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ACN Membership Increases Contract Signed for Five College he Academic Career Network (ACN) “direct information about academic and added several new member institu- professional positions quickly and precisely Fiber-Optic Network T tions this year as it continues to to those who need or can use it.” One of the n mid-April, Five Colleges, Incorporated mation Technology, the executive director of develop its services as a resource for dual- distinguishing features of this particular ap- announced the award of a contract for Five Colleges, Incorporated and its director career couples attached to colleges in the proach to the dual-career problem, she says, I the design and construction of a fiber- of information technology, a vice president New York–New England region. A dozen is “the personal touch it can provide, through optic communications network connecting for finance, and a dean of faculty. institutions have, to date, signed on to have a one-on-one consultation by phone or in the five campuses to each other and to a The decision to build the network resulted access to the network’s services: person, or over e-mail.” ACN, she explains, carrier-neutral facility, where it will access the from a report and recommendations pre- • Connecticut College is geared to the needs of current or newly Internet and Internet 2. When completed, the sented to the Five College Board of Directors • The Five Colleges hired members of the faculty whose spouse or network is expected to furnish the campuses by the IT Governing Board. After studying Amherst College partner is seeking an academic or professional with a vastly increased data network capac- current and anticipated networking needs of Hampshire College position within driving distance, enabling the ity, add redundant links to handle network the five campuses, the IT directors concluded Mount Holyoke College couple to live together instead of apart. outages, and reduce the costs of local circuit that a fiber-optic network owned by the Smith College The member institutions of ACN fit this cri- charges for data communications services. schools in common offered the most cost- University of Massachusetts Amherst terion of being within a few hours’ drive of Adesta was selected as the vendor to carry out efficient solution to meeting the campuses’ • Skidmore College each other. An annual fee of $5,000 entitles the project, which calls for a 29-mile ring of explosive demand for bandwidth and the • Trinity College them to a number of benefits that include fiber connecting the five campuses to each rising cost of leasing circuits to connect them • Union College passworded access to candidate résumés on other with a 12-mile “leg” into a primary car- to the Internet and Internet 2. • Vassar College the ACN Web site and the ability to post rier hotel in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts. A technical team representing the campuses • Wesleyan University positions on the site. An Omaha-based company that has been in and reporting to the IT directors will work • Williams College Users of ACN’s services will have access to a operation since 1988, Adesta designs, builds, with Adesta in laying out the design and will ACN, which originated with the Five Col- database of positions being searched at the and supports multidisciplinary network infra- also make decisions about equipment and leges, initially received support from The member institutions and may participate structures to serve commercial, industrial, and establish a plan of operations for the Five Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its start- in various professional workshops to be governmental entities worldwide. The contract College network. up planning and development (see “Joint sponsored by the network each year. and the new fiber-optic network are being handled through Five College Net, a limited “A project of this scope,” says Five College Positions,” back page). The grant to Five Although ACN has been officially op- liability company (LLC) whose sole member Executive Director Lorna M. Peterson, “could Colleges, Incorporated was given to help its erational for only a little more than a year, is Five Colleges, Incorporated. not have been undertaken without the well- member institutions address two key issues Goheen reports that it has already had at established record of successful collaboration in higher education today: planning to ac- least one success story, with several in pro- Contracting a vendor represents a cul- among the schools and the forward-looking commodate large numbers of anticipated cess. “We’re definitely up and running,” she minating point in a two-year process of vision of the Five College Board of Directors. retirements through the use of joint appoint- says, “and making our presence as a resource deliberations and negotiations overseen by Those factors, coupled with the proximity of ments and assisting dual-career couples. more visible.” More information about ACN the Five College Information Technology the schools to one another, have enabled them Cynthia Goheen, who serves as coordinator is available from Cynthia Goheen: (413) (IT) Governing Board, created by the Board to work together to acquire the bandwidth of ACN, says the network strives to furnish 256-8316, [email protected]. of Directors of Five Colleges, Incorporated needed to serve their research and teaching in 2001. Those appointed to serve on the IT missions over the long term.” board are the Five College directors of Infor- Five College Cooperation: The Student Connection Ask people here about Five College cooperation and many will cite the well-known student interchange and the bus system, open borrowing, the Five College course catalog, the calendar of events, and the automated library system. Less visible until recently have been the many examples of ways in which students are connecting with peers at all five campuses outside of class and riding the bus. Sometimes these connections take the form of Five College forums, where students share their research or their writing. Equally popular these days are Five College performances. Taken together, they suggest a thriving culture in which students are more and more taking advantage of collective resources to enrich and expand their experience of learning and living within a multi-campus community.

