So we lost to them at football and hockey. It's time to reclaim victory.
We need YOU to come to the Yale-Harvard Blood Drive Challenge, hosted by the American Red Cross at Yale, February 1st through 4th! Last year, we blew away the competition by collecting 301 units of blood to Harvard's 198. This time, with your help, we hope to do even better!

What: 6th Annual Yale-Harvard Blood Drive
When: February 1-4
*Monday & Tuesday: 1-6:30 pm
*Wednesday & Thursday: 12-5:30 pm

How: To donate, sign up online at www.yale.edu/redcross/signup
To volunteer, email Tina Su, Monica Liu, or Margaret Yim.
*Win $50 iTunes gift card and other raffle prizes every day (if goal is
met)!Every donor, even those that get turned away, will receive a T-shirt
and gifts from local businesses: coupons, baked goods, and more!

So we lost to them at football and hockey. It's time to reclaim victory. We need YOU to come to the Yale-Harvard Blood Drive Challenge, hosted by the American Red Cross at Yale, February 1st through 4th! Last year, we blew away the competition by collecting 301 units of blood to Harvard's 198. This time, with your help, we hope to do even better!

Plus, the Red Cross currently has an EMERGENCY NEED for blood, particularly type O negative, to meet both local and international demand. Connecticut alone is experiencing a severe blood shortage, so your donation is greatly appreciated. One pint of blood can save three lives. Please take this opportunity to make a difference and support a great cause!

PLEASE NOTE: The Yale-Harvard Drive will run from 1 to 6:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 1-2, in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall, and from 12 to 5:30 pm on Wednesday and Thursday at TOAD's Place.

To sign up, please go to www.yale.edu/redcross/signup Log in using your netID and password, then click the "Sign up" link in the lower right hand corner. Enter your personal info (try the automatic fill), select any time that has slots left, and click "submit." Please contact your blood drive coordinators (see below) if you have questions. Once you successfully sign up, you will automatically receive a confirmation with your appointment time, which you are free to change if necessary. Also, we will send you a reminder one day before your appointment.

What: 6th Annual Yale-Harvard Blood Drive
When: February 1-4
    *Monday & Tuesday: 1-6:30 pm
    *Wednesday & Thursday: 12-5:30 pm
Where:
    *Sterling Library Lecture Hall on Mon. & Tues.
    *TOAD's Place on Wed. & Thurs.
How: To donate, sign up online at www.yale.edu/redcross/signup
To volunteer, email Tina Su, Monica Liu, or Margaret Yim.
*Win $50 iTunes gift card and other raffle prizes every day (if goal is met)!
*Every donor, even those that get turned away, will receive a T-shirt and gifts from local businesses: coupons, baked goods, and more!

Thank you so much, and we hope to see you at the drive!

~ARCY

So we lost to them at football and hockey. It's time to reclaim victory.
We need YOU to come to the Yale-Harvard Blood Drive Challenge, hosted by
the American Red Cross at Yale, February 1st through 4th! Last year, we
blew away the competition by collecting 301 units of blood to Harvard's
198. This time, with your help, we hope to do even better!

Plus, the Red Cross currently has an EMERGENCY NEED for blood,
particularly type O negative, to meet both local and international
demand. Connecticut alone is experiencing a severe blood shortage, so
your donation is greatly appreciated. One pint of blood can save three
lives. Please take this opportunity to make a difference and support a
great cause!

PLEASE NOTE: The Yale-Harvard Drive will run from 1 to 6:30 pm on Monday
and Tuesday, Feb. 1-2, in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall, and from 12
to 5:30 pm on Wednesday and Thursday at TOAD's Place.

To sign up, please go to www.yale.edu/redcross/signup Log in using your
netID and password, then click the "Sign up" link in the lower right
hand corner. Enter your personal info (try the automatic fill), select
any time that has slots left, and click "submit." Please contact your
blood drive coordinators (see below) if you have questions. Once you
successfully sign up, you will automatically receive a confirmation with
your appointment time, which you are free to change if necessary. Also,
we will send you a reminder one day before your appointment.

What: 6th Annual Yale-Harvard Blood Drive
When: February 1-4
   *Monday & Tuesday: 1-6:30 pm
   *Wednesday & Thursday: 12-5:30 pm
Where:
   *TOAD's Place
How: To donate, sign up online at www.yale.edu/redcross/signup

To volunteer, email Tina Su, Monica Liu, or Margaret Yim.

*Win $50 iTunes gift card and other raffle prizes every day (if goal is met)!
*Every donor, even those that get turned away, will receive a T-shirt and gifts from local businesses: coupons, baked goods, and more!

Thank you so much, and we hope to see you at the drive!

~ARCY

The kick-off event will take place at the Yale Club of New York.  We are looking forward to another great turn out!

See official Feb Club website for more details and advance registration: www.febclubemeritus.com

To commemorate the publication of the Library of America's Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, an anthology that features letters, poems, journal entries, memoirs, essays and fiction, contributors visit the Poetry Center to read excerpts from the book and discuss their personal experiences. The evening will be introduced and moderated by Ilan Stavans, the anthology's editor.

Use code IME to receive your discounted $10 tickets. Click www.92Y.org/Poetry or call 212.415.5500. Thanks to Alison Gardy (ES '88), Director of International Relations at the 92nd Street Y for extending this offer to Yale alums.

Coffee Cup Conversations are intimate chats with young alumni who currently work in the nonprofit sector. These registration-required (limited to fifteen students) events allow students to explore potential careers that have social impact. This semesters speakers include:

Mr. Gordon Jenkins, Advocacy Coordinator - Slow Food Inc.

January 19, 6:00pm                 

UCS Library, 55 Whitney Ave

Ms. Katherine Sims, Founder and Executive Director - Green Mountain Farm-to-School

February 2, 6:00pm

UCS Library, 55 Whitney Ave

Mr. Julian Prokopetz, Energy Program Associate - Environment America

February 16, 6:00pm   

UCS Library, 55 Whitney Ave 

Students must register for these events in eRecruiting. You will find them listed under Employer Information Sessions. Biographies about the speakers are located In the Spotlight on the UCS homepage: www.yale.edu/career, as well as in eRecruiting.

Due to overwhelming response, this event has reached capacity.  Thanks to all who signed up, and we look forward to bringing more events like this in the future.

Join the Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) for a discussion and reception with Zeke Vanderhoek, Class of 1998, founder and principal of The Equity Project Charter School.

The Equity Project (TEP) is a charter school that opened in September 2009 located in Washington Heights, New York City. One of TEP's defining features is its teacher compensation-- TEP teachers are paid a salary of $125,000 and can earn a significant annual bonus based on school-wide performance.

Mr. Vanderhoek began his educational career as a 6th and 8th grade teacher at I.S. 90, a public middle school in Washington Heights. He has a B.A. from Yale University and a Masters in Philosophy & Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. He was the founder  of Manhattan GMAT, a national GMAT test-preparation company.

The discussion will be moderated by urban sociologist Dr. Pedro Noguera, professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU. Dr. Noguera is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS).

This will surely be a lively event on school reform that you do not want to miss. Click here to register: http://tepcharterschool.eventbrite.com.

This a not-to-be-missed concert at Carnegie Hall: Symphony in C, featuring world-renowned Italian-Norwegian soprano Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz and famous conductor Mattia Rondelli. It is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute and Pastificio Cocco: Carnegie Hall, Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 at 7:30pm.

