I hope you all had a chance to relax more and spend some social time with others over fall break. Some went home, some stayed put yet took a day or two to travel to the beach, to go into NYC or to stay with other students’ families and some of you caught up on sleep or work here. I stayed put myself. All was pretty quiet here save for quite a number of Trumbull alumni who had gone on to Yale’s law school and who were back here for a reunion. They were back in our courtyard and college checking things out.
We’re the IM table Tennis Champions!
Trumbull won the IM table tennis championship! We went 10-1. This is great. Congratulations TTTC (Trumbull Table Tennis Champions.)
It’s Sex and Sexuality Week at Yale/A Wednesday Trumbull Tea will be held in conjunction with this event with speaker Emani Love
Our Trumbullian, Katherine Fang has been working on this event for those who have organized Sex and Sexuality work. Due to her effects Emani Love (a transgender activist) will speak in the college on Wednesday at 4 p.m. Also, a screening of the film: Treasure: From Tragedy to Tans Justice; Mapping a Detroit Story will be shown in Nick Chapel Wednesday evening at 8:00pm. More details will be sent out prior to the event. All are invited.
Halloween, Trumpkins and Trumpkin Carving
The TCC will be sponsoring pumpkin carving on Thursday, Oct. 29th from 8:00 to 10 P.M. in the Trumbull Dining Hall. There will be a Halloween movie showing on our big screen. There will be Trumpkins available to carve. There will be carving tools available to do this. There will be food (cider, pumpkin pie, etc). There will be prizes for the three winning Trumpkins (gear, ice cream etc.) Trumpkin pictures will be taken. Last year after the carving event Trumpkins were moved to the courtyard to be lit up and they remained there for some time. Some seeds were dropped in the process and a pumpkin vine appeared in the courtyard during the summer. Our gardener, Joanne, noticed it and carefully nurtured it. It has now produced three second generation Trumpkins. These pumpkins will be displayed at the event and added to the prizes that our winners take home. (For the winners of our second generation Trumpkins, save the seeds and I’ll go for third generation Trumpkins for next year – intentionally planted this time.)
Homecoming for Trum-dining hall dishes: Please bring them back!
Our dining hall was one of a few open dining facilities open during break. (That was nice for those of us who stayed here). While I was there myself, our dining hall manager expressed distress that we are literally running out of dishes. To replace them costs Yale Dining lots of money (which they would prefer to be spent on food.) Thus I promised I would once again issue a plea both not to take dishes from the dining hall and to bring back dishes to the dining hall. Might everyone make a special effort this week to return whatever dining hall dishes and cups you have residing in suites, bathrooms, the student kitchen, etc.
Starting next weekend during brunch, I’ll make some “to go” cups available to you outside of the dining hall and we’ll put up some signs reminding you to be careful of dish disappearance. If you’re taking coffee or tea “to go” adopt one of the cups we make available. (Then clean them when you are done and bring them back to use again.)
Parties, messes and distressed custodians
Register your parties with our office. Importantly, when you do you should leave your cell phone number. (This is very useful when things get out of hand noise-wise or mess wise for adjacent suites and in adjacent entry ways. With the phone number I can call you directly and alert you that we are getting complaints and you can either work to tone things down unobtrusively or to ask for help from us if need be.)
There was a party last week that was registered properly and from which I heard no noise nor received any complaints as it occurred. Yet the next day I was approached by several distressed custodians. They reported there being a huge trail of “beer stickiness” and debris down the entire relevant stairwell and up into an adjacent stairwell. They cleaned it up. Yet this is not their job. Their job is routine cleaning due to routine use of our facilities. If you do have an event and it results in a mess that cascades into our public spaces, please clean it up. I have supplies. I’m happy to provide them to you.
This also applies if you happen to spill a cup of this or that in a stairwell or walkway. (Or, say, you spill a whole bunch of Cheerios and they bounce down a stairway in large quantities – something that happened last year.) Please take the time to clean it up. I myself had something fall out of my car last night and break with leaving liquid and glass on Rose Walk. It took just two minutes to get a broom and dustpan and to clean it up.