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Dec 2008
VOL 4 ISSUE 5

Freshman Profiles
Andrew Wong
Emily Bahr

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From the Dean of Students' Desk
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Ted Hoef
Welcome to the fifth issue of the 2008-09 academic year for Staying Connected, a newsletter for parents of first-year students. We hope you’ll enjoy the informative articles, some of which have been written by students and staff members and some which were prepared for Webster by PaperClip Communications.

Student Organizations
We now have more student organizations than ever before. For a full list, check out: http://www.webster.edu/students/student_orgs.shtml. Hopefully, your son or daughter has found a group that interests him or her

Athletics
Congratulations to the women’s volleyball team who won both the regular season and conference tournament championships and then travelled to Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where they competed in the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament.

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Room Sign-Up for 2009-2010
By Katie McComb, Housing and Residential Life

Since many of you will be discussing this over the dinner table in the coming weeks, we wanted to provide you with some important information concerning housing for the 2009-2010 school year. First of all, your student has received information in his/her mailbox, on his/her apartment door, or in his/her Webster email that explains how to apply to live on campus again next year. Here are some of the key points and important deadlines related to that information: MORE

Home For The Holidays
Patrick Stack, D.Min., LMFT, LPC, NCC, CASAC
Director of Counseling/Life Development

This is the time of the year that reality has its way of jolting resident freshmen back to the real world. The real world is living with other members of the family and following family rules. Now take in consideration that your student has experienced almost four months of radical independence…..no one to tell them what time to get up in the morning, what foods to eat, with whom to associate, what clothes to wear, when to do homework, what time to go to bed, etc. So home for the holidays can be an adjustment for both you and your student. MORE

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