Please note: The Orientation Week schedule is still being perfected; check this site often for updates. A final, printed version of the week's events will be given to you when you arrive on campus. Until then, some things are subject to change. 

Reminder—breakfast is available only in the Siegel Center.

9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Various Locations

Faculty interviews.

10 a.m. - 4 p.m., North Lawn

Vendor Fair. Want a plant for your room? Does your wall need a chic, hip poster...or a gaudy, tacky one? It’s all here where local vendors (everything from comic books to thrifty clothes) will be on hand to accommodate your room décor and livin’ needs. If it rains, this event moves to the Pub.

11 a.m., Lobby of the Esther Raushenbush Library

Transfer student library tour.
Join the reference staff of the Esther Raushenbush Library for an introduction to our extensive print and electronic collections and our most popular library services, including interlibrary loan and individualized research consultations.

2:30 p.m., Titsworth Living Room

Student employment info session.
There are several hundred on-campus jobs listed on Monstertrak.com and in the Student Employment Office in Westlands. Come find out how to get started!

All registration materials are due before 4 p.m. in the PAC.

6 p.m., Titsworth Lecture Hall

FACULTY TALK: Jamee Moudud
Why Understanding Capitalism is Important:
Counterposing Karl Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital and The Harvard Business Review
In a world of persistent international inequalities it is important to understand how certain nations have raced ahead while many have fallen behind. While the causes behind these inequalities are many, it is quite striking how both supporters and opponents of global laissez faire rest their arguments on whether or not markets are perfect. This lecture will show how one can go beyond this debate by understanding the process of market competition in Marx’s framework (especially in his Wage Labor and Capital) and how it can be used to understand the way firms actually compete. Marx’s theoretical framework will be compared with a recent article in the Harvard Business Review in which the authors study the strategies used by firms to crack open new markets. It will be argued that an accurate analysis of market competition is central to our understanding of the dynamics of international inequalities and some of consequences of policies put in place by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

6 p.m., Andrews Parking Lot.

For transfers only.
We’re sponsoring a trip to the Palisades Mall. Every store you could possibly imagine to fill up your wardrobe, your desk and maybe even your sense of being. This trip is limited, so sign up in the Student Affairs office in Bates, ASAP.

7 p.m., Common Ground, Bates

Racial/ethnic diversity and campus engagement welcome reception.
All are welcome to this event. This is your chance to meet the Director of Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Campus Engagement, the Common Ground student managers, and the chairs of the student-run, SLC Student of Color Identity Groups, and to learn more about programming for the year. Come and enjoy hors d'oeuvres and punch. We hope to see you all there.

8 p.m., Reisinger Concert Hall

Fight for what You Believe in: Alums & Activism
What does it truly mean to be committed to activism locally, nationally and globally? How can that start here at Sarah Lawrence? Join our distinguished panel for exploration:

9 p.m., Film Viewing Room

We’re talking magical classics here, folks. First up is The Last Unicorn, the 1982 animated adventure about a brave unicorn and a bumbling magician fighting to save all the pretty horses. Next up is Labyrinth. David Bowie in spandex. Enough said.

9 p.m., Blue Room

Basement Band
The Basement Band is a folk-rock outfit based out of Brooklyn, NY. They play original, harmony-driven music that ranges from up-tempo bluegrass to alt. country rock to mellower, acoustic ballads. Their sound has been likened to "Harvest-era" Neil Young or Wilco but the band strives to stand out in the quickly developing folk-rock revival. You don’t want to miss this event!
(Sponsored by WSLC, SLC’s own radio station)