CORe Digest
December 8th 2006
My Fellow Students,
Woooo! We're accredited! Join the
Facebook group
to register your happiness!
I'd like to take this opportunity to plug two great events coming up in the next
few days. First, take a break from finals, projects, and papers
today at 3pm to help SERV make coloring books for
the Boston Children's Hospital. Stop on by in the WH 1st floor lounge ...
can't beat that! I've provided one possibility for a coloring book, just to
get you thinking ...
Then, after the comma and a couple days, you'll find a figure skater. This Sunday, Olin's
own Figure Skating Team will be performing in the
Babson Skating Club Annual Winter Show! Our team is very strong this year,
led by captain Carmelle Tsai. (In fact, she's so good, she is the Olin
College Figure Skating Team!) So stop on by to the Babson Skating Center,
right through the trees from Lot A, Sunday evening at 5PM for the show.
There will also be local skaters of all ages performing ... and it's free!
And, with that, let's get to some info ...
Deadline Today:
- Buy your Snowball tickets from one of the lovely ladies
(or gentlemen?) at the dining hall!
- For everyone living in East Hall, take a couple minutes to ensure that
Facilities can get to your air filter today. They'll be starting at 9am.
- If you haven't given your Expo poster/presentation a title, go on over
to the wiki
and sign up.
Also:
- Mini Add/Drop opens today at noon.
- Help out the Princeton Review's blurb about Olin by taking their
survey.
- Live in East Hall or a member of the Class of 2008? Consider running
to represent your Hall or Class! Elections will be held immediately
after break.
- Don't forget to buy stuff for that special someone! Oh, and your
Secret Santa buddy too ;-)
- Mini-Minutes! Check out the full
EBoard
and
GA
minutes.
- Getting Students on Board of Trustees Committees: should they
be ex-officio responsibilities of E-Board members, or should they be
selected from the student body?
- Elections for new EH Area Rep, Co2008 Rep scheduled for Thursday,
January 25, starting at 9pm.
- Gift Committee got some shiny, nice jars engraved with the Olin
Logo!
- The gears are rolling on the new Wellesley-Olin Certificate program.
- Olin is looking to replace the current taxi service to Wellesley
with a contracted shuttle, which will run every half hour.
Currently, the plan is that each ride will cost $1. CORe may be asked
to pay for a portion of the shuttle, for next semester only.
- We're probably going to be revamping CORe's spending guidelines!
Food for thought:
- Should we fund 50% of ticket costs? 50% of transportation?
What about plane tickets and conferences?
- Should CORe treat every funding request on a case-by-case basis, entirely
subjectively? Or should we have more objective rules?
- Should CORe encourage on-campus events at the expense of
off-campus events? Big events at the expense of small? Cheap
purchases at the expense of pricy ones?
Ideas? Send your feedback to CORe.
- Line Items:
- Taboo: $150 [EB] - Fund-raising Event Food (loan)
- ASME: $134.66 [GA] - Conference Food (post facto)
- Chinese Club: $125 [EB] - Food at Cultural Study Break
- Game Club: $85 [EB] - Magic Cards
- FWOP: $50 [EB] - Poster Frame
- FWOP: $44.91 [EB] - Play Scripts (post facto)
Remember, check out the
CORe Calendar
in Outlook for more information about any of these upcoming activities!
Friday Dec 8:
- Last Day to buy Snowball Tickets!
- 3pm-5pm: SERV Coloring Book Study Break (WH 1st Floor)
- 5pm-7pm: Somnus: Olin Circus (Sorenson)
- 8pm-10pm: Somnus: Olin Circus (Sorenson)
- 12am-1am: Taboo Midnight Pasta Dinner (EH 1st Floor)
Saturday Dec 9:
- 1pm-3:30pm: SERV Toys for Tots Shopping Trip
- 5pm-8pm: Taiwan Olin-MIT Cultural Event
- 6pm-10pm: FWOP Auditions (Crescent Room)
Sunday Dec 10:
- 2pm-4:30pm: SERV Toys for Tots Shopping Trip
- 5pm-7pm: Babson Figure Skating Club Winter Show (Ice Rink)
Monday Dec 11:
- 11:45am-12:45pm: Design Nature Toy Demos (AC 1st Floor)
- 4pm-4:30pm: Creative Writing Workshop's
"Favorite Poem Video" Premiere (AC 109)
Tuesday Dec 12:
That about
wraps
it up for this week ... enjoy the weekend, and may the
force
be with you?!
