GUIDE FOR NEW S T U D E N TO

T S Classes of 2020 Welcome TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome 1

Orientation 4

Academics 6

Academic Resources 16

Enhance Your HWS Experience 22

Living at HWS 28

Health and Wellness 36

Living in Geneva 42 Welcome From the President

t Hobart and William Smith, we believe a 21st century education relies on strong Aacademic preparation, the development of global proficiency, the close mentorship of faculty members, clarity of direction regarding careers and graduate schools, and very importantly, a sense of place. Hobart and William Smith is a place where community matters.

That sense of community is on full display during Commencement. From the pageantry of the nearly 100 flags that represent the countries to which students and faculty have traveled or called home, to the Latin praise and honor society status that accompany the names of graduates, we gather to celebrate the accomplishments of our students.

Commencement also allows us to celebrate the qualities and characteristics students cultivate during their time at the Colleges: a work ethic honed by hours in the lab, in the studio, in the library, and on the athletic fields; perseverance and dedication gained through pursuing careers in every imaginable field from Wall Street to Silicon Valley; a desire to change the world through service in Geneva and around the world; a passion for research represented by the long list of prestigious graduate schools alums will attend in the fall; and finally, a love of learning that will serve our grads in any career, profession or passion they will undertake in their lifetimes.

We believe that if you take advantage of your Hobart and William Smith experience – study hard and attend the many lectures and cultural events that occur on campus weekly, develop partnerships with faculty members, participate in service activities, travel abroad, and complete the Pathways program at the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education – you can realize your academic, career and personal goals. In doing so, you will be prepared to lead a life of consequence.

Your acceptance to Hobart and William Smith Colleges was made with confidence based upon your previous academic work, leadership roles, service commitment and athletic accomplishments. In attending Hobart and William Smith, you will leverage your past accomplishments to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to exceed your own expectations.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Hobart and William Smith Colleges. I look forward to meeting you on campus during Orientation.

Sincerely,

Mark D. Gearan President

2016 | Guide for New Students 1 Your Journey Starts Here

2 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Welcome to the Hobart and William Smith Family!

e’re the First-Year Deans—Associate Dean Lisa Kaenzig for William Smith students and Assistant Dean David Mapstone ’93 for Hobart students—and we can’t wait to Wmeet you during Orientation weekend under the matriculation tent. Our primary responsibility is making sure that your transition to college—both academically and socially—is smooth. During your first few weeks on campus, we’ll meet with you periodically to talk about your classes and residence experience, and we’ll continue to be a resource for you throughout your academic career.

The “Guide for New Students” is intended to give you background information on all things Hobart and William Smith. If you have any questions over the next several weeks— questions about packing, courses, the curriculum, roommates, or even how to deal with your parents—don’t hesitate to contact the Orientation office at [email protected] or (315) 781-3041.

We look forward to meeting you!

Lisa Kaenzig and David Mapstone ’93 First-Year Deans, Hobart and William Smith

MEET THE DEANS

Associate Dean Assistant Dean of William of Hobart Smith College College David Lisa Kaenzig Mapstone ’93 works with coordinates all first-years the Learning and juniors in Community the academic program transition and and the Pre- experience at Orientation William Smith, Adventure serves on the Orientation Core Planning Program. He develops strong individual Committee and advises the Laurel relationships with students and Society. Kaenzig earned her B.A. from coordinates a variety of universal Rutgers University and an M.A. from programs to assist in successful George Washington University. Her transitions. He earned a B.A. in Ph.D. is in educational policy, planning, psychology from Hobart College and and leadership from the College of was a member of the lacrosse team and William and Mary. She also serves as senior honor society. He received his director of William Smith’s chapter M.A. from University of Rochester and of the Public Leadership Education is completing a Ph.D. from Syracuse Network (PLEN) and is chair of the University. As assistant dean for Hobart, PLEN Board of Directors. he is the adviser for The Druids, the senior honor society.

In addition to helping you adjust to campus life during your first days on campus, the Deans will become a big part of your day-to-day life. Each office supports rich and varied campus traditions, including the John Henry Hobart Matriculation Ceremony for Hobart students and the Opening Day celebration for William Smith students. They also sponsor a variety of required programs for first-year students, including visits from special speakers and common readings.

2016 | Guide for New Students 3 You’ll arrive on Friday, August 26

What is Orientation?

ll incoming students participate in Orientation, giving you a chance to explore campus, make new friends and learn about the people and services available to assist you as you make the transition to college life. First-year students Ahave a three-day program, and international students have a six-day program. International students should refer to the supplement for international students located on the Orientation website.

Incoming first-year students also have the option to participate in the Pre-Orientation Adventure Program (POAP), a five-day outdoor adventure that takes place in August, prior to on-campus Orientation.

For Orientation weekend, you’ll arrive on Friday, Aug. 26, and head immediately to the Orientation tent on the Quad where you’ll shake hands with the President and your Deans, get your room key and meet some important people who will help you transition to HWS.

Next, you’ll head to your room, meet your roommate and unpack. Upperclass students will be on hand to help you find your room and move in.

After a few hours, your family will go off to participate in information sessions and you’ll head to the William Smith Green to meet other first-year students. You’ll also meet your First-Year Seminar professor. Then, you’ll say farewell to your family and wrap up your first day as a college student.

During your second day on campus, you’ll participate in a community service project with upperclass HWS students and local community members. (For more information, please refer to the Enhancing Your HWS Experience section of this Guide.)

You’ll also have an opportunity to meet with your adviser to go over your course schedule and make any necessary changes before classes begin, and participate in sessions about campus life and campus resources. When you arrive on August 26, you will receive a complete schedule of the weekend’s events.

arrive on Friday, meet your roommate meet other participate in a meet your First-Year Meet your adviser – August 26 and unpack first-year students service project Seminar professor review your courses

4 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES arrive on Friday, meet your roommate meet other participate in a meet your First-Year Meet your adviser – August 26 and unpack first-year students service project Seminar professor review your courses

2016 | Guide for New Students 5 Academics

6 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES EXPLORE, COLLABORATE, ACT!

t Hobart and William Smith, we’ve built our education around exploring the world from multiple perspectives, collaborating with your peers and mentors Ato enhance learning and scholarship, and providing opportunities to use your education for action. If you can imagine and create connections among numerous spheres of study or thought, then you can manage, enable and even maximize change with confidence.

Under the mentorship of dedicated faculty and guided by a curriculum grounded in exploration and rigor, Hobart and William Smith students are educated broadly and deeply. During your time at the Colleges, you’ll have the opportunity to explore your academic passions and work with your faculty adviser to design an academic plan that both meets your interests and fulfills the requirements for a degree. Growing a Great You’ll have plenty of additional opportunities to apply what you’ve learned in the classroom to real life situations through opportunities in student leadership, study Relationship abroad, service-learning and internships. Science students participate in hands-on Here are some tips for growing a research. Environmental studies students work with local governments to enact real rewarding relationship with your change. Many students present their work at conferences. professors: At Hobart and William Smith, students typically take four courses per semester. Be a great student: get your Most classes are small— averaging about 16 students—allowing faculty and 1. homework done on time, do the students to participate in engaging dialogue and debates. Assignments and readings and lend an insightful discussions are designed to hone communication skills (such as writing and perspective in class. speaking), critical thinking and other skills necessary to be competitive when seeking employment. 2. Stop by your professor’s office Though there are no specific courses required of HWS students other than a First- hours to talk about coursework, Year Seminar, there are several requirements that we ask you to complete before you politics, the news, anything can graduate. really. Keep the lines of communication open. The requirements include: • Develop in each of the two integrated curricular goals, critical thinking and communication, as you progress in your four years at HWS. 3. Ask questions when you don’t • Complete coursework to address each of the six aspirational goals of the understand something to show general curriculum. (more information on page 8) that you’re willing to learn and • Pass a First-Year Seminar. are genuinely interested. • Complete any potential faculty-mandated writing requirements. • Pass 32 courses (including achieving minimum grade and GPA standards). 4. Attend out-of-class lectures or • Complete a major and a minor (or a second major). discussions that your professor suggests. If your professor When you’ll do it: leads a Reader’s College course, • You’ll declare your major by the end of your sophomore year, although many consider taking it. students declare earlier. • You should declare a minor or second major by early in your junior year. • During your junior year, you’ll work with your adviser to complete a 5. Ask if your professor needs a Baccalaureate Plan that describes your progress toward completion of the research assistant or any help requirements of the major, the minor and the goals. The plan identifies any with an academic project he additional work needed to complete the degree requirements. or she is working on. Let your professor know if you’ve got an idea you’d like to research.

2016 | Guide for New Students 7 Design a program that meets your interests and fulfills degree requirements The Curriculum • The ability to reason quantitatively. The ability to reason quantitatively is necessary for using and interpreting To ensure that HWS students receive an education that prepares quantitative data or mathematical arguments in decision them to lead lives of consequence, students must complete a making. Quantitative reasoning fosters numerical literacy, course of study that includes two integrated goals of critical and is best developed by working with numerical evidence to thinking and communication, and six aspirational goals ranging evaluate trends, patterns, and claims or by using mathematical from scientific inquiry to understanding cultural differences. concepts to create or assess complex arguments.

During your time at HWS, you will work with your faculty adviser • An experiential understanding of scientific inquiry. An to design an academic plan that meets your interests and fulfills experiential understanding of scientific inquiry provides all the requirements for a degree, including addressing all the the intellectual foundation for evaluating scientific claims goals, which can be reached in the context of many different about the natural world. Scientific inquiry involves programs of study. posing and answering questions by testing hypotheses through observational studies, experimental testing, or modeling. Understanding the processes by which knowledge The Integrated Goals of Critical Thinking and is gained in the natural sciences is best developed through Communication the direct experience of the investigative inquiry that characterizes scientific practice, grounded in laboratory, Critical thinking and communication comprise the field, or classroom experiences. foundation of any liberal arts education. The ability • A critical and experiential understanding of artistic process. to articulate a question, identify and gain access to A critical and experiential understanding of artistic process appropriate information, organize and present evidence, emerges from engagements with art that are both expressive and construct complex, elegant, and persuasive arguments and reflective. The understanding of artistic expression may in written and oral forms are integral to the Colleges’ be cultivated through studies that are entirely performance- vision to “explore, collaborate, and act.” centered, studio-based, or workshop-based, as well as through studies that integrate performance or creative Critical and creative thinking, and their expression through activity with topics related to the art form. the media of writing and speaking are understood to develop • A critical understanding of social inequalities. A critical over the course of a student’s learning experience: understanding of social inequalities will draw on evidence • The First-Year Experience (FYE) introduces students to analyze how wealth, power, and privilege are distributed to critical thinking and communication skills through unequally in human societies based on factors including, introductory courses in disciplines across the curriculum. though not limited to, gender, race, class, religion, sexuality, At the center of the FYE is the writing-intensive First-Year age, disability, indigeneity, nationality, ethnicity, or language. Seminar, which introduces students to the intellectual This understanding can be fostered by examining the historical community of the Colleges and provides academic background, social conditions, and intersections of different mentorship. The First-Year Seminar introduces and forms of inequality; by acquiring a deeper understanding of integrates within the seminar many of the Colleges’ the lives of individuals and groups who experience inequality; academic resources. by scrutinizing ideologies and social constructions for • The writing-enriched curriculum (WEC) builds on the FYE justifying inequality; or by critically assessing past and present by further developing the key writing and thinking abilities collective strategies for reducing social inequality. characteristic of a student’s major, as well as the ability to • A critical understanding of cultural difference. A critical recognize key features of the major’s discourse. WEC is built understanding of cultural difference is necessary for on several premises: that writing can be flexibly defined as an thoughtful, cooperative, and productive communication in a articulation of thinking in a variety of forms; that writing is global community. Global citizenship requires the ability continually developed in new contexts and genres, rather than to understand how and why human thought, expression, a skill to be mastered; and that writing instruction is the shared and action are constituted by differences of historical responsibility of faculty in all departments and programs. background, social context, cultural heritage, and linguistic • The senior capstone experience is both a continuation and tradition. This understanding can be cultivated through the culmination of the student’s development in critical thinking critical study of a cultural heritage that is substantively and communication. Specific to each major, the capstone different from one’s own, or through the study of cross- experience demands substantial understanding of the cultural interaction and cultural change. discipline’s central questions and literacy in its modes of • An intellectual foundation for ethical judgment as a basis reasoning and communication. for socially responsible action. An intellectual foundation for ethical judgment as a basis for socially responsible Aspirational Goals of the Curriculum action requires the ability to think and argue rigorously Along with our integrated goals of critical thinking and about questions of how things should be. This foundation communication, the aspirational goals of the curriculum ideally incorporates a historically informed examination of expose students to modes of critical, analytic, and creative one’s values and an understanding of the role of particular thinking and communications found across fields of study; circumstances in the context of ethical judgment and these goals underscore the imperative of a liberal arts action. These skills can be developed by studying education to provide a breadth of knowledge and the means to professional ethics, public service, social justice, human express that knowledge effectively rights, environmental responsibility, and other topics that raise questions of how to engage in responsible action.

