Month: April 2017

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Exec Board Minute 4/23/17

 

  1. Relay for Life
    • We will be registering.
    • Get more information in terms of when we need to be registered by.
  2. Election Planning
    • Send out email this week for students to express interest. Week of May 1st, announce the candidates and then do the actual elections on May 4th
      • Send email to the people that checked on the merch survey that they would be interested in being involved.
  1. All gear orders are submitted and should get by the housing date.
    • Should get here by a week from Friday
    • Extra set of short sleeved t-shirts ordered.
  2. Future IM’s and Green Key Plans
    • “The Main Street Mile” an event happening during Green Key.
      • Keep track of what House people are in and then put that into the score and then there can be a prize for the House that has a combination of the best scores and participation.
      • This is being run by the Upper Valley running club.
    • There’s a 3 on 3 basketball tournament May 4th, registration is up to May 2nd, we could try and get a team together.
    • Event during Green Key.
      • Music outside would be a challenge, because you have to clear it with the town.
      • We could make Green Key tank tops?
      • Are we able to add events to the schedule through the student organization form?
      • We’ll see what they say.
  1. Future Social Events
    • Do this more in the future if they actually do end BarHop.
      • Mitigate spending by only giving people drink tickets and you only get two tickets, so two drinks.
  1. Co-sponsorship
    • If we start sponsoring events then it opens it to lots of other organizations also asking for funding. Don’t want to be put in the position to need to choose which Greek events are okay to sponsor and which aren’t. Might also make it unclear what our mission as a house is.
  2. Indoor Spaces
    • Kathy Henault was out of town this week, we need to set up a meeting for it. Maybe we should coordinate this sort of meeting with the other houses? So there can be less confusion.
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Exec Board Minutes 4/16

 

  1. Planning for House Dinner:
    • Drinks reception as expected, will work with Pamela to schedule bar tenders
  2. BrewHaha Co-Sponsorship:
    • We have emailed to say we are not able to cosponsor
  3. Election Planning:
    • Hickox will work with House Council to see if we can run independently
    • We can use OrgSync Forms to do our own balloting
    • Should be quick and easy, no more than 2 weeks
  4. Update on Gear:
    • Should order this week
  5. Recruit Bartenders:
    • Pamela has 4 people already TIPS trained and 4 who want training
    • We may be able use bartenders to act as door monitors
  6. Logo/Crest
    • 85% support for Elm Crest
    • We will work with design firm to get some proofs of final designs
    • Crest is preferred
    • Working to standardized across houses
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Volleyball

West House will play in the House volleyball league in Spring 2018. Games will be on Friday evenings. If you’d like to play, please contact Resident Fellow and IM coordinator Cory Cline at Cory.T.Cline.TH@dartmouth.edu.

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The Westletter: Week of 4/16/17

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/16/17

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

WESTIANS IN THE NEWS

If you know of more accomplishments of West House members that we can highlight in the Westletter, please be in touch!

House Professor’s Teas

We had a wonderful HP Tea this Friday with Alix FitzGerald ’07 who discussed her role as a Group Product Manger for Betterment, and her path to success in the FinTech industry.

We won’t be having our regular HP Tea this Friday, but we will be having a special dinner discussion this Thursday night with Judge John Mott ’81, in collaboration with the Center for Professional Development:

Thursday, April 20th

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

West House Professor’s Residence

Register by Wednesday, April 19th at 4:00 p.m. under “My Events” in DartBoard.

Join us for an evening conversation and connect with Judge John Mott ’81 to learn about his journey through law, most recently serving as a Judge in the District of Columbia Superior Court. Judge Mott will offer perspective and insights on the current legal employment landscape, his career path that has ranged from practicing in public interest law, serving as a trial lawyer, teaching in the law school environment to his most recent role as a Judge.

Dinner will be served! Please note, this event is capped at 25 students.

To learn more about Judge Mott, visit here.