Neda’s Story Five College system.” Neda graduates from “A Great Way to Celebrate World Music and Showcase the Riches of the Five Colleges.” “I loved the idea that there were thou- Smith College this May, joining hundreds A Klezmer band, an Irish trio, a gospel choir, and a Southeast Asian gamelan ensemble sands of classes to choose from this way, of students on the five campuses who will were just a few of the groups taking part in the second World Music Festival held in be “walking” to receive their degrees. “I’ve late April at Hampshire’s Red Barn. The gala spring event, organized by the faculty and thousands of students to meet,” who teach ethnomusicology, suggests the increasing number of cross-campus con- truly enjoyed being part of the Five College says Neda Maghbouleh, describing her nections that students are making these days. first impressions of what many call “the Continued on back cover Summering in the Valley ore and more visitors are discov- Hardy, Susan Jahoda, Chester Michalik, mate Expanse—Landscape Architecture Seitz. Costume by Thrift Shop. ering what locals have known for Sheron Rupp, and Michele Turre. In celebration of the centennial of Landscape Exile: Choreographed, written, and per- M a long time: This is a great area to Through August 8: Elliot Offner: Sculpture Architecture at UMass Amherst. formed by Leslie Farlow and directed by summer in, far from the madding crowds of Three exhibitions honoring the distinguished June–August: The museum will be closed. Mitchell Polin, Exile is based on the story either the Cape or the Berkshires. Splendid artist and longtime faculty member Elliot of Medea, with text drawn in ancient exhibitions, exciting theater, and a variety of Offner, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Greek from the Euripides play, as well as musical performances light up the calendar Humanities (Art) and Printer to the College. Theater from the trials and writings of Andrea and pair nicely with leisurely hikes and biking Yates and Susan Smith. tours or strolls in the country. Through the summer: From Myth to Life— New Century Theatre at Smith College, Images of Women from the Classical World Northampton: (413) 587-3933, www. new- July 20, 8 p.m.: The Heroic and Pathetic A sampling of on-campus happenings appears Forty-four works of art from the Celia and centurytheatre.org Escapades of Karagiozis. Ralph Lee’s Met- in this issue. More about summer events is Walter Gilbert Collection featuring images tawee River Company of New York presents available from the online Five College Calen- June 17–27: The Heidi Chronicles, by Mount of women or objects used by women in the Holyoke alumna Wendy Wasserstein. Peace, a new piece drawn from the the folk puppet dar (http://calendar.fivecolleges. edu) and the classical world. Vases, statuettes, jewelry, and theater traditions of Turkey and Greece. local chamber Web sites. Love, Woodstock, Birkenstocks, social con- household objects come from ancient Greece, science, Right on, John, Paul, George, and Mettawee uses a range of scales to express Phoenicia, and Roman civilizations. Ringo, Reaganomics, “having it all,” ERA, the heightened reality of these stories, and Art and Exhibitions June 4–October 31: Northampton Furniture biological clock, and Power to the People. If puppets, masks, and giant figures bring them to life. This all-ages event held one Amherst College Mead Art Museum: (413) from the Collection of Historic Deerfield: you recognize any of these names and phrases, night only will be at Amherst College 542-2335, www.amherst.edu/mead Two Centuries of Design then The Heidi Chronicles is for you. Winner of From the collection of Historic Deerfield, Observatory Lawn (off Snell Street). Bring Through May 16: Cloth Only Wears to the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award. A comedy furniture made by Northampton cabinet- blankets, lawn chairs, and insect repellent, Shreds: Yoruba Textiles and Photographs that is sure to please! makers and joiners. The exhibition surveys but leave the pets at home. Performance from the Beier Collection July 1–11: Crumbs from the Table of Joy, by Northampton woodworkers’ interpretations will be ASL interpreted by Joan Wattman. The Ulli and Georgina Beier Collection of Lynn Nottage. Set in 1950, this is a coming-of- of both high-style and popular design. Adults $6, children $4; no reservations Yoruba Textiles and Ritual Objects forms the age story told through the eyes of 17-year-old necessary. core of an international resource for Yoruba June 25–September 17: Old, New, Borrowed Ernestine Crump. Filled with a sweet, gentle July 23–25, 8 p.m.: The Alexandria Carry- art and culture at Amherst College. & Blue—Works on Paper humor, Crumbs from the Table of Joy is a “pair- A cross section of outstanding prints, draw- On. A collaboration by Laurie McCants, Through May 16: Visions of Haiti: Vodou ing between Tennessee Williams and Lorraine ings, and photographs held by the museum, Theo Bleckmann, and F. Elaine Williams and Carnaval à Jacmel—Photographs by Hansberry . . . a glass menagerie in the sun including an important watercolor by Winslow with Sabrina Hamilton and Rand Whipple Phyllis Galembo (The New York Post)” that is sure to be loved Homer (on long-term loan) and a recently performed at Emily Dickinson Hall, Brilliant color images that present the human by the entire family. acquired digital print portfolio by the American Hampshire College. A new solo music- and divine faces of Haitian Vodou and the July 15–25: Lobby Hero, by Kenneth Lonergan. artist Charles Long. Also, works by Abraham theater piece about the vanished Library costumed participants of Carnaval masquerade. The hit of the 2001 Off-Broadway season, of Alexandria, blending ancient text, con- Bosse, Richard Diebenkorn, Albrecht Dürer, Time Out called Lobby Hero “the best drama, May 17–Sept 7: The museum will be closed Juan Concillos Falcó, Arshile Gorky, Käthe temporary music, and modern technology. due to campus construction. the best comedy and the best romance of the Kollwitz, Abelardo Morell, and Rembrandt year, all rolled into one.” A highly entertain- July 30–August 1, 8 p.m.; matinee August Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Harmenz van Rijn. ing evening of comedy, drama, and a bit of 1, 3 p.m.: Sounding to A. Premiere of a Hadley: (413) 538-2245, www. mtholyoke. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, mystery. multimedia performance piece about edu/offices/artmuseum ( ) refugee trauma, conceived and performed Amherst: 413 658-1100, www.picture July 29–August 8: The Man Who Came to Through August 1: The Intimate Baroque— bookart.org at Emily Dickinson Hall, Hampshire Col- Dinner, by George S. Kaufman and Moss lege by Eva Ungar Grudin, in collaboration Small Paintings from the John B. Ritter June 4–September 12: Eric Carle Hart. Considered by many to be the finest Collection with Sabrina Hamilton, Ko Festival Artistic Through July 11: The Many Paths of Dr. American comedy ever written, this is a great On loan from the John B. Ritter collection, a Director. Featuring a performance by noted Seuss—Four Points of the Compass big bouquet of belly laughs that ends our fabulous group of Italian Baroque paintings Israeli violist Yossi Gutmann, who serves as An exhibition of rarely seen original art from 14th season with a huge bang. Directed by that include portraits, religious and mytho- music director. Dr. Seuss’s first (And to Think That I Saw It Jack Neary and featuring the largest all-star logical subjects, and still lifes. August 6–8, 8 p.m.: Poet in New York. on Mulberry Street), last (Oh, the Places You’ll NCT cast ever assembled, this screwiest of Through August 1: Light in the Landscape: screwball comedies is a not-to-be-missed A one-man fantasia about gay Spanish Go!), and two most politically charged books poet and playwright Federico García Photographs by Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin (The Lorax and The Butter Battle Book). event for all ages. A series of dreamlike images from Hofkin’s Lorca performed at Emily Dickinson Hall, Through August 8: Petra Mathers—Lottie’s Ko Festival at Amherst: (413) 427-6147, travels in the United States and Israel. Hampshire College. Pig Iron Theatre of New Beach Towel www.kofest.com Philadelphia, directed by Dan Rothen- Through August 1: The Sporting Woman: In celebration of Petra Mathers’s gift to the Ko Summer Workshops: Workshops will be berg with Dito van Reigersberg playing 11 The Female Athlete in American Culture museum of all the original art and preliminary held in Studio II or Studio III of Webster Hall characters in this highly physical one-man A special exhibition on the history of American materials from her popular series of books on the Amherst College campus. tour de force. women in sports, which coincides with the about Lottie, the amiable chicken from Or- ( ) 2004 U.S. Women’s Open Championship to July 12–17: Butoh and Beyond—Eastern New WORLD Theater: 413 545-1972, www. egon, the museum presents an exhibition and Western approaches to performance umass.edu/fac/nwt be held at Mount Holyoke’s Orchards Golf from the first book, Lottie’s New Beach Towel. Course June 28–July 4. Included in this broad with Naoko Maeshiba. Season TBA; consult the NWT Web site. July 25–November 7: Dancing Line and array of visual materials related to women’s July 19–24: Breath, Voice, and Spoken Merry Color—The Worlds of Margot and exercise and sport from the mid-19th century Text with Leeny Sack. Beginning with Kaethe Zemach to the present are Winslow Homer’s Croquet the breath, an ongoing lesson in presence, Music August 17, 2004–December 5: Mordicai Players (1865; featured on right page), a por- change, and the spirit of inquiry. Musicorda, South Hadley: (413) 493-1465 Gerstein—The Man Who Walked Between trait by Otto Bacher of his wife in tennis attire July 26–31: Embodying the Other in Dra- and (413) 493-1530, www.musicorda.org (1891), and Annie Leibovitz’s photograph of the Towers matic Dialogue with Deborah Lubar and July 2: Lynn Chang, Marylou Churchill, An- soccer player Julie Foudy (1996). National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, (413) Laurie McCants. A look at story, spirit, and drew Jennings, Anton Miller, violin; Matthew 256-4900, www.yiddishbookcenter.org Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton: subtle energy on three levels. Dane, Susan Dubois, viola; Peter Rejto, Uri (413) 585-2760, www.smith.edu/artmuseum Through July: Penelope Bennett— August 