Acamedia to Spring Break

Weekly Calendar and Notices March 3, 2005

New England Center for Children informational meeting A representative will discuss Monday, March 7 Tuesday, March 8 career opportunities and collect résumés for Sources of further information, if any, are shown in parentheses at the end of event de- possible interviews. 4:30 p.m., Campus Center scriptions. An asterisk following a listing indicates that the event is open to the public LECTURES/SYMPOSIA LECTURES/SYMPOSIA 102 and wheelchair-accessible. Admission charges, if any, are listed when known. Items for the calendar must be submitted on Event Service Request Forms online at Lecture “Bridges and Tall Buildings: A Women and Financial Independence lec- Grassroots Campaign informational meeting http://www.smith.edu/events/esr.html. Manmade Landscape.” Alexander Chajes, ture series “Principles of Investing.” Roger A representative will discuss career opportu- civil and environmental engineering, UMass- Kaufman, economics. Learn the fundamentals nities with this organization. 4:30 p.m., CDO, Amherst. Part of LSS 100, Issues in Landscape of investing, including financial markets, Drew Studies. 2:40 p.m., Weinstein Auditorium, stocks, bonds, asset allocation, and more. AWARE meeting Rape education and aware- ing with body image and/or food issues. All Wright Hall* Lunch provided. Noon, Neilson Browsing CDO workshop “Writing Your First Résumé.” ness organization. All welcome. 7 p.m., Seelye welcome. For more information, send email to Room* 5 p.m., CDO Group Room, Drew 301 [email protected]. Sponsor: Healthy Heads. 4 Lecture “Amore come horror: Il modello p.m., Wright 201 della Vita Nuova nella poesia italiana del Lecture “Surfaces and the Atoms that Love SGA Senate meeting Open forum. All stu- SGA Cabinet meeting 7 p.m., Campus Center Novecento.” Nicola Gardini, University Them.” Donna Chen, University of South dents welcome. 7 p.m., Campus Center 204 CDO workshop “Senior Send-off: Housing, of Palermo. Lecture in Italian. 2:40 p.m., Carolina, studies the growth and surface 103–104 Budget, etc.” 5 p.m., CDO Library, Drew Hatfield 206* chemistry of oxide-supported metal particles, Debate Society Practice rounds. All welcome. such as oxidation of alcohols and decomposi- RELIGIOUS LIFE 7 p.m., Campus Center 103 Arts Resources Committee meeting Help Chaired Professor Lecture “We Work With a tion of simulated chemical warfare agents. 4 plan, participate in, and learn about art-re- Most Delicate Instrument: The Case of Mary p.m., Engineering 202* Handbell choir rehearsal 5 p.m., Chapel Mississippi Teacher Corps informational lated events on campus. All welcome. Elizabeth Garrett and Notions About the Mind meeting A representative will discuss career 7 p.m., Campus Center 102* and Body in the Late 19th Century.” Helen Lecture “Sensual Splendor: The Icon in Sacred Harp shape-note singing 7 p.m., opportunities with this organization. 7 p.m., Lefkowitz Horowitz, Sydenham Clark Parsons Byzantium.” Bissera Pentcheva, medieval art, Chapel Campus Center 103 RELIGIOUS LIFE Professor in American Studies. 4:30 p.m., Stanford University. Sponsor: medieval stud- Seelye 106* ies. 4:30 p.m., Seelye 201* Newman Association meeting 7 p.m., RELIGIOUS LIFE Handbell choir rehearsal 5 p.m., Chapel Bodman Lounge, Chapel Biological sciences colloquium “Fighting PERFORMING ARTS/FILMS Catholic Adas gathering and informal discus- Wellness Zone Reduce stress and focus the Diseases on the Frontline: Secretory Dayspring A cappella rehearsal. 9 p.m., sion/reflection. Lunch served. All welcome. mind with stretches and meditation. Open Antibodies and Mucosal Vaccine Music in the Noon Hour The Smith College Bodman Lounge, Chapel Noon, Bodman Lounge, Chapel to students, staff and faculty. 5–5:30 p.m., Development.” Nick Mantis, Wadsworth Chamber Singers will perform music from the Campus Center 205 Center. Refreshments precede in foyer. 