Board Approves Plans for Arts
Complex, Student Center
- At its meeting late in February the Smith College Board of Trustees
took action to allow the college to move ahead on several important projects,
including the renovation and expansion of the fine arts complex and the
long-awaited construction of a campus center.
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- A planning study completed last spring by the architectural firm of
Kliment and Halsband of New York City helped convince the trustees to proceed
with the modification of the fine arts complex. After conducting individual
and group interviews and a thorough evaluation of present and anticipated
space needs, the firm concluded that the complex can be transformed to
meet projected needs by way of an extensive reconfig-uration of its present
126,718 square feet and the construction of additions totaling approximately
50,000 square feet. The renovation, which will include work on the Smith
College Museum of Art and Hillyer and Graham halls, will enhance Smith's
reputation for offering outstanding fine arts and museum facilities.
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- The work on the museum will add gallery space, enlarge collection storage
areas and the gift shop, and improve environmental controls and building
accessibility. The Hillyer Hall portion of the project will feature added
studio space and other enhancements. The project's general improvements
will include the replacement of the exterior of the building and upgrades
to the mechanical and air-quality systems. The architect selection process
will begin this spring; groundbreaking is expected in 2000.
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- In a second significant step, the trustees approved a site adjacent
to John M. Greene Hall for the new campus center and gave the go-ahead
to seek an architect for the project. The 1996 report of the Campus Center
Task Force endorsed the building of a campus center as a means of promoting
intellectual and campus life. Subsequent endorsements of the concept by
the Self-Study Committee and the Committee on Planning and Resources moved
the project closer to reality. A planning study submitted last spring by
the architectural firm of Sasaki and Associates of Watertown, Massachusetts,
recommended two sites -- the one ultimately endorsed by the board of trustees
and another on Dickinson parking lot, which was rejected as being too small.
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- The center is expected to encourage a sense of community, providing
an alternative to the houses as centers for social activities and relaxation.
Given the time it will take to choose an architect and produce a design
for the building, Bill Brandt, director of campus operations and facilities,
estimates that ground-breaking for the campus center might occur sometime
in 2000.
Initiatives Aim to Improve Overseas Study, House Life
- In addition to construction projects, the board of trustees also approved
at its February meeting several changes to the academic and residential
infrastructure of the college.
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- Beginning in the academic year 2000-01, any Smith student enrolling
in an approved study-abroad program, whether it is sponsored by Smith or
any other institution, will pay Smith's comprehensive fee. The new "home-school
tuition policy," like those in effect at Swarthmore, Pomona and other
colleges, means that students eligible for financial aid will be able to
"carry" that aid to any approved program, including those in
English-speaking countries. This will encourage students to select study-abroad
programs primarily for academic reasons, not financial ones. Equally important,
"home-school tuition" underscores the college's desire to offer
all Smith students equitable access to the highest quality study-abroad
opportunities.
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- In the area of residential life, the trustees supported the plan to
address staffing issues in the houses by hiring first-year-outs and recent
graduates as residence coordinators (RCs). The trustees accepted the transitional
plan proposed by the dean of the college and expect full implementation
of the RC program to take place at the earliest opportunity. They also
urge that the campus consider other initiatives such as first-year housing
to address the needs of first-year students.
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- The board was informed about SGA initiatives regarding the student
activities fee. It enthusiastically supported them and awaits the results
of the student referendum in March.
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Construction May Begin in Fall for Parking Garage
- A parking garage may be a bit more prosaic than a building to house
a renowned collection of art or one expected to be the social hub of the
Smith campus, but it is a hoped-for solution to some of the parking problems
that daily plague Smith employees, students and visitors to campus. At
its meeting late in February the board of trustees approved the appointment
of the architectural firm of Arrowstreet Inc. of Somerville, Massachusetts,
to begin designing a 350-space parking structure to be located on West
Street, just south of Garrison Hall.
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- "If the college obtains the necessary permits from the city of
Northampton and all other contingencies work out as we expect," says
Bill Brandt, director of campus operations and facilities, "ground-breaking
could take place this fall." Brandt adds that the college is identifying
other locations on campus where surface parking might be constructed. The
college master plan calls for the Dickinson parking lot on Green Street
to be phased out and replaced with a plaza and green space once the West
Street garage is completed.
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Smith Closes in on Ada Aid Challenge
- Smith College is coming down the home stretch in its effort to meet
a challenge posed by The George I. Alden Trust, which just over a year
ago offered $75,000 to build permanent financial-aid funding to help ensure
the future strength of the Ada Comstock Scholars Program -- if the college
can raise a 3-to-1 match, or $225,000, by June 30, 1998.
