OVER the HUMP Is Your Guide to All Things Conn
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WHAT’S Your Guide To Conn | 4 The Lingo | 6 INSIDE Your Key To Camel Life | 14 So Much To Do | 18 Explore The Region | 20 The Camel Ways | 26 What To Eat On Campus | 30 What To Eat Off Campus | 34 Who You Gonna Call? | 38 Staying Safe | 42 Insider Map | Inside Back Cover Contents Your Guide To Conn | 4 The Lingo | 6 Your Key To Camel Life | 14 So Much To Do | 18 Explore The Region | 20 The Camel Ways | 26 What To Eat On Campus | 30 What To Eat Off Campus | 34 Who You Gonna Call? | 38 Staying Safe | 42 Insider Map | Inside Back Cover YOUR GUIDE TO CONN WELCOME, CAMELS! OVER THE HUMP is your guide to all things Conn. In the following pages, you’ll find suggestions for items to bring to campus, places to eat, things to do and a whole lot more. You’ll also learn the lingo, so you’ll know what people mean when they say, “Hey! After my ConnCourse, I’m going to hit up Blue Camel and meet my PICA friends in the Arbo.” From your Camel Moment to the last time you ring the gong, you’ll discover new YOUR things about Conn every day. Over the Hump just gives you a head start. And to stay ahead of the game, here are a few important things to do: LOG INTO YOUR CONN EMAIL ACCOUNT. Check your conncoll.edu account regularly for information you need to know, even before you arrive on campus. If you have trouble logging in, contact the IT Service Desk at 860-439-4357. COMPLETE THE CAMEL EXPERIENCE, an online program that prepares you for our in-person orientation, known as Welcome Weekend. The Camel Experience GUIDE includes your checklist of to-do items, including choosing your first-year seminar and completing your housing selection and health information forms. All students must complete the entire Camel Experience before arriving on campus. Learn more at newcamel.conncoll.edu. TO KEEP TABS ON US! LIKE facebook.com/connecticutcollege | FOLLOW @conncollege | READ conncoll.edu CONN WATCH youtube.com/connecticutcollege | CAPTURE @conncollege 5 THE LINGO: WALK LIKE A CAMEL ... TALK LIKE A CAMEL 360 One of several apartment residences on CAMEL CARD Yeah, you’re gonna need campus, located next to Earth House. this. Your Camel Card is your main student identification; it gets you into AC The Athletic Center (AC) comprises buildings and holds Printing Funds, the fitness center, natatorium, arena, field Dining Dollars and Camel Cash. Before house and Silfen Track and Field. It’s across you leave your room, remember: phone, the footbridge and down the hill. Save key, Camel Card. They make PopSocket some energy after your workout for the wallets. Just sayin’. walk back to the main campus! CAMEL CASH ARBO The College’s 750-acre campus is Money you can managed as an arboretum, but the 445 load onto your acres located across Williams Street are Camel Card to most commonly referred to as the Arbo. make purchases on It’s an outside laboratory for the sciences, a and off campus. habitat for native plants and animals, a place for students to relax with friends, and CAMEL EXPERIENCE An online program a park for the community. A walk around you will complete before you arrive on the pond is a great study break! campus for the in-person orientation known as Welcome Weekend. ARBOFEST A biannual music festival in the Arbo hosted by MOBROC. CAMEL VAN The College’s van service between campus and greater New London ARC Need a tutor? Want help with a locations, including the train station, the project or presentation? Just need someone beach, the mall and the movie theater. And to tell you, “You can do it”? Located in Target, of course! Shain Library, the Academic Resource Center (ARC) is for you. Because it’s for CAMELWEB The College’s intranet, a everybody. See you soon. private network just for members of the campus THE BARN A designated rehearsal space community. Lots for student of info to be bands, located found here. between Cro and the Plex. See CAT The MOBROC (the nickname for the entry, but also, Ammerman catch a show). Center for Arts & Technology, one of Conn’s centers for interdisciplinary BLUE CAMEL or “BLAMEL” Lorelei and scholarship. Also, a furry animal creature, her trusty band of baristas serve up a but that’s irrelevant. variety of specialty coffees and teas, along with soup, snacks and baked goods, at The CCSRE The Center for the Critical Study Blue Camel Café. Located on the first floor of Race and Ethnicity is the hub for of Shain Library, Blue Camel doubles as a researching and teaching race and ethnicity 24-hour study space you can access with across disciplines. your Camel Card. 7 THE CENTERS The centers are unique CONNECTIONS You are going to hear this programs for interdisciplinary scholarship. word A LOT! A There are five of them and they are all