2–7: Shakespeare/Mask—the Bard, Vardi, cello; Michael Adcock, Jane Hawkins, Through June 13: The Legend of Hachiman—a “Manuscript-Portraits” through Balinese and Commedia masks, piano; Christina Jennings, flute Heroic figures from Jewish history in a limited Handscroll of the Tosa School with the Artistic Directors of Pig Iron Quartet in A Major for Flute and Strings, edition hand-pulled print, a linoleum tech- Legends of the god Hachiman are portrayed in Theatre, Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel, Dan Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart text and image on two 40-foot handscrolls of nique invented by the artist. Rothenberg, and Dito van Reigersberg. Drobnasti, Op. 75a, for two violins and lavishly ornamented paper. The paintings are at- June 6–July18: “Becoming an American Ko Theater Works Performances: box office viola, Antonín Dvorák tributed to Sumiyoshi Jokei and the calligraphy to Writer: The Life and Work of Isaac Bashevis (413) 427-6147 one of the calligraphers of the Shoren’in school. Gavotte Op. 40, for three violins, Antonín Singer” July 16–18, 8 p.m: Out of the Garden, a To give viewers the opportunity to see the scrolls Dvorák Traveling exhibition from the Singer Archive double bill of Eve and Exile performed at in their entirety, each will be unrolled to half its at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Emily Dickinson Hall, Hampshire College. Piano Trio (1937), Leonard Bernstein length for the first period of the exhibition and Center, The University of Texas at Austin Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44, the remaining section will be shown from mid- Eve: A dance/theater work by Leslie Far- June–October: Margot Zemach —Illustrat- Robert Schumann May to June 13. low (choreographer, writer, performer) ing Singer as Eve. Excerpts from the Gnostic July 9: Zimmerman Memorial Concert. Lynn Through June 27: The Development of Original illustrations by Caldecott Award Gospels and original mu- Chang, Anton Miller, violin; Uri Style—Early Drawings by Lilian Westcott winner Margot Zemach from her four sic composed by Roger Hale classic children’s book collaborations A selection of drawings, never before on with I.B. Singer including Mazel and view, by Lilian Westcott Hale (1881–1963), a Schlimazel; When Schlemiel Went to Boston-based artist known primarily for her Warsaw; Alone in the Wild Forest portraits of women and children. and Naftali the Storyteller Through July 3: Picturing Northampton and his Horse, Sus. Mounted in conjunction with Northampton’s University Gallery, Am- 350th birthday celebrations, this exhibition herst: (413) 545-3670, www. is 70 photographs in all media by seven local umass.edu/fac/university photographers investigating the different ways gallery that a place can be “pictured.” Artists are Bill Through May 14: The Inti- Arnold, Jon Goodman, Michael Jacobson- Vardi, cello; Michael Adcock, Jane Hawkins, series by Petra Mathers. Learn how the art piano; Anthea Jackson, clarinet; Chiara String of the picture book can be used to address Quartet and enhance classroom participation. In- Piano Trio, No. 4, in E Major, Franz cludes guided time in the gallery and close Joseph Haydn examination of the Lottie’s World series and other books. 3 PDPs. Sonatina, Op. 100, for violin and piano, Antonín Dvorák August 14, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.: Eric Carle Tissue Paper Workshop. Discover the creative The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the process of Carle’s unique tissue paper Blind (1994), Osvaldo Golijov painting technique. Participants will create tissue papers and make their own picture July 16: Lynn Chang, Andrew Jennings, Anton collage. Price includes lunch. 5PDPs. Miller, violin; Susan Dubois, viola; Carol Ou, Peter Rejto, cello; Jane Hawkins, Christopher Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst: (413) Taylor, piano; Wu Man, pipa (thanks to the 542-8161, www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org Henry Luce Foundation) May 15, 1 p.m.: Poetry Walk. An annual event Sonata Op. 4, for cello and piano, Zoltan commemorating Emily Dickinson’s death on Kodaly May 15, 1886, the Poetry Walk begins at the Dickinson Homestead garden and proceeds to Ning (2001), Chen Yi folk music composed in the first quarter of Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910): various Amherst sites significant in the poet’s Croquet Players, oil on canvas, 1865; Charles Piano Quintet in E flat Minor, Op. 26, the 20th century. Reservations suggested. life. A selection of Dickinson’s poems are read Ernst von Dohnanyi Donation: $6. Clifton and James G. Forsyth Funds, 1941, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. at each location. The procession ends at the July 23: James Buswell, Marylou Churchill, vi- July 25, 2 p.m.: Talented young artists from Featured in the exhibition “The Sporting Dickinson grave in West Cemetery, where all olin; Carol Ou, Uri Vardi, cello; Jane Hawkins, the Musicorda Road Company will bring the Woman: The Female Athlete in American are welcome to read their favorite poems and Christopher Taylor, piano Book Center’s own collection of Yiddish sheet Culture” at Mount Holyoke College. to join in a lighthearted toast to the poet’s music to life with a performance of music by Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120, Gabriel memory. An open house at the Dickinson Jewish composers. Fauré Homestead and The Evergreens completes August 15, 2 p.m.: Jewish Women in Jew- June 20, 2 p.m.: Storytelling, A Father’s Day the memorial afternoon. Sonata for Violin and Piano, Claude