Orientation Schedules

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Monday, August 25, 2008
7:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Breakfast	Dana Dining Center
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Welcome, Registration and Check-In	at Residence Halls
8:30-10:30 a.m.	Student Financial Services and Health & Counseling Information Tables	Student Center Atrium
10:30-11:30 a.m.	Students: unpack, get settled and meet your neighbors. Families: Welcome from the Deans Dean of Students Joe Tolliver and Dean of the Faculty Valerie Lehr will provide useful information as your student begins the transition to college. Representatives from Health & Counseling, Residence Life and Safety & Security will also be available to answer your questions. This session is not intended for new students.	Gulick Theatre
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	Complimentary Lunch OR Complimentary Box Lunch	Dana Dining Center (for Gaines, Priest, Reiff and Whitman) and Eben Holden (for Lee and Rebert) Northstar Café (all colleges)
11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.	Campus Resource Area	Tent outside of Dana Dining Hall
1:15-2:15 p.m.	Students: continue to unpack, get settled, meet your neighbors, and visit the campus resources area. Families: Meet Your Student’s First-Year Program Faculty See locations below The faculty for your student’s FYP will be available to meet you, provide information about the course and answer questions.  This session is not intended for new students. Brown College: Making a Difference–Hepburn 113 Buys College: The Age of Globalization–Hepburn 218 Campbell College: What Culture do Your Speak?–Lee Main Lounge Corey College: Darkness Visible–Rebert East Wing Lounge Curtin College: Betrothals and Bibliothèques–Richardson 202 Eaton College: Thoreau Lives!–Lee Main Lounge Ford College: Reading Contemporary Media–Hepburn 112 Gaines College: Finding a Voice–Gaines Lounge Herrick College: The Candidates–Whitman Second Floor Lounge Holmes College: The 50s, 80s and Today–Lee Main Lounge Manley College: Narratives of Identity--Faculty unavailable, but materials provided in the FYP office–Whitman 168 Plaisance College: Sharing the Continent–Piskor 015 Priest College:  Global Questions, Local Activism–Richardson 204 Reiff College: Having an Impact–Reiff Lounge Romer College: Individual and Social Wellness–Hepburn 020 Romoda College: Plagues and Peoples–Hepburn 021 Sawyer College: Conceptualizing Nature–Atwood 003 Sprague College: The Psychology and Expression of Creativity–Carnegie 010
3:30 p.m.	Matriculation Ceremony	Creasy Commencement Commons (Rain location: Leithead Fieldhouse)
4:30 p.m.	Goodbye to families
4:45 – 5:30 p.m.	Get to Know Your First Year Program (FYP) Community Members	Library Grove (Rain location: Newell)
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.	Dinner with Faculty - Your Orientation Leaders will take you to dinner at the assigned time	Eben Holden Lawn and Patio (Rain location: Eben Holden)
7:00 p.m.	First Community Meeting	Respective Colleges
9:00 p.m.	Quad Experience	Quad (Rain location: Leithead Fieldhouse)
9:30 p.m.	Movie: Iron Man	Gulick Theatre
Tuesday, August 26
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast	Dana Dining Center
8:30 a.m.	First FYP Seminar A chance to get to know your classmates and faculty and to begin exploring some issues of common interest.	Your FYP Plenary Location
10:15 a.m.	Advising Panel
11:00 a.m.	Advising Panel
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Academic Planning Meetings with Faculty Advisors	Faculty Offices
12:00 p.m.	Lunch	Dana Dining Center
1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.	Academic Planning Meetings Continue	Faculty Offices
3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m.	Inter-FYP events. Get to know your classmates	Check with your Orientation Leader
4:00 p.m.	Ice Cream Break	Patio Behind Whitman
6:00 p.m.	President's Picnic 6:00     Transfer and Exchange Students 6:10     Brown, Corey, Eaton, Gaines, Romer 6:20     Buys, Curtin, Herrick, Plaisance 6:30     Campbell, Holmes, Manley, Priest, Sawyer 6:40     Ford, Reiff, Romoda, Sprague	MacAllaster House, 54 East Main St.
7:15 p.m.	Campus Safety 101 Transfer and Exchange Students, Brown, Buys, Corey, Curtin, Eaton, Gaines, Herrick, Plaisance, Romer	Gulick Theatre
8:30 p.m.	Campus Safety 101 Campbell, Ford, Holmes, Manley, Priest, Reiff, Romoda, Sawyer, Sprague	Gulick Theatre
8:00 p.m.	First run of Course Requests for Registration
9:00 p.m.	Late Night Breakfast - With Academic Advising help present	Student Center Atrium
Wednesday, August 27
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast	Dana Dining Center
8:30 a.m.-9:15 a.m.	CIRP For students in Transfer and Exchange Students, Brown, Campbell, Eaton, Ford, Gaines, Holmes, Priest, Reiff, Sprague	Your FYP Plenary Location
8:30-9:15 a.m.	Welcome to College I: What You Really Do Need to Know Deans Thacker, Davis and Crosby-Currie will share information and advice to help you succeed in your first semester and beyond. For students in Buys, Corey, Curtin, Herrick, Manley, Plaisance, Romer, Romoda, Sawyer	Gulick Theatre
9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.	Welcome to College I: What You Really Do Need to Know Deans Thacker, Davis and Crosby-Currie will share information and advice to help you succeed in your first semester and beyond. For students in Transfer and Exchange Students, Brown, Campbell, Eaton, Ford, Gaines, Holmes, Priest, Reiff, Sprague	Gulick Theatre
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	CIRP Survey For students in Buys, Corey, Curtin, Herrick, Manley, Plaisance, Romer, Romoda, Sawyer	Your FYP Plenary Location
10:15-10:45 a.m.	Recharge Your Batteries	Noble Center Lobby & Student Center Atrium
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	Welcome to College II: More of What You Really Need to Know Your CA’s, OL’s, and Advocates will facilitate a discussion about life outside the classroom and share resources available to assist you in transitioning to campus life.	Various Locations
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch	Dana Dining Center
1:00-1:30 p.m.	Advisor Open Office Hours
1:30 p.m.	Open Re-Registration session for First Years	ODY 140B
3:00 p.m.	Open Re-Registration Session for all students	ODY 140B
Choose from among the following afternoon activities:
3:00 p.m. – 5 p.m.	Campus Employment Fair	Student Center
	Fitness Center Tour and Orientation	Newell Fitness Center
	ODY Library Tour	ODY Library
	Classroom Location Tour	Respective Colleges
6:00 p.m.	Dinner	Dana Dining Center
7:00 p.m.	Can I Kiss You? Program Brown, Campbell, Eaton, Ford, Gaines, Holmes, Priest, Reiff, Sprague	Gulick Theatre
9:00 p.m.	Can I Kiss You? Program Transfer and Exchange Students, Buys, Corey, Curtin, Herrick, Manley, Plaisance, Romer, Romoda, Sawyer	Gulick Theatre
Thursday, August 28
8:30 a.m.	Classes Begin
Friday, August 29
3:00 p.m.	First-Year Cup Festival, Student Organization Fair, and Welcome Theme Dinner	Student Center (Rain location: Leithead Fieldhouse)
5:00 p.m.	Adirondack Theme Dinner	Eben Holden
Friday, September 5
4:00 p.m.	Student Organization fair	Student Center