3 on 3 Tourney — sign up by 11/7

Think you and your friends got game???  Well here is your chance to prove it.  The Deans Office and The Office of Public basketballSafety are sponsoring a “Midnite Madness” 3 on 3 basketball tournament at the Freeman Athletic Center fieldhouse on Friday night November 13th.  The tournament will begin at 12 midnight.  Registration is open to all current students and will be limited to the first 32 teams to sign up by November 7th. Teams can consist of 3 or 4 players.  Awards will be given to the top four teams.  For more information and to register you can go to www.wesleyan.edu/publicsafety/basketball .

Last Chance for Flu Vaccine on Campus

thumbnailCAG1MIWWInformation about the flu, flu vaccine, and notice of privacy practice can be found below by clicking on the appropriate link.  For faster service the day of the clinic, please print off and complete the Influenza Immunization Permission sheet and bring with you to the clinic.  Copies will also be available at the clinic site. Registration is not required. Please wear a short sleeve shirt for ease of access to your arm.

Date:         Sat., Oct. 17
Time
:         10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Location:  Usdan 108
Fee:           $37 (cash, check, or bill to student account)
  

Click below for information about the flu clinic:  Flu Facts   Flu Vaccine Information   Influenza Immunization Permission (complete and bring to clinic)   VNA Privacy Disclosure Form

The Health Center is also offering the pneumonia vaccine to students who have asthma, diabetes, chronic illness and smokers per new Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines.  Please check out the link below if you are interested in more information about this vaccination.

www.wesleyan.edu/healthservices/ofnote/pneumonia.html

For more information, contact Joyce Walter, Health Center Director at x2656 or jwalter@wesleyan.edu

Free Tickets by 4:30 p.m. Fri. — Puppetry Theater Fri. & Sat.

Hi First-Years,
We’d like to introduce you to the Outside the Box Theater Series at the Center for the Arts.  This weekend’s production, Dan Hurlin’s Disfarmer blends innovative puppetry, projections, choreography and an original score to have you enter into the world of photographer, Mike Disfarmer (his work is on display at the Zilkha Gallery).  It is truly groundbreaking in the media and disciplines it combines, and I want to invite you to come as my guest (tickets subject to availability).
Best, Pamela Tatge, Director, CFA

 The Center for the Arts and Theater Department Present

Disfarmer
(Every Day Uses for Sight No. 6: Disfarmer)
Moving, poignant and occasionally hilarious, “Disfarmer” is a wonder. –VarietyConceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
    Original music by Dan Moses Schreier
    Text by Sally Oswald

A Limited Number of Free Tickets are Available to First Year Students!

 When: Friday & Saturday, October 16 & 17, 8pm     Where: CFA Theater

What: Disfarmer, which premiered in January 2009 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, is a puppet theater work inspired by the life of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959). Disfarmer operated a photography studio in Heber Springs, Arkansas, where for years locals and tourists lined up to have their pictures made. Disfarmer left his subjects to decide for themselves how to act in front of his lens. When they were discovered in the 1970s, Disfarmer’s photographs were acknowledged as a stunning achievement for their exquisite artistry, their profound empathy for their subjects and their invaluable documentation of a way of life that has all but vanished from the United States.

The production features the American style of “tabletop” puppetry; projections of Disfarmer’s photographs and images produced by old optical techniques; and a sound score with haunting music from antique recording technologies, re-contextualized and mixed with modern sampling techniques.

To see video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdTx59K9BC0

Admission: A limited number of free tickets are available to First-Year Students.  They must be picked up in advance at the University Box Office in the Usdan Center by 4:30pm on Friday, Oct. 16. Tickets may not be available at the door.

For more venue information and tickets: Call 860-685-3355 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

To read about related photo exhibition and film screening, visit: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/disfarmer/

Take Back the Night — Thursday

Take Back the Night

Please come to the steps of Olin this Thursday, October 15 at 7 p.m. for the annual Take Back the Night march.  

Show your support for survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Listen to their stories. Everyone’s presence is important.

Take a stand and break the silence because everyone deserves to be safe.

Take Back the Night

We will begin at Olin and march around campus. We will form speak-out circles in which survivors can share their stories (talk, read poems, sing, cry, yell, or request a moment of silence) in a supportive environment. There will be a candlelight vigil to end the march followed by debriefing sessions in Usdan led by counselors from the Women and Families Center.

 

 

Celebrating Students ’13: Alex Speiser

Even though I’m a city boy, I have always loved the outdoors. I’m a sucker for the beauty of New York City- the raccoons of Central Park, the Cloisters, and the occasional clean, white pigeon- but have been fortunate enough over the last few years to leave the lower forty-eight and see some other countries. I spent a good chunk of this summer A. Speiserworking in the southern area of Costa Rica, the Golf of Dulce region, at a Wildlife Sanctuary, looking after orphaned, injured, and displaced animals. I built cages, led tours, and learned what goes into rehabilitating and subsequently releasing animals affected by the illegal wildlife trade. The preservation of Nature and curbing the effects of Global Warming have always been passions of mine and were further enhanced by this experience.

Get Your Flu Vaccine – Tuesday; Pneumonia Vaccine

thumbnailCA1W2X0ZInformation about the flu, flu vaccine, and notice of privacy practice can be found below by clicking on the appropriate link.  For faster service the day of the clinic, please print off and complete the Influenza Immunization Permission sheet and bring with you to the clinic.  Copies will also be available at the clinic site. Registration is not required. Please wear a short sleeve shirt for ease of access to your arm.

Date:         Tues., Oct. 13
Time
:         4 – 7 p.m.
Location:  Usdan 108
Fee:           $37 (cash, check, or bill to student account)
  

Date:         Sat., Oct. 17
Time
:         10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Location:  Usdan 108
Fee:           $37 (cash, check, or bill to student account)
  

Click below for information about the flu clinic:  Flu Facts   Flu Vaccine Information   Influenza Immunization Permission (complete and bring to clinic)   VNA Privacy Disclosure Form

The Health Center is also offering the pneumonia vaccine to students who have asthma, diabetes, chronic illness and smokers per new Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines.  Please check out the link below if you are interested in more information about this vaccination.

www.wesleyan.edu/healthservices/ofnote/pneumonia.html

For more information, contact Joyce Walter, Health Center Director at x2656 or jwalter@wesleyan.edu

Call to Class Council 2013

Want to get involved in Class of 2013 activities?  Help plan and organize? 

thumbnailCA20TYCGAdvise your class dean on programming initiatives? 

 

Volunteer for the Class Council!

 E-mail Dean Brown and let her know of your interest by Friday, October 16.