CORe Digest
February 9th 2007
Thanks Ray ... I never knew. That whole time in Scotland ... did anyone else know
he had a thing for me? Oh well, now all I can do is ponder what can never be ...
But seriously though, what's up, students of Olin College? I'll tell you what's up ...
kitchens, fridges, and common space! While there were more details in my email
from yesterday afternoon, the truth is out ... there is a
tragedy
unfolding right before our eyes. The tough part, too, is that this doesn't
just affect the kitchens; our community has also had a tough time in the past
with toolboxes, stockrooms, printing, lounges, etc. Look for a bit of community discussion
on this point materializing over the next few weeks -- the last thing any of
us wants is Olin getting any more bureaucratic or less free.
If you have any ideas or want to be a part of the discussion, email
core@olin.edu!
But back to a more cheerful mood ...
Can I get a "C"!
Can I get an "O"!
Can I get an "R"!
can i get an "e"! ...
- Mini-Minutes! Check out the full
EBoard
and
GA
minutes.
- Charlie Nolan gave an exciting recap of the admissions process and this year's numerous applicants.
- 1054 applications sent in this year
- 110 will be admitted after the Candidate's Weekends
- 54 international applicants, 47/50 U.S. states represented in applicant pool
- 2007 Candidates are posted in front of the Admissions Office.
- 7 or 8 Olin sibling applications this year
- Honor Board Academic Integrity survey results will be announced soon.
- R2 applications are now available.
- Outing Club and WHACK are now on probation.
- CORe is continuing to discuss the kitchen/fridge fiasco. As always, please send
any feedback to core@olin.edu.
- Line Items:
- Yearbook: $275 [EB] - Camera Flash
- DISCO: $250 [EB] - DDR Pads
- Class of 2010: $228.21 [GA] - West Hall Whiteboards
- Open: $150 [GA] - Valentine's Day Card Fundraiser [LOAN]
- Trivial: $120 [GA] - Tournament Fees
- SAC: $100 [EB] - Superbowl Party Food
- Friendly Fire: $90 [EB] - Supplies
- DISCO: $50 [EB] - Tournament Food
- Open: $50 [EB] - Mannequin Clothing
- CORetastic Points:
- Angela Sharer: [+2] For lots of CORe work
Like last week, be sure to check out the CORe Calendar!
In Outlook
| Google Calendar
| Olin Portal
Friday Feb 9:
- 12pm-1pm: Advising Advisory Board Lunchtime Discussion
- 12pm-1pm: Babson Mini Melts & Stuff a Bear
Saturday Feb 10:
- 8pm-10pm: Babson: The Art of Kissing
Monday Feb 12:
- 3pm-5pm: IEEE Xplore: Learn, Network & Eat Some Pizza!
Wednesday Feb 14:
- 7pm-9pm: GA Meeting
- 7:30pm-9pm: Poet Glyn Maxwell
Thursday Feb 15:
- 12pm-1pm: Advising Advisory Board Lunchtime Discussion
Friday Feb 6:
- 8pm-10pm: The Vagina Monologues
And with that, I bid you all adieu, and wish you a fantastic week!
Wanna know how to make my day?
Send me and email
and tell me something in exactly one sentence. It can be about the Digest, Olin,
life, how Yrinee likes comic books, whatever you want! ::ducks::
Sincerely,
Chris "Danger" Dellin
Your Vice President of Communication
Spring '07 Committee Rep. Appointments
New student reps. to Olin committees this Spring are as follows:
|
Committee |
Volutneers |
|
AHS Committee |
Ryan Hubbard |
|
Campus Public Display Evaluation Committee |
Sarah Boman |
|
Crisis Management Committee |
Amy Gao |
|
Development Student Working Group |
Andy Pethan; Michael Ducker |
|
Dining Services Advisory Group |
Angela Sharer;Thomas Michon |
|
Environmental Health and Safety Committee |
Michael Riccobono |
|
Exposition Planning Committee |
Leah Engelbert-Fenton |
|
Passionate Pursuits Board |
Andrew Hollet; Leslie Gerhat |
|
Wellesley-Olin Working Group |
Tim Smith |
|
Big Conversations |
Ben Salinas; Steve Westwood |
CORe would like to thank everyone that participated in the Spring committee repopulation process. We truly appreciate your input and initiative.
Announcing the winners of the Room Superlatives Contest!
