Health Services
Davison Health Center
327 High Street
Wesleyan University’s Davison Health Center is
staffed by physicians, nurse practitioners, a physician
associate, and nursing personnel who provide
comprehensive primary care services for illness or injury
to students. The staff provides an array of clinical and
health education services, including assessment and
treatment of illnesses and injuries, health, wellness,
disease prevention counseling, nutritional counseling,
international travel counseling, immunizations, allergy
injections, HIV testing and counseling, and referral to
outside specialists. The Health Center provides basic
laboratory testing and a dispensary for many prescription
and over-the-counter medications. In addition, the staff
works closely with the Director of Health Education to
promote health education and wellness programs on campus.
For more information, contact: Joyce Walter, director
685-2470
Operating Hours (When classes are in session)
Monday –Thursday 9 a.m.–7 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday 12 noon –4 p.m.
The Health Center is closed during academic
breaks and summer.
Students are encouraged to make appointments; however,
walk-in visits are available for urgent care.
When the Health Center is closed, our physician staff
is on call and available to speak with students by phone.
An On-Call Message Center is available to handle calls
when the Health Center is closed.
Dial 685-2470 to access the following menu:
•You have reached the Wesleyan University
Health Service On-Call Message Center, designed to
assist you when the Health Center is closed. Our
office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7
p.m., Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 12 noon
to 4 p.m. If this is a medical emergency, please hang
up and dial x3333 for Public Safety, or x9911.
•If you are calling for the Office of
Behavioral Health, please hang up and dial x2910.
•If you have a nonurgent question, need a
medication refill, or wish to schedule an
appointment, please press 1.
•If you have a problem or question that you
feel cannot wait until the office is open, please
press 2.
•If you are a hospital or emergency room
physician calling, please press 3.
Choice 1: You have reached the
Wesleyan Health Service Message Center. At the tone,
please state your name, phone number, and message, and a
Health Center Staff member will return your call on the
next day that the office is open. If you have reached
this message line in error, please hang up and try again.
Choice 2: You have reached the
Wesleyan Health Center Urgent Message Center. At the
tone, please state your full name, phone number, and the
reason for which you are calling, and the doctor on-call
will be paged and return your call. If you have reached
this message line in error, please hang up and call
again.
Choice 3: You have reached the
Wesleyan Health Service Private Physician line. If you
are calling from a hospital or emergency room, at the
tone, please leave your name, phone number, and the name
of the patient, and the doctor on call will return your
call.
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Behavioral Health for Students
The Office of Behavioral Health for Students is
available to all students for consultation and for
treatment of emotional problems. All contacts are
strictly confidential. Appointments are scheduled during
the day between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Evening and weekend
availability is provided on a rotating basis by the
staff, making 24-hour, seven-day-a-week coverage
available when undergraduate classes are in session.
Individual and group therapy is offered according to a
time-limited model (an evaluation session and then up to
10 sessions, if needed); students can also sign up for a
consultation if they wish to talk over a particular issue
or situation with a professional in the context of a
single meeting. In addition, workshops are scheduled each
semester on a variety of topics, which may include stress
reduction, time management, eating disorders, and sexual
abuse. Student support groups under the aegis of the
behavioral health services also exist for issues that
include death and dying, eating disorders, and
alcohol/substance abuse.
For more information, contact: Dr.Philippa Coughlan
685-3144
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WESWell, the Health Education
Program
Davison Health Center
327 High Street
The mission of WesWELL, the Health Education Program
at Wesleyan University, is to present up-to-date
information on health issues. It also encourages students
to make the kinds of choices in regard to themselves and
their environment that will contribute to their personal
growth and enhance not only their well being but that of
the entire Wesleyan community. The educational
programs offered by the Health Education Program cover a
wide range of topics such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse,
nutrition, sexuality, sexual misconduct, sexually
transmitted diseases, stress, and fitness.
The program operates on three distinct but
complementary levels:
The health and wellness educator offers health
information, resources, and referrals to individual
students who are in personal need or who are doing
research on a health-related topic. Journals, books,
videos, and Internet access are available in the resource
library.
The health and wellness educator recruits and
coordinates the training of student peer educators who
then do educational outreach programs for other students.
The health educator also advises the students who are
residents of the Well-Being House and Halls.
