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'congress
to campus' promotes public service,
bipartisanship
On
April 8-10, two former members of Congress will visit
Wellesley College to discuss how Congress and the
government really work while making an appeal to public
service and bipartisan cooperation through the national
nonprofit Congress to Campus Program.
Jan Meyers (R-KS, 1985-1996) and Liz Patterson (D-SC,
1987-1992) will teach classes in American politics,
environmental issues, Congress and the presidency; speak
to political and government groups; meet informally with
students; and offer two lectures. "Public Service and
Non-Profit Career Opportunities" will take place Tuesday,
April 8, from 4:15-5:30 pm in the Library Lecture room;
"Congress, U.S. Foreign Policy Making and War With Iraq"
will be presented Wednesday, April 9, from 4:45-6 pm, in
Science Center 377.
Meyers was the first female to chair a House committee
since 1976 and the first Republican woman since 1954. She
served on Foreign Affairs with subcommittee assignments
to Economic Policy, Trade and Environment and to Europe
and the Middle East. She also was on the Human Rights and
International Organizations subcommittee. Considered a
moderate, she is pro-choice on abortion and has
middle-of-the-road positions on economic, cultural and
foreign policy issues.
Patterson served on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Committees and subcommittees on Housing and Community
Development, Regulation and Insurance and Economic
Stabilization; as well as Veterans' Affairs and the
Select Committee on Hunger. Before coming to Congress,
she was a recruiting officer for the Peace Corps and a
VISTA and Head Start coordinator. A moderate, she
campaigned as a fiscal conservative concerned about human
needs.
'This program is significant because it reinforces
Wellesley's mission of educating women who will make a
difference in the world, by further inspiring students to
pursue career opportunities in public service," said
event organizer Jeff Gulati, political science. For more
information, call x2209.
two students win prestigious watson fellowships
Two
Wellesley College seniors, Jennifer Carlile and Suzanne
Slezak, have joined a select group of 48 U.S. college
students to be awarded 2003-2004 Thomas J. Watson
Fellowships, which allow recipients to pursue independent
research projects while traveling outside the United
States in the year after graduation.
Nearly 1,000 students applied for the award. "We look for
extraordinary young men and women of extraordinary
promise, individuals who have the personality and drive
to become the leaders of tomorrow," said Norvell Brasch,
executive director of the program. "The world is their
canvas, and we let them tell us how they want to paint
it."
Carlile will travel to the Netherlands, Italy and Austria
to work with several groups on her project, "Multimedia
Technology in Experimental Theater and Performance
Art."
"Each group has a different focus, but all deal with
experimental art, music and technology," she said. "I'll
be doing everything from writing code for computer
graphics to writing music to be included in monthly
concerts."
Slezak's project is entitled "Spinning Around the World:
Exploring Hand Spinning with Natural Fibers."
"My Watson year will be devoted to learning the various
techniques used to spin cotton, wool, flax and silk in
Guatemala, Ireland, India, Thailand and New Zealand," she
said. "My exploration will include the historical,
socio-economic and gendered perspectives of
spinning."
volunteer
of the year
Wellesley
junior Karen Wabeke has been honored as the 2002 American
Red Cross Volunteer of the Year for the Wood County
District in Toledo, Ohio. She was presented with the
award for outstanding service and dedication to helping
disaster victims.
She began volunteering in the summer of 2000 and has
coordinated many events including the Elementary Crafts
Program, in which schoolchildren are linked with seniors
by creating crafts. Since its inception, the program has
sent 1,550 crafts to the elderly.
Wabeke manages the district Red Cross web site amid her
other work at Wellesley and has become a charter member
of the Wellesley College Red Cross Club.
how
do race, language, and politics affect
education?
The
forum, "Race, Language, and Politics in Education: A
Two-Day Lecture Series," will address racial dynamics,
bilingual education and public policy in U.S. schooling.
Speakers Pedro Noguera and Maria Brisk, distinguished
professors of education, will deliver lectures on racial
inequality and bilingual education. The event is
sponsored by Education and other departments and
Mezcla.
