News for the Smith College Community //April 11, 2002
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A Daylong Spotlight on Student Projects Whether writing a play, studying fine plant structure, composing music or examining the roots of religious conflict in the Sudan, Smith students, in collaboration with faculty members, often pursue research and learning opportunities beyond their classroom experiences. On Saturday, April 20, Smith will recognize and celebrate those efforts in its first Student Research Day, a showcase of dozens of student projects-carried out with guidance from faculty-that will give the Smith community an opportunity to learn more about the students' work. Titled "Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together," the event will feature more than 70 presentations in science and technology, instrumental and vocal performances, and talks on social, cultural and literary studies. In all, some 100 students will display or demonstrate their work during four sessions held throughout the day in various campus locations. The idea for a Student Research Day was born in the Committee for Academic Priorities, says Debbie Cottrell, assistant dean of the faculty. "The committee knew that a lot of work went on through special studies projects, STRIDE projects, honors theses and research projects in courses, and they were interested in highlighting that in some way," Cottrell explains. Project proposal forms were sent to all Smith students, inviting them to participate. The participants study in a range of disciplines, Cottrell says, and their research projects reflect that diversity. "We have quite a few projects coming from the Kahn Institute, several STRIDE students, several honors theses, some performances, some vocal performances and dramatic readings." Student Research Day organizers hope for strong attendance from students, faculty and staff in the Smith community. Because the event falls on the same day as Discovery Weekend, a program for admitted students of color, it is expected to draw "a lot of external visitors, and admissions will be encouraging prospective students to come and see some of the presentations," Cottrell says. "It's dovetailing nicely to make people aware of this kind of work." Cottrell says this year's Student Research Day may start a new tradition. "We see this as our beginning point, and we hope to build on it each year," she says. "I think it's going to be a really good day." With GE Grant, Change Is On the Way As the first engineering program at a women's liberal arts college, the Picker Engineering Program is already unique. Now, with the help of a $300,000 grant from the General Electric (GE) Fund's Math Excellence Program, it could conceivably revolutionize the way engineering is taught. In collaboration with the Department of Education and Child Study and the Office of Educational Outreach, the Picker Engineering Program is using the grant to support a project that will re-evaluate engineering education and ultimately develop "a curriculum that has a positive impact on the attitudes, retention and career choices of all students, particularly women and minorities," explains Sandra Doucett, director of corporation and foundation relations. The project, titled "A Learner-Centered Approach Toward Quantitative Excellence," will be launched this summer. According to Glenn Ellis, the Ford Visiting Professor in Engineering, the project's first priority will be to institute "an undergraduate program based on how people best learn, building on experiences in the classroom, where students are actively involved in what's going on in their learning." This summer, a team of engineering, education, philosophy and mathematics faculty members will begin building "a detailed map of skills and concept knowledge that must take place in an engineering science curriculum," says the grant proposal. The team's discoveries, Doucett says, will apply not only to undergraduate engineering education but also to engineering education at a K-12 level. "We're going to be developing some pilot curricula that will be designed for a pre-college audience, especially to encourage women and other underrepresented minority groups to stick with coursework at the high-school level that will enable them to go on to engineering and other technical fields," she explains. To that end, a new course, "Discovering the Mathematics and Science of Music and Movement," will be added to the Smith Summer Science Program for high-school girls to teach the fundamentals of calculus and physics. Smith graduate students in education will evaluate the Summer Science Program course, then work with engineering and education faculty to translate their findings into modules for high-school classrooms, according to the grant proposal. The grant project will continue for three years. While