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- Carey Bloomfield, chief advancement officer, reports that the most
recent count shows the college to be approximately $30,230 short of the
goal. "Needless to say," she adds, "we're eager to close
the gap."
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- This funding initiative is particularly attractive because "the
availability of adequate financial aid has been a pressing issue facing
the Ada Comstock Program throughout is history," says Eleanor Rothman,
program director.
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- Established in 1975 with 33 students, the program has grown exponentially
over the years. There are currently 227 students enrolled at Smith as Ada
Comstock Scholars.
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- "The Ada Comstock Scholars bring a wealth of experience and valuable
new perspectives to the life of the college," Ruth Simmons, president
of Smith, has said. "Faculty fre-quently comment that the presence
of Adas in the classroom undeniably enhances the exchange of ideas."
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- Anyone can help meet this important challenge; indeed, Rothman reports
that the Alden Trust hoped that the challenge would be met through many
small gifts rather than a few "mega ones." If you wish to help
close the gap, make out a check to Smith College -- even for a token amount
-- and send it to the Advancement Office at the Alumnae House with a notation
that it is a gift toward the Alden Challenge.
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Ada to Participate in Welfare Panel
- This Sunday at 10 a.m., Ada Comstock Scholar Amber Watt will take part
in a panel of social activists and advocates discussing how people can
organize to combat the recent cutbacks in welfare aid to mothers and children.
The panel, "Grassroots Activism," will be in Seelye Hall. It's
one of several panels taking place this weekend as part of the annual Kathleen
Ridder Conference, an event organized by the Project on Women and Social
Change.
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- Watt says that while attending community college in Santa Monica, California,
last year, she saw the damage the latest welfare reforms have done in the
lives of student mothers trying to earn a college degree and build a future
for themselves and their children. "People were leaving college, quitting,
dropping out, wondering 'What's the use?'" Watt reports. "Students
were scared to death. There was no place to go." The Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996,
stipulates that education is an unacceptable work-related activity, therefore
those who had previously received welfare while attending school could
no longer do so. Watt says she saw many of those students leave college
for jobs at fast-food joints, dashing their dreams of higher education
and future stability.
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- Watt, who founded Parents First, a fund in California that disperses
child care supplements to single mothers attending college, says that as
a member of the Ridder conference panel she will try to emphasize issues
important to welfare recipients such as the lack of access to higher education
and difficulties with child care. The panel will also include Mary Sutherland
of Springfield, a community organizer and advocate for low-income people;
John Templeton, a case worker with the state Department of Transitional
Assistance; and MichaelAnn Busey, also with the DTA. Watt will be the Ridder
Conference's only Smith student representative.
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- Watt says she plans to intern this summer at WETAC (Welfare, Education,
Training, Access Coalition), an organization founded in January 1996 to
address the opposition expressed by low-income students, educators, administrators
and service providers to severe restrictions on education and training
posed by the new welfare law. Her service at WETAC will fulfill the internship
component of the Smith Leadership Program, for which she was chosen this
year.
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- Watt, who grew up in a family receiving welfare assistance, says her
participation in the conference is a natural step. Considering her past
as an advocate and welfare beneficiary, she says, she's particularly qualified
to speak out in support of others in need. Watt, who is in her first year
as an Ada, says she plans to major in American studies with a concentration
in social justice.
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Smith's Skoglund Gets Museum Show
- Radioactive Cats Revenge of the Goldfish Maybe Babies Walking on Eggshells.
Sound like rock bands? Maybe, but they're really works by Sandy Skoglund,
whose first retrospective exhibition will open at the Smith College Museum
of Art on March 12. Skoglund, a photographer, sculptor and installation
artist, graduated from Smith in 1968. The show, which will later travel
to other museums around the country, is the first comprehensive survey
of Skoglund's career, from her early performance and conceptual art to
the works for which she is best known: her room-sized installations and
the photographs based on them.
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- Skoglund's tableau environments often combine familiar and disturbing
elements in domestic or dreamlike settings. Many of them incorporate animals-sculptures
of cats, dogs, foxes, squirrels and goldfish. Food also dominates her work,
in unlikely roles: jam and marmalade substitute for walls and floor in
The Wedding; furniture and figures are covered with cheese puffs in The
Cocktail Party; thousands of raisins dot every conceivable surface in Atomic
Love; and french fries become a beach for At the Shore.
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- In her most recent installation, tens of thousands of eggs provide
the fragile flooring of Walking on Eggshells, newly commissioned for the
Smith retrospective. The lithograph Babies at Paradise Pond, also created
for the exhibition, required the artist to return to Smith for a daylong
photo shoot of oversized baby sculptures (borrowed from the installation
Maybe Babies), which she deployed in rowboats and on the banks of Paradise
Pond.
