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Reunion & Commencement 2013 begins on Thursday, and we’d like to call your attention to some PCSE and CCP events that are taking place this weekend. All are excellent opportunities to meet alumni, network, and learn about the paths Wesleyan students take after graduation. Please join us!

WESEMINAR Making Change Happen: Approaches to Social Innovation

Friday, May 24, 3-4 p.m., Room 116, Judd Hall

Hear from Wesleyan alumni who are making the world a better place by running their own enterprises, driving social and environmental impact from within corporations, and supporting aspiring social entrepreneurs. Other members of the large community of Wesleyan social innovators are invited to attend and contribute to the discussion. Moderator: Sarah Williams ’88, Patricelli Center Advisory Board Member, impact investor, and donor advisor who builds and manages grant and impact investing portfolios in areas including poverty alleviation, women’s rights, prison reform, and social entrepreneurship

PRESENTERS: Dan Gregory ’78 P’07, Co-Director, Northeastern Center for Entrepreneurship Education and Faculty Advisor to IDEA, Northeastern University’s student-run venture accelerator that provides business planning, coaching, mentoring, workshops, professional services, funding, and other resources to student and alumni/ae ventures; Marcus Chung ’98, Corporate Responsibility Consultant, The Children’s Place (previously with Talbots, McKesson, and Gap) and former board member for Net Impact; Jordyn Lexton ’08, founder of Drive Change, a NYC-based non-profit food truck business that employs formerly incarcerated youth and advocates for youth justice

SPONSORED BY the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship (PCSE) and Wesleyan Alumni in Philanthropy and Public Service (WAPPS).

Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Open House and Reception

Friday, May 24, 4-5:30 p.m., Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Allbritton Center

Learn about Patricelli Center programs, and network with alumni, students, and friends who are “doing well by doing good.” All are welcome.

WESEMINAR Education and Incarceration — at Wesleyan and Beyond

Saturday, May 25, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Hansel Lecture Hall (001), Public Affairs Center (PAC)

Hear young alumni talk about their career paths in the field of criminal justice post Wesleyan and engage in discussion about the importance of correctional education both at Wesleyan through the Center for Prison Education and beyond the campus.

MODERATOR: Russell Perkins ’09, founder of the Center for Prison Education

PANELISTS: Jordyn Lexton ’08, former teacher Rikers Island and current executive director of Drive Change; Sara Green ’08 , director of special projects for District 79 of the NYC DOE. Sara oversees all of the schools that operate inside of non-secure, limited secure, and correctional facilities in NYC; Hannah Furstenberg-Beckman ’08, case manager at the alternative to incarceration program CASES

WESEMINAR What is Hometown Security?

Saturday, May 25, 4-5 p.m., Tishler Lecture Hall (Room 150), Exley Science Center

Majora Carter ’88, urban revitalization strategist and Peabody Award winning broadcaster, wants to slow down the “brain-drain” in our nation’s poor communities and create a society in which people don’t have to leave their neighborhoods to find opportunity. Explore how to bring together technical training and development opportunities in underdeveloped areas to create an environment which fosters the creation of new businesses, enables existing ones to thrive, and better equips people to compete in a changing economy.

PRESENTER: Majora Carter ’88 is an internationally renowned urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems. Her long list of awards and honorary degrees include accolades from groups as diverse as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Goldman Sachs, as well as a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her 2006 TED talk was one of the first 6 videos to launch their groundbreaking website.

SPONSORED BY Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Tags: alumni engagement, civic engagement, Community Engagement, reblogged, Uncategorized

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Important Information Regarding Diploma Distribution on May 24 

In order to receive your diploma your Student Account must be in good standing on Wednesday, May 22rd.  You may check on the status of your account at anytime by clicking on “Student Account” in the “Financial Information” section of your e-portfolio. Payment(s) can be made by e-check through the “E-Bill” link in your e-portfolio, paper check made payable to “Wesleyan University” or by cash in person at the Student Accounts Office.

