[PFOHO] Pfoho Newsletter - April 3, 2017 - Pfoho-nrt (2024)

The Pforzheimer NewsletterApril 3, 2017"All The News That Pfits We Print"Tutor on call, 4/3-4/10/17Stacy Blondin617-651-1636 (tutor-on-call cell)Beginning at 5:00 p.m. Monday and ending at 9:00 a.m. the following Monday, a residenttutor or tutors will be on call to assist Pforzheimer House residents with any emergenciesthat arise. The name and phone number of the tutor(s) on call is listed in eachweek's Newsletter and will also be posted outside the House Offices and throughoutthe Pfoho buildings.This Week in Pfoho:Tuesday, April 4 Guest Speaker: Sarah Hurwitz 7:00pm Hastings LR Lottery Averaging Deadline! 11:59pm Via Lottery ToolonlineWednesday, April 5 Pfoho Pforum w/Tonya Mosley 6:00pm SCR/Balcony/HastingsFriday, April 7 Pfoho Pfriday 5:00pm JCRSunday, April 9 HoCo Meeting 10:00pm HastingsRoomNext Week in Pfoho:Monday, April 10 Lottery Night, random numbers generated 6:00pm Dining HallWednesday, April 12 Lottery: SENIOR Room Picks 7:00-11:00pm House OfficeThursday, April 13 Lottery: JUNIOR Room Picks 6:00-10:00pm House Office Mental Wellness Study break 7:00-9:00pm Hastings LRFriday, April 14 Pfoho Pfriday 5:00pm JCRSaturday, April 15 Pfaculty Deans' Pfull English Breakfast 11:00a-Noon Comstock LR By sign-up sent out on 4/12Sunday, April 16 HoCo Meeting 10:00pm HastingsRoom**************************************************************Notes from the Allston Burr Assistant Dean, Brigitte Libby,pforzheimerhousedean@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:pforzheimerhousedean@fas.harvard.edu>:If you have questions about any of this or encounter any problems, please feel free toemail Abby at pforz@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:pforz@fas.harvard.edu> or me atpforzheimerhousedean@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:pforzheimerhousedean@fas.harvard.edu>.PFOHO DOSSIER SERVICE: If you would like to start collecting letters of recommendation forsummer programs, fellowships, or grad school, you can use Pfoho's Dossier Service tokeep letters on file for future use. Information on the service, as well as the requiredwaiver form, is available at http://pfoho.harvard.edu/Dossier. Stop by Abby's officeif you have any further questions.USEFUL WEBSITES:Instructions for many my.harvard processes can be found here:http://about.my.harvard.edu/students Abby has created an update "key processes" page that answers many frequentlyasked questions- so please take a look! http://pfoho.harvard.edu/ProcessesWANT TO MEET WITH BRIGITTE?You can check my office hours and sign up for an appointment on my google calendar athttp://bit.ly/Pflibby<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A… If these times don't work for you, just email me and we will set something else upoutside those times. Abby is ordinarily in from 9-5 Mon-Fri, and she always knows how toreach me.best,BrigitteInside-Pfoho Announcements:Pfoho Pforum - Wednesday, April 5th -- with Tonya Mosley, Senior Education Reporter forWBUR's Edify,Creator of the National Award-winning Public Radio Series "Black in Seattle"Ms. Mosley's talk title will be: "Confronting Implicit Biases in the Age ofTrump"Reception in the Senior Common Room at 6:00pm; dinner on the balcony at 6:30pm; followedby dessert and discussion in the Hastings Living Room at 7:15pm. All welcome.The Pfoho Repflections Public Speakers Series presents Sarah Hurwitz, chief speechwriterfor Michelle Obama and speechwriter to President Obama, Secretary Hillary Clinton,Secretary John Kerry, and Vice-President Al Gore. A graduate of Harvard College andHarvard Law School, Sarah will speak in Pfoho's Hastings Room at 7PM on Tuesday,April 4th.PFOHO PFRIDAYS, Friday April 7th[cid:image001.jpg@01CDD46A.EEE8D2B0]This week pfeaturing "Trader Joe's HealthyPfavorites" theme a la Stacy![http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ax4ExjSR4ys/T8RM_JM2gtI/AAAAAAAAJg8/0KCwJecRF8k/s…Hosts: Stacy B. and Joey G.Reminder to our Pfantastic Pfoho Pfreshmen - YOU are especially welcome!! Pfoho Pfridaysare a weekly Pfoho tradition held on Fridays from 5-6pm in the JCR. It's a verycasual, pfun way to start your weekend and a great way to begin to get to know your newPfoho community! We'd LOVE to see you here - c'mon up!!Shuttles will run from the Widener Gate today at 4:45, 5:10, and 5:35. You can also checkthe Shuttle Tracker here<http://www.shuttle.harvard.edu/> or just enjoy the strollup Garden Street!Pfoho Upperclass Housing Lottery 2017: Lottery season is upon us.**NEWSFLASH** The Belltower Suite is still up for grabs! There weren't any groupsready to go to submit a list for the Monday deadline. SOOOO, if anyone is stillinterested, please get in touch with Sue asap. Otherwise, those rooms (M410, M404, andM403) will go back into the lottery offerings!For more info on about the Lottery process, please see the Pfoho Housing Constitution at: http://pfoho.harvard.edu/housing , then click on Housing Constitution.Below are Important Dates to Remember:** Special Note: We've adjusted the Lottery Week dates to accommodate the Passoverholiday (adjustments listed in RED below). If you still have any issues with the timeslisted below, please get in touch with Sue directly(swatts@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:swatts@fas.harvard.edu>).Pfoho Housing Lottery Important Dates 2017Monday, March 27th, MidnightRequests for Belltower suite due via email to Sue Watts. Send complete list of students (8 or 12) in your block