Table of Contents wellesleyweek news whoopi goldberg will offer 2002 commencement address chinese foreign minister to speak on campus campus center talks recounting some "talepipe" dreams enhancing emotional intelligence colleagues in the news women's film festival features artists from three continents student director presents whimiscal lady's not for burning calendar of on-campus event Click here to view events by date Monday, March 4 Tuesday, March 5 Wednesday, March 6 Thursday, March 7 Friday, March 8 Saturday, March 9 Sunday, March 10 Monday, March 11 ongoing save that date information about wellesleyweek
	whoopi goldberg will offer 2002 commencement address Actress, comedian and humanitarian Whoopi Goldberg will address the Class of 2002 at Wellesley's 124th Commencement Exercises Friday, May 31, beginning at 10:30 am. Goldberg has received numerous awards and considerable acclaim for her work in film, television, recordings and theater. In addition to her Oscar, Grammy and two Golden Globe awards, she has been honored with multiple NAACP Image Awards, numerous People's Choice Awards and an unprecedented five Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards as "Favorite Movie Actress," as well as various awards and honors for her many humanitarian efforts. Born and raised in New York City, Goldberg worked in theater and improvisation in San Diego and the Bay Area, where she created the characters that evolved into a hit Broadway show, Grammy Award-winning album and HBO special Whoopi Goldberg, Direct from Broadway, that helped launch her career. She made her motion picture debut in Steven Spielberg&'s film version of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award. Her performance in Ghost earned an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress. Over the years, she hasappeared in many popular motion pictures, gaining the respect of film critics the world over. This year Goldberg will host the Academy Awards for the fourth time. She remains the first black woman to emcee the Academy Awards as a solo act. On television, she has appeared in many series and specials, including her own HBO specials. She has three times served as host of ABC's A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre and has completed eight Comic Relief telecasts with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams. Among other television credits, she appeared for five seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Goldberg has made her mark as a producer. She is executive producer of and appears in the center square on the Emmy Award-winning Hollywood Squares. She is executive producer of Lifetime's Strong Medicine, a drama series, and of Lifetime and Showtime movies and other projects. chinese foreign minister to speak on campus Fresh on the heels of President Bush's recent visit to China and 30 years after the historic visit to China by President Nixon, one of that country's leading diplomats will speak on "United States-China Relations in the 21st Century: The View from Beijing" Tuesday, March 5, at 4:15 pm in Collins Cinema. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will precede the event, beginning at 3:45 pm. He Yafei is minister and deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States, the second highest-ranking diplomat after the ambassador. Minister He once served as deputy director for arms control and disarmament for the Chinese Foreign Ministry and was the alternate representative for China on the United Nations Security Council. The lecture is supported by the Committee on Lectures and Cultural Events and the college's Luce Asia Opportunity Fund. campus center talks Open meetings on the campus center and Alumnae Valley projects will take place Wednesday, March 6, at 12:3o-2 pm, 4:15-5:45 pm and 8:30-10 pm in the Davis Museum lobby. All members of the college community are encouraged to attend. The meetings will include presentations by consulting architects, viewings of preliminary schematic models and drawings, questions and other feedback. Background information on the projects and comment forms are at www.wellesley.edu/AdminandPlanning/cc.html. recounting some "talepipe" dreams Cars transport us in more ways than one. On Thursday, March 7, from 9:50-11:10 am, students in Marilyn Sides' travel literature course will share their creative and critical writing skills at an event titled "Car Talk: TalePipe Dreams" in the Davis Museum and Cultural Center's Chandler Gallery. "The full title of the course is 'Writing 225: Travel Literature: A Critical/Creative Nonfiction Advanced Writing Course,'" Sides said. "That's a lot packed into a title but is to signal that this course is something special, a course that equally works with students on both their creative writing and critical writing skills." Travel literature, a popular genre, also is of interest to literary critics. "It is a genre about the traveling self, so close to memoir, but also about history, politics, culture," Sides said. The course blends perfectly with the DMCC exhibit, Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, which explores car interiors through photography, video, sculpture and painting. Curator Judith Fox contacted Sides about a collaboration. For inspiration, Sides' class read a chapter from Sidonie Smith's Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing", "On the Road: (Auto)Mobility and Gendered Detours," on how gender shapes a woman's relationship to the car. "The students have started writing a short autobiographical essay about a car memory or car event," Sides said. Each story is as individual as the writer. "A Davis scholar writes about being left everyday with her husband's prized sports car and the contortions of trying to fasten a baby and her car seat into the tiny space," Sides said. "An MIT student is exploring how what he sees from inside the car seems always to