CORe Digest
December 6th 2007
The C
Re Digest
Only 18 more shopping days!
Continuing the Digest's theme of "Winter Holidays," this week we present to you: [c]hanuk[k]ah! Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights, an eight day celebration commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. If you track down members of JOO, you can probably get some big games of dreidel going. It could be epic.
You can visit the Wikipedia article about Hanukkah, which is currently semi-protected. It is worth noting that the next occurance of the start of Hanukkah in November will happen in 2013, on November 28th, 2013. That's later than any current students at Olin will be here, so it might be interesting to see if the Digest then references this Digest.
If you still haven't gotten a present for your non-secular-gift-person, then here are a few more options you could consider:
It was pretty close for feedback on what holiday this week should be, so make sure to recommend a holiday for next week's Digest!
CORe Calendar: In Outlook | Google Calendar
Friday, December 07:
- 3:00 PM-5:00 PM SERV Community Service Time WH1
Sunday, December 09:
- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM A Cappella (The Larry)
- 8:00 PM-9:00 PM Faculty Story Time
Tuesday, December 11:
Wednesday, December 12:
- Study Day
- 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Honor Board Elections (Auditorium)
- 4:30 PM-5:30 PM Christmas Vespers Service (Glavin Family Chapel)
- 8:00 PM-12:00 AM Pottery Club Study Break (Sorenson Center for the Arts - Babson)
Sincerely,
Greg "Gimel Again?!" Marra
Vice President of Communication
Honor Board Weekly Poll
Board of Honor
As always, please feel free to give us feedback at any time by emailing the Honor Board.
This Week's Poll:
Last Week's Results:
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What should the Honor Board do if an alumnus is reported? |
| Drop it. Alumni are beyond the scope of the Honor Code. -
44 % /
27 Votes |
| It depends. Alumni should be accountable for egregious violations. -
34 % /
21 Votes |
| Treat it normally. Alumni signed the code, so they should be held to it. -
23 % /
14 Votes |
| Total Votes:
62 |
SERV Opportunities This Week
1) This Friday we're going to the Natick Community farm. Haven't been yet? It's lots of fun! Contact Rachel Nancollas for more information, or meet in the WH1 lounge at the start of community service hours (3pm Friday!)
2) Interested in doing GED tutoring? Contact Rachel again to get more details and help tutor some individuals next Wednesday!
3) Check-it-out Science! This is a program that a group of parents do at Eliot School each year. The goal is to institutionalize and they'd like Olin students to get involved. It's a science fair type event. Think it sounds interesting? Talk to Jillian Kiser for more details. There are opportunities to man tables, or to set up your own events!
PS- Pay your SERV auction debts! The sooner we get the money the sooner we'll be able to send it out to Heifer, hopefully for the Christmas season.
Spring RHO Class Competitions
Make sure to sign up for events now!
Next semester RHO will be coordinating a semester long class competition with multiple events, points and scoring, faculty/staff involvement, and prizes(?)…! In order to determine which 10 events we should put the most effort into planning, we’ve put up a signups board in the Dining Hall to see which events should be held. If you are planning to/would like to participate in any of the events sign up for it! You don’t want your event to not be in the final list of 10 because not enough people signed up for it!
Submit comments about the seniors!
Participate in an endsheet tradition!
Every year that we’ve had seniors, the yearbook’s endsheets have been covered with photos of our delightful graduates-to-be, along with compliments and quotes and such about them.
This year, the tradition continues. The Yearbook is looking for nice comments or super-short stories about the seniors. As always, we collect these from the student body.
The eminent Thomas Michon has created a website for people to log in and leave comments.
Notes:
-- When you log in and get 5 names, hitting refresh will re-randomize the names.
-- Comments are entirely anonymous.
-- Log in as many times as you want!
Pottery Club Study Break!
Try everything out for the first time
Pottery Club will be holding its first event next week- a drop in study break from 8pm to 12am at Babson's Sorensen Art Center- there will even be a lesson at the beginning. The event will be a joint event with a Babson study break!
If you don't know where the center is, we'll probably organize a few times for members to help new people get over to the studio.