The purpose of this concert is to promote rarely performed Italian classical and contemporary music and make it accessible to a wider audience - not only to "insiders". Mattia Rondelli realized that the perception of Italian "high" music is probably too skewed towards Opera and that so many masterpieces written by Italian composers could be somewhat re-discovered, especially by non experts.   

The program includes three rarely performed pieces for string orchestra: Riccardo Luciani's Le Tombeau Perdu, Giuseppe Verdi's String Quartet in E minor, and Boccherini's Stabat Mater for soprano and orchestra.  

Don't miss this chance to enjoy these truly "hidden gems" of musical Italy, played by top level soprano conductor and orchestra.

CarnegieCharge (212) 247 - 7800  

http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_

15352.html?selecteddate=02022010 

Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz has performed at the most prestigious opera houses in the world: the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Teatro Real di Madrid, Vienna Staatsoper and many others. She has collaborated with some of the greatest conductors of our time: Abbado, Colin Davis, Muti, Maazel, Mehta, Gergiev, Levine, Chung, Bychkov, Sinopoli, Solti, Masur, Ozawa, and Kleiber. Her many concert appearances include the Berlin Phiharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony.

Mattia Rondelli recently recorded Boccherinis Stabat Mater for SONY Classical. His credentials include appearances with Beijing Opera Theater Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Parma Teatro Regio Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini Symphony Orchestra, La Fenice Orchestra, at the Bologna, MITO and Ravenna Festivals.

Luciani's Le Tombeau Perdu was written in 1991, the year when the classical music world marked the bicentennial of Mozarts death. In instrumental music, tombeau, which in French means tomb, signifies a musical tombstone. In true neoclassical spirit, A. Riccardo Luciani selected this instrumental genre, much popular in 17th century France, to pay tribute to the great composer.

Verdi's Quartet is the only surviving chamber music work in his catalogue. Written during a decade long pause in his operatic writings, it strikes the listener with its impressive sculptural vigor of the Allegro, the dancing advancement of the second movement that fades out into a moonlight-atmosphere reminiscent of Don Carlo, and the severity, sometime almost Beethovenian, of the ending Fuga. Better known to the wider public for his prolific instrumental output than for his vocal works,  

Boccherini creates a true masterpiece in his Stabat Mater for soprano and strings. In his rendition of the medieval text, the 18th century Italian master captures in an unsurpassed manner the immediacy, awesome power and heartrending intensity of the maternal sorrow that makes the Passion of Christ so emotionally involving.

Do you want to meet new people, but are tired of loud, crowded bars where you can't hear anyone talk?  Here's a chance to socialize with interesting people in a more cozy, intimate setting. 

For our second small group dinner, we are taking over all 16 spots at the beautiful communal table at Fig & Olive, a Michelin Guide recommended Mediterranean restaurant.  A $48 prix fixe dinner (tax and tip included, drinks extra) will include an appetizer, entree and dessert.  This dinner will be for folks from the classes of the 80's and 90's.  Come join us!

Please RSVP at http://80s90sdinner.eventbrite.com/

This month's event will get back to our traditional format -- instead of a speaker or panel, we'll get together to mingle, network, and share ideas at Haven, a relaxed (and unique!) Yale-esque cocktail lounge in Midtown. We've arranged a drink special, plus a selection of complimentary hors d'oeuvres.

A $10 donation will be asked for at the door to cover expenses.

RSVP HERE: http://meetup.com/yalenyc/calendar/12369005/

Starting today, February 1^st, through March 15^th, Students Serve is accepting applications for spring and summer service projects. Students Serve gives money to college and graduate students so they can make a difference in their communities. In our previous application cycle in the fall, we awarded 7 grants, and you can learn about their projects on our website.  

We encourage any student with an idea about how to address a local, national, or global problem to submit the online application at StudentsServe.org.

Hi Dwight Hall!

On the top of this newsletter you can find tons of service opportunities and social justice events happening this week! Check out the Moment of Service this week: playing board games with kids at New Haven Reads!

Also the Yale Journal of Public Health is looking for a webmaster!

Closer to the bottom you can find great summer and spring break opportunities.

Again, if you are looking for the latest news on Yale's Relief Efforts for Haiti please look here: http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/

I can also announce that you should...

Be on the look out for the YHHAP Fast for Haiti, a Dwight Hall-sponsored campaign, on February 26th! Sign ups are not yet active on SIS, but we are already looking for groups to help us table for any meals between February 16 and 24. Email Jessica Cole at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  if you or your group would like to help!

Hope all is well,

Joe

Meeting to design 10ft by 10ft display modeled after rual house in Nicaragua to educate universities/community of effects of climate change on rural communities.

If you can't make it tonight but are interested contact Chris at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

When Mace Bacon suddenly shows up after a mysterious 10-year absence and starts ruining his old college buddy Mike's life, job and friendships, Mike must figure out how to rid himself of this unwanted human parasite.  Because Mace Bacon IS......The Worst Guy Ever!

Written and Directed by John Phillips (TD '02)

Starring Mike Still, Katherine Bryant Flaherty, Christopher O'Connor, and John Phillips as Mace Bacon, The Worst Guy Ever!

Come volunteer at Head Start, a preschool for underprivileged children, right here in New Haven! 

Yale UNICEF has partnered with the Helene Grant School to be a part of their curriculum, teaching cultural awareness through stories and art enrichment activities. This is a great way to become involved in the community and with Yale UNICEF.

We will be having a training session this Friday, February 5, 2010 from 1:30-2:30 in Bass Library, Rm L71.

If you would like more information, would like to be involved and cannot make the training session, or cannot find the room in Bass Library, please contact Connie Cho at  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or 573.673.5042.

Hope to see you on Friday!

This weekend
join the Student Secular Alliance as it hosts a
Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service

Play board games with kids at
New Haven Reads
February 5th, 4:45-6:10

Space is limited, RSVP at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dENRbTJTcDVna2xYUkFxSE93RVZ2aUE6MA

For more information or to inquire about hosting an event
e-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Deadline: February 5, 2010.

§   Eight-week service project starting June 1 through July 23 (some sites will vary)

§   Housing (optional) and a $2800 stipend provided by Yale alumni

§   Locations throughout the United States; including New York City, Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Texas, and Boston

§   Opportunities in law, medicine, environmental issues, social activism, policy, education, performing arts, psychology, art history, science, historic and environmental preservation, and community outreach

Application Process:

§   Students can apply to a total of three fellowships

§   Fellowships are now live in eRecruiting. Students can click on Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowships in the center of the eRecruiting homepage to view a list of currently posted positions. Positions will continue to be posted up until the deadline. Deadline: February 5, 2010.

§   Students will need to submit a resume and 500 word essay answering the following prompt:

Please describe your interest in the project you have selected, how your past experiences and coursework have prepared you for the project, and how you foresee your community service fellowship impacting your future goals

§   To learn more about YACSF, visit http://www.yale.edu/career/students/intern/programs.html

IRIS (Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services) is a New Haven NGO that re-settles refugees from conflict zones. On February 7th (Superbowl Sunday) at 10 AM, IRIS is sponsoring a 5K walk/run starting from Wilbur Cross High School in support of its refugee services. For more information on participating in the run or volunteering for it, call (203) 481 5933 or visit JBsports.com.

Yes, February 7th is Super Bowl Sunday...

...but Haiti Can't Wait!

At 6:15 pm on February 7th, come to Luther House at 27 High St. to hear about the experiences of two Yale Divinity School students who traveled to Haiti to participate in relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake.  Light refreshments will be provided.  A free-will offering will be collected for the Yale Haiti Relief Fund.

