News for the Smith College Community //November 29, 2001
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New Prez to Kick Off Spring Term Carol T. Christ, Smith's president-elect, will make her first official appearance at the college at the All-College Meeting that officially opens the second semester. Christ will be the speaker at the meeting, which will be held on Monday, January 28, at 4:30 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall. Christ's appointment as Smith's tenth president was announced last July 30; she will assume the presidency in June 2002. A widely respected scholar of Victorian literature, Christ served as vice-chancellor (later executive vice-chancellor) and provost at the University of California at Berkeley from 1994 until 2000, when she returned to full-time teaching. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1970 after receiving her doctorate from Yale University. Commenting on Christ's appointment, Mary Patterson McPherson '57, Smith trustee and chair of the presidential search committee, said, "Carol Christ's broad academic interests and administrative accomplishments seem to us to be exactly the right combination of talent and experience to provide distinguished leadership for the college at this time in its history." The highest-ranking female administrator at Berkeley, Christ has a well-established reputation as a champion of women's issues and of diversity. She served as assistant to the chancellor on issues involving the status of women and particularly women in the sciences. She describes her undergraduate education at Douglass College, the women's college of Rutgers University, as formative and has, in the words of a colleague, "an intellectual and emotional commitment to women's education." "She has always been attuned to women's issues," noted Laura D'Andrea Tyson '69, dean of the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, dean-elect of the London Business School and a former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Tyson, a Smith graduate, described Christ as someone who "seems as if she could have been a Smithie." The All-College Meeting takes place on the first day of classes and will feature choral music by one of the college's singing groups, greetings to new and returning students from SGA, senior class and alumnae class presidents, a presentation of the annual Elizabeth B. Wyandt Gavel Award to a popular staff member and, as always, a rousing rendition of Gaudeamus Igitur. This year, it will also be an occasion
to welcome an important new Smithie. King/Scales, $11 Million Later Originally constructed in 1935 and 1936, Franklin King and Laura Scales houses were among the last built in the Quad. Among the largest of the college's 35 residences, the curved twin buildings are all that shields the Quad from passing Elm Street traffic. After an extensive renovation project during the past year, they are now among the most attractive houses on campus as well. The $11 million project, which began last spring, overhauled everything from the houses' slate roofs to their kitchens, ventilation systems, furniture and wood floors. The college hired a South Hadleybased firm, Maoris Construction Company, to carry out the construction and renovation project, which "includes all major building infrastructure renovations, getting all of the utilities up to college standards and beyond," says the physical plant's Noelle Owens, the project manager for the renovations. "This project was very similar to what was accomplished a year ago with Comstock and Wilder, but with two major exceptions," she explains. "King and Scales also had major reconfigurations and renovations to their two kitchens, and as a support for the kitchen renovations, two building additions [were] constructed." Other improvements to the houses include upgraded fire sprinkler and alarm systems, renovated basement space and remodeled bathrooms. The houses' old elevators have been replaced with handicapped-accessible lifts, hot water radiation systems have taken the place of old steam radiators, all the furniture has been replaced and new lighting has been installed. "They redid every room," remarks appreciative King House resident Christina Cooney '02. "We have new paint and new furniture in the house, new carpet on the floors, and they put a new floor in our dining room, which is gorgeous. The construction workers have done a great job." "The house looks beautiful," echoes Davy Kong '02, house president of Scales. "The construction workers have worked really, really hard. They're so accommodating and the nicest bunch of guys ever." Kong and her fellow residents have sometimes found it frustrating to "live in a construction site," she admits. "For the first two weeks of the semester, we had no common space and we had to have our house meeting in the loggia." Nevertheless, she adds, her housemates have been "very patient, and they've rarely complained." Though Scales resident Emily Robisho '05 never saw her house before it was renovated, "I have seen a few pictures from before, and I think it looks very nice now," she says. "Compared to a lot of the dorms my friends are living in at home, this is just so much better. Whenever I show my friends pictures of it, they're very impressed." I think we've managed to make things a bit nicer and more convenient," says Owens. "Everyone seems to be pleased with the overall change in appearance." MEF to Host Post-9/11 Forum Here Sixty years to the day after the United States was attacked by a foreign enemy at Pearl Harbor, the Media Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Northampton, will hold a public forum and panel at Smith that discusses politics and activism in the post-September 11 world. "Activism in the Aftermath: The Future of Politics in a Post-September 11th Age" is the title of the forum, to take place on