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Homecoming/Family Weekend Employment Opportunities — 9/28 deadline

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Have you ever wanted to…

Meet alumni and parents from around the world?  Make money, friends and gain a whole new perspective on life at Wesleyan?  Drive a shuttle van around campus and use a walkie-talkie?  AND get a FREE Wesleyan T-Shirt?

Apply now to be part of Homecoming/Family Weekend 2012. Student workers play an integral role in the weekend by greeting guests at the registration site, assisting with activities and event preparation, escorting guests around campus in shuttle vans, and much more!

Applications close on Friday, September 28th  at 5:00pm.

The application can be found at:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dG9EUzFuSGRFa0lNZG04ajMyU0YyUlE6MQ 

If you have any questions, feel free to email interns@wesleyan.edu!

 **Please note: students who are hired to work for Events during this period cannot also work for Bon Appétit.

Aubrey Courville ’13, James Gardner ’13 and Raymond Wong ’14
Interns, Office of Alumni and Parent Relations
interns@wesleyan.edu
860/685-2418

Sexual Assault Survivors Support Group — sign up by 9/28

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Heal in the company of others:

The Sexual Assault Survivors Support Group (SASS) will be held on Tuesdays beginning October 2nd-December 4th from 5:45-7:00pm. SASS is open to survivors of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape. Meetings will follow an open support group format and participants determine group topics each week.  

Contact Alysha B. Warren, LPC, Therapist/Sexual Violence Resource Coordinator, for more info  at awarren(at)wesleyan(dot)edu or visit the SASS website.

The deadline to sign-up is Friday, September 28th.

CHUM Monday Night Lecture Series — Prof. Margot Weiss 6 p.m.

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 MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES

Monday, September 24
6 p.m.
Russell House

  Cultural Trauma, National Memory:  BDSM Play with Slavery and Fascism

 Margot Weiss

Assistant Professor of American Studies and Anthropology

This talk explores the temporality of desire—the relationships between erotics, cultural memory, and histories of national trauma. It draws on ethnographic fieldwork with BDSM practitioners in San Francisco and Berlin to focus on what practitioners call “cultural trauma play”: play that re-performs real-world or historical trauma. I compare the eroticization of two emblematic national traumas—the Holocaust in Germany and chattel slavery in the United States- and contrast the political and national identifications at work in such play in order to explore what we might claim to know about the historicity of desire.

 

Meet the New Protestant Chaplain: Tracy Mehr-Muska

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I am very excited to be Wesleyan’s new Protestant Chaplain and have thoroughly enjoyed becoming part of this amazing community.  As a marine scientist turned clergywoman, I truly value the importance of caring for ourselves and others holistically, considering the physical, mental, and spiritual.  I aspire to be a safe, open, non-judgmental listener who is a chaplain to all, not just the Protestant community.  I personally believe that all people are spiritual, whether or not that spirituality is nurtured by a religious paradigm, so please know you are welcome to connect with me, whether or not you consider yourself “religious.”  I appreciate this sacred opportunity to journey alongside the students at Wesleyan and invite you to come by or stop me on the street to introduce yourselves or to share your stories.  I can’t wait to meet you.

Thesis/Essay Writers: Library Research Services

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The library is offering workshops on research sources and interlibrary loan and other services for seniors writing a thesis or an essay. Sessions will be offered on Monday 9/24, Tuesday 9/25, Wednesday 9/26, and Thursday 9/27  at 11:00, 1:00, and 3:00 each day. No need to sign up ahead of time. Choose a date and time convenient for you and join a group for a 45 minute info session at Olin Library’s reference office. Attendees will be granted expanded interlibrary loan privileges.

 

Molecular Biophysics and Biological Chemistry Retreat — 9/27

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We invite you to the 13th Annual Molecular Biophysics and Biological Chemistry Retreat on Thursday, September 27 at the Wadsworth Mansion.  The retreat will feature seminars from four faculty, Wesleyan’s David Beveridge, Amy MacQueen, Michael Weir, and Wesleyan alumna Kylie Walters (University of Minnesota; http://www.cbs.umn.edu/bmbb/contacts/kylie-j-walters).

 In addition, graduate and undergraduate students from the Molecular Biophysics program will present research posters.

 The keynote speaker for the retreat is Professor Bertrand García-Moreno from Johns Hopkins University; http://biophysics.jhu.edu/bgme/index.html.  Professor García-Moreno’s research is aimed at understanding electrostatics in protein systems and how these forces influence protein folding, structure and function.