 YAAMNY is excited to offer you this new "networking with start-ups" opportunity organized by JOBNOB: 

Jobseekers need work.
Startups are cash strapped.
Mingle and find a solution!

Come "Jobnob" with cool new start ups and talented job seekers at this informal networking happy hour where you can find startup jobs. Be flexible on commitment and compensation- bootstrapped startups may be offering *alternative compensation: reduced rates, equity, internships, part time, etc.

 There will be alumni and entrepreneurs from many schools, including U Penn, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Rutgers, Yale SOM, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.  Companies start pitching at 5pm. 

Event is free, but please register: http://www.jobnob.com/happy-hour/NewYork-feb-9-2010?utm_source=YaleNY&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YaleNY 

*Legal Disclaimer
Jobnob Happy Hour events and www.jobnob.com are for networking informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. Please be sure to check with an employment attorney and abide by all federal, state and local laws.

Join us for a cocktail in a unique NYC space - Central Park's historic Arsenal, in front of the Zoo at 830 5th Avenue at 64th Street.

The Arsenal, home to the Department of Parks & Recreation since 1934, was built in the 1850s to store munitions, and we trust that Feb Club will be the most explosive event in the building's history.  Since the building is an office, we will start at 7pm and wrap up at 10pm to allow the dust to settle before morning.

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee in collaboration with Insider Expeditions presents After Hours at Museum 52 with Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick.

Join Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick for an intimate after-hours discussion and aperitif at Museum 52, a critically acclaimed contemporary art gallery on the Lower East Side. Fitzpatrick's work centers on the changing urban environment, as seen from the wandering vantage point of a dandy. In large sculptures, photographs, video and installation, she fuses a morning-after feeling with a keen sense of craft. Ms. Fitzpatrick attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Studio Program. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Bellwether, New York and La Galleria at La MaMa, New York. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues including The Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She has written for publications including Artforum, and she is the recipient of grants from Art Matters and the Jerome Foundation.

Enjoy the work on display, and a lively discussion of Ms. Fitzpatrick's methods andmotives. Early registration $15, or $20 after February 5. Space is limited, and we expect this exclusive, after-hours event to sell out. Register today at http://yaamny-fitzpatrick.eventbrite.com/.

Join us for a conversation with Dina Brewster on:

Farmer; The Hickories; Ridgefield, Connecticut; Cultivating a Local Food-Shed

There will be a meeting of the Public Service/ Social Justice Committee on February 10 at 7 pm.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Report on January projects (soup kitchen and mock interview session)

2. Update on upcoming events (book sorting, others)

3. Selection of April Project

4. Update regarding Day of Service

5. Social Justice Project Update

6. Discussion of YAAMNY fundraiser

7. Miscellaneous

 Come learn more about the Relay For Life at one of our planning committee meetings! Every Wednesday at 8pm in LC105!

You will have the opportunity to hear more about the three Yale chapters of Global Brigades: AIDS Brigades, Water Brigades, and Microfinance Brigades. Find out how you can get involved in one of the world's largest global health and sustainable development organizations!  With AIDS Brigades, Water Brigades, and Microfinance Brigades, you can be be part of a student-led effort to provide HIV testing and counseling, water sanitation systems, and microcredit loans to under resourced villages in Honduras and Panama.  Yale Global Brigades has a 5-year commitment to the rural communities of Honduras and Panama. Unlike other Yale service trips, Yale Global Brigades gives students the chance to return to the community and continue their work over a number of years, building valuable relationships with the people who live there.  Unable to make the meeting?  No worries; e-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  for more information.

You will have the opportunity to hear more about the three Yale chapters of Global Brigades: AIDS Brigades, Water Brigades, and Microfinance Brigades. Find out how you can get involved in one of the world's largest global health and sustainable development organizations!  With AIDS Brigades, Water Brigades, and Microfinance Brigades, you can be be part of a student-led effort to provide HIV testing and counseling, water sanitation systems, and microcredit loans to under resourced villages in Honduras and Panama.  Yale Global Brigades has a 5-year commitment to the rural communities of Honduras and Panama. Unlike other Yale service trips, Yale Global Brigades gives students the chance to return to the community and continue their work over a number of years, building valuable relationships with the people who live there.  Unable to make the meeting?  No worries; e-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  for more information.

Hi Dwight Hall!

As Valentine's Day approaches, meet someone special at one of the tons of service opportunities and social justice events happening this week! Especially the Moment of Service this week with SeeClickFix, a New Haven-based website promoting participatory democracy!
You can find great summer and spring break opportunities closer to the bottom of this newsletter.

If you are looking for the latest news on Yale's Relief Efforts for Haiti please look here: http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/

YHHAP Fast for Haiti, part of a Dwight Hall-sponsored campaign for Haiti, will be on February 26th! Sign ups are not yet active on SIS, but we are already looking for individuals or groups to help us table for any meals between February 16 and 24. Email Jessica Cole at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript if you or your group would like to help!

With Love,
Joe

The New Haven chapter of Architecture for Humanity will host a screening of the film "One Peace at a Time" at BAR (254 Crown St, New Haven) on February 11th at 6.30pm as a benefit for Architecture for Humanitys efforts to rebuild Haiti.  A requested $10 donation will be collected at the door. All proceeds will go to Architecture for Humanity's Haiti Reconstruction Appeal. The event is sponsored by Centerbrook Architects and BAR restaurant. 

About Architecture for Humanity

YOGA at Dwight Hall  

What: YOGA When: Every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:45PM Where: Dwight Hall Chapel 

Yes, yoga free of charge (donate what you can or pay it forward)!

Come practice yoga with us at Dwight Hall Chapel every Thursday from 6:30 to 7:45PM.  This practice is open to the entire Yale community and exists as an intentional effort to bring undergrad, graduate & professional students, faculty and staff together.  No registration required and all levels are welcome.   The class will be taught by Alex Souto, MDiv 12, a YOGA ALLIANCE® registered teacher trained at Hale Kai Center for Yogic Studies in the areas of Asana, Anatomy, Restorative, Pranayama, Meditation, Philosophy and Subtle Energy.  He combines all of these elements to encourage a holistic practice to each individual. Through Yogactivism, Alex is devoted to making Yoga accessible to everyone, in every physical shape, socio-economic location or politico-religious affiliations.  

For more info feel free to contact Alex at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript or visit him at yogactivism.com or yogactivism on facebook.

As you all know, this year is a census year, and the entire population of New Haven will be counted this April. In the past decade after our last census, New Haven lost $30 million in federal funding for homeless shelters, hospitals, etc. due to the undercount in 2000, and each person who isn't counted in New Haven costs the city around $9,600 in city services. 

Not only have Yale students been severely undercounted (we had about 30% reporting in 2000), but there are many populations within New Haven that have been historically undercounted as well. This year, the Mayor's Office has brought together a task force to work on getting New Haven counted this year for the census, and they have asked for help from Yale student groups in reaching out to various parts of the New Haven community.

