NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION GUIDE 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Campus Office Hours Page 2
University Buildings Page 3
Orientation Schedule Page 4
First Lecture Series Information Page 13
Important Numbers Page 14
To request assistance for a disability, please contact the Center for Academic Success and Records at (512) 863-1952.
Please print out a copy of this Guide. Orientation schedules and QR codes will be posted around campus during Orientation Week.
If an emergency occurs and your arrival is delayed, please call (512) 863-1345.
Please direct Parent Orientation questions to the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations at (800) 960-6363 or [email protected].
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Admission Office The Cove Saturday (8/19) 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday (8/18) 1-5 p.m. Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Saturday (8/19) 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday (8/21) Normal hours resume Sunday (8/20) 6-11 p.m. Monday (8/21) through Thursday (8/24) A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center 7-11 p.m. Friday (8/18) 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday (8/25) 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Saturday (8/19) 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (8/26) and Sunday (8/27) 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Monday (8/21) through Thursday (8/24) Dining Hall (Mabee Commons) 8 a.m.-9 p.m. New Student ID Cards with meal plans, issued Friday (8/25) 8 a.m.-6 p.m. at Sprog Day or check-in, are valid. Saturday (8/20) CLOSED Adults pay $11.00 Sunday (8/21) 1-9 p.m. Children (4-10 years old) pay $8.00 Monday (8/22) Regular 24/5 hours begin Children (3 and under) no charge
For updated Library hours visit Meal includes all-you-can-eat entrees, vegetables, www.southwestern.edu/library/about/hours.php a soup and salad bar, and desserts.
Business Office & Financial Aid Friday (8/18) Dinner 5:30-8 p.m. Friday (8/18) 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday (8/19) Brunch 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday (8/19) 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Dinner 5:30-8 p.m. Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Sunday (8/20) Brunch 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday (8/21) Normal hours resume Dinner 5:30-8 p.m.
Campus Post Office Health Center & Counseling Center Friday (8/18) 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday (8/18) 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday (8/19) CLOSED Saturday (8/19) CLOSED Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Monday (8/21) through Friday (8/25) Monday (8/21) Normal hours resume 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (8/26) CLOSED Student and Residence Life Sunday (8/27) CLOSED Friday (8/18) 8 a.m - 7:30 p.m. Saturday (8/19) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Corbin J. Robertson Center Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Saturday (8/19) and Sunday (8/20) CLOSED Monday (8/21) Normal hours resume Monday (8/21) through Thursday (8/24) 11 a.m.-7 p.m. University Bookstore Friday (8/25) 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday (8/18) 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday (8/26) and Sunday (8/27) 1-7p.m. Saturday (8/19) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday (8/20) 10 a.m.-2 p.m. *Pool, weight room and other facility times Monday (8/21) through Friday (8/25) may vary. Check printed schedule at Robertson 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Center. Saturday (8/26) 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday (8/27) 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Please note: normal office hours for campus offices are 8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS
The following list is designed to help you “be where you need to be” during the next week, as many of our buildings have informal as well as formal names. Feel free to ask for directions if you cannot find a particular meeting place.