The Health Education Program sponsors campus wide
outreach and awareness programs on various health issues
for all students, staff, and faculty. The office is located in Davison
Health Center. It has an
open, friendly atmosphere, and students can drop in
without an appointment.
Office hours are:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and
Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. and Wednesday, 8:30
a.m.–9 p.m.
For more information, please visit the web site:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/weswell/
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Physical
Education/Department of Athletics
Freeman Athletic Center
Physical education at Wesleyan has several goals. It
promotes good health through programs of physical
fitness. It teaches physical skills and encourages their
mastery. It encourages disciplined physical testing of
personal mettle. It builds teams and fosters the pursuit
of solidarity, cohesive power, efficiency, and
excellence. It provides opportunity and incentive for
recreational sport of a sort that contributes not only to
good health but also to a fuller understanding of the
importance of physical activity in mature life.
Freeman Athletic Center
161 Cross Street
Main Entrance
Monday –Friday: 7 a.m.–9 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
South Entrance
Monday –Friday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Administration
Monday –Friday: 8:30 a.m.– 4::30 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Pool
Monday –Friday : 7:15 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Lap swim
10:00 a.m.–12 noon PE classes
12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lap swim
4:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Lap swim
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Lap swim
Sunday: 2:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Lap/family swim
Bacon Field House and Fitness Center
Monday –Friday: 7 a.m.–8:45 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Equipment Room
Monday –Friday: 8 a.m.–8:45 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Towels distributed at monitor station
Fayerweather Gymnasium
Locker Rooms and Squash Courts
Monday –Friday: 8 a.m.–8:45 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
Equipment Room
Monday –Friday: 11 a.m.–1 p.m.; 3
p.m.–7 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
NOTE: Intercollegiate home contests and special events
preclude recreational schedule. For more information on
facilities and intercollegiate sports, call 685-2690.
Check out the athletic Web site at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics.
Intercollegiate Athletics
A. NESCAC Presidents’ Statement
on Abusive Drinking
In addition to being partners in athletic competition,
the 11 colleges and universities comprising the New
England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) are
united in efforts to provide safe environments in which
students may mature intellectually and socially.
Recognizing that social life plays a role in the
college experience, each campus has increased its efforts
to encourage students to make responsible choices. Each
school takes a strong stand against substance abuse,
including alcohol. While the vast majority of students at
NESCAC institutions who choose to drink alcohol do so
responsibly, each school has disciplinary and educational
programs in place for students who misuse alcohol and
other substances.
Additionally, all of the conference schools expressly
prohibit hazing.
NESCAC member institutions include Amherst College,
Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College,
Connecticut College, Hamilton College, Middlebury
College, Trinity College, Tufts University, Wesleyan
University, Williams College.
B. Team Initiations and Hazing Policy
Varsity and club sport team initiations, which include
hazing, are dangerous to the safety of the
student-athletes and are prohibited. Also, any varsity
team event that is organized by team members that
includes the use of alcohol is a violation of the
department alcohol policy. (See Athletics Department
Manual, section 3.8.) Team initiations that are intended
to create team spirit or a bonding of team members are
not inherently bad. However, often these events include
some ritual or tradition that includes excessive
drinking. Most often, these events are to indoctrinate
first-year team members into the team. These individuals
are usually under 21 years of age, and providing them
with alcohol is a violation of the state of Connecticut
laws and the Wesleyan University Code of Non-Academic
Conduct. Students violating this code are subject to
disciplinary action by the Student Judiciary Board. Team
initiations may also place team members in violation of
the anti-hazing law of the state of Connecticut. Team
hazing or initiations often include any act, whether
physical, mental, emotional, or psychological, that
subjects another person, voluntarily or involuntarily, to
anything that may abuse, mistreat, degrade, humiliate,
harass, or intimidate him/her or that may in any fashion
compromise his/her inherent dignity as a person.
In addition, any requirement by a member of an
organization that compels another member to participate
in any activity that is against Wesleyan
University’s Code
of Non-Academic Conduct or state/federal law will be
defined as hazing. Coaches are to inform team members
well before the beginning of the season not to hold such
events. As well, a copy of this policy is to be
distributed to each team member and posted in the team
locker room at the beginning of the season.
C. 2006 – 2007 Varsity Team Head
Coaches
For the Sports Staff Directory go to:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/staffdir.html
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