Comments on: Classes Are Underway… http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/ Michael S. Roth became Wesleyan University's 16th president on July 1, 2007. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: webdiro directory http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-6906 webdiro directory Thu, 01 May 2008 11:36:06 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-6906 Is there anything that can be done to conserve electricity in the new Usdan center? The lights in the upper levels have been left on all night…very inefficient Is there anything that can be done to conserve electricity in the new Usdan center? The lights in the upper levels have been left on all night…very inefficient

]]> By: David http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-3596 David Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:19:32 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-3596 Seriously, thank you for your insights, and involvements. I think this blog is a wonderful idea, and that you have many more wonderful ideas in store for us. Welcome! <a href="http://www.movies-on-demand.tv" rel="nofollow">David</a> Seriously, thank you for your insights, and involvements. I think this blog is a wonderful idea, and that you have many more wonderful ideas in store for us. Welcome!

David

]]> By: Betsy Teutsch P'11 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Betsy Teutsch P'11 Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:35:00 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-647 President Roth, welcome aboard. It’s particularly nice for my ‘11 Wes student’s career to coincide with your own return to wesleyan. I’m sure it’s a remarkable experience to be on the other side now, like you alluded to with the positive/negatives of “permissive” describing a college which you now lead. I am a blogger - it’s great fun, but of course in your case, you do have a presumptive readership, and that is not without its challenges. Just a piece of blog-smithing. It is very simple, and a fun creative pursuit, to add images found either through google.images or probably from the wesleyan archives. It adds panache and visual elegance to your post. President Roth, welcome aboard. It’s particularly nice for my ‘11 Wes student’s career to coincide with your own return to wesleyan. I’m sure it’s a remarkable experience to be on the other side now, like you alluded to with the positive/negatives of “permissive” describing a college which you now lead.
I am a blogger – it’s great fun, but of course in your case, you do have a presumptive readership, and that is not without its challenges.
Just a piece of blog-smithing. It is very simple, and a fun creative pursuit, to add images found either through google.images or probably from the wesleyan archives. It adds panache and visual elegance to your post.

]]> By: Betsy Teutsch P'11 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Betsy Teutsch P'11 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:41:24 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-62 President Roth, welcome aboard. It's particularly nice for my '11 Wes student's career to coincide with your own return to wesleyan. I'm sure it's a remarkable experience to be on the other side now, like you alluded to with the positive/negatives of "permissive" describing a college which you now lead. I am a blogger - it's great fun, but of course in your case, you do have a presumptive readership, and that is not without its challenges. Just a piece of blog-smithing. It is very simple, and a fun creative pursuit, to add images found either through google.images or probably from the wesleyan archives. It adds panache and visual elegance to your post. President Roth, welcome aboard. It’s particularly nice for my ‘11 Wes student’s career to coincide with your own return to wesleyan. I’m sure it’s a remarkable experience to be on the other side now, like you alluded to with the positive/negatives of “permissive” describing a college which you now lead.
I am a blogger – it’s great fun, but of course in your case, you do have a presumptive readership, and that is not without its challenges.
Just a piece of blog-smithing. It is very simple, and a fun creative pursuit, to add images found either through google.images or probably from the wesleyan archives. It adds panache and visual elegance to your post.

]]> By: Laura http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Laura Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:36:08 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-61 Is there anything that can be done to conserve electricity in the new Usdan center? The lights in the upper levels have been left on all night...very inefficient. Is there anything that can be done to conserve electricity in the new Usdan center? The lights in the upper levels have been left on all night…very inefficient.

]]> By: Danielle Campbell ’09 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Danielle Campbell ’09 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:22:54 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-60 Spiffier!!! It’s really encouraging to have a President who is so engaged with the community. I'm pretty certain that I've seen you at least every other day somewhere on campus. Spiffier!!!

It’s really encouraging to have a President who is so engaged with the community. I’m pretty certain that I’ve seen you at least every other day somewhere on campus.