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- The exhibition will be on view through May 24 before traveling to museums
in Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbia, South Carolina; Toledo, Ohio; and Jacksonville,
Florida. The Smith community is invited to the opening reception Thursday,
March 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Museum of Art.
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Dedication Set for Jacobson Center
- For Joan Leiman Jacobson '47, the most important aspect of a Smith
education is the opportunity it provides to hone writing skills. So it
was natural that, when she was ready to make a significant gift to Smith,
she did so in support of the college's writing program.
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- On Wednesday, March 11, the college will celebrate that gift at the
dedication of the Joan Leiman Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and
Learning on the third floor of Seelye Hall. The celebration will begin
with a lecture at Wright auditorium, "Learning to Write," by
Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard. A reception
will follow at the center, which was formerly known as the Center for Academic
Development.
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- Jacobson majored in English at Smith and received an M.A. degree from
Columbia. In 1978 she became the first woman to be named president of the
92nd Street Y in New York City, assuming responsibility for the renaissance
and expansion of its performing arts and lecture program. A supporter of
poets and writers, she was for many years a member of the advisory board
of Partisan Review and editor of the Bulletin of the Parents League of
New York. She is currently a member of an advisory council of the Harvard
School of Public Health and chairman of outreach for the Science, Industry
and Business Library (SIBL) of the New York Public Library.
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- Vendler, who was educated at Emmanuel College and Harvard University,
has been called "arguably the most powerful poetry critic in America."
She taught at Boston University from 1966 until 1985, when she joined the
Harvard faculty. She had earlier held teaching positions at Cornell, Swarthmore,
Haverford and, from 1964 to 1966, Smith.
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- Vendler is a member of the Pulitzer Prize board, has been a nominator
for the MacArthur Foundation "genius" awards and is a member
of the grant panel for the Guggenheim Foundation.
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- Her writings include books on Yeats, Wallace Stevens, George Herbert
and Keats. Her latest book, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, was called
by Richard Howard in The New York Times Book Review "the most intricately
inquiring and ingeniously responding study of these poems yet to be undertaken."
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- Vendler's lecture will be at 3 p.m. and will be followed at 4 p.m.
by the reception.
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A Smith Glimpse on Dawson's Creek?
- If you're surfing with your TV remote this Tuesday around 9 p.m. and
happen to light on the WB network (locally, channel 16), take a look at
Dawson's Creek, which premiered in January to mixed reviews. The show,
mostly about a group of high school friends, is meant to be "bittersweet
and romantic and funny," says one critic, but is actually "racy
and edgy." In the episode scheduled to air this week, some of the
Dawson's Creek students attend a college fair -- and, if all goes according
to plan, you'll see (if only fleetingly) a Smith booth in the background.
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Board Approves 11 Faculty Promotions
- By vote of the board of trustees at its recent meeting, 11 members
of the faculty have received promotions effective July 1, 1998.
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- Promoted to full professor from associate professor were Joan Berzoff,
School for Social Work; Jane Bryden, music; Michael Gorra, English language
and literature; Deborah Haas-Wilson, economics; Elizabeth Savoca, economics;
and Carol Zaleski, religion and biblical literature. Promoted to associate
professor with tenure from assistant professor were Velma Garcia, government,
and Richard Lim, history. Promoted to associate professor were Kathryn
Basham and Joshua Miller, both of the School for Social Work. In addition,
Jonathan Gosnell, French language and literature, was promoted to assistant
professor, effective July 1, 1997.
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A New World, Close to Home
- While many Smith students spend their junior year studying in France
or Italy, Eliza Goodhue '99 studied an even more different culture: that
of America's deaf population. Spending her fall semester at Gallaudet University
in Washington, D.C. -- the world's only university specifically for deaf
people -- Goodhue became one of five "hearing" students in a
student body of close to 2,000. "It was like I was in a whole different
culture, but I could see the Washington Monument out my window," she
says. A biology major, Goodhue took the semester off from science and spent
her time at Gallaudet studying deaf culture. She feels that her time at
Gallaudet was well spent. "Sign language is my second language,"
she says, "and I wanted an experience that would immerse me in that
culture, to understand as much as a hearing person can what it's like to
live in that culture." Goodhue is now using her American Sign Language
(ASL) skills in her work at the Walden School in Amherst, where she works
with deaf children who have been abused. In addition to her work with deaf
children, she is currently lobbying for an undergraduate-level ASL course
at Smith and for the organization of an ASL lunch table. -Amanda Darling
'99
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Alleva, Kaufman Receive Teaching Awards
- Junior and senior teaching awards were presented to members of the
Smith faculty during Rally Day ceremonies last month by the co-chairs of
the faculty teaching award committee of the SGA, Sandie Drury '98J, and
Betsy Ayer '98.