Your groups serve as Yales strongest connection to the New Haven community, and we would greatly appreciate your help in getting the word out that the census is happening this year. We are planning an informational/organizational meeting led by April Lawson, Director of Census Planning for the City of New Haven, this Friday at 11:00am in the Dwight Hall Library - please attend if your group would be willing to participate in the Yale student effort this year.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Do you have an idea for a program, project, or organization? Unite For Sight's Founder and CEO will hold a 1/2-day workshop to help you develop and launch your idea. The workshop will focus on effective healthcare delivery and the importance of best practices in global health, successful strategies of social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and mentoring and guidance on how to establish new initiatives and organizations. What strategies can be applied to effectively provide healthcare for the world's poorest people? Through case discussions, the workshop discusses the realities and complexities of global health, innovation and social entrepreneurship in healthcare delivery, and evidence-based design and measuring outcomes. The workshop will be a small, intimate forum with a limited capacity of 10 participants.

• Who: Students and professionals are eligible to apply. Successful applicants will have demonstrated an interest in global health.

   

• When: Friday, February 12, 1-6pm

   

• Where: Unite For Sight headquarters in downtown New Haven (across the street from Yale's Whitney Humanities Center)

Complete details online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/global-health-university/global-health-workshop 

As Human Rights Firsts Director, Posner earned the organization a reputation for leadership in protecting refugees, advancing a rights-based approach to national security, challenging crimes against humanity, and fighting discrimination. In 2009, Posner was appointed Asst. Sec. of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.  Posner has been at the forefront of the international human rights movement for nearly 30 years, and as Asst. Sec. of State, he has advocated for the ICC and fought against torture.  Hosted by Development Month at Yale and the College Council for CARE.

For more exciting Development Month events, check out: http://gdayale.wordpress.com/calendar/

 Heads up all you actors,  singers, singer-songwriters, musicians, comics ... in a word, performers out to make your mark in the Apple. In line with our mandate to bring creative arts folk together,  YAAMNY Arts/Entertainment is planning a series of performance parties.  We have  secured the use of a large pleasant space in Brooklyn, complete with a piano, excellent PA system - and inexpensive food and drink, and will hold an organizational meeting and tryouts for our first Performers' Round-up on Saturday, February 13th. If you want to participate in the round-up,  please join us for this meeting and be ready to give us a sample of what you can do. Performers must limit themselves to 10-12 minutes.

The actual YAAMNY/ Arts Performers' Round-Up will be in April, details to be posted on the YAAMNY site soon. After the performance there will be time for informal networking. And you don't have to be on stage to come to the performance;  just be ready to enjoy yourself and meet alumni/ae in all the arts, all ages, all stages of their careers.

Please notify me ASAP ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ) if you will be joining us on February 13 for try-outs, and tell me what type of performer you are. 

Join ADPhi
as it hosts a Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service
Saturday, February 13th, 2:10-4:30
with
SeeClickFix
a New Haven-based website promoting participatory democracy.

Space is limited
RSVP at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFpNQkdIOGFHV1gzWG9wWlo5UU93ZUE6MA

For more information about the Moment of Service,
contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript
To host an event, contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript


More information on SeeClickFix (seeclickfix.com):
"SeeClickFix allows anyone to report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. This empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and improve their neighborhoods."

Join ADPhi as it hosts a Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service
Saturday, February 13th, 2:10-4:30
with SeeClickFix a New Haven-based website promoting participatory democracy.

Space is limited
RSVP at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFpNQkdIOGFHV1gzWG9wWlo5UU93ZUE6MA

For more information about the Moment of Service,
contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript
To host an event, contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript


More information on SeeClickFix (seeclickfix.com):
"SeeClickFix allows anyone to report and track non-emergency issues anywhere in the world via the internet. This empowers citizens, community groups, media organizations and governments to take care of and improve their neighborhoods."

Application deadline: February 14, 2010    
The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy created DMI Scholars to identify progressive college activists from underrepresented communities and train them in the skills necessary to obtain and succeed in entry-level public policy positions. With DMIs network and expertise, DMI Scholars will become the future Legislative Directors, Policy Analysts and Advisors who fuel the progressive movement with new ideas and effective advocacy.

We strongly encourage students of color, immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community, and students from low-income and working class backgrounds to apply.
www.dmischolars.org

PLEASE NOTE - DATE CHANGE due to inclement weather (NOW FEB 16)

We wish to invite you to the upcoming Public Service/ Social Justice Committee to discuss many great opportunities for alum to engage in meaningful service projects and advancing social justice.

We are particularly interested in discussing and organizing a fundraiser for the children of Haiti and would ask all alum to consider donating to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund (www.clintonbushhaitifund.org), Doctors without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org), the United Nations Children's Fund (www.unicefusa.org) or the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org).

The agenda is as follows:

1. Report on January Projects (soup kitchen and mock interview session)

2. Discussion of upcoming events -- considering Haiti Fundraiser

3. Selection of April Project

4. Update regarding Day of Service

5. Social Justice Project Update

6. Discussion of YAAMNY Charity Ball Fundraiser

7. Final Comments

Are you interested in improving educational inequality? Do you want to help New Haven juniors with SAT prep and college applications? If so, join College Acceptance! This semester, we are scheduled to go to New Haven Academy (within walking distance on Orange St.) to help with SAT preparation in their junior "College Bound Seminar" classes. Each class has about 16 students and the class is about 80 minutes. You could work within part or all of that time block. The classes are on Mondays from 11:05-12:25, Thursdays from 8:15-9:35 and Thursdays from 1:05-2:25. If you want to help, send an e-mail to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with your availability and we will set you up!

Due February 27th, 2010. I'm writing to let you know about an opportunity to work with the Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund. With the fund you'll manage a portion of the Dwight Hall endowment to generate an environmental, social, and financial return. We are looking for students with a range of backgrounds--from finance-savvy economics majors to activists pushing for social change.

Splatter! volunteers conduct creative writing and drawing workshops in schools throughout New Haven. At the end of each semester a magazine is published of the student's work that is distributed throughout Yale and within the participating schools. Workshops are conducted in pairs and only an hour commitment a week. If interested, please email This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript with:

1. Name
2. College
3. Year
4. Cell Phone Number
5. Have you been involved with Splatter before? If so, in what capacity?
6. Would you be willing to be a workshop leader? (This would involve a few extra responsibilities.)
7. Were you involved in a workshop last semester? If so what was the school/time/teacher? Would you like to work with the same volunteers? (We will try out best to have you with the same class but we understand schedules change, so it might not be possible.)
8. What times work in your schedule for workshops? Please send us ALL the times from 8 AM to 5 PM from Monday to Friday that work in your schedule. The more times you give, the easier it will be to match you with a class.

Kyle Staver: Recent Work

February 17 - March 20, 2010
Opening reception Thursday, February 18, 5 to 7 pm
Catalog available Lohin Geduld Gallery is proud to present our third exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Kyle Staver. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with an essay by independent curator and critic, Karen Wilkin.

In this series of recent paintings Kyle Staver continues her exploration of intimate scenes while incorporating pensive hues and darker themes. Throughout her career Staver has portrayed the joys of the ordinary world of afternoon bike rides, morning cups of coffee and dressing for the day. Her new paintings depict figure skaters flying through the air and Canada geese soaring overhead. These scenes, with their deepened palette and monumental compositions, evoke masters such as Gustave Courbet and Pablo Picasso.  A number of paintings in this body of new work depart from the domestic arena to delve into allegorical realms of spatial and emotional complexity.  In one painting, a voluptuous woman on horseback gazes unashamed out at the viewer, while in another two men are completely engrossed in an almost savage hunt for snapping turtles.  As Karen Wilkin describes in the catalog, Here, unlike the paintings of domesticity, it seems clear that something not only specific but probably significant is happening. But what is it?  In contrast to the sense of unremarkable contentment in Stavers domestic pictures, theres an elusive suggestion of the disquieting, a suggestion intensified by unstable space, more tipped and layered than in many of Stavers previous works. This sense of the preternatural and the uncanny defines this new body of Kyle Stavers paintings and prints.  