8 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES MAJORS MINORS Majors and Minor Disciplinary | Interdisciplinary Disciplinary | Interdisciplinary Aesthetics Africana Studies African Studies This chart is a planning tool African American Studies when choosing a major or minor. American Studies Anthropology Anthropology and Sociology Architectural Studies Art (History) Art (Studio) Academic Programs Arts and Education Asian Studies Biochemistry At Hobart and William Smith Biology* Colleges, everyone must complete Chemistry* a major and a minor (or a second Child Advocacy major) in a disciplinary or Civic Engagement and Social Justice Classics interdisciplinary field of study. -Classical Studies -Greek Traditionally, disciplinary courses -Latin of study include chemistry, Cognition, Logic, and Language economics or English. These are Comparative Literature Computer Science* fields that require intense study Critical Social Studies of one subject to adequately Dance understand the field. Development Studies Economics Interdisciplinary majors or Education minors cross those traditional English Entrepreneurial Studies boundaries to visualize a subject Environmental Studies from multiple points of view, European Studies often creating a whole new way of Concentration in French seeing the world. You can’t study French and Francophone Studies environmental science, for example, -Parcours Multiculturels Track -Traditions Francaises Track without comprehending major Geoscience* aspects of geology, statistics, German Area Studies economics, sociology and politics. Health Professions The resulting dialogue about Hispanic Studies environmental science is therefore History Holocaust Studies interdisciplinary. Individual Studies* International Relations Latin American Studies Latino Culture Law and Society www.hws.edu/academics Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Mathematics* Media and Society Men's Studies Middle Eastern Studies Music Peace Studies Philosophy Physics* Political Science Psychology* Public Policy Studies Religious Studies Russian History and Society Russian Language and Culture -Russian Language -Russian Area Studies The Sacred in Cross-Cultural Perspective Social Justice Studies Sociology Spanish and Hispanic Studies Sustainable Community Development Theatre Urban Studies Women's Studies Writing and Rhetoric Writing Colleagues Program

* Both B.A. and B.S. degree programs offered. 2016 | Guide for New Students 9 How’d You Do That? Take a look at these three students and how they addressed some of their objectives:

Virginia DeWees ’16 Writing and Rhetoric Major and Education Minor Fulbright U.S. Student Award Winner

My time at HWS was the most exhilarating, transformative and gratifying four years of my life. Those words would not be true without the support of my professors and administrators at HWS. Whenever I faced a challenge, I immediately brought it up with one of my academic or administrator mentors and they never once put my needs on the back burner. They were always willing to help me in whatever way they possibly could or connect me with others who could support me even further. Other sources of support for me at HWS include Seneca Lake, Salsa Rico, the Quad, and the peaceful study space of the Blackwell Room.

Jacob Stanley ’16 History Major National Sales Manager, Coyote Logistics

Over my four years at HWS, the No. 1 thing that allowed me to achieve my goals has to be the people that I’ve surrounded myself with. Being a part of the football team introduced me to a bunch of competitive guys who were determined to succeed. My coaches deserve a lot of praise for always wanting more out of me and expecting nothing less than my all. My fellow brothers of Theta Delta Chi helped guide me toward new challenges and pushed me to be the best possible version of myself, whether that was in the classroom, studying, or on the field. Jackie Doyle and the Career Services Center put me in touch with alums who gave me access to pursue my professional development.

Elizabeth Lunderman ’16 Biology and Environmental Studies Double Major Peace Corps, Tanzania, Africa

As a first-year I had my heart set on medical school and was relentlessly pursuing becoming a flight surgeon in the Air Force. That all changed with my first class at HWS, called “Wilderness and The Wild.” The first book I read for the course was Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer; I was so intrigued by Chris McCandless’s story that the following summer I high- tailed it to Anchorage, Alaska to volunteer at the Alaska Native Medical Center. Naturally, I caught the travel bug and during my courses in organic chemistry and general physiology, I was daydreaming of the next place I would experience. Career Services and the Center for Global Education helped me find a summer job on a horse ranch in Colorado, study abroad in Australia and Vietnam and eventually, prepare me for a two-year volunteer opportunity in the Peace Corps where I will be a secondary science teacher in Tanzania, Africa.

10 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The First Year at HWS Faculty Student Relationships At Hobart and William Smith Colleges, your first year on campus is an opportunity to adjust to college-level work, explore the liberal arts curriculum and discover new interests. Unless you’re pursuing a special degree program, such as engineering, pre-med, pre-law or education, you likely won’t have to worry about major requirements until your sophomore year. (For more information about special degree programs, see pages 12 and 13.)

In August, you’ll receive a letter or email from your First-Year Seminar professor welcoming you to the community and telling you what to expect from your first semester. Your First-Year Seminar professor will be your academic adviser, providing additional support as you begin to fully explore what’s available to you through your HWS education. When you declare your major, your academic adviser may change.

During Orientation weekend, you’ll meet with your First-Year Seminar professor and Amanda Walker ’16 classmates, and once classes start, you’ll continue to meet as a class two or three Double Major in Architectural Studies and Art times a week. First-Year Seminars are designed to stimulate intellectual curiosity, History introduce academic expectations and engage you without regard for future major or Having known from a young age that I wanted to pursue a career in architecture, I was minor choices. The seminar topics vary each year, as do the professors who teach attracted to the Colleges’ interdisciplinary them, so the classroom discussions are always new and interesting. take on design. During my first year on campus, I developed close relationships In addition to your First-Year Seminar, you’ll enroll in three courses from several different with many of the faculty members within areas of study. This will help you establish a foundation for more advanced work, perhaps and beyond the Arts and Architectural even laying the groundwork for what eventually will become your major or minor. Studies Department. Respectful of my interests and invested in my future, it was my professor (Stan Matthews) and my major In late October, the Deans host an Academic Planning event to help you prepare for advisers (Jeffrey Blankenship and Liliana the spring semester. In November, during spring semester advising and registration, Leopardi) who encouraged me to further you’ll meet with your academic adviser to discuss your academic interests and any my studies abroad in order to gain a more majors or minors you’ve been considering. You will register for classes online during global perspective of architecture. With first-year registration. their support, I was able to study abroad for two consecutive semesters in Copenhagen, Denmark and Rome, Italy. Now as a proud Whether you know what you want to major in or not, keep an open mind when alumna, I am grateful to HWS for giving me considering your courses. This is a great opportunity to try something new. Remember, the opportunities of a lifetime – without your first year is for exploring the curriculum and discovering new areas of academic which, I would not be continuing my journey interest. While getting into your top preferences for courses in your first year may be in architecture at Harvard University’s a challenge, especially for popular classes, there will still be time to get into the ones Graduate School of Design. you need to graduate and that interest you. Luke Ruddy ’18 Geoscience Major You’ll spend your spring semester completing the courses you selected with the Coming into Hobart help of your academic adviser. Throughout the semester, make an effort to regularly and William Smith, discuss with your adviser what interests you and where you’d like to focus your my plan was to major studies. By the end of the year, you and your academic adviser will have mapped out in either biology or mathematics. However, a preliminary program of study and maybe even started you on the path to a study that plan quickly abroad experience or internship. changed after taking multiple geoscience In early April, when advising and registration for the fall semester takes place, you should courses during my consider pursuing more advanced coursework and beginning to narrow your interests. As first two years. I have you conclude your first year at HWS, remember, the path ahead is filled with opportunity. had four geoscience professors so far, all of whom I have developed close relationships with, especially my adviser, Associate Professor of Geoscience Individual Majors Tara Curtin. Without her Students who find that their interests extend beyond the traditional majors and minors at help, I never would have HWS are invited to create their own course of study. The Individual Major is as rigorous received the 2016 Ernest F. as regular department majors, consisting of 11 or 12 courses selected by the student in Hollings Undergraduate consultation with a faculty adviser and approved by the Committee on Individual Majors. Scholarship. Working with Professor Curtin and the rest Individual Majors may be constructed around relatively personalized topics (recent of the geoscience faculty has examples include “Psychological Aspects of Early Education,” “Processes of Perception” been nothing but a positive and “Contemporary Folk Cultures”) or around recognized fields of study not offered under a experience and I look forward formal organizational structure at the Colleges (recent examples include “Ethnomusicology” to working with them for the and “Movement Science”). Students interested in pursuing an Individual Major should speak next two years. with a faculty adviser about the feasibility of the program being contemplated.

2016 | Guide for New Students 11 Faculty Student Relationships Learning Communities At Hobart and William Smith, we believe that what we learn, how we think and the way we live are interconnected. Our goal is to ensure that you quickly become part of our community, develop friendships and are challenged academically.

All first-year seminars are designed to foster those connections. In addition, we offer a limited number of living-learning experiences called Learning Communities to first- year students. Those students who enroll in a Learning Community live together on the same floor of a co-ed residence hall, take two of the same courses and attend lectures and field trips outside of class. An upperclass peer mentor often also lives on the floor to provide social and academic support. Noland Michels ’17 Biology and Environmental Studies Major These living and learning environments focus on shared, active learning, allowing I came to Hobart and William Smith as a pre- you to develop links between academic courses while also integrating co-curricular med focused biochemistry major. During my experiences with classroom learning to develop common ground and strong bonds with first semester, I took an introductory class with Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies faculty and fellow students. Those students enrolled in a Learning Community tend Beth Kinne. After building a relationship, she to achieve higher grade point averages, make friends quickly, forge lasting bonds with urged me to apply to go abroad to Australia. faculty members and transition into college life smoothly. After returning, I struggled to decide what path I wanted to take. I wanted to help people (and Students choosing to begin a Learning Community experience will be placed in a animals for that matter) being pre-med but I First-Year Seminar which is linked to a second academic course taken during the loved the field excursions in Australia. I came to realize biology helps people and animals fall semester. The Sustainable Living Learning Community spans two semesters. regardless of making direct contact, and I The professors work together to link the courses through common readings, themes chose to follow my passion for the fieldwork. and projects. I took “Ecology” with Director of Introductory Biology Laboratories Susan Cushman and found a true passion that inspired me. In the Pre-Professional Programs same semester, I took a class with Professor of Hobart and William Smith offer a variety of pre-professional programs to help you Public Policy Craig Rimmerman who helped me get started on your way to a career in a specialized field. If you are interested in see the passion I had inside of me surrounding biology. I have pursued this passion further by any of these programs, connect with your adviser as soon as possible to learn about working on an Honors project about invasive getting involved. species with Professor Cushman as my adviser. To this day, I continue to forge new Pre-Health: Students interested in health professions benefit from the guidance relationships with professors who continue to of a pre-health counselor, academic adviser and the Health Professions Advisory open doors for a bright future, and I owe it all Committee. The program places students in clinical internships and community to Hobart and William Smith. service experiences and prepares them to apply for medical school and fellowships. At Kristin Ressel ’16 HWS, pre-health advising is individualized. Our small class sizes, high-quality faculty, Psychology and Writing & strength in the sciences, and community of collaborative, diverse and high-achieving Rhetoric Double Major students promote strong learning outcomes. Professional schools value our graduates When I started at HWS, I for what they learn at HWS and for our graduates’ records of success in taking on new had the opposite problem challenges after college. of most incoming first- years. Having wanted to become a therapist for as Pre-Business: For students interested in business, the liberal arts can be an long as I could remember, extraordinarily effective vehicle. Today’s business entrepreneurs and managers need I was reluctant to expand to think creatively to solve problems. The long legacy of successful Hobart and my horizons. But an opportunity presented William Smith Colleges alumni and alumnae attest to this fact. HWS offers joint itself to get involved with Assistant Professor degree programs with The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University; of Psychology Brien K. Ashdown’s cultural psychology work in Guatemala and I couldn’t Clarkson University; and the Saunders School of Business at the Rochester Institute turn it down. Professor Ashdown quickly of Technology. These programs allow students to complete the requirements for a became a driving force behind my education Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in one year rather than the usual at HWS, encouraging me to continue research two or more. A Pre-Business Adviser is also available to help HWS students assess the in cultural psychology, as well as social connection between key business competencies and their interests, values and skills. If psychology, and even had me take the lead on you are interested in exploring a career in finance, banking or accounting, email cso@ one of his projects so that it could become my Honors project. Next year, I will be pursuing hws.edu to schedule a preliminary appointment with the Pre-Business Adviser. a dual master’s degree in social work and marriage & family therapy at Syracuse Engineering: The Colleges offer joint degree programs in engineering with the School University, as per my original plan, but my of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University and the Thayer School education at HWS has been so much more of Engineering at Dartmouth College. In general, students in these programs spend rewarding because of the time I spent outside a total of three years at Hobart and William Smith, and two years at the partner of my initial interests. Professor Ashdown became not only a great professor and adviser, institution. By the end of the five years, the student receives a B.A. or B.S. from HWS but also an invaluable mentor and friend. and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the cooperating university.

