News for the Smith College Community //April 13, 2000
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New SSW Center Targets Those in Need In the 82 years since the Smith College School for Social Work (SSW) opened, the structures and processes of social work education, treatment and research have changed dramatically. The school opened with the specific mission of assisting in the treatment of U.S. soldiers returning from fighting in World War I through their trauma and recovery. Treatment of mental illness back then tended to be a simpler process. When someone had a problem, he or she often received treatment in a therapist's office for an hour once a week. But in these times of complex social challenges, widespread mental health issues and vast changes in health-care funding, the availability and treatment of mental health needs are also more complex. In many cases today, for example, treatment is applied when and where it's needed, in public schools, hospitals, community centers, churches, outpatient clinics and in the home-as opposed to a care provider's office. The SSW, as it always has, aims not only to meet the mental health needs of the communities but also to promote an understanding of the impact the environment has on individuals while improving access to quality care through the school's teaching, programs and research. In a ground-breaking endeavor launched last fall, the SSW intends to further broaden and deepen its leadership in mental health practice. Through its new Center for Innovative Practice and Social Work Education, the school has launched research and service demonstration projects that will produce new knowledge on the mental health needs of our most vulnerable populations and at the same time is implementing new models of internship learning at the graduate and undergraduate levels (through Praxis, for example). Interdisciplinary collaboration within the Smith community and with other colleges and universities is integral to the center's mission, says SSW Dean Anita Lightburn. As a central connector for social-work professionals, community leaders and faculty, the center will help develop ideas, research and new models of mental health services for vulnerable, high-risk populations. "Part of the center's influence will be through its strong emphasis on disseminating its research findings to its extensive internship network in 26 states and to the publishing and sharing knowledge, to the national social-work community," Lightburn says. One of the center's preliminary projects is Partners for Success, a collaboration between the SSW and the Springfield school system designed to improve the mental health and academic performance of elementary school children who have been victims of trauma. Ten graduate SSW interns have been a dynamic part of the project. Other inaugural projects at the center include: The Kinship Connections Project, a grant-funded collaboration that focuses on improving the mental health of children in the child welfare system. End of Life Care Program, which offers a post-master's Advanced Practice Certificate to social work professionals working with individuals and families experiencing AIDS, cancer, chronic illness or sudden death due to violence or accidents. The program will develop the first textbook on end-of-life clinical care for schools of so-cial work and other professionals. Latino Elderly Needs Assessment Project, a program that will link the SSW with Western Mass ElderCare to assess the needs of Holyoke's elderly Latino population and its families. Always at the heart of the center's mission is to further the objectives of the School for Social Work, Lightburn says. "This school has always really been about teaching," she says of the SSW, which is consistently rated among the top social work educational institutions nationally with a large master's program and one of the largest doctoral programs in the United States. The Center for Innovative Practice and Social Work Education invites project proposals from SSW faculty and professional colleagues. For more information regarding center projects or the SSW, see the school's Web site at www.smith.edu/ssw. My Year of Meats Required Summer Reading My Year of Meats, the acclaimed debut novel by Ruth Lounsbury Ozeki '80, has been selected as this year's required reading for students entering Smith in fall 2000. Packed with "romance, humor, intrigue, and even a message, My Year of Meats has it all," says an Amazon.com review. "This is a book that even a vegetarian would love." Named by Glamour magazine as "one of the heartiest, and yes, meatiest debuts in years," Ozeki's novel was chosen and recommended to Dean of the College Maureen Mahoney by a committee of faculty, staff, and students from the class of 2003. An experienced documentarian, Ozeki has worked in television and film. Her work has been shown on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at colleges and universities across the country. Like Ozeki, Jane Tagaki-Little, the novel's protagonist, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; also like the novelist, who once was commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption. "When documentarian Jane Tagaki-Little finally lands a job producing My American Wife!, a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she discovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a hormone called DES," says the teaser on the back of the Penguin paperback. "Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife, struggles to escape