it aims to improve engineering education for women and minorities, "this is really going to help everyone in engineering education, because it's information about how to educate people in the best way," says Ellis. "And one of the exciting things about it is that it's going to be a partnership of education, engineering and outreach. Three groups that don't normally work together are going to be working together on something very good." "The Picker Engineering Program is attempting to reinvent the way engineering education is executed," explains Domenico Grasso, R. B. Hewlett Professor of Engineering, who heads the Picker Program, "and this grant is going to help us, in conjunction with the education department, to develop new pedagogies which will serve not only Smith women well, but the engineering education community as a whole." The grant itself, Doucett adds, "is a wonderful acknowledgement of what Smith is doing for women in technology. This is a big investment on their [GE's] part, and it means that they see Smith as an incubator for this kind of curriculum development." The GE Fund, the philanthropic foundation of the General Electric Company, invests in improving educational quality and access and in strengthening community organizations in GE communities around the world. Spaces Shift in Campus 'Musical Chairs' Those who regularly work, meet and socialize in Lilly Hall will be doing business at new addresses during the 2002-03 academic year. The building will be taken off line for approximately eight months, starting in September, for extensive renovations. The Mwangi Cultural Center, Black Students' Association, Nosotras and Smith African Students Association will move to the second floor of Tilly Hall; the Asian Students Association will be relocated to Unity House; and the School for Social Work and Graduate Office will take up residence in Bell Hall, which has housed the art department during the Fine Arts Center renovation and expansion project. The renovation will include improvements to the "envelope" of the building, according to Noelle Owens, physical plant project manager, including its windows, brickwork and roof. The utilities will also be updated. Improvements to handicapped accessibility will include the installation of an internal elevator and fire egress stairs, which will require a rearrangement of existing space into a more efficient configuration. The new configuration will accommodate a new conference room, a large gathering space and a third-floor location that, in the future, will become a video conference room available for campus use. The relocation of the building's current tenants is temporary. When the renovation is complete, the School for Social Work and the Graduate Office will return to Lilly. The location of a permanent home for the student groups is currently under discussion and "we are putting a high priority on finding suitable space," says Maureen Mahoney, dean of the college. The Mwangi Center was named in 1973 for Florence Ng'endo Mwangi '61, Kenya's first female physician. It began as the Afro-American Cultural Center in 1968 and evolved into a multicultural center serving several student organizations. The center provides student members with a place to study, work, socialize and relax. The facility includes a small library, conference rooms, organization offices, the Roundroom, a lounge and a kitchen. Tilly Hall, which was renovated a year ago, currently houses the Women in Technology International Invent Center, which -- in Smith's version of "musical chairs" -- will move to space on Green Street that is presently home to the Botanic Garden offices during that facility's renovation.
Kahn to Host Expert OnAlmost Everything As the director of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and as a Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and of Medicine there, as well as the former president of the Modern Language Association, Sander Gilman's specific expertise is difficult to label. So broad are his interests, writings and experience that his informed perspectives can be cross-referenced in researching any number of topics: plastic surgery, Jewish-German literature, psychology, philosophy, sexual identity, or the mechanics of writing. ut clearly, the humanities are one of Sanders' specialties. His recent book The Fortunes of the Humanities: Teaching the Humanities in the New Millenium, published in 2000 by Stanford University Press, covers much of the ground that he has spent his career studying and teaching, with chapters on teaching humanities in the future, thoughts on language trends and "How to Get Tenure," for example. Gilman will present his perspectives during a lecture, "The Future of the Humanities in an Age of Diminished Resources: Collaboration as an Intellectual Strategy," on Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Wright