[Assistant-faculty] help needed

["Goldstein, Gary R." <Gary Goldstein tufts edu>]

Dear colleagues - physicists and astronomers,

Help! I just read the notice about when the first freshmen advising 
session is scheduled, Friday Sept.2. This was the first notice. Somehow I 
forgot about the fact that I was assigned to be a freshmen adviser again. 
I hadn't seen any notice until yesterday - nothing all summer.

I will be away at a special meeting (Transversity 2011) on an island in 
Croatia. This is an all week meeting involving my specialty in particle 
physics. I am scheduled to speak on Friday, Sept.2. I cannot back out now. 
All the arrangements are made. I am returning Sunday Sept.4.

I've informed Laura Doane, who coordinates these advising schedules. She 
tells me that the roster of my students includes those interested in 
physics. She says, "Yes, absolutely, a substitution is possible. I have 
assigned students to you based – as much as possible – on some expressed 
interest in pursuing a concentration in Physics. Do you think it might be 
possible for some of your colleagues to meet with any of them on that 
Friday? Or Thursday would be workable, too. All first-year A&S students 
will register on Saturday, September 3."

Can you spare some time on either of those days to meet with some of these 
freshmen? There are 14 of them. I would be extremely grateful. Since 
everyone has done these advising sessions, it should not be too onerous. 
There are 2 upperclassmen assigned to help out. In my experience these 
upperclassmen can do a lot of the advising work before the freshmen come 
into your office.

Please let me know if you can help.

Appreciatively yours,
Gary

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Prof. Gary R. Goldstein
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Tufts University Medford, MA 02155
telephone:617-627-3591 office
          617-627-3878 fax
   email: gary goldstein tufts edu
website: http://www.tufts.edu/~ggoldste
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