Academic Mall Roy H. Cullen Academic Mall Admission Center Wilhelmina Cullen Admission Center, Financial Assistance ATT Alma Thomas Theater (within the FAC)
BC Brown-Cody Residence Hall Chapel Lois Perkins Chapel (Chapel Lounge) Cullen (CB) Roy and Lillie Cullen Building (Business Office) DLC Dorothy Manning Lord Residential Center FAC Sarofim School of Fine Arts FJS Fondren-Jones Science Hall Olin (FWO) F.W. Olin Building Howry Center Julie Puett Howry Center JMH Joe S. Mundy Hall Jones Theater Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater (within the FAC) KEW Kyle E. White Religious Activities Center KU Kurth Residence Hall Library (SLC) A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library Center MB Mabee Residence Hall McCombs Center Red & Charline McCombs Campus Center (Mabee Commons, Bishops Lounge, The Cove, McCombs Ballrooms, Smith Concourse, Dan Rather Room, Roy & Margaret Shilling Dining Rooms, Residence Life, Student Activities, Post Office, and the Bookstore) MBH Mood-Bridwell Hall (Mood Atrium) PRC Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning (Counseling and Health Center, Career Services, Center for Academic Success & Records, Office of Intercultural Learning, Office of Civic Engagement, and the Office of Diversity Education and Cross Cultural Center) Robertson Center (CJR) Corbin J. Robertson Center (Walzel Courts) RU Ruter Residence Hall
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NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION SCHEDULE
8-9 p.m. This is your opportunity to receive Friday, New Student Mixer all the important information and Prothro Center for Lifelong tools that you will need to settle August 18 Learning Lobby into Southwestern living. Come chill out with Student Activities Meet with Health Center staff to 2-7 p.m. and Residence Life and meet some of make sure your health records are your fellow new Pirates. Relax after up to date. Residence Hall Check-In moving in with a complimentary Residence Halls popsicle or ice cream bar. Provide SUPD with your vehicle You received your specific room information to receive a parking assignment via email on June 28, decal that will allow you to park in 9:30-11 p.m. designated student parking. 2017. Please label all of your Residence Hall Meetings items with your building AND Let ITS show you how to connect room number. Once you arrive on Residence Halls This will be the first opportunity to get your computer and mobile devices campus, please go to your to the Southwestern network. residence hall room where an RA acquainted with other residents on will check you in and give you your floor and your RAs. Some hall Confirm your SU Post Office box. your room key. procedures will be discussed. Receive helpful information from the Center for Academic Success In an effort to reduce traffic and Records. congestion and wait time, please Saturday, follow the alphabetical Verify your language placement distribution for move-in. Students exam status. with the last name A-L may begin August 19 Learn about SU’s music and voice moving in at 2 p.m. ensembles. 10-11 a.m. If you have not already acquired Last names M-Z may begin Campus Tours moving in at 3 p.m. your Pirate Card during a Sprog Admission Office Day, you will have your photo Kick off Orientation Week with a walk taken, and your Pirate Card will be around campus. Special attention will activated to give you access to your be given to the buildings and facilities meal plans, vending and copy that will be used throughout Orientation machines, and library checkouts. Week. This is a great way to familiarize or re-familiarize yourself with your new Find out your Pirate Training team academic home. designation.
Parent check-in is in the Smith 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Concourse of the McCombs Center. Student Check-In Walzel Courts, Corbin J. Robertson 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Center Brunch Mabee Commons 5:30-8 p.m. Dinner Mabee Commons
6:30-7:30 p.m. Varsity Athletic Meeting Fine Arts Center The Athletic Director and the Director of Athletic Training Services will meet with student-athletes and their parents to answer questions regarding Athletic Department procedures and general policies. The coaches of varsity teams will then hold separate meetings regarding their specific programs.
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(Saturday Continued)
1:30-2:45 p.m. Language Placement Exam FWO 113 This exam is for any student who did not take the exam online over the summer. The Placement Exam is offered for French, German, Latin, and Spanish.
3:30-4:45 p.m. Matriculation Convocation Robertson Center The purpose of this ceremony is to formally welcome entering students to Southwestern and to provide you with a sense of the expectations that the 5:30-8 p.m. 9-10 p.m. University upholds for the members Dinner Safety Talk of its community. Although this is a Mabee Commons Residence Halls traditional ceremony and faculty will College life presents many new be in academic regalia, comfortable 7:30-8:45 p.m. opportunities, but there are also risks dress is appropriate for students and and threats that you may not their families. Seating begins at 2:45 Comedy Magician have considered. Join the Student Life p.m. Matt the Knife and Southwestern Police Leadership Alma Thomas Theater Team to learn what you need to know 4:45-5 p.m. Matt the Knife is the outrageous and where you can turn for help. New Student Photo mentalist and magician that’s known Score Quadrangle for his trademark brand of wit that Join other new Pirates for an official blends intense charisma with wickedly 10-11 p.m. photo. humorous improvisation and unique performance art. He has shattered more Residence Hall Meetings Guinness World Records than any Residence Halls 5-6 p.m. other magician ever - an astonishing Music Theory Exam total of twelve! Matt has won FAC 148 numerous industry awards, has been Sunday, This exam is for all students planning to featured by more than 50 media outlets, major or minor in music, or those and he was even an answer on interested in studying Music Theory. America’s favorite game show, August 20 Jeopardy! Get ready to laugh and be amazed! 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Brunch Mabee Commons
11 a.m.– noon Worship Service Lois Perkins Chapel Come enjoy Sunday worship in the beautiful Lois Perkins Chapel. This is a great opportunity to meet other students in a friendly atmosphere. After worship, all are invited to gather at noon over lunch in the McCombs Campus Center for fellowship and to learn about resources, programs, and organizations here to help you get involved and grow in your faith.
