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The deadline for applying to Tuition Exchange for the 2013–14 academic year is December 3. If you have a high school senior thinking about college, the application is on the Human Resources website: http://www.smith.edu/hr/documents/frm_forms_ Tuition_Exchange.pdf. Information can also be found on the Tuition Exchange website: http://tuitionexchange.org. Contact Lynn Cocco at ext. 2273 or by e-mail at lcocco@smith.edu with any questions.
The President invites all staff to a forum on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 3-4 p.m. in Sage Hall. The President and members of senior staff will discuss college goals and initiatives and share information from their specific areas. Questions from staff will be answered at this event. Staff are strongly encouraged to attend.
The Events Management Office will be at an off-site retreat on Tuesday, Dec. 4. For non-urgent matters, voice mail or e-mail messages may be left on any EMO line or e-mail address; you will receive a response on Wednesday. If a situation arises that needs immediate attention or resolution, please call extension 2172 to be connected to someone who will reach them at the off-site location. Normal office hours resumed on Wednesday, Dec. 5. Applications for the Global Financial Institutions Concentration are due Friday, Nov 30. The online application can be found at http://www.smith.edu/gfic/application.php Class of 2015 Cabinet presents W(h)ine & Cheese. De-stress and relax before finals. There will be great music, cheese, w(h)ine, crackers and a lot of fun. Join the Smith African & Caribbean Student Association at their seasonal bake sale November 30 and December 5, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Pre-sale tickets for the Hope for Us Charity Dinner can be purchased during the bake sale. All students, friends & faculty are welcome to indulge in delicious treats to sweeten your day. On Saturday Dec. 1, college students will be gathering on the Amherst Green to rally for an end to silence surrounding the climate crisis. Students from the Pioneer Valley and Jill Stein, the Green Party 2012 candidate, will address topics of climate silence. All are welcome. More info may be found at the facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/events/371024976316844/?refts&frefts. Applications for the Museums Concentration are due by Monday, Dec. 3. Only sophomores and juniors are eligible to apply. Applications should be sent via email or campus mail to Maggie Lind (mlind@smith.edu).
Applications can be downloaded athttp://www.smith.edu/museums/application.php. On December 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in Campus Center 205, the SWG department will be hosting an event for first-year and sophomore SWG Majors and those considering majoring in SWG, who are interested in study abroad and Praxis. There will be peer-to-peer discussions regarding the processes and experiences of studying abroad or completing international Praxis internships while being a SWG major. Representatives from the Praxis Office and the Center for Global Engagement will be attending to provide information on the application process and current SWG majors will be sharing their experiences. Do you love Smith and want to spread the love to prospective students? On Monday, Dec. 3, and Tuesday, Dec. 4, stop by the Campus Center TV Lounge to write postcards to prospies about your Smith experiences. With your help, prospies can have a better sense of what it means to be a Smithie and be excited to apply. Bring your friends, take a study break for yourself and write some postcards; your handwritten note will go a long way. Stop by and enjoy a cup of hot cocoa with some members of the campus police department. This is another way to keep lines of communication open with community members. Take a break with with the Campus Police. Join SACSA for their annual Hope For Us charity dinner Saturday, Dec. 8, 6-8 p.m. in the Carroll Room. A percentage of the proceeds will go to the Hope for Haiti Foundation and Hurricane Sandy victims. Get your pre-sale tickets December 3-7, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in Campus Center garden level for $6; $8 at the door tickets. For more details, see http://www.facebook.com/events/469946846377606/. Smith offers a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in both elementary and secondary education. In order to be considered for financial aid, applications are due January 15. Presentation on the master's program will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 11, in Seelye 311 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch and any questions you may have. You can check out Smith's education website in advance http://www.smith.edu/education). Please RSVP to Chris Barbuto (cbarbuto@smith.edu). If you are unable to attend but have questions about the program, please email Gina Wyman (gwyman@smith.edu). Volunteer next semester at a prison in Northampton or Greenfield. Decisional Training/Thresholds runs a structured volunteer program in which volunteers commit to once a week sessions. Volunteers are also encouraged to attend larger group meetings once a week. Looking for committed and mature volunteers who are at least 18 years of age. Orientation is in February. Contact cso@smith.edu if interested. Students who are on work-study should verify their schedules for the spring semester at this time with their employers. Campus employers have been asked to re-advertise jobs currently held by non-work-study students and to advertise for any positions/shifts they will have available for the spring due to employee schedule changes. Please check JobX for listings. Non-aid students are not eligible to apply for jobs until February 15. Quick Brown Fox, the literary journal of the Five Colleges, announces the opening of its third annual submissions period. All unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, as well as images for cover art are welcome. Poetry submissions should be no more than three poems; for fiction and nonfiction, up to ten pages double-spaced are accepted. Images must be scanned or