The Yearbook would like to thank all those who entered the contest, as well as Mike Maloney for photographing and judging the contest. The winners are:
Most Creative Use of Space, Bryce Lee and Marco Morales - Sandbox Beach Team - I wonder if it is a good place to get a tan in the winter?
Neatest (Women's), Cathy Murphie - Cleanest as well
Neatest (Men's), Jeffrey Moore and Bradley Powers
Messiest, Alex Davis, Conor Frackleton, Jeremy Freeman, George Jemmott, Eugene Kozlenko, and Olek Lorenc - DO NOT SHOW ANYONE anytime ever. If someone complains you have a messy room show this. What scared me about this room is they cleaned up before I took photos!
Most Girly, Pamela Darvirris and Sarah Zimmermann - Great color use even down to the fish.
Most Manly, Luis Diego Cabezas - If you are a man, this is the room you show friends, job interviews, girlfriends, and your mother.
Most Olin-esque, Kevin Bretney, Eamon Doyle, Clark McPheeters, and Aisaku Pradhan - Work Hard, Play Hard. Best work space, for teams and individuals, best home theatre. These two rooms say Olin; too bad they did not have a fire pole between them. (No, you can’t do it.)
Most Inviting (Men's), Matt Crawford and Matthew Roy - Only if you do not look at the ROC poster.
Most Inviting (Women's), Tiana Veldwisch
Most Colorful, Caitlin Greeley and Joan Liu
Best Painted, a tie between Gavin Boggs and Jonathan Raphael and Kiralyse Gonzalez and Alyshia Olsen - These students will always have a job.
Biggest Waste of Electricity, Matthew Wootton - Loudest, most toys. This is the room not to be next to, above, or below!
The Vagina Monologues
Come support the 3rd Annual Babson-Olin Production!
The Vagina Monologues is a racy show that discusses taboo subjects in an engaging manner. All proceeds are donated towards efforts to fight violence against women, as part of V-Day, a global campaign to this end.
Directed by our own Laura Stupin this year, the show will be presented by Babson and Olin College in collaboration with the Coalition for Women's Rights and Sexuality.
The Olin faction of this year's cast includes Martina Balestra, Casey Canfield, Heather Casper, Lauren Hafford, Anahita Karimi, Tiana Veldwisch and Meena Vembusubramanian.
Tickets: $8 at the door, and $6 for students.
Where: Carling-Sorenson Theater at Babson College
When: 8:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday, February 16th
Writing Tutors Return
Find us for all your writing needs
Alright, we know that you would rather spend your time in the machine shop or the ECE lab, but sometimes you just have to write a paper. We're here to help you get it done and get it done right. Come see us at any stage of any writing, be it draft of a research paper, outline for a literary analysis, or nearly-finished resume. To catch a writing tutor, send the tutor of your choice a meeting request, or simply e-mail
writingtutor@lists.olin.edu. Or, stop by any of our convenient office hours:
Sunday: Andrew Bouchard, EH306A, 8-9 PM
Monday: Anna von Reden, EH303, 8-9 PM
Wednesday: Jonathan Raphael, WH327, 9-10 PM
Thursday: Allison Schmidt, EH426, 7-8 PM
Ultimate Frisbee UPA Team Meeting – Friday Feb. 9th 7 PM, Dining Hall
The Flying Franks are at it again this season, so, if you are interested in playing competitive Ultimate Frisbee in the spring, come to this informational meeting. We will talk about UPA registration, practice times, games, and the year-end tournament.
Unable to make the meeting but still are interested? Send Mark Cavolowsky, Conor Frackleton, or Alex Jones an email and we will be happy to fill you in on the details.
Where's That Baby?
Participate in the first FWOP publicity game and win prizes!
In anticipation of FWOP's upcoming production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," during both Candidates' Weekends, the best theater group on campus will be holding a competition with elements related to the play. Baby John Moncrieff is missing somewhere in Boston, close to a T stop. Your task is to find him and return him to Olin College unharmed. In order to find him, you will be given challenges, which when completed will give you clues to his location, and the tools that you need to free him. Prizes will be awarded in three categories:
$50 for the first team to find Baby John
$25 for the team that completes the most challenges
Free show tickets for the most creative team
Rules have been attached, and the competition will take place from 8 PM Friday, February 16 until 8 PM Saturday, February 17. Please gather a team of four or five people if you want to participate, and e-mail me before next Friday.
2010 Imperative: webcast and discussion
How can we make ecological literacy a central tenet of design education?