Auditorium. Though the scope of his research and writing may seem inordinately broad, the route of Gilman's scholarly pursuits has an "unmistakable logic, winding its way through the related intellectual thickets of racial stereotyping, of Jewish identity and self-hatred, and of the symbolic and material representations of gender and sexuality, of the body and its pathologies, and of the mind and madness," according to the Kahn Institute's promotional materials for the lecture. The diversity of some of his published titles reveals some of that somewhat-circuitous logic. There's Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, published in 1999; Smart Jews: The Construction of the Idea of Jewish Superior Intelligence at the Other End of the Bell Curve, 1996; Freud, Race, and Gender, 1993; and Goethe's Touch: Touching, Seeing, and Sexuality, 1988, to name a few. Gilman is the author or editor of more than 60 books and has held numerous professorships and received many academic honors. Gilman's lecture is the second installment of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute's Inaugural Lecture Series, titled "Collaborations." Talk Topic: Race and the War on Drugs On Tuesday, April 16, Deborah Peterson Small, the director of public policy and community outreach at the Drug Policy Alliance in New York City, will speak at Smith on "Race, Racism and the War on Drugs." Small's talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Neilson Browsing Room. The Drug Policy Alliance (formerly The Lindesmith CenterDrug Policy Foundation) is a reform organization that seeks to broaden the public debate on drug policy and promote alternatives to the war on drugs. The organization's guiding principle is harm reduction, an approach to drug policy and treatment that focuses on minimizing the adverse effects of drug use and prohibition. "We do not believe that there is an ultimate solution to our drug problems," says a statement on the organization's Web site, "but we do believe that there are steps that can and should be taken soon to reduce the harms associated with both drug use and our failed policies." Some of those steps, according to the Drug Policy Alliance Web site, include "making marijuana legally available for medical purposes; supporting effective, science-based drug education and ending support for ineffective programs" and "redirecting most government drug control resources from criminal justice and interdiction to public health and education." Small, a graduate of Harvard Law School and the City College of New York, joined the Drug Policy Alliance in 1998. She has also worked as the legislative director for the New York Civil Liberties Union and as an outreach worker for Saving Families for Children, in Buffalo, New York. Small's talk is sponsored by Meridians: feminism, race, trans-nationalism, and by the Office of Institutional Diversity. Expert on Christianity to Give Lecture In more than 20 years of researching, teaching and speaking on ancient Christianity, Paula Fredriksen has published extensively on a range of topics in her field and garnered several awards in the process. Her most recent book, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, published by Alfred A. Knopf Books in 1999, won the National Jewish Book Award. Her book From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus, published in 1988, won the Yale Press Governors' Award for Best Book that year. She's also published more than 20 articles on Jesus, Augustine and early Christianity as well as many reviews. Fredriksen, the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University, will visit Smith on Wednesday, April 17, to give a lecture titled "Jesus, the Temple Tantrum, and the Dog that Did Not Bark." Her lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Seelye 106. Fredriksen earned her doctorate from Princeton University in the history of religions, specializing in ancient Christianity and Graeco-Roman, and completed her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College. She held faculty positions at Princeton, Stanford University and the universities of California, Berkeley, and of Pittsburgh before joining Boston University in 1990. In addition to her book awards, Fredriksen has received a succession of research and scholarly honors, including the Esther Kahn Award for best faculty book at Boston University, the Boston University Scholar/Teacher Award, the Severinghaus Distinguished Alumna Award from Wellesley College, and several distinguished lectureships and fellowships. Fredriksen's lecture is sponsored by
the Department of Religion and Biblical Literature, the Program
in Jewish Studies and the Helen Hills Hills Chapel. ScoreBoard Softball March 27: Smith 2, Westfield State