12 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Teacher Education Program: The HWS Education Department Hundred Years Through Design.” Pressman designed a series offers a field-based Teacher Education Program (TEP) leading of concept vehicles that could foreseeably be the future of to teacher certification in childhood education (grades 1-6), the automobile, including adaptation of modern material childhood and children with disabilities (grades 1-6), art technologies, and efficient drive systems. The project also (grades PreK-12), music (grades PreK-12), Teaching English explored the history of how cars became the way they are today. to Speakers of Other Languages (grades PreK-12), and a number of disciplines at the adolescent level (grades 7-12). Cassidy Smith ’16 completed an Honors project titled “It’s The TEP is fully accredited and approved by the New York State a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Overcoming Barriers Education Department. By reciprocal agreements, New York Against Help-Seeking with Community Social Capital,” with State certification is recognized in most other states. Students guidance from Assistant Professor of Psychology Brien can pursue almost any major at HWS and still complete the Ashdown. The project examines why some children do not TEP and become certified. HWS also offers a fifth-year Master receive mental healthcare services in spite of their need by of Arts in Teaching program: students in the TEP can apply in examining the relationships between stigma, socioeconomic their junior year to return after graduation for a fifth year and status, social capital and help-seeking attitudes of parents for earn their MAT degree. their children.

Nursing: HWS and the University of Rochester School of Garrett Janssen ’16 completed an Honors project titled, “A Nursing have established a 4+3 program that provides students Line in the Sand,” which is a novel rooted in the bildungsroman a guaranteed seat at the University of Rochester in either the or coming-of-age genre. The novel explores issues regarding one-year post-baccalaureate program leading to RN licensure the abuse of alcohol, the complexities to single-parenting, or the three-year program leading to nurse practitioner the (in)significance of sex in a hypersexualized culture, and certification. Students apply to this program in the spring of the misperception of therapy. Visiting Assistant Professor of the sophomore year. English and Comparative Literature Vinita Prabhakar served as his adviser. For more information about any of these programs, contact your adviser or the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and The Senior Symposium Experiential Education at [email protected] or (315) 781-3514. The Senior Symposium allows HWS seniors and MAT students to present their research and creative projects to the HWS With Honors community. The annual Symposium reflects and honors the “Doing honors” is one of the most academically challenging breadth and depth of the work HWS students are doing across and sophisticated paths that HWS students can take. Qualified a diverse spectrum of disciplines. students work closely with a faculty mentor in their junior or senior year to create and The Symposium, sponsored complete two or three self-designed by the Center for Teaching and independent study courses that Learning, is an opportunity for concentrate on a single academic students, faculty, and staff to idea or theory resulting in a come together in celebration research project, critical paper, or THE SENIOR of academic rigor, power, and its counterpart in the creative arts possibility inherently present (known as the Honors Project). SYMPOSIUM in a HWS education, and it is an important part of the HWS In addition to the Honors Project, education in and of itself. an Honors candidate takes a written examination in the Honors field and Leading up to the Symposium, an oral examination that covers both SHARE HWS seniors and MAT students the Honors Project and the written can participate in a series of examination. Starting and finishing workshops and skill-building a sustained work allows students sessions about public speaking to pursue skills and interests at an YOUR and abstract-writing that can advanced level and grow as a scholar help them pull together high- and person. The educational benefits level presentations while learning cannot be duplicated in regular, PASSIONS important skills that will serve semester-length courses. Abstracts Due them in their future careers. With support from Assistant March 11, 2015 In 2016, the eighth annual Professor of Art and Architecture Kirin Makker, Edward Submit to the CenterSenior for Teaching Symposium and Learning included presentations by 133 HWS seniors Questions: Pressman ’16 conducted an investigation of the historyContact of Ruth Shields at [email protected] 7 MAT or students (315) 781-3959 on a diverse range of topics. For more Automotive Design, and an exploration through design of the information, please visit: www.hws.edu/academics/ctl/senior_ https://www.hws.edu/academics/ctl/senior_symposium.aspx future of the automobile titled “Rethinking the Automobile: symposium.aspx. Addressing the Potential of the Automobile in the Next One Sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning

2016 | Guide for New Students 13 Leading Speakers On Campus

Hobart and William Smith sponsor a variety of • Kathryn Yusoff, senior lecturer in the School of opportunities for students to interact with national Geography at Queen Mary University of London and international figures, engaging the leading • Bruce King, the assistant to the president for thinkers of the day in interesting and thought- institutional diversity and chief diversity officer at provoking conversations about everything from St. Olaf College (Minn.) politics and world events to career opportunities. • Lester Spence, associate professor of political Recent visitors to campus have included world- science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins renowned animal behavior expert and one of the University most widely-recognized professionals with autism in • Rajeev Raizada, assistant professor in the the country, Temple Grandin; Emmy award-winning Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at veteran of CBS News and a correspondent for “60 University of Rochester Minutes,” Bill Whitaker ’73, L.H.D. ’97; Harvard Professor of Public Service, best-selling author, CNN • Nancy Bernardo, award-winning designer and senior political analyst and trusted adviser to four U.S. artist Presidents, David Gergen L.H.D.’15; and co-host of • Valerie Sperling, professor of political science at NBC’s Today Show, Savannah Guthrie L.H.D.’12. Clark University; expert on Russian politics and the politics of gender Below is a list of some of the speakers who visited campus during the 2015-2016 academic year: • Peggy McIntosh, noted scholar, feminist and anti- racism activist • Dr. Cheryl Dorsey L.H.D. ’16, social entrepreneur • Benjamin Lawrance, the Hon. Barber B. Conable • Donna Brazile, veteran democratic political Jr. Endowed Chair of International and Global strategist Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology • Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren and Ithaca • Don Mitchell, author and distinguished professor Mayor and HWS Presidential Fellow Svante L. of geography in the Maxwell School at Syracuse Myrick University • Hon. Shireen Avis Fisher ’70, Justice of the • Michael Burkard ’68, associate professor of Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone English at Syracuse University, 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, poet • James Mark Shields, associate professor of comparative humanities and Asian thought at • Judith Gibbons, professor emerita of psychology Bucknell University and women’s studies at St. Louis University • Rachel Marston, fiction and nonfiction writer, and • Dr. Charlie Carter, Department of Biochemistry poet Timothy O’Keefe and Biophysics, UNC-Chapel Hill • Dr. Beth Boyer, associate professor of water • Yelena Minyonok, chief curator of the Folklore resources, Pennsylvania State University Archive and major researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow • Jen Bervin, visual artist and writer • Dr. Ron Hoy, Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell • Jess Row, writer and novelist University • Jody Gladding, poet, translator and hybrid-forms • Father Patrick Desbois, renowned Holocaust artist researcher and human rights activist • Marsha Weissman, founder and executive director of the Center for Community Alternatives

14 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former U.S. Secretary of State and Presidential Nominee

Cornel West, Author, Civil Rights Activist and Princeton University Professor of Religion Olympia Snowe, former U.S. Senator from Maine

Featured Speakers

George Chuck Todd, Chief Stephanopoulos, White House Gwen Ifill, Moderator Co-anchor of Correspondent and and Managing Editor of “Good Morning Political Director for “Washington Week” America” and NBC News Chief Political Correspondent for ABC News

Georgia Congressman Grover Norquist, founder Savannah Guthrie L.H.D. ’12, John Lewis, civil rights and president of Co-host of NBC’s Today Show movement leader Americans for Tax Reform.

2016 | Guide for New Students 15 Academic Resources

16 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The Warren Hunting Smith Library The Warren Hunting Smith Library is home to well over a quarter of a million volumes in all disciplines as well as personal and group study rooms and classrooms.

Professional reference librarians guide campus researchers to print and electronic resources and conduct a vigorous program of course-related research instruction in first-year through upper-level courses and for the Honors program throughout the year.

The online catalog provides access to the Colleges’ print, video and electronic holdings as well as electronic reserve materials for classes. A wide range of web- based resources are available through the Library’s webpage, including electronic- text databases, websites and connections to other library catalogs. Through cooperative agreements with a network of local and national libraries, students and faculty members use interlibrary loan services to gain access to a vast array of additional materials.

The Library is home to several special collections, including the Hobart and William Smith archives, which safeguards many primary research materials including the official Colleges archives and collections of rare books, manuscripts, photographs, local history materials and artwork.

The Rosensweig Learning Commons This state-of-the-art facility combines services and staff from the Library, Information Technology Services and the Center for Teaching and Learning to create a cohesive environment that supports complex learning, deep exploration and rigorous intellectual pursuit. The Rosensweig Learning Commons has transformed the Library into a space that uses technology to advance formal and informal instruction as well as individual and group research. Students and faculty now have a single site for research and collaboration, mediated by instructional technology, and designed to promote the skills of information fluency.

The Rosensweig Learning Commons reaffirms the Library as the heart of our academic community, where learning takes place in a complex environment of print and electronic resources that cultivates the research and technical skills for lifelong learning. The space has more than 130 computers with the availability of both Mac and Windows platforms, including a 24-hour area. From lounge chairs to tables, some of the pieces of furniture are wired for power and network connectivity so that students can flexibly move from space to space with laptops.

Information Technology The HWS IT Services Support Center, located in the Rosensweig Learning Commons, offers a full-service Help Desk. The Help Desk services all on-campus technologies from computers to audio-visual support of multimedia devices in classrooms and public spaces. The Help Desk also assists students in using and accessing on- campus software and learning tools. All students are provided an email account and storage space on the Colleges’ server. The Help Desk can assist with any setup or use of these resources. Additionally, the Help Desk supports student-owned machines and provides all diagnostics at no charge. There are fees for some repair and installation services.

2016 | Guide for New Students 17 Owning a computer is not a necessity The Center for Teaching and Learning Passwords at HWS, although it is helpful. If you opt not to bring a computer, there At the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), we believe Though you cannot are multiple computer labs available that in order to create, innovate, inspire, and lead lives of change your in the Warren Hunting Smith Library consequence, our journeys begin with four cornerstones: we HWS username, engage in our own learning processes in order to accomplish you can change and in other academic buildings. Labs are open throughout the day, the goals we set so that we can empower ourselves and others your password as and enrich our lives as learners and teachers. frequently as you’d and there is an all-night study area like. Visit password. in the Library atrium, giving students CTL programs promote critical engagement and reflection on hws.edu anytime computer access 24 hours per day teaching and learning in pursuit of the Colleges’ commitment to change your during the semester. password or retrieve to excellence, equity, innovation, and engaged citizenship. We a lost password. If you decide to bring your own view both teaching and learning as collaborative processes that computer, Hobart and William Smith value diversity of learning, teaching and disciplinary styles. is a wireless campus. All residence Our student enrichment programs are collaborative, peer-to- halls, academic buildings and outdoors spaces have fast, peer opportunities that are designed to help students become secure access to the network. independent and engaged critical thinkers who are ready to succeed in college and beyond. If you choose to purchase a computer, please keep the following recommendations in mind: The Teaching Fellows Program provides peer-to-peer, content- • Operating system – Windows 7 or later or Apple Macintosh based support for students in 12 academic departments: OS X 10.10 or later. Anthropology, Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Computer • Productivity – Microsoft Office 2016 can be downloaded Science, Economics, French and Francophone Studies, Music, and installed free of charge with a valid HWS student email Philosophy, Physics, Sociology, and Spanish and Hispanic account. Studies. Teaching Fellows are nominated by faculty in their • Warranty – 3 or 4 year parts and labor. department and work closely with faculty to support students. • Accidental Damage Protection – covers damage not included in warranty, such as from drops or spills. For writing support, students can make one-on-one appointments with CTL Writing Fellows. Writing Fellows are Computer Setup: trained peer facilitators who work with all students at any It is our expectation that if you bring a computer to campus, stage of their writing process (from brainstorming to drafting you are responsible for: to revising) for any academic paper, study abroad essay, or • Reading and understanding all manuals provided by the internship or graduate school application. Writing Fellows are manufacturer not editors or proofreaders; instead, they work with students on • Performing a basic computer setup development and structure in ways that help students become • Providing all system restoration media and keeping them more confident, conscientious, and effective writers. in a safe place • Meeting minimum campus standards for connection to our The CTL’s Q Fellows Program is designed to enhance student network learning around the quantitative reasoning requirement at HWS. • Running an up-to-date anti-virus application on your The Q Fellows work with students individually and in small computer groups to solve problems involving quantitative reasoning, • Connecting personal printers via USB cable, not via Wi-Fi algebraic processing, logic skills, and with Excel. Q Fellows or wired Network as they can degrade our Wi-Fi network work across disciplines and are able to work with students on performance for all users. material through Calculus II. • Not installing wireless routers – they are not permitted on campus as they degrade our Wi-Fi network. The CTL also offers a Study Mentor Program to help students with organization, time management, and general study skills. IT Services offers a variety of part-time employment Study Mentors are peer facilitators who help first-year students opportunities for students. For more information regarding make the transition from high school to college and help all student computer recommendations or about working for IT, students adjust to increased course workloads throughout please contact the HWS Help Desk at [email protected]. students’ college careers.

For students in courses that are not supported by the Teaching Fellows, Study Tables provide content-based support to students who wish to improve their understanding in a particular course. Study Tables are group sessions led by faculty-nominated student facilitators through which students can access small-group learning support.

In addition, the CTL offers a variety of resources for students preparing for class presentations or academic fellowship interviews.