On Tuesday, April 8, at 12:30 in Pendleton Atrium,
Noguera will present "What Schools Can and Cannot Do to
Counter Racial Inequality." On Wednesday, April 9, at
12:30 in Pendleton 239, Brisk will speak on "Democracy by
Referendum: The Undoing of Bilingual Education in
Massachusetts." A reception will follow.
Noguera, professor of communities and schools at Harvard
Graduate School of Education, is a leading scholar on
youth violence, race relations within schools and
educational equity issues. Brisk, professor of teacher
education/special education and curriculum and
instruction at Boston College, is a specialist in
bilingualism, bilingual education, literacy development
and methods of teaching literacy. For more information,
call x3232.
phyllis
schlafly on feminism vs. conservatism
"Phyllis
Schlafly is a woman who has, does and will continue to
make a difference in the world," said Rae Adams '05,
lecture chair for the Wellesley College Republicans. On
Tuesday, April 8, at 7 pm, Schlafly will speak in Collins
Cinema on "Feminism vs. Conservatism: The Great
Debate."
Known as the "Mother of the American Conservative
Movement," she helped defeat the Equal Rights Amendment
and is founder and president of Eagle Forum, a national
volunteer public policymaking organization; publisher of
The Phyllis Schlafly Report; and a nationally syndicated
columnist and radio commentator.
She was named one of the most 100 most important women of
the 20th Century by the Ladies' Home Journal, received
The Presidential Award at the 2003 C-PAC conference and
has been a recent guest of C-Span's Booknotes on her
books on education, the family, feminism, foreign policy,
child care and phonics.
wellesley
student is ad age superstar
Wellesley
College senior Christine Shin has been named among the
American Advertising Federation's 25 Most Promising
Minority Students. The finalists for this honor are
chosen by the AAF's Mosaic Council on Multiculturalism,
made up of top executives in advertising and
marketing.
The council also serves as an advisory board to the AAF's
Mosaic Center on Multiculturalism. Its goals include a
collaborative effort to create stronger, more effective
advertising "reinforced by multicultural talent and
insights," according to J. Andrea Alstrup, corporate vice
president of advertising at Johnson & Johnson and AAF
Mosaic Council co-chair.
Shin was nominated by Irma Tryon, director of recruiting,
Center for Work and Service. "Christine is a dynamic and
hard-working individual," Tryon said. "She is full of
energy, organized and gets her work done meticulously."
For more information, visit
http://mosaic.aff.org.
colleagues
in the news
eleanor
delorme,
art history, presented a lecture for the Alliance
Francaise of Chicago in collaboration with the Chicago
Art Institute on "The Empress Josephine and the Arts."
This week she will speak at Harvard University on April
10 at 6 pm in Sackler Auditorium on her new book,
Josephine, Napoleon's Incomparable Empress.
will
hitchcock,
history, continues to be interviewed by print and
broadcast media on his new book, The Struggle for Europe:
The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945-2002,
as well as on European perspectives on the Iraq war. Most
recently he appeared on C-Span's Book TV program and on
National Public Radio's Weekend Edition.
linda
miller,
political science, spoke at the Global Issues Symposium
at the University of New Haven on the topic of "War and
Security: America and the World." Miller commented that
the alternative to war was a "muscular," more coercive
disarmament of Iraq combined with no-fly zones and
no-drive zones. She noted that the attitude that it's us
against them "corrodes trust" in the world.
margaret
thompson,
geology, and alexis
ault
'03 presented research projects at the 2003 joint meeting
of Geological Society of America Northeastern Section and
the Atlantic Geoscience Society, which brought together
500 geoscientists. Ault presented "Basaltic Lava Flows at
Worlds End Reservation, Hingham, Mass: Neoproterozoic
Volcanism in the Southeastern New England Avalon Zone" in
the Undergraduate Research in the Geological Sciences
session. Thompson presented "New Paleomagnetic Pole From
the Late Cambrian Nahant Gabbro, Nahant, Mass.:
Implications for Drift History of the Southeastern New
England Avalon Zoe."
calendar
monday
april 7
lent
monday.