ish Song. Award-winning singer-songwriter Celebration, with Gideon Freudmann’s Cel- Debussy May 15, 3–4:30 p.m.: Open House. Free. Laura Wetzler sings contemporary folk lobop, a witty musical melding of classical Piano Trio in A Minor, Maurice Ravel July 1: The Birthday of the Emily Dickin- American originals in Hebrew, Yiddish, and cello and electronic fun, children’s stories by son Museum! Free admission for Amherst July 30: Richard R. Nickerson Memorial Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and the great classics Isaac Bashevis Singer read by Aaron Lansky, residents. Concert. James Buswell, Marylou Churchill, of American songwriting. Donation: $7. and surprise guests. Donation. ( ) violin; Susan Dubois, Karen Ritscher, viola; Carol Historic Deerfield, Deerfield: 413 774- August 22, 2 p.m.: The Sarah Rose Lazarus July 4, 2 p.m.: American Matchmaker 5581, www.historic-deerfield.org Ou, Uri Vardi, cello; Michael Adcock, Lydia Concert features Margot Leverett and the (Amerikaner Shadkhn). 1940 musical film Artymiw, piano; St. Petersburg String Quartet Klezmer Mountain Boys. Appalachian and comedy with Leo Fuchs. Yiddish with English June 5, 9 a.m.: Banyans and Night Caps—A Slavonic Dances, Antonín Dvorák southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe en- subtitles. Donation: $4. Hands-On Workshop. Edward Maeder, Cu- counter klezmer melodies from prewar Russia rator of Textiles and Director of Exhibitions, Estampes, Claude Debussy July 6, 4 p.m.: A Night at the Center. Explore Historic Deerfield, Inc., White Church. and Eastern Europe. Reservations suggested. the Isaac Bashevis Singer Exhibit, enjoy a Quartet, No. 4, “Silent Temple” (2000), Donation: $15/adults; $10/children. June 5, 12, 19, 26: Open-hearth Cooking Bright Sheng picnic dinner on our beautiful grounds and a summer movie in our theater. Tickets: $20/ Demonstrations. All day at Hall Tavern String Sextet in A Major, Op. 48, Antonin adults, $15/children. Reservations required: Kitchen. Dvorák Special Events Ashley Keedy at (413) 256-4900 ext.123 or June 6, 2 p.m.: Members’ Afternoon—Walk August 6: James Buswell, Marylou Churchill, June 2–4: Women’s Education Worldwide: [email protected] to the Rock. Anton Miller, violin; Susan Dubois, Karen The Unfinished Agenda. Mount Holyoke and July 11, 2 p.m.: Film and Discussion—The June 7–13: Omohundro Institute of Early Ritscher, viola; Carol Ou, Uri Vardi, cello; Mi- Smith Colleges host a meeting of presidents Cafeteria, based on a story by Isaac Bashevis American History and Culture Tenth Annual chael Adcock, Lydia Artymiw, piano; Marjorie and academic deans of 30 leading colleges Singer. Producer Kirk Simon introduces the Institute Conference. Melnick, mezzo and universities from around the world for film and answers questions after the screening. June 18: Members’ Trip—Old Westbury a discussion of issues in women’s education, Five Songs, Charles Ives Donation: $5. Gardens and Westbury House, Westbury, including women in science. Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Charles July 11: Annual Summer Conference cel- New York. June 2, 3:30 p.m.: Keynote Address by Ives ebrating the 100th birthday of Nobel Lau- June 18–20: New England Collectors and Col- Nobel Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen, a noted Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, Antonín reate Isaac Bashevis Singer. A new look at lections conference. The Dublin Seminar for economist who is master of Trinity College, Dvorák the writer’s public and private worlds with New England Folklife. For additional informa- Cambridge, UK, and Lamont University Aaron Lansky, Ilan Stavans, Howard Schwartz, Jazz in July, Amherst: (413) 545-3530, www. tion, please call (978) 369-7382. Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Dara Horn, and Justin Cammy. Also featur- umass.edu/fac/jazz; tickets available in June June 27: Hands-On History Family Pro- Open to the public, free, at Mount Holyoke ing Dreamers and Demons, a play based gram—Strawberry Festival. July 12–15 and July 19–23, 10:45 a.m.–12 College. on the works and words of Singer, written p.m.: Faculty Lecture/Performance and June 3, 11 a.m.: Keynote address on and performed by NPR’s Isaiah Sheffer. For July 1, 7:30 p.m.: “Continuity and Change in Demonstration Series. Fine Arts Center Con- women and science by Sheila E. Wid- more information: Nora Gerard at ngerard@ the Pocumtuck Homeland—An Archaeo- cert Hall: July 12–15; Room 44: July 19–22. $5 nall, Institute Professor and Professor of bikher.org. logical Perspective on the 17th Century.” per lecture, $25 for all eight. Elizabeth S. Chilton, Assistant Professor, De- Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Mas- July 18, 2 p.m.: Isaac in America, a 1986 partment of Anthropology, UMass Amherst, July 14 & July 21, 7–10 p.m.: Club Jazz in sachusetts Institute of Technology. Seelye documentary about Isaac Bashevis Singer’s speaks at the White Church. July. Main events in auditorium, dinner at 106, Smith College. life and art. Donation: $4. Top of the Campus Restaurant on July 14, and July 7, 24, 31: Open-Hearth Cooking Dem- June 28–July 4: The 2004 U.S. Women’s Open, August 1, 2 p.m.: A Tickle in the Heart,1996 in room 1009 on July 21, Murry D. Lincoln onstrations, all day at Hall Tavern Kitchen. the world’s most prestigious women’s golf documentary profiling the Epstein brothers, Campus Center. $5 cover charge, summer grill championship, will be played at the Orchards American klezmer musical legends, on an July 12–19: Members’ Trip. The Deerfield menu and cash bar available. Golf Club on the campus of Mount Holyoke international comeback tour. Donation: $5. Captives—Following the Routes of 1704. July 15, 7:30 p.m.: An Evening of Vocal Jazz at College. Annika Sorenstam, Juli Inkster, Se Ri August 8, 2 p.m.: Artist Talk—Rockin’ the July 15, 7:30 p.m.: “Native Homeland and the 1794 Meeting House, featuring music by Pak, Karrie Webb, and a host of the world’s Shtetl. Klezmer authority Seth Rogovoy offers English Homelot—Landscape Transfor- Jazz in July vocal students and the Con Alma greatest women golfers are coming to South a multimedia journey through the history and mation in Colonial Deerfield.” Claire C. and Bezanson Trios. 