18 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The CTL is open Monday – Friday and our student support services Writing Colleagues are available by appointment/drop-in Sunday through Thursday. Writing Colleagues (WC) are specially trained students from For more information about the CTL, please visit us on the a diverse range of majors who are interested in writing and second floor of the library, or at www.hws.edu/academics/ctl, supporting other students in their writing process. A WC is both or contact the CTL at (315) 781-3351 or [email protected]. a colleague to the professor (by assisting in writing assignment design or discussing writing strategies) and a colleague to students (by talking with them about drafts and working through Disability Services assignments). WCs are placed in specific courses, often a first- Hobart and William Smith Colleges cultivate an inclusive and year seminar; if there is a WC associated with your course, you’ll supporting learning community that values the diverse learning meet with the WC on a regular basis to discuss multiple drafts of styles of our students. The Office of Disability Services, housed your written work for the course. This peer-to-peer program is a in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), is committed to unique service provided to Hobart and William Smith students, providing students with disabilities access to HWS programs and most students find that a WC helps them significantly and activities. We strive to provide the appropriate individualized improve their writing skills in a friendly, low-stress setting. accommodations necessary for students with disabilities to succeed. We seek to promote academic achievement and extracurricular involvement, and to help students take full Academic Opportunity Programs advantage of the opportunities available at HWS. Academic Opportunity Programs, which includes the Arthur O. To become eligible for disability-related accommodations, Eve Higher Education Program, are special programs designed students must self-identify and submit appropriate to provide broad and varied educational experiences to capable documentation of disability to the Disability Services Office in students who, due to academic under-preparation and limited the CTL. Following the documentation and registration process, financial resources, might otherwise not have an opportunity to students with disabilities meet at the beginning of each attend college. semester with the Coordinator of Disability Services to develop an accommodation plan for that semester. As a result of these Students accepted to the Colleges through the Academic meetings, students are supplied with an individualized letter Opportunity Programs Office attend the HWS Summer Institute, for each of their instructors, outlining the disability-related a five-week intensive summer program that includes courses in accommodations appropriate in that course for that semester. college writing, geoscience, the humanities, analysis of film and study skills for college success. In addition, the student club, a chapter of the national Eye to Eye organization, matches interested HWS students and Geneva The Summer Institute sets the foundation for making the middle school students with learning disabilities in an arts-based successful transition into HWS through academic preparation mentorship program. The chapter at HWS has been lauded for in essential skills necessary for college success, and building being one of the most vibrant and successful across the country identity and community as new college students. and for our participation in Disability Awareness Month. Having an Eye to Eye chapter on campus has created a connected and Students enrolled in Academic Opportunity Programs have access empowered community of students with LD/ADHD, which benefits to a full-need financial aid package. Aid is provided through a the entire community with a visible diversity. combination of grants, loans and work. First-year students also receive assistance in purchasing their books and supplies. To learn more about accommodations for students with disabilities at HWS, please visit the Disability Services website at In addition to financial aid, the program also provides support www.hws.edu/disabilities or contact the office at (315) 781-3351 services for students, including regular academic, personal, or [email protected]. financial and career counseling designed to help students

2016 | Guide for New Students 19 successfully complete their program of study at Hobart and and housing. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to William Smith Colleges. concentrate on a focused research topic with close mentorship from faculty members. The application process for this During counseling sessions, academic work is reviewed and competitive program begins in January. discussed to ensure that the student is effectively using the skill sets learned over the summer. When necessary, the staff The Finger Lakes Institute also works closely with students to make them aware of other appropriate campus resources, such as the Counseling Center, The Finger Lakes Institute (FLI), founded in 2004, is dedicated Global Education, Career Services, the Center for Community to the promotion of environmental research and education Engagement and Service Learning, the Deans, faculty advisers, about the Finger Lakes and surrounding environments. In Financial Aid and the Center for Teaching and Learning. collaboration with regional partners and state and local government offices, the Institute fosters environmentally sound development practices throughout the region and disseminates Undergraduate Research accumulated knowledge to the public. Many HWS students apply their classroom knowledge to the outside world through The goals of the FLI are to field research in their chosen advance and coordinate major or minor area. Hobart scientific research about the and William Smith’s unique Finger Lakes environment; location in the heart of the provide interdisciplinary Finger Lakes region allows for a training for the next generation wide range of research options. of environmental researchers, Many students complete educators, and policy makers; an independent study and/ enhance understanding of or Honors Project, and many environmental issues by regional present the results of their work policy makers and the public; at local, regional or national promote models that integrate meetings. economic, environmental, and social impacts of specific Most semesters, students economic development studying the natural and physical strategies; and create and sciences are actively engaged in a disseminate educational research or field study project. resources and opportunities.

They complete their fieldwork The Institute is a great resource in state-of-the-art facilities on for students interested in aquatic campus, with local health-care sciences, environmental studies, practices, with the Finger Lakes community development, and Institute (FLI), with local public outreach. There are a environmental organizations or Hands-on research in your chosen field number of different student in our superb outdoor laboratory, opportunities at the FLI each which includes Seneca Lake and semester including internships, our own Hanley Biological Field Preserve located 15 minutes independent studies, and volunteer projects. In addition, at from campus. least four summer research students are supported by the FLI Endowment every summer. Students studying the social sciences are given opportunities to conduct fieldwork starting as early as the first semester. Some Additionally, FLI hosts a wide range of programs open to the recent projects have included a study of grassroots activism HWS community and general public, including evening lectures, and school reform in Rochester, N.Y., and research about the symposia, exhibits, conferences and public service events. master plan for parks of Geneva, N.Y. Some recent events include campus talks by sustainability Students in the humanities and the arts are also encouraged to experts David Orr and Steve Curwood, a rotating art exhibit pursue an area of interest whether through in-depth study of a highlighting the Finger Lakes natural environment, K-12 particular artist or undertaking a significant artistic project of teacher training events focused on citizen science and water their own. Recent examples include writing a play and creating quality, symposia addressing invasive species, a series of a series of surrealist paintings. events focused on local food at the HWS Fribolin Farm, and an ongoing sustainable community development lecture series. The HWS Summer Research Program allows students to work individually with a faculty member on a research project over an eight-week period either on campus, at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station or in the Audubon Seabird Restoration Project. Students generally receive a stipend

20 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The President’s Past President’s Forum information, visit the Fisher Center website: Speakers www.hws.edu/academics/fisher_center/index. Forum Over the past 16 years, The aspx or contact the Director, Professor of The 2015-2016 President’s Forum Series has Political Science Jodi Dean at [email protected]. series focused on welcomed some of the most a variety of timely important and recognizable Featured Speakers topics, including civic politicians, intellectuals and engagement, law and social activists to campus, HWS students meet with and hear from politics. Guests included: including: international speakers throughout the • Hillary Rodham Clinton semester during annual and special events. • Donna Brazile, veteran democratic • Howard Dean political strategist, vice chair for civic • Dr. Wangari Maathai Convocation: Convocation officially kicks engagement and voter participation at the • Cornel West off the academic year by bringing together • Sam Donaldson Democratic National Committee, nationally faculty, staff and students to hear notable • Barney Frank syndicated columnist, and was the first speakers who set forth the tone and theme • Michael Dukakis for the academic year. Past speakers have African-American to manage a presidential • George Stephanopoulos campaign; • Ralph Nader included former Secretary of State Madeleine • Gwen Ifill K. Albright, Congressman John Lewis, CNN’s • Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren and • Andrew M. Cuomo Chief National Correspondent John King, Ithaca Mayor and HWS Presidential Fellow • David Dinkins Peace Corps Director Aaron S. Williams and Svante L. Myrick; • Jonathan Kozol actor Christopher McDonald ’77, L.H.D.’13. • Bill Whitaker ’73, L.H.D. ’97, Emmy • Carol M. Browner • Michael Elliott Commencement: Commencement is the award-winning veteran of CBS News and a • Joe Solmonese correspondent for “60 Minutes”; • Tara Wall annual celebration of students who’ve completed degree requirements in the past • Hon. Shireen Avis Fisher ’70, Justice of the • Adam Nagourney • Dr. Anthony Cortese year. Past Commencement speakers who have Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. • Michael Arcuri offered their reflections and advice for the • Bairbre de Brún future include feminist icon Gloria Steinem, The Fisher Center for the Study • Ambassador Swanee Hunt NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Emmy-award • Eric Liu winning writer, producer and director Brad of Women and Men • Ray Burghardt • Dee Dee Myers Falchuk ’93, L.H.D.’14, and Harvard professor, The Fisher Center brings together faculty, • Grover Norquist author, CNN senior political analyst and students and experts in gender-related fields • Jim Hightower trusted advisor to four U.S. Presidents, David to foster mutual understanding and social • Helen Thomas Gergen L.H.D.’15. justice in contemporary society. • Nancy Soderberg • George McGovern The Elizabeth Blackwell Award: The Elizabeth • Kerry Kennedy Cuomo Established in 1998, the Fisher Center Blackwell Award, given to women whose lives • Alan Keyes supports curricular, programmatic and • Bishop Gene Robinson exemplify outstanding service to humankind, scholarly projects that address the question: • Judy Shepard is named for Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the How do we more clearly realize, through • Amory B. Lovins first woman in modern times to receive our educational program, scholarship, • Eleanor Clift the Doctor of Medicine degree. Blackwell and presence in the larger community, our • Alan Khazei earned her degree in 1849 from Geneva democratic ideals of equity, mutual respect, • Women of SNCC: Judy Medical College, Hobart College’s precursor Richardson, Betty Garman and common interest in relations between the institution. Hobart and William Smith Robinson, Dorothy M. Zellner Colleges confer The Elizabeth Blackwell Award genders? To this end, the • Jamal Simmons Fisher Center sponsors a Faculty Fellows • Cecile Richards whenever a candidate of sufficient stature Research Seminar and a Speaker Series that • Rev. Dr. Marvin A. McMickle and appropriate qualifications is identified. brings visiting speakers to campus. The • Christopher Howard The first award was given in 1958, and most Fisher Center also offers a Pre-doctoral • Svante L. Myrick recently in 2015 when it was awarded to Fellowship. The Predoctoral Fellow offers a • Cleveland L. Sellers Jr. Dr. Janet L. Yellen, chair of the Board of • Gus Schumacher course for students each term. Governors of the Federal Reserve System. • Todd S. Purdum Other notable recipients include The Most Rev. • Dr. Kathy Platoni ’74 The Center was endowed with a significant gift • Victor Simpson ’63 Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop from Emily and the late Richard Fisher, whose • Neal Conan and Ken Rudin of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the son Alexander graduated from Hobart College • William A. Galston United States of America, former Secretary of in 1993. At the intersection of the Colleges’ • Victoria Reggie Kennedy State Madeleine K. Albright, Supreme Court coordinate history and academic trends in • Mary Matalin P’17 and James Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Nobel Peace Carville P’17, L.H.D.’13 the study of gender, the Fisher Center focuses Prize laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai Sc.D.’94, • Dr. Susan Brison P’94, P’96, professional tennis legend Billie its efforts each year on an interdisciplinary, • Michael Kimmel gender-based research theme. The theme • Elizabeth Frawley Bagley Jean King, Special Olympics Founder Eunice for 2016-2017 is “No Place Like Home.” The • Nancy L. Zimpher Kennedy Shriver and anthropologist and Fisher Center welcomes student projects author Margaret Mead. and ideas that explore this theme. For more

2016 | Guide for New Students 21 EnENhaHAnceNCE Your YOUR HWS ExHperienceWS EXPERIENCE

22 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education

At Hobart and William Smith, career planning isn’t only for seniors; instead you can begin to understand your capabilities and explore your interests as soon as you arrive on campus.

Through a carefully cultivated career development plan called Pathways, you’ll discover your interests, explore related career fields, participate in one (or more) of the literally thousands of available internships and take advantage of job shadowing HWS Students Interned and networking opportunities with an extensive group of HWS alums, parents Where?!? and friends. Students follow a four-step process that helps them to secure career objectives after graduation. What makes the program distinctive is its length and According to experts, 65% of all jobs breadth, featuring a support network dedicated to sustaining growth and success in come from internships or networking the professional development process. opportunities. In the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Once you’ve decided to pursue a certain area of interest, career services Experiential Education, the staff works professionals will help you prepare to take the next step, whether that means going extensively with our alum and parent to graduate school, applying for fellowships or entering the workforce. If your goal groups to develop career, internship is to continue your education, the staff will help you prepare for graduate-level and networking opportunities for HWS exams, write a personal statement and look into financing options. If you plan to students at companies all over the apply for fellowships, the Fellowships Adviser can help you complete applications, world, including: gather letters of reference and prepare for interviews. And, if you’re looking for your ABC News first job, you’ll get the help you need preparing your professional resume, practicing Bank of America interview techniques, identifying opportunities and learning how to accept, decline Buffalo Bills and negotiate offers. Chegg Children’s Defense Fund In addition to career-focused support, all entering first-year students who successfully Christie’s complete the Pathways program will be guaranteed an internship and a stipend to Colliers International support it if it is unpaid. The Charles H. Salisbury Summer International Internship Stipend also provides financial support of up to $20,000 each for three or more Condé Nast Publications students interested in pursuing an international internship experience. By supplementing DFS Galleria classroom education with internship experience, students gain a practical understanding Environmental Protection Agency of the demands and rewards of future careers. All rising sophomores, juniors and ESPN seniors enrolled at HWS are eligible to apply to receive an award. Fidelity Investments Ford Foundation By taking advantage of all of the excellent resources made available through the GQ Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education, you’ll have the HarperCollins clarity to articulate and realize your goals by the time you graduate. HWS alums go JP Morgan on to graduate school, law school and medical school. They win Fulbright and Rhodes Kenneth Cole Fashions scholarships. They are pioneers in business, the arts, the sciences and nonprofits. If Lockheed Martin you aspire to a similar future, consider enhancing your HWS experience with a visit MTV to the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education soon after National Audubon Society your arrival on campus. They’ll set you off on the path to success. NASA National Science Foundation If you’d like more information about available programs or have specific questions NBC Studios about the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education, New York Stock Exchange contact [email protected] or (315) 781-3514. Octagon Sports Marketing Partnership for Public Service Sotheby’s The Smithsonian Institution Universal McCann U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of State

2016 | Guide for New Students 23 Centennial Center for Leadership Established in 2008 in honor of the William Smith centennial year, the Centennial Center for Leadership (CCL) is an interface for the study of leadership and leadership development at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The CCL is deeply invested in developing leaders who are innovative problem-solvers in local and global communities.