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- Ernest Alleva, assistant professor of philosophy, received the Junior
Teaching Award for "the personal connection he establishes with his
students," the lively class discussions he leads, and the attention
he gives to his students' work. "Often it is joked that he writes
more in his comments than we write in our papers," said a student
who nominated Alleva for the award.
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- Roger Kaufman, professor of economics, received the Senior Teaching
Award, being cited as someone "particularly dedicated to sharing knowledge
with students." One nominator observed that "a good professor
is one who shows you what he can do and teaches you how to do it. A tremendous
professor is one who shows you what you can do and teaches you how to achieve
it. Roger Kaufman is a tremendous professor."
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Award Subsidizes Trip to Math Congress
- Pau Atela, associate professor of mathematics, has received a travel
award from the American Mathematical Society and the National Science Foundation
that will enable him to attend the International Congress of Mathematics
in Berlin in August. The congress, which is held every four years, focuses
on the most recent developments in mathematics. Atela's research on dynamical
systems has been underwritten over the last several years by a three-year,
$34,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Calendar Key
- 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.
Correction
- The following replaces an incorrect listing included in last week's
AcaMedia.
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- Friday, March 6
- Lecture: "Sex and Death in the Spinal Cord." Nancy Forger,
department of psychology, UMass/Amherst. Sponsored by department of biological
sciences and the biochemistry program.
- 4 p.m., McConnell B05*
Monday 3/9
- CDO résumé/cover letter deadline for the Media and Communications
Career Connection 1998, a résumé-referral program for jobs
and internships. We have information about a job and internship at Noonan/Russo
Communications and about internships at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival,
Old Sturbridge Village, Phoenix Media/Communications and WWLP-TV.
- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., CDO
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- Luncheon meeting for students interested in graduate theological education.
Donna Marsh '89 will discuss opportunities offered by Princeton Theological
Seminary.
- Noon, Wright common room
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- Meeting: Campus Climate Working Group.
- 12:15 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room
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- Hebrew language lunch table.
- 12:15 p.m., Chapel B5
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- Language lunch tables.
- French
- Italian
- 12:15 p.m., Duckett House Special Dining Room
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- CDO workshop: "How to Find a Summer Internship."
- 1:15 p.m., CDO
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- Meeting: Amnesty International.
- 4 p.m., Seelye 102*
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- Meeting: Baha'i Club. Refreshments provided. (Kari, ext. 6362)
- 4 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel
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- Women's studies tea: "Ted & Sylvia (Bill & Monica): Love,
War and Scandal in the Media Perception of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters."
A faculty work-in-progress with Susan Van Dyne, professor of women's studies
and English language and literature.
- 4:10 p.m., Seelye 207
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- Lecture: "Magic and the British Monarchy: An Historian's View."
Howard Allen Nenner, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities. The third
of five lectures being given during this academic year by five new chaired
professors.
- 4:30-5:30 p.m., Stoddard Hall Auditorium*
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- Open house: Tour through the classrooms and meet with staff and parents
at Sunnyside Child Care Center.
- 7 p.m., 70 Paradise Road
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- Meeting: Om, the Hindu students organization.
- 7-8 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel
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- The Annual Blakeslee Lecture: "Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections
on Science and Jewish Tradition." Roald Hoffman, professor of chemistry,
Cornell University, and 1981 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. Sponsored
by the Smith chapter of Sigma Xi, the History of Science Program, the Department
of Chemistry and the Jewish Studies Program. (Ext. 3862)
- 8-10 p.m., Wright auditorium*
Tuesday 3/10
- CDO extended hours.
- 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.
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- Sigma Xi Luncheon Talk: "Brazil, Costa Rica: What, They Still
Use DDT as a Pesticide?" Esteban Monserrate, professor of biological
sciences. Open to faculty, emeriti and staff.
- Noon, College Club lower level
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- Government department roundtable: "Political Science vs. Political
Engineering: Confessions of a U.S. AID Consultant." (Maxine, ext.
6902)
- Noon, Dewey Common Room
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- Episcopal-Lutheran Fellowship meets in the parish house parlor.
- Noon, St. John's Church, Elm Street
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- S.O.S. Community Education Luncheon: Topic to be announced. Lunch provided.
(S.O.S., ext. 2756)
- Noon, Wright common room
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- Language lunch tables.
- Deutscher Tisch
- Korean
- 12:15 p.m., Duckett House Special Dining Room
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- Concert: Music in the Noon Hour. John Van Buskirk and Alissa Leiser,
piano four-hands. Dance music by Schubert and Brahms. (Ext. 3150)
- 12:30 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall*
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- President's open hours for students.
