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Be a responsible bystander: Speak out against violence!
The Peer Health Advocates (PHA) are the student voice of WesWELL’s health education outreach efforts and integral to the development and implementation of those efforts.
Involvement in the group is intended to impact your own understanding and behaviors around health as well as educate and promote health to the entire Wesleyan community.
We welcome students with interest in all health topics who wish to have a positive impact on the well-being of Wesleyan to apply to be a PHA.
Please visit the WesWell website for more information and to apply.

At the Writing Workshop a staff of trained peer tutors is available to meet with you at every stage of the writing process. You can meet with a tutor to discuss ideas for an upcoming assignment, edit a rough draft of a paper, or review a professor’s comments on completed work. Tutors meet with first-year students, senior thesis writers, and even faculty members. Everyone is welcome and all services are free.

Here is this semester’s schedule:
Sunday:
Drop-in – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 77 – Rachel Earnhardt – HIST/ENVS
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Olin 106 – Isabel Fattal – COL/RELI
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 266 – Justin Greene – ENGL/ANTH
Monday:
Appointment – 1:45-4 pm – Downey 104 – Sophia Franchi – FELLOW/ENGL/FRST
Drop-in – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 77 – Alison Denzer-King – PSYC/CSED
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Olin 106 – Leah Bakely – HIST/HISP
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 266 – Giordana Martino – PSYC
Tuesday:
Drop-in – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 77 – Gabriel Borelli – CSS
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Olin 106 – Jenna Shapiro – HIST
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 266 – Penny Snyder – ENGL
Wednesday:
Appointment – 1:45-4 pm – Downey 103 – Elana Rosenthal – FELLOW/COL/FRST/WRCT
Drop-in – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 77 – Rebecca Brand – ARHA/ARST
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Olin 106 – Hein Jeong – PHIL/GRST
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 266 – Aryeh Lieber – ENGL
Thursday:
Drop-in – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 77 – Alexandra Ricks – HIST/LAST
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Olin 106 – Sarah Mininsohn – SOC/DANC
Appointment – 7-11 pm – Sci Li 266 – Jeremy Crimm – CSS

And here is the link to our page with all of the above information, if that’s simpler to share:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/index.html

Dear ’19,
I hope you enjoyed your first week of classes as part of the Wesleyan community. We are delighted you are here.

Over the summer we contacted you to request that you send your SAT or ACT scores and we still have not received them. Although we did not require you to submit scores for admission to Wesleyan, in order to adequately research this transition and conduct effective advising, our policy requires you to send us your standardized test scores now.

We will accept unofficial scores so you can send us a screenshot of your scores, your own personal copy or a copy from your high school. Otherwise, please send us official scores (SAT, ACT and/or SAT II) through the testing agency as soon as you can.

If you do not provide your scores, it may impact your Spring semester enrollment as we will be forced to put an administrative HOLD on your registration. If you have questions, please contact me at dcrescimanno@wesleyan.edu or 860-685-3000.

Best wishes and welcome to Wesleyan,

Diane Crescimanno
Admission Office Coordinator

Wesleyan University
70 Wyllys Avenue
Middletown, CT 06459

Want to start or continue French, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese? Thinking of studying abroad, fulfilling GenEds in the Humanities, and having a small class? It’s a good idea to take that language class now. The Language Placement Test remains available through your portfolio. It is not too late to take it and enroll in a beginning, intermediate, or advanced class in French, Spanish, Italian, or even Portuguese (no test in Portuguese, just take it in any other Romance language instead). Any problem accessing the test: contact Sergei Bunaev (sbunaev@wesleyan.edu). Welcome to Wesleyan and looking forward to seeing you in our classes! We are at: www.wesleyan.edu/romance

Sharpen your French in a fun way: for the first time in many years, you can take a theater course in French!
There are still spaces available.

French and Francophone Theater in Performance
FREN 281
Fall 2015 Section: 01
Crosslisting: THEA 291

This course offers students the opportunity to put their language skills in motion by discovering French and Francophone theater in general, and acting in French in particular. This transhistorical course will introduce students to acting techniques while allowing them to discover the richness of the French and Francophone dramatic repertoires. A particular emphasis will be placed on improving students’ oral skills through pronunciation and diction exercises. The course will culminate in the performance of the students’ work at the end of the semester. Based on the “cours d’interprétation,” and offered exclusively in French, this course gives French language students a chance to improve language skills and discover the art of acting.
Instructor(s): Meere,Michael Times: .M.W.F. 02:40PM-03:30PM; Location: FISK414

Friday, September 11, 2015
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Memorial Service: In Honor of 9/11
Flag in front of South College

Students will be gathering with Flashlights to take a moment to remember the tragedy of 9/11 and support one another in that remembrance.

A reminder that The Mash, the fourth annual celebration of Wesleyan’s student music scene, with non-stop music from 2-7:30pm today. Due to weather, we had to move the events inside today, so please stop by the Patricelli ’92 Theater, the Usdan Café and Crowell Concert Hall today to see bands, a cappella groups and other music ensembles.

The full schedule is here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2015/09-2015/09112015the-mash.html

And to give a nod to all of the the faculty/staff who make music too, you can see Smokin’ Lillies featuring our own Louise Brown, Barry Chernoff, Rob Rosenthal, Luanne Benshimol, Evan Glass; Paul Horton and special guest Michael S. Roth on keyboards at 5pm in Crowell Concert Hall. Please come by!

Have you ever wanted a personal editor? Someone who would meet with you privately to help you with your writing?

Your Writing Mentor will work with you on your particular writing concerns, whether you need help generating ideas, structuring your essay, improving sentence clarity and grammar, or managing your time. As mentors and mentees meet on a weekly basis, this program is designed for students who enjoy regular collaboration. If you participate, you will have a sophomore, junior, or senior assigned to meet with you throughout the semester.

We work with students of all writing abilities and in all disciplines. All services are free.

To apply for a writing mentor for the Fall 2015 semester, please fill out the online application here by Monday, September 21st at midnight. We will let you know whether we were able to pair you with a mentor by Thursday, September 24th. Please contact Ford Fellow Elana Rosenthal at writingworks@wesleyan.edu or 860-685-2440 if you have any questions or concerns.

We look forward to working with you.

http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2015/09/04/classof2019stats/?utm_source=CXN&utm_medium=EMLET&utm_campaign=The+Wesleyan+Connection+-+Sept.+11%2c+2015(346554

History Matters Series – Refugee or Migrant? The European Crisis in Historical Perspective

As the Syrian war draws on and the ranks of displaced people grow ever larger, Europe arguably faces its largest refugee crisis since the second world war. The movement of people across the Mediterranean and the Balkans has alternately revealed official incapacity, reactionary violence, and outpourings of voluntarism and support. In recent weeks, some commentators have objected to the characterization of those in flight as migrants, insisting that the term misrepresents their movement as voluntary as a way of denying them basic human rights. Is this so? How can other instances of voluntary and involuntary migration shed light on the current crisis? Four scholars will put the crisis in historical perspective by analyzing varied experiences of displacement, from the persistent plight of African asylum seekers in Europe to the Southeast Asian diaspora in the United States.

Panelists: Bruce Masters (History); Marguerite Nguyen (English); Peter Rutland (Government); Laura Ann Twagira (History).

Thursday, September 17
12:00 noon
PAC 002