Sustainability and Social Justice Dinner

 West House is pleased to be co-sponsoring the Sustainability and Social Justice Dinner this Monday evening, and have 10 places reserved forWest House students. Some information is below – to RSVP, please follow this link:

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

West House had our first IM volleyball game this Friday against South House. We ended up on the wrong end of the scoreline against SouthHouse. Our next game is April 28 against School House. If you’re interested in joining the team, email Ryan.R.Monasch.19@dartmouth.edu and register FREE on IMLeagues.com.

WEST HOUSE GEAR

We had over 300 orders for West House gear this week! Thanks to all of you for your productive feedback on how we can make West Housebetter going forward. We expect to have the gear in within 3-4 weeks; looking forward to being the best-dressed House on campus!

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

The Gloaming

Fri Apr 21 2017 – 8:00 PM

Transatlantic supergroup takes Celtic music to breathtaking new heights while staying true to its roots.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

  1. Planning for Community Dinner on Apr 30
  2. Co-sponsorships
  3. Potential Green Key Event
  4. Election Planning
  5. Update on Gear Orders
  6. Recruiting Bartenders

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.

 

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The Westletter: Week of 4/9/17

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/9/17

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

WESTIANS IN THE NEWS

  • Congrats to Kaya Thomas ’17, who was featured on Huffington Post this week for her work creating We Read Too, an iPhone app that serves as a directory of hundreds of books showcasing characters of color.
  • WestHouse faculty affiliate Petra McGillen (German Studies) has a great article this week in the Observer about “fake news” in 19th Century  Germany and what it can tell us about the current media environment. She’ll be chatting with us at a House Professor’s Tea on May 12.

If you know of more accomplishments of West House members that we can highlight here, please be in touch!

A FAREWELL, AND A WELCOME

This week we said a bittersweet farewell to our Assistant Director, Darby Wiggins, who is moving south to take up an exciting new opportunity at the University of Mississippi. We are very grateful to Darby for her instrumental role in getting the West House community started this year. We’ll miss you Darby — you’ll forever be a Westian!

At the same time, we are delighted to welcome Lauren Oliver to the West House community. Lauren is currently the AD of Allen House, and through her graduate work she is an expert on residential houses and colleges around the country and the world. She’ll be overseeing the UGAs in West House this term – if you see Lauren please give her a warm welcome to the House!

House Professor’s Teas

Our next HP Tea will be This Friday, April 14 from 4:45 to 5:30pm, with Alix Fitzgerald ’07, for a discussion about entrepreneurship at the leading edge of the personal finance industry.

Alix Fitzgerald ’07 is a Senior Product Manager at Betterment, a company leading the market in automated “robo-advising” for investors, based in New York City.

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

House IM Volleyball starts THIS FRIDAY! The join the first ever West House Volleyball team, contact IM captain Ryan Monasch ’19 atRyan.R.Monasch.19@dartmouth.edu and register on IMLeagues.com

BARTEND AT WEST HOUSE EVENTS!

As we continue to host our fun wine & cheese receptions we are looking to hire bartenders for these and other House events. Candidates must be 21+ and complete an hour of TIPS training — then are eligible for a fun job with a competitive hourly wage. If interested, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

WEST HOUSE APPAREL

For Spring term we’ll be doing an order for more House merchandise; current ideas are fleeces, hoodies, T-shirts, baseball hats, PJ pants, and blankets. Every Westian will be able to order the specific item and size you like. ORDER FORM AVAILABLE SOON!

HELP DESIGN THE OFFICIAL WEST HOUSE INSIGNIA!

(Please note the deadline for input is tomorrow, April 10 so if you have ideas please send them along as soon as you can.)
The time has come for the College to design a set of six official insignia to represent all the House Communities staring this fall. Towards this end, the West House Executive Board has begun accepting prototypes for the official West House Insignia – please send email to Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu with the subject line “West House Insignia Ideas” and it will be passed to the Exec. Your submission can be a complete design or a sketch of a concept: feel free to use words where your artistic skills come up a bit short. Ideas that were submitted during the open call for input last spring have already been passed to the Executive Board and will be considered fully as part of this process.

The House Executive Board will review your submissions and create a portfolio containing the most promising ideas. This portfolio will be used as a starting point and inspiration for a professional design team charged with developing a coherent set of six insignia for the HouseCommunities. To help guide your creative process, please see this document with a few basic guidelines for the House Insignia plus some samples from other institutions. Please submit your ideas by Monday, April 10.