- 3:30-4:30 p.m., College Hall 20
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- Film: Teresa of Avila Film Series: "Teresa De Jesus." Fourth
of a four-part series. Sponsored by the Contemplation and Action Program
of the Catholic Chaplaincy.
- 4-6 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel
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- CDO orientation for seniors.
- 4:30-5:30 p.m., CDO
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- Résumé critique by a peer adviser.
- 4:30-6 p.m. and 89 p.m., CDO
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- Meeting for students who have returned from study abroad to share their
experiences, pictures, music and souvenirs with other returnees and students
interested in going abroad. Presented by the liaisons for the Latin American
studies and Latin American literature departments.
- 5 p.m., Spanish Lounge, Hatfield 205
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- Five-Con Staff Meeting: Planning for April's Five College Science Fiction
Convention.
- 7 p.m., Bass 210
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- SGA senate meeting, including a student open forum at 7:15 p.m.
- 7 p.m., Seelye 201*
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- CDO information meeting: Saks Fifth Avenue.
- 7 p.m., Alumnae House Living Room
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- CDO workshop: "Job Search for Seniors."
- 7 p.m., CDO
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- The Banff Festival of Mountain Films, featuring high-altitude climbing,
white-water rapids and adventuring in the most remote parts of the world.
A benefit of the Northampton Center for the Arts. Tickets are $5 and are
available at The Mountain Goat, Main Street, Northampton; any remaining
tickets will be sold at the door. Cosponsored by the American studies department.
- 7 p.m., Wright auditorium*
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- Meeting: MassPIRG. All welcome.
- 7:30-9 p.m: Seelye 107*
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- Film and lecture: A Healthy Baby Girl. An award-winning film, and a
lecture by Judith Helfand. Sponsored by the Project on Women and Social
Change and the Department of Sociology.
- 7:30-9:30 p.m., Neilson Browsing Room*
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- Theater performance: Word! Festival. New plays by Five College students:
Sisterlove by Iami S. Badu, Smith; What I Say Is True by Saad Haroon, UMass;
...It's the Unraveling by Sahra Kuper, Hampshire; Promise Play by Jewel
Younge, Amherst; and Country Dance by Penny Tieu. Sponsored by the Five
College Multi-cultural Theater Committee.
- 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, Mendenhall CPA*
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- CDO workshop: "How to Prepare for a Successful Interview."
- 8 p.m., CDO
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- Film: Title to be announced. Sponsored by Rec Council
- 9 p.m., Stoddard auditorium
Wednesday 3/11
- CDO résumé/cover letter deadline for Chicago Résumé
Referral Program: Morningstar (publishing), Hull Trading Co. and Andersen
Consulting. Information and contact name available in CDO room 20.
- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., CDO
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- Hillel at Noon. Discussion and veggie luncheon.
- Noon, Dawes House Kosher Kitchen
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- Religious activity: Discussion and reflection for Catholic Adas.
- Noon-1 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel
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- Language lunch tables.
- Chinese
- Spanish and Portuguese
- 12:15 p.m., Duckett House Special Dining Room
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- Lecture marking the dedication of the Joan Leiman Jacobson '47 Center
for Writing, Teaching and Learning: "Learning to Write." Helen
Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University. A
reception will follow at the center, Seelye Hall, third floor.
- 3 p.m., Wright auditorium*
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- Office of Institutional Diversity open hour, with Carmen Santana-Melgoza.
- 4-5 p.m., College Hall 31
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- Film: Weapons of the Spirit (1986, France). Produced, written and directed
by Pierre Sauvage. The story of a village in France, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,
that took in and sheltered 5,000 Jews from the Nazis, as told by the Jewish
filmmaker, Sauvage, who was born into and protected within this defiant
community. Film preceded by a brief introduction.
- 4:10 p.m., Seelye 106
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- Information meeting: 1998 Preludes Leaders, with members of the Preludes
Planning Committee. (Merry Farnum, ext. 4904)
- 5-6 p.m., Seelye 107
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- Meeting of Student Alumnae Association. See what SAASC has planned
for this semester. Discover the many opportunities to meet and network
with alums. (Naa-Adei, ext. 7260; Jane, ext. 7270; Siew Peng, ext. 6618)
- 6 p.m., Alumnae House
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- All-campus open house.
- 7-9 p.m., all houses
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- Religious activity: Buddhist service and discussion.
- 7:15 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel
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- MassPIRG weekly meeting.