Friday, December 7, from 7 to 10 p.m. in John M. Greene Hall. "Activism in the Aftermath" is co-sponsored by GAIA, Smith's student environmental advocacy group. Panelists will be Naomi Klein, author of No Logo; Douglas Rushkoff, who wrote Coercion; and Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon. The authors will hold a booksigning session following the forum. Media Education Foundation, the nation's leading producer of educational videos on media and culture, has reached millions of students and young people with its video analyses of societal and cultural issues facing today's youth, particularly the influence of mass media. MEF, which celebrated its tenth anniversary earlier this year, is guided by a board of advisers that includes Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, bell hooks and Noam Chomsky. Author to Discuss Downfall of America James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere and Home From Nowhere because "I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." He will bring his message to the Northampton area in a public presentation, "Can America Survive Suburbia?" at 9 a.m. on Saturday, December 8, in Wright Hall Auditorium. His talk is cosponsored by the government department and the Content Institute of the Hampshire Educational Collaborative. Comments on The Geography of Nowhere have ranged from "a wonderfully entertaining, useful and provocative account of the ravaging of the American environment by the auto, suburban developers, purblind zoning and corporate pirates," in the Boston Globe, to "a serious attempt to point out ways future builders can avoid the errors that have marred the American landscape" in The New Yorker. Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, calls Kunstler's book "a funny, angry, colossally important tour of our built landscape, our human ecology." Kunstler, who has also written eight novels, is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and op-ed pages and has lectured widely on environmental and economic issues. The Content Institute is funded by the Massachusetts Department of Education as an opportunity for local educators to explore new directions for teaching U.S. history through the dynamics of community planning in historical and current contexts. Course to Develop New Antigone The central project of a new Interterm course will incorporate the contemporary concerns and issues of Smith students into the reworking of an ancient play. Antigone in Progress is the title of a play project that will provide the main focus of Theater 105J (Theater 601 as a noncredit course), Play Development, a course taught and facilitated by members of New York City's Epic Theatre Center, two of whom are also Smith graduates. Students in the class will collaborate with members of the professional company to create and present a new adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. Leah Ryan AC'93, a professional playwright in New York, will serve as playwright-in-residence for the January course. Shaheen Vaaz (formerly Shaheen Chamarbagwala '94), an actor with the Epic Theater Center, will work with student actors on various plays in the course, including Antigone in Progress. The new take on Sophocles' classic will address issues and concerns pertaining to college and the Northampton community, says Leonard Berkman, Anne Hesseltine Hoyt Professor of Theatre and a member of the Epic Theatre Center's Board of Advisers, who will assist with the course. "Students will read a variety of Antigone translations and then work with playwright Leah Ryan and Epic artists to rethink the public and political context and role of the chorus," says Berkman in a course description. Antigone in Progress will be performed on Monday and Tuesday, January 28 and 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hallie Flanagan Studio at the Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts. Ryan, who was a multiple winner of the Five College Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize while a theater major at Smith, is the author of Raised by Lesbians, a theater work presented last year by the New Century Theater at Smith. Ryan has also had several plays produced in New York and Chicago, including her adaptations of Chekhov plays. One of her adaptations, titled Pigeon, is currently running in the "Chekhov Now" festival of plays in New York. Vaaz, a founding artist of the Epic Theatre Center, will appear in an upcoming episode of the new CBS television series "The Education of Max Bickford." Her most recent stage role was Kate in the Epic Theatre Center's New York production of A Breath Short of Breathing, by Zak Berkman (Leonard Berkman's son). While at Smith, Vaaz appeared in several theatre department productions and performed with the Chrysalis Theatre troupe led by Andrea Hairston, associate professor of theater. he course will also develop Kate Fodor's work Hannah and Martin, with Broadway and Hollywood actor David Strathairn (Passion Fish; River Wild; Dolores Claiborne) playing the lead role. Theater 601, the noncredit course, is available to all members of the Smith community. To register, sign up between December 3 and 7 through the Interterm Web site (www.smith.edu/interterm) or the course booklet. Class sessions will take place every weekday from January 10 through 25, 2002, from 10 a.m. to noon, 1:30 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Class enrollees can opt to participate in one, two or all three daily sessions. The performances of Antigone in
Progress will be the culmination of a series of other presentations
that will occur throughout the three-week course. ScoreBoard Cross country Swimming and diving Squash Basketball Sources of further information, if any, are indicated in parentheses. Notices should be submitted by mail, by e-mail eweld@smith.edu) or by fax (extension 2171).
