Free Culture and Olde Club are hard at work on the new Olde Club Compilation CD. This release will cover both the Fall 2008 semester and the Spring 2009 semester. It will be distributed free to Swarthmore students.

If you haven’t played at Olde Club, but would like a chance to get on the CD, please let me know. We can record you or you can submit any of your own recordings. Every genre of music can be on the CD.

Interested in theater at Swarthmore? Looking for a fun way to start your directing career? Drama Board wants YOU!

Drama Board is looking for directors for our One Act Play Festival. Come to our interest meeting this Wednesday at 8 in Kohlberg Coffee Bar to learn more about how you can get involved! No experience necessary!

Get your seminar papers published in a reputable, student-produced policy journal!

The Virginia Policy Review is now seeking article submissions for its Spring 2009 issue. The VPR is dedicated to addressing international, domestic, and regional (Virginia/Mid-Atlantic area) policy issues. To see an example of what we are looking for, visit us online at www.virginiapolicyreview.com.

We recommend articles be between 1000–1500 words. Submissions must be made in MS Word format, with all supporting media (charts, graphs, tables) in jpg format. In your submission, please specify your name, year, and which section you would like your article to be considered for (International, Domestic, or Regional). Email submissions to virginiapolicyreview@gmail.com.

Submissions are due March 15.

This Friday morning the 6th, three Swat students need a ride to Newark International Airport (about an hour and a half drive), in order to fly to San Salvador, El Salvador, for a week-long election observation mission. We’re asking anyone with access to a car and some free time to consider helping us, and offer in return gas $$$ and breakfast! The hope is that this might be convenient for students from the northeast expecting (or able) to drive home Friday morning. Thanks!!

Professor Raskin will lead a discussion of the comedy fest from the evening before. Following that, the comediennes will each conduct comedy workshops and Professor Raskin will give a workshop on how and why to do humor research.

The Halcyon Yearbook wants your photos of anything and everything fun and interesting that happened this past weekend! The poetry open mic night, the Kef Purim party, Tokyo Police Club, SCREW YOUR ROOMMATE (especially this!), whatever! Send photos our way: photos.halcyon@gmail.com

Also, be our friend on Facebook (“The Halcyon” on the Swat network)! And then look at our info page for an easier way to submit photos.

Even more events this week at the Women’s Resource Center!

Monday, 7–9:30 pm: Got skills? Just love to play? Come by the WRC for a Guitar Hero Tourney!

Thursday, 7–9:30 pm: Come for a tasty treat – yummy cinnamon rolls and milk!

Please join us for what promises to be an interesting day in our nation’s capitol. On Wednesday, March 11, Career Services is sponsoring a bus trip to Washington DC. Upon our arrival, we will hear Matt Robison ‘96 and Roxanne Yaghoubi ‘05 share their experience working for members of Congress on Capitol Hill. Following that, we are looking forward to a visit from Joe Sestak, who will speak briefly about his work and take questions from students. Time permitting, we will take a tour of the Capitol Building. Lunch will be on your own and in the early afternoon we will reconvene on the bus to attend a panel on Careers in International Development held at the Aspen Institute. Speaking on the panel are Jon Temin ‘00, CHF International; Jennifer Ceriale ‘92, State Department; and Matthew Clausen ‘93, Partners for the Americas. The panel discussion will end with a reception after which we will board the bus on our return trip to Swarthmore.

Please sign up in the Career Services office. We will request $15 to offset the cost of the bus.

Come check out Women’s Resource Center Open Hours this week! Sunday, 3–5:30, and Monday-Thursday, 7-midnight.

Sunday, 3–5:30 Did you put off doing homework all weekend? Come for s’mores and studying!

Monday, 10-midnight: Clothing Swap Party: give away old stuff, leave with new stuff!

Tuesday, 7–9:30 Open Study Hours with yummy Chai!
Tuesday, 9:30-midnight Open Soup and Study Hours!
Come for the whole night and do your studying in the WRC!

Wednesday, 7–9:30 Marathon of the popular TV show about an awesome vampire-slayer!
Wednesday, 9:30-midnight: Marathon of the popular TV show featuring everyone’s favorite obnoxious and drug-addicted doctor, with pizza!

WANTED List Gallery Reception Hosts

You will be responsible for shopping for, setting up, facilitating, and cleaning up List Gallery Exhibition receptions in 2–3 person teams. Receptions are on Thursdays or Fridays in the early evening.

Preference will be given to applicants who:
• Have a car or access to a car
• Who are 18 years of age
• Work well in teams

Great for building up gallery experience on your resume.

The payscale is $8.27/hr.