]]> By: Vicki Cabrera P'11 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Vicki Cabrera P'11 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:34:03 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-59 Dear President Roth: My daughter is a freshman (Film major) here at Wesleyan U. I cannot tell you how happy she is being here at Wes. The Orientation Week activities were wonderful, the "help" moving in was wonderful, her RA in Clarke hall is wonderful, everything has exceeded our expectations. With a little help from her advisor Gary Shaw, and the instructors, she was able to get the classes she wanted. Amazing! She also met with Rabbi David and was welcomed at a Shabbat Dinner last Friday night. As she is not coming home for the holidays, I am so pleased that she will have an opportunity to celebrate with some of the students and Rabbi David. Rachel's comments to me last Thursday night were, "Mom I was happier this week than in 4 years at Long Beach HS". We knew last summer after visiting that WES would be her choice. But she still went through the process, applied to 10 schools (Vassar, Cornell, U of Rochester, Colgate etc.) She made all 10. Some of the schools offered wonderful Merit Scholarship packages. But she decided on WES. She said, "when I close my eyes and imagine where I will be happiest, on a campus in New England with smart and diverse students, I knew it would be Wesleyan." So thank you for your wonderful welcome. I am sure you will love being president of such a wonderful university. Vicki Cabrera (daughter: Rachel Cabrera) Dear President Roth:
My daughter is a freshman (Film major) here at Wesleyan U. I cannot tell you how happy she is being here at Wes. The Orientation Week activities were wonderful, the “help” moving in was wonderful, her RA in Clarke hall is wonderful, everything has exceeded our expectations. With a little help from her advisor Gary Shaw, and the instructors, she was able to get the classes she wanted. Amazing! She also met with Rabbi David and was welcomed at a Shabbat Dinner last Friday night. As she is not coming home for the holidays, I am so pleased that she will have an opportunity to celebrate with some of the students and Rabbi David.

Rachel’s comments to me last Thursday night were, “Mom I was happier this week than in 4 years at Long Beach HS”. We knew last summer after visiting that WES would be her choice. But she still went through the process, applied to 10 schools (Vassar, Cornell, U of Rochester, Colgate etc.) She made all 10. Some of the schools offered wonderful Merit Scholarship packages. But she decided on WES. She said, “when I close my eyes and imagine where I will be happiest, on a campus in New England with smart and diverse students, I knew it would be Wesleyan.”

So thank you for your wonderful welcome. I am sure you will love being president of such a wonderful university.

Vicki Cabrera
(daughter: Rachel Cabrera)

]]> By: JJ DelSerra ’08 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-58 JJ DelSerra ’08 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:51:13 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-58 President Roth, First of all, I have to join everybody else in welcoming you and saying thanks for making this blog. It seems like such a small thing to do but I think it does a lot in the minds of students in terms of closing a gap between the student population and the administration that I know is perceived to have become rather large. By all means, please keep this trend going! Second, I have a question regarding the frosh seminar with only a single, slim volume to read that you wish you could take. Would this by any chance be the course on Thoreau by Professor Abelove? I took that course my freshman year after being denied entry into another freshman seminar, and in similar fashion to your own experiences in the philosophy class you wound up in, it changed my life and profoundly influenced my way of thinking even to this day. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us, it's so nice to know that students and the president aren't as far removed from each other as some would like to think, and that we can all communicate on this common ground. President Roth,

First of all, I have to join everybody else in welcoming you and saying thanks for making this blog. It seems like such a small thing to do but I think it does a lot in the minds of students in terms of closing a gap between the student population and the administration that I know is perceived to have become rather large. By all means, please keep this trend going!

Second, I have a question regarding the frosh seminar with only a single, slim volume to read that you wish you could take. Would this by any chance be the course on Thoreau by Professor Abelove? I took that course my freshman year after being denied entry into another freshman seminar, and in similar fashion to your own experiences in the philosophy class you wound up in, it changed my life and profoundly influenced my way of thinking even to this day. Thanks for sharing your experiences with us, it’s so nice to know that students and the president aren’t as far removed from each other as some would like to think, and that we can all communicate on this common ground.

]]> By: Cathy Bosco P'09 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Cathy Bosco P'09 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:48:59 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-54 spiffier???? Seriously, thank you for your insights, and involvements. I think this blog is a wonderful idea, and that you have many more wonderful ideas in store for us. Welcome! spiffier????
Seriously, thank you for your insights, and involvements. I think this blog is a wonderful idea, and that you have many more wonderful ideas in store for us. Welcome!

]]> By: Jeanne (Class of '90) http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Jeanne (Class of '90) Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:27:52 +0000 http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2007/09/06/classes-are-underway/#comment-53 Ah - the temptation of books for other peoples' classes. It was only the knowledge that I would be taking a required book out of someone else's hands that kept me from buying more books than I could carry (and certainly more than I could read in a single term)! I wonder if students would choose different courses if they could easily flip through the books from the reading lists *before* registration. Ah – the temptation of books for other peoples’ classes. It was only the knowledge that I would be taking a required book out of someone else’s hands that kept me from buying more books than I could carry (and certainly more than I could read in a single term)! I wonder if students would choose different courses if they could easily flip through the books from the reading lists *before* registration.

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