1794 Meeting House, Hadley to compete for the national cham- evolution of klezmer music. Donation: $5. Carlson, doctoral candidate, Department of New Salem, MA; $10 adults, $8 children and pionship. For more information, visit www. Anthropology, UMass Amherst, speaks at the August 29, 2 p.m.: Artist Talk—Naama seniors. Tickets and directions available on- mtholyoke. edu/offices/comm/news/golf. White Church. Goldstein, The Place Will Comfort You, a line: 1794meetinghouse.org, by phone: (978) National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst: (413) collection of stories by a new young writer July 15: Members’ Afternoon. Cruise the Con- 544-5200, the New Salem General Store, and 256-4900, www.yiddishbookcenter.org at the door. about what it means to be young and Jewish. necticut River from the French King Gorge to June 6, 2 p.m.: Lecture: Ilan Stavans, Lewis- A book signing follows the lecture. Barton’s Cove on the Quinnetukut II. July 16 & July 23, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.: Jamsa- Sebring Professor in Latin American and Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, July 16–18: Deerfield Descendants Reunion. tions! Featuring performances by Jazz in July Latino Culture at Amherst College, discusses Amherst: (413) 658-1100 participants. Bowker Auditorium, Fine Arts the public and private lives of Isaac Bashevis July 22, 7:30 p.m.: “Furnishing the Fron- Center. Free. Singer. Workshops for Educators tier—Deerfield’s Material World in 1704.” Philip Zea, President, Historic Deerfield, Inc., July 22, 7:30 p.m.: Jazz in July All Stars Con- July 13 and 14: Show Me a Story—Read- June 6–July 18: Becoming an American Writ- speaks at the White Church. cert featuring the Billy Taylor Trio, vocalists er—The Life and Work of Isaac Bashevis ing Wordless Picture Books. Instructor: Sheila Jordan and Marion Cowings, and the Singer. Rarely seen documents, photographs, Megan Lambert. How does one “read” a July 25: Hands-on History Family Program– Jazz in July All Star Faculty. Bowker Audito- and memorabilia from the Singer Archive at wordless picture book? How can pictures Dig! Deerfield. rium, UMass Amherst. $15 general public; $8 the University of Texas at Austin. The exhibit tell a story? A two-day program exploring August 6: Summer Fellowship Closing Exer- students and seniors. Tickets are available in includes Singer’s famous Underwood type- wordless picture books and their natural cises at the Flynt Center. advance from the FAC Box Office, 545-2511 link to visual thinking. writer, handwritten notes and letters, early August 13–15: Deerfield Descendants Re- or (800) 999-UMAS and at the door. drafts of stories, and his Nobel Prize. July 28: From Cover to Cover. Instructed union. National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst: (413) by Megan Lambert. A guided examination June 13, 2 p.m.: Green Fields (Grine Felder), August 15: Hands-on History Family Pro- 256-4900, www.yiddishbookcenter.org of dozens of picture books. a film directed by Edgar Ulmer. Awarded the gram—Native American Traditions Today. June 27, 2 p.m.: Concert of Yiddish Art Songs– Best Foreign Film of 1938 in France. Yiddish July 31, 9 a.m.–noon: Lottie’s World Meets Rabbi and Cantor Norman Janis will perform with English subtitles. Donation: $4. the World of the Classroom. Instructor: and explain the origins of Russian Jewish Megan Lambert. Featuring Lottie’s World kind of critical mass. Performances like this The Student Connection (continued from front page) also attract a five-campus audience. Student symposia offer undergraduates an This was the seventh year of WORD! A Five opportunity to experience the intellectual College Student Festival of Staged Readings. excitement of sharing their ideas with others Sponsored by the Five College Multicultural in a kind of pre-professional forum planned Committee, WORD! furnishes a venue for and abetted by members of the faculty. This original scripts by undergraduates about is- spring, three of these forums took place. sues of identity and multicultural concerns. Others, in physics, for example, will take Held in the Hallie Flanagan Studio at Smith place in the fall. College on March 10, this year’s WORD! The CISA Student Symposium was held featured excerpts from six different scripts on a Saturday morning in April at Mount read by the authors. Those whose scripts Holyoke’s new science center, Kendade are selected each year receive a prize of $100 Hall. The presentations reflected the highly from the James Baldwin Memorial Fund. interdisciplinary and cross-cultural focus Other special events that have joined the that CISA fosters. Many topics called atten- roster of Five College performances and tion to the complexity of cultural identities: performance-related activities now include “What Does ‘Afro-Cuba’ Mean in the Cuban an annual poetry fest, a biennial world music Context?”; “Living the Gap Between Rich & festival, a yearly film festival, and even an Poor: Reflections on U.S.