4:30 repertoire for their upcoming tour of Prague OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES p.m., McConnell B05 and Budapest, including works by Smetana, Smith Christian fellowship Prayer, praise, Morrison and Noble. Jonathan Hirsh, director. Language lunch tables Japanese, German. Save Darfur fund-raising for humanitarian teaching, fellowship and spiritual renewal. MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS 12:30 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage* Noon, Duckett Special Dining Rooms A, B aid and political action to stop the genocide. Each week will feature either a guest speaker, (alternate weekly) 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Vending Area, Campus open mic testimony or corporate prayer. All Study abroad information session Theatre “Drawing From the Body.” A video/ Center Lower Level welcome. 8–10 p.m., Campus Center 205 Mandatory weekly meeting for students inter- sound installation by Polly Motley and Molly Squash clinic and play Learn how to play ested in studying abroad, including a review of Davies. In a two-part performance, this work this fitness sport from Bree Carlson, squash Language lunch tables Spanish and Taize prayer meeting 10 p.m., Dewey opportunities and procedures, and a question- uses video’s scrutinizing and sometimes in- team alum. Equipment provided, all levels Portuguese. Noon, Duckett Special Dining Common Room and-answer period. 4 p.m., Emma Proctor trusive presence to heighten the relationship welcome. Cost: $5, faculty/staff; $3, students. Rooms A & B Room, College Hall Third Floor between the intimacy of the live event and For more information, call ext. 2715 or email OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES stark engagement with a nude performer. The [email protected]. 7 p.m., Ainsworth Squash Language lunch table Chinese. Noon, CDO workshop “Job Search for Seniors.” 4:30 performance will conclude with an informal Courts Duckett Special Dining Room C CDO information table 11 a.m.–1:15 p.m., p.m., CDO, Drew discussion of their collaborative work using Lower Level Vending, Campus Center dance and video. 4:30 and 7:15 p.m., Graham CDO open hours for browsing. Peer advis- Amnesty International meeting 5 p.m., Hall and Hillyer Lounge, Hillyer, Brown ers provide library, Web, internship and job Language lunch table Russian. Noon, Duckett Campus Center 102 Fine Arts Center* Wednesday, search assistance. 4:30–6 p.m., CDO, Drew Special Dining Room A Debate Society meeting 5 p.m., Seelye 110 Poetry reading Claudia Rankine reads from Social events coordinator dinner 5:45 p.m., Glee Club lunch table Noon, Duckett Special her work. Book signing follows. 7:30 p.m., March 9 Duckett Special Dining Room C Dining Room C Smith Democrats meeting 7 p.m., Campus Stoddard Auditorium* Center 103–104 LECTURES/SYMPOSIA MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS Youth Serve Americorps informational meet- Chemistry/Biochemistry lunch chat An infor- ing 7 p.m., Campus Center 003 Weight Watchers at Work 12:30–1:30 p.m., mal departmental seminar for students and Thursday, Friday, March 11 Campus Center 102 faculty. 12:15–1:10 p.m., McConnell 102 OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES March 10 PERFORMING ARTS/FILMS The Woods Hole SEA Semester information- Lecture “Slavery and the American Language lunch tables French, Italian. Noon, al meeting Dean Judith MacLeod discusses Experience.” John Bracey and Manisha LECTURES/SYMPOSIA Concert The Borromeo String Quartet, which Duckett Special Dining Rooms A, B how you can earn 17 credits aboard a tall ship Sinha of UMass-Amherst, and Hilary Moss of has performed in many prestigious interna- learning about oceanography, nautical science Amherst College. The third program in the Liberal Arts Luncheon lecture “Recent tional chamber music festivals including the Opening reception of the “Staff Visions” art and maritime studies. Lunch provided. 12:15 series “Slavery and Its Legacy.” Introduction Work.” John Gibson, art. Sponsor: Committee Prague Spring Festival, the Spoleto Festival in exhibit. 4–6 p.m., Book Arts Gallery, Third p.m., Bass 103 by Naomi Miller, director of institutional on Academic Priorities. Noon, College Club Italy, the Orlando Festival in The Netherlands, Floor, Neilson Library* diversity. For more information on the series, Lower Level and Norway’s Stavanger Festival. The con- U.S. Department of State informational consult www.5clir.org. Sponsor: Five College cert will be preceded by a talk at 7 p.m. in American Sign Language table 5:45 p.m., meeting 1 p.m., CDO, Drew Learning in Retirement. 