- 7:30 p.m., Seelye 107
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- Theater performance: Word! Festival. New plays written by Five College
students: Full of Grace... by Joe Salvatore, UMass; Sistahs Indeed! by
Mariah Richardson, Smith; Mama by Mequitta Ahuja; Hemispheres of Blackness
by Justin Earl Turner, Amherst; and Here by Nikki Mondschein, Amherst.
Sponsored by the Five College Multicultural Theater Committee.
- 8 p.m., Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre, Mendenhall CPA*
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- Women's Awareness Performance. Poetry, spoken word, singing, music
and more, in honor of Women's Week. Sponsored by Feminists of Smith Unite.
- 9-10 p.m., Wright auditorium*
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Thursday 3/12
- CDO extended hours.
- 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
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- Liberal Arts Luncheon: "Employment Status and Outcomes as a Function
of Social Capital: The Case of Whites, Blacks and Latinos in the Greater
Boston Area." Sandra Smith, Mendenhall Fellow in the sociology department.
Open to faculty, emeriti and staff.
- Noon, College Club lower level
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- CDO workshop: "How to Prepare for a Successful Interview."
- 12:10-12:55 p.m., CDO
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- Language lunch tables.
- Japanese
- Russian
- 12:15 p.m., Duckett House Special Dining Room
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- First-year tea: Meet one another and President Simmons while enjoying
afternoon tea.
- 4-5:30 p.m., Alumnae living room
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- CDO workshop: "How to Write an Effective Résumé."
- 4:30 p.m., CDO
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- Exhibition opening of "Sandy Skoglund: Reality Under Siege,"
the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the photographer, sculptor
and installation artist.
- 5-7 p.m., Museum of Art*
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- Religious activity: Beit Midrash. Study Jewish texts and ideas with
Rabbi Edward Feld. Pizza served.
- 6 p.m., Appleton 106, Amherst College
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- Religious activity: Newman Association meeting for Catholic students.
Come for a home-cooked meal and good conversation.
- 6 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Cahpel
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- CDO workshop: "Using the Internet to Search for Jobs and Internships."
- 6:30 p.m., Seelye B03
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- Film: Anime (Japanese animation) with subtitles. (Katherine, ext. 7352)
- 7:30 p.m., Bass 210
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- Information meeting: 1998 Preludes leaders, with members of the Preludes
Planning Committee. (Merry Farnum, ext. 4904)
- 7:30-8:30 p.m., Seelye 107
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- Film: Title to be announced. Sponsored by Rec Council
- 9 p.m., Wright auditorium
Friday 3/13
- CDO résumé/cover letter deadline for two new on-campus
recruiters: John Hancock Signature Services (hiring in Boston and Charlestown
for both the life insurance and signature services) and IBM Global Services
(hiring nationwide). Looking for computer science, math, MIS/CIS, networking,
business, telecommunications. Job description in CDO room 20.
- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., CDO
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- Résumé critique by a peer adviser.
- 1-2 p.m., CDO
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- General meeting: Nosotros, the Latina organization at Smith. All welcome.
- 4:30 p.m, Unity House
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- Meeting: Science Fiction and Fantasy Club.
- 4:30 p.m., Seelye 208
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- Religious service: Shabbat Eve Services.
- 5:30 p.m., Dewey common room
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- Religious activity: Friday-night Bible study, sponsored by the Smith
Koinonia Fellowship. (Ext. 6369)
- 6 p.m., Seelye 106*
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- Religious activity: Shabbat Eve Dinner.
- 7 p.m., Dawes House Kosher Kitchen
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- Religious activity: Smith Christian Fellowship, a chapter of InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship USA.
- 7 p.m., Dewey common room
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- Something on a Friday: "An Evening with the Smiffenpoofs,"
a cappella singing group, plus desserts from around the world.
- 7-9 p.m., Unity House
Saturday 3/14
- Spring Recess starts. Houses close 10 a.m. on March 14 and open 1 p.m.
on March 22.
Sunday 3/15
- Religious activity: Quaker (Friends) discussion group. Meeting for
worship begins at 11 a.m. Child care available.
- 9:30 a.m., Bass 210*
Wednesday 3/18
- Symposium: "Leadership in Landscape: Sustainable Development."
Lectures and panel discussions featuring leaders in the field of sustainable
development: Carol Franklin, Peter Jacobs, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander '44
and Marc Rosenbaum. Preregistration required. $75 participation fee (includes
lunch).
- 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Wright auditorium*
Thursday 3/19
- Panel discussion: "Family Matters in Today's Society." Members
of the Five College Learning in Retirement (LIR) will discuss strategies
for addressing various family situations. Sponsored by LIR.
- 2 p.m., Field Hous
Sunday 3/22
- Spring recess ends. Houses open at 1 p.m.
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- Religious activity: Quaker (Friends) discussion group. Meeting for
worship begins at 11 a.m.