–American Iden- annual makeup marathon. Students, along tity in Rural South Africa”; “South Gate’s with the faculty, take part in the planning of Struggle for Environmental Justice: A Case these events, with each campus taking a turn Study of Community Mobilization in a Los at hosting. Angeles Latino Neighborhood.” Neda’s Amherst College hosted the second annual Neda Maghbouleh It was Gewertz, she says, who encouraged her paper, entitled, “Growing Up (off) White: to expand the project proposal that she’d done Five College PoetryFest in mid-February. Second-Generation Persian Americans in Los Sponsored by the Departments of English, system,” she says. “It’s actually what drew me as an assignment in her seminar into a senior Angeles, California,” chronicled the journey to Smith over some of the other schools I’d thesis at Smith. But the topic of that thesis, the PoetryFest celebrates the art of the poet of her generation of Persian Americans to by highlighting some of the best poetry been accepted to.” which draws on her own experience of growing establish an identity. up as a second-generation Iranian American, written by undergraduates here. Two stu- Neda’s first “official” experience with the The geologists take the prize for having one dents from each school are chosen by their consortium, she says, “besides going to parties might have been too difficult for her to tackle, Neda says, if she hadn’t had the encouragement of the oldest such forums. This year they respective departments to read from their on the other campuses,” was taking an anthro- celeberated the 25th annual Five College work. The student poets received a gift cer- pology course in the fall of ’02 with Professor of her professor and classmates at Amherst, her advisers at Smith, and that January term trip Geology Undergraduate Student Sympo- tificate donated by local bookstores. Deborah Gewertz at Amherst. It was, she says, sium. Hosted by Hampshire College in its “a phenomenal experience.” As a sociology sponsored by Hampshire. Student and faculty musicians welcomed Red Barn on April 21, the event featured a spring with the second World Music Festi- major, she says, “the courses I was taking “Now I’ve got a 175-page thesis in Neilson total 19 students presenting their research. tended to have a U.S. focus; anthropology Library,” she says. “In a sense, I also have the val, held once again at Hampshire College. Amherst, with eight, and Smith, with six, Pictures of the ten different groups that opened the world of culture for me and prob- Five Colleges to thank, too, for this product had the most presenters this year. The top- ably provided the impetus for my monthlong that I can hold in my hand right now and performed are currently featured on the Five ics ranged from local landscapes (“Glacial College Web site: www.fivecolleges.edu. trip to India the following January term.” am so proud of.” and Post-Glacial Development of the Deer- Aspiring videographers and filmmakers had Neda went with the Hampshire College Yatra Rounding out this remarkable Five College field River Valley”) to climes more distant an opportunity to have their original works Program, led by Hampshire College Profes- tale is the fact that Neda says she found her (“Geochemistry and Evolution of Eclogites screened in the annual Five College Student sor Vivek Bhandari. The group, drawn from job through yet another Five College con- on Syros Island, Greece”). various disciplinary backgrounds, traveled nection. Last fall, she saw an intriguing job Film Festival held on April 30. Hosted this to New Delhi, Jaipur, and Udaipur, where, The anthropology departments led the field in year by Mount Holyoke, the festival featured opportunity posted on the Smith e-access number of participants: This year’s Five Col- in Neda’s words, they “interrogated ideas of job board, which lists interviews taking place 23 films by 20 different students and drew post-coloniality, modernity, and globaliza- lege Undergraduate Anthropology Conference an audience of 150 people. on all five campuses: A Mount Holyoke featured 34 students presenting their research tion, ideas we had studied in our classes.” How do students view all these Five College alumna, who is a senior partner with a mar- in five concurrent panel sessions. Each panel events? Ashley Dixon took part in the second When Neda returned, she spent the spring keting consulting firm in the Boston area, was chaired by a member of the faculty. Held annual Five College Makeup Marathon held 2003 semester as a visiting student at would be conducting interviews at Mount in Smith College’s new campus center on April in April. Here’s what she had to say in an un- Amherst on the Twelve College Exchange. Holyoke. “I asked if they’d be willing to ac- 17, the daylong session featured a keynote solicited e-mail to the Five College executive At Amherst, she took another course, a cept an application from a Smithie,” Neda address over lunch given by Smith College director: “I am a sophomore theater major at seminar, with Professor Gewertz and also says, “and was encouraged to apply.” After alumna Kendra Hatfield-Timajchy (SC ’87), an UMass Amherst. I attended the stage makeup found time, she says, to “sustain the friend- several interviews she landed the job, which epidemiologist in the Division of Reproductive workshop this past weekend and thought that ships I’d made there previously.” Being at she starts in July. Health with the Centers for Disease Control it was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot Amherst, however, made her, as she puts it, The Student Symposium and Prevention in Atlanta. “long sometimes for Smith and the perks