Orthodox Christian tradition.
lecture.
Speaker: Rosa Clemente, Puerto Rican activist,
journalist. Time, location, TBA. Sponsors: Mezcla, MCC.
Info: jvides@wellelsey.edu.
japan
table.
12:30-1:30 pm, Conference Room, Tower Court Dining Hall.
Info: x3226.
lecture.
"The Humanitarian Trap." Speaker: David Rieff, author.
4:15 pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: Sociology. Info: x2142.
english
tutoring.
5-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info:
x2480.
tuesday
april 8
wesak.
Buddhist tradition.
russian table.
12:30 pm, FND 417. Info: x3549.
french
table.
12:30-1:15 pm, Bates Seminar Room. Info: x2403.
lecture.
"What Schools Can and Cannot Do to Counter Racial
Inequality." Speaker: Judith Dimon, Harvard Graduate
School of Education. 12:30-1:20 pm, PNE Atrium. (See
story, page 2.) Sponsor: Education, Mezcla. Info:
x3232.
discussion.
"Evangelical Christians, Jews and Israel." Speaker:
Stephen Marini, religion. 12:30-1:30 pm, Hillel Lounge.
Sponsor: Hillel. Info: x4088.
lecture.
"Public Service and Non-Profit Career Opportunities."
Speakers: Former Congresswomen Jan Meyers and Liz
Patterson. 4:15-5:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor:
Political Science. (See story, page 1.) Info: x2209.
lecture.
"Taking Stands: Scholarship Confronts the Sound Bite."
Speaker: Adrienne Asch, reproductive issues. 4:15 pm, PNE
239. Reception follows, Atrium. Info: x2137.
lacrosse
vs. Babson. 4:30 pm. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2019.
cws workshop.
"Job Search Strategies." Preregister. 4:30 pm, FND 120.
Info: x2352.
lecture.
"The Architecture of Heikkinen and Komonen and the Legacy
of the Finnish Modernism." Speaker: William Morgan. 5 pm,
Jewett 372. Sponsor: Art. Info: x2058.
lecture.
"Learning Hope From the Holocaust." Speaker: Pierre
Sauvage. 5 pm, French House. Sponsor: French House. Info:
x2415.
unitarian universalist worship
gathering.
6 pm, Little Chapel. Refreshments. Info: x3484.
cws
workshop.
"Planning for Fellowships and Graduate School." 6-8 pm,
SCI 377. Info: x2352.
apt
workshop.
"To Thesis or Not to Thesis." 7 pm, McAfee. Info:
x2641.
german
table.
7-8 pm, Beebe Dining Hall. Info: x7256.
lecture.
"Feminism vs. Conservatism: The Great Debate." Speaker:
Phyllis Schlafly. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. (See story, page
2.) Sponsor: Wellesley College Republicans. Info:
x1497.
wednesday
april 9
spring
open campus.
More than 700 visitors, including accepted students and
families. Sponsor: Admissions. Info: x2270.
exhibit.
Sweatshop Simulation. Open to Wellesley community who
would like to come in to look, ask questions, and get
more information about sweatshops. 7:30 am - 3:30 pm,
Billings 100. Sponsors: WALRA Political Science, Latin
American Studies Program, Art Department, Wellesley
College Green Party. Info: x1016.
russian
table.
12:30, FND 417. Info: x3549.
spanish
table.
12:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info:
randujar@wellesley.edu.
lecture.
"Democracy by Referendum: The Undoing of Bilingual
Education in Massachusetts." Speaker: Maria Brisk,
education, Boston College. Reception follows. 12:30-1:20
pm, PNE 239. (See story, page 2.) Sponsor: Education,
Mezcla. Info: x3232.
lenten prayer retreat.
12:30-1:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant
Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2298.
vietnamese
classes.
12:30-1:30 pm, Billings 100. Sponsor: VSA. Info:
x1723.
lecture.
"Pornography, Subordination and Speech Act Theory."
Speaker: Ishani Maitra, philosophy, Syracuse University.
4:15-6:15 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Philosophy.
Info: x2620.
cws
workshop.