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9:15-10 a.m. Failing to Succeed: Thinking Through a Southwestern Education Alma Thomas Theater Here President Burger will share some reflections on life-lessons and life-long practices of living and learning that should be at the heart of everyone's formal education and will invite you to embrace a joyful attitude to the many challenges that lie ahead.
10 a.m.-noon First-Year Seminar (FYS) Seminar Classrooms First-Year Seminars meet for the first time. Report to your seminar classroom and be on time! (Details on next page.) Ahoy— 5:30-8 p.m. Dinner 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Pirate Training Mabee Commons Lunch Mabee Commons Begins Today! 8-10 p.m. Safety Talk Do you have the courage and 1-5 p.m. fortitude to follow orders and stay true Residence Halls Advising Appointment in the face of danger and almost certain College life presents many new opportunities, but there are also risks Sign-Ups death? Oh wait, that’s Pirates of the Adviser Offices Caribbean. Do you have the courage and threats that you may not have considered. Join the Student Life Go to your adviser's office and sign up and fortitude to have fun, get to know for a Wednesday advising appointment. your fellow classmates, and learn about and Southwestern Police Leadership You should have received your advising Southwestern University? Then Pirate Team to learn what you need to know and where you can turn for help. assignment via WebAdvisor and email Training is your opportunity to break over the summer. Contact the Center for your curse of anonymity and anxiety. Academic Success and Records at (512) Savvy? 863-1952 with any questions.
Monday, 2-5 p.m. Pirate Training: Pep Rally August 21 Corbin J. Robertson Center Start off your Pirate Training with a 8-9:30 a.m. cannon-like bang. Pirate Training teams begin their maiden voyage via a series of Breakfast upbeat interactions and games sure to Mabee Commons shiver your timbers!
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Seminar Title Faculty Member Location
Robots in Fact and Fiction Alexander, Steve FJS - 151
Tuning the Hemispheres: Music and the Brain Asbury, David PRC - 147
International Climate Fiction: Can Reading Save the Planet? Berroth, Erika PRC - 244
Doing Good and Doing It Well: The Philosophy and Practice of Byrnes, Melissa PRC - 132 Philanthropy
Taking a Walk in a Painting: Velazquez’s Las Meninas Costola, Sergio FWO - 324
Hernandez Berrones, Pseudo-medicine? CB - 321 J.