from her child-craving husband. When Jane's and Akiko's lives intersect, the deepest concerns of our time are illuminated: how the past informs the present, and how we live and love in an ever-shrinking world." Ozeki, whom classical languages and literatures professor Thalia Pandiri describes as "a charismatic speaker, and a real presence, smart, funny, warm," will be on campus during the orientation for entering students, September 2 through 6. She will give a public presentation about her novel the evening of Tuesday, September 5. Earlier that afternoon, small groups of entering students will meet with faculty and staff to discuss the book. If you are a faculty or staff member interested in volunteering to lead one of those discussion groups (they will meet on Tuesday, September 5, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.), please contact either Tom Riddell, dean of the first-year class (extension 4910 or triddell@ais.smith.edu), or Julie Trainito, interim assistant dean for student affairs (extension 4904, jtrainit@ais.smith.edu). College Web Site to Sport New Look Smith College's virtual "front door"-the initial view of the college via its Web site-is getting an overhaul. Since its creation several years ago, the Smith Web site has grown exponentially. More than 8 million pages are viewed annually by students, faculty, staff, alumnae, parents, friends, prospective students and the general public. To meet the needs of the current and next generation of users, a restructuring and enhancement of the Web site are necessary. The timing for this redesign is appropriate, following the recent approval of a new institutional visual identity and the completion of a needs assessment of the Smith Web site by a consulting firm. Information Technology Services and college relations, partnered with advancement and the Alumnae Association, have undertaken the management of this project. Based on interviews and research, the consultant's report provides a detailed map of the site architecture. Using the report as a guideline, we have redesigned the Smith home page and the primary "tier" of pages. These pages are now available for review by the college community. The test site can be accessed from the current home page (www.smith.edu) or directly at www.smith.edu/test.html. The most prominent new features of the site are the separate home pages for external and internal users, with links tailored to those audiences. The correct page will be served up depending upon whether users are on campus or off. Community members who log on from off campus will still find links to Banner and GroupWise mail. An improved architecture reduces the number of clicks required to get to major information sources. And a search engine will allow you to search Web servers at Smith as well as the Internet. Not all links on the test pages are active. Some new content is still being developed; much of what is available is still under construction. Some pages are mockups that will be replaced by final pages in the near future. In the coming months, a set of design standards and templates will be made available; these templates can be used by individual offices and programs that wish to redesign or develop sites to incorporate the new visual identity. A Day Just for Daughters This year, Smith's version of "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" is likely to provide its young participants with a little fun, a little education, and some views of the campus not commonly available to all. College employees are invited to bring their daughters between ages 8 and 12 to work with them on Thursday, April 27, to take part in a day of activities and spend some time in their parents' workplace. The day will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a welcome and introduction with morning snacks and juice in the Ainsworth Lounge. At 9 a.m., the girls, by request, will head over to the Ainsworth swimming pool for an hour of free swim time supervised by lifeguards. Those who prefer not to get wet will have Scott Gym at their disposal with tumbling mats and basketballs available for their fitness entertainment. After swimming and tumbling it's off to the Physical Plant where the daughters will be led on one of those fabled tours of the boiler plant, rows of computers that juggle a boggling list of campus operations, and a subterranean view of the college's steam tunnels that wend their way underneath the campus. The girls will then hike over to John M. Greene Hall for a light public-speaking workshop. Senior Katrina Gardner, SGA president, who has delivered speeches at some of Smith's most important events, will tell one of her famous stories to the girls, after which they can approach the microphone and ring out a few words of their own through the hall's public-address system to their associates in the audience. Gardner will offer some pointers to the girls on how to improve their public-speaking skills. After the workshop, the daughters will head across Elm Street to Davis Center where they'll meet up with their parents/sponsors for a lunch special organized in the daughters' honor. Following lunch, the daughters are invited to return to their parents' workplace to witness the essential input to the campus' success that each parent contributes. "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" was launched in 1992 by the Ms. Foundation as an annual opportunity to give young girls a chance to see their parents and other people engaged in a wide range of professional duties. The foundation