photographed at 300 dpi or higher; submit no more than five. Please include your name, school, and class year in the body of your email. Submissions should be sent as .doc or .docx attachments to qbfeditorial@ gmail.com by January 27, 2013. SGA is again sponsoring commercial bus rides to Bradley Airport for Winter Break starting Monday, Dec. 3. The cost of a ticket will be $10 one-way; there will no return trips for Winter Break or J-term. Only OneCards or checks made out to “Smith College” accepted. Purchase your ticket at the SGA Office, Campus Center 206. Tickets cannot be purchased on the bus. Go to http://www.smith.edu/sga/docs/2012-13ShuttleSchedule.pdf for the schedule. Contact Sharon at x4950 for any questions. The Global Studies Center presents a Global Salon: Building a Fugees Academy: Refugee Youth and Education, with special guest Luma Mufleh '97, founder and director of Fugees Family, Inc. Mufleh will speak about her experience working with child survivors of war. A GSC Global Salon is an opportunity for the Smith community to gather to discuss global issues and meet with special guests from around the world. Pizza lunch will be served. Daniel Goleman will focus on new insights into the brain and emotional intelligence. He will address the social and emotional circuitry of the brain from age four to adult, key developmental stages, and what children, youth and adults need to learn at each stage. He will also discuss how curricula in social-emotional learning may use developmental science to design lessons for students focused on enhancing those developmental needs and will discuss programs in terms of neuroplasticity. Dr. Goleman will answer questions from the audience. The event will be followed by a book signing and book sale in the lower lobby. Shara McCallum is a self-described Caribbean, Jamaican, American, African-American, West Indian poet. Her poems are infused with a rich multiplicity, weaving together identity and geography and drawing full breaths from history, memory, and song. The author of four books, she is acclaimed by Elizabeth Alexander for her "innovative music" and by Toi Derricotte for portraying "agonizing separations and distances." On December 4, 4 p.m., a Q&A open to members of the Smith Community will be held in the Poetry Center. McCallum will read at 7:30 p.m. in Stoddard Hall Auditorium. The reading is open to the public. President Susan Gorman and Vice President & Academic Dean Meredith St. John from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) will present the field of acupuncture and NESA’s master‘s degree programs. Pizza will be served for the first 30 people. Lecture by Vanessa Adel. Sponsored by the departments of sociology and environmental science and policy. Pizza lunch served. The Effects of Reproductive State on Dietary Shifts Toward Insectivory in Artibeus and the possible evolutionary implications of reproductive delays. Teri Orr, Ph. D. University of Massachusetts. Part of the Fall 2012 Life Sciences Colloquium Series: http://www.smith.edu/biology/colloquium.php. Coffee, tea and light snacks will be served at 4 p.m., talk to begin at 4:30 p.m. Fifty years ago, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, a book credited with (or blamed for) igniting the feminist movement. Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member in History and Women's Studies at The Evergreen State College, explores whether life was better when men and women didn't have to juggle work and family, and she discusses why Friedan's book provoked such controversy. She traces changes in men's and women's lives and in marriage since the 1960s, and examines debates about "the end of men," the future of the family, and whether feminism has outlived its usefulness. A book signing will follow the lecture. Presented by the Kahn Institute project Mothers and Others. Free and open to the public. Ethnoengineering is a so-called culturally appropriate building method tested by the Ecuadorian government among the country's poorest indigenous peoples. The main premise is that an alternative modernization project will result in dwellings and environments that are sustainable for the local users. In his presentation Gabriel Arboleda, a practicing architect and architectural researcher, currently a Five College Visiting Assistant Professor in Sustainable Architecture, reflects on the challenges and opportunities of ethnoengineering. Co-hosted by the Center for Community Collaboration, the Global Studies Center, the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS), and the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies. Free and open to the public. Are you a gifted student who is passionate about human rights? Then travel to Europe to connect with international students who are
intellectually curious about the same issues. Learn about the truly incredible Humanity in Action Fellowship programs in Europe at an informational session, December 5. Humanity in Action covers all costs of the Fellowship. Living by Examples: The Fraisse Construction of Models, a lecture by Carol S. Wood on Thursday, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. in the Neilson Browsing Room. Professor Wood, Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University, will describe and illustrate Fraisse's method for building a countable model of a first order theory out of finite structures. The lecture is sponsored by the Logic Program, philosophy department and the Smith College Lecture Committee. Open to the public. Be a part of a conversation about the new Living Building at the MacLeish Field Station. As part of a special studies project in the LSS department, Ellena Baum and Emily Dixon are hosting an informal roundtable discussion to collectively brainstorm ways to integrate students and the field station. The discussion will explore the potential of what it really means to be a Living Building classroom. An initial question to frame the conversation, and inspire your input is: How can a Living Building be focused on the social as well as environmental impacts of a space? Bring your ideas and enthusiasm. Any questions, email ebaum@smith.edu, edixon@smith.edu.