"Resumes." Preregister. 4:30 pm, FND 120. Info:
x2352.
lecture.
"Congress, U.S. Foreign Policy Making, and War with
Iraq." Speakers: Jan Meyers; Liz Patterson. 4:45-6 pm,
Science Center 377. Sponsor: Political Science. (See
story, page 1.) Info: x2209.
chinese
table.
6 pm, Stone Davis Dining Hall. Info: x2188.
protestant
christian gathering.
Sustaining prayer, 5:30-6 pm, Billings 202; Bible study,
6:30-7:30 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x2655.
films.
Beyond Black and White; Coffee Coloured Children. 7 pm,
Collins Cinema. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2175.
film.
Frida. 7 pm, Sci 277. Sponsor: Mezcla. Info: x7270.
cws
lecture.
"Planning for Law School." Speakers: Alan Schechter,
political science; Lori Johnson, University of Virginia
School of Law; Ellie Perkins, pre-law advisor. 4:30 pm,
PNW 212. Info: x2352.
thursday
april 10
spring
open campus.
More than 700 visitors, including accepted students and
families. Sponsor: Admissions. Info: x2270.
cws
workshop.
"Second Interview Skills." Preregister. 12:30 pm, GRH
130. Info: x2352.
exhibition.
Showing the work of Khaled al-Saa'i. 2:30-6:30pm, Slater
International. Reception at 4:30pm. Slide presentation
and discussion at 6pm. Info: x2916.
lecture.
"Regulation Childhood: Case Studies in Public Policy and
Childhood Development." Speaker: Gerald Koocher, Simmons
College. 4:30 pm, SCI 278. Sponsor: Psychology. Info:
x3019.
lecture.
"Quantifying Health: Using Statistics to Shape Public
Health Policy." Speaker: Laurie Thayer Martin. 4:30- 6
pm, PNW 117. Sponsor: Quantitative Reasoning. Info:
x2152.
lecture.
"Germany, Europe and U.S. Relations." Speaker: Susan
Stern, lecturer; Frankfurt University. 4:30-6 pm, PNE
339. Sponsor: German. Info: x2584.
films.
The Fall of the I-Hotel; Eagle Against the Sun; Banana
Split. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Wellesley Asian
Alliance. Info: x1091.
lecture.
"The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry."
Speaker: Marshall Goldman, economics. 7:30 pm, PNE
Atrium. Sponsors: Economics; Russian Area Studies. Info:
x2154.
film.
Shinoda Masahiro (Double Love Suicide). 7:30 and 9:30,
SCI 377. Sponsor: Japanese. Info: x3226.
latina
cafe.
Karaoke; poetry. 7:30 pm, Molly's Pub. Sponsor: Mezcla.
Info: x7270.
friday
april 11
spring
open campus.
More than 700 visitors, including accepted students and
families. Sponsor: Admissions. Info: x2270.
seminar.
"Choosing Your TIAA-Cref Income Options." 12:30-1:30 pm,
Library Lecture Room. Info: x3202.
open
class.
"Short Narrative." Speaker: Marilyn Sides, English. 1:30
pm, Contemporary Gallery, DMCC. Sponsor: DMCC. Info:
x2353.
symposium.
"Dido and Aeneas: Then and Now." Speakers: Lawrence
Rosenwald, English; Sally Sanford, music; Brooke Bryant,
'03; Raymond Erickson, Queens College; Ellen Harris, MIT.
2-5 pm, Collins Cinema. (See story, page 4.) Info:
x2028.
exhibition.
Showing the work of Khaled al-Saa'i. 2:30-6:30pm, Slater
International. Open Contemporary Arabic calligraphy
workshop for students. 9-11pm, PNW 208. Pre-register:
raadnani@wellesley.edu. Info: x2916.. Info: x2916.
opera.
Dido and Aeneas. 8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. (See story,
page 4.) Sponsor: Collegium Musicum. Info: x2978.
theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 9 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost:
$5, students; $7, others. Info: x3192.
saturday
april 12
lacrosse
vs Mt. Holyoke. 1 pm. Sponsor: Athletics. Info:
x2019.
tennis.