Tags: class of 2013, graduation, reblogged, Student Accounts

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Dear Student Group Leaders,

You should also note about two changes to COCO:  Firstly, the committee’s name is now officially changing from the Community Outreach Committee (COCo) to the Community Committee (CoCo).  Secondly, the incoming chair is Alton Wang ’16, effective May 26th.  COCO remains committed to helping student groups in whatever ways possible.

Thank you all for a great year.

Have a sizzlin’ summer,
Syed

Syed Ali ’13
Community Committee (COCO) Chair
Wesleyan Student Assembly (WSA)
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It’s 3:53am ET but I’m not in the east. I’m not sure where I am, somewhere between Seattle and Anchorage up in the sky miles above the people and trees and flowers and trees I love.

In approximately an hour I’ll be in my daddy’s arms. And I’ll be so excited to see him but won’t be able to articulate it because I’ll be so so tired, and I’ll be acting like I just took three sleeping pills. I’ll be past the slaphappy mood, which hit earlier today around 2:00pm while I was bringing all of my luggage to the lobby of Gram’s apartment building. Then we left for the airport on Supershuttle and within five minutes the driver told Gram to shut up. So we laughed quietly about all the wrong turns the driver was making and then began worrying when there was only an hour and fifteen minutes before our plane was taking off that we were still driving around the city.

I have to say right now that this airplane in freezing. My hands are warm because they’re lying on my computer by my arms have goosebumps. Maybe Alaska Airlines is trying to help me acclimate to the cold. I’m hoping to God it stops snowing in Alaska soon and that I’ll be able to plant lettuce in the garden and go out on the water.

It’s been a really long few days. On Thursday I had three papers due and had been working on those for the days leading up to Thursday. Then packing. What a nightmare.

It’s insane how much stuff gets thrown away as people move out. No one has room for full-length mirrors or shower caddies or pots and pans and extra rain boots. Or sketches (read: masterpieces) from drawing 1 of nude models. And it’s hard to sit inside a dorm room packing when it’s sunny outside and all you’re thinking about is how you’re not going to see the people you live with for three months. And what if you don’t stay in touch and it’s awkward when school starts in the fall? Minutes are ticking away before you leave you’re small Wesleyan world.

It’s frantic. How does a person go about finding everyone to say good-bye? What about seniors who you might possibly never see again?

Some people are still studying for finals. And you think sucks for you! But then remember you still have to finish packing. And emailing people back, and bake scones for a potluck and try to use up your points at weshop.

On top of everything, you have to think about how you’re getting to the Newark airport on Saturday with so much luggage.

But it ends up working out, despite lack of sleep, and you find yourself on an airplane to Alaska. You’re with your grandma who is curled up next to the window wearing two large sweatshirts with the hoods over her eyes and her hands tucked into her legs trying to stay warm. Outside the window you can still see sunlight from the previous day; you’re approaching the land of the midnight sun. While on one hand you’re jealous of the people who’s parents came and helped them pack their cars full of stuff and drove them home, you feel grateful to be a part of two very different worlds. Places so different that it’s sometimes difficult to describe one while you’re in the other.

But right now, you’re flying. You’re between Seattle and Anchorage, hoping you’re closer to Anchorage because you can’t wait to see everyone who lives in Alaska world. You also can’t wait to see mountains and the ocean. You watch you’re grandma trying to sleep and wish you could do the same, but you’re too excited.

Tags: alumni, Aviva Hirsch '16, drawing 1, excitement, finals, flying, grandma, packing, reblogged, snow, sun, voices blog, Weshop

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Be sure to jump on over to Wesleying for a Senior Week Hackathon interview.

The Amazing Lisa Sy ’13. Image via Wesleying.