allude to books and television shows--how does the view from the car window become like other kinds of media? A member of the crew team describes the routine of her predawn trip to practice on the Charles River. It is not just a ride; the dozing young women transform themselves on this ritual journey into a team that will, the moment of arrival, demand from themselves the utmost physical and mental exertion--and get in return the beauty of sunrise on the river." enhancing emotional intelligence The Wellesley Centers for Women launches its Spring 2002 Luncheon Seminar Series Thursday, March 7, from 12:30-1:30 pm in Cheever House library with "Enhancing Emotional Intelligence through Improvisation: A Pilot Project of Reach Out to Schools" with speaker Pamela Seigle, project director at the Stone Center. The lecture will discuss the relationship between theatrical "improv" and development of emotional intelligence. "Theater improvisation is an art form that helps develop emotional intelligence capacities,"Seigle said. "Through improvisation we can learn to recognize feelings in ourselves and others, motivate ourselves and manage feelings in the context of relationships." The brown-bag luncheon seminar will explore the construct of emotional intelligence and experience improvisational structures that are being piloted with both teachers and students in the WCW's Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program. For more information, call x2500. colleagues in the news yu jin ko, English, has taken part in WBUR-FM's news and public-affairs program Here and Now, joining the National Public Radio station's regular reviewers to discuss the new film, Scotland, Pa., which is a modern remake of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The segment can be heard by going to the Here and Now archives on the web at www.wbur.org. phillip levine, economics, has been quoted in a Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News story, "Vulnerable Texas Jobless Fund Has Tiny Reserve Left," on the insolvent trust fund that covers Texans' unemployment benefits. Although some states socked away money during the 1990s economic boom, Texas kept its trust fund small, preferring to leave the dollars circulating in the economy. Now the state must raise its tax rates and require employers to pay more at a time when the economy is weaker, squeezing employers when they can least afford it. "Since they saved virtually nothing during the good period, obviously there's no money left for the bad period," Levine said. marianne moore, biological sciences, contributed to a Scripps Howard News Service story, "City Lights Overpowering Nature's Night Skies." She discussed her study about how artificial light at night discourages zooplankton from coming to the surface of urban and suburban lakes, thus reducing the amount of surface algae consumed by the microscopic organisms, possibly leading to algal blooms and poor water quality. The story examined how light pollution may be affecting people, plants and animals. Among the side effects: Artificial light spoils the joy of a night sky, the writer noted. In America's cities and suburbs, most stars are no longer visible at night. calendar monday march 4 cws workshop. "Interview Skills." 12:30-1:20 pm, GRH 330. Info: x2352. japan table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court small dining room. Info: x3226. english tutoring. Sign up in PLTC for individual ESL help. 5:30-8 pm, PLTC. Info: x2480. buddhist community gathering. 8-9 pm, Meditation Room, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Info: x2793. tuesday march 5 lecture. "Challenging Subjects: Gender, Power and Identity in African Contexts." Speaker: Amina Marna, gender studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Sponsor: History; Women's Studies. Info: x2603. study abroad. Speaker: Bo Lokkegaard, Denmark's International Study Program. 12:30 pm, GRH 339C. Info: x2320. lecture. "U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century: The View from Beijing." Speaker: He Yafei, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the U.S. 4:15 pm, Collins Cinema. (See story, page 1.) Sponsors: Political Science; International Relations. Info: x3038. bible study. Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 4:15-5:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x2655. lecture. "Yiddish Echoes in French Literature." Speaker: Alan Astro, modern languages and literature, Trinity University. 4:30 pm, French House. Info: x2196. lecture. "Three Big Failures of the American Left: Third Parties, Dislike of Markets and Violence." Speaker: William Dornhoff, sociology, UC-Santa Cruz. Info: x2194. lecture. "Bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls to Life." Speaker: Bruce Zuckerman, religion, University of South Carolina. 4:45, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Religion. Info: x2611. wednesday march 6 campus center meetings. 12:30-2 pm, 4:15-6:15 pm and 8:30-10 pm, Davis Museum lobby. (See story, page 1.) All invited. italian table. 12:30 pm, Tower Court dining room. Info: x1072. sustaining prayer. Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 12:30-1 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x2655. lecture. "Hindus and Muslims in South Asia." Speaker: Author Pankaj Mishra. 7 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: English. Info: x2591. films. Beautiful Dreamer, 4:50 and 7:30 pm, FND 207; Twenty-Four Eyes, 7 pm, FND 307. Japanese; English subtitles. Info: x3226. german table. 7:10-8 pm, Beebe Dining Hall. Info: x2584. praise and worship. Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 7:15-8:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x2655. panel discussion. "Your Money Matters: Investing and Financial Planning." 8-9 pm, Tower Court Great Hall. Sponsor: Student Aid Society. Info: 617-924-8100. thursday march 7 reading. "TalePipe Dreams." (See story, page 2.) 