Last Thursday evening Marta Moret, director of a public health consulting agency and spouse of Yale’s President Peter Salovey spoke to our Trumbull Fellows in the House. She spoke of her own path to Yale and of her career, she spoke of increasing diversity at Yale, she spoke of the kinds of support we need to provide to insure the success of all students at Yale. She spoke at length and well into the evening despite having to rise at 5 a.m. on Friday to travel to Singapore with a Yale delegation to celebrate the official opening of Yale-NUS. I’m grateful to Marta for the time she spent at Trumbull and for her passion.
The final topic about which Marta spoke was about the status women at Yale and beyond. She questioned why it is that women are well-represented among our undergraduates and among our graduate students but not well represented among our tenured faculty and not well represented at the top of many professions nor among Yale’s major donors. She wants to see that change.
Her talk was well-attended. It was followed by lots of discussion. A part of that discussion focused on life-work balance and what it takes for women to succeed, including issues of childcare. In that regard, a Tea featuring a Trumbull Alumnus, Josh Levs, to be held in the house tomorrow is very relevant. Josh Levs is a journalist and author who has written a book on the importance of men contributing to child care. He will speak about his book and his journalistic and parenting experiences tomorrow.
You, as current Trumbull students are not at the parenting stage yet! You’re worrying about papers and exams and jobs now but time passes swiftly and these are issues about which to think for the long run. I urge anyone who anticipates that he or she will marry and have children, anyone interested in gender equity, as well as aspiring journalists and authors to attend.
There are many Trumbull Events this Week
#1 Tea with Trum-Alum Josh Levs: Tuesday, Oct. 13th, 2015 4 p.m. (Enter the House from Rose Walk or Stone Court)
All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses –
And How We Can Fix It Together. When journalist and fatherhood columnist Josh Levs was denied fair parental leave by his employer after his child was born, he fought back—and corporate America responded. In the process, he became a leading advocate for modern families. In All In, he shows how fatherhood today is far different from previous generations and what it means for our individual lives, families, workplaces, and society.
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#2 Tea, on Comedy and Morality with David Misch, co-sponsored by the Yale Record: FRIDAY, Oct. 16h, 4 p.m. Trumbull House (Enter the House from Rose Walk or Stone Court)
Comedy and Morality: David Misch is the author of “Funny: The Book / Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Comedy” (Applause/Hal Leonard; funnythebook.com). He’s been a comic folksinger, stand-up comedian, and screenwriter; his credits include the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork and Mindy”, the Emmy-losing “Duckman”, the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!”, the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live”, and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan”. He blogs for The Huffington Post and his play “The Boomer Boys” has its world premiere at the Secret Rose Theatre in Burbank in March, 2016. He’s taught comedy at USC, musical satire at UCLA, and lectured at Oxford University, the Smithsonian Institute, and the University of Sydney (Australia); Columbia University, 92nd St. Y, New School, Cooper Union, Actors Studio, New York Public Library (New York); American Film Insitute, Pepperdine University, Burbank Comedy Festival, Grammy Museum (Los Angeles); Midwest Popular Culture Association and VIEW Cinema Conference (Torino, Italy). More at davidmisch.com.
#3 This coming Saturday, Oct. 17th: It’s a Wonderful Life (Musical at the Goodspeed Opera House) Sign up in the Office.
Trumbull, once again, will be going to Goodspeed Opera House. Date: Saturday, Oct. 17.
Goodspeed Opera House is an historic “opera house” fast on the Connecticut River which mounts Broadway musicals. It is a treasure! The word “opera” in its name may relate to a time when an “opera” house was more likely found in the Old West, where rugged souls might have found liquor, gambling, and musical (as well as other) entertainment. Goodspeed’s history goes back to 1877, when a repertory group presented comedies and the farces. Featured performers of the day were brought to the Opera House by steamboat from theatres in New York. (The Opera House still casts in New York.) A Wonderful Life is a musical with a book and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) and music by Joe Raposo (Sesame Street theme song; “C is for Cookie”) based on the classic Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart. Bus departs TC @ NOON and returns to TC around 6:30 PM. Depending on the weather, lunch will be a picnic on the banks of the Connecticut River or at one of the nearby restaurants.