CCL’s core model includes four focus areas: leadership development, entrepreneurial leadership, global leadership and community leadership. Embedded in the ethos of the Colleges, these specialty areas are uniquely fostered by a liberal arts environment.

Leadership Development: CCL encourages participants to study leadership as they practice it. We offer a two-prong approach, which is characterized by academic enrichment and applied engagement. Leadership development opportunities include:

• HWS Leads Certificate Program: The HWS Leads Leadership Program is designed to purposefully guide students in the study of leadership as well as offer the opportunity to develop as a leader through academic enrichment and applied learning. This program provides the foundation for students to embark upon, or continue, their journey of developing into ethical, inclusive and value- based leaders. • Leadership Institute: Leadership Institute (LI) is a two-and- a-half day professional conference experience that builds leadership. LI provides 30 different concurrent sessions as well as reflective home group meetings that build community and assist students with the development of an develop ideas. At the end of the six weeks, lab participants individual action plan. resubmit their proposals for a chance at start up funding from a pool of $3,000. • Student Advisory Board: As the CCL continues to grow student voice is critical to our planning, mission and efforts • Innovation Academy: The Innovation Academy is an to impact campus and the surrounding community. The intensive five-day training in entrepreneurial leadership Student Advisory Board (SAB) provides input for strategic concepts such as accounting, marketing, strategy and planning, selects applicants for the HWS Leads program implementation. Students work closely with a variety of and helps craft student-centered programming. consulting experts in a series of workshops designed to further his or her entrepreneurial idea. • Fellowships: Each year, the CCL offers financial support to innovative student leaders in the form of fellowships. HWS • HWS Hackathon: The HWS Hackathon is an exciting exercise Trustee Dr. Steven Cohen ’67 sponsors the Cohen Fellowship in social innovation and teamwork. One social issue with for $1,500 to a student leader for a self-designed project. local and global implications is selected then revealed to participants just before the event. Participants work in teams and have 24 hours to ‘hack’ the social issue by Entrepreneurial Leadership: Entrepreneurs are drivers of developing an idea that addresses the problem. Teams pitch innovation and leaders are the primary force behind positive their idea to a panel of judges for a chance to win prizes. change. Together, entrepreneurial leaders have the potential to power sustainable solutions to our most challenging problems. Entrepreneurial leadership opportunities include: Global Leadership: Global leaders are change agents engaged in influencing international communities toward shared visions • The Stu Lieblein ’90 Pitch Contest: The Pitch is a six- and common goals. Their work is shaped by a global context that month experience in applied entrepreneurial learning. is characterized by multiplicity, interdependence, ambiguity and Students submit proposals for products, services or steady flux. Global leadership opportunities include: organizations (for-profit or non-profit). Semi-finalists are selected and matched with an alum mentor. Finalists are • Beyond Borders: A semester-long academic partnership invited to pitch their idea to a panel of alum judges for a with the Stellenbosch University’s Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert chance to win a $10,000 grant toward their idea. Institute for Leadership Development (FVZS), Beyond Borders teams HWS students and faculty with South African • IdeaLab: Students submit a brief proposal that outlines an counterparts to collaborate on shared challenges between idea for a product, service or organization. Top ideas are the U.S. and South Africa. selected to join a six-week accelerator program designed to

24 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Community Leadership: Community leaders are driven by a desire for positive social change. Based on the values of equity, service and social justice, these leaders cultivate partners, harness assets and create sustainable solutions to community- identified needs. Community leadership opportunities include:

• Youth Leadership College: The HWS Youth Leadership College is a curriculum designed for elementary and middle school leaders. Young leaders from the community participate in leadership sessions that follow the CCL’s signature model of Leading Self, Leading Others, and Leadership in Action.

For more information contact the CCL at (315) 781-4550 or email at [email protected]. 60% of Center for Global Education HWS While only about 2% of college and university students students nationwide study abroad, at HWS 60% do so. study We believe that immersion in another culture is a powerful way abroad of learning, which is why we encourage our students to study abroad during their time at the Colleges, whether the experience is a semester studying Chinese language and culture in Beijing, • Hanoi, Vietnam taking classes at a university in South Africa, or learning French • Hikone, Japan and completing an internship in Belgium. Where • Hong Kong • Landau, Germany As many current students will tell you, immersing yourself Will You • Leipzig, Germany in another culture often changes how you view yourself and • London, England others while expanding your views of who you are and what • Maastricht, Netherlands you can become. Study? • Mendoza, Argentina • Aix-en-Provence, France • Norwich, England The Colleges provide opportunities for off-campus study • Amman, Jordan • Perth, Australia by sponsoring a variety of programs in different academic • Auckland, New Zealand • Prague, Czech Republic disciplines throughout the world. Sophomores, juniors and • Barnaul, Russia • Québec City, Canada seniors in good standing are eligible to apply to experience life in • Bath, England • Queensland, Australia another country through nearly 50 semester-long options and a • Beijing or Nanjing, China • Rennes, France wide variety of short-term summer programs. • Berlin, Germany • Rome, Italy • Bremen, Germany • San Joaquín de Flores, You must apply to study abroad about one year in advance, • Brussels, Belgium Costa Rica so you should begin considering abroad programs as early as • Budapest, Hungary • São Paulo, Brazil your first semester on campus. Consult the Center for Global • Chichester, England • Seoul, Korea Education website at www.hws.edu/academics/global/ for • Copenhagen, Denmark • Seville, Spain specific program details about academic focus, accommodations, • Dakar, Senegal • Taipei, Taiwan eligibility and approximate costs. • Ecuador/Peru • Tokyo, Japan • Edinburgh, Scotland • Townsville/Cairns, Australia If you have any questions, contact the Center for Global • Freiburg, Germany • Tuebingen, Germany Education at (315) 781-3307. • Galway, Ireland • Washington, D.C. • Grahamstown, South Africa

2016 | Guide for New Students 25 Community Engagement and Service further develop the kind of character that will act as a compass for life and cultivate the skills to lead a life of consequence. Learning If you’d like more information about short-term community At Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a liberal arts education service or on-going civic engagement opportunities available is more than a major and a minor; it’s about becoming a person through HWS, contact the Center for Community Engagement who has the experience and skills to be an engaged leader. and Service Learning at [email protected] or (315) 781-3825.

The Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning Community Service connects students with the greater community and then provides opportunities to build the skills necessary for active During Orientation weekend, you’ll join your peers and citizenship through a variety of on- and off-campus events, upperclass mentors to work on a community service project which range in commitment at one of more than 25 sites from a Saturday afternoon in the Geneva and surrounding to once a week or full time communities. Recent Orientation “Summer of Service” paid service projects have included internships in June and July at assisting staff at the Geneva local nonprofit agencies. Community Center, clearing brush at the Kashong Conservation Students take service-learning Area, distributing school supplies classes ranging from the to local youth as they prepare “Economics of Caring” to for the start of a new academic “Introduction to Sociology” year, and working alongside and “Morality and Self- neighbors of one of the 11 unique Interest,” working 2-3 hours neighborhoods in the City of weekly with organizations Geneva. that address important social justice issues. Students This morning of service is an also have the opportunity important introduction to the to complete a community- community as well as a way to based research project during demonstrate the importance of their junior or senior year. engagement on campus. In fact, These projects are sustained, that ethic is so deeply engrained semester-long commitments in our community that it even has dedicated to the exploration a name: The Geneva Partnership. of local challenges and opportunities in conjunction Offering a helping hand, many with a community partner. Geneva community members and During the spring 2016 HWS faculty and staff members semester, Rachael Best ’16, Katie Rogan ’17 and Jeff Rizza work side-by-side with incoming students each year, getting ’16 constructed an educational-scale aquaponics system into the spirit of service and showing their commitment to the through an independent study in the Environmental Studies community, too. Program. The project, funded by grants from the Carver and Delaney Family Environmental Studies Endowment and Giving Back While Earning College Funds Kloman Fellowship Fund, aims to inform members of the Through a Federal Work Study Program HWS community and greater Geneva community about the myriad benefits of aquaponic food production methods and Students who are federal work study eligible have a unique sustainable agriculture more broadly. opportunity to make money while giving back to the Geneva community through America Reads and America Counts. Throughout your time at HWS, you’ll connect the classroom America Reads tutors work one-on-one and in small groups on to the community and cultivate the leadership skills to make reading skills with students from six local elementary schools, a difference. Maybe you’ll travel to North Carolina or Virginia while America Counts tutors work with Geneva Middle School for an ‘Alternative’ Spring Break, lead an America Reads team students on basic computation and math skills. of elementary school tutors or help build a house alongside the future homeowners with Habitat for Humanity during Tutors, who typically make a yearlong commitment to the Pre-Orientation. Perhaps you’ll travel with peers to a civic program, need no previous teaching experience, although students related conference or become a Big Brother or Big Sister, who are interested in America Counts should be proficient in join a local not-for profit board of directors, or organize a advanced math. Transportation to the school sites is provided. fundraiser that supports cancer research. The Geneva 2020 initiative brings every local second, sixth, and ninth grader to Hobart and William Smith were recently ranked 12th in the campus to promote college and career readiness goals. HWS nation among those institutions that support community students are a vital component to the success of this program initiatives through federal work study. Also in support of a federal and contribute to the vitality of our important campus and initiative, HWS is one of only 100 colleges that matches a part of community relationship. Whatever your involvement, you’ll the AmeriCorps education voucher when applied to tuition.

26 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES 2016 | Guide for New Students 27 Living at HWS

28 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Residence Life First-year students are housed in double, triple or quad rooms in co-ed and single-gender buildings across campus. If you’d like to request a roommate for your first-year, you may e-mail [email protected]. While we cannot guarantee a requested roommate during your first-year, upperclass students select rooms and roommates through a lottery process during the spring semester in preparation for the upcoming academic year.

The Office of Residential Education takes a variety of factors into consideration when assigning first-year students to a residential community. While not all preferences can be met, preferences about substance-free lifestyle communities, same-sex or co-ed residence halls and Learning Communities are all taken into consideration; typically, students live near other students in their First-Year Seminar.

Whether you live on a co-ed floor or in a single-gender residence, you’ll be provided with a desk, chair, dresser, closet or wardrobe and bed as well as window shades. The beds are elevated so that you can store items under them, but you can also request that your bed be lofted (lifted about 6 feet off the ground, like the top bunk of a bed). Once the bed is lofted, you could put your desk or dresser under it to save space. We recommend extra long twin sheets.

Each first-year residence hall also houses Resident Assistants (RAs). This team of peer leaders is charged with developing a sense of community in the residence halls. The RAs plan fun and informational events throughout the year, like pumpkin carving at Halloween or discussions about social justice. They are trained to field questions on any issues, including personal, academic and student life concerns. You can ask them about pretty much anything; if they can’t help, they’ll be able to direct you to someone who can.

Though most residence halls and homes have a small kitchen area, each student is allowed a small mini-fridge that can be rented from the Refrigerator Leasing Company at (607) 431-9525. In addition, linens and other room items can be purchased via Residential Education’s website.

All students are issued the HWS OneCard, a multi-purpose identification and debit card that provides a single source of access to a variety of campus and off-campus services.