One final note, if you happen to like the design concept behind our interim “elm tree” insignia representing the majestic tree between Fahey and Russell Sage – please let us know that too! One possibility is that our official insignia could build on this idea.

BAKER-BERRY LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON HOUSE COMMUNITIES

For next academic year, Dartmouth Libraries (led in part by our West House Librarian, Laura Barrett) will be hosting an exhibit in Baker-Berry called “House Communities at Dartmouth: The First Year”. West House will have our own case and the opportunity to highlight all the activities and growth of community that we’ve had in this inaugural year. If you’re interested in joining our House Historian, Alexis Colbert ’19, in curating and developing the exhibit, please contact her at Alexis.R.Colbert.19@dartmouth.edu.

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu.

The Gloaming

Fri Apr 21 2017 – 8:00 PM

Transatlantic supergroup takes Celtic music to breathtaking new heights while staying true to its roots.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

  1. Recruit Bartenders
  2. Plan for Spring Events
  3. Update on Elections
  4. Update on Gear
  5. Visits to other House communities

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.

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The Westletter: Week of 4/2/17

 

THE WESTLETTER for the week of 4/2/17

To add the West House calendar to your own calendar applications, you can use this iCal link.

COMMUNITY DINNER and RECEPTION TONIGHT

Our next West House COMMUNITY DINNER will be TONIGHT at 6pm in the Fahey Lounge, catered by Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant. From 5-6pm in the Fahey ground floor lounge we’ll have a wine & cheese reception (with soft drinks, and beer, wine, and cider for 21+).

Also, for those (particularly ‘20s) who have questions about ROOM DRAW, representatives from the Housing Office will be visiting the Community Dinner starting at 6:30pm to answer any queries you have.

House Professor’s Teas

On Friday we had a productive discussion regarding the future of West House space for our HP Tea. The schedule for future House Professor’s Teas is available here. There will be no HP Tea this week – our next Tea will be Friday, April 14, with Alix Fitzgerald ’07, for a discussion about entrepreneurship at the leading edge of the personal finance industry.

Alix Fitzgerald ’07 is a Senior Product Manager at Betterment, a company leading the market in automated “robo-advising” for investors, based in New York City.

Invite your student group to DINNER at the HP’S Residence!

Over the past term we’ve had a wonderful time hosting the West House first-year floors for dinner at the HP’s Residence on Webster Ave. This term we’d like to extend this to all student groups: For any Westian who is a member of a student group (musical group, sports team, activist group, outdoors club, anything!) and would like to extend a dinner invitation to your group (including all students, not just West Housemembers), please contact Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu. (Note that the most we can host our residence is about 25 or 30). Looking forward to seeing you in our home!

 

WEST HOUSE INTRAMURAL SPORTS

We’ll be continuing House IM sports this term – it’s looking like there will be House leagues in volleyball and softball and/or kickball. Watch this space!

WEST HOUSE APPAREL

For Spring term we’ll be doing an order for more House merchandise; current ideas are fleeces, hoodies, T-shirts, baseball hats, PJ pants, and blankets. Every Westian will be able to order the specific item and size you like.

HELP DESIGN THE OFFICIAL WEST HOUSE INSIGNIA!
The time has come for the College to design a set of six official insignia to represent all the House Communities staring this fall. Towards this end, the West House Executive Board has begun accepting prototypes for the official West House Insignia – please send email to Ryan.C.Hickox@dartmouth.edu with the subject line “West House Insignia Ideas” and it will be passed to the Exec. Your submission can be a complete design or a sketch of a concept: feel free to use words where your artistic skills come up a bit short. Ideas that were submitted during the open call for input last spring have already been passed to the Executive Board and will be considered fully as part of this process.

The House Executive Board will review your submissions and create a portfolio containing the most promising ideas. This portfolio will be used as a starting point and inspiration for a professional design team charged with developing a coherent set of six insignia for the HouseCommunities. To help guide your creative process, please see this document with a few basic guidelines for the House Insignia plus some samples from other institutions. Please submit your ideas by Monday, April 10.