3 March 2: Smith 1, Skidmore 8 Lacrosse March 27: Smith 25, Elms 1 Equestrian March 3: Mount Holyoke Show: 3rd place Crew March 30: MIT/Dartmouth/UNH: Varsity
8, 3rd place 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). CollegeWide Video and Study Rooms Open Campus and Discovery Weekend Student Research Day AIDS Quilt at Smith At 7 p.m. in the chapel, four Smith
a cappella groups will perform in "Lifting Our Hearts in
Song," a fund-raiser to support those who live with HIV
and AIDS. The suggested donation for the musical fundraiser is
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Employee Excellence Awards Students Return Your Pink Cards Examination Workers Senior Opinions Needed This is the 19th consecutive senior survey; it consists of two sections. The first requests biographical information such as background and future plans and becomes part of a permanent alumna record. The second section asks questions about finances, attitudes and evaluations of the undergraduate experience; it was developed in cooperation with other institutions across the country. Because seniors from different schools will answer the same questions, the students' responses can be compared among the participating institutions. Data from the second section will remain confidential and be used only to construct a statistical class profile. For more information, contact the Office of Institutional Research at ext. 3021. IES Achievement Scholarships Health Workshops Cycles Survey Reminder Senior Class T-shirts Fellowships Registration Master Tutors Needed Fall 2002 Registration Rotary Scholarship Fox-Boorstein Fellowship Leanna Brown '56 Fellowship SSAS Grant Deadline Summer Grants Deadline Study Skills Workshops |
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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. Monday, April 15 Lectures/Symposia Biological sciences colloquium "Deciphering the Design of the Tropomyosin Molecule." Carolyn Cohen, Visiting Neilson Professor. Refreshments preceding in foyer. 4:30 p.m., McConnell B05 Chaired professor lecture "Tears of the Stars: Precious Stones in Medieval Art and Thought." Brigitte Buettner, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of art history. Reception follows in Seelye 207. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 201* Reading Bernhard Schlink, German writer, professor of law, Humboldt University, Berlin, state supreme court judge and author of the bestselling The Reader, will read from his recent fiction, in English translation. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 106 Lecture Yvonne Welbon, an award-winning independent filmmaker whose work is experimental and often autobiographical, exploring identity through memory, history, culture, race and sexuality, will discuss her career. 7 p.m., Wright Auditorium Performing Arts/Films Meetings/Workshops 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 Informational meeting Smith TV. 4 p.m., Media Services, Alumnae Gym Meeting Gaia. Environmental activism for "greening" the Smith campus. 4:15 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Davis Meeting MassPIRG interns. 4:45 p.m., Seelye 310 Meeting Smith Democrats. 6:30 p.m., Davis Downstairs Lounge Meeting Smith Alliance for Low-Income Students. 7:30 p.m., Hopkins House Meeting Smith Labor Action Coalition. 9 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Davis 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* Green Tara meditation with Geshe Lobsang Tsetan from Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet. Sponsors: East Asian studies; the Luce Fund. 4:15-5:15 p.m., Dewey Common Room* Other Events/Activities Reception for the Ada Comstock Scholars Children's Art Exhibit. 4:305:30 p.m., Seelye (first-floor corridor) Yoga class Noncredit, for students. All levels. 4:45-6 p.m., Davis Ballroom Kickboxing class Noncredit, for students. Show up any time. 7:308:20 p.m., Ainsworth Gym SGA Spring Election Extravaganza Candidate debate. 7:30 p.m., Stoddard Auditorium Tuesday, April 16 Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Race, Racism and the War on Drugs." Deborah Peterson Small, director of Public Policy and Community Outreach for the former Lindesmith CenterDrug Policy Foundation, New York City, and former legislative director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. (See story, page 4.) Sponsors: Office of Institutional Diversity; Meridians; Real Cost of Prisons Project. 7:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room* Lecture "Switching of Self and Other: Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism." Geshe Lobsang Tsetan, Tashihunpo Monastery, Tibet. Sponsors: East Asian Studies Program; Luce Fund. 7:30 p.m. Wright Hall Common Room* Poetry reading Stanley Kunitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will read from his work. Booksigning to follow. 7:30 p.m., Wright Auditorium* Performing Arts/Films Meetings/Workshops Meeting Keystone. 4 p.m., Wright 230 Meeting Amnesty International