9:50-11 am, Chandler Gallery. Info: x2051. chinese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Stone Davis Living Room. Info: x2188. french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court small dining room. Info: x1004. wcw seminar. "Enhancing Emotional Intelligence through Improvisation." Speaker: Pamela Seigle. (See story, page 2.) Bring lunch. 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Info: x2500. concert. "Composers Series Featuring Hayes Biggs." 12:30-1:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. cws workshop. "Job Search Correspondence" 4:30-5:30 pm, CWS Library. Preregister. Info: x2352. catholic mass. 4:45 pm, Newman Common Room, Houghton Memorial Chapel basement. Info: x2480. discussion. "Current Issues in the Catholic Church and Society." 5:30 pm, Library Seminar Room 3. Sponsor: Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: anino@wellesley.edu. english tutoring. (See 3/4 listing.) workshop. "Mat Cutting" with John Rosetti. 5:30-7 pm, Davis Museum Lobby. Info: x2071. unitarian universalist community gathering. 6:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. opening reception. Women Behind the Camera: Contemporary Filmmakers in Multicultural Germany. 7 pm, Collins Cafe. (See story, page 4.) Info: www.wellesley.edu/German/filmfestival/. poetry reading. With Li-Young Lee. 7:30 pm, Tanner Gallery, Davis Museum. Info: x2590. friday march 8 cws workshop. "Resume." 12:30-1:30 pm, GRH 330. Preregister. Info: x2352. cws panel discussion. "Exploring Careers in the Environmental Arena." 4:30-5:30 pm, PNE 251. Info: x2352. wine dinner. Call to reserve. 6:30 pm, College Club. Info, cost: x2700. saturday march 9 lacrosse clinic. For girls ages 10-16. 9 am-4 pm, Keohane Sports Center. Info: x2011. workshop. "Leading Relational Practice Groups." 9:45 am -1 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: JBMTI. Info, cost: x3007 sunday march 10 day of mindfulness. With Thich Nhat Hanh, poet, writer and Buddhist monk. Preregistration required. 9 am-5 pm. Info: x2793. worship service. Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 11:15 am-12:15 pm, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Info: x2655. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Info: x2688.     monday march 11 japan table. (See 3/4 listing.) cws workshop. "Career Conversations for Seniors." 4:30-5:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352. lecture. "On the Threshold of Tomorrow: Imagining the Maya in the Lacandon Jungle." Speaker: Brian Gollnick, University of Iowa. 7 pm, PNE 239. Sponsor: Spanish. Info: x2902. lecture. "Strong Bones, Strong Women." Speaker: Lisa Thomas, N.P., Mass. General Hospital. 7:30 pm, SCI 277. Info: x2821. buddhist gathering. (See 3/4 listing.) ongoing theatre. The Lady's Not for Burning. Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. March 7, 7 pm; March 8, 8 pm; March 9, 2 and 8 pm; March 10, 2 pm. (See story, page 4.) Tickets: Wellesley & MIT students free; $5 students, seniors, faculty, staff; $10 others. Info: x2220. film festival. Women Behind the Camera: Contemporary Filmmakers in Multicultural Germany. March 7-10. (See story, page 4.) For schedule: www.wellesley.edu/German/filmfestival/. Sponsor: German. Info: x2581. workshop. "Paper Sculptures." Two Saturdays, March 2 and 9, 10 am-5 pm. Sponsor: Applied Arts. Info: x2071. exhibit. Reflecting on the Body: Creating and Losing Power. Through March 6, Jewett Sculpture Court. Sponsor: Art, Health Services, Women's Studies. Info: x3331. exhibit. Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car. Through June 9. Artists' responses to the car interior. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051. don't miss...women's film festival features artists from three continents Women Behind the Camera: Contemporary Filmmakers in Multicultural Germany is a free film festival organized by German professor Mine Eren. The festival runs March 7-10 with an opening reception March 7 at 7 pm in Collins Cafe. Most of the 14 films, performances, lectures and panel discussions will take place in Collins Cinema. "In the first year of the new millennium, we are faced with many seeming contradictions and confusing images, as cultures blend and clash in unexpected ways," Eren said. "Cinematic presentation can add insight and clarity: a growing number of critically acclaimed films by women examine life in the borderlands between cultures, offering fresh perspectives on complex issues." For more information on events, including times and locations, go to www.wellesley.edu/German/festival. student director presents whimiscal lady's not for burning The Lady's Not for Burning is the latest student Upstage Theatre production. "I've been besotted with The Lady's Not for Burning for years," said director Cameron Salisbury '02. "Combine Shakespeare's poetic genius, Shaw's snarky humor and Thomas' linguistic cartwheels. Cap tightly and shake well. That seems to be the recipe (playwright) Christopher Fry followed. It's a whimsical story about a world-weary soldier who stumbles across a witch-hunt and takes it upon himself to provide a distraction." Zehra Fazal, Emi Kolawole, Brooke Bryant, Katy Howard, Stephanie Kacoyanis, Heather Boas, Emily Henderson, Elana Hayasaka, Alison Buchbinder, Annette Adamska-Kurz and Sarah Murphy-Katz will bring the story to the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre in Alumnae Hall March 7 at 7 pm, March 8 at 8 pm, March 9 at 2 and 8 pm and March 10 at 2 pm. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for students/seniors/faculty/staff and free for Wellesley and MIT students. For reservations, call x2220. Click Here to View Previous Issue Return to the Office of Public Information's Homepage Created by: Shanna Yetman '02 Maintained by: Mary Ann Hill, Office of Public Information Last Modified: March 4, 2002