These are the last few days to hand in your priority application to Arroyo. It's due at 1pm on Friday. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/resed/priority/priority%2007-08/Arroyo_Priority_App_2007%202.pdf

The events left to get priority are (note the date change for the philosotea):

**Thursday, 4/26, 4:15-5:30 Jonathan Berger, Music Department, talk in 380-380C on "The Ghost of Johannes Brahms"

**Thursday, 4/26, 6:00-7:00 Topic Table with Jonathan Berger in Wilbur Dining Hall East. Dinner provided.

**Tuesday, 5/1, 7:30 PM, Philosotea in the Arroy lounge on "Universities and Inequality" with Tom Wasow, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy and Todd Davies, Lecturer and Associate Director of Symbolic Systems. Note: this event is past the priority application deadline (1 PM on 4/27), but you can still get priority for it if you write on your application that you plan to attend and then sign in at the event.

If you are not able to attend any of these events but really want priority, contact me ASAP (aschap@stanford.edu) and we can see if you'll be able to substitute another event.

Posted by Anna Schapiro at 08:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (268)

Here are two more events that will get you priority to live in Arroyo next year:

**Friday, 4/20, 8:00 PM, Games Night in the Arroyo Lounge/Colab. Find out what it's like to live in Arroyo, walk around, ask questions. There will be a pool tournament and plenty of video games and board games!
**Friday, 4/27, 7:30 PM, Philosotea in the Arroy lounge on "Universities and Inequality" with Tom Wasow, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy and Todd Davies, Lecturer and Associate Director of Symbolic Systems. Note: this event is past the priority application deadline (1 PM on 4/27), but you can still get priority for it if you write on your application that you plan to attend and then sign in at the event.

Check the post below for more events!

Posted by Anna Schapiro at 08:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (64)

To get priority to live in Arroyo next year, simply attend one of the events listed below and, before 1pm on April 27th, turn in the application telling us what event you attended (Link: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/resed/priority/priority%2007-08/Arroyo_Priority_App_2007%202.pdf).

**Thursday, 4/12, 4:15-5:30 Peter Sells talk on "Blocking and the System of Grammar" in 380-380C
**Thursday, 4/12, 6:00-7:00 Topic Table with Peter Sells in Wilbur Dining Hall East. Dinner provided.
**Friday, 4/13, 7:00-8:00 Philosotea on "Science & God: A discussion inspired by Dawkins and Dennett and their critics" in the Arroyo lounge
**Thursday, 4/19, 4:15-5:30 Anna Rafferty talk on "Understanding Students' Learning from Computerized Tutors: Incorporating Individual Differences in Computational Models" in 380-380C
**Thursday, 4/19, 6:00-7:00 Topic Table with Anna Rafferty in Wilbur Dining Hall East. Dinner provided.
**Thursday, 4/26, 4:15-5:30 Jonathan Berger, Music Department, talk in 380-380C
**Thursday, 4/26, 6:00-7:00 Topic Table with Jonathan Berger in Wilbur Dining Hall East. Dinner provided.

Other events to be announced! Email aschap@stanford.edu with any questions.

Posted by Anna Schapiro at 02:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (379)

Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S.

A Stanford Community Open Space Gathering
Hosted by Arroyo House, Wilbur Hall

Friday, November 10, 2006, 8-10 pm
Wilbur East Dining Hall
(map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=06-400K)

Following the November 7 elections, Arroyo House invites all Stanford
community members to an "open space" discussion of U.S. foreign and
military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and related issues. The dining
hall will be marked into different regions where discussion groups can
meet on various topics loosely within the theme of the gathering. Anyone
who attends can sign up to host a group. There will be two sessions of
discussion groups, one starting at 8 pm, and one starting at 9. Attend
either or both. Groups may be for general discussion, political
organizing, or disseminating information. Hosts will announce and post
their discussion groups and meeting locations within the dining hall at
the beginning of each hour under a version of the "open space" protocol
(see http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?AboutOpenSpace for more
info). All points of view are welcome. We will end each hour with quick
report backs from each group to the whole gathering.

Please forward widely within the Stanford community.

Posted by Dorm Gov at 03:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (257)

Just in case you forgot who's on dorm gov, here's a list:

President
Vik Saraswat

Treasurer
Will Auyeung

Beach Trip - Fall Qtr
Cydney Siggins

Snow Trip -Winter Qtr
Jose Valdez

Beach Trip - Spring Qtr
Andy Trotter

Environmental/Community Service Reps
Scott Lanum
Emily Escarra

Social Chairs
Scott Lanum
Andy Zimbroff
Siobhan Greatorex-Voith

IM Rep
Eddie Porrello
Nick Liao

Scribe
Jane Esberg

Posted by Tony Wang at 04:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

As Big Brother-ish as it may seem, we still think a dorm webcam that points to the whiteboard is a cool and possibly useful idea. So, if you're using Mozilla Firefox or Safari, you can click on the following link which will automatically log you in to view the whiteboard:

http://arroyo:@128.12.39.24/Jview.htm

If you're using Internet Explorer, you can click on the following link and type in the login (which is arroyo) and leave the password field blank to view the whiteboard:

http://128.12.39.24/Jview.htm

Posted by Tony Wang at 12:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Join us for some tea, biscuits, and philosophy on Friday October 6th at 7pm in the Lounge. The topic of this philosotea will be the use of torture. Check out these links to get inspired:

http://mp3.sundaysalon.org/MP3/ss060924hr2.mp3
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

Continue reading "Philosotea Oct 6th 7pm in the Lounge" »

Posted by Anna Schapiro at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (462)

Props to Scott (Rm 101) for sending out his uber-list of movies and tv-shows! I bet a lot of us have some DVDs that we’re all willing to share and it’d be really cool if we all could share what we have. But things could get complicated and messy if everyone sends out an e-mail; plus, everyone would have to save all the e-mails and search each person’s list if they were looking for a DVD. So instead, some of us came up with a different solution: an online searchable database. Here’s how it works:

To share:

Post a comment in response to this entry with the list of your DVDs.

To browse:

Click the link on the right that says “DVD Library”.

To search:

Click the link on the right that says “DVD Library” and use your browser’s find function (Ctrl+F) and type in the title you’d like to search for.

Happy sharing!

Posted by Tony Wang at 02:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (33)

We're still constructing the website, but check out our calendar for upcoming events (like the BBQ this coming Sunday and other good stuff to come). Welcome back everyone!

Posted by Tony Wang at 03:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (45)