- 9:30 a.m., Bass 210*
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- Religious service: Roman Catholic Mass with Fr. David Joyce, Celebrant,
and Elizabeth Carr, Catholic chaplain. A supper will follow.
- 4:30 p.m., Chapel
Ongoing Events
- Art exhibition: The Smith College Museum of Art presents "Sandy
Skoglund: Reality Under Siege," the first retrospective exhibition
of the work of the photographer, sculptor, and installation artist. Opens
March 12. Free and open to the public. Call extension 2760 for museum hours.
Through May 24.
- Museum of Art*
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- Spring Bulb Show. More than 2,500 flowering bulbs and spring flowers,
among them tulips, hyacinths, azaleas, primroses, crocus, freesias and
forsythia- - many of which will be planted around campus after the show.
Open daily, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; free of charge and open to the public. Through
March 22.
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- Art exhibition: "A Dozen Roses," by staff member Patricia
Czepiel Hayes '84. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., through March 27.
- Alumnae House Gallery
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- Art exhibition: "Berenice Abbott's New York." Abbott photographs,
many made between 1935 and 1939 for the WPA Federal Arts Project. Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Through March 28. (Ext. 2770)
- Museum of Art Print Room
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- Curio exhibition: "The Visionary Cabinet," curiosities created
by Marjorie Senechal's History of Science 112a class. Through May 1.
- McConnell Hall west stairwell*
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- Photography exhibition from the School for Field Studies. Alumnae of
the SFS Environmental Field Studies Abroad Programs in Kenya, B.W.I., Baja
(Mexico), Pacific Northwest Canada, Costa Rica and Australia are represented.
Eleven Smith Students are in SFS programs this spring. Sponsored by the
Environmental Science Program.
- McConnell foyer
Upcoming Event
- Smith College Roundtable. On Thursday, March 26, the Smith College
Roundtable will meet at the Alumnae House conference room at 5:45 p.m.
to hear Professor Martin Holmes from St. Hugh's College, Oxford, speak
on the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher. Sign-ups will begin Monday,
March 23, in the student mail center. (Anna Soellner, ext. 5606)
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- AcaMedia is the official vehicle for making announcements within the
Smith College community. We urge all of our readers to let us know of any
Smith-related stories in need of telling, any members of the Smith community
in need of recognition, or any college events or notices in need of publicity.
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- Where to Send Copy
- -- Submit copy or ideas for news stories to Ann Shanahan at Garrison
Hall (ashanahan@colrel.smith.edu).
- -- Submit calendar items to Mary Stanton at Garrison Hall (mstanton@colrel.smith.edu,
or fax to extension 2174).
- -- Submit notices to John Sippel at Garrison Hall (jsippel@colrel.smith.edu,
or fax to extension 2178). Text for notices should not exceed 125 words.
If its intended audience is not obvious, please indicate whether your notice
applies to the entire Smith community, to faculty and staff only, or to
students only.
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- Deadlines
- Copy is due by 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 18, for issue 23 (which will
include March 30April 5 calendar listings) and by 4 p.m., Wednesday,
March 25, for issue 24 (April 612 calendar listings). Late information
cannot be accepted.
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- Sources of further information, if any, are indicated last in parentheses.
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- Blue-Pencil Alert
- All calendar items and notices submitted to AcaMedia are subject to
editing for clarity, brevity and style. Almost none see print exactly as
originally written.
Smith-Wide
- Five College Calendar Deadline
- Entries for the April Five College Calendar must be received in writing
by March 16. Please send all entries to Mary Stanton in Garrison Hall (mstanton@colrel.smith.edu).
Students
- May House-Closings
- On-campus students planning their end-of-semester departures should
bear in mind that houses officially close for the academic year at 10 a.m.
on May 9. With the exceptions noted below, housing contracts expire at
that time and students are required to be fully moved out by then; those
who fail to do so risk receiving a letter in their student file and a fine.
Only seniors and students taking late Five College exams will be allowed
to remain in their rooms after May 9. Students with permission to remain
on campus through Commencement must move that afternoon to consolidated
housing. Front-door and room keys for these houses will not be provided,
but door watches will be maintained that week. The final night a student
may reserve or inhabit a guest room is Thursday, May 7, after which the
Alumnae Association will begin cleaning the rooms for Commencement/Reunion
Weekend. Students taking Five College courses will be mailed housing-request
forms the second week of March and are required to submit them to the Alumnae
Association by March 31. (Zoe Dearden, ext. 2058)
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- Student Schedules
- Updated schedules will be sent to students at their campus boxes. Students
are responsible for all courses in which they are officially registered,
and for immediately resolving any inaccuracies with the registrar.