Sincerely,
Chris "Danger" Dellin
Your Vice President of Communication
Midnight Pasta Dinner
Next Friday at midnight (okay, I guess that makes it Saturday)
Taboo is hosting a pasta dinner at midnight Friday, December 8! (Saturday, if you're picky) It'll be held in the EH 1st floor lounge.
For $5 you get a delicious dinner of pasta, sauce with or without meat, and salad.
Bring your own beverage or, for an extra $1, buy one from us.
There'll be good food, good conversation. Everyone is welcome!!
Please RSVP to Tiana so we know how much pasta to make.
Greening Olin tip of the week
Gas prices are on the rise again, and we all know that car exhaust contains greenhouse gases etc. etc. So, help save money and the environment by walking, biking, or organizing carpools whenever possible.
Coloring Books, a Shopping Trip for Toys for Tots, and SERV Auction payments!
Coloring Books for the Boston Children's Hospital, go to Natick and get a toy, pay for SERV Auction items
Make Coloring Books today, 3-5PM, WH 1st floor lounge
SERV presents at artsy study break. Come help make coloring books for the Boston Children's Hospital. Help sketch coloring pages, and compile the pages into beautiful booklets that will brighten a child's day. Hone your drawing skills, hole punching skills, copying skills, and become a kid again! Come by today, December 8th, from 3-5PM to the WH 1st floor lounge. Stay for as long or as little as your want.
Toys for Tots Shopping Trip, Saturday and Sunday afternoon
SERV is making two shopping trips to Natick, Saturday leaving at 1PM and Sunday leaving at 2PM. Meet in WH's 1st floor antelounge. Go do your holiday shopping and buy a toy for Toys for Tots, an organization that gives toys to disadvantaged children during the holiday season. This is a perfect opportunity to frolic in a toy store again! Want to go? RSVP to
SERV@olin.edu
SERV Auction Payments
TODAY is the last chance to pay for your awesome items in the dining hall during lunch. Bring cash (we will have change) or checks written out to 'Olin College'. After today, send payments in campus mail to Jessie Sullivan, MB 586, or go by her room, EH309 to drop off payments in the folder. Payments are due by next Friday, December 15th, so we can send the money to the charities before we leave for break.
"Favorite Poem Video" Project Premiere
What do Joe Hunter, Mel Chua, and David Ware have in common? They are three of the five Olin Community members featured in Creative Writing's Favorite Poem Video Project. The Premiere is open to the community. Monday, December 11 from 4-4:30 in AC 109.
Call for Interest: Possible Ecumenical Spring Co-Curricular on Passover
The Passover Seder is the single most observed Jewish celebration of the year. Culturally, it plays a role similar to Christmas. At the same time, the Passover Seder celebrates universal themes: freedom, spring, rebirth. It is on the one hand a text-based holiday with a long history and broad set of traditions and on the other an extremely malleable set of observances centered on a story and a meal. All of these things have made it a singularly effective bridge to other groups: "Freedom Seders," "Feminist Seders", and "Study Seders" are only a few examples.
I am interested in putting together an Olin co-curricular for this spring on Passover, exploring some of its history and themes and also using it as a platform for broader cross-cultural discussion. I am specifically interested in participation from both those who are not Jewish as well as those who celebrate Passover. If there is sufficient energy, the co-curricular might consider hosting a (creative?) Passover Seder for the Olin community.
At this point, I am VERY interested in identifying others in the Olin community -- students, staff, and faculty members -- who might be interested in helping me to plan such an activity. If you would be interested, please let me know ASAP as the co-curricular proposal is due on Monday. (Planning doesn't need to happen before Monday, of course, but I'd like to know whether there's interest out there.) I'd also love to hear from anyone who might be interested in participating without necessarily taking on a leadership role and, of course, general feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
Design Nature Toy Demonstration - Monday 12/11
On Monday, December 11th from 11:15 to 12:45 Design Nature students will be demonstrating their toy prototypes in the first floor hallway of the Academic Center. This semester, students were challenged to develop bio- inspired walkers for 4th graders. Accordingly seventy 4th grade students from Hillside Elementary School in Needham will be present to evaluate their designs and experience Olin. Members of the community are welcome to attend.
Princeton Review Survey - Deadline 12/8
The Princeton Review is giving you the opportunity to voice your opinions of the academic and social life at Olin. This information will be used as part of the 2008 Best 361 Colleges. Please complete the online survey at
http://survey.review.com/. All undergraduates completing and validating a survey will be entered into the "$5,000 for Your Thoughts" Sweepstakes, with a grand prize of $5,000! (Official sweepstakes rules may be viewed at the survey website.) Please complete your survey within the next three days.
