So, what does a sophomore look like?  Here are some images that will intrigue  you…….

AND WISH YOUR SENIOR FRIENDS A WARM FAREWELL  

Some interesting possibilities for a break:

“Whine” and Cheese (and other Goodies!): OAR Study Break

May 7, 6:00PM      Stokes 118K Large Conf. Rm.

Check out the link below for OARTV’s announcement of the Office of Academic Resources’ upcoming study breaks!

Link: youtu.be/QUpe0FgwkZY

For More Info:          Office of Academic Resources                       hc-oar@haverford.edu

FAB MIDNIGHT CHEESESTEAK RUN

May 8, 11:30PM              Off-campus in Philly

Bus leaves at 11:30pm to whisk you away to Philly for cheesesteak heaven!! Only 50 spots, so once we’re full, we’re gone! Make sure to bring $$$, as FAB will take you out but we won’t buy your dinner.

OPENING RECEPTION:

2013 Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition

May 10, 5:30PM                 Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Lobby

All majors in Fine Arts are required to take the intensive, year-long Senior Seminar, during which they explore the themes, methods, and concepts presented in this exhibition. Throughout the year, they master the techniques and develop the visual vocabulary in their concentration to shape a coherent body of work. For the nine seniors graduating in 2013, the exhibition represents the culmination of their study at the Fine Arts Department at Haverford College.

Gallery Hours:           11am-5pm (M-F) and 12pm-5pm (Sat & Sun)

For More Info          Becca Garrison            bgarriso@haverford.edu

FAB: Midnight Breakfast

May 12, 11:30PM – May 13, 1:30AM             DC East Wing (right)

FAB’s final event that everyone loves! Midnight breakfast!!!                For More Info:   Brie Groh          bgroh@haverford.edu

BUT, if you are going to take a break, here are some interesting and fun  things to do…….

SUPPORT THE WOMENS TENNIS TEAM IN THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF MATCH

WEDNESDAY, MAY FIRST, AT 4 PM IN THE TENNIS COURTS BEHIND THE TRACK.   

The 2nd Annual TRI-CO FILM FESTIVAL

Wednesday, May 1      6:30pm: Red Carpet Revelry
7pm: Film screening
9:15pm: Award Ceremony at the magical Sunken Gardens, Bryn Mawr College.

Free for students, faculty, and staff of the Tri-College community! Regular admission otherwise applies.

Please join us for an evening of glamour and fun. Red carpet begins at 6:30. Screening begins promptly at 7pm, and will be followed by an Awards Ceremony and Dessert Extravaganza at the Sunken Gardens on Bryn Mawr’s campus.

The festival has been made possible by the generous support of: The Bryn Mawr Film Institute, the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies, The Museum Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College, The Office of the Provost, Kimberly Wright Cassidy at BMC, The Civic Engagement Office at BMC, John. B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College, the HC Collection Committee, the Department of Film & Media Studies at Swarthmore College, Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College, the Center for Visual Culture at BMC, Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at BMC, and The Office of Student Activities at BMC.

For questions, please contact rrastegar@brynmawr.edu

For More Info:    John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities    610-795-6518   jweissin@haverford.edu

The Chamber Singers at the Rotunda

May 2, 4:45PM                          KINSC Rotunda

On Thursday, May 2 at 4:45 p.m., the Chamber Singers of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, directed by Thomas Lloyd, will perform an informal concert in the KINSC Rotunda. This concert is free and open to the public – all are welcome!

For More Info:           Nancy Merriam    610-896-1011   nmerriam@haverford.edu

AND THEN THERE IS HAVERFEST

This is the home stretch and there is much to accomplish.  This blog is about what you can do to help yourself.

Preparing for the Final Stretch-Workshop at the OAR

April 23, 6:30PM                   Stokes 118K Large Conference Rm.

As the end of the semester approaches, this workshop will provide students with an opportunity to explore the most efficient techniques for preparing for exams, as well as effective exam taking strategies.  Additionally, students will learn strategies for planning their time and study techniques so as to be as efficient as possible with limited time and resources. RSVP to hc-oar@haverford.edu.  Food will be provided.