Wellesley Invitational. Time TBA. Sponsor: Athletics:
x2019.
lecture/observation.
"The Moon Landing Hoax Hoax." Speaker: Richard French,
astronomy. Lecture, 7:30 pm, reservations only;
observation, 8:30-10 pm, open to all. Whitin Observatory.
Sponsor: Astronomy. Info: x2708.
opera.
Dido and Aeneas. 8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. (See story,
page 4.) Sponsor: Collegium Musicum. Info: x2978.
theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 9 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost:
$5, students; $7, others. Info: x3192.
sunday
april 13
palm
sunday.
Christian tradition.
protestant
christian worship.
11:15 am, Houghton Chapel. Companionship time, 12:30 pm,
Little Chapel. Info: x2655.
catholic mass.
4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Info: x2688.
theatre.
A Midsummer Night's Dream. 7 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost:
$5, students; $7, others. Info: x3192.
concert.
Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra. 8 pm, Houghton Chapel.
Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.
monday
april 14
japan
table.
12:30-1:30 pm, Conference Room, Tower Court Dining Hall.
Info: x3226.
cws
lecture.
"Career Conversations for Seniors." 12:30 pm, GRH 330.
Info: x2352.
open
class.
"Exhibiting Cultures: Representation and Display in the
20th-Century Museum." Speaker: Cheryl Finley, art. 1:30-4
pm. Location: TBA. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2175.
english
tutoring.
5-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480.
lecture.
"Imagining the Black Female Body in Photography."
Speaker: Deborah Willis. 5 pm, Jewett. Sponsor: Art.
Info: x2042.
ongoing
exhibit.
The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism.
DMCC, through June 8. Info: x2051.
exhibit.
Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S.
Art 1900-1950. DMCC, through June 8. Info: x2051.
exhibit.
A Camel for the Son - Ramadan Moon - The Victor Weeps.
DMCC, through June 8. Info: x2051.
discussion.
"Women and Substance Use: Is There a Relationship?"
Facilitator: Isabel Murphy, Psy.D. 1 pm, Saturdays
through April 19. Stone Center Solarium. Info: x2839.
discussion.
"Holding a Space for Hope in the Face of Fear and
Uncertainty." Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30-1 pm, Lower
Chapel, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious and Spiritual
Life. Info: x2685.
don't
miss...the magnificent opera dido and aeneas is on
stage
On
Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, at 8 pm, the
Wellesley College Collegium Musicum presents Henry
Purcell's magnificent and moving opera Dido and Aeneas in
Jewett Auditorium. The event features music director
Sally Sanford, stage director Brooke Bryant '03, who is
writing a thesis on the opera; and Lawrence Rosenwald,
English, who has written a new prologue for the opera. A
symposium, "Dido and Aeneas: Then and Now," will be
presented Friday, April 11, from 2-5 pm in Collins Cinema
with a slide lecture by Raymond Erickson of Queens
College-CUNY on the cultural background of the opera; a
lecture, "Mysterious Dido: What We Know (and What We
Don't) about Purcell's Opera," by Ellen Harris of MIT,
and a panel discussion on performance with Claire
Fontijn-Harris, music; and Rosenwald, Sanford and
Bryant.
Purcell's opera is regarded as the first great opera
written in English. Lasting about an hour, it originally
was written in 1689 for a fashionable girls' boarding
school. The Wellesley performances will recreate the
spirit of the original as much as possible, using an
all-female cast for the principal roles, period
instruments, historically based gestures and baroque
vocal techniques. It also will be the first performance
in modern times to use Restoration English pronunciation.
"We are quite excited about our contribution to the
modern performance history of Dido," said Sanford. "The
opera is centered on the emotional expression and
rhetorical delivery of the text, so to return it to its
original sound has been a revelation. The audience will
find it relatively easy to understand - it sounds like a
slightly archaic form of English with some recognizable
elements that still exist in Ireland and Scotland." More
than 25 students are involved in the production as well
as alumnae and community members. For more information,
call x2978.
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