Packing for College YES • network cable • winter clothes • Large refrigerators • pencil sharpener (scarves, hats, (above 3 cubic feet) To Pack • phone gloves, boots, • Fireworks/ • alarm clock • pictures or posters coats) pyrotechnics • athletic clothes or • pillows and • Building lofts equipment pillowcases NO and other wood • batteries • poster putty structures • backpack • power cord for Not To Pack • Firearms and/ or • bike computer • Candles/open weapons (including • bulletin board • radio or stereo flame devices air guns, bb guns, • calendar • raincoat/ umbrella • Incense paintball • clothes hangers • sheets, blankets • Extension guns, pistols, • computer and comforters cords/“Octopus knives, etc.) Open House at the • desk supplies • single-serve plugs” • Any pet that is (tape, stapler, etc.) coffeemaker (like • Multi-plug not a fish President’s Home • fan Keurig brand) Must adapters • Any fish tank • flashlight and have automatic • Cooking appliances more than ach week during the academic batteries shut off. (toaster ovens, hot 10 gal. year, Mary Herlihy Gearan opens • lamps - no halogen pots, coffee pots, E • surge protectors The President’s Home to students or octopus lamps Foreman grills) (UL-listed only) to provide a home-away-from- • laundry bag or • Microwave ovens • toiletries basket or home on the HWS campus. The basket & detergent (except for bucket informal gathering gives students an • mugs, glasses, • towels Colleges-approved opportunity to relax, enjoy good food cups, silverware • trash bin micro-fridges) and company, and talk about just about anything from current events to This list is a guide; it is not all-inclusive. If you are unsure about a specific on- campus activities. item, please contact Res Ed at [email protected] or (315) 781-3880.

2016 | Guide for New Students 29 TOP 10 MOST POPULAR Eating at HWS FOODS IN SAGA Student Activities At Hobart and William Smith, all students At Hobart and William Smith, learning doesn’t are required to have a meal plan. Meal 1. Chicken Breast—Any stop at the classroom door. As you meet people, plans are for use in Saga Dining Hall, Style (Marsala, Speedie, join clubs and find your sense of place at HWS, located in Scandling Campus Center, which Balsamic Marinated, you will become a part of a community that never offers breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Char-Grilled) stops thinking, never stops learning and never 2. Saga’s Homemade stops questioning. You’ll have a variety of choices at each Chocolate Chip Cookies meal, from the salad bar and delicious 3. Showtime There are more than 100 student groups at HWS healthy entrees to pizza, and fresh-baked Demonstration Cooking that address a broad range of interests, including desserts. Dining Services also offers several (Creamy Chicken Chipotle, politics, performing and studio arts, community vegetarian and vegan options at each Mashed Potato Bowls, service, activism, media and sports. Between meal, and the staff is willing and able to Butternut Squash Tortellini) club activities, performances and volunteer accommodate students with special dietary 4. Made to Order Omelet opportunities, there are many ways for you to requirements, at our Simple Servings Station & Breakfast at explore your interests, have fun and make a station, or by working directly with our Dinner difference. 5. Grill Station Specialty culinary team and executive chef. Burgers of the Week The HWS Involvement Expo, which will be held on (Smokehouse Burger, In addition to Saga, there are three other Friday, Sept. 2, is a great opportunity to explore Bacon Cheddar Burger, on-campus eateries — the Café, Cellar Pub Mushroom Swiss Burger) what HWS has to offer. During the event, each club and de Cordova Café — where you can use 6. Oodles Asian Style has its own table set up on the Quad, and first- cash, snack money or one-swipe meals for a Noodle Bowls year students can meet the club leaders and not fresh-made taco lunch, a delicious smoothie, 7. Homemade Macaroni & only find out what’s planned for the semester, but a late night quesadilla or a variety of salads, Cheese also how to get involved. cold sandwiches, fresh-baked pastries, 8. Hornitos Pulled Pork snacks and Starbucks beverages. 9. “Mindful” Branded Clubs and club sports vary somewhat from year to Complete Meals year in response to student interests, and students First-year students must select a Basic, 10. Made to Order Specialty are encouraged to start their own club with help Silver or Gold meal plan. You can add Salads (Chicken Caesar, from the Office of Student Activities, if a club additional snack money to your account Strawberry Fields Salad, that covers their interests doesn’t exist. Student at any time during the year by visiting the Chinese Chicken Salad) Activities is located on the second floor of the kiosk at the entrance to Saga Dining Hall, Scandling Campus Center. calling (315) 781-4018 or submitting a deposit. Students can add snack money by emailing Fraternity Life [email protected]. Please include the amount you would like to also add and your Student ID number. Students and parents Almost from its foundation in 1822, Hobart College has had may also add snack money in $25 increments through our a fraternity system. By 1860, Hobart students had discovered e-commerce website at hwsdining.sodexomyway.com/shop/ the powerful bonds of brotherhood through membership in the newproducts. Snack money is nonrefundable and must be used Kappa Alpha Society (1844) followed by Theta Delta Chi (1857) by the end of the academic year. Students who wish to change and Chi Phi (1860). The 20th century witnessed an explosion their meal plan may do so on myResEd (housing.hws.edu). of fraternities throughout the nation. At Hobart, three more Reductions to meal plans are accepted through the second chapters (still active today) were founded: Kappa Sigma (1935), week of class each semester. Delta Chi (1948) and Phi Sigma Kappa (1950). In 1982 Sigma Chi was founded and recently came back as a chapter after a If you have questions about dining on campus or special brief hiatus. Today, these chapters provide a band of brothers, dietary needs or restrictions, don’t hesitate to contact Dining supporting one another through the rigors of college life, Services at (315) 781-3092. staying active in service to the community and taking on unique leadership opportunities.

30 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES 2015-2016 CLUBS

• Alpine Ski Team Hobart • First Generation initiative • HWS Figure Skating Club • Phoenix Players • Alpine Ski Team William Smith • Fly Fishing Club • HWS Free-Ski and Snowboard • Pianos for Patients • Anime Central • Geoscience @ HWS Club • Pre-Health Professions Club • Arts & Design Collective • German Club • HWS French and Francophone • Pride Alliance • Asian Student Union • Habitat for Humanity Club • Project Nur • Book Club • Health Promotions club • HWS Girl Up • Psychology Club • Brazilian Jui-Jitsuan • Her Campus • HWS Improv Club • R.E.N.E.W. • Budget Allocations Committee • Hillel • HWS Live • Race and Racism Coalition • Campus Activities Board • Hip-Notiqs Step Team • HWS ORAP • Sankofa: Black Student Union • Campus Greens • Hobart Club Basketball • HWS Real Estate Club • South Asian Culture Club • Campus Peer Ministries • HWS Bowling • HWS Rotaract • Spoon University • Caribbean Student Association • Hobart Club Baseball • HWs Running Club • Studio Arts Collective • Coalition for Educational Equity • Hobart Club Ice Hockey • HWS SOCIAL Club • The Executives • Coding Club • Hobart Club Lacrosse • HWS Sustainable Foods Club • The Herald • College Democrats • Hobart Club Soccer • HWS Ultimate Frisbee/Seneca • The Second Chances Program • College Experience Outreach • Hobart Club Squash Flyers • Thel: Literary Magazine • College Republicans • Hobart Rugby Football Club • HWS Votes! • Three Miles Lost • Colleges Against Cancer • Hobart Student Government • International Students • UNICEF at HWS • Days of Service • HWS Art History Society Association • Wildlife Conservation • Debate Team • HWS Chess Club • Investment Club • William Smith Club Ice Hockey • Drop the Mic • HWS Christian Fellowship • Koshare Dance Collective • William Smith Club Lacrosse • Ducks Unlimited • HWS Club Tennis • Latin American Organization • William Smith Club Soccer • English Country Dancing Club • HWS CrossFit Club • Martini student newspaper • William Smith Congress • Entrepreneurship Club • HWS Electronic Dance Music • Nerd Herd • William Smith Rugby • Eye to Eye Club • No Labels HWS Chapter • William Smith Volleyball • Film Club • HWS Equestrian Team • Peace Action at HWS • Women’s Collective • Finance Club • HWS Fencing • Perfect Third A Cappella

Campus Activities Board Recent IC programs have included the Transnational Student Talk (on Palestinian refugee identities), the Fulbright The student-run Campus Activities Board (CAB) organizes Forum (on Europe’s independence movements), as well an array of events throughout the year for the entire campus as conversations on students’ experiences abroad (Hong to enjoy. These events include concerts, open mic nights, Kong and Australia) and teach-ins on sustaining social movie nights at the local theatre, comedians, carnivals and movements on campus. IC also hosts international dinners, much more. In the 2015-2016 academic year, CAB hosted language departments’ film series and career opportunity Quadapalooza during Homecoming and Family Weekend; discussions. All students are encouraged to spend time in a regular Open Mic Night program that welcomes singer- a home-like environment, taking advantage of our multi- songwriters and comedians; the annual Spring Fest program; purpose spaces such as a well-stocked game room, a and a Relaxation Week during finals that includes massages computer lab, a conference room and a TV lounge. and other spa treatments. Getting Around Campus Intercultural Affairs The Hobart and William Smith campus is within easy walking The Intercultural Affairs distance of many services that you may need, like grocery Center (IC) is a place that stores, banks, restaurants and a movie theatre. Because of creates an environment its central location many students find that they don’t really where students find support, need a car on campus. The most common modes of campus challenges, and grounding INTERCULTURAL transportation are walking and biking. for their personal growth, affairs academic success and the To promote alternative modes of transportation (i.e. other than development of leadership personal motor vehicles), the Colleges offer several services, skills. Students are encouraged to become leaders, mentors including: shuttles, a bicycle loan program, car sharing and to excel academically with an understanding of difference program, and others. The campus shuttles, implemented through a local and international lens. IC provides opportunities to reduce student driving and subsequent greenhouse gas for conversation during regularly scheduled programs. emissions, operate seven nights a week on a pre-set route from The Colleges’ cultural, global awareness and social justice clubs 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and later on weekends, transporting students meet and plan their events at our Center.

2016 | Guide for New Students 31 around campus and to several off-campus sites, including a Sustainability local grocery store. All shuttle fleet vehicles are distinctively marked with the HWS logo and colors. When President Mark D. Gearan signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2007, he Students who prefer to get around campus on foot but are made Hobart and William Smith Colleges a charter member concerned about traveling alone can request a “Safe Ride” from of an effort to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, those Campus Safety. Campus Safety Officers are available to escort responsible for climate change. As you students around campus, especially after dark and when the arrive on campus, be assured that all shuttles are not running. Students in need of a safe ride should lighting is energy efficient Compact contact the Campus Safety Office from a safe, well-lit location, Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) or Light Emitting and a uniformed officer will meet them and transport them to Diodes (LEDs). their destination. Since formalizing our commitment in Sustainability at HWS Bikes are also a popular form of transportation – bring your 2007, sustainability has become an own bike or borrow one of ours. The HWS Yellow Bike program, important part of campus culture. The sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, allows students to dining hall and café feature three bin waste receptacles: one lease one of the Colleges’ bikes for the semester for a small, for organic waste, one for trash and one for recyclables; and refundable deposit. Bikes are leased on a first-come, first- offer a $.25 discount to individuals who use a reusable mug/ served basis, and they tend to go quickly. If you’re interested in water bottle. HWS started purchasing wind power in 2004 and, the bike program, please contact the Office of Sustainability at since 2011, have offset 100% of electricity usage through (315) 781-4380 or [email protected]. the purchase of wind power, resulting in a quarter reduction in the Colleges’ greenhouse gas emissions. The Colleges also The Colleges are also host to two rental cars through Zipcar, are taking another meaningful step toward climate neutrality giving students who don’t need and/or want a car everyday the with the creation of two local solar farms, which not only will flexibility of having a personal vehicle when needed. deliver 50% of the Colleges’ power through renewable energy, but will also provide new hands-on curricular opportunities for However, if you would like to bring a car to campus, you students. Once completed, the combined arrays will provide should know that all student vehicles must be registered at five megawatts of power, the largest solar installation at any the Campus Safety Office within three business days of the institution of higher education in New York State. first day of class each semester in order to park on campus. To register a vehicle, students should complete the online In 2004, the Finger Lakes Institute was established, devoted to registration form at http://parking.hws.edu. When picking research and education about the Finger Lakes environment, up their permit, students must show a valid student I.D. and including issues regarding water quality, sustainable state registration and pay the appropriate fee. (Typically $125/ community development, agriculture/ food, energy, and waste. semester or $175/year). Our parking and traffic regulations If you’re interested in environmental activism, there are plenty handbook can be located on the Colleges’ website at http:// of ways to get involved on campus, from studying ecology in www.hws.edu/studentlife/campus_safety.aspx the classroom to advocating for sustainability as a member of the Campus Greens Club, Sustainable Foods Club, or joining the Once registered, you will receive a parking decal that must be EcoRep Program. Additionally, there are several sustainability- promptly and properly installed on the vehicle. The first-year related internships, honors projects, independent studies, and parking permit allows you to park in the first-year lot, the other opportunities for students who want to make a difference Houghton House lot, and other lots. To reduce congestion, first- on campus. year students who park on city streets surrounding the campus will be ticketed. If you have any other questions about getting In addition, fall 2016 marks the third offering of the Sustainable around campus with a car or shuttle, contact The Campus Living Learning Community. This living learning community is Safety Office at (315) 781-3656 or [email protected]. a two-semester long program that investigates the intersection

