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Honors Convocation
On Friday, May 27 at 3 p.m., we will assemble to honor those students who have completed distinguished work during their undergraduate careers. Carleton’s Dana Strand, the David and Marion Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of French and the Humanities, will deliver the Honors Convocation address entitled “On Being (Perfectly) at Home.” Friday will follow the same schedule as we had for Opening Convocation (see attached memo for order of procession).
Reception to Welcome New Staff
Staff at Carleton (SAC) and The Forum invite you to the Alumni Guest House Library on Tuesday, May 24 from 4 to 5 p.m. for lemonade and snacks. In addition to the refreshments, another reason to attend is to welcome new staff members that have started work at the College since the last quarterly meeting.
Commencement Activities
Plans are in place for the 131st Commencement in the proud history of Carleton College. Festivities will begin on Friday, June 10, with a variety of activities including receptions and student performances. Tickets for the Friday barbecue lunch ($9) and the Saturday picnic lunch ($10) will be on sale in Sayles-Hill Great Space (no charge for the graduates). Details about the weekend's events can be found on the College Web site. The commencement ceremony will take place Saturday morning, June 11 at 9:30 a.m. on the lawn west of Hulings Hall with unlimited seating. If the forecast is for severe weather conditions, the ceremony will take place in the Recreation Center.
Commencement Processional and Recessional Routes
Commencement exercises will be held outside on Saturday, June 11, at 9:20 a.m. on the lawn west of Hulings Hall. There will be unlimited seating available. The academic procession will assemble on the sidewalk along side of Laird at 9 a.m. and will begin procession (in pairs) toward Music Hall at 9:20 a.m. See attached diagram for processional and recessional routes.
Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching
The Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching and the Mellon Faculty Lifecyles Grant highlight the following: cancellation of the event on course management, and a new book group forming with a focus on gender and academia. See details in the following article.
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Tuesday, May 24: CANCELLED LTC event about Carleton course management system. Please contact Mary Savina if you are interested in discussing this subject. Watch for future LTC discussions regarding course management systems.
New book group forming: Join the book group on Gender in Academia.
First meeting Monday, May 30, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Headley House, 815 East Second Street.We'll begin with Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2002, Unlocking the Clubhouse (MIT Press, 172 p.), a short and readable account of gender dynamics in the male-dominated field of computer science. Books are now available. Complimentary copies provided with funds from the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Grant to faculty who sign up through the LTC (contact Jennifer Cox Johnson, jcoxjohn@carleton.edu or x4192). An extra discount is available to staff members who join the group. Note that this group will continue into Fall Term 2005.
The two books we will read for fall are Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to do About It (2001) and Lynne H. Collins, Joan C. Chrisler, and Kathryn Quina, eds. Career Strategies for Women in Academia: Arming Athena (1998).
Co-sponsored by Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Grant.
Book groups are open to interested faculty and staff, but please sign up in advance with Jennifer Cox Johnson in the LTC, x4192 or jcoxjohn@carleton.edu.
For more information check the LTC Web site.
Noon Gardener's Meeting May 24
Lynn Reeck of Just Foods Co-op in Northfield will be this week's guest speaker on Tuesday, May 24. Lynne has been farming in the Northfield area for over twelve years. Currently, she raises vegetables and fruits on her small farm near Nerstrand. She has been involved in local food production of one sort or another for as long as she can remember, having grown up on a small, diverse, family farm near St. Cloud. Lynne has worked on an organic vegetable farm, on a "big" dairy cow farm, on a small goat farm, and a sheep farm. Throughout all of this labor, farming and local food production has been her passion, and she looks forward to talking with the Noon Gardener's about this topic. A voluntary donation will be accepted at each meeting, enabling us to bring knowledgeable speakers to campus each spring. Bring your lunch and join us from noon to 1 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251 for some great gardening information!
Athenaeum Events
Events featured this week in the Athenaeum:
- Tuesday, May 24 at 4:30 p.m.—Portraits of Women Changing America: A conversation about art and politics with photographers Terry Gydesen, Ann Marsden, and curator Patricia Briggs
- Thursday, May 26 at noon—Karimba Recital
- Thursday, May 26 at 4 p.m.—Lecture by Professor George Soule on The Death of John Wordsworth and the End of The Prelude
- Friday, May 27 at 4:30 p.m.—Professor Carlos Aguirre, Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, will discuss the ways in which the Peruvian state dealt with political subversion in the 1930s and the 1980s
Taizé Vespers and Catholic Mass Chapel Services
The final midweek Taizé Vespers service will be held on Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. The final Chapel service of the term will be held on Sunday, May 29 at 5 p.m. It will be a Catholic Mass led by Father Kevin McDonough of St. Peter Claver Church in St. Paul. A soup supper follows the service. A complete list of Chapel services and events for the upcoming week is posted online.
Torah Study and Shabbat Services
The final Torah study session for the term will be held this Thursday, May 26 at 5 p.m. at Reynolds House. Weekly Shabbat services will be held on Friday, May 27, June 3, and June 10 at 6 p.m. at Reynolds House. Torah study and Shabbat services will be led by Rabbi Shosh Dworksy.
Bookstore Corner
This week from the Bookstore:
- Reserve your Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, coming out on July 16
- Invitation to participate in the Reunion Alumni and Faculty Booksigning
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Reserve your Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!
Don’t forget to reserve your copy of J. K. Rowling’s sixth Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which goes on sale on July 16. You will receive a 30% discount on reserved copies of the book or the audio (available both on CD or cassette) and you will be guaranteed that we will hold a copy for you. The Bookstore will be open special hours on Saturday, July 16. You can stop in that day from 8 a.m. until noon if you just can’t wait to start reading.Reunion Alumni and Faculty Booksigning
The Alumni and Faculty Booksigning will be held on Saturday afternoon, June 18. If you are a faculty or staff member and an author and would like to participate, please contact Tripp Ryder or Joel Leake in the Bookstore by May 31. It is a fun opportunity to visit with former students. Please call us at x4153 for more information.Printing Services Requests Your Help with Spring Cleaning
We updated our paper selection this past fall and added many new colors. We need to clear out some less popular papers in card stock weight. If your favorite campus student organization, house of worship, pre-school, daycare, or civic group could use donated paper, we’d like to hear from you soon. We’re willing to donate to a good cause. Or, if you're looking for a great deal on your next college printing project, contact Loretta Springer or Corey Pulju (x 4186) for details on deeply discounted colors and quantities of non-card stock paper.
Policy Change for Delivery of Incoming Express/Overnight Mail
The Campus Post Office would like to make you aware that effective today, Monday, May 23, incoming Express/Overnight mail and packages will no longer be held for a signature and pick up by the employee. This change will expedite the delivery of incoming Express/Overnight mail to the employee’s mail stop. Please read on for further details.
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In the past, employees were phoned when an Express/Overnight delivery arrived and asked to stop by the Campus Post Office to sign for and retrieve the package. Over the last year, very few employees came to pick up their Express/Overnight deliveries the day of receipt. These packages were held in the Post Office that day awaiting pick up (and rarely claimed). The next working day the unclaimed Overnight/Express packages were released into the general mail stream.
Beginning today, the Campus Post Office will log incoming Express/Overnight mail and packages and then release them for delivery to the employee’s mail stop at the next available opportunity. If the item is a flat envelope it will be delivered with that afternoon’s mail. If it is a parcel, expect delivery to your mail stop by 3:30 p.m. that afternoon.
At this time, I’d like to remind you that the College address is for College business only. Send personal shipments to your home address. This policy is explained on the Campus Post Office Web site.
Information on the proper address for College mail can also be found on the Post Office Web site.