great. curriculum unique Four of them—CAT, CISLA, Goodwin- to Conn, Niering and Holleran—grant certificates Connections will and satisfy Connections requirements. prepare you to solve the problems facing CISLA (“sis-la”) The Toor Cummings an increasingly Center for International Studies and the complex world. It’s Liberal Arts is one of Conn’s centers for our reinvention of the liberal arts and your interdisciplinary scholarship. Through its ticket to a fulfilling life and career. certificate program, you can internationalize any major. CONNQUEST Find your people! This online resource for student clubs and COFFEE CLOSET This student-run organizations, accessible via CamelWeb, organization operates two locations: the provides a wall to post messages, photo original cafe near the first-floor entrance of galleries, events, member lists and more. Cummings Arts Center, and the Walk-in Coffee Closet on the first floor of Harkness COUNSELING AND HEALTH SERVICES House. Grab a latte on your way to class, We got ’em. Located in Warnshuis Student enjoy a cup of joe (do people still call it Health Center. that?) with a friend or power up before practice. CRO Officially “The College Center at Crozier-Williams” (but seriously, no one COFFEE GROUNDS A student-run cafe in really calls it that), Cro is the student Katharine Blunt House (see KB) serving center and home to the Oasis Snack Shop, bagels, pastries, and gourmet coffees and Humphrey’s, Cro’s Nest, Cro-Pit, teas, and featuring student art and Bookshop, Post Office, SGA, Camel Card entertainment. Try the cold brew. It’s good. office, the Holleran Center, The College Voice, and two large meeting rooms, the THE COLLEGE VOICE Extra! Extra! Read 1941 Room and the 1962 Room. Many all about the latest student clubs meet in Cro, and most Conn news in this offices related to student life can be found student-run here, too. The third floor is home to the campus Dance Department and Myers Dance newspaper. New Studio. writers, photographers and DIEI The Office of the Dean of designers are Institutional Equity and Inclusion, located always welcome to attend meetings. in Unity House, is responsible for integrating equity and inclusion in every CONNCOURSE (Because we just can’t resist aspect of the educational, residential and starting words with “Conn”—see next two professional life of the College. entries.) In this interdisciplinary class, which you will take during your first two EARTH HOUSE A house in north campus years on campus, you will discover where all residents commit to ecofriendly connections between your studies and living and a focal point for green activities real-world issues. on campus. 8 ECLIPSE A Connecticut College tradition FLORALIA This annual outdoor spring dedicated to celebrating and concert is one of the most popular events acknowledging all races and ethnicities of the year. Held in early May, Floralia through artistic expression including features live music, attractions, dancing dance, music, spoken word and fashion. and more. It’s not unheard of to begin Always uber-impressive—you’ll want to planning outfits and scouting seating put this one on your calendar. locations weeks in advance. THE EXPERIENCE A blog written by FLYING CAMEL This is the name of the students for students (and prospective airport shuttle service (Get it? Flying students). It’s chock-full of tips, tricks and Camel? Since you insight. Check it out at conncoll.edu/ are a Camel now? the-experience/. On your way to the airport?) that the FACILITIES These are the people who fix College offers in things. If something’s not working, let partnership with a them know. Submit a work request on local transportation CamelWeb. company. Prior to and following all breaks—Thanksgiving, FALL WEEKEND We’d call it Homecoming winter, spring and summer—you can catch if we had a football team, but we don’t. this shuttle for a discounted fare to and Don’t worry, we make up for it with an from T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island awesome, jam-packed weekend to show and JFK Airport in New York. your family everything you love about Conn. Catch a soccer game on Tempel FOUNDERS DAY If you don’t wish us Green, stock up on swag at Harvestfest and happy birthday on social media, does it network with alumni. even count?! Celebrated April 5 (with cake, of course), Founders Day marks the FESTIVUS From a famous episode of anniversary of the day Conn was officially Seinfeld (a TV show that launched long chartered in 1911. before you were born), Festivus is a fictional nondenominational holiday. We FYS Your first class! First-year seminars are celebrate with premium dinner in Harris small classes that delve into a diverse range Refectory followed by an all-campus party of interesting topics, from “Performing in Cro.