GRS Begins…!

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Amidst decisions about majors and studying abroad… 

The 2011 General Room Selection (GRS) process at Wesleyan University is about to start.  Remember, all undergraduate students are required to live on campus.  Therefore, if you will be a student at Wesleyan University in the fall of 2011, you MUST participate in the GRS process.

 Beginning Friday, February 11, 2011 at 12:00 (noon) you will be able to access the General Room Selection site and explore your housing options for the 2011-2012 academic year.  You enter GRS through your student portfolio by clicking on “Room Selection” under “Student Life at Wesleyan”. 

Please remember two important dates that are rapidly approaching.  All applications for Off-Campus Housing are due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 18, 2011.  All applications for Program Housing and Community Based Living are due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 25, 2011.

 You will be receiving many e-mails from the Office of Residential Life in the next few months as important dates draw near.  Please be sure to read all these emails, as well as the information contained in the GRS site.  You will not receive any hard copies of this information.  If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Residential Life by phone at 860-685-3550 or by e-mail at reslife@wesleyan.edu.

Program Housing Fair

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Program Housing Wants YOU!!

Please come out to our annual Program House Fair on Friday, February 11, 2011!!  This is a great chance to check out all of Wesleyan’s 32 Program Houses.   As Program House Selection will start shortly, this is a great time to learn about the process, as well as your living options for next year with Program Housing!  Attendees can also win raffle prizes!  So save the date:

 WHEN: Friday, February 11, 2011    WHERE: Beckham Hall     DURING: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dawn Brown, Area Coordinator for Program Housing, at x-3163 or dabrown@wesleyan.edu.  We hope to see you there!!

Day of Uplugging Friday, 2/11-Sat., 2/12

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Our Dear Wesleyan Community,

Have you ever spaced out staring at your computer screen, feeling your eyes glaze over as you come back to reality to realize that fifteen minutes have gone by during which you have no idea what happened?

Have you ever been in the middle of an intense discussion with a friend when all of a sudden one of you gets a text message, abruptly stopping the conversation and leaving you both wondering what could have been?

Have you ever wanted some time alone to relax with your thoughts and a guitar but weren’t able to because of incessant facebook messages, facebook chats, facebook posts, calls, texts, emails, BBMs, and gchats that all claimed to be the most important thing in your life?

Well, we have and we think it’s about time we do something about it.  This coming weekend, from Friday night to Saturday night, February 11-12, we are encouraging the whole Wesleyan community (i.e. YOU!) to join us for a Day of Unplugging—to go electronics-free for 24 hours to reconnect with people on a human, face-to-face, no distractions level.

We will be tabling in Usdan all this week to give everyone an opportunity to sign a personal pledge to unplug with us. If you pledge and give a donation (however much you can) to Oddfellows Playhouse, you will receive a voucher for a very snazzy t-shirt (promise!) that is redeemable at the beginning of the opening ceremony, which will be held on the main floor of Usdan on Friday at 6 pm.

When you sign up, you will also receive a list of suggested activities that you can do sans electronics on the day itself, including meditating outside (it’s supposed to be relatively warm!), attending a jam session at Earth House at 4 pm on Saturday (no musical talent required), and cooking for the potluck dinner that will be hosted at Earth House at 6 pm on Saturday as an end to the Day of Unplugging.

Here is a link to a video we made to give you an idea of what some of your fellow Wes students think about unplugging:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MLPOptQt94

We hope you enjoy your stress-free day and we look forward to seeing you all!

Lots of love, Just Some Wesleyan Students

ARST, MUSC & PHYS Open Houses — Tues., 2/8!

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Open Houses to explore majors in ARST, MUSC and PHYS on Tuesday, February 8!

Art Studio     4:15 p.m., Zilkha Gallery 202,Refreshments

Music     4:15-5:15 p.m., CFA Music Studios Lobby, Refreshments

Physics     12-1 p.m., Exley Science Center 255, Lunch

Open House Schedule is Up!

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Click on  http://www.wesleyan.edu/deans/major_declaration/2011openhouse.html for the Open House schedule for potential majors that begins today, Monday, February 7 and runs through Friday, February 25.  Open Houses are a great opportunity to meet faculty in a department or program and to ask questions about major requirements, study abroad, research possibilities, and so on.  Check out the schedule and check out the Open Houses!   You need to declare a major by Friday, March 4.

Study Abroad Info Sessions

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The following two universities will have info sessions Tuesday and Wednesday this week:

Tuesday, Feb. 8 —  Queen Mary, University of London, Noon – 1 p.m., Fisk Hall 302

 Wednesday, Feb 9 — The Swedish Program,Noon – 1:00 p.m., Fisk Hall 210

The Vagina Monologues — 2/11 and 2/12

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Come see The Vagina Monologues, Feb. 11 and 12! 

The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler (pictured), is co-directed by two members of the Class of 2013–Alanna Greco and Julia Black as well as Emily Steck ’12–and among its stars are five more members from the sophomore class! The play at the ’92 Theater is a Wesleyan tradition–full of sexy moans, hilarious anecdotes, and heartwarming stories.  It is not to be missed!

Tickets are $4 at the box office.  Proceeds from tickets will go to SHOFCO–Shining Hope for Communities!

Symposium on Academia and Activism — Feb. 11

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Save the date for the upcoming symposium on Academia and Activism at Wesleyan on February 11. The symposium brings together interdisciplinary scholars for two roundtable discussions on bridging academic and activist work. All events will be held at Russell House.

Roundtable I: Intellectuals as Activists/Activists as Intellectuals (10am – noon in Russell House) with Karen Brodkin, Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Matthew Garrett, Mara Kaufman and Scott Morgensen

Roundtable II: The Politics of the (Neoliberal) Academy (2 – 4pm in Russell House) with Purnima Bose, Janet Jakobsen, Jeff Maskovsky and Dylan Rodríguez

We hope that you can join us. More information is available at our website: http://activismacademia.conference.wesleyan.edu/.

The symposium is sponsored by the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and co-sponsored by the Ethics in Society Project, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Anthropology. For more information, please contact Margot Weiss (mdweiss@wesleyan.edu) or Naomi Greyser (naomi-greyser@uiowa.edu).