Virtual Worlds and Avatars: The Philosophy of Video Games Hopkins, Phil KEW - 116
Inside Out - Our Bodies on the Inside and Outside to the World Hoag, Melanie FWO - 209
Understanding Race and Racism Johnson, Melissa MBH - 109
The Secret Lives of Metaphor Kilfoyle, Jim CB - 300
Ancient Skywatchers: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations Marble, Stephen MBH - 113
Wheels and Deals: A Survey of Television Game Shows Marr, Alison FWO - 226
Food, Health, and French Culture Mathieu, Francis FWO - 222
Running For Your Life! McLean, Scott CJR - 240
Confucius Says: The Moral Life Examined Miller, Allison CB - 330
Fixing the Broken Mind: A Journey Through the Treatment of Neighbors, Bryan FWO - 207 Mental Illness
Political Ethics: An Oxymoron? O’Neill, Tim SLC - 114
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Travel, Tourism, and Public Memory Renegar, Valerie FWO - 323
I Am The Scribe: The Invention of Writing and Books Robertson, Carl FWO - 322
CULTURE SHOCK! Understanding Our Multicultural World Ross, Katy FWO - 305
Pop-up Books: Manipulating Life Through Discovery and Roybal, Desi MBH - 107 Ingenuity
Unsilencing the Past: Stories from the Borderlands Sendejo, Brenda MBH - 343 Getting Schooled: The Promise and Problems of College in Sievers, Julie SLC - 115 America The Consumerist: Breaking Bad or Breaking Good Weigand, Willis FJS - 163
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1:30-2:15 p.m. Real Talk: An Open Dialogue about Diversity at SU! Olin 105 The Coalition for Diversity and Social Justice, the umbrella organization for Hispanics and Latinos Organization, EBONY, Asian Student Association, SU Native, Pirates for Pride, SU Planned Piratehood, Kappa Delta Chi, and Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge, invites you to have an open and honest dialogue about diversity on campus. Student leaders from the CDSJ will share stories about their own personal experiences with diversity. The audience members are encouraged to ask questions and engage in an open dialogue.
(Monday continued) 8:30-9:30 p.m. 3-4:30 p.m. Snow Cone Social Speaking of Sex... 3-4:30 p.m. Bishops Lounge, McCombs Campus Alma Thomas Theater Center for Academic Success Center Communicating frankly about sex is As a welcome to Southwestern difficult. Aside from the Open House & Pre-Advising embarrassment that can color such a Center for Academic Success and University and Georgetown, join us for a night of FREE Zydeco Ice snow cones, a discussion, there is often confusion. Records, Prothro Center for Georgetown and Southwestern favorite. Sexual interactions can be clouded in Lifelong Learning conflicting emotions and complex Are you ready for your advising power relationships. How can you appointment this week? Come visit the make your own desires clear and Center for Academic Success and understand the intentions of Records, where Peer Mentors hold in- another? Speaking of Sex ... tracks six office hours, and help yourself to a treat students as they try to untangle the on us! While you are here, visit with a complicated web of sexual Peer Mentor about questions that you communication and discover what the may have for your advising best behaviors are in these sometimes appointment. Topics can include: what challenging situations. to expect from your adviser, what is required of you in your first year, and what questions you should ask your adviser during your Wednesday appointment. Tuesday, 4:45-6 p.m. August 22 Pirate Training: Final
Challenge 7:30-9 a.m. Corbin J. Robertson Center 4:30-5 p.m. A parley? How ‘bout a final challenge? Breakfast A head-to-head, goofy competition Mabee Commons Drawing Exam Information pitting teams against one another for all Session the pirate treasures. Arrg! 9 a.m.-noon FAC 370 First-Year Seminar Art majors or minors who believe they might place out of Drawing I should 5:30-8 p.m. Seminar Classrooms Dinner first read the drawing placement exam Consult your Seminar’s syllabus to see instructions (with examples of the Mabee Commons what your class is doing during this expectations) on the Studio Art time. Remember, FYS is a graded webpage under "for current 7:30-8:30 p.m. course and attendance is required. students". Come to this meeting for Pirate Training: Closing additional information. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Ceremony Corbin J. Robertson Center Lunch 5:30-8 p.m. It’s time to hand out the booty. Newly Mabee Commons Dinner anointed Pirates who conquered the Mabee Commons challenge will divide the Southwestern treasure. It’s a Pirate’s life for me!
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Choral/Vocal Placement FAC 137 All singers should sign up for a time to meet with the choral and vocal faculty at check-in, even those who auditioned as prospective students. If you have sheet music for a song that you wish to sing for the faculty, please bring it to the meeting (a pianist will be available to play for you).
