Get a free chair massage from a licensed massage therapist!
In celebration of National Massage Therapy Awareness Week,
the Connecticut Chapter of the American Massage Therapy Association
is offering free chair massages to Wesleyan community members.
Drop-in for a relaxing break in your day; no appointment required.
Monday, October 20, 2008 AND Thursday, October 23, 2008
10:30am to 2:00pm in Usdan 110
You are invited to a short screening of the documentary
Diagnosis: NOW!
regarding health care reform in the United States. There will be a discussion following the screening with guests from the community, including:
Tuesday, Oct. 14th
7 PM
Woodhead Lounge
Feel free to bring your dinner and your own personal health care story!
Sponsored by HealthCAN
Unfortunately, sexual violence is an issue to which Wesleyan is not immune. To raise awareness of this critical issue in our community, the annual Take Back the Night march & rally is next week:
Thursday, March 16
7:00pm
Steps of Olin Library
The TBTN Planning Committee, headed by Liz Weisman ‘09 and Carolyn Ariori ‘09 have been hard at work planning additional events; FemNet and WesWELL’s Peer Health Advocates are also contributing to the planning, with other events being scheduled brefore and after the march itself.
Click here for a complete schedule of events. Check back often for updates.
For more information on sexual violence and it’s prevention, click here.
To learn more about the history of the international Take Back the Night movement, click here.
Dear Wesleyan Community,
Despite your preoccupation with exams and other pressing matters, I’m sure you’ve heard about the terrible natural disasters in Myanmar and Sichuan Province in China. We’ve heard from a former Wesleyan student from Myanmar, Wunna Kyaw (now studying engineering at USC), who has been in touch with friends doing relief work in the Irawaddy delta area near the capital, the area hardest hit by the cyclone. He is asking for contributions to enable his friends to buy relief supplies. As you’re probably also aware, getting supplies (including most importantly clean water and medicines), to the hundreds of thousands of survivors, has been exceedingly difficult. As residents of the country, Wunna’s friends are having better success than most in getting the supplies to those who need it most. We have also heard of another organization through a Wes alum, Hanna Ingber Win ‘03, whose husband’s family live in Yangon: www.uscampaignforburma.org — that seems to be successfully deilvering relief supplies.
We are also looking at the Red Cross of China to make contributions to the earthquake relief effort: http://202.108.59.10/english/index.htm
If you would like to contribute to these organizations directly, please use the weblinks above. If you would like to contribute through Wesleyan, you may deposit your contribution in the donation bowls in the Usdan University Center Wednesday and Thursday. Look for the signs. We will divide the contributions between Myanmar and China.
Thank you for your attention — and good luck on your exams!
Best,
Alice Hadler
Associate Dean for International Student Affairs
Daniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi
Dean for Dviersity and Student Engagement
Festival 2008
Saturday, May 10, 12-5pm
Veteran’s Park: Located just off Newfield Street (Route 3),
1/3 mile north of the intersection of Washington (Route 66) and Newfield Streets
Middletown, CT
Just a 10-minute walk from Wesleyan’s campus
Free admission
Copresented by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts and Environmental Studies Program, the Jonah Center for Earth and Art and the City of Middletown
Feet to the Fire will assemble a diverse array of artists, scientists and other thinkers to address the environmental challenges that face us today on a global scale and in our own communities. Enjoy performances, art and music by campus and regional artists, while learning about the impact of climate change on our world. Award-winning choreographer Ann Carlson will premiere a new site-specific work commissioned by the Festival. The Festival also features interactive displays and exhibits on energy conservation and sustainability by environmental scientists and a farmer’s market with local organic food vendors. The festival is a part of an eighteen-month project, funded in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional partners are the Center for Creative Research and the Green Street Arts Center.
Read more about Feet to the Fire here.
ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION
In the spirit of the Festival, the organizers encourage you to consider your environmental footprint as you plan your trip.
Bike to the Fest
Transportation Alternatives Middletown (www.transaltmiddletown.org) will lead a family bicycle ride to the Festival, starting at Union Park (South Green) at 11:30 am.
Park (or Walk) and Ride
Shuttle buses will be making stops at the following locations throughout the Festival:
· Green St. Arts Center (51 Green Street, Middletown, CT 06457)
· Wesleyan University Admission Office parking Lot (Lot E)
· Main Street between the police station and Amici’s restaurant (100 Riverview Ctr, Middletown CT 06457).
(Entrance to Riverview parking deck on Court St.)