The "Students Say" profiles that appear on PrincetonReview.com and in our books will be based on survey responses from students like yourself. This text helps readers understand what life at your school is like, assisting potential students to match themselves with the school most suited to their educational and personal needs.
Please note: We seemed to have worked out some of the problems students were initially experiencing, but please feel free to email
alyson.goodrow@olin.edu with questions.
Renewable Energy at Olin: Is it Feasible?
Wind energy, photovoltaics, ground source heating/cooling, biomass
The Renewable Energy class will be presenting their final project - a feasibility study of renewable energy technologies on the Olin Campus - on Thursday, December 14, from 1 - 3 pm in AC218. We are inviting the entire Olin Community to this event. Come if you are interested in renewable energy, and hear whether we should turn Parcel B into a wind farm, or if we should install PV cells on the AC roof. There's something for everyone.
What: Renewable Energy at Olin
Where: AC218
When: Thursday, December 14, 1 - 3 pm
Post graduate Planning Announcements
Olin's resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more…
GENERAL
Google/Teach for America Partnership
Frances Haugen ’06 forwarded some information for students who might be interested in both Google and Teach for America. For more information about this new partnership please click
here.
Hot Degrees for Class of 2006-07
Job Outlook 2007 Report Now Available
Employers expect to hire 17.4 percent more new college graduates in 2006-07 than they did in 2005-06, according to respondents of NACE's
Job Outlook 2007 survey. For the student version of this survey please see the National Association of Colleges and Employers Jobweb at
www.jobweb.com/joboutlook/.
INTERNSHIPS & RESEARCH
MIT AMGEN-UROP Scholars Program
Deadline: February 1, 2007
The Amgen-UROP Scholars Program is a new summer initiative that invites undergraduates to participate in faculty-mentored research at MIT in the science and biotechnology areas.
Beginning June 2007, students admitted to the program (known as “Amgen Scholars”) will have opportunities to conduct research, analyze data, present research results, network with other undergraduates with similar research interests, and develop working relationships with MIT faculty mentors and other research staff. Space in the program is limited to 15 spaces for MIT undergraduates, 15 spaces for students attending other four-year colleges and universities. For more information, go to
http://web.mit.edu/urop/amgenscholars.
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Deadline: February 19, 2007
During the summer of 2007, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure
Network will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
(NNIN REU) from June through August. Engineering and science students
with broad interests across disciplines focusing on nanotechnology
are eligible to apply if they are not graduating before the end of
the program in August 2007. For more information and to apply online, please go to
http://reu.nnin.org.
Pratt & Whitney
Thermo/Fluids/Aero-Minded Mechanical Engineer Intern – East Hartford, CT
For more information about this summer internship please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Aerospace Corporation
Summer Internship - El Segundo, California and Chantilly, Virginia.
Aerospace Corporation is seeking students majoring in science and engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, information systems or mathematics. However, all majors will be considered for this internship. For more information about this summer position please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Lab
Deadline: March 31, 2007
APL offers science and engineering internships each summer. The program provides practical work experience and an introduction to APL. Students spend the summer working with APL scientists and engineers, conducting research, developing leadership skills, and growing professionally. For more information about this program please visit their website at
http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/summer/summeremploy.asp.
JOBS
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Designer – Boulder, Colorado
If you're self-motivated, hard working, and you want to rise to the top, then reply to someone else's ad. If, on the other hand, you barely graduated from school but drew killer dragons on your Duotang, and you still skate through life almost entirely on your artistic ability, then this job is for you.
For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Audition for the FWOP show "The Importance of Being Earnest"
FWOP's spring show is The Importance of Being Earnest, and it will be going up on February 23rd-24th and March 2nd-3rd (Candidates' Weekends).
If you are interested in auditioning, send an email to Erin Schumacher and Jon Cass (
erin.schumacher@students.olin.edu and
jonathan.cass@students.olin.edu) and then come to auditions, which will be held on Saturday, December 9th from 6:00 to 10:00 PM in the crescent room. In your email, please specify a one-hour time slot in which you would like to audition. If you are interested in auditioning but are for some reason unavailable at that time, also send us an email and we will work something out. Callbacks will be held as necessary on Sunday, December 10th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in the crescent room.