An excerpt from the article: “Meet the participants of the first ever Senior Week Hackathon, a heated, unimaginably sexy 36-hour coding competition organized by Carmi, Julian Applebaum ’13, and Anastasios Germanidis ’13. The participants, most of them Comp Sci majors, have been awake for the better part of 36 hours, camped out in this single, sweat-stained classroom on the main floor of Exley, and in a little less than an hour they will emerge into the world with the shiny, digital results of their tech-savvy soil. Basically, it is a slumber party for nerds. Naturally, they have been tweeting up a storm every step of the way (and enjoying free “swag” from their various sponsors).”

Tags: alumni engagement, civic engagement, Community Engagement, reblogged, senior week hackathon, Uncategorized, weshack

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Amy Bloom ’75, Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence, will become the Director of the Shapiro Creative Writing Center this July 2013.
The following is an email from Provost Rob Rosenthal:

I am pleased to announce that Amy Bloom, Kim-Frank Family University Writer in Residence, will become the Director of the Shapiro Creative Writing Center for two years, beginning July 1, 2013.

She is author of two novels, four collections of short stories, a non-fiction book, a children’s book, won the National Magazine Award in fiction, and was a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent novel, Lucky Us, will be released by Random House in early 2014. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan (class of ’75) and M.S.W. from Smith College.

John Shapiro ’75 and Shonni Silverberg, M.D., ’76 gave generous gifts to endow the Center and support creative writing at Wesleyan. It serves as a hub for writing activities and provides a venue for workshops, colloquia, informal discussions, student events, and receptions. Its lounge is open to all students enrolled in creative writing courses. At the Center, Amy holds Table Talk events every Thursday during the fall and spring semesters, and Word Game night every Wednesday, open to all students.

Please join me at the same time in thanking Anne Greene, the inaugural Director of the Shapiro Center, who has guided the Center through its infancy with grace and wisdom.

Best wishes,

Rob Rosenthal

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology

Read more about the Shapiro Center…

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Related links

• Amy Bloom ’75 writes a work of fiction for children
• Bloom ’75 Named to New Writer-in-Residence Position
• ‘Silver Water’ by Bloom ’75: A sister’s view of schizophrenia
• Amy Bloom’s website

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Amy Bloom ’75, Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence, will become the Director of the Shapiro Creative Writing Center this July 2013.
The following is an email from Provost Rob Rosenthal:

I am pleased to announce that Amy Bloom, Kim-Frank Family University Writer in Residence, will become the Director of the Shapiro Creative Writing Center for two years, beginning July 1, 2013.

She is author of two novels, four collections of short stories, a non-fiction book, a children’s book, won the National Magazine Award in fiction, and was a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent novel, Lucky Us, will be released by Random House in early 2014. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan (class of ’75) and M.S.W. from Smith College.

John Shapiro ’75 and Shonni Silverberg, M.D., ’76 gave generous gifts to endow the Center and support creative writing at Wesleyan. It serves as a hub for writing activities and provides a venue for workshops, colloquia, informal discussions, student events, and receptions. Its lounge is open to all students enrolled in creative writing courses. At the Center, Amy holds Table Talk events every Thursday during the fall and spring semesters, and Word Game night every Wednesday, open to all students.

Please join me at the same time in thanking Anne Greene, the inaugural Director of the Shapiro Center, who has guided the Center through its infancy with grace and wisdom.

Best wishes,

Rob Rosenthal

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology

Read more about the Shapiro Center…

Image: from Writerswrite

Share this link: wesconnect.wesleyan.edu/news-20130520-amy-bloom

Related links

• Amy Bloom ’75 writes a work of fiction for children
• Bloom ’75 Named to New Writer-in-Residence Position
• ‘Silver Water’ by Bloom ’75: A sister’s view of schizophrenia
• Amy Bloom’s website

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2013

You’ve done it!

Best, Dean Brown

Tags: class of 2013, graduation, reblogged

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So, some stuff to get out of the way quickly:

1. Hey, I’m Cade, I supposedly blog here except I haven’t been doing my job (because I got caught up in a billion other things, typical WesKid or something). I’m a junior (rising senior now?) Government major, also working on a Writing Certificate, also I do a lot of stuff (a cappella, sketch comedy, stand-up comedy, literary society) on campus.