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- Final Examinations
- The May final examination schedule is posted in the registrar's office.
Students should check it carefully and immediately report any conflicts
to the registrar.
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- S.O.S. Fund Drive
- Every year S.O.S. conducts a fund drive to raise money to help improve
the community. This year's drive has as its theme "Illiteracy Among
Children and Adults" and will run March 4April 8. Proceeds go
to agencies in western Massachusetts. Prizes will be awarded to the highest
individual contributor and to the house with the most participants. Support
the drive by donating funds or time. Learn more from your S.O.S. house
rep or the drive's cochairs, Ayesh (ext. 6503) and Jessica (ext. 5537).
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- Residence Coordinator Positions
- The Office of Student Affairs/Residence Life invites graduating seniors
and recent graduates to apply for the newly created residence coordinator
live-in positions for the 1998-99 academic year. Residence coordinators
will oversee the management and general welfare of a residential house
of up to 100 women; act as liaisons between house residents and college
service departments; and be regularly available to students, both individually
and collectively, as sources of information and referral and as conflict
mediators. Each residence coordinator will be responsible for working 15
hours outside the house on various projects and programs. A bachelor's
degree is required, and leadership experience in residence life is preferred.
Candidates must have demonstrated experience in diversity/multicultural
and women's issues, with a focus on education and training. These 10-month,
live-in positions begin in mid-August 1998 and continue up to a two-year
term. Residence coordinators will receive a stipend plus room and board
when the college is in session, medical coverage, and other benefits such
as the use of campus facilities and class-auditing privileges. If interested,
send a résumé, three letters of reference and a letter of
interest to the Office of Student Affairs, College Hall 24, or fax them
to extension 4935. Review of applications will begin immediately. (Nancy
Asai, ext. 4940)
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- Student Activities Fair
- The Office of Admission invites all campus organizations to take part
in a Student Activities Fair to be held during Open Campus on Wednesday,
April 22, from noon to 1 p.m. Open Campus is a two-day program that helps
admitted students make an informed decision about attending Smith. Participants
go to classes, speak with students, eat and sleep in campus houses, meet
faculty and staff, and explore the college on their own. The fair will
enable potential members of the class of 2002 to learn about cocurricular
life at Smith. Student organizations will be able to recruit new members,
sell fundrais-ing merchandise and serve as goodwill ambassadors for the
college. If your organization would like to participate, contact Nicole
Dankes (ext. 6731; ndanks@sophia.smith.edu).
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- Study in the UK,
- Australia and New Zealand
- A representative from Butler Institute for Study Abroad will be on
campus Tuesday, March, 10, at 3:30 p.m. in Dewey common room to meet with
students planning to study in the UK, Australia or New Zealand next year
or thereafter.
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- Writing Workshops
- The Peer Writing Assistants are offering three writing workshops in
late March at the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning (formerly
the Center for Academic Assistance) in Seelye 307:
- --"How to Write a Research Paper" (Monday, March 23, 7:30
p.m.). How to get started, structure your paper and cite your sources.
- --"The Ins and Outs of Writing an Application Essay" (Tuesday,
March 24, 7:30 p.m.). How to write personal essays for applications to
internships, jobs or graduate schools, with a focus on achieving the right
tone. Feel free to bring essays in progress.
- --"Writing an Honors Thesis" (Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.)
The research and writing processes, with a primary focus on laying the
groundwork and planning and managing the project. Juniors are especially
encouraged to attend.
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- Students interested in attending any of the workshops should sign up
in Seelye 307 or call extension 3056 weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Each workshop is limited to 15 participants.
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- Not-for-Profit Career Fairs
- Two not-for-profit career fairs will be presented within the next few
weeks: NFP in DC, on Friday, March 20, at the Georgetown University Conference
Center in Washington, D.C., and NFP in NYC, on Friday, April 3, at the
Low Library at Columbia University in New York. CDO may arrange for transportation
to the New York fair if enough students sign up. See Bev at the CDO (ext.
2579) if interested.
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- Cycles Survey
- Reminder to all students asked to participate in the Cycles Survey:
please complete your survey. It's one of your best chances to make your
opinions heard. Instructions were included on your survey form, but if
you have any questions or need another form, please call the Office of
Institutional Research at extension 3021.
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- Summer Tuition Funding
- The Smith Students' Aid Society has some funds available to help defray
the cost of tuition only for summer study for students who can demonstrate
academic necessity for summer study. Applications are available in the
class deans' and Ada Comstock offices. Application deadline: April 8 at
4:30 p.m. (Kathy Langworthy, ext. 2577)
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- Peer Writing Assistance
- Need help with a paper? Bring your assignment, dr
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