7 p.m., Weinstein Math Union Lecture and discussion for Earle Recital Hall. For tickets call 413-625- Duckett A and B Auditorium, Wright Hall* students and faculty. 3 p.m., Math Forum, 9511. Sponsors: music department; Music in Question-and-answer session with poet Burton Third Floor Deerfield. 8 p.m., Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Claudia Rankine, who reads in the evening. MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS Packet of poems available from Wright Hall Lecture “The Waterworks Problem.” Herman RELIGIOUS LIFE 101. 4 p.m., Poetry Center, Wright Hall Campus Climate Working Group meeting Chernoff, Harvard University. Part of the Noon, Carroll Room, Campus Center Applied Statistics Lecture Series. 3 p.m., Friday Muslim prayer Noon, Bodman Burton 301 Lounge, Chapel S.O.S board meeting 4:15 p.m., Bodman Lounge, Chapel PERFORMING ARTS/FILMS Shabbat Services Dinner follows in the Kosher Kitchen, Dawes. 5:30 p.m., Dewey CDO workshop “Finding and Applying to Theatre One Thing I Like to Say. A new Common Room Internships or Summer Jobs.” 4:30 p.m., CDO, play by novelist, screenwriter and playwright Drew Amy Fox about a Scottish butler, a dollhouse OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES and a place called Nantucket that is not in CDO workshop “Identify Your Core Massachusetts. Part of the theatre depart- Language lunch tables Korean. Noon, Competencies and How They Fit into Career ment’s play reading series. 7:30 p.m., Earle Duckett Special Dining Room A Planning.” To register, call ext. 2582. 4:30–6 Recital Hall, Sage* p.m., CDO, Drew Beginner-intermediate Pilates with Rosalie MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS Peri. 4 p.m., Ainsworth 151 Smith World Affairs Committee meeting 5 p.m., Campus Center 102 Body acceptance and eating disorder sup- Visit www.smith.edu/news for the port group Student-led group for women deal- latest college news and events Saturday, RELIGIOUS LIFE No Interdenominational Protestant March 12 Community Morning worship due to Spring Break. Spring Break begins No events scheduled No Roman Catholic Eucharistic liturgy due AcaMedia to Spring Break. OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES March 3, 2005 Sunday, March 13 No CDO open hours due to Spring Break Volume 15 RELIGIOUS LIFE Number 14 No Interdenominational Protestant Community Morning worship due to Spring Exhibitions AcaMedia is published regularly during the Break. academic year by the Smith College Office Staff Visions The 12th annual Staff Visions art of College Relations for students, faculty No Roman Catholic Eucharistic liturgy due exhibition includes works by 30 staff artists and staff members. By action of the faculty, to Spring Break. and a writers’ booklet of work by eight staff students are held responsible for reading writers. March 7–April 8. Book Arts Gallery, AcaMedia’s notices and calendar listings. OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES Third Floor, Neilson Library* $ F D 0 H G LV DWD I I No CDO open hours due to Spring Break Bulb Show A longstanding tradition at Smith, Cathy Brooks, layout this annual show features more than 5,000 Kathy San Antonio, calendar forced bulbs, including hyacinths, narcissi and Eric Sean Weld, editor/notices tulips. Horticulturist and author John Bryan Alexandra Naugler ’06, calendar will open the show with a lecture on Friday, assistant Monday, March 14 March 4, titled “A Wonderful World of Bulbs,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Room, Campus Copyright ©2005, Smith College. Portions of No events scheduled Center. March 5–20. Lyman Conservatory* this publication may be reproduced with the permission of the Office of College Relations, Landscape Paintings by Marlene Rye Using Garrison Hall, Smith College, Northampton, oils on canvas and panels, Smith alumna MA 01063; (413) 585-2170. Marlene