In the exhibition catalog, Wilkin continues, Staver's new paintings and prints constitute some of her most vigorous, engaging work to date.  They reaffirm that the time-honored tradition of painterly figure painting and the medium of paint on canvas are still vital and provocative."

Kyle Staver received her BA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 1987. Additionally, she attended Camberwell College of Arts in London.  Her work has been exhibited at Lohin Geduld Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Art and Maurice Arlos Fine Art in New York, and at Hackett -Freedman Gallery in San Francisco.  Staver is a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the Benjamin Altman Figure Prize from the National Academy of Design . Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times , The New York Sun, The New York Observer and The Hudson Review.

To kick off the Lunar New Year, AAAYA (Association of Asian American Yale Alumni) will be starting what we hope will become a regular
happy hour gathering.   Each month, we'd like to host a casual get together so you
can have a drink with old friends, meet new people and network!

Drink specials include:
$5 Absolut and flavored Absolut
$5 Yuengling, Sam Adams and Sam Seasonal drafts.

So thumb your nose at the cold, brave the elements,
and come out after work to celebrate the Lunar Year with a drink and a laugh!

We'll be upstairs.  Everyone is welcome! 
 

Dave Cooper and the Mountaintop Removal Roadshow

Join us for our kick-off event!  Kentucky's Dave Cooper and the Mountaintop Removal Roadshow: http://www.mountainroadshow.com/

Dave Cooper of Mountain Justice leads the audience through a multimedia show on the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, communities and the environment, featuring traditional Appalachian mountain music and shocking aerial photos of decapitated Appalachian mountains.

New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble's next concert will take place on Thursday, February 18, at 8:00 p.m. at the Broadway Presbyterian Church, Broadway at 114^th Street, in Manhattan. The program will feature:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata in e minor, K. 304 for violin & piano

Vincent d'Indy's Trio in B-flat (1887) for violin, cello & piano

Ludwig van Beethoven's Trio in B-flat, Op. 97, "Archduke"

Artists:

Christopher Oldfather, piano; Naoko Tanaka, violin; Gerald Appleman, cello

Artistic Director A. Robert Johnson will host a free Meet-the-Artists interview preceding the concert at 7:30 p.m. A reception for audience and musicians will follow the performance.

http://www.nyphilomusica.org

Experiential Learning Initiative: Africa (ELI Africa; formerly HOPE Global Initiative) is looking for enthusiastic, dedicated Yalies to lead hands-on learning projects and community-building programs for underprivileged youth in Mauritius this summer. Participants (Fellows) will work as a team and with local educators to run targeted creative projects in sustainable agriculture, health/fitness, IT and creative arts, and to establish links between kids and members of the local community. As part of our pilot program, Fellows will also have the opportunity to shape the future of ELI Africa and to develop long-term strategy and initiatives.

 Mia Rubin, a Yale law student and immigration legal intern at IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) will speak on her experiences working with immigrants in New Haven and how her faith guides the work that she does. Questions addressed by the talk include "How is service motivated by faith different from service in general?" and "What does the Bible have to say about serving others?" There will be a short talk and then an open discussion on the topic. Come to learn more about IRIS' work resettling immigrants and refugees and about the role of faith in community service. Sponsored by Yale Christian Fellowship.

This weekend, join the
Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service
for two events

1.
The sisters of Pi Beta Phi
invite you to help organize books for tutoring and distribution at
New Haven Reads
February 20th, 10:00 am-12:00pm

Space is limited, RSVP at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHczdzR0Z05yTFpHbjV4dzJnMUhpOEE6MA

2.
The Asian American Student Association
welcomes all students to serve lunch and teach computer skills to the homeless at
the Social Integration Program
February 20th, 10:30am-1:20pm

Space is limited, RSVP at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEdTZGlFaFlIeWdWek1xRUdsREtYdUE6MA



For more information on the Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service, contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript
To host an event, contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

We write to invite you to join us at the Connecticut Academic Decathlon State Competition on Saturday, February 20th. 

Essay judges are needed in LC from 10:30am to 12:30pm.  It's going to be 20 minutes of training and one and a half hour of essay reading, followed by a complimentary lunch.

Speech/interview judges need to be at Dwight Hall from 3:15 pm to 5:15.  It'll be 20 minutes training with snacks and 1.5 hour speech/interview judging, followed by a complimentary dinner.

Interested volunteers should email  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with their commitment and preference for essay, speech, or interview. Volunteers do not need to state a preference, and we would actualy appreciate that because it will give us the flexibility we need to fill all the necessary spots.  All assignments will be confirmed by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, February 18th. 

Minh Tran                               Jonathan Marquez 
State Executive Director          Volunteer Coordinator

Hi Dwight Hall,

There are tons of things going on this week! It is simultaneously National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Haiti Week and Rosie Revisited Week for Work and Women, which means this week is filled with many one-time events!

Dwight Hall has also just put out two fellow applications:

Apply to be a Dwight Hall Summer Fellow: http://www.dwighthall.org/5013/Apply_to_be_a_Dwight_Hall_Summer_Fellow

Apply to be a Dwight Hall Technology Fellow:
Establish and sustain a strong virtual presence for a dynamic organization that engages 3,500 Yale students each year in service and justice activities! This is an exciting opportunity to enhance the functionality of Dwight Halls website and integrate social media elements for an organization that is recognized as the largest student-run, campus-based nonprofit organization committed to service and justice in the nation!

If interested e-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for an application!

Application for the Campus and Community Fund for DH member groups is due on February 27th, and if the group treasurer didn't receive an application, they should contact: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

If you are looking for the latest news on Yale's Relief Efforts for Haiti please look here: http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/

YHHAP Fast for Haiti, part of a Dwight Hall-sponsored campaign for Haiti, will be on February 26th! Sign-ups are up! Log in to http://www.yale.edu/sis/ and click on Dining System, then on the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project to donate your swipe!

Hope all is well,                                               

Joe

Dr. Lillian Guerra is the author of two books, Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico  (University of Florida Press, 1998) and The Myth of José Martí  (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).  She has also published many scholarly articles, creative essays and two collections of Spanish-language poetry. Guerra's new book, Visions of Power: Revolution and Redemption in Cuba, 1952-1972, will be published in 2010.  She teaches Caribbean and modern Latin American history at Yale University. In 2009, the faculty of Yale College awarded Professor Guerra the  Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.

Free Yoga session w/ Discussion on Health and Wellness.

Co-sponsor: Pi Phi                         

Join ECHO and Pi Phi for an hour of free yoga with Maureen McGuire- Certified yoga instructor. Maureen will lead a yoga session and a discussion on health and wellness. 

Hosted by Andre van der Heever, founder of the Connecticut Center for a New Economy

Jenifer Grant the daughter of the founders of Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Gwen Grant Mellon and Dr. Larimer Mellon.  She has been involved with Hospital Albert Schweitzer, which is located 60 miles (2 hours) outside of Port au Prince,  since its doors opened on June 26, 1956.  After a career of teaching middle school students, including 7 years in New Haven at The Foote School, she is now retired and has even more time to devote to HAS.  She is a member of the board of directors.  Not being medical, she has found a niche in the horticultural aspects of the HAS campus and contiguous areas.  She travels to Haiti and Hospital Albert Schweitzer about 4 times a year for a week or two. Her talk will focus on the founding of the hospital by two very remarkable people, how the hospital has evolved into more than a hospital with extensive Community Health and Community Development activities. She will explain the effects of the earthquake on the hospital and how HAS will be affected in both the near and farther future by this catastrophe. 