Please contact Yuan Liu ’09, yliu1@swarthmore.edu, ASAP if you are interested.

Sharples Dining Hall:
Last meal Friday, March 6 dinner 4:00–6:30pm Sharp
Sharples re-opens Sunday, March 15 Dinner 4:00–6:30

Snack Bar:
Last Meal Friday, March 6 Doors Close 10:30 pm
Monday , March 9— Friday, March 13 8:00am-2:00pm
Closed Saturday March 14
Re-open Sunday March 15 7:00pm

Kohlberg Coffee Bar:
Monday, March 9 8:00–1:00
Wednesday, March 11 8:00–1:00
Friday, March 13 8:00–1:00

Science Center Coffee Bar:
Tuesday, March 10 8:00–1:00
Thursday, March 12 8:00–1:00

Thank you and Have Safe & Relaxing Break!

Clueless about the federal income tax filing process? The College cannot be a tax advisor or prepare your 2008 federal income tax return, but we do offer the following tax-related services:

~ALL STUDENTS: Pick up our TAX GUIDE from the shelf opposite the Post Office window. The guide provides easy, straightforward information about how to complete your federal income tax return. Use the green guide if you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; use the blue guide if you are a foreign national.

~AIDED US CITIZENS AND PERMANENT RESIDENTS: If you received taxable scholarship in 2008 (see Tax Guide) and would like Swarthmore to pay the tax caused by our scholarship, stop by NOW in Parrish 160, to sign up for a TAX HELP DESK appointment. This service is offered from March 2nd through March 31 only. The appointment slots fill up quickly. Don’t procrastinate.

~FOREIGN NATIONALS: You must file a federal Form 8843 each year, even if you have no U.S. income! If your 2008 U.S. wages exceeded $3,500, or if you received scholarship in excess of tuition & fee you also must file Form 1040NR-EZ or 1040NR. Don’t panic! Our tax guide walks you through the process. If you have questions after reading the guide, or would like Swarthmore to pay the federal tax (if any) caused by our scholarship, sign up NOW for an appointment with the Tax Help Desk (Parrish 160). The Tax Help Desk is open from March 2nd through March 31only.

We are unable to respond to email inquires about this message or about your taxes. If you have questions please take advantage of the services and information outlined above.

The spring break Ride Exchange Board, outside Parrish 109,is now up and running for students, faculty and staff.

Dear fellow poets, After a successful first online issue, the Swarthmore Literary Review will publish online and in print this coming spring. This magazine is edited by students at Swarthmore College, and it is the college’s first student publication to accept submissions from the greater writing community. We received an enormous amount of talented poems last year, and we’re excited to produce our inaugural print issue this spring!

We have no special requirements as to poetic form or genre; however, all work must be previously unpublished. Please email no more than five poems, along with a short biography, to literaryreview@swarthmore.edu, by March 15th. Send your work as part of the body of your email and as an attachment. Submissions that we receive after the deadline will be considered for next spring’s issue. We do not accept simultaneous submissions. For more information, check out the Swarthmore Literary Review website at www.swarthmore.edu/literaryreview. We look forward to reading your poetry! Best,
the Swarthmore Literary Review

The Swarthmore Literary Review seeks to create a student directed venue for the work of talented Swarthmore and at-large writers. In doing so, the editors hope to foster an exchange between Swarthmore College and the greater international writing community. Over time, we aspire to expand readership, humbly hoping to foster a love of the arts throughout literary circles on our own campus and abroad.

Do you have a great idea to do good work in the community?
Swarthmore College students, faculty and staff are encouraged to make application to the Swarthmore Foundation to support projects of service and advocacy this summer. The Swarthmore Foundation Project Grants (http://www.swarthmore.edu/x16156.xml) support students, staff, and faculty to become involved in community service and social action. Initiatives supported by the Foundation focus on a variety of social problems, with emphasis on direct service that addresses the causes and/or consequences of poverty in communities surrounding the College; in grantee’s hometowns, and then further a-field to the nation and the world. Foundation grants are primarily intended as “seed funds,” which support new campus-community initiated social change activities in communities.
Applications (http://www.swarthmore.edu/x25358.xml) for summer projects are due electronically to dkardon1@swarthmore.edu no later than Monday, March 30, 2009. Please contact Deb Kardon-Brown at the Lang Center (dkardon1) for additional information.

Global Health Forum, in partnership with SolesUnited and Crocs, Inc., is collecting Crocs and sending them to people living in Pémon, Venezuela in order to improve their health and quality of life.

So how do Crocs help improve people’s lives?
—Basic footwear improves hygiene and lowers rates of infections transmitted through barefeet, like tungiasis. These infections can greatly increase the risk of secondary infections, like tetanus, which can be lethal.