Rye combines soft, mellow colors Tuesday, March 15 with curved lines that create landscapes bordering on the abstract. Through April 29. For Smith College LECTURES/SYMPOSIA Alumnae House Gallery* news and events, Gallery talk Staff artists will share their in- Plant Adaptation Up Close: A Biological spirations and artistic skills. Brown bag lunch and Artistic Interpretation A collabora- visit www.smith.edu/news format. Part of the “Staff Visions” art exhibit. tion between the Botanic Garden, the Smith Noon, Book Arts Gallery, Third Floor Neilson College Microscopy and Imaging Facility, Library* and local artist Joan Wiener. Through April 24. Gallery Talk on Tuesday, April 5, 7 p.m. MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS Church Gallery, Lyman Plant House

Weight Watchers at Work 12:30–1:30 p.m., Japanese Picture Books from the Collection Campus Center 205 of George Cash in the Mortimer Rare Book Getting Your Room A collection of Japanese picture books OTHER EVENTS/ACTIVITIES or “ehon,” containing woodcut images by Word Out in popular ukiyo-e artists from the late 17th Squash clinic and play Learn how to play century to the 20th century. The books were a AcaMedia this fitness sport from Bree Carlson, squash gift to Smith’s Mortimer Rare Book Room from AcaMedia, which is produced by the Office team alum. Equipment provided, all levels the estate of George Brower Cash. Book Arts of College Relations, is the official vehicle welcome. Cost: $5, faculty/staff; $3, students. Gallery, Neilson Library Third Floor for making announcements within the Smith For more information, call ext. 2715 or email College community. [email protected]. 7 p.m., Ainsworth Squash Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor Courts of the Gilded Age Comprising 70 objects, this Deadlines is the largest exhibition of Saint-Gaudens’ Because of production requirements, the works ever to tour the Americas. Nine major deadline for AcaMedia calendar listings, projects by the master sculptor are featured, notices and inclusion in the online Five including Chicago’s Abraham Lincoln, the College Calendar is Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Wednesday, Adams Memorial, the Shaw Memorial, the least two weeks before the event. angels for J. P. Morgan’s tomb, the Puritan, March 16 and the Diana for the weather vane of Madison Square Garden. There are full-sized No events scheduled works, reductions cast in bronze, marbles, plasters, portrait reliefs, cameos and coins. No CDO open hours due to Spring Break Curated by Dr. Henry J. Duffy, curator of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. Through March 20. Museum of Art*

New York, New York Thursday, March Focusing on the strengths of the musem’s permanent collection of prints, drawings and 17–Saturday, photographs, this exhibition showcases the ways in which artists have re-envisioned and March 19 captured the life and physical environs of New York City from the 19th century to the No events scheduled present. Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, John Taylor Arms, Howard Norton Cook, Richard Estes, Childe Hassam, Edward Hopper and Gary Winogrand. Curated by Aprile Gallant, associate curator of prints, Sunday, March 20 drawings and photographs at the museum. Through April 10. Museum of Art* Spring Break ends Examining Africa: Nostalgia, Interaction, LECTURES/SYMPOSIA and Values This small installation, organized by students in Professor Dana Leibsohn’s Gallery of Readers Robin Barber and John M. Art History 260 course, explores the cultural Corbett read from their work. 4 p.m., Neilson politics of collecting and displaying African Browsing Room* objects in the West. Works include traditional and contemporary paintings and sculpture PERFORMING ARTS/FILMS from a variety of African cultures, drawn from the collections of the National Museum of Theatre A preview of the Leading Ladies African Art, Harvard’s Peabody Museum of spring show. 2 p.m., Carroll Room, Campus Archaeology and Ethnology, and Smith College Center Museum of Art. The project was funded by the Museum Loan Network. Through June 5. Museum of Art*