32 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES of sustainability and consumption with a TOP 5 More information about all of the Colleges’ particular emphasis on the relationship green initiatives and programs can be found between local actions and global effects. CAMPUS JOBS at www.hws.edu/about/green. This program is open to first-year students interested in all subjects and disciplines. Working on Campus Our Environmental Studies Program, 1. Dining Services: The highest shaped largely by a student initiative that paying job on campus is also the Many students work an on-campus job either began in the 1970s, is interdisciplinary most versatile: make burgers, wash to satisfy a work study component in their in nature, drawing from many different dishes or serve meals. It’s good financial aid package, to begin to develop subject areas. So, even if you don’t want money and the people are terrific! professional skills or to earn extra money. to major in environmental studies, you’ll At Hobart and William Smith, there are a find a variety of courses on that theme, like 2. Annual Fund Student Caller: variety of employment options for students, “Architecture and the Wider Environment,” Connect with HWS alums and including positions in administrative offices, “Environmental Economics” and “American hear some great stories about the athletics, academic departments and Environmental History.” Colleges while you earn a paycheck. labs, just to name a few. HWS does not place students in jobs. Instead, students conduct their own job search to identify Environmental awareness and activism 3. Teaching Assistant for Various opportunities that best fit their interests, have been the focus of strong individual Departments: Think you know your skills and class schedules. Although not all academic projects. Some examples of stuff? Help your classmates better campus departments post their student job academic projects include converting a understand their coursework. carbon-heavy truck into an electric vehicle, openings online, you can check for available developing a new recycling program for the on-campus job opportunities across campus 4. Admissions Tour Guide: Learn campus, proposing use of and developing on the Office of Human Resources website how to walk backwards while experiential learning opportunities at the at www.hws.edu/offices/hr/employment/ meeting lots of great people and HWS Fribolin Farm (34-acres of pasture, index_students.aspx. Jobs and internships agricultural fields, ponds, gardens, and showcasing all HWS has to offer! outside of HWS are advertised through the buildings), and demonstrating aquaponics Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and on campus. There are numerous events 5. Student Writer or Photographer Experiential Education. and programs each semester that in Communications: Write, edit seek to raise awareness and educate and see your work published on the If you plan to work on campus, you will new community members about the HWS Daily Update. Or take photos need to complete the I-9 (Employment importance of our climate commitment. of campus events and get paid! Eligibility Verification) and W-4 (Federal The Office of Sustainability organizes Tax Withholding) forms. To comply with the a variety of competitions and events, Employment Eligibility Verification, you will including Campus Conservation Nationals, need to personally present certain specific a contest between residence halls to reduce greenhouse gas original documentation to Human Resources prior to your emissions from energy consumption, and Recyclemania, which start of employment. A full listing of acceptable documents challenges the campus community to reach a 30 percent can be found on the Human Resources website (www.hws. recycling rate. edu/offices/hr/forms/forms.aspx). You can do this in the Office of Human Resources located on the first floor of Coxe Other recent programs have included a student-organized Hall during regular office hours. For your convenience during organic garden, “trayless” Tuesdays in the dining hall, a the first week of classes, an HR staff member will also be student-led initiative to install new water bottle refill stations available at another location on campus at designated times throughout campus, the Real Food Challenge, which aspires to to assist you with your forms and view your documents. The get the Colleges to 20% “real food” by 2020, and many others. location, dates and times will be communicated to you via email before you arrive on campus.

2016 | Guide for New Students 33 Spiritual Engagement The Office for Spiritual Engagement welcomes people of all faiths and backgrounds and is committed to supporting students, faculty, staff, alumni and alumnae, and friends in their religious and spiritual lives. The mission of the Office for Spiritual Engagement is to be supportive of the life of the spirit and the life of the mind in ways that are life changing, life forming and life giving.

The chaplain, the director of the Abbe Center for Jewish Life, and the Buddhist adviser organize a variety of special religious events during the semester as well as a slate of weekly campus events. The Office for Spiritual Engagement also supports student clubs like Project Nur, a Muslim group; the Newman Club, a Roman Catholic group; Christian Fellowship, an Evangelical Christian group; and the Episcopal Fellowship, which celebrates the Anglican Heritage.

St. John’s Chapel, the on-campus center of religious life, hosts regular services in the Roman Catholic, Episcopal and Quaker traditions. The Abbe Center for Jewish Life, across the street from Temple Beth-El, is the home for weekly Kosher Shabbat. The home’s spacious dining room, living room, conference room and separate kosher-style and true kosher kitchens make it an ideal space for student residents, Hillel meetings and other programming. Hobart and William Smith is also home to the Muslim Student Center for prayer and community engagement. Additionally, the Geneva area is home to a variety of religious communities, including Baha’i, Baptist, Church of God in Christ, Episcopal, Jewish, Methodist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic.

Hobart and William Smith accept the responsibility of making available to each student who is absent from class because of religious obligations and practices an equivalent opportunity to make up any examination, study or work requirement missed. Students should make every effort to tell their professors in advance if they must miss class in order to practice a religious tradition. Religious celebrations are an important part of campus life.

If you’d like more information about specific religious events, contact the Office for Spiritual Engagement at (315) 781- 3671. For more information about local religious services, visit www.hws.edu/studentlife/religious_worship.aspx.

34 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES 2016 | Guide for New Students 35 Health and Wellness

36 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Health and Wellness Hubbs Health Center Hubbs Health Center delivers health care and health education to the HWS campus community. The Center strives to provide high-quality, low-cost, clinically appropriate services in a nonjudgmental, compassionate and timely manner.

The Center is an appointment-only health care facility, open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1 until 5 p.m. Appointments can be made by calling (315) 781-4530 or (315) 781-3600. Transportation to the Finger Lakes Health Urgent Care facility and/or emergency department is available after hours via Campus Safety.

To support the health of the campus community, the Center provides a wide spectrum of services, including, but not limited to: • Specialist referrals • Full-service women’s health clinic, including annual exams, contraception and pregnancy testing • Allergy injections • STD counseling and testing, including HIV testing • Medications and pharmaceutical supplies • Sports medicine • Assistance to students with special needs, including but not limited to, adult attention deficit disorders, eating disorders and tobacco addiction • Evaluation and treatment of illnesses and injuries • Assistance/maintenance of students with chronic physiological disorders such as asthma, diabetes, HIV, hypertension, cancer and physical handicaps • Influenza vaccinations • Immunization updates Community Standards • Health recommendations for international travel Our goal is to provide an • Promotion of wellness through health related brochures, formal and informal environment in which all members presentations and discussions on health education issues are treated and treat others respectfully. The Handbook of Prescription Medicines Community Standards is published Hubbs Health Center has a small formulary which includes over the counter annually, and all students are pain medications, some commonly prescribed antibiotics, cold and allergy expected to know and follow the relief medications, topical ointments, several popular brands of contraceptives, behavioral guidelines outlined in emergency contraception and others. These are either billed to the student’s college the handbook. You can find a copy account or in some cases sold directly to the student. The Hubbs Health Center online at www.hws.edu/studentlife/ staff can also write prescriptions at the time of a visit by a student. For more community_standards.aspx. information on medications available and prescriptions generated by Hubbs Health Center, please call the health center at (315) 781-3600. The Office of It is mandatory for all HWS students to be enrolled in a health insurance plan that Title IX Programs covers services while at the Colleges. Hubbs Health Center does not charge for visits and health care services provided by Hubbs. However, laboratory tests, throat and Compliance cultures and prescriptions are an additional service and considered billable to the can be found on campus at student’s health insurance plan. 603 S. Main Street. The Colleges’ sexual misconduct policy and information on resources and support can be found at www.hws.edu/TitleIX.

2016 | Guide for New Students 37 All students are required to present a health insurance card at sensitive mental health services to Hobart and William Smith Hubbs Health Center during each visit. If the student has no students. The CCSW is comprised of a group of psychologists card, there may be a delay in medical services outside of the with doctoral level training and licensure in New York State who Health Center. specialize in college mental health. Staff members work as a team to offer clinical services that assist students in managing Hubbs Health Center recommends that each student consider their mental health, emotional, and interpersonal concerns purchasing the additional health and accidental injury and support them through age-appropriate transitions insurance coverage offered by HWS to cover costs for any and development so that they may get the most from their medical care and services considered by the student’s primary HWS education. Psychological services for HWS students insurance plan as “Out of Area” and rejected or those services include group counseling, crisis intervention, and time- that may be needed but are not provided by Hubbs Health limited individual therapy, as well as after-hours emergency Center. This includes off-campus referrals, emergency room responding. The staff at the CCSW also offer mental health treatment, ambulance transportation from the campus to the prevention programming and consultation for all members of hospital emergency room, laboratory services, care provided by the HWS community. specialists, prescription co-pay coverage and hospitalization. Students are encouraged to make an appointment at the Center The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 in one of three ways: (HIPAA) Privacy Rule prohibits the release of any medical or • By scheduling online from the CCSW webpage (www. health information to parents, outside medical professionals, hws.edu/studentlife/counseling.aspx) and selecting the college officials and all others without the student’s written “Schedule Now” button consent. In the case of a life-threatening emergency, the Hubbs • By calling our office at (315) 781-3388 staff consults with the vice president of student affairs, who • By dropping in during regular business hours at 91 St. will ultimately decide whether to contact a student’s family. Clair Street to make an appointment in person or be seen for an emergency. If you would like Hubbs Health Center to share information about your medical care with your family, you can visit Hubbs The most common concerns that bring students to the Center Health Center anytime to fill out the Medical Authorization are stress/anxiety, depression, relationship problems, need for Form. The form is also available on the Hubbs Health Center support or encouragement, sleep concerns, self-esteem/self- webpage at www.hws.edu/studentlife/health_center.aspx. confidence issues, alcohol and drug problems, indecisiveness/ procrastination, concern about someone else, and issues of Please note that New York State Public Health Laws require adjustment to college. Most students see improvement in their all students to provide proof of immunity to measles, mumps presenting concerns within 3 to 5 sessions, and the Center and rubella (MMR), as well as the date of their meningitis sees about 20% of all HWS students on campus annually. immunization or their signature indicating receipt of information By commencement each year, about 40% of all graduating about meningitis. We ask that students submit this important seniors have been seen for counseling at some point in medical information on the Student Health Form, which can be their academic career. Services are free to all enrolled HWS downloaded on the Orientation website, as soon as possible. For students during the academic year. The staff will also be questions regarding immunizations, call (315) 781-3600. happy to help you find a referral to a local therapist, if you’d prefer to seek help off-campus. The Center for Counseling and Student The staff of the CCSW take the legal, ethical and professional Wellness obligations of confidentiality very seriously. The staff will not The Center for Counseling and Student Wellness (CCSW) release any medical or health information to parents, outside provides high-quality, confidential, ethical, and culturally medical professionals, college officials and any others without a student’s written consent, except in cases of life-threatening emergency or special exceptions required by law. For more information about services offered by CCSW, or to schedule an appointment online, visit www.hws.edu/counseling or call (315) 781-3388.

Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Prevention In keeping with federal, state, and local laws, Hobart and William Smith Colleges encourage and support good judgment in the legal use of alcohol for those who choose to use it and prohibit the possession, use, manufacture, and distribution of controlled substances. Complete drug and alcohol policies are outlined in the Handbook of Community Standards at www. hws.edu/studentlife/community_standards.aspx. The Office of AOD Prevention takes a proactive, social norming and harm reduction approach to providing the education necessary for students to make responsible choices concerning alcohol and other drugs.

38 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The Office provides a variety of educational outreach programs Visitors to campus must obtain a temporary parking permit throughout the academic year, and all first-year students from the Office of Campus Safety upon arrival on campus. participate in a workshop designed to help students evaluate There is no charge for a temporary parking permit, which allows their choices and examine their misconceptions regarding the vehicle to park in lots designated for V permits for up to alcohol and other drug use among their peers. We also ten days. Parents, families and other visitors who plan to visit encourage any students who are interested in prevention and campus frequently may apply for an annual visitor’s permit. health promotions to get involved in our Health Promotions This permit eliminates the need for a visitor to continually Club, and to “like” our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ obtain day passes. HWSHealthPromotions. The Office of Campus Safety maintains a series of outdoor One-to-one and group counseling is available for students emergency telephones that are marked by blue lights. The who are at risk of developing alcohol and other drug-related blue light phones are located throughout the campus along concerns as well as for those who are impacted by another commonly used routes. Pushing the button on an emergency person’s abuse of substances through the AOD Prevention phone connects you to Campus Safety, who will immediately Office and/or the Counseling Center. Students seeking dispatch a uniformed officer to the phone. All emergency assistance for themselves or a friend are protected under telephone calls are recorded for immediate playback or for federal confidentiality guidelines. use at a later date. Campus Safety publishes Paths of Light, a brochure that offers a map of safe routes and the location of Campus Safety the blue light emergency phones. The brochure is available at the Office of Campus Safety and online. Vision Statement To provide safety, security, essential services, and other In addition, the office oversees the HWS shuttle service, which personalized assistance to the Hobart and William Smith operates seven nights a week on a pre-set route from 7 p.m. community in a manner that exceeds expectations. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. Friday into Saturday morning and until 3 a.m. Saturday into Sunday The Office of Campus Safety exists to serve the HWS campus morning. This schedule may change. For the most up-to-date community with respect, fairness and integrity. The diversity information, check with the Campus Safety office. Campus of people our campus represents is valued and service to meet Safety Officers are also available to provide safe rides for the needs of all with equal dedication is promoted. At Campus students, especially after dark and when campus shuttles are Safety, we believe that every interaction with every student not running. or other member of the campus community matters, and provides an educational opportunity. Rooted in our core values The Office of Campus Safety annually publishes Living Safely, of service, respect, impartiality, trust/integrity and teamwork, the Colleges’ annual security report outlining the Colleges’ campus safety personnel strive to foster a safe and secure policies and procedures as well as reporting campus crime environment conducive to the diverse educational, professional statistic data. The handbook is available online at www.hws. and personal growth of all community members. edu/studentlife/pdf/living_safely.pdf.