Carpool
If you decide to drive, parking is available at Veteran’s Memorial Park.
Parking for individuals with disabilities is also available at Veteran’s Memorial Park.
Reduce your finals-induced stress by stopping by the Stress Free Zone to play a game, get crafty, hang out with your friends or even get a massage from the Peer Health Advocates.Working Models of Community-Based Healthcare
12noon @ Multi-purpose Room
Basement of Usdan
Join alternative health practitioners Jacoby Ballard and Green Wayland Llewellin from Brooklyn, NY in an open conversation about providing just, loving, and nourishing healthcare through a community based clinic. Green and Jacoby will talk about their work to open a worker-owned cooperative health clinic in Brooklyn, Taproot Community Health Clinic, rooted in grassroots organizing and health justice. They’ll also discuss the differences between their work as alternative practitioners and that of western allopathic medicine.
Bring your lunch and join the discussion!
Workshop: Social Justice and Health
3:00pm @ Multi-purpose Room
Basement of Usdan
This is an interactive workshop about how to put the values of social justice into practice within a framework of health. What is quality care and how can communities reclaim healthcare? How do we address the painful history that many communities have with the medical establishment while providing quality care? How can we redefine healthcare beyond surgeries and pharmaceuticals in a way that is empowering on a daily level? Using the tools and pedagogy of Popular Education, we will address our own experiences with healthcare and envision holistic, accessible, and anti-oppressive models to create healthier communities.
Stress Free Zone
Thursday, May 8
6:00 to 9:00pm @ the Usdan Cafe
Plus! From 7:00 to 8:00pm…Massages from the Peer Health Advocates in Usdan 108!
These two events will occur on Thursday, May 1, 2008 
Deans’ Colloquium
4:30 p.m. @ PAC 002
“Becoming a Ripple of Change:
How to become a more effective ally when confronted with social injustices”
How can we transform Wesleyan into a healthy and respectful community in which all individuals feel supported and appreciated? In what ways may we unintentionally contribute to a lack of inclusiveness on campus? Understanding what it means to be a social justice ally can help answer these questions. The Deans’ Colloquium discussion series, in partnership with members of the Residential Life Student Staff, will be hosting Dr. Alan Berkowitz who will present recent research and theory on this topic with an emphasis on examining individuals who are passive bystanders and how those people can be encouraged to take an active leadership role in solving campus problems and intervening on behalf of other groups.
Skill Building Workshop
8:30 p.m. @ Fayerweather Theater Room
“Confronting Social Invisibility: Skills to deconstruct hurtful behaviors”
As a follow-up to the afternoon presentation, Dr. Berkowitz will conduct a skill building workshop to provide an opportunity for members of the community to gain a valuable skill set in a safe space where ideas for change can be shared and explored. This workshop will teach strategies for responding to unwelcome remarks and health-risk behaviors. Often we find ourselves in situations where someone else’s language or behavior makes us feel uncomfortable, yet we do not do anything to change it. Most people are uncomfortable with prejudicial language about other groups, yet often we are silent. Similarly, when someone we know is engaging in harmful behavior, we often want to say something but don’t. Why don’t we act on our core values and ideals in these situations? This workshop will provide a critical analysis of bystander behavior and offer some skills for intervening in difficult situations.
Light refreshments will be served at both events.
Wesleyan University students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend, ask questions and participate in the discussion.
Dr. Berkowitz has over twenty years of experience in higher education as a trainer, psychologist, faculty member, and Counseling Center Director. At Hobart and William Smith Colleges he developed one of the first rape prevention programs for men, was co-director of the college’s highly regarded Men and Masculinity Program and chaired the Prejudice Reduction Task Force. More recently, he has been a central figure in the development of Social Norms Theory and is a leader in research and implementation of the model. His lecture and workshop topics include: changing campus culture, effective drug and sexual assault prevention strategies, reducing prejudice on campus, racial identity theory, multicultural issues in the classroom, alcohol and sexual assault, men’s responsibility for preventing sexual assault, developing alliances across differences, and understanding today’s students. His workshops are designed to increase the personal and professional effectiveness of faculty, staff, student leaders, athletes and coaches, health professionals, and community members. For more information on Dr. Berkowitz, go to his website: www.alanberkowitz.com
If (When) a Pandemic Threatens Wes…
Learn the facts. Make a Plan.
Student Forum hosted by SPLAT and
Dr. Davis Smith, Wesleyan’s Medical Director.
Free Pizza Lunch!
Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: 12:00noon
Room: Woodhead Lounge
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