#4 Reception in the House for Juniors! Tuesday, Oct. 13th evening.
All juniors are invited to the Trumbull House tomorrow evening, Tuesday, from 9 p.m. until 10 p.m. for lots of food: Cheese and crackers, fruit, lots of other things to eat. Use it as a study break. (Something we realize is needed right about now.) Use it to chat with other juniors.
#5 Coming soon (This coming weekend! On Sunday, Oct. 18th, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.): Our Traditional Rumbull in Trumbull!!! Sponsored by the TCC and our office.
Inflatables, Cider, Apple Cider Donuts, Games, Photos, Give a Ways, Fun!
#6 Graduate School Information Sessions/Hosted by our Graduate Affiliate
Law School: Tues., Oct. 13, 8:00-9:00pm Trumbull Common Room, Hosted by Noah Rosenblum
Grad School: Wed., Oct. 14, 8:00-9:00pm Trumbull Common room, Hosted by Danielle Williams
Insomnia Cookies!!
Anyone interested in the Drama School can contact Rachel Carpman or Jennifer Schmidt directly via email. They want to be helpful!
#7 Mellon Forum Starts tonight (Monday, Oct. 12th)
This occurs in the House with dinner and an organizational meeting led by our resident fellow, John Williams, and our head graduate affiliate, Thibault Bertrand. This begins tonight at 6 p.m. Enter through the gate off Rose Court or through the back door off Stone Court.
And, some congratulations……….
One Phi Beta Kappa initiate from last week was left off our Trumbull congratulations list (because he accelerated his studies and got caught between list of juniors and seniors. Yet his academic performance is stellar and he too has been elected to PBK. Congratulations go to Viktor Nesheim.
Trumbull has excellent representation in PBK this year. Indeed, Trumbull will host the reception for this year’s early initiates from all colleges this Friday, Oct. 16th from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the House.
Congratulations to our Trum-Athletes too who are working hard. Women’s volleyball picked up key wins against Columbia and Cornell. Men’s football won it’s game against Lehigh. Next weekend, there will be home tournaments for both women’s golf and women’s tennis, not to mention Saturday home games for field hockey (12 PM), men’s soccer (4 PM), and women’s soccer (7 PM).
The results of our waste audit include the following…….
There is lots to report in this week’s notes so I’m not going to go into great detail about Trumbull’s waste audit this week. Instead I’ll spread what we found out across weeks and include brief tips for doing better each week.
For now let me just say that we did much better in terms of what was found in the recycling bins than we did in terms of what was found in the trash bins.
Do consider what you are putting in each type of bin.
In terms of trash: If it can be re-used, reuse it. (They found a big roll of un-used plastic bags in the trash. They found Tupperware – in good shape – in the trash.) If something can’t be re-used but is recyclable, place it in re-cycling. In terms of recycling: One important piece of information is to avoid contamination. Before putting your plastic cup into recycling, dump the liquid in it. If you put the cup and the liquid in the bins, the liquid likely will result in other materials in that bin becoming unsuitable for recycling. For instance, a large, un-used stack of paper which could have been recycled, was soaked with liquid from cups making it unsuitable for re-cycling. Also clean out food containers generally before putting them in re-cycling.
Finally, take care when partying……watch out for yourselves and also be very careful of others whom you may harm.
We’ve long emphasized being responsible when you drink, watching out for your own welfare and watching out for the welfare of those around you. This weekend, we have received some distressing reports of a wild animal who had the misfortune of wandering onto campus being tormented by students on Old Campus. This occurred in the context of a party.
We truly don’t know all who were involved but we do know that there was a group involved, that other students observed the behavior in question and expressed understandable dismay and distress. Some members of our college (along with others) may have been involved. This is sad. It is unacceptable.
When a wild animal wanders onto campus, leave it alone and, if necessary, call for assistance in having it transported elsewhere. I’ve asked for such help myself in Trumbull when some animals have tried to join our community. I have called facilities to alert them to the animals’ presence and I’ve been very pleased with how quickly Yale responds and with how humanely they capture and transport animals to rural areas.