Mark Your Calendars Luncheon at the
Club Foul Weather Flash Faculty and Staff Annual Winter Party Foster Homes Sought Students Book Buyback Mellon Fellowships Study Skills Workshops Course Critique
Reminder Health Services
Exams Fund Drive for Breast
Cancer Finals for Students
with Disabilities Final Examinations Attention January
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Sources of further information, if any, are shown in parentheses at the end of event descriptions. An asterisk following a listing indicates that the event is open to the public. Admission charges, if any, are listed when known. Items for this section must be submitted on Event Service Request Forms.
Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Behind the Scenes in Disney's Beauty and the Beast." Richard White, who provided the voice of Gaston in the animated film, will speak about the film's making. 4:15 p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage* World AIDS Day Panel Panelists will discuss the economics and politics of AIDS drug patents in Third World countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Sponsor: Smith African Students Association. 4:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room* Biological sciences colloquium "Complex Regulation of Virulence Genes in Salmonella Typhimurium: How and Why?" Catherine Lee, Harvard Medical School. Refreshments precede the lecture in the foyer. 4:30 p.m., McConnell B05 Meetings/Workshops Informational meeting Smith TV. 4 p.m., Media Services, Alumnae Gym Informational session Weekly meeting for students interested in studying abroad, including a review of opportunities and procedures, and a question-and-answer period. 4 p.m., Third Floor Resource Room, Clark Hall Meeting Smith Democrats. 6:30 p.m., Davis Downstairs Lounge Religious Life Service "Invitation to Silence." Take time for reflection, renewal and respite in the quiet of the chapel. Candles available. All welcome. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Bible study. For more information, call Jessica, ext. 7237. 7:45 p.m., Lawrence House Other Events/Activities Computer science TA lunch table Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom
Lectures/Symposia Lecture "From the Diplomatic Pouch: The Arts in 18th-Century Rome." John E. Moore, art. Sponsors: Maxine and Sigmund Kunstadter Fund; art department. 5 p.m., Seelye 106* Lecture "A Bridge to the Future: Defending Israeli and Palestinian Human Rights." Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director, Rabbis for Human Rights. Sponsors: Smith/Amherst Hillel. 7:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room Meetings/Workshops Meeting Amnesty International 4:45 p.m., Chapin House CDO workshop "Résumés for Adas." 7-7:55 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew SGA Senate meeting Open forum. All students welcome. 7:15 p.m., Seelye 201 CDO workshop "Finding Internships." 89 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew Meeting Smith Students for a Peaceful Response. 9 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Davis Religious Life Hillel at Noon Noon, Kosher Kitchen, Dawes Service "Invitation to Silence." See 12/3 listing. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Meeting Newman Association.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Bible study. For more information, call Andy, ext. 7348. 9 p.m., Lamont House ECC Bible study Student-led discussion of topics raised by the Sunday morning worship community. Snacks provided. All welcome. 10 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom CDO open hours for library research and browsing. Peer advisers available. 79 p.m., CDO
Lectures/Symposia Performing Arts/Films Theater The Children's Hour. Lillian Hellman's 1934 play about an angry, spiteful child's accusations about her headmistresses. Austin Pendleton, director. Tickets (call 585-ARTS): $7, general; $4, students/children/seniors. 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Theatre, Mendenhall CPA* Meetings/Workshops CDO Workshop "Job Search for Seniors." 4:15-5:15 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew Meeting Smith TV, to discuss new programming. 7 p.m., Media Services, Alumnae Gym Meeting MassPIRG. 7 p.m., Seelye 310 CDO infosession Recruiters from IBM will discuss career opportunities. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 207 Religious Life Service "Invitation to Silence." See 12/3 listing. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Buddhist meditation and discussion. 7:15 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel ECC Bible study Student-led discussion of topics raised by the Sunday morning worship community. Snacks provided. 10 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Classics lunch Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom Social events coordinator dinner 5:45 p.m., Duckett Special Dining Room C