In addition to enforcing state, federal and local laws and ordinances as well as Colleges’ policies, the office also oversees Recreation, Intramurals, and Fitness the institution’s parking and motor vehicle regulations. All At HWS, the Field House includes a fitness center, indoor vehicles that park on campus must have a registration sticker, track, athletic courts and group exercise rooms. The program which can be obtained at the Office of Campus Safety. To supports many fitness classes including body-conditioning, register a vehicle, students should complete the online aerobic and balance-promoting exercise sessions weekly. registration form at http://parking.hws.edu. When picking up A variety of special contests and programs throughout the their permit, students must show a valid student ID, vehicle semester designed to teach students about well-balanced registration and pay the appropriate fee. nutrition and an overall healthy lifestyle are also offered. Several Red Cross CPR and AED trainings sessions are provided

Typical Group Fitness Yoga: 7-8 p.m. Yoga: 7-8 p.m. Class Schedule Zumba: 8-9 p.m. Zumba: 8-9pm The HWS Wellness schedule changes Tuesday Thursday each semester, but here’s a peek at the Indoor Cycling: 12-1 p.m. Yoga: 12-1 p.m. spring 2016 schedule: Yoga: 12-1 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 12-1 p.m. Yoga: 4-5:15 p.m. Yoga: 4-5:15 p.m. Sunday Indoor Cycling: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Beach Body: 6-7 p.m. Beach Body: 6-7 p.m. Pilates: 7-8 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 7:30-8:30 p.m. Zumba: 8-9 p.m. Pilates: 8-9 p.m. Friday Monday Wednesday No Sweat: 12:20-12:50 p.m. No Sweat: 12:20-12:50 p.m. No Sweat: 12:20-12:50 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 3-4 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Indoor Cycling: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Zumba: 4-5 p.m.

2016 | Guide for New Students 39 Athletics, Club Sports and Intramurals More than 80 percent of HWS students are involved in some kind of athletic activity, whether it’s intramural or intercollegiate athletic teams or outdoor recreation programs, like hiking and camping.

The Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Program (ORAP) sponsors a variety of day and overnight excursions and activities in the Finger Lakes, including hiking and backpacking, kayaking, ice climbing, Nordic skiing and rock climbing.

Those who wish to enjoy the fun and competition of athletics without the time commitment of playing on an intercollegiate team often join one of the many intramural leagues or club sports teams on campus.

Those who wish to compete at the top of their sport become members of one or more of the Colleges’ 23 varsity teams, many of which are regular contenders for conference and throughout the semester for students interested in becoming national titles. certified or maintaining a certification. Athletics is a large part of the campus culture, even for those Additionally, students who are struggling with their exercise students who never step foot on the field. There is a sense of program or nutritional choices are encouraged to contact HWS community and pride surrounding the Hobart and William Recreation, Intramurals and Fitness, which provides one-on- Smith athletics teams, and many students cheer on the teams one counseling to students striving to get healthy and fit. during home and away games. And, when the weather is nice, For more information about any of these recreation initiatives, it’s not unusual for a pickup game of softball or Frisbee golf to call (315) 781-3901 or email [email protected]. overtake the Quad.

HOBART WILLIAM SMITH ATHLETICS ATHLETICS

• Basketball • Basketball • Cross Country • Cross Country • Football • Field Hockey • Golf • Golf • Ice Hockey • Ice Hockey • Lacrosse • Lacrosse • Rowing • Rowing • Sailing • Sailing • Soccer • Soccer • Squash • Squash • Tennis • Swimming & Diving • Tennis

40 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES The Colleges have 23 varsity teams and nearly as many club sports teams.

2016 | Guide for New Students 41 Living in Geneva

The HWS campus is right in the heart of Geneva.

42 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Top 4 Coolest Things About Geneva and the Geneva, N.Y. Finger Lakes Hobart and William Smith are located on a spectacular 325-acre campus along the History Trace the area’s history from the settlement of the northern tip of Seneca Lake in the City of MONTREAL AUGUSTA earliest Seneca Indians to the Geneva. The birthplace of the Women’s MONTPELIER 1. graduation of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Rights Movement and the heart of the CONCORD Geneva TORONTO and beyond. The area is brimming Finger Lakes region, this area is rich in BOSTON ROCHESTER ALBANY with wonderful stories and beautiful history and natural beauty. It serves as a BUFFALO HARTFORD spectacular living and learning environment. architecture. NEW YORK CITY Campus is only a short trip from New York PHILADELPHIA City and Toronto, and Rochester, Syracuse PITTSBURGH Adventure From waterfalls and BALTIMORE hiking areas to snow-shoeing, and Ithaca are just an hour away. WASHINGTON, DC 2.fishing and camping under the Locally, Hobart and William Smith Colleges stars, the Finger Lakes region is a great maintain a close relationship with the starting point for adventure in every City of Geneva through The Geneva Partnership, allowing students to partner with season. community members and groups to test what they’ve learned in the classroom while simultaneously making Geneva a better place for all who work, study and live here. Beauty Rocky gorges, stony waterfalls, rolling drumlins, What’s in a Name? 3.rare trees and other naturally Check out some of the many nicknames Geneva has proudly held throughout its beautiful features will take your breath history: away as you explore everything the area • The Lake Trout Capital of the World: The largest and deepest of the Finger has to offer. Lakes, Seneca Lake is the host of the National Lake Trout Derby. Women’s Rights During the • Kanadasaga: The Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy made the area mid-1800s, this area was now known as Geneva the location for their settlement, called Kanadasaga. 4. a hotbed of women’s rights • Place of Stone: The word Seneca is derived from the Indian name “Assiniki,” activists and suffragists. Today, that which means “place of stone.” spirit lives on. • Gateway to the Finger Lakes: Because of its central location and great amenities, Geneva is a common starting point for visitors touring the Seneca Lake Wine Trail and the Finger Lakes region. Community Bank Main office: 5 Seneca Street, (315) 789-7700 Local Banks Branch: Pyramid Mall (315) 789-7700 If you plan to use a personal checking service, it is strongly advisable to open a ATM: The College Store, HWS campus local account. There are several commercial banks in Geneva, most within walking distance of campus, and there are two on-campus ATMs. Please note that Geneva, Five Star Bank as a small city, may not have branches of national or international banks you may Main office: 2 Seneca Street, have used in the past. Students coming to HWS from other countries especially (315) 789-2300 should plan ahead by bringing enough cash to campus or making sure you have an Branch and drive-thru: ATM card that works in the U.S. Students may also cash personal checks for up to Town & Country Plaza, $20 at the College Store, Monday through Friday. Checks totaling up to $100 can (315) 789-3300 be cashed between 3 and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. ATM: Scandling Campus Center, HWS campus

Generations Bank Main office: 342 Hamilton Street, (315) 789-8100

Lyons National Bank Main Office and Drive-thru: 399 Exchange Street, (315) 781-5000

2016 | Guide for New Students 43 Shopping There are several private mini-storage facilities around the Colleges and you must provide your own transportation to the The College Store stocks many commonly needed items, but if storage location. There are two facilities in Geneva that offer you need to purchase additional items or groceries, there are truck and trailer rental. several locations in and around Geneva. There’s also plenty of great places to shop and enjoy in downtown Geneva, including Alternatively, Simply Storage (1-888-9-StoreIt) is a storage boutiques, gift shops, furniture stores, and cafés. company that works with college and university students by supplying boxes and arranging a pick-up and delivery date. Lowe’s (hardware) 3030 Sessler Drive (Routes 5 & 20) Storage Locations in Geneva: Geneva, NY 14456 Geneva Mini-Storage (315) 781-9000 Suite 450 Liberty Commons 789 Pre-Emption Road Staples (office supplies) Geneva, NY 14456 337 Hamilton St., Routes 5 & 20 (315) 789-2656 Geneva, NY 14456 (315) 789-7399 JRB Mini Storage 582 Pre-Emption Rd. Tops Market (grocery store and pharmacy) Geneva, NY 14456 381 Hamilton St., Routes 5 & 20 (315) 789-8161 Geneva, NY 14456 (315) 781-0205 West River Road Mini Storage 2932 Serven Road Walmart (department store) Waterloo, NY 13165 990 Routes 5 & 20 (315) 789-7756 Geneva, NY 14456 (315) 781-3253 Seneca Movers Mini-Storage 2915 Route 96 Waterloo Premium Outlets (outlet center) Waterloo, NY 13165 655 Route 318 (315) 539-3432 Waterloo, NY 13165 (315) 539-1100 Truck and Trailer Rental in Geneva: Lake Country Moving & Storage Wegmans (grocery store and pharmacy) 2915 Route 96 300 Hamilton St. Waterloo, NY 13165 Geneva, NY 14456 (315) 539-2806 (315) 781-5800 U-Haul Co. 1 North Exchange Street Storage Geneva, NY 14456 (315) 789-7470 Many students do not remain on campus during summer break and the Colleges do not allow belongings to be stored on campus during the break period. You are responsible for either transporting your belongings home or storing them in Geneva.

44 HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES Hotels Heading Home The Colleges maintain a listing of area hotels and bed and The Office of Student Activities coordinates large coach buses breakfasts online at www.hws.edu/alumni/activities/lodging.aspx. for students to utilize for specific college-related breaks. These breaks include Thanksgiving break, Winter break, and Spring Restaurants break. Break buses go to the following locations: New York City, Albany and Boston. Tickets for these break buses are sold There are several coffee shops, restaurants and local hangouts at the College Store and are payable by cash, check, credit in Geneva. card, or student charge. You will receive information in the fall semester detailing the dates and times of these buses. The Red Dove | 30 Castle St. Check the chalkboard to see what’s cooking, but don’t look for Shuttle service to the Rochester and Syracuse airports is chicken wings here. You’re more likely to find hummus, oysters available through local car services. Information can be found and curry. Plenty of organic and local produce, and a funky on the Student Activities website (www.hws.edu/studentlife/ variety of dinner and cocktail specials. activities/buses.aspx) regarding arrangements for buses and airport shuttles. The Parents and Families website also has Opus Espresso and Wine Bar | 486 Exchange St. up-to-date information about these buses and shuttles, which The top-notch baristas serve up freshly roasted espresso you can access at www.hws.edu/alumni/parents. beverages and a variety of constantly changing homemade granola, sandwiches, pastries and other desserts. There are also several companies that offer shuttle services to the Rochester or Syracuse Airports: Club 86 Bagels and Cakes | 476 Hamilton St. A local favorite, the menu includes great breakfast specials, • Finger Lakes Limo provides one-way, sedan and van distinctive sandwiches and fabulous desserts. service to both the Rochester and Syracuse airports, and they often run specials around breaks. They can be Torrey Park Grille | 89 Avenue E contacted at (315) 789-7272 to coordinate your travel. Torrey Park Grille offers a delicious selection of Italian influenced entrées and more, as well as a bar menu. Torrey • Mr. Dependable provides one-way transport to the Park Grille accommodates parties of varying sizes and for Rochester and Syracuse airports. You can contact them in different occasions, including special events and group night advance of your intended travel at (585) 264-0925. out. Special rooms include The Fireplace Room, The Family • Quality Transportation offers one-way fares to both Room, and The Window Room. Rochester and Syracuse airports. Contact them at (585) 455-8294 to coordinate your travel. Port’s Café | 4432 West Lake Rd.

A surprisingly long list of nightly specials, beautiful cuts of Please note: Faculty members cannot excuse you from class or meat, and local, farm fresh fruits, veggies and cheeses make reschedule exams before breaks. Make sure to plan your travel Port’s a standout. Grab a window seat for a great view of the around your class schedule. lake. This place is so popular that it’s often packed, even on weeknights, so reservations are recommended.

2016 | Guide for New Students 45 Fall 2016 Academic Calendar

August 26-28, 2016 October 8-11 November 28 New Student Orientation Fall recess First day of classes after recess

August 28 October 12 December 9 Campus residences open for First day of classes after recess Last day of classes returning students October 24-28 December 10-12 August 29 Spring Sem. ’17 Advising Week Reading Days First day of classes Oct. 31 - Nov. 11 December 13-16 September 2 Spring Sem. ’17 Registration Final examinations Last day to drop/add courses November 22 December 16 September 16-18 Last day of classes before Semester ends after last exam Homecoming and Family recess Weekend December 17 November 23-27 Residences close at noon October 7 Thanksgiving recess Last day of classes before Dec. 18-Jan. 16, 2017 recess Winter Break

GENEVA, NY 14456 (315) 781-3000 www.hws.edu