2-4 p.m. It’s a Pirate’s Life for Me: Student Life Welcome Bishops Lounge, McCombs Campus Center Cool off with free treats while you meet and greet the Student Life team. Drop by to learn about resources to get involved, stay healthy, stay safe, and get ahead. (Tuesday continued) Wednesday, 5:30-8 p.m. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Dinner First Lecture Series: August 23 Mabee Commons Awakenings: Next Chapters, First College Papers, and a 8-9:30 a.m. New Home Breakfast Brown-Cody Residence Hall Mabee Commons Lounge David Gaines, Professor of English 10 a.m.-noon (For specific lecture description refer to First-Year Seminar page 13 of this Guide.) Seminar Classrooms Consult your Seminar’s syllabus to see 8:30-10 p.m. what your class is doing during this Live Music in The Cove: Fort time. Remember, FYS is a graded course and attendance is required. Never The Cove UPC brings you a night of live music 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. and fun in The Cove featuring Fort Lunch Never. Based out of Austin, Fort Mabee Commons Never is an up and coming Indie Rock band who is making waves through the 1-5 p.m. 7:30-8:30 p.m. music scene and has been touring non- stop. The Austin Chronicle named Advising Appointments First Lecture Series: Why Pie them one of Austin’s best new bands in Adviser Offices Charts are Bad for Your 2017. Advising appointments should have been Eyes made on Monday. Advising is required Kurth Residence Hall Lobby for all students. Chad Stolper, Assistant Professor of
Computer Science 1-4 p.m. (For specific lecture description refer to Music Ensemble Meetings page 13 of this Guide.) & Placements Instrumental Meeting 8:30-10 p.m. FAC 166 SU Traditions and Tales Instrumentalists who have not McCombs Ballrooms, McCombs previously auditioned for the Music Campus Center Department and who wish to register Join UPC and the Student for an ensemble course (Orchestra or Philanthropy Council as they take you Wind Ensemble), should sign up for a on a journey through Southwestern’s placement meeting at check-in. There history. Learn about some of SU’s is NO AUDITION required for these interesting traditions. Free food and courses. cool prizes will be available.
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4-6 p.m. Meet the Peer Mentors Kurth Residence Hall Lobby You've heard from a Peer Academic Mentor over the summer -- now come meet the whole crew in person! Bring your roommate to our Mentor Open House, enjoy some free food, and learn about how this group can help you keep your ship afloat.
5:30-8 p.m. Dinner Mabee Commons
7:30-8:30 p.m. First Lecture Series: Desserts! Is Stressed Spelled Backwards: Balancing Your Physiological Health With 2-3 p.m. Your College Transition Brown-Cody Residence Hall Thursday, Coalition for Diversity and Lounge Social Justice Welcome Maria Cuevas, Professor of Biology August 24 Event (For specific lecture description refer to Cross Cultural Center, Prothro page 13 of this Guide.) 7:30-9 a.m. Center for Lifelong Learning
Interested in changing the world Breakfast 8:30-10 p.m. Mabee Commons through diversity and social justice? Want to learn and/or connect Karaoke Night 9 a.m.-noon with cultural and identity based The Cove organizations? If you answered “yes” Join UPC for a night of fun and First-Year Seminar to any of the above questions, come karaoke in The Cove. Seminar Classrooms meet the leaders of the Coalition for Consult your Seminar’s syllabus to see Diversity and Social what your class is doing during this Justice, Hispanics and Latinos time. Organization, EBONY, Pan Asian Association, SU Native, SU Allies, SU Advocates, SU Planned 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Piratehood, Kappa Delta Chi, and Lunch Students for Environmental Activism Mabee Commons and Knowledge.
1:30-2:30 p.m. VA Education Benefits Meeting Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning Room 147 Students using VA Educational Benefits are invited to this meeting. Staff members and current VA students will be present to provide information about both the credit certification process as well as other important resources/personnel on campus. Please be sure to attend if you plan to utilize VA Education Benefits!
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Friday, August 25
8-9:30 a.m. Breakfast Mabee Commons
10 a.m.-noon First-Year Seminar Seminar Classrooms Consult your Seminar’s syllabus to see what your class is doing during this time.