toswatts@fas<mailto:swatts@fas>Tuesday, March 28th, 5 pmBelltower Lottery (House Office)Wednesday, March 29th, noonAveraging system goes liveTuesday, April 4th, MidnightLottery Averaging Form Registration DEADLINEMonday, April 10th, 6 pmLottery Night (Dining Hall) - random numbers generatedWednesday, April 12th, 7 pmSenior Room Selection (House Office)Thursday, April 13th, 6 pmJunior Room Selection (House Office)PFOHO ROOM RESERVATIONS (reminder):In case you didn't know, here's the lowdown on how to reserve a room inPfoho...The rooms listed below can be reserved by Pfoho students and groups with a Pfohoaffiliation. FIRST OFF, check the availability of the room on the Room Reservationcalendar, viewable on the Pfoho website at: http://pfoho.harvard.edu/RoomRescal. Onceyou check to see what's available, you can emailswatts@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:swatts@fas.harvard.edu> to make a reservation request- please include exact times and what it's for with your request.-----------------* COMSTOCK LIVING ROOM (end of hallway on Comstock first floor)* MOORS CLASSROOMS (Moors 1, 2, & 3 - first floor of Moors Hall)* HASTINGS ROOM (first floor of Moors Hall, looks out onto Moors Terrace)* PFOJO (dance/martial arts studio in basem*nt of Comstock Hall)Newsletter Editor/Pforum poster designer 2017-18 Wanted:Pfoho will need a new Newsletter editor/Pforum poster designer starting in the Fall of2017, to take up Monica's post since she'll be graduating! Sigh. It entailscompleting the Newsletter each Monday afternoon (electronic and table versions), anddesigning 8-10 posters a year for Pforum and other special events happening in Pfoho. Ifinterested, please contact Sue Watts(swatts@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:swatts@fas.harvard.edu>) or Monica Marion(monicamarion@college.harvard.edu<mailto:monicamarion@college.harvard.edu>).Pfoho IMs:Spring IMs: We have a jam-packed season full of fun sports coming up, with pfootball,soccer, and ultimate tournaments, along with volleyball and softball seasons, IM Crew, andHarvard on the Move! So let's get on out there and enjoy the beginning of spring!Thanks, and GO PFOHO!!!Games this week:Monday, April 3: Softball vs. Mather at 9:00pm, New Jordan Field Ultimate Pfrisbee vs. Winthrop at 7:00pm, Harvard StadiumThursday, April 6: Volleyball vs. Lowell at 10:00pm, QRAC Soccer vs. Winthrop at 8:15pm, Cumnock FieldIf you have any questions, contact Pfoho IM Coordinator Jeremy Dietrich,jdietrich@college.harvard.edu<mailto:jdietrich@college.harvard.edu>Outside-Pfoho AnnouncementsHello from the Bureau of Study Counsel (http://bsc.harvard.edu/)!Below are our upcoming Workshops and Discussions:Attention-StrengtheningMonday, April 3, 5:00-6:30 p.m.Develop strategies and learn about lifestyle changes to manage difficulties withattention. To register, email Peter Kozel -pkozel@bsc.harvard.edu<mailto:pkozel@bsc.harvard.edu>.THIS WEEK AT THE OFFICE OF CAREER SERVICESSee here for full list of events: http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/college-advisingPfood for Pf-thought:Have a pfun pfact? Email submissions tomonicamarion@college.harvard.edu<mailto:monicamarion@college.harvard.edu>This Week: What Noise Do Giraffes Make?[cid:image005.png@01D2AC98.2AA4DE20]For decades, it was believed giraffes didn't make any noise, except for an occasionalsnort or grunt. Though giraffes have a voice box, one line of thought was that due totheir long necks it was too difficult for the creatures to generate the airflow needed to"vibrate their vocal folds." But University of Vienna researchers now saythey've determined that giraffes do indeed "produce vocalizations" that mayserve as a means of communication. The researchers recorded animals at three Europeanzoos, amassing 947 hours of recordings over eight years. They then analyzed the recordingsvisually, in a process they describe as "time consuming, tedious, and verychallenging." And they did indeed find "structurally interesting hummingvocalizations" that occurred mainly at night and hovered around 92 hertz infrequency; this is within human hearing but very low. As one commenter notes, they sound alittle like the Kraken. Though the researchers couldn't prove the sound is used forcommunication, they found "suggestive hints" that the hum might serve as a"contact call, for example, to re-establish contact with herd mates." Theyspeculate the hums may be occurring at night because giraffes' typically keen visionis less effective then.Read more (and listen to a giraffe hum!) here:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/09/21/newser-what-sound-giraffe-ma…The Pfoho Newsletter comes out every Monday afternoon (or a day or two later ifthere's a holiday) It's a good resource of all things Pfoho, including events,deadlines, etc., so please take a minute each week to read it over. If you'd like toinclude an announcement, just send it to Sue Watts (swatts@fas) by Monday at noon, orMonica Marion (monicamarion@college). Calendar events and lots of other helpful info arealso online at http://pfoho.harvard.edu/.--------------------Suzanne WattsHouse Administrator, Pforzheimer House56 Linnaean St., Cambridge, MA 02138Ph: 617-495-8166 / Fax: 617-496-3788www.pfoho.harvard.edu<http://www.pfoho.harvard.edu/>_______________________________________________Pfoho-announce mailing listPfoho-announce(a)lists.fas.harvard.eduTo unsubscribe from this list or get other information:https://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/pfoho-announce