CDO workshop Writing résumés and cover letters. 7 p.m., CDO, Drew Workshop "Exam Plan or Exam Cram." Sponsor: Wellsprings Health Education Center (Smith health services). 7 p.m., location TBA CDO workshop Preparing for interviews. 8 p.m., CDO, Drew SGA Senate meeting Open forum. All students welcome. 7:15 p.m., Seelye 201 Meeting MassPIRG Arctic/Energy campaign. New members welcome. 7:30 pm, Wright 232 Religious Life Episcopal Fellowship meets for worship, friendship and fun. Eucharist, fellowship and light lunch provided. Students, faculty, staff and friends are welcome. Noon, St. John's Episcopal Church Living Room* 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 Religion lunch table Noon, Duckett Special Dining Room C Quit Smoking support group for students. Drop in for inspiration to quit. For other quit-smoking resources, call health services, ext. 2824, or consult www.smith.edu/health/ smokefree. 4:15 p.m., Women's Resource Center, Davis Lacrosse v. Western New England. 4:30 p.m., Athletic Field* 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 Aerobics class Noncredit, for students. Show up any time. 7:30-8:20 p.m., ESS Fitness Studio Wednesday, April 17 Lectures/Symposia Literature at Lunch Floyd Cheung, English, will read "Seventeen Syllables," by Hisaye Yamamoto. Beverages provided; bring a bag lunch. 12:15 p.m., Wright Common Room Lecture Jeff Wuorio, author of Got Money: Financial Advice for Your Twenties and Thirties, and CNBC Guide to Money and Markets. 4 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room* Lecture "World Ecology from an Indigenous Perspective: A Warning from the Elder Brother." Four representatives from Gonavindua Tairona, a political organization representing the Kogi, Arhuaxo and Assario of Colombia, will discuss the global ecological crisis and the responsibility of Americans and Europeans to respond. Sponsors: anthropology; Latin American studies; Lecture Committee, in collaboration with the organization "Arise for Social Justice." 7:30 p.m., Wright Auditorium* Lecture "Jesus, the Temple Tantrum, and the Dog that Did Not Bark." Paula Fredriksen, William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University. (See story, page 4.) Sponsors: religion department; Jewish studies; chapel. 7:30 p.m., Seelye 106* Performing Arts/Films Meetings/Workshops Meeting Smith TV, to discuss new programming. 7 p.m., Media Services, Alumnae Gym Workshop "Diet Rights and Wrongs." Sponsor: Wellsprings Health Education Center (Smith health services). 7 p.m., location TBA Religious Life Hillel at Noon Noon-1 p.m., Kosher Kitchen Catholic Adas gathering and informal discussion/reflection. Lunch served. All welcome. Noon, Bodman Lounge, Chapel Green Tara meditation with Geshe Lobsang Tsetan from Tashilhunpo Monastery, Tibet. Sponsors: East Asian studies; Luce Fund. 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m., Dewey Common Room* 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 Softball v. Williams. 3:30 p.m., Athletic Field* 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 Kickboxing class Noncredit, for students. Show up any time. 7:30-8:20 p.m., ESS Fitness Studio |
Thursday, April 18 Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Territory, Filiation, and Identity: The Construction of the Narrative 'I' in Postdictatorship Argentina." Judith Filc, Center for Comparative Literature, Columbia University. 3 p.m., Seelye 207 Slide lecture "Masterpieces of Medieval Russian Art and Architecture." Nikolai Borisov, Russian History, Moscow State University. 4 p.m., Hatfield 107 Lecture "The Issues of Conserving and Restoring Historical Musical Instruments." Darcy Kuronen, curator of musical instruments, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sponsor: history of the sciences and technology program; departments of art and music; Lecture Committee. Reception precedes lecture. 5 p.m., Seelye 201* Lecture "Does Our Language Determine the Way We See Color-Or Does the Way We See Color Determine How We Talk About It?" Paul Kay, University of California, Berkeley. Reception precedes lecture. 5 p.m., Seelye 106* Lecture "The Future of the Humanities in an Age of Diminished Resources: Collaboration as an Intellectual Strategy." Sander Gilman, director, Humanities Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago. (See story, page 4.) Second installment in the Kahn Institute Inaugural Lecture series. 7:30 p.m., Wright Auditorium* Performing Arts/Films Theater The House of Bernarda Alba. See 4/17 listing. 8 p.m., Theatre 14, Mendenhall CPA* 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* Meeting Newman Association.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship All welcome. 