 Molecular Biophysics is an interdisciplinary program that has been supported by an NIH training grant for over 25 years.  The retreat is made possible by support from the training grant and the Chemistry and MB&B departments.

 

 

Hispanic Film Series: Post Mortem — 9/20, 8 p.m.

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Please join us tomorrow night for the third film of our Hispanic Film Series that showcases new cinema from Latin America and Spain. This week the turn is for the wonderful Chilean director Pablo Larraín. We hope to see you there!

 POST MORTEM:  Pablo Larraín / 98 min. / 2010 / Chile, Mexico, Germany

 

Pablo Larraín first broke onto the international film scene when Tony Manero premiered at the Cannes Directors´ Fortnight. This Chilean director has now followed up with visceral Post Mortem. Mario Cornejo is going about his daily business of writing autopsy reports at the military hospital in Santiago, when the Pinochet coup d´état shakes this heretofore apolitical character out of his state of apathy. This passionately executed film by Larraín has met with brilliant reviews, competing at the Venice Film Festival and nabbing secondplace at the Havana Film Festival´s Coral Awards. Post Mortem is neither areconstruction of the Pinochet days, nor an angry denunciation of the period. Instead, Larrain offers a borderline-surreal –Lynchian – black comedy to show, among other things, how easy it is for ordinary people to sleepwalk into a climate of atrocity, either as victims, collaborators, or as both. As in his first film, Larraín invests his characters with metaphoric undertones, suffusing the city of Santiago with a surreal visual texture that evokes the nightmarish landscape it was rapidly becoming.

 

Where: Goldsmith Family Cinema, Center for Film Studies
When: 8 p.m.       Free Admission 

 

Presented as part of The Spanish Film Club series with the support of Pragda, the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain, and its Program for Cultural Cooperation with U.S. Universities. In collaboration with Wesleyanʼs Latin American Studies program and the Department of Romance Languages and Literaturesʼ Thomas and Catharine McMahon Fund.

Be a Peer Health Advocate Apps due 9/28

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Interested in health education? Apply to be a Peer Health Advocate! 

The Peer Health Advocates are WesWell’s team of volunteers that create and implement peer-led health education outreach efforts on a variety of health issues including sexual health, stress management, sleep and study habits, alcohol and drug use, and healthy relationships.

 All class years welcome!

Apply to be a PHA HERE! Applications are due by Sept. 28th.

Visit the WesWell website for more information: http://www.wesleyan.edu/weswell/peerhealthadvocates/pha.html

Mission: WesWell, the Office of Health Education, is an integral part of Wesleyan University’s Health Services. WesWell understands the impact of student health on academic performance and is committed to providing services that are designed to develop healthy behaviors and prevent health concerns that may interfere with academic and personal success.

 

Senior Barbecue Photos 9/15/12

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Senior Barbecue Photos!

Many thanks to the 2013 Class Council and the Senior CAs for their great work on this event–from beginning to end–and to University Relations, Residential Life, the Deans Office and SALD for their generous support.  Thanks also go to Bon Appetit, Events & Scheduling, SALD and Physical Plant for getting it off and running, and to the Senior Class Gift officers for their presentation.

Beautiful weather, awesome music from Bones Complex and DJs McKenzii Webster and Brewster Lee & Friends, a hearty meal, a great raffle, and the spectacular seniors from the fabulous Class of 2013 had it all going in the Fountain backyard on Saturday. 

Below are some pics from that event.  Wish we could have gotten everyone who was there!

 

WeSupport: Be a Peer Mental Health Advocate — Workshop Sessions begin 9/25 or 9/28

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WeSupport — Wesleyan Student Support Network

WeSupport is a 6-session workshop offered by Counseling and Psychological Services and Active Minds.  In a series of six 1-hour discussions, we will train students to be peer mental health advocates.  Participating students will learn about a variety of mental health topics, become familiar with the signs a friend or acquaintance may be in distress, gain practice talking with someone who is struggling, and become conversant in both campus and community resources.  Students who complete the six-session series will have the option of joining a network of Wesleyan peer mental health advocates.

WeSupport seminars will be held Tuesdays from 4:30 – 5:30 PM in 41 Wyllys room 114 and Fridays from 12:15 – 1:15 in 41 Wyllys room 113.  Start date is September 25th for the Tuesday group, and September 28th for the Friday group.  The series will not meet during the week of fall break.

If you are interested in joining us, please email Dr. Jennifer D’Andrea at jdandrea@wesleyan.edu and indicate which day you prefer.