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch Mabee Commons
1-2 p.m. 5:30-8 p.m. 9 p.m.-Midnight Student Employment Dinner Mini-Golf To Go Orientation Mabee Commons Bishops Lounge, McCombs Olin 105 Campus Center First-year and Transfer students are 8-9 p.m. All the fun of mini-golf right on our invited to attend this campus! Come play this 9 hole mini- orientation. Learn about your rights Friday Night Live: Comedian golf course complete with obstacles and responsibilities as a student Jesus Trejo and adventures. Bring your friends and worker, how to search for on-campus The Cove see who has the best putting skills. and off-campus positions, and how to Get your first taste of Friday Night Live transition your high school resume to as comedian Jesus Trejo takes the stage. a college employment resume. All Based out of Los Angeles, Jesus has students who plan to work (on or off appeared on Comedy Central’s Adam campus) will be required to provide Devine’s House Party, and on TBS’s the following original documents: sitcom Sullivan & Son. He was selected photo ID and either your social to be a “New Face” for the 2016 Just For security card, birth certificate, or US Laughs Festival and can be seen on passport. If you are eligible to work Uproarious, a new show debuting on on campus as part of a financial aid FUSE this fall. So come out and see package then you SHOULD attend! what Friday Night Live is all about with a night of laughs! Career Services will host a Part-Time and On-Campus Job Fair during the first week of class, Tuesday, August 29th, in the Prothro Lobby from 11:00am -1:00pm.
3-4:30 p.m. Out-of-State Mixer McCombs Ballrooms, McCombs Campus Center New to the Lone Star State? Come meet other out-of-state and international students while enjoying some mid-afternoon refreshments! This will be an informal mixing and mingling time between new and current out-of-state students, along with SU faculty and staff members who have also lived outside of Texas.
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Sunday, August 27
10-11 a.m. Breakfast & Church Julie Puett Howry Center Saturday, Students who would like to visit Georgetown area churches are invited to breakfast. Members of several local August 26 churches will join us to discuss their activities and will help get you to 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. morning services, if interested. If you would like directions and information Brunch on religious traditions not represented Mabee Commons in Georgetown, contact the Office of Religious Life at (512) 863-1527. What’s Happening on 1:30-3 p.m. Campus in the Next Few Introduction to Theatre 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Weeks? Company Brunch Jones Theater Mabee Commons This is an informal workshop for Tuesday, August 29th students who want to learn more about 4-6 p.m. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. the Theatre Department’s auditioning On-Campus & Part-Time Job process. Auditions for plays and Student Athlete Picnic musicals produced by the Theatre Corbin J. Robertson Center Fair Department are open to ALL The Student Athlete Advisory Prothro Center for Lifelong Southwestern students, regardless of Committee invites all student athletes Learning Lobby major. Students interested in attending to their annual picnic. Don’t miss the should come with one 1-2 minute opportunity to meet your fellow monologue and/or one song from a Pirates, play games, and enjoy some Wednesday, September 6th musical. All material should be food! 5-6:30 p.m. memorized and rehearsed. If you Student Involvement Fair decide to bring a song, you must 5-6 p.m. supply a taped accompaniment. This Walzel Gym Dessert Before Dinner workshop is strongly suggested for all Alma Thomas Courtyard, Sarofim potential theatre majors and/or students Friday, September 8th who think that they might want to School of Fine Arts audition for a production while Join the Sarofim School of Fine Arts 5-8 p.m. attending Southwestern University. Faculty and current students to learn Pirate Parrty more about classes, auditions, ensembles, and more. This is your Academic Mall 5-7:30 p.m. opportunity to meet students, make Dinner friendships, relax before classes start, 7:00 p.m. Mabee Commons and eat some ice cream. All are Friday Night Live: Austin rock welcome, majors and non-majors 8-10 p.m. alike! band The Cover Letter Academic Mall Cinematic Saturday: 5-7:30 p.m. Guardians of the Galaxy Dinner Saturday, September 9th Vol. 2 Mabee Commons The Cove 7 p.m. Grab some friends and make your way Football vs. McMurry University to The Cove for the first Birkelbach Field Cinematic Saturday of the year. Catch this summer blockbuster before it is available on DVD. Free popcorn will be provided.