intends the experience to help inspire the girls and build their confidence and self-esteem prior to the onslaught of adolescence. If your daughter would like to join others April 27 on a day about girls and their futures, register by April 24 by contacting Claire Kmetz in the Office of College Relations, extension 2170, or ckmetz@smith.edu. All activities will be supervised by college personnel. New Quad Exercise Room Opens to Raves On the evening of Thursday, March 21, between 60 and 80 students crowded into the basement of King House to witness the King/Scales fitness area's grand opening. After a ceremonial ribbon-cutting by the house presidents of King and Scales, the crowd of students surged into the new fitness area, which boasts 15 pieces of shiny new weight and exercise equipment and still smells of fresh paint. "I think this weight room is awesome," said Gardiner resident Rachel Santamaria-Schwartz '03, eyeing the fitness area's offerings, which include six LifeCycle bicycles, four pieces of Cybex strength equipment, two Total Body Cross Trainers, one Versaclimber, an erg, and two Stairmasters. Melissa Hall '03 agreed, then added, "It's nice we don't have so far to walk [to the gym]. I might actually work out now." Plans for the new fitness area originated during the college's self-study, says Theresa Collins, of the athletics department. "There was this student push for more exercise equipment, but we didn't have enough room in the [Ainsworth] gym," she said. To satisfy students' demands, college officials decided to construct satellite fitness areas around campus, beginning with the fitness area in Albright House, which was built last year and averages about 40 to 50 visitors a day. King House, selected because of its location in the Quad and its convenient external entryway to the basement, was next, and construction began this year. In addition to the fitness area, a bathroom, telephone, water fountain, cubbyholes, and a bulletin board (for posting fitness-related notices) were added to King's basement, and a keyless entry system was put on the outside. Currently students need an access code to enter the fitness area. To obtain the code, go to Ainsworth Gymnasium's equipment booth and present a Smith identification card. After Physical Plant digitizes the identification cards, students can access the fitness area by swiping the cards at the door. Cards can be digitized April 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the King/Scales computer and fitness areas. The number code system currently being used will be discontinued, and the card-swipe system will eventually be the only way students can access the fitness area, Collins says. "We're trying to keep the place very secure," she explains. Students' positive reactions to the new fitness area have continued since its opening, Collins says. "We've had great feedback," she says. "The first two days it was open, people were waiting for machines and there was a lot of excitement. It does seem like it's going to be a big hit. Let's hope people keep it up and keep working out." To keep interest fresh, graduate students in Smith's exercise and sports studies department will be running weekly workshops and fitness clinics at all the weight rooms on campus, including the King and Albright fitness areas and at Ainsworth Gymnasium. Graduate students Jennifer Bhalla and Cheryl Brantle plan to "show how to use the equipment, introduce beginning students to it, and help more experienced students organize workout routines," Bhalla says. To learn more about the fitness clinics, including dates and times, check the bulletin board at the King House fitness area. And, adds Collins, "if anyone has any problems, questions, suggestions, or requests of any sort, they can give me a call or e-mail me" at extension 2710 or tcollins@smith.edu. Again, to get your Smith identification card ditigized, remember to head to the King/Scales computer and fitness areas between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, April 17. Rare Book Room Receives Collection A major collection of 19th-century American decorated bookbindings has been donated to Mortimer Rare Book Room. The extraordinary collection was assembled by Harvey and Myrtle Finison of Northampton during a period from the 1950s through the 1980s, and was given to the college last December for use by undergraduates and scholars studying American publishing history and the development of decorative styles. The collection consists of more than 2,000 highly decorated volumes, mostly novels, from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bound in embossed, colored, stamped and gilt cloth. These bookbindings, which were prized for the dazzling beauty and inventiveness of their designs, now document American publishers' dramatic departure from the more somber and understated style of bookbinding of the earlier 19th century. Present in the collection are bookbinding designs by some of the most famous commercial artists of the day-including Will Bradley, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Margaret Armstrong, T.M. Cleland and Frederick Goudy-as well as by many obscure and unidentified designers who are known only from a tiny signature in the form of an initial letter or monogram hidden somewhere on the cover design. Overall, the work of at least 130 American and English designers is represented in the Finison Collection. Harvey and Myrtle Finison quietly assembled the collection over the years by painstakingly scouring bookshops and regularly attending local auctions. Even though they were known in Northampton as passionate bibliophiles, many of their friends were unaware of the scope and extent of their book hunting. Harvey died in 1987 and Myrtle has cared for and organized the collection since. The Smith College Library will catalogue the collection and house it in its temperature- and humidity-controlled Mortimer Rare Book Room. An exhibition of highlights from the Finison Collection is planned for next fall. For further information call Martin Antonetti, curator of rare books, extension 2906. Five Colleges to Create 'Sixth Library' From important works on women's studies to manuscripts of poets such as Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, the libraries of the Five Colleges are rich in rare documents and special collections. