North Campus News & Announcements
Events, Resident Highlights, & Family Announcements
Ursula K. Le Guinn Lecture
We are thrilled that acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, who wrote this year’s Common Text, The Lathe of Heaven, will present at Seattle University on Wednesday, October 28, at 5:30 p.m. in Campion Ballroom. This special program is sponsored in part by the Learning Communities, and we encourage you to attend to continue the reflection that began with your reading of the Common Text and your discussion during Welcome Week.
You must register for your free ticket at seattleursula.brownpapertickets.com and bring a printed or mobile ticket with you for entry. Doors will open at 5:00 p.m., and we will begin admitting people on the waiting list at 5:20 p.m.
This special event is presented by the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Science and Engineering, the Learning Communities Program, the University Core, the English Department, the Pigott-McCone Chair, and the Philosophy Department.
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2015, 05:00 PM
Campion Hall, East Jefferson Street, Seattle, WA, United States
Ursula Le Guinn Pizza-Party Dream Boards
Wednesday, Oct 28, 2015, 06:30 PM
Xavier Lobby
Third Floor Baking Party!
Suyematsu Pumpkin Patch
Repping Xavier on the Ferry
A Message from your Resident Minister - Bill O'Connell
Wednesday, October 28th in Campion Ecumenical Chapel, 7 p.m.
Being, Becoming, Believing.
Quiet, relaxing, open space for prayer, meditation and reflection
Contact Elin Skaardal with Campus Ministry for more information.
Saturday, November 14th, St. James Kitchen Garden, 9 a.m. to Noon.
Fall Garden Work Event preparing garden that supplies fresh food to St. James Cathedral Parish Kitchen serving persons in need in local community
Optional pot luck following work party (Minister Bill will provide pot luck items on behalf of Xavier folks)
Need for 4-5 volunteers
Contact Resident Minister Bill O’Connell for more information or to register as a volunteer
Family Business
Classrooms 020, 030,& 070
All plugs and multimedia need to be replaced if you have used the rooms to play games or watch movies. Classes that meet in the mornings are not able to start their classes on time because of this intrusion. Should this continue, the classrooms will be closed in the evenings.
Lost/Stolen items
The front desk has any items that might be lost or stolen for a very short time. They will be turned over to Public Safety after a week.
... a word from your RD
As I sit here with Oscar and Guinness in their beds and me snuggled in my blanket, I am grateful. I'm grateful for you all, the residents in Xavier, the things you've discovered about yourself this quarter, and the ways you are growing that you are not even aware of. I'm grateful for the staff at the desk and your RAs, and the ways they think about how to make life in Xavier more fun, more manageable, and more like home. As we start to think more about what it means to be HOME, whilst packing up to go somewhere that may or may not be "home" for you, I want to offer this poem by Mary Oliver about this season that belongs to you and to me.
Coming Home
by Mary Oliver
When we are driving in the dark,
on the long road to Provincetown,
when we are weary,
when the buildings and the scrub pines lose their familiar look,
I imagine us rising from the speeding car.
I imagine us seeing everything from another place--
the top of one of the pale dunes, or the deep and nameless
fields of the sea.
And what we see is a world that cannot cherish us,
but which we cherish.
And what we see is our life moving like that
along the dark edges of everything,
headlights sweeping the blackness,
believing in a thousand fragile and unprovable things.
Looking out for sorrow,
slowing down for happiness,
making all the right turns
right down to the thumping barriers to the sea,
the swirling waves,
the narrow streets, the houses,
the past, the future,
the doorway that belongs
to you and me.