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2017 FIRST LECTURE SERIES Expand your brain and get to know SU faculty and students by attending a First Lecture. These informal lectures and discussions assume no prior knowledge of the topic and are intended to expose you to what it means to live and learn in the SU liberal arts and sciences environment. No RSVP is necessary - just show up ready to learn something new!
Awakenings: Next Chapters, First College Papers, and a New Home David Gaines, Professor of English An English professor and Southwestern’s Director of Fellowships and Scholarships reflects upon and converses about a few of the adventures, opportunities, and challenges new Pirates will be navigating. Tuesday, August 22, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Brown-Cody Residence Hall Lounge
Why Pie Charts are Bad for Your Eyes Chad Stolper, Assistant Professor of Computer Science The human eye is an incredible organ with a “very specific set of skills”. Psychophysicists, psychologists, artists, and designers all approach studying the eye and the brain in different ways. In this (interactive) talk, Dr. Stolper will show how we can use results from all of these seemingly divergent fields for a common critical task: communicating information effectively and accurately. Wednesday, August 23, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Kurth Residence Hall Lobby
Desserts! Is Stressed Spelled Backwards: Balancing Your Physiological Health With Your College Transition Maria Cuevas, Professor of Biology An adequate balance between the feast (anabolic, storage, land of plenty) and fasting (catabolic, mobilization of energy) processes is considered necessary for long-term health and survival. It seems that a rapid pace of life, high demands, competitiveness, expectations of success, and efficiency characterize our current world (you may think-hey this is happening right now with my move to college!). Thus, factors such as stress; lack of rest, recovery, and reconstitution may affect our health; and how stress influences our well-being. Thursday, August 24, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Brown-Cody Residence Hall Lounge
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IMPORTANT NUMBERS
EMERGENCY HOSPITALS University Police (512) 863-1944 St. David’s Georgetown (512) 943-3000 Hospital Fire Department 911 Scott & White University Medical (512) 509-0200 Georgetown Police Department 911 Campus Round Rock Emergency Medical Services 911 Seton Medical Center Williamson (512) 324-4000
CRISIS/ INFORMATION CAMPUS
SU Counseling Service (512) 863-1252 Center for Academic Success & (512) 863-1952 Records Mental Health Crisis Hotline (800) 841-1255 Admission Office (512) 863-1200 Austin Crisis Hotline (512) 472-HELP Alumni & Parent Relations (512) 863-1410 Sexual Assault Crisis Line (800) 460-7233 Bookstore (512) 863-1344
Nationwide Addiction Hotline Helpline (866) 569-7077 Box Office (512) 863-1378 Business Office & Cashier (512) 863-5788 GLBT Hotline (evening hours only) (888) 843-4564 Commons (Sodexo Office) (512) 863-1910 SAFE (Self Abuse Finally Ends) (800) 366-8288 Dean of Students (512) 863-1624 Suicide Prevention Hotline (800) 273-8255 Veterans Press #1 Disability Services (512) 863-1536 Diversity Education (512) 863-1342 VICARS (Victims Institute for (888) 343-4414 Counseling Advocacy and Restoration Financial Aid (512)863-1259 of the Southwest) Fine Arts Dean (512) 863-1379 Information Technology Services (512) 819-7333 HEALTH SERVICES Intercultural Learning (512) 863-1857 Library (512) 863-1561 SU Health Center (512) 863-1252 Post Office (512) 863-1576 Family Medical Center (512) 868-0901 or ( 512) 931-9911 Records (512) 863-1952 Nextcare Urgent Care Clinic (888) 364-7507 Residence Life (512) 863-1624
Georgetown Medical Center Clinic (512) 930-4593 Robertson Center (512) 863-1381 Student Activities (512) 863-1345 Williamson County Health Dept. (512) 930-3600 SIRA Office (512) 863-1606 Planned Parenthood (512) 331-1288 University Chaplain (512) 863-1056 AIDS/ STD Hotline (800) 342-2437 Incoming Fax (512) 863-5788 Williamson County Crisis Center (800) 460-SAFE Poison Control (800) 222-1222 Emergency Contraception (888) NOT 2 LATE
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