The IvyLife-Yale Referral Network offers Yale alumni across the world a chance to engage in professional networking via online and in-person forums.  IvyLife has 11,000 members and holds in-person weekly networking events for graduates of the eight Ivy League universities in nearly all major global cities.  We host morning, after-work, and other events to let alumni connect with professionals from all walks of life.

Wetbar, a bar within the W Hotel, has agreed to host our evening mixer next Monday evening, February 22nd, from 6:30-8:30pm. Enjoy networking with fellow Yale alumni in an engaging environment with drinks available via a cash bar. Please RSVP to  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  by Monday, 2/22, at noon. Wetbar in the W Hotel is located at 130 East 39 Street, just south of Grand Central.

Visit www.yalereferralnetwork.com for more information, and join us on Monday!

Denise Walsh, former Deputy Director with the Clinton Foundation in Liberia and new member of the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale University, is an expert in health management and leadership, with a focus on hospital operations.  She traveled to Haiti immediately after the disaster to support pharmacy operations at the General Hospital in Port au Prince, ensuring that hospital staff and patients had access to crucial medications and medical supplies as victims of the earthquake surged into the citys only functioning hospital.

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite you and your guest to a reception hosted by Jon Butler, Dean of the Graduate School, featuring a conversation on poetry with Elizabeth Alexander '84, Professor, African American Studies, American Studies and English.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
Professor Alexander's talk will begin at 7:00

R.S.V.P. by February 18 to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or (203) 432-7730
Space is limited

Elizabeth Alexander ’84 BA was invited by President Barack Obama to compose and read a poem at his inauguration on January 20, 2009. She is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American Sublime (2005, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and a collection of essays on African American literature, painting, and popular culture, The Black Interior (2004). Professor Alexander is an inaugural recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.” She earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now chair of the Yale Department of African American Studies.

THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.

The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) is co-sponsoring a program spearheaded by the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York. You are cordially invited to an evening with Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss investment opportunities in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.

Professor Sachs will speak on the role of the private sector in driving sustainable investment and offer his thoughts on

 -- Where these opportunities exist in the face of political gridlock.

-- How the business community can participate in the development of the sustainability market.

-- The sweet spot for investors, i.e. where business can contribute to sustainability, environmental justice and increased profits. 

Professor Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He was recently named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.  

Register today at: http://www.cbsacny.org/store.html?event_id=810.

Yalies should select the "partner" ticket option at $30 per ticket.

Elizabeth McAlister is Associate Professor of Religion, and also teaches in American Studies and African American Studies at Wesleyan University. She earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from Yale in American Studies with expertise in Afro-Caribbean religions. Her first book is Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (University of California Press, 2002). Her second book is a volume co-edited with Henry Goldschmidt that theorizes race and religion as linked constructs: Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2004).

McAlister has published Rara, numerous articles and book chapters and produced three compilations of Afro-Haitian religious music: Rhythms of Rapture (Smithsonian Folkways, 1995), Angels in the Mirror, and the CD Rara that accompanies her first book.

In her efforts to make Afro-Caribbean religions better understood by the American public, McAlister has been interviewed by Terri Gross on Fresh Air, profiled in the New York Times, and consulted for projects such as Africans in America for PBS, the Learning Channel, and for Afropop on Public Radio International.

The Yale Art Gallery will lead a guided tour of selected pieces of Haitian Art. Space is limited to 25 people

Robert Lamothe was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where he lived until his family moved to the United States when he was 13 years old.  They settled in Hamden, Connecticut.

A member of Pierson College, he received a B.A. degree in Architecture from Yale in 1977. After graduating from Yale, he taught French at Hamden High School for three years before enrolling at the Columbia University School of Architecture. He received his M.Arch. from Columbia in 1984.  For the next ten years, he worked in the New Haven area as an architect for three major firms. During that time he also taught Haitian Creole at Yale through the African Language Department.
Since 1993, Robert has been teaching at Norwalk Community College where he is now a full professor.  He teaches developmental English and French.  For the past four years, he has taught Haitian Creole at Yale through the DILS program.
Professor Lamothe has been involved with a number of organizations bringing help to Haiti.  He was Vice President of Hunger Relief and Development, a group founded by State Representative Vito Mazza of West Haven. He has done volunteer work with other organizations such as the Schweitzer Hospital of Deschapelles, Haitis Back Porch of the Archdiocese of Norwich, Haiti Beyond 2004, Haiti Dental Foundation  of Jeremie, and he is now involved with the Yale for Haiti Collaborative.

Art Therapy in the Dwight Hall Common Room

Co-Sposored by Mind Matters

Join ECHO and Mind Matters for a discussion with Doran Ward from Fellowship place. Doran will discuss the merits of art therapy in the context of treating mental disorders. 

YAAMNY is excited to partner with The Ivy Plus Society (TIPS) to bring you this multi-school party at Marquee, one of the trendiest venues in the city. 

This is a great opportunity to meet and catch up with with fabulous alumni in NYC!!

Dress Code: Wear pink or red to continue the Valentine's Day spirit.

For more information and to RSVP, go to:

http://www.ivyplussociety.org/nyc.html

So don't hesitate...RSVP, grab a cocktail, and start mingling!

President of the Lambi Fund, Marie Marthe Saint Cyr, Chair, is a social worker by profession. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She owns a non-profit consulting business and was previously the Executive Director of Iris House, the first and only comprehensive program for women living with HIV and AIDS and their families, and served as an appointee of Mayor Giuliani as Community Co-Chair of the HIV Planning Council of New York City. She is the chairperson of the Board of the National Minority AIDS Council in Washington, DC, and was the Director of the Haitian Coalition on AIDS in New York City. Ms. St. Cyr developed the first program for women, Women and AIDS Resource Network (WARN), in Brooklyn, NY. Responding to the needs of the constituency she serves, she became the first Haitian Deputy Commissioner in New York City under the Dinkins Administration. She was Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, responsible for the Community Relations Department and the AIDS Discrimination Unit, and initiated the Commission's Prison Project for Offenders with AIDS. She has been a Huntington resident since 1966.

A panel discussion featuring members of United 34 and 35.

A panel discussion featuring members of United 34 and 35.

Groundbreaking live multimedia production by the Coal Free Future Project.  New Haven stop on its nation-wide tour!

This original and groundbreaking multimedia production that brings a national audience into the frontlines of the coalfields and mountaintop removal issue today. The play draws from real-life experience and documentation, and seeks to recover forgotten history in our nations dark legacy of coal mining.    The Project is a collection of writers, actors, filmmakers and musicians, envisioning a coal-free future.  See the trailer at http://coalfreefutureproject.org/

Part of the series of events, Appalachia in Transition: Beyond MTR -- Fostering a Dialogue on Mountaintop Removal Mining
About the series:  Mountaintop Removal coal mining (MTR) is one of the most egregious environmental assaults happening in the United States, with disturbing social justice implications.  Yet few seem to know it is happening.   This event series aims to highlight the travesty of the current mining practices, educate about ways to get involved in the effort to address MTR, and to facilitate conversation about alternative economic drivers as the region begins a transition away from a coal-based economy.

Stay tuned for information about this semester's events---contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with any questions.  And join us on Facebook!