The 2010 Imperative is an interactive web-cast broadcast live from New York, reaching more than 500,000 students, faculty, deans and practicing professionals in the architecture, planning and design communities in both North and South America. The organization behind this is working to make ecological literacy a central tenet of design education.
A group of us will be watching the broadcast in AC428 from noon to 3:30pm on Tuesday, Feb. 20 (an Olin Monday). Speakers include Dr. James Hansen (international expert on global warming), Edward Mazria (founder of Architecture 2030), Chris Luebkeman (Director and leader of Arup’s global Foresight and Innovation initiative, senior fellow of the Design Futures Council), and Susan Szenasy (editor-in-chief of Metropolis magazine). Grab your lunch and join us - in addition to watching the webcast we'll be having our own discussions on how Olin can build awareness of global and environmental concerns into its own activities and curricula.
If you'd like to watch but can't make this time, email us - we're trying to put together an evening showing for those who have class during the day. Full details are available on the 2010 Imperative website.
http://www.2010imperative.org/Student Web Developer Position Available
5 hour position is currently open
A position for an IT Student Web Developer is available for any interested Olin student. The job description is currently available on Blackboard for review. For more information, please contact Javier Zapanta by e-mail (javier.zapanta@olin.edu) or at extension 2471.
Olin College to Hold Art Exhibition Reception February 22
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering will hold the opening reception for a solo art exhibition of the work of Erica Daborn on February 22, 2007, from 5-7 PM. The exhibition, entitled “Interplay: A Painter’s Dialog with Photography,” will be on view from February 22 through March 31. The reception will be held in the Olin Art Gallery, which is located on the first floor of the Olin Center at Olin College, Olin Way, in Needham. Gallery hours are Mon - Fri. 9 AM - 5 PM, Sat. and Sun. 9 AM - 5 PM. For directions to the gallery go to
www.Olin.edu/camput/getting_around.asp.
Ms. Daborn’s work featured in this exhibition integrates photographic imagery with drawing. As Ms. Daborn comments, “Central to this work is the idea of transformation. Narrative themes and forms of coded representation combine the formal and technical with the theatrical. The drawings’ art relies on the imaginative potential and the liberating interplay of documentary imagery and fantasy. The characters, patterns, buildings and landscapes employed as participants in these dramas do not refer directly to any one cultural source but rather to many sources, creating a catalyst or reservoir of possible meanings that, for the viewer, can unravel many discursive journeys.”
Educated at the Royal College of Art in London (MFA), Ms. Daborn now lives in the Boston area and is a full-time member of the drawing faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and in the UK and her work is held in many prominent public collections including The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Boston Public Library, The Boston Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Art Society for Wales.
Post Graduate Planning Announcements
Olin’s resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more…
GENERAL
New Fulbright Opportunities for 2007/2008
English Teaching Assistantships - Italy
Deadline: March 15, 2007
The Institute of International Education, U.S. Student Programs Division is offering up to fifteen English Teaching Assistantships to Italy and two grants to the Netherlands in Water Management. Applicants who were and were not recommended in the traditional competition may reapply. However, some new or revised program-specific documents (e.g. foreign language report in Italian and/or revised project statement) may be required. For more information and application details visit
Fulbrightonline.org
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK: Career Night
Thursday, February 15th - Hyatt Regency Hotel Boston
As a kick-off event for
National Engineers Week, the Boston Committee is hosting a
Career Night on Thursday, February 15, 2007 from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Boston. Free for students. Formal attire recommended.
New Internships and Research Experiences Posted In EASE since the Last CORe Digest:
Summer REU in Medical Informatics: DePaul University/ Northwestern Memorial Hospital- Chicago
Deadline: March 1, 2007
Central European University Professional Internship Program
A Summer Leadership Initiative: June 1 – July 31, 2007, Budapest
Deadline: March 15, 2007
Summer REU “Innovations in Nanotechnology” – University of Houston
Deadline: March 12, 2007
IT Product Design 2 year Masters Program – University of Southern Denmark
Deadline: March 15, 2007
Product Evaluation Group Intern – Cytyc Corporation
DON’T FORGET TO REGISTER IN EASE!
New Jobs Posted In Ease since the Last CORe Digest:
Associate – Power Advocate, Inc
Business Systems Analyst – First Marblehead
Help Desk Specialist – First Marblehead
AIX Systems Engineer – First Marblehead
DON’T FORGET TO REGISTER IN EASE! 