“How to Make Sushi” Workshop (for energy’s sake)

April 24, 5:00PM                           Stokes Multicultural Center

Interested in making a quick snack? Join us on April 24th from 5-7PM to learn how to make Japanese sushi rolls with Prof. Yoko Koike! And yes you can make as many as you want and eat them all! We will also be showing the anime “Fullmetal Alchemist.”     For More Info:    Maria Bojorquez-Gomez      mbojorqu@haverford.edu

CULTURE WEEK BEGINS TODAY

• April 15     5:30 PM      Sunken Lounge of the DC!                            ALAS: Latino Dance Lessons

ALAS is having mini-dance lessons in Latino genres like salsa, bachata, cumbia and merenegue! Come and learn a few steps to prepare for the BIG closing event for Culture Week: La Fiesta!!!!
For more Info:      Melissa Reyes     mreyes@haverford.edu

• April 15   9:30 PM        MCC                           MSA Ice Cream Social
  

Come to the MCC to enjoy delicious ice cream while the Mulsim Students Association  shares its current plans for the rest of the semester and for next year!              For More Info:                  Nabeel Akhtar       nakhtar@haverford.edu

• April 19     6:00 PM           Whitehead Campus Center Room 313          Learners Shabbat                 
  

This is the perfect opportunity to learn a little more about Shabbat services, what they are, how they work, what the bowing and singing and responses are all about. PLUS we’ll be providing yummyummy food. Please come, please bring your friends, yourFor More Info:       Eliana Kohrman-Glaser   ekohrman@haverford.edu

• April 19       8:00 PM      Founders Great Hall     BSL Presents: THE UNCOMMON FREEDOM FASHION SHOW!

This show will be featuring models from Haverford, Bryn Mawr College and Villanova University.
Our designers include: Sameer Wingfield of Momo Larue Odunayo Adeoye of OYATO Designs Quoina Faust and Toni Carter from Drexel University’s school of Fashion Come out and show your support for one of BSL’s biggest events of the year.

For More Info:      Dawit Habtemariam               dhabtema@haverford.edu

• April 20        5:00 PM             DC West Wing       Pan-Asian Cultural Show

• April 20       10:30  PM       Founders Great Hall                     ALAS La Fiesta

Spring Room Draw Sign-Up

April 16, 11:00AM – 2:00PM             DC Foyer     

The place to drop off your Room Draw Forms and to ask questions of the ResLife Committee.

IS THERE RACIAL INEQUALITY IN THE BI-CO?

April 17, 6:00PM                  DC Bryn Mawr Room

Is There Racial Inequality In The Bi-Co? Where do you feel safe on campus? Where do you feel the least comfortable on campus? How has diversity either been fostered or discouraged in the Bi-Co community? Bryn Mawr College’s Tri-Co NAACP Chapter hosts a discussion on race in the Bi-Co Community.

WHITE BOYS: ARTISTS AND CURATOR PANEL  

Rufus Jones Leadership Institute – Spring Class

April 18, 4:30PM – 6:00PM                                Stokes 018

Link: www.haverford.edu/activities/leadership/index.php

Reading Strategies: OAR Workshop

April 18, 5:30PM                Stokes 118K Large Conf. Rm.

Want to read faster while retaining more information?  Eager to retrieve information instead of relearn it for exams and papers?  This highly interactive workshop is for you.  Through hands-on exercises you will learn concrete strategies for prioritizing, integrating and applying information, and reading more efficiently and effectively.  Space is limited, so email hc-oar@haverford.edu to reserve your space today.  Food will be provided.

For More Info:                    Kelly Wilcox                                        hc-oar@haverford.edu

Welcome Class of 2017!

This blog is intended to serve as the go-to resource for the incoming class. Your Dean, Raisa Williams, will post all of the dates, deadlines, and to-do items here, so don’t forget to subscribe!  Blogs for the Class of 2017 will begin in earnest after Memorial Day, 2013.  Stay tuned……

Web registration opens next Monday, April 8th and closes at Midnight on April 19th. 