Have an idea for a short-term service project? Make your project a Dwight Hall Short Term Project!

This semester, for the first time, Dwight Hall is opening up applications to individuals who would like to organize and execute a short-term service project. These projects should reflect Dwight Halls mission of fostering civic-minded student leaders who promote activism in New Haven and around the world. At the same time, short-term projects should be designed to accomplish their mission over the course of a semester or a year.

Historically, only Dwight Hall groups and affiliate organizations have access to Dwight Hall resources such as funding, cars, connections, and advising. Dwight Hall short-term project initiatives will have access to most of the same resources as member groups except for funding, which may be limited depending on the scope and timeline of the project. After the completion of the project, the project group will be required to give back to Dwight Hall through Phone-a-thon hours.

For more information and/or request an application, please email Erica Schild ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ), Dwight Halls New Membership Coordinator.

Interested in helping shape the long term vision and programming of the largest student-run organization in the country, a major non-profit operating in New Haven and around the world, the center for social justice and public service at Yale?  Apply to be a Student Board Member on the Dwight Hall at Yale Board of Directors!

If you are involved in any one of Dwight Hall's 85+ member groups and institutional programs, you are qualified to apply to the position.  You do not have to have led a group at Dwight Hall.  This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the non-profit management aspect of public service, social justice, and advocacy!

There will be an information session Wednesday, March 3 in the Dwight Hall SJN Room from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

E-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  for an application or with any questions you have.

Hi Dwight Hall!

What an exciting week it has already been! It is simultaneously National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Haiti Week and Rosie Revisited Week for Work and Women!

LAST DAY TO SIGN UP for the YHHAP Fast for Haition February 26th, part of a Dwight Hall-sponsored campaign for Haiti. Your donated meal swipes will help the recovery efforts in Haiti as well as organizations that combat homeless in New Haven. Again, Thursday is your last day to sign-up!

Log in to http://www.yale.edu/sis/ and click on Dining System, then on the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project to donate your swipe!

Also, we have plenty of APPLICATIONS for awesome fellowships and positions this week:

1. Apply to be a Dwight Hall Summer Fellow: http://www.dwighthall.org/5013/Apply_to_be_a_Dwight_Hall_Summer_Fellow

2. Apply to be a Dwight Hall Technology Fellow:
Establish and sustain a strong virtual presence for a dynamic organization that engages 3,500 Yale students each year in service and justice activities! This is an exciting opportunity to enhance the functionality of Dwight Halls website and integrate social media elements for an organization that is recognized as the largest student-run, campus-based nonprofit organization committed to service and justice in the nation!
If interested e-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for an application!

3. Application for the Campus and Community Fund for DH member groups:
Due on February 27th, and if the group treasurer didn't receive an application, they should contact: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

4. NEW Application for Student Board Member on the Dwight Hall Board of Directors:
If you are involved in any one of Dwight Hall's 85+ member groups and institutional programs, you are qualified to apply to the position.  You do not have to have led a group at Dwight Hall.  This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in the non-profit management aspect of public service, social justice, and advocacy!

There will be an information session Wednesday, March 3 in the Dwight Hall SJN Room from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
E-mail This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for an application or with any questions you have.

5. Have an idea for a short-term service project? Make your project a Dwight Hall Short Term Project! This semester, for the first time, Dwight Hall is opening up applications to individuals who would like to organize and execute a short-term service project. These projects should reflect Dwight Halls mission of fostering civic-minded student leaders who promote activism in New Haven and around the world. At the same time, short-term projects should be designed to accomplish their mission over the course of a semester or a year. For more information and/or request an application, please email Erica Schild ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ), Dwight Halls New Membership Coordinator.

As always, if you are looking for the latest news on Yale's Relief Efforts for Haiti please look here: http://opa.yale.edu/haiti/

Hope all is well,                                              

Joe

How Eating Disorders fit into the Obesity Epidemic

Sponsored by YSPH

Kennedy is a prominent human rights activist. She focuses on issues ranging from women's rights to judicial independence and has lead over 40 human rights delegations into more than 30 countries. In addition to her numerous leadership positions in organizations that include the Amnesty Leadership Council and United States Institute of Peace, she established the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in honor of her late father. The RFK Center has made enormous strides in human rights by supporting local activists around the world. Kennedy is also the author of Speak Truth to Power and Being Catholic Now.

Come learn over cocktails how you can help Randall's Island Sports Foundation (RISF) ensure that we all have a wonderful place in NYC to go outside and play!  Since 1992, RISF has worked to protect, develop and restore Randall's Island.  Today the Island is home to a world class track & field center, over 60 new ball fields, a state-of-the-art tennis center, a golf center with over 80 driving range stalls, beautiful bicycle and pedestrian pathways that overlook the water, and acres of newly restored wetlands.  As we transition from a development/restoration phase to a stewardship phase, RISF looks to harness the energy of a diverse and talented group of Young Professional who will grow with and support RISF in the years to come.  Please see below for more about this event. 

Racing to the Top: Education Reform in New Haven and Connecticut

Do you care deeply about public education? Are you concerned about the achievement gap between low-income students and their affluent peers? Are you sure that we need better schools, but uncertain how you can help?

Please join the Yale College Democrats and students from across Yale's campus on Thursday, February 25 from 6:00 PM to 6:45 in the Dwight Hall Chapel as we gather to show our support for New Haven's public schools and explore ways to create school change statewide.

The event will include:

• Mayor John Destefano Jr., who will speak about New Haven's ongoing School Change Campaign, which Arne Duncan (the Obama administration's Secretary of Education) has repeatedly praised as a model for other school districts to follow in pursuing school reform.
• Performances by members of WORD as well New Haven public school students.
• Opportunities to take action. Find out how you can be an advocate for better schools throughout the state of Connecticut. As Connecticut competes for federal Race to the Top funding, now is the time for the legislature to embrace substantive education reform. Whether you only have a few minutes or you're willing to become more involved, you have the opportunity to act directly to effect change.

RSVP to the Facebook event here, and feel free to invite your friends.

A story about one woman's cruasade to better the lives of her fellow textile mill workers.

 Come join YMPO for a discussion with Donald MacMillan, an emergency medicine Physician Assistant and one of the five Yale medical team members who went to Haiti last month to contribute to the relief effort. Mr. MacMillan will recount his work in Haiti and how he was able to use his medical expertise to aid in the recovery process. There will also be a Q&A session. Refreshments will be served. 

What: Haiti Earthquake and the Yale Relief Effort

When: Thursday, February 25th, 7:00pm

Where: LC 317

The Yale Art Gallery will lead a guided tour of selected pieces of Haitian Art. Space is limited to 25 people

Haitian Art for Sale provided by Haitis Back porch and Haitian Ministries Office of the Diocese of Norwich and The Albert Schweitzer Hospital.

Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, MS, MSPH, MA, FACEP
Yale School of Medicine Professor
Vice Chair for Academic Development and Global Health

Gregory Luke Larkin, MD, MS, MSPH, MA, FACEP, is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Section Chief for International Emergency Medicine & Global Health for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale. Dr Larkin is an experienced investigator in clinical emergency medicine, biostatistics, injury prevention, bioethics, and psychiatric emergencies whose current focus is studying neuropsychiatric aspects of trauma, disaster, intimate partner violence, stress and suicide.
Doctor Larkin is an advisor to the Ministries of Health in Slovenia, Zambia, Turkey, and more recently in Iraq, and the NHS in Whitehall, London, where he served Mr. Blairs administration as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. An NIH-funded researcher, he is also a Distinguished Investigator funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and an elected member of the International Academy for Suicide Research (IASR). Dr Larkin is Co-Founder of the Global Health Fellowship with Yale and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a faculty advisor to the Johnson & Johnson Scholars Program as well as to faculty and residents interested in international EM and Global Health. He is Chair of the International Association for Suicide Preventions Task Force on Suicide and Emergency Medicine, and current Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicines Public Health Interest Group. Internationally, Dr Larkin has served as a visiting professor and advisor to the International Delegation on the Future of Suicidology at the University of Molise, Italy, and the WHO Collaborating Center for Suicidology in Beijing. In addition he was the EM Advisor and co-author of the World Health Organizations publication on clinical management guidelines for organophosphate poisoning. Dr Larkin has been a consultant on two US Department of State grants in the Middle East, addressing the problems of violence and trauma in the West Bank and in Iraq. Dr. Larkin is advisor to the Ministry of Health and visiting faculty at the University of Maribor in order to develop Emergency Medicine in Slovenia. Dr Larkin has a long career working in medical missions in Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, India, Zambia, and Kenya. Dr Larkin publishes prolifically, and within the last year had 17 publications and a further 15 papers in press or submitted. Dr Larkins administrative responsibilities within the Division include development of junior faculty, assisting in staff recruitment and retention, and promoting excellence in research, scholarship and knowledge translation amongst faculty, residents, and students.

Join us with rOBERT HEIMER

Join PHC for a special talk with Robert Heimer, Professor in Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases  

Dr. Heimer has made scientific investigations of the morality and morbidity associated with injection drug use (syringe exchange programs, HIV survival in syringes, hepatitis B vaccination, hepatitis C transmission risks, overdose prevention and resuscitation, pharmacological treatment of opiate addiction). He is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core at Yales Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and Director of the Yale office of CT Emerging Infections Program

Join the Saybrook Community Service Committee
as it hosts a
Dwight Hall-YHHAP Moment of Service

Come play educational games with kids at
New Haven Reads
Friday, February 26th 4:45-6:00

The event is open to all students,
but priority will be given to Saybrugians
as space is limited
RSVP at http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFBQdE9sWS1xNnRkZDYtQ1VYRkZoUmc6MA

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DONT JUST ENJOY WINE EXPERIENCE WINE

at the

3^rd ANNUAL NEW YORK WINE EXPO

February 26^th-28^th

The 3^rd Annual New York Wine Expo, February 26^th - 28^th, (28^th for trade only) is an opportunity to swirl and sip wines from around the globe.  French wineries and vineyards will have a significant showing this year, and as always, attendees can continue to look forward to Italian, German, Australian, and South American favorites. Not to be missed of course, local New York, Oregon and California wines. In all, the Grand Tasting offers attendees a chance to sample more than 600 wines from over 170 winemakers from around the world.

Attend the Expo not just for the sampling, but for the learning experience as well. To date, seminar presenters include Gloria Maroti Frazee and Leslie Sbrocco.

WHAT:           3^rd Annual New York Wine Expo

                        February 26^th 28^th

                        Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City

WHEN:           Friday, February 26, 2010
                        6:00 PM 10:00 PM

                        Saturday, February 27, 2010
                        2:00 PM 6:00 PM

                        Sunday, February 28, 2010
                        Trade Only
                        12:00 PM 4:00 PM

 PRICE:          Save $10 on tickets purchased before February 19

                        Friday admission:  $75 in advance

                       Saturday admission:  $85 in advance

TO PURCHASE:    Go to:  www.NewYorkWineExpo.com

                                    Check web site for regular updates on Seminar schedules and special guests

The UWS party was the first Feb Club Emeritus party!  Check out the Feb Club website for more details:

www.febclubemeritus.com

Bob Lamothe Blue Band will also be playing swing! And in between the sets, come enjoy the sounds of konpa, merengue, salsa, reggae, bachata, calypso and soka, expertly mixed by a DJ.
 

The Small Enterprise and Entrepreneur Development Conference is a daylong conference that will be held on February 27, 2010 at the Yale University Old Campus in downtown New Haven, CT. Hosted by the Elmseed Enterprise Fund, the conference is intended to provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with opportunities for skills-building and professional development. The conference will offer training in a variety of topics relating to business management and expansion during hour-long workshops.

LOOKING FOR LIFE
[Chercher La Vie] (In Creole and French with English
subtitles)
  Director:   Coulanges, Claudette
  Cast:
  Year:   1999
  Running Time (in minutes):   60
Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film reveals part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti. Going beyond this, however the film shows at first hand the extent to which importing of North American goods has brought about the collapse of Haitian regional production and ruined Haiti's economic circumstances. The connection between these two concerns of the film, which at first glance may not necessarily seem related, reveals the significant role that Haitian women of today play in an economy that has been bled dry. Written by Claudette Coulanges { This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript }

AGRONOMIST, THE
  Director:   Demme, Jonathan
  Cast:
  Year:   2003
  Running Time (in minutes):   90

Jean Dominique, the Haitian radio personality, investigative journalist, and political activist who was assassinated in April 2000, is the subject of Jonathan Demme's informative documentary. Demme, who has directed other documentaries about charismatic figures such as Spalding Gray (SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA), asked Dominique to participate in this film in 1991. At that time, Dominique was exiled from Haiti and living in New York City, where he remained dedicated to combatting the oppressive Haitian government. Interviews with Dominique and his wife Michele Montas shed light on the strong personalities and utter conviction of these two charming renegades, while Demme interweaves footage that puts their lives in context. Shots of their independent radio station, Radio Haiti, show the husband-wife team broadcasting inside the station, as well as the building's bullet-riddled exterior. A tour of Dominique's childhood home, where his mother shares her reflections, instantly communicate his deep attachment to Haiti. Meanwhile, harder pictures of riots and violence show the country's deep-seated poverty, injustice, and political unrest. All of this culminates in a simple explanation of why Dominique was so dedicated to trying to make a change. With a nice balance of character development--highlighting Dominique's remarkable spirit--and political background about Haiti and Dominique's impact on its people, THE AGRONOMIST is a superb film. The excellent, dub-heavy soundtrack by Wyclef Jean brings a contemporary edge to the film's events.

ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER
Director: John L'Ecuyer
From: Haiti/Quebec-Canada
Year: 2004 Minutes: 88
Language: French with English sub.
Genre: Drama
Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, On the Verge of a Fever (Le goût des jeunes filles) is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the Book Le Gout des Jeunes Filles by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.


 

Come see the Yale Belly Dance Troupe shimmy, twirl and undulate with dance styles from all over the Middle East at our third annual Hips Against Hunger performance! Hips Against Hunger is a charity benefit for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, an organization which provides hot meals for New Haven's homeless community. Join us at Harkness Auditorium in the Sterling School of Medicine on Saturday February 27th. Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8. Cover is $5 and all proceeds go directly to D.E.S.K

The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee strives to provide a forum where alumni can enjoy, share in, and learn from leading practitioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts, and support alumni in the arts, through regular presentations and events that will offer opportunities for networking and performance.

Whether you have won a Pulitzer and travel by limousine or are pushing cabs between auditions, come share your ideas and help create a resource to assist us all in our work.

All are welcome. Please RSVP to This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .

The Brooklyn party ends the month!  It will be fun, hip and happening.

Check the Feb Club website for more information:  www.febclubemeritus.com