One final note, if you happen to like the design concept behind our interim “elm tree” insignia representing the majestic tree between Fahey and Russell Sage – please let us know that too! One possibility is that our official insignia could build on this idea.

BAKER-BERRY LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON HOUSE COMMUNITIES

For next academic year, Dartmouth Libraries (led in part by our West House Library Liaison, Laura Barrett) will be hosting an exhibit in Baker-Berry called “House Communities at Dartmouth: The First Year”. West House will have our own case and the opportunity to highlight all the activities and growth of community that we’ve had in this inaugural year. We are looking for students to join our House Historian, Alexis Colbert ’19, in curating and developing the exhibit.

There will be a kickoff meeting on Wednesday, April 5 in the Rauner Library Bryant Room from 3:30 to 5pm. Come represent West House, and learn about creating compelling exhibits, gathering oral histories, and digital archiving.

Free HOP tickets

West House has available free tickets for House members to attend world-class performances at the Hopkins Center each term. A full list of shows for Spring term is available here. If you’d like tickets, please contact Pamela at Pamela.K.Duffy@dartmouth.edu. 

Brad Mehldau, piano

Tue Apr 04 2017 – 7:00 PM

Supremely expressive jazz pianist blends diverse influences—from classical to pop—into shapely impromptu musical creations.

STUDENT EXEC BOARD MEETING AND ELECTIONS

Our next Exec Board meeting of the term will be TONIGHT at 8:30pm in the McLane Seminar Room. All are welcome!

This term we will be holding elections for the student Exec Board for 2017-18, to be run in concert with the SA elections on April 18. If interested, in running for the Exec Board, please contact current Chair Noah Manning ’17 at Noah.N.Manning.17@dartmouth.edu.

 

 

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Exec Board Minutes 4/2

 

  1. Update on Elections
  • EPAC will not have any more info sessions, but we can appoint people.
  • People can email Noah if they want to get involved.
  • You have to officially say what position you want to apply for on Wednesday on the petition.
  • Will post on the Facebook page that people interested should email Noah, and if a lot people want to we can go back to EPAC.
  1. Update on Gear
  • Need to put together a catalog to get an order in hopefully by this week or next
  • Items: PJ pants, fleeces, hoodies, t-shirts (long sleeve w/ image on the pocket), baseball caps (someone wanted a blanket?)
    • Do we want something different on the back?
    • Outline of the dorms on the back?
    • Lone pine on the front and elm on the back?
  • Fleeces and hoodies would be from the place that we ordered before. What sort of hat would we want: normal baseball cap, with the tree on the front and then say West House on the back.
  • PJ pants can be found easily, maybe purple argyle or purple plaid and then get it embroidered.
  • West House image does not count as a Dartmouth image.
  • Each West House member can select one piece of gear
  • People only garunteed an item this time if they actually fill out the form.
  1. Bartenders
  • Once we get a list of people send the names to Joe Castelot and then he will schedule a class
  1. Spring Social Event?
  • Offsite is too risky, won’t work.
  • Idea: Barhop type of thing in the lounge here on a Friday night. The dean is fine with that.
  • Food and music out on the patio (Webster side patio) during or right before Green Key. Block party because there is always one there on Webster so we would get people right there in the area, people could easily walk through. Morano’s cart sponsored by West House!
    • Burgers and music?
    • Would we want to play music or if we want to bring in a group? Live music
  • Should we do a pub night? It’ll be hard to find a not when Collis won’t have something like that, maybe go for a Friday when they won’t be having one? Pub West.
    • Get someone to play acoustic guitar? Board games, etc.
    • Make sure we don’t compete with Collis After Dark
  1. Harvard and/or Yale Trip
  • Only do one, two will be pretty hard. Do one this term and then one in the Fall.
  • Harvard for this term?
  • Go down over a Saturday night, or Saturday afternoon, stay the night and then Sunday night go to one of their HOCO meetings and come up right after dinner.
  • Avoid Week 4 and 5 because those are midterms.
  • Maybe go for the end of Week 3? Or go for the 21 and 22?