This is what I always look like! JK this is from Wesleyan’s Holi celebration

2. Today was official move-out day for most students at Wes

3.  Except those of us who are working for Reunion and Commencement (“R&C”) (holla, Camp Cardinal!)

Anyway. One of the great things about Wes is that we have these housing options called program houses (mostly for sophomores and juniors, though there are some program halls for frosh and seniors can live in program houses/halls if they want to) which are houses that are each themed around a different thing. A few examples: Film Hall, Chinese House, Community Service House, Out House (outdoorsy types), Womanist House, Full House (cooking) etc etc it’s a massive list. Also, the frats and societies are counted as program houses.

For the past two years of my Wes life, I’ve lived in International House (“I-House”). I-House really did become a home, with its own lexicon and culture (“I don’t understand how you all listen to the same set of songs every day” says my boyfriend) and shared dishware and house dinners and singing at each other and dancing and watching New Girl and talking (fairly constantly) about social justice issues and racism and misogyny and our classes and music and dating and college and grad school plans. Basically, we became a family. [Disclaimer: I've been fairly absent this semester due to various stuff, but I still tried to spend at least some time with housemates every day]. And, having moved out my stuff (and I own a ton of stuff!) today for the last time after TWO WHOLE YEARS together, I am kind of grieving. So, I know you guys don’t know me because I haven’t been blogging, but I love lists! So here’s a list! My favorite things about International House. Woo. Here goes.

1. The Four Returners- I’m just gonna be egotistical and list us first. There are four of us (Nicole, Victoria, Michael, and me), all class of 2014, who have lived in the house for both years. I think part of the reason this house was so amazing this year is that the four of us were kind of dissatisfied last year (or, okay, at least me and Michael were) and wanted the house this year to be more of a community. So we made everyone else like us! Or something. But really, we love this house excessively and have inspired some of this year’s sophomores to return next year. Because it’s a wonderful house.

Michael, Nicole, Victoria, and also Monica!

2. Our fairly big kitchen and living room- We have a fairly large kitchen and living room area (also, we have a study room and our own laundry room also on the first floor). Things I have made in this kitchen: lemon bars multiple times, 60 miniature cheesecakes for Dessert Cup last year, pasta and a chocolate peanut butter pie for CT’s local Mormon missionaries, banana cream pie, pecan pie (for my a cappella group’s audition days), pretzel brownies, giant house brunch with Victoria that one time, I think me and Michael made everyone quesadillas once (did I dream this?), when Nicole and I made spinach goat cheese pasta and also sweet potato fries that totally burned, that time Michael and I tried to make fancy crackers with avocado, strawberry and goat cheese but they dried out… oh no, I have entered the land of cooking failures and shall stop there, but really, we cook constantly and everyone makes a ton of different, cool stuff.

Elizabeth demonstrates eating in I-House. Christian watches.

3. IHOP- last year, we started a new tradition! And that tradition is IHOP. IHOP (not the restaurant, gosh, it’s a different thing) is when we organize a bunch of the other program houses on campus and all make pancakes! Each house makes a different type of pancake, and then we sell tickets to a giant pancake brunch (everyone gets one of each kind of pancakes) and the proceeds go to charity. It was awesome last year, and even more awesome this year. Mainly because this year, we did it outside and I got to DJ.

4. Beyonce- You might think that this can’t be included on a list of “my favorite things about my house.” And yet, Queen Bey is a totally valid thing to include here. We often joke that we should be called Beyonce House because we all take our love of Beyonce verrrrry seriously. Like, we have spent nights just watching her music videos together. Beyonce, man. Also, we’re big fans of: Frank Ocean, Macklemore, anything hip-hop or R&B from the 90s or early 2000s, Kendrick Lamar, and Childish Gambino. Okay, fine, Childish might just be me, but I make everyone else listen to him. Having a shared music taste with your house is pretty nice.

