of us like our tall Gingko has much below that surface. It is what is below that sustains us, hidden as it usually is, and private. The roots of the Gingko spread out of sight but are no less crucial for that. The snowy surface that evening seeped secretly into the grass and into the ground, down, out of sight, and into. The glistening evening showed something of itself but left the rest to the imagination, to divining, and to understanding what we know to the true: Surface is surface only. It is a cliche that we see only what we see. It is learning that enables us to know and acknowledge what we cannot see or do not yet see. I know the Gingko has roots even though I have not seen them. They drive deep and out even as its slow-to-turn yellow leaves approached their time to go in order to prepare for the next season. It is the idea of Gingko, the whole and complete Gingko, that sustains Gingko-ness. It is the idea that each of us has of our self-ness that sustains our stand both at and below the surface of who we are and who we might be.
That idea of wholeness may be perfect in its conception, but each of us knows that imperfection is the nature of our diurnal and nocturnal lives as others can and cannot see us. What to do? I suggest we acknowledge in others that more is below the surface. I suggest we acknowledge in ourselves that what is below is that which sustains us, although hidden to others, deeper than the surface we show or reveal. And we might give to others the benefit of the doubt: we see what we see but must set out to know what can know.
As I returned to TD, the shimmer of the evening was plain on the blue stones of our TD courtyard walkways and grass. And behind the surface of our dim and bright windows were and still are our imperfect selves, working to make whole some idea of who we are and who we might be. Sunday nights have that private shimmer about them.
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