Upheaval in the Middle East: A Conversation with Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine. Since the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, Ibish has been writing and commenting on events in the Middle East and the ethical issues of nationalism. Anya Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, will give a lecture, "More Alive Than All the Living: Cultural Sovereignty and Cosmic Politics in Buddhist Siberia." A cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, Bernstein's main work to date has been on the changing geopolitical imaginaries of mobile religious communities across Eurasia. This is the third in the New Directions in Buddhist Studies 2012-13 lecture series at Smith. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Ada Howe Kent Fund and the Smith College Lecture Committee. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of Plath’s Ariel poems and the unveiling of a stunning new oil portrait. Q&A with the artist Susan Seidner Adler ’57 and the donor Esther C. Laventhol ’57. Dramatic readings of Plath’s poems by students, faculty, and curators will be followed by sweets, bubbly refreshments, and toasts to the poet. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Poetry Center and the Mortimer Rare Book Room. Novelist and master theatre artist Andrea Hairston, L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre, and vocal artist Pan Morigan bring a richly imagined world in song and story to the Josten Library mezzanine December 7 at 5 p.m. Hairston will read from Will Do Magic for Small Change, her forthcoming novel, set in Pittsburgh in the 19th century and 1980’s. Morigan will share songs created on lyrics drawn from Redwood and Wildfire, Hairston's most recent published book. Books and CDs will be available for sale. First Fridays @ Five is a patron-driven performance series, dedicated to celebrating the creative lives of our library users. For more information, email josinfo@smith.edu or visit http://www.smith.edu/smitharts/event_details.php?id00736. Free and open to the public. “Unhappily Ever After: Romance, Darkness, and Conflict in Love” is a one-day, student-curated show of works on paper from the Museum's permanent collection. On Friday, Dec. 7 from noon–4 p.m., visit the Cunningham Center at the Museum of Art for the Student Picks exhibition by Yvonne Ho ‘16. "Unhappily Ever After" explores the dark side of love through works by artists such as Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, Leonard Baskin, and Lorna Simpson. An exhibition of student work from painting, printmaking, photography, architecture and landscape design courses. Smith student Red Uttormark '16 will be the discussion leader at this week's Soup, Salad and Soul lunch, open to the campus community. A vegetarian lunch is provided at the Chapel, in Bodman Lounge. Attendees will consider various ethical dilemmas associated with Uttormark's topic-- "Cheating among the Elite." Soup, Salad and Soul is a forum for lively student-led discussions over lunch. Soup, Salad, and Soul, Bodman Lounge, Chapel, on Friday, Nov. 30, 12:15 p.m. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a student-led soulful dialogue over delicious home-made soup and salad. 12:35 p.m.: Al -Iman will hold Jummah prayer in the Blue Room of the Chapel. 5:30 p.m.: Hillel Shabbat Services will be held at the Kosher Kitchen in Dawes House, followed by a Kosher Shabbat dinner at 6:30 p.m. For more information on Smith Christian Fellowship, Al-Iman, Hillel, and other student organizations as well as finding community worship services within the Pioneer Valley, consult http://www.smith.edu/religiouslife. An annual tradition at Smith, the Christmas Vespers tells the story of advent through hymns and other anthems, prayers, and scripture readings, and is a time when Smith College and the surrounding community come together in the spirit of the holiday season. The services will be led by Dean of Religious Life Jennifer Walters with readings by members of the Smith faculty, staff and senior class. The music portion of the program will feature the Smith Chorus, Glee Club, Chamber Singers, Handbell Choir, and Orchestra. Traditional hymns and carols will also be sung by the choirs and congregation. Jonathan Hirsh, Grant Moss and Joseph Baldwin will direct the choral and instrumental groups. A free-will donation will be collected for the Hampshire County Interfaith Cot Shelter Program. The programs are free of charge and open to the general public. As you prepare homes and hearts for Christmas, make time to connect with your Smith community at this annual Advent celebration. As in years past, you will enjoy the Smith hand bell choir, carol singing, advent wreaths, candlelight, a delicious dinner, and this year, a special visit from a sainted 4th-Century bishop known to all for his generosity and warmth. Spouses, partners, children, and friends are welcome. Please RSVP by November 30 to Maureen Raucher at mraucher@smith.edu, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.
The second of an anti-colonial Thanksgiving event is the screening of the first part of a five part series, "We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower" on Thursday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. in Weinstein Auditorium. A discussion will follow. The film addresses the "First Thanksgiving" between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims, an unlikely match bound by an urgent need for allies. Drinks and light snacks provided after the film. The Quidditch team is hosting a holiday carnival with food, butter beer, games, and other fun activities on Thursday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m. in the Davis Ballroom. A panel discussion with Eric Hamako, Heather Lou, Pamela Nolan Young, and Naomi Miller on what it means to identify as mixed race in college and how college shapes our racial and ethnic identities. Athletic Department Old Uniform Sale. Nothing over $10. Old uniforms make fun gifts for family and friends at great bargains. December 4-6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cash or check payable to Smith College only.
Education Activists will be screening the documentary "Waiting for Superman," a moving, controversial film about the American public education system, followed by a facilitated discussion with Al Rudnitsky, education professor at Smith, Kathy Casale, psychologist in the Northampton Public Schools, and Art Scott, education consultant. Join the debate. Make beautiful Rangoli patterns and designs with colored sand and stencils. All materials are free and provided by OSE.
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