This is a billboard of Beyonce in Tokyo. Michael’s little brother took a picture of it for us.

5. Diversity!- and I don’t just mean the basic oh-gosh-we-all-have-different-backgrounds kind. I mean that we all have very different interests, specialties, and perspectives. I mean the fact that our majors collectively include: Film, Anthropology, Government, Music, Economics, Neuroscience & Behavior, Biology, Theater… and a bunch more. I mean that housemate who lives above me and plays tennis and is a total jock also plays his guitar to Taylor Swift all the time and sings her songs. I mean that the great thing about I-House is that we’re nonspecific enough (what does “International House” mean, anyway?) to attract all kinds of people who maybe speak a different language or have lived in a different country or are from a different country or wish they could visit a different country and maybe don’t have much in common beyond that. Except, like, Beyonce.

Wait, I have been interrupted in my list to go pick up things that I left at I-House whilst attempting to move out. The stuff in question? A baking pan, a pastry cutter, cupcake cups, a neurobiology textbook, and laundry detergent. The usual.

This has kind of killed my nostalgia mood (though I slightly teared up as I walked through the door for the NOW ACTUALLY LAST time, blech) and also this post is really long, so I’m gonna sign off. And also I’m actually going to blog about summer things! But now you know how special Wes program houses are

What’s coming up for summer blogging:

• the basic “oh no it’s summer, I miss school” stuff… oh, do not all schools get that? Hmm, guess Wes is awesome
• my two-week internship in DUBLIN (yeah, Ireland, fancy) working as a program assistant for an MFA program
• I think I’m trying to write a book? So I can write about those struggles… Instead of writing my book.
• I’m going to give a talk at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival with my mom. We’ll be talking about trauma writing. The MFA program at the University of Iowa is one of the grad programs I’ll be applying to next fall! Coincidence? I think not.
• some other soon-to-be-determined adventures. Also I’ll probably talk about food.

PS: This is my emotional support animal, America “States” Beyonce (you can like him on facebook…). He also lived in I-House this year! Also that’s me. Holding him.

I mainly really like this picture. Ego is what blogging is all about, right?

 PPS: dedicated to I-House [International House of Ratchet] 2012-13: Aiden, Ben, Christian, Elizabeth, Grace, Luis, Michael, Monica, Nicole, Victoria, & Will. 

Tags: Beyonce, Cade Leebron '14, Holi, housing, international house, love, program house, reblogged, voices blog

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Oh ducklings. I keep trying to write these posts at a time that isn’t the middle of the night, and then somehow time sneaks up on me and boom, it’s 2 am and I’m thinking, “Hey, you know what I should do? Write a blog post.”

As I write this, I’ve actually just gotten back from a joint bachelor/bachelorette party for my friends who are getting married in June. Quite honestly, I’m not sure whether I’m more amused that they’re getting married in June or that they actually had a joint bachelor/bachelorette party. I mean, isn’t the point of those supposed to be that the bride- and groom-to-be are separate for the evening?

I can’t lie, the fact that I know 21- and 22-year-olds who are engaged and getting married (these two are among a few Wes couples in my graduating class who are getting married this summer, and a few of the kids I knew in high school are not engaged, which is hilarious to me because I knew them when they were titchy and unattractive thirteen-year-olds) is still sort of wiggly-weird, no matter how long I’ve had to get used to it. Not because of the couple, just because — well, marriage. That’s growing up, isn’t it? Marriage is essentially the legal way of saying, “I am going to be stepping into the future hand-in-hand with this person.”

Commitment is a weird thing. I had a hard enough time just deciding what college to go to for four years. Actually, sometimes I have a hard time just deciding what I’m going to eat for dinner.

[Under the Cut: Thesis films, Hamlet in Wonderland, and... I don't know, stuff?]