These infections are completely preventable—Please donate any available Crocs to be recycled and redistributed—collection begins after Spring Break!

Collection Bin Locations:

Shane Lounge
Sharples (top lobby)

(and as always, every little bit helps. GHF and the people of Pémon thank you!)

Are there jobs in the arts in this economy? If so, how best do you find out about those opportunities? Let’s get together over coffee on Wednesday, March 4 to chat about these topics and more. Laura Cohen ‘01 of the Asian Arts Initiative and Alice Hershey ‘02 of Philly Fringe Festival will be in the Career Services (Parrish 135) library at 4 pm to talk with interested students about working in the arts. Please come by, take a break from studying and enjoy this informal gathering.

Small Craft Warnings, Swarthmore’s oldest literary magazine, is now accepting submissions of poetry and prose for the Spring 2009 issue. Send submissions to submit.scw@gmail.com. Attachments are preferred. No limitations on form, style, genre, or creativity.

Note: We are changing the way we publish art. Look for coming announcements if you are interested in submitting artwork.

No auditions necessary! No holds barred! Just send an email to spikemagazine@gmail.com before the end of the break if you’d like to tell a funny story at Spike’s Storytelling Night!

Calling all hilarious storytellers! Spike is hosting its first ever storytelling night! Note that this is different from our stand-up night (which will be later in the semester), as we are looking for people to tell single, true stories. Our theme for the night is Epic Fail: Blunders, Debacles and the Stupidest Moments of Our Lives. The event will be Friday, March 27th at 7PM, so if you’ve got a story of monumental stupidity or crushing failure (that’s funny!) please sign up to tell it. Just email spikemagazine@gmail.com by March 6th to reserve your spot. It can be just a quick minute or up to 10 minutes max (give us a very brief description and tell us how long you think it will be, and if you need any other media like slides or pictures).

Students interested in the Buenos Aires Program for Fall 09 should contact Professor Diego Armus, darmus1@swarthmore.edu as soon as possible. There are still few available places. Swarthmore in Buenos Aires provides individually-crafted programs of study with total immersion in the academic, artistic, social and political life of Buenos Aires. It aims at serving students in social sciences, the humanities, and applied sciences interested in taking their Spanish to an advanced level of fluency, as well as those at beginner or intermediate levels. But along with its language improvement component students participating in the Swarthmore in Buenos Aires program will organize their work around three or more areas of interest (in any field or discipline) that may include directed reading on a chosen subject, a research project, community work, an internship in a lab or in a cultural institution. They will participate in individual weekly discussion meetings with their mentors – university professors, artists or researchers – as well as in open courses at several public and private universities. Academic oriented traveling (from Patagonia to Iguazu Falls to areas of the Argentine interior with a strong native American presence) could be part of the program’s offerings. Students may enroll for one semester or the full year. For a detailed description of the different ways in which you can plan your stay in Buenos Aires, please contact Professor Diego Armus, History Department and check the Program Web site: http://www.swarthmoreba.com.ar

A) Community CPR: adult,infant, & child
Tuesdays: 3/24 and 3/31/2009
Time: 6 pm – 9:30 pm Cost: $50.00
B) Progressive First Aid:
CPR certificate required
Tuesday: 4/7/2009
Time: 6 pm – 9:30 pm Cost: $15.00
C) Community CPR recertification
Tuesday: 4/21/2009
Time: 6 pm – 9:30 pm Cost: $15.00
Community CPR and first aid can be combined for the cost of $60.00
To register for classes call Worth Health Center at 610–328-8058
Registration ends 3/19/2009
6 person minimum to hold class

Remaining open hours:

Saturday, Feb. 21, 5–7 PM
Sunday, Feb. 22, 5–7 PM
Monday, Feb. 23, 5–7 PM
Friday, Feb. 27, 5–7 PM
Saturday, Feb. 28, 5–7 PM
Sunday, Mar. 1, 5–7 PM
Monday, Mar. 2, 5–7 PM

My Right Self is a photography exhibit that includes stories and photographs from five individuals or couples who identify as trans or gender-variant. The five participants span much of the diversity within the trans community/ies; transitioning from lesbian to male, heterosexual female to gay male, from male to lesbian, male to heterosexual female, and female to genderqueer. My Right Self includes text from the writings of the participants who have been given time to reflect upon and describe how their identities are related to their bodies, their sex, their gender, their sexuality, and further, how their relationships with others and society reflect back how they are perceived in the world and exist in the eyes of others.

