Highlights for Dacie Moses’ House included spring cleaning with our break student worker, Bia, hosting many bakers, 30 girl scouts, and a homemade pizza event with s'mores and about 65 students attending. Sunday brunch is always the constant presence during term and break.
The Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) has been busy planning events for Accepted Student Days. On April 12th, the healthy sexuality team hosted a workshop on Decolonizing Sex Positivity.
Office of Health Promotion (OHP) created a newsletter recapping all of our activities from winter term. You can find it on our website!
The Student Activities Office (SAO) had a busy winter term. The Student Activities Programming Board (SAPB) hosted the 38th annual Midwinter Ball, bus trips to a Minnesota Timberwolves game and United Noodles, and funded six student-led trips with the Student Leadership & Involvement Grant. SAO is looking forward to another great spring term. SAO also welcomed Jonah Shaw '18 back to the staff in March. Jonah graduated a term early and will be a temporary office assistant in SAO throughout spring term.
Encourage sophomores to use the Writing Center as they're putting together their writing portfolios! We can help students shape the reflective essay, select and revise papers so they meet the evaluation criteria, and settle their worries about the portfolio. Encourage seniors who still have to give comps talks to practice beforehand with our fantastic speech consultant, Jenny Portis! Additional information can be found on our website: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/asc/
TRIO/Student Support Services recently returned from our second annual All-Class Retreat. We're busy this month with two all-campus events: the First Generation Faculty Panel (a collaboration with SAO) and Class Act.
Office of Intercultural and International Life (OIIL) is happy to announce that we are planning Skin: Identity, Biology, and Self-Care, a collaboration with the Office of Health Promotion, SHAC, and the Biology department, which will take place May 8-10. Charles E. Crutchfield, MD '82 will join our offices to create a trio of events related to skin care including an OIIL Talk on "My Skin Identity," a talk on ethnic skin care, and a DIY skin care treatment session. All are welcome to attend.
The Office of Residential Life is getting ready for an exciting spring term and have welcomed back 180 students who were not here for winter term. In addition to approximately 35 returning RAs for next year, we had 87 new RA applicants. We are currently working on both the RA selection process and gearing up for room draw.
Following the Disability Services move to Henry House, Student Health and Counseling (SHAC) has begun converting the former testing rooms into Meditation and BioFeedback rooms. While definitely a work in progress, we’re hoping to have two fully outfitted spaces for Meditation and/or BioFeedback usable in the coming weeks and completely online by Fall 2018! SHAC’s numerous therapy groups are up-and-running again this term-- be sure to check out our website for a complete list of offerings designed to help with a range of issues. And while our “Loaner Lightbox” program saw robust usage during Winter Term, we’d like to remind students that lightboxes are available throughout the academic year. It’s not like Spring ‘kind of’ arrives (it IS Minnesota) and SAD symptoms immediately disappear. If you’ve never used one before and are curious, check one out today!