Where did I leave you last week, ducklings? I believe just before Spring Fling — which I went to, by the way, for a brief period of time. It was fun, even if it did have to take place in the Spurrier-Snyder Ice Rink of Bad Acoustics. And then, on Friday and Saturday, I went to see the 16mm and digital senior thesis films!

Four of my friends did theses films, and they were all brilliant, of course (remember what I said in my last post about only being friends with talented people?) — one of them had some technical difficulties brought on by the fact that trying to make an animated film in the space of less than a year with only two full-time animators is actually impossible (I’m not overstating the case because I like these people; it is a very difficult thing) but on the other hand it has like three lines of dialogue and some heavy breathing from me playing a twelve-year-old bully, so there’s that, I guess?

Overall, though, I was really impressed by most of the films. You can watch the trailer for all the films HERE, and one of the digital films (Sam Barth’s “Dial-Up”) is already up online. Hopefully some of the other ones will get online at some point, because I’d love to watch them again without paying $5 each night when they show again during Commencement. (Plus, as good as I thought most of the films were — I don’t need to see the entire line-up again.)

So that was Friday and Saturday, and then on Sunday I was super-determined to see #tag Hamlet in Wonderland, even though the people who had seemed interested in going with me all bailed at the last minute. But never mind! I persevered, and I went alone and felt awkward at first and then stopped caring because HELLO, how did I never realise before that what I needed in my life was an immersive theater production in the Russell House garden where Ophelia was also Alice and Hamlet was also the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat was the King’s Ghost and different scenes happen out of order and simultaneously and there’s a swordfight involving umbrellas and also the idea that “we’re all mad here” translates surprisingly well to Hamlet? Look, it definitely wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea (ha, mad tea party joke!), but it was right up my alley — so much so that after the 8 pm show was over, I ran all the way back across campus to grab a warmer sweater from my house, and promptly went to the 9:30 show.

Oh! and earlier in the evening I went to like fifteen minutes of an Ono concert (Onomatopoeia, one of Wes’s all-female a capella groups and the only one to feature the divine singing and beatboxing talents of my former roommate and currently nail-painting-partner-in-crime Joey), but I had to leave early to make it to a dinner, unfortunately. And then, you know, Shakespeare. I have a lot of Shakespeare feelings.

What else? Well, I finished watching Slings & Arrows, which is a Canadian show that I absolutely did not start watching while still writing my thesis, because clearly that would have been a silly idea and completely counter-productive. Obviously I wouldn’t do something like that.

For the record, if you do happen to have Shakespeare/theater feelings, I highly recommend watching Slings & Arrows. It’s all about Shakespeare and the love of theater and actors/directors being overdramatic and ghosts (actual ghosts) and the things that you have to confront and all sorts of other great things, and it’s dramatic and poignant and thoughtful and also hilarious. And short! (Three seasons, six episodes each!) And on Netflix! I got one of my other friends addicted to it after spring break and we’ve spent a lot of time yelling at each other about how great it is!

Besides that I’ve been going to work, spending time on the Hill, and trying to use up my points before our meal plans expire. Which has been, you know, interesting.

Oh, and I went to see the new Star Trek movie on Thursday! But that’s been about it for the week, really. Well, except for this bachelor/bachelorette party, that is, and even that wasn’t terribly eventful. My engaged friends are fairly laidback and not particularly big on partying, so it ended up being more like, “Let’s hang out in [the house of friends of ours who host a fair number of get-togethers] and listen to music and chat” than any stereotypically raucous affair. Pretty par for the course for my group of friends.

Except for the strippers, at least, but to be fair they weren’t proper strippers, they were friends who volunteered to do a goofy dance and take off their dresses. I know some very interesting people.

I’m going to sign off now and get some sleep so I’m not too tired for my very last Usdan brunch tomorrow. Much love, ducklings.

Tags: no but for real though Hamlet in Wonderland was GREAT and I loved it, reblogged, Sasha Lamb '13, Second Stage, second stage is the best stage, senior theses, theater, thesis films, tv, voices blog