Community

Rowing Ergometer Workshop

The crew team is giving an indoor rowing ergometer workshop in eight sessions, every Tuesday and Thursday in February. Head coach Jeanne Friedman and members of the crew team will supervise all sessions. No experience needed. The team will teach you how to row properly and structure a workout to fit your needs. Fifty dollars covers all eight sessions. Class meets from 12:05 to 1:00 pm.

Students

Change of Course Deadlines

Last day to register for spring classes Tuesday, February 11 Last day to add a course or change sections Tuesday, February 11 Last day to enroll in a Five College course Tuesday, February 11 Last day to elect the ungraded option (or remove it) Tuesday, February 18

There are no extensions to the dates listed above. The academic deans may approve late adds for extenuating circumstances to Mount Holyoke courses only (failure to obtain an adviser's signature on time is not an extenuating circumstance). No late approvals can be granted for entering Five College courses. Students who do not register by February 11 are ineligible to remain on campus.

Five College Course Enrollments

Five College courses may be added only by filling out a Five College registration form, available at the registrar's office. Students registering for courses at UMass should take the completed Five College form, signed by their adviser(s), to the university registrar's office (the instructor's signature is also advisable); then return the form to the MHC registrar's office. Do this at once; if you do not enroll early, you may be closed out of the course. No exceptions can be made to the Tuesday, February 11, deadline for submitting forms. Deans will not approve late Five College registrations for any reason. It is the responsibility of each student who intends to take a course at one of the other campuses to be sure that her forms have been properly filed.

Physical Education Requirement

Faculty legislation stipulates that the College's physical education requirement should be completed by the end of the junior year. Six units are required of all students who enter as first-year students; those who enter with full sophomore standing must complete four units, and those who enter with full junior standing must complete two units. Students planning to spend junior year off campus should complete their physical education requirements by the end of sophomore year. Spaces in physical education courses cannot be guaranteed to students who do not preregister, nor can enrollment priority be given to seniors who failed to complete the requirement earlier.

Course Drop Deadlines

Course drops must be filed by Friday, February 18, to drop a course completely (so that it will not appear on your record at all). Courses may be dropped until Friday, April 15, but those dropped after February 18 will appear on transcripts with the notation "DR." They will not affect grade point averages, however.

Reminder on Election of the Ungraded Option

The ungraded option cannot be elected for courses used to meet specific degree requirements, including the language requirement, all distribution requirements, the multicultural perspectives requirement, courses in the major field of study, and courses in the minor. Any courses taken ungraded will count solely as elective credit toward the total of 128 credits needed to graduate. The decision to use the ungraded option for a course may be made only during the first fifteen days of classes--by February 18 (except for the class of 2000). Students should discuss the selection of this option carefully with their adviser(s) during the first two or three weeks of the semester. Students in the class of 2000 have until April 15 to choose or change the ungraded option.

Paid Science Research Opportunities Available

The $900,000 grant that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded the College in July will fund twenty research grant opportunities in two programs for Mount Holyoke students this summer. But you must get your applications in soon. Support is available for up to ten sophomore, junior, or Frances Perkins students who would like to pursue independent laboratory- or field-based research with Mount Holyoke science faculty during the summer of 1997. Students proposing research projects with faculty in the following departments and programs are eligible for these grants: astronomy, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, environmental studies (only projects in environ- mental science), geology, mathematics, neuroscience and behavior, and physics. Each successful applicant will receive a $2,500 stipend and, if needed, on-campus housing. Applications are due Friday, February 21.

Support is also available for up to ten students who have just completed their first year of study to spend two months (June 1-July 31, 1997) at Mount Holyoke as participants in an intensive training program in biological research techniques. Again, successful applicants will receive a $2,500 stipend and on-campus housing, if needed. Completed applications for these grants are due February 14 .

Copies of the full application packets for both research opportunities are available from Leszek Bledzki in the Hughes Program Office, 10E Clapp Laboratory; email hughes. Additional information is available at this Web site: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/biol/hhmi/index.shtml.

What Happened to the Career Development Center Information?

The career development information previously found in this section of the College Street Journal now has another home: the World Wide Web. Check out the Career Development Center (CDC) Web site. It can be found through the College home page or at this URL: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/careers/main/homepage.htm.

Through the Web, you can scan the CDC's calendar of workshops and events and read the recruiting schedule and the many new internship postings. CDC events will also be listed in the CSJ's calendar section. The site is very comprehensive in terms of career interests and needs. Feel free to check it out, and to stop by the CDC in person for a visit. Career information can also be found on the mhc.careers email news group.

This change was made for several reasons. CDC director Phil Jones feels that the Web is the best way to give students access to constantly updated information about the vast range of CDC resources. And--unlike the CSJ, Mount Holyoke News, or a newsletter--the Web has no space restrictions, so all information is available to readers all the time.

The move also allows the CSJ to expand its news coverage, something that readers overwhelmingly requested in a 1996 reader survey. The president and other community members have also indicated a need for greater news coverage, especially about faculty and staff members. The space formerly devoted to CDC information can now be filled with a broader range of news items.

This shift of CDC information from the CSJ to the Web should provide students with more complete and current information for their career development needs, while also giving all CSJ readers a better sense of what is happening in our community.