Any registration submitted after the 19th will be considered late and will incur a $25.00 late registration fee as well as invalidate any student in this category for both Haverford and Bryn Mawr lotteries.  Tri-Co Course Guide is up to date as of this minute;

Please check your web transcript now, assuring you (and the Registrar) that your listed Adviser is correct.

Do not submit your web registration to your Adviser for approval until you are absolutely sure of the courses you wish to take.  Once you submit, you cannot make any changes until your return to Haverford in late August.

Tips for selecting courses for sophomore year:

•  Exploring a possible major is key.  If you are already considering a major based on the courses you have taken, make sure you try a different professor in the same department.
• Balance is important.  Take a look at your degree audit and see what requirements you still need to fulfill.
• You will need to fulfill the Foreign Language requirement, or have a plan to do so, before declaring a major.

You may want to check out the Deans Web site for sophomore year information at:

www.haverford.edu/deans/sophomoreyear/timeline.php

Tuesday, April 9, 2013                 4:30PM -Chase Hall Auditorium

Anthony Bogues, Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University    “Frantz Fanon, Freedom and a Radical Politics of the Human.”

Tea at 4:15PM.

From the OAR

Dear Sirs and Madams: How To Write An E-mail

 Procrastination and Perfectionism: Pitfalls and Perks

Wednesday, April 10      7:30-10:00pm                    CPGC Cafe (Stokes 104)

Creative Actions Workshop
Environmentalists Can Be Fun Too! Eat! Talk!  Network! And become artists for a night–the cool  kind of artist!

Join forces, Enviros, for a big Tri-Co party and workshop for the student environmental groups at all three colleges. We’ll eat pizza, get to know each other, make plans to take over the world–and make our own smoothies.

And we’ll enjoy a super-quickie crash course on “environmental art actions” by visiting artist Jenny Price and a workshop on how to use these public actions to address the issues we care most about. How can we get people to garden? Recycle? Use less energy? Care about justice? Divest?!!

All we ask of you is to  RSVP here and BYOSC (bring your own smoothie container). We can’t wait to see you there!  Please feel free to email Tapoja Chaudhuri at tchaudhu@haverford.edu with your questions about the event.

But, this week you want o keep an eye on…………….

“Current Conflicts in South Asia and the Middle East: Is there a Gandhian Perspective?”

April 2, 4:30PM                             Chase Auditorium

Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Description

Rajmohan Gandhi, a historian, leading public intellectual, and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has been engaged for half a century in reconciliation, democracy, and human rights efforts. He is a former member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Indian Parliament), and he is the author of ten books and countless articles, with a focus on the Indian independence movement, non-violence, and Hindu-Muslim relations.

OAR WORKSHOPS | APRIL 2013

Presenting with Confidence

Wednesday 04/3/13     5:00 p.m. – 6:30p.m.   Stokes 118K

Join us for a fun, interactive discussion on: Getting Your Point Across, Managing Your Audience and Effectively Channeling Your Anxiety and Charm when presenting individually or as a group!

Reading Workshop

Thursday 04/4/13      8:00 p.m.- 9:30 p.m    Stokes 118K

Thursday 04/18/13   5:30 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Stokes 118K

Want to read faster while retaining more information?  Eager to retrieve information instead of relearn it for exams and papers?  This highly interactive workshop is for you.  Through hands-on exercises you will learn concrete strategies for prioritizing, integrating and applying information and reading more efficiently and effectively.

TWO IMPORTANT EVENTS SPONSORED BY YOUR PEERS

       SpeakOut

April 3, 9:30PM                                                Founders Hall Common Room

SpeakOut is a pluralism-style safe space to share, reflect and speak out about sexual assault and harassment. We invite you to join us as a speaker, a listener, and/or a supporter. All genders are welcome.

BSL presents:                           We Speak

April 4, 7:30PM                                                  KINSC Sharpless Auditorium

Annual We Speak, sponsored and hosted by BSL. This event is open to everyone!

President’s Social Justice Series: “Transfigurations” with Peterson Toscano

April 5, 7:00PM                                               Stokes Auditorium

Drawing on inspiration from interviews with transgender and genderqueer individuals, Peterson Toscano weaves their experiences into the stories of transgender and gender-variant people from the Hebrew and Christian scriptures

Transfigurations:  Transgressing Gender in the Bible.