Lectures/Symposia Executive Access Lecture Jim Becker, president and CEO, Beacon Skanska Construction Company. 12:15 p.m., Mary Maples Dunn Conference Room, Pierce Lecture "In the Crucible of Apartheid." South African author Sindiwe Magona speaks on her memoir, Forced to Grow. An open lecture of WST 101 "Women of Color: Defining the Issues." 7:30 p.m., Stoddard Auditorium* Performing Arts/Films Theater Soul Repairs, written and directed by Andrea Hairston, theatre. Final presentation of the fall semester play reading series. 7:30 p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage* Theater The Children's Hour. See 12/5 listing. 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Theatre, Mendenhall CPA* Concert A mellow concert brought to you by WOZQ radio. Tickets: $10. 8 p.m., Field House* Meetings/Workshops CDO workshop "Résumé Writing." 3-4 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew Meeting MassPIRG. All welcome. 7 p.m., Seelye 310 Religious Life Drop-in stress reduction and relaxation class with Hayat Nancy Abuza. Refresh body, mind and spirit. Open to all Five College students, staff and faculty. Sponsor: Office of the Chaplains. 4:30-5:30 p.m., Wright Common Room* Sahaja Yoga meditation Open to all religious backgrounds. 7 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel* Hillel Hanukkah party Come enjoy latkes and other wonderful Hanukkah foods while dancing and listening to the Wholesale Klezmer Band and the Noteables. All welcome. 8 p.m., Davis Ballroom Intervarsity Christian Fellowship 8-9:30 p.m., Wright Common Room Unitarian Universalists meeting Open to all Five College students and faculty who want to talk, play games and have fun together. 8:30 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Language lunch tables Korean, Russian. Noon, Duckett Special Dining Rooms A, B (alternate weekly) Glee Club lunch table Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C Out to lunch Come eat
and chat with gay women staff. Noon-1:30 p.m.,
Lectures/Symposia Performing Arts/Films Theater The Children's Hour. See 12/5 listing. 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Theatre, Mendenhall CPA* Concert Ron Gorevic, viola/violin, and Deborah Gilwood, piano, will perform works by Beethoven, Wheelock and Brahms. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Dance concert Celebrations, Smith's student-run dance company, will present exciting original choreography in various styles in a program of high energy and creativity. Tickets: $7, general; $5, students/children/seniors. 8 p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage* Rock concert WOZQ presents the band Karate and two local bands. Tickets: $5, general; free, Smith students. 8 p.m., Field House* Meetings/Workshops Meeting Smith Science Fiction and Fantasy Society. Animé, gaming, sci-fi, fantasy and people who like sci-fi people. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 208 Workshop Michael Katz, psychologist and editor of Dream Yoga, by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, will lead a workshop on dream yoga/lucid dreaming. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 101* Religious Life Shabbat Services Dinner follows in the Kosher Kitchen, Dawes. 5:30 p.m., Dewey Common Room. Other Events/Activities Language lunch table Hebrew. Noon, Duckett Spec. Dining Room C Alumnae House tea Park and Lawrence houses are cordially invited to attend. 4 p.m., Alumnae House Living Room Something on a Friday presents fire and spice: a time to take a break and enjoy some spicy food. Sponsors: Office of Multicultural Affairs, Class of 2002. 8 p.m., Unity House |
Lectures/Symposia Performing Arts/Films Concert Smith College wind and jazz ensemble, Bruce Diehl, director. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Theater The Children's Hour. See 12/5 listing. 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Theatre, Mendenhall CPA* Dance concert Celebrations, Smith's student-run dance company. See 12/7 listing. 8 p.m., Earle Recital Hall, Sage* Other Events/Activities Basketball vs. Connecticut College. 6 p.m., Ainsworth Gym*
Performing Arts/Films Coffeehouse Jittery's Live presents folk favorite Catie Curtis. Bring a friend and settle in for an amazing night of music. 7:30 p.m., Davis First Floor* Meetings/Workshops Meeting Feminists of