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, those collections will be preserved in a more secure facility and are likely to become "better known throughout the region and the world," says Five College Coordinator Lorna M. Peterson. That's because the Five Colleges, with the help of a $1.1 million Mellon Grant, plan to pool resources for a new Five College Depository. Those holdings will be made accessible to the world on a Web-based database. The Five College Depository, or "sixth library," as it will be referred to by members of the Five College community's libraries system, will be housed in a two-story underground bunker in Amherst that once served as headquarters of the former U.S. Air Force Strategic Command. Located 32 feet beneath the surface of the Mount Holyoke Range, where the temperature remains constant between 50 and 55 degrees, the bunker is an ideal site for the storage of library materials, says a Five College press release. The bunker is currently owned by Amherst College, which uses three-quarters of the facility's 40,000 square feet for its own storage needs. The Five Colleges, which will lease the remaining portion of the facility for the depository, will use the grant to support start-up and initial operating costs. Efforts are under way to raise an additional $990,000 needed to complete renovations to the space. The Five Colleges' decision to integrate major parts of their library collections into one shared depository is a pioneering one, says Amherst College Librarian Willis E. Bridegam. "[We] are breaking the mold by saying that it's ready access to information that matters; not how many volumes we have in our collections," he says. "[Other libraries] are, for the most part, still caught up in volume counting and ownership." As the Five Colleges begin "building the collections together," adds Mount Holyoke College Librarian Susan Perry, they will be "playing a role in the whole scope of library management, and not just the handling of small parts of the collections." During the next three years, the grant will also support the cost of developing a Web-based database of "finding aids," says a Five College press release. "The database will be easy to use, searchable, and standardized, and will be linked to both the Five College on-line library catalog and to relevant local, national, and international databases." With the addition of the database and the depository, which will be located on the Five College interlibrary loan route, scholars and researchers within the Five Colleges and beyond will benefit. Talk to Explore 'Lost' Scroll When they were first discovered in caves along the shore of the Dead Sea in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls provided the world with new insights into the thought and beliefs of Jews living between 250 B.C.E. and 65 C.E. They also provided us with their fair share of mysteries. On Tuesday, April 18, leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Stephen Pfann will give an evening lecture at Smith addressing one of those mysteries. Pfann's lecture, "Newly Surfacing Libraries From the Dead Sea," will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Neilson Browsing Room. The puzzle Pfann plans to address began in the 20th century, when rumors of a "lost" Dead Sea Scroll started to circulate. The 2,000-year-old missing text, dubbed the "Angel Scroll," was thought to contain mystical imagery and descriptions of angels and the heavenly throne. Last year, in the hands of a group of Jerusalemites, a transcript of that missing Angel Scroll suddenly appeared. Like many of the other Dead Sea scrolls, the Jerusalemites' transcript dates from the first century of the Common Era. Like the other scrolls, it is written on parchment, composed largely in Hebrew (with some scattered Aramaic and Greek). If it is real, says Pfann, who has studied more than a quarter of the text, the transcript, with its revealing religious content, could be considered the archaeological find of the century. In his lecture, Pfann will explore
the mystery of the Angel Scroll, as well as issues of authenticity
and forgery. He will also address the unique insights that the
text, if it is authentic, could provide for the understanding
of the origins and development of Jewish mysticism. Pfann, a
major contributor to the Qumran Project at Hebrew University,
is an expert in both the archaeology of the Qumran and related
sites. He also has a profound knowledge of the texts from the
Dead Sea Scrolls. He has published The Dead Sea Scrolls on microfiche,
and his new textbook, The Essene New Testament, is due for publication
next year. He is currently the director of the Center for the
Study of Early Christianity in Jerusalem.