Trans issues and rights are particularly relevant to contemporary questions of social justice and human rights as they inherently invoke conversations on sex, gender, sexuality, behavior, and sociopolitical hierarchies of power which affect all aspects of society. Sitting at the cusp of liberation and hostility, trans issues reveal more fundamental fault lines in American society that undermine minority rights and control of the body, especially with regard to women and children.

These images (and accompanying text) are meant to confront and dispel myths and misperceptions around marginalized and disenfranchised communities. The work is not meant to fall into stereotyped patterns of portrayal, however neither is it meant to be neutered. The images should give viewers permission to stare – as one cannot do kindly in public. However within their gaze, the artist hopes viewers find something more akin to the familiarity of the Self rather than the fetish of the Other.

The artist, Arthur Robinson Williams, studied photography for four years with Emmet Gowin, Lois Conner, and Mary Berridge. He has completed photography projects involving AIDS and the people of Ghana, the health system of Cuba, homosexuality in the Netherlands, anthroposophical farming communities in the Northeast, injection drug use in New Jersey, and drugs and addiction nationwide.

I left my purse in Shane lounge today. It is not very large. The body is green and the handles are light brown. There is a pink wallet inside that has my id in it. If you find it, please contact Erin Ronhovde.

Cell: (402) 660–9560
E-mail: eronhov1@swarthmore.edu

Thank you!

I recently lost a dark blue folder with a Swarthmore logo on it with papers in it from POLS 001 and Econ 001, most likely on the first floor of McCabe. If you happen to find it, please let me know! Thank you!

Found in Shane Lounge, around noon, 2/28.

Detail some of the folder names and/or contents, and its yours

I lost the keys to my car sometime this week. They are bkack standard keys that say Ford on them. Its the Key, the remote and a yellow tag that describes the car. If you find them PLEASE contact me. Thanks

I lost the keys to my car sometime this week. They are bkack standard keys that say Ford on them. Its the Key, the remote and a yellow tag that describes the car. If you find them PLEASE contact me. Thanks

Contact: Simon Nin Zhu (sbc@swarthmore.edu)

Pay:$8.50

Hours: 4 per week

When: Spring Semeter

Where: Clothier 213

~4 hours/week, one semester term, three positions available

Assistant Managers aid in the administration and regulation of the SAA by attending SBC office hours, filing, recording, and helping people access funds that have been allocated. Job provides excellent training in office management and experience. Will also oversee SBC development projects at the direction of the Manager, including working with various campus groups and administrators. Potential for advancement to Manager. No prior experience necessary. Underclasspersons are encouraged to apply.

To apply, please reply to this email with a short resume and description of why you are interested in the position. Applications are due November 29th by 9:00pm. For more information about the position, please contact our current Assistant Managers, Adriana Popa, Tuan Dung Mai, Haichao Wu, or myself Simon Nin Zhu (sbc@swarthmore.edu).

Contact: Ali Placido (aplacid1@swarthmore.edu)

Penn Medicine needs a Dutch speaker for a patient who is hospitalized. Email me to discuss further details.

Contact: joyce tompkins (jtompki1@swarthmore.edu)

Pay:$8.60

Hours: vary

When: begin Jan '10

Where: campus

Applications are invited for the position of Interfaith intern for spring/fall semesters 2010. the interfaith interns:
* work together to initiate interfaith programs;
*plan and implement Religion and Spirituality on Campus Week (first week of Feburary);
*plan and implement the spring interfaith dinner;
*build communication between different student religious and spiritual groups on campus;
*help to raise the profile of religious life on campus through activities, publicity, web site updates;
*meet regularly with Joyce Tompkins, Interfaith Coordinator;
*other activities according to the interests of the particular interns.

To apply for one of these positions, please write a one-page essay outlining the reasons for your interest, your experience with religious/spiritual/interfaith life at Swarthmore, and ideas you might have for improving programs and communication between groups.

Applications should be sent to Joyce Tompkins at jtompki1 by December 5.

Contact: Caroline (caroline.sacko@gmail.com)

Pay:$150/week ($50/day)

Hours: 3:30pm-6:30pm

When: Monday, Tueday, Thursday

Where: Park Stree

I am currently a nanny for a family in the ville (on Park Street 5 minutes from the train station). I am looking for someone to take over Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (Tuesday and Thursday are negotiable). In a normal day you pick the kids up from the bus stop, make an after school snack, put in a load of laundry, prepare dinner and help with homework. No car necessary.

Contact: Julie Warech (jwarech1@swarthmore.edu)

I am looking for someone interested in giving guitar lessons (probably once a week). Someone who is a good teacher, preferably someone who can teach chord theory. Pay can be worked out. Contact me by email if interested.