A one-person performance piece by  Peterson Toscano, 2013 Friend in Residence at Haverford College, sponsored by the President’s Social Justice Series, and funded by the Shoemaker Foundation.   Hilarious and moving, Toscano explores well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories as he presents an array of characters with an array of genders.  Touching and inspiring, the play opens new understandings of the spiritual life.  You will be surprised and delighted.

For More Info:   Walter Hjelt Sullivan   610-896-1020    wsulliva@haverford.edu

Ellison, Jazz and the Tragedy of Democratic Life – March 26. 4:15 PM
At Gest Center, room 101

The Department of Religion and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities present A Leaves of Grass Project, “Ellison, Jazz, and the Tragedy of Democratic Life”

U.S. Poverty, Microentrepreneurs and Microfinance: Needs, Responses and Prospects

March 28, 2:30PM Stokes Auditorium

A Symposium for Practitioners, Policymakers, Researchers and Students

Link: www.haverford.edu/mi3/events/mi3_march_2013.php

PreHealth Society – Endocrinology Panel

March 28, 7:00PM KINSC Sharpless Auditorium

In conjunction with the screening of Weight of the Nation, the Pre-Health Society has invited two endocrinologists to campus to be members of a panel discussion on the obesity epidemic in America.

Shades of Occupation: Iraq After 10 Years

2013 Mellon Symposium Organized by Zainab Saleh

Friday, March 29th, 2013
John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities
Haverford College

Convened by Zainab Saleh, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College

This interdisciplinary symposium will be held on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq as a venue to examine multiple dimensions of the decade-long occupation. Despite the US Army’s official withdrawal from the country, the US presence in Iraq as a military, economic and political force continues to loom large. Baghdad is home to the largest US embassy in the world. An enormous body of private security and other contractors remain in the country. The institutions installed by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority since 2003 will continue to have far-reaching impact on the future of Iraq. Apart from military operations and sectarian violence, subversive aspects of the war and occupation, and the repercussions on Iraq have received little attention: the occupation of Iraq is the United States’ Forgotten War.

The symposium approaches the invasion of Iraq in a historical and global context, whereby American empire, since the Cold War, attempted to control the politics and the resources of the country as well as the region. It brings together scholars who have been thinking, and writing, about the war from different perspectives, including oil, empire, perception of the Iraqi society, and the impact of wars on Iraq among others.

www.haverford.edu/iraqafter10years/

In conjunction with the upcoming exhibition of ceramic roof tiles from Hiroshima University, melted in the August 6. 1945 atomic blast. This powerful documentary film, just opening in Japan this month, follows people affected by the trauma of displacement, loss and ongoing anxiety in the face of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo. Of course, these meltdowns were the result of the 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami. Please come see what life is like on the ground for the people of Fukushima Prefecture today. As Tokyo Electric Power Co., continues to make efforts to bring the damaged reactorsback online, this is a timely and important testimony to the very real hazards presented by nuclear power plants. The film also celebrates the resilience and strength of the prefecture’s citizens, who refuse to sitby complacently and be told that they are safe.

Pulso Latino Dance Concert

March 29, 8:00PM

Roberts Marshall Auditorium

ISA Gangnam Style Party!!

March 29, 10:30PM – March 30, 2:00AM Founders Great Hall

Get into the multicultural spirit and “Gangnam” your way into the small hours with our Korean-edged dance party. There will be food, drink and a ton of fun!!

Haverford’s International Student’s Association will be a hosting a ‘Gangnam’ style party on Friday the 29th of March. Whilst we want to raise awareness of the diversity of the Haverford community, the main point of this party is to chill, eat great food and ‘Gangnam’ our way into the weekend. Expect crazy games, crazy dancing and be prepared to have a crazy good time!

Haverford’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt March 30, 11:00 a.m.

Founders Hall Main Lobby

8th Dimension, Haverford College’s Office of Community Service, will be sponsoring its annual Easter Egg Hun