and would like to thank the Five College con- of a women’s college.” Nevertheless, she Neda was one of ten students who presented Five College Performances sortium and the Theater Chairs for funding reports, she “appreciated the chance to see their research at the seventh annual Student And then there are the staged performances it. I cannot wait for any future workshops and how a co-ed school works and, additionally, Symposium sponsored by the center for Cross- that not only feature students from all five events. Thank you so much.” how another great liberal arts school works.” roads in the Study of the Americas (CISA). campuses but are, in fact, dependent on that New Joint Positions Fulfill First Phase of Directors’ Initiative earches carried out this spring un- Barbara. and help develop a team-taught founda- precedented number of retirements over der the aegis of Five Colleges, Incor- Baba Hillman has been appointed to a tions course forming the basis for the Five the next five to ten years. Such losses occur S porated yielded appointments to fill regular faculty position in video and film College program in Russian, East European, at a time when shrinking budgets make the four new joint faculty positions created with production at Hampshire College. This ap- and Eurasian Studies (REEES). prospects for replacements difficult at best. the support of a grant from The Andrew W. pointment regularizes a joint appointment Richard Chu has been appointed to a A three-year grant of $600,000 from The Mellon Foundation. The appointments, all position created by the Five College Film tenure-track position in the University’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in January made at the rank of assistant professor, are Council to provide instruction in produc- Department of History. Chu studies the 2003 enabled the five schools to undertake being hosted within a department or pro- tion techniques at all five campuses. Edu- history of ethnic identity in the Philippines, a concerted plan that would encourage the gram at one of the campuses but will also cated in France and the United States, Hill- where indigenous peoples and immigrants use of joint appointments to fill curricular benefit an existing Five College program man holds an M.F.A. from the University of from China and the Pacific have negotiated needs. The grant included funding to de- in a related field. Each joint appointee will California San Diego. Her films have been identity—and power relations—under a velop a network and related services to serve teach four courses a year on a prearranged screened in Europe and the United States, series of empires (Muslim, British, Spanish, the special needs of dual-career couples (see schedule, two at the hosting institution and notably at Rencontres Internationales American, and Japanese) over centuries. He “ACN,” page 1). two at the other four campuses. Paris/Berlin; L.A. Freeways; the Museum will teach courses on the Philippines and “The directors and deans felt that these insti- Nitasha Tamar Sharma has been appointed of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; and the Pacific empires at all five campuses, working tutions were in a unique position to address to a three-year visiting position in Amherst Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. closely with the Five College Asian/Pacific/ these two critical issues by planning across College’s Department of American Studies. Sergey Glebov has been named to a three- American Studies Program. Chu has taught the campuses,” said Five College Executive Her scholarship and teaching focus on race, year appointment in the Department of at the University of San Francisco for the Director Lorna M. Peterson. In the fall of ethnicity, and second-generation youth cul- History at Smith College. A specialist in last three years and was awarded a Ph.D. 2002, they solicited proposals from groups ture, particularly relations between Blacks the history of the multiethnic empires of from the University of Southern California of departments in consultation with Five and South Asians in the United States. She Central and Eastern Europe and in the in December. College programs laying out a five-year brings a comparative perspective that is history of modern nationalism, Glebov is These appointments represent the first plan for curricular coordination that would integral to the curricular needs of the Five a founding editor of Ab Imperio, a journal phase of an initiative set in motion by the be served by the addition of a joint faculty College program in Asian/Pacific/American that publishes Soviet and Western historians Five College directors last year in response position. The grant from The Andrew W. studies. Sharma is a Fellow at the University working to provide a framework for the to statistics revealing that, nationwide, Mellon Foundation awarded later that year of California Berkeley’s Institute for the development of the rapidly growing field more than 40 percent of current faculty funds the first four joint positions to be Study of Social Change and has been teach- of empire and nationalism studies in Cen- are at or approaching retirement age and awarded under that initiative. Over the next ing in Berkeley’s Anthropology and Ethnic tral and East European history. Glebov will that schools, and in some cases specific several years, the deans anticipate new pro- Studies Departments while completing her teach Russian history at all five campuses departments, will be confronting an un- posals for joint appointments from other Ph.D. at the University of California Santa cooperating departments and programs.