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Sources of further information, if any, are indicated in parentheses. Notices should be submitted by mail, by e-mail (mstanton@colrel.smith.edu) or by fax (extension 2174).
Late April Scheduling New ITS Resource In the Buddhist and Hindu religious traditions, Tara is "the goddess who guides through troubles," an appropriate namesake for the site that provides Smith students, faculty and staff with answers to pressing technology questions. Tara is also known for her compassionate nature. In similar spirit, ITS provides many different kinds of assistance to the Smith user community. Those who can't find the information they need should call the User Support Center at 4ITS (ext. 4487) or visit Stoddard 23 for assistance. Hillyer Art Library Faculty and Staff Kyoto Faculty Fellowships Students Technological Problems As is the case for all assignments during the semester, and up to the end of the final examination period, faculty members are empowered to grant extensions to their students. If there is some technological reason for difficulty in presenting an assignment, a faculty member may grant extra time for submission of the work. (Extensions beyond the end of the exam period may be granted only by the class deans.) On the other hand, a faculty member may wish to require confirmation of the problems, for example from a staff member at one of the computer centers. Alternatively, the faculty member might ask the student to submit a diskette with the relevant file (along with information about the platform and the word-processing program) as a substitute for written work. The Administrative Board urges students to prepare their work in a timely fashion (and to back it up) in order to avoid last-minute technological difficulties. Nevertheless, the board recognizes that even with the blessings of modern technology, these difficulties do, and will continue to, happen. Staff members at the computer centers may be able to provide technical assistance when such problems occur. SSW Student Study Submission of Papers Each year the Administrative Board is asked to make judgments on cases regarding final papers or projects that have gone astray. The best way to avoid such situations is to submit papers to an actual person, for example, the professor of the class or a departmental staff member who can verify receipt. Specifying the time and location of delivery of the work in such cases is advantageous to both the faculty and students. Students and faculty should also be reminded that the college requires that papers delivered by U.S. mail be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. AcaMedia
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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. CORRECTION The Smith College Orchestra's and Glee Club's performance, with the Harvard Glee Club, of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (listed in an article in last week's AcaMedia to begin at 8 p.m.) begins at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 15, in John M. Greene Hall. Monday, April 17 Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Life in a Korean Zen Monastery." Robert E. Buswell Jr., department of East Asian languages and cultures, and director, Center for Korean Studies, UCLA. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 201* Lecture "Insect Locomotion in Complex Terrain: A Neurobiological and Robotics Approach." Roy E. Ritzmann, professor of biology, Case Western Reserve University. Reception precedes lecture at 4:15 p.m. in McConnell foyer. 4:30 p.m., McConnell B05* Class poetry reading featuring a variety of voices and themes. 7-9 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room Lecture "Testimony Disregarded: Holocaust Victims and the Historians." Helene Sinnreich '97 will interpret the Holocaust from victims' and perpetrators' points of view. Sponsor: Jewish Studies Program. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 207* Performing arts/films Meetings/workshops Smith Students for the Environment meeting. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 109 Religious Life Green Tara meditation Buddhist meditation in the Tibetan tradition. Sponsor: East Asian Studies Program. 4:15 p.m., Wright common room* Other events/activities President's open hours First come, first served. 4-5 p.m., College Hall 20 Lacrosse v. WNEC. 4:30 p.m., athletic fields* Yoga class Noncredit, for students. Limited to 40. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis ballroom Tuesday, April 18 Lectures/Symposia Discussion "Hitler, Waldheim, Haider: The Far Right in Austria. What Can Be Done?" Karen Alter, government department, and Klemens von Klemperer, emeritus, history department. Sponsors: International Relations Program, government department. Noon, Seelye 207 Informal question-and-answer session with poet Mary Oliver (who will read this evening). Interested students should see Cindy Furtek in the Poetry Center, Wright Hall, for a packet of poems to read in advance. 3:30 p.m., Wright common room Lecture "Dependent Origination." Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, from the Tashilhunpo Monastery. Sponsor: East Asian Studies Program. 7-9 p.m., Wright common room* Poetry reading Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver. 7:30 p.m., Wright auditorium* Lecture "Newly Surfacing Libraries from the Dead Sea." Stephen J. Pfann, president, University of the Holy Land, and director, Center for the Study of Early Christianity. (See story, page 4.) 7:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room* Lecture "El Tajin, A Pre-Hispanic City in Veracruz, Mexico." Sara Ladron de Guevara, Visiting Scholar in Latin American Studies and professor of archaeology, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. Sponsors: Latin American and Latino/a Studies. 8 p.m., Seelye 207* Performing arts/films Film Modern Times. Chaplin's last "silent" film, filled with sound effects and made during the age of talkies. Discussion led by Kevin Rozario, American studies, follows. Last of a film/lecture series sponsored by American studies. 7 p.m., Seelye 109* Film Sponsored by Amnesty International. Discussion follows. 7:30 p.m., Dewey common room Film "Stories of Resistance: The Female Body as Narrator," works by Valerie Soe, Ximona Cuevas, Tracey Moffatt and Sonali Fernando. Part of Art Seen: Contemporary Experimental Film and Video Art. 10 p.m., Stoddard auditorium* Meetings/workshops SGA Senate meeting Open forum. All students welcome. 7:15 p.m., Seelye 201 CDO workshop How to find a summer internship. 7:15 p.m., CDO CDO workshop Job search for seniors. 8 p.m., CDO SLAC general meeting. 8:30 p.m., Women's Resource Center Religious Life Roman Catholic Lenten
Sacramental Service of Reconciliation Fr. Stephen Ross, O.C.D.,
will preside. Other events/activities Language lunch tables Chinese, German. 12:15 p.m., Duckett Special Dining Room Etiquette seminar by Jodie Smith. Learn how to conduct yourself successfully during interviews, network comfortably and negotiate personal and professional situations with confidence. Hosted by the Association of Low-Income Students. Sponsors: Offices of the deans, Office of the President. 3-5 p.m., Seelye 110* Yoga class Noncredit, for students. Limited to 40. 4:30-5:45 p.m., Davis ballroom Community forum The architectural firm of Weiss/Manfredi will present a new design concept for the campus center. 5 p.m., Wright Hall auditorium CDO open hours for browsing. Peer advisers available. 7-9 p.m., CDO Wednesday, April 19 Performing arts/films Meetings/workshops Religious Life Green Tara meditation Buddhist meditation in the Tibetan tradition. Sponsor: East Asian Studies Program. 4:15 p.m., Wright common room* Passover Seder Transportation available from the Chapel. Reservations required for Seder and transportation; call ext. 2754. 6:30 p.m., Lewis/Sebring Dining Commons, Valentine Hall, Amherst College Buddhist service and discussion. 7:15 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel Other events/activities Language lunch tables Classical languages. 12:15 p.m., Duckett Special Dining Room C Résumé critique Have your résumé critiqued by a peer adviser. 3 p.m., CDO CDO workshop How to write an effective résumé. 4:15 p.m., CDO Softball v. Williams. 3:30 p.m., athletic fields* Yoga class Noncredit, for students. Limited to 40. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis ballroom |
Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Aryan Self-Fashioning in Baron Münchhausen (1943)." Eric Rentschler, Harvard University, author and German cinema expert. Screening of Baron Münchhausen precedes lecture at 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 106 Lecture "Contamination of Woburn Wells G & H: What the Experts Said at Trial, What We Know Now." Geologist E. Scott Bair, Ohio State University, will present geological evidence to assess unresolved issues remaining from the famous federal trial described in the book and movie A Civil Action. 7:30 p.m., McConnell Auditorium* Performing arts/films Musical theatre Star Messengers. See 4/19 listing. Tickets: $3, students, children and seniors; $5, general. 8 p.m., Theatre 14, Mendenhall CPA* Student recital Nina Moe '02, mezzo soprano, with Clifton J. Noble Jr., piano. Works by Schubert, Fauré, Rossini, Duke and Mahler. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall* Concert Punk rock show with political bands Plan A Project, Operation Cliff Clavin, This bike is a pipe bomb and more. Admission: $5. 8 p.m., Field House* Meetings/workshops Religious Life Passover Seder 6 p.m., Field House Smith Christian Fellowship meeting Praise, worship, prayer and Bible-centered teaching. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 206 Maundy Thursday candlelight service A participation in the events of the last supper that Jesus held with friends on the eve of his death, including Passover, Eucharist and foot washing as a sign of self-giving and service; music and a quiet prayer ending. 10 p.m., Chapel* Other events/activities Language lunch tables Korean, Russian. 12:15 p.m., Duckett House Special Dining Room Conversations over coffee "Keeping Fit: Eating Well Without Dieting." Hosted by Five College Learning in Retirement. 2-4 p.m., Field House Friday, April 21 Lectures/Symposia Performing arts/films Musical theatre Star Messengers. See 4/19 listing. Tickets: $3, students, children and seniors; $5, general. 8 p.m., Theatre 14, Mendenhall CPA* Senior recital Erika Knepp, soprano, with Clifton J. Noble Jr., piano. Works by Poulenc, Rossini and Wolf. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall* Religious Life Green Tara meditation Buddhist meditation in the Tibetan tradition. Sponsor: East Asian Studies Program. 4:15 p.m., Wright common room* Shabbat service Dinner
follows at 7 p.m. in the Kosher Kitchen, Dawes Roman Catholic Good Friday service Liturgy of the World Veneration of the Cross, Holy Communion. Fr. Peter E. Fink, S.J., celebrant. 5:15 p.m., Chapel* Keystone meeting 6:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room Ecumenical Christian Church Stations of the Cross followed by silent prayer. 9 p.m., Chapel* Good Friday candlelight service Using the symbols of light and darkness, the cross and its power to heal and bring life through the death of Jesus, we will again enter deeply into the meaning and grace of the day. 10 p.m., Chapel* Other events/activities Softball v. Springfield. 3 p.m., athletic fields* Synchronized Swimming Show Annual spring show by team. Tickets: $1. 7 p.m., Dalton Pool Saturday, April 22 Performing arts/films Musical theatre Star Messengers. See 4/19 listing. Tickets: $3, students, children and seniors; $5, general. 8 p.m., Theatre 14, Mendenhall CPA* Concert Smiffenpoofs Jam! Annual spring concert of a cappella tunes, fine harmony, good humor. Admission: $4, general; $3, children/seniors. 8 p.m., Wright Auditorium* Poetry slam and open mic featuring poet Sage Francis. 8 p.m., Davis ballroom* Meetings/workshops Religious Life Sunday, April 23 Meetings/workshops CDO workshop Interview strategies for success. 2:30 p.m., CDO Religious Life Roman Catholic Easter Mass of the Resurrection with Fr. Peter E. Fink, S.J., and Chaplain Elizabeth Carr. An Easter brunch will follow at the home of Elizabeth Carr. 9 a.m., Chapel* Quaker meeting for worship begins at 11 a.m. Preceded by informal discussion at 9:30 a.m. All welcome. Bass 203* Service of Celebration and Communion for Easter Sunday in the Protestant tradition with the Rev. Dr. Leon Burrows preaching. A festive Easter brunch follows worship. 10:30 a.m., Chapel* Association of Smith Pagans meeting. Organization for those who practice nature-based religions. Seekers welcome. 4 p.m., Lamont basement Other events/activities CDO open hours for browsing and library research. Peer advisers available. 1-4 p.m., CDO Hillel elections All board positions open. Come early for a Passover meal. 6:15 p.m., Dawes Kosher Kitchen Exhibitions "Sistervision: Seeing Women's Lives" Exhibit of documentary photos and artwork by photojournalist, activist and musician-performer Diana Davies. Through June 30. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays, 1-4 p.m. April 16, 23, 30. Alumnae Gym* "Comic Cuts of New York" Watercolors and oils by Olwen O'Herlihy Dowling, AC '95. Through May 26. Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Alumnae House, 33 Elm Street* |