8-9:30 p.m., Dewey Common Room 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 Step intervals class Noncredit, for students. Show up any time. 7:30-8:20 p.m., ESS Fitness Studio Take Back the Night Hear stories and stand in solidarity with survivors of domestic violence and/or rape. Candlelight vigil followed by reception. 9:15 p.m., John M. Greene Hall Friday, April 19 Lectures/Symposia Lecture "Cyberart That Happens: A Curatorial Perspective on the Staging of New Media Art." George Fifield, founder of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, will speak on current practices of new media art. 4:10 p.m., Seelye 106* Performing Arts/Films Concert and senior recital, featuring the Soyoja Quartet (Alexandria Miller '05, violin; Kia Undenfeld '05, violin and viola; Julia Menge '02, cello; Juliana Han '03, piano) performing solo and ensemble works by Mozart, Schuman and Janacek. Call 585-ARTS for more information. 8 p.m., Sweeney Auditorium, Sage* 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 Religious Life Muslim services Congregational pra-yer preceded by lunch. Noon, Chapel Green Tara meditation with Geshe Lobsang Tsetan from Tashilhunpo Monastery, Tibet. Sponsors: East Asian studies; Luce Fund. 4:15-5:15 p.m., Dewey Common Room* 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 Special Dining Room C Softball v. Springfield. 3:30 p.m., Athletic Field* Alumnae Association tea Lamont and Cutter houses are cordially invited to attend. 4 p.m., Alumnae House Living Room Saturday, April 20 Lectures/Symposia Performing Arts/Films Theater The House of Bernarda Alba. See 4/17 listing. 8 p.m., Theatre 14, Mendenhall CPA* Spring Concert The Smith College orchestras, directed by Jonathan Hirsch, Joel Pitchon and Bruce Diehl, will perform Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev, and Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Other Events/Activities Luncheon "Celebrating Collaboration." All-college luncheon. Noon-1:30 p.m., Davis lawn (no luncheon in campus houses) IASA Conference dinner featuring food, drinks and fashion from the African continent and Diaspora. Spice like you've never tasted before. Tickets: $4; $2 for children and seniors. 5 p.m., Davis Ballroom* IASA Five College Cultural Show "Vukani: The Awakening," featuring Africana culture in dance, song, poetry and drama. Part of the 7th International African Students Association annual conference. Tickets: $4. 7:30 p.m., John M. Greene Hall* IASA after party Come and gyrate to reggae, zouk, hip-hop, soca and calypso. Tickets: $3. 10 p.m., Davis Ballroom* Sunday, April 21 Performing Arts/Films Senior Recital Christy Matheson '02 will perform "The Romantic Piano," a recital of works by Chopin, Schubert and Brahms. With Lauren McGuire, clarinet. Reception follows concert. 4 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Senior Recital Rebecca Raymond '02 will conduct the Smith Chamber Singers and Groove in performances of her original compositions and other works. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Meetings/Workshops Meeting Smith African Students Association. All welcome. 4 p.m., Mwangi Basement, Lilly 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* Meeting Smith Baha'i Club. 2 p.m., Dewey Common Room 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 Exhibitions Making a Difference: 60 Years of Support From the Friends of the Smith College Libraries featuring treasures from the libraries' collections made possible by the Friends of the Library. Through May. Book Arts Gallery, Neilson Library Telling Stories About Women's Lives A companion exhibit to the April 12 lecture by women's historian and Smith president emerita Jill Ker Conway on women's biography, memoir and archives. Through May. Morgan Gallery, Neilson Library Ada Comstock Scholars Children's Art Exhibit The fourth annual exhibition of artwork by Adas' children. April 1522. First-floor Corridor, Seelye A Fence in Bloom: "Soaking Up" Spring An installation of small circles cut from colored sponges, created by local artist Sally Curcio, a 1995 UMass graduate. Displayed on the Elm Street side of the fence surrounding the Smith College Fine Arts Center from April 14 through 28. Part of "On the Fence, Public Art in Public Space." Fine Arts Center Construction Fence* All the Little Voices A collage of magazine and newspaper cutouts created by Emily Kolod '04J. Through April 19 on the section of the fence surrounding the Smith College Fine Arts Center that faces St. John's Episcopal Church. Part of "On the Fence, Public Art in Public Space." Fine Arts Center Construction Fence* Staff Picks: Favorite Photographs from the Sophia Smith Collection A display of 166 personal favorites picked from among thousands of historical photographs in the renowned collection. Through August. Sophia Smith Collection, Alumnae Gym* |