Come to meet people, learn to throw on a wheel, learn to combine slabs by hand, or just glaze an already made piece.
Pottery Club will be covering the 1-Day studio fee, so this is a great chance to try it out and see if you like pottery and want to get more involved with the club next semester!
We'd love to gauge interest, so if you're planning on coming, please send an email to Ellen Chisa.
Other questions? Contact George Sass, John Rosenwinkel, Alyshia Olsen, or Ellen Chisa for more information. Look for more announcements/descriptions coming soon, but block the time out now!
Flowers for Snowball
Support Habitat
Order flowers for Snowball, support Habitat!
Single Rose: $5
Boutonniere: $10
Corsage: $15 (one rose)
$20 (three roses)
Corsages can be wrist or pin-on
Your choice of white, red, or pink
Corsages and Boutonnieres delivered to your door Dec. 17
Ceramics Studio
We are having a visiting artist come to our ceramics studio at Babson. Steven Branfman, professional potter, teacher and author and expert on all things ceramic will be doing a demo from 8-10 PM , Wed., December 12th. Our studio is located upstairs in the Trim/Sorenson Visual Arts building, room 221 at Babson. Here’s an opportunity to see a fine craftsman in action and ask questions. He is available to give a workshop for Olin Students sometime during the spring semester if a student wants to organize it.
We will be having a glazing only workshop on the same night, between 8 and 12PM, same time Steven Branfman is here, for Babson and Olin students . Participation in this will be $5 each.
STARTS MONDAY, December 10 ---> Spring 2008 ---> Mini Add/Drop
Need to make some spring schedule changes?
You may make on-line changes to your spring 2008 schedule during mini add/drop beginning Monday, December 10, 2007, 9:00am. This registration period will close on December 21, 2007 at 12noon. Log on to
https://sis.olin.edu to make your changes.
The standard add period will reopen on the first day of the semester and ends on Monday, February 4, 2008.
Questions, concerns, comments ---> visit, call or write to Linda Canavan
AHS Capstone Presentations.
Support and celebrate this semester's AHS Capstone students.
The grand finale for AHS Capstone is coming! Come hear final presentations by students who did independent projects (Project
Capstones) and students who capped their concentration off with a final course (Course Capstones). There are 3 sessions: Thurs., Dec 13, 12-3 pm, AC 213 and AC 218. Monday, Dec 17, 12-3 pm, AC 213. See the presentation schedule at
http://ahs.olin.edu/ahswiki/ CapstonePresentationsFall07. Topics include BioEthics for BioEngineers, Children's Book Illustrations, Studying for the Japanese Language Proficiency Exam, Maritime Power in Ming China, Social Network Theory and Organizations, Fiction-writing, and many more!!!
PGP
Olin’s resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more…
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
MEAF-AAPD Congressional Internship Program, Washington D.C.
Deadline: December 14th
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. in partnership with the American Association of People with Disabilities will send eight undergraduate students with disabilities to Capitol Hill for a summer internship experience. All accepted students will receive a stipend to cover transportation, housing and accommodations.
http://www.aapd.com/internships/internship08/MEAFinternInfo08.htm
GRADUATE SCHOOLS
University of Memphis International MBA (IMBA)
Deadline: April 15th
Interested in a business degree, but don’t have a business background? Check out the international MBA program at the University of Memphis and be prepared for global challenges.
http://imba.memphis.edu/
MIT LFM
Leaders for Manufacturing
MIT School of Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management and more than 25 corporations have teamed together to create the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) program. To learn more about this program check out their website
http://lfm.mit.edu/
JOBS/INTERNSHIPS
Here’s what’s new in EASE this week
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Job Title |
Job Location |
Employer |
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Software Engineers |
Massachusetts |
Nortel |
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Software, Hardware, & Test Engineers |
Virginia-Charlottesville |
General Electric |
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Application Engineer |
Massachusetts-Fall River |
Measurement Computing Corp. |
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Senior Software Engineer |
Maryland-Bethesda |
Vecna Technologies, Inc. |
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Design Engineer |
California-San Diego |
NuVasive |