Smith Unite. Religious Life Quaker (Friends) meeting for worship. Preceded by informal discussion at 9:30 a.m. All welcome, childcare available. 11 a.m., Bass 203, 204* Roman Catholic Mass Fr. Stephen-Joseph Ross, OCD, celebrant, and Elizabeth Carr, Catholic chaplain. Dinner follows in Bodman Lounge. All welcome. 4:30 p.m., Chapel Other Events/Activities
Lectures/Symposia Meetings/Workshops Informational meeting Smith TV. 4 p.m., Media Services, Alumnae Gym Informational session Weekly meeting for students interested in studying abroad, including a review of opportunities and procedures, and a question-and-answer period. 4 p.m., Third Floor Resource Room, Clark Hall Meeting Smith Democrats. 6:30 p.m., Davis Downstairs Lounge Religious Life Service "Invitation to Silence." See 12/3 listing. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Bible study. For more information, call Jessica, ext. 7237. 7:45 p.m., Lawrence House Other Events/Activities Computer science TA lunch table Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C President's open hours First come, first served. 4-5 p.m., College Hall 20 Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom Basketball vs. Westfield
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Lectures/Symposia Literature at Lunch Robert Hosmer, English, will read from The Seraph and the Zambesi. Bring lunch; drinks provided by the English department. 12:10 p.m., Wright Common Room Performing Arts/Films Dance concert "Can't Get There from Here." Presented by the dance department and first-year MFA candidates. Featuring a collaboration of new works by Kiara Brown, Megan Frazier, Candice Salyers and Christina Tsoules. 7:30 p.m., Crew House* Meetings/Workshops Meeting Amnesty International 4:45 p.m., Chapin House CDO workshop "Preparing for Interviews." 7-8 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew SGA Senate meeting Open forum. All students welcome. 7:15 p.m., Seelye 201 Meeting Smith Students for a Peaceful Response. 9 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Davis Religious Life Service "Invitation to Silence." See 12/3 listing. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Meeting Newman Association.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Bible study. For more information, call Andy, ext. 7348. 9 p.m., Lamont House ECC Bible study Student-led discussion of topics raised by the Sunday morning worship community. Snacks provided. All welcome. 10 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom CDO open hours for library research and browsing. Peer advisers available. 7-9 p.m., CDO
Lectures/Symposia Performing Arts/Films Meetings/Workshops Meeting MassPIRG. 7 p.m., Seelye 310 Religious Life Service "Invitation to Silence." See 12/3 listing. Noon-1 p.m., Chapel* Roman Catholic Mass Celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Dinner follows in Bodman Lounge. 4:30 p.m., Chapel Buddhist meditation and discussion. 7:15 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel ECC Bible study Student-led discussion of topics raised by the Sunday morning worship community. Snacks provided. All welcome. 10 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Classics lunch Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom Basketball vs. Newbury
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Last day of classes Performing Arts/Films Meetings/Workshops Religious Life Drop-in stress reduction and relaxation class with Hayat Nancy Abuza. Refresh body, mind and spirit. Open to all Five College students, staff and faculty. Sponsor: Office of the Chaplains. 4:30-5:30 p.m., Wright Common Room* Sahaja Yoga meditation Open to all religious backgrounds. 7 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel* Intervarsity Christian Fellowship All welcome. 8-9:30 p.m., Dewey Common Room Unitarian Universalists meeting Open to all Five College students and faculty who want to talk, play games and have fun together. 8:30 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other Events/Activities Language lunch tables Korean, Russian. Noon, Duckett Special Dining Rooms A, B (alternate weekly) Glee Club lunch table Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C President's open hours First come, first served. 4-5 p.m., College Hall 20
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Performing Arts/Films Religious Life Quaker (Friends) meeting for worship. Preceded by informal discussion at 9:30 a.m. All welcome, childcare available. 11 a.m., Bass 203, 204* Roman Catholic Mass The Rev. Daniel Pacholec, celebrant, and Elizabeth Carr, Catholic chaplain. Dinner follows in Bodman Lounge. All welcome. 4:30 p.m., Chapel
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