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wellesley’s heather long is named a 2004 rhodes scholar Senior Heather Long has been named a 2004 Rhodes Scholar. Chosen through a rigorous three-stage process including an endorsement from Wellesley and selection on a state and regional level, she competed with 963 U.S. applicants, of whom 32 won the honor. Rhodes Scholars are selected based on high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, leadership potential and physical vigor. Long was thrilled to learn of the highly prestigious award, saying, “It feels like you won the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Award for academics. You never think you are going to get it but when you do you are in shock for a couple of days. It’s wonderful. I’m particularly interested in studying medieval literature, and I am excited to go to Oxford and study their extensive collection.” Long is especially gratified by the honor since reading didn’t come easily to her. She suffered from learning disabilities and didn’t learn to read until fourth or fifth grade. “So many
people have helped me out in my life, particularly my teachers,” she
said. “My fifth-grade teacher finally saw through it and actually
suggested I might be gifted. I always wanted to give back to people
and my teacher just said to me, ‘Pass it on, just pass it on.’” “A huge part of my Rhodes application was on working in the prison system,” she said. Long began working at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute as a first-year student, helping prisoners produce publications and establishing a student volunteer organization, the Wellesley Book Club. “Literature helps them learn how to think critically,” she said. “Only about 50 percent have graduated from high school but many of these women applied to the prison’s college program after learning to think in a deeper way. It’s been great to encourage people to go on in their own studies.” The Rhodes Scholarship supports two years of study with a possible third year extension. An English and economics major, Long is now at the University of Navarra, Spain. She’s been an intern for Sen. Rick Santorum, wrote a study on hate crimes for the Pa. attorney general’s office and worked on a Mass. Criminal Justice Task Force. Named the 2003 Katharine Malone Scholar, she won the 2002 Malone Sophomore Prize. photojournalist chronicles bosnia’s struggle Award-winning photojournalist Sara Terry will present a showing and discussion of her work, “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace,” Monday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 pm in Science Center Room 277. Terry is a Los Angeles-based photographer and writer engaged in daily assignments and long-term projects. “I started shooting around 1997 after nearly 20 years as a reporter working in print, public radio and a bit of television,” says Terry. “I was having a crisis of confidence in words at the time. They’d failed me during a critical period in my personal life, and I’d pretty much lost my faith in something I’d always counted on as a way to share, persuade, convince, reveal. At the same time, almost by chance, I found photography. I felt I’d discovered a language filled with both meaning and ambiguity – a form of communication that washed away the failings of words.” Terry’s “Aftermath” explores the human costs and consequences of war, “not on the battlefield, but in its aftermath, which is where the painful work of true peace making begins,” she says. “Even though Bosnia’s bitter war ended in 1995, the country is still deep in the throes of a struggle to rebuild a civil society – in the hope that the cycles of violence that have wreaked havoc in its past will not re-emerge to threaten the nation’s future.” The Grace Slack McNeil Program in the History of American Art has extended an invitation to a last lecture by James O’Gorman on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 5 pm in Jewett Arts Center Auditorium. This will Professor O’Gorman’s farewell appearance as he closes his 28-year term in the McNeil Chair. A reception will be held following the lecture in the Jewett Sculpture Court. For more information, call x2042. wintersession offers many options Wellesley’s Wintersession 2004 will be held from Jan. 5-26. Wintersession is a special time when students may choose to pursue a course or project, try an internship, work, participate in team sports training or even travel abroad without the pressures of schedules and deadlines. Courses include for-credit and non-credit classes. The non-credit courses vary in subject matter from cake decorating to sharpening writing skills and are taught by students, staff and professors. Wintersession corresponds to the Independent Activities Period (IAP) at MIT. Wellesley students are encouraged to participate in the short courses and activities offered in that program, as well; bus service is provided. Students who pursue internships or volunteer for community service projects during Wintersession can get information about opportunities from the Center for Work and Service. “Wintersession courses for academic credit are open to current Wellesley students,” said Katherine Guerin, assistant registrar. “If there is space available, they are open to other college students Wellesley has an exchange agreement with such as MIT, Babson and Brandeis.” No auditors are accepted for Wintersession courses. Non-credit classes for personal enjoyment and advancement are taught by students, staff and others. Marilynn Madzar, Schneider Center coordinator, says one new popular non-credit course, “99 Bottles of Beer,” is a beer appreciation course. “Dozens of people have signed up for that,” she said. “Many for-credit Wintersession courses are language courses, for example, in Greek and Latin. ‘Root Words’ and ‘Roman Law’ are supposed to be fabulous.” Courses not yet full are still accepting registrations. For more information, go to www.wellesley.edu/Activities/Wintersession/index.html. concert:
dancing in the aisles is part of the fun The popular Fiddleheads, under the direction of fiddler Laura Cortese, music, play Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic fiddle music in an ensemble that often includes flutes as well as strings. They are joined by Synergy, a jazz string club directed by jazz violinist Zeitlin. “This group looks like a classical string ensemble—violins, violas, cello—but will be playing blues and Latin jazz arrangements with improvised solos,” Zeitlin said. Body and Soul, Wellesley’s vocal jazz ensemble, is directed by Patrice Williamson, music, who is both a jazz singer and educator. The group features original arrangements of jazz and blues tunes with student soloists. Jazz pianist and composer Gilson Schashnik will accompany both jazz groups, and everyone joins in the grand finale. For more information, call x2028. seqs available online dec. 2-14 The Office of the Dean of the College would like to remind students that the online SEQ system will be available from Dec. 2-14. The SEQ conference on students’ FirstClass desktops will be used to communicate SEQ information throughout this period. Each student is required to complete an evaluation for each instructor in every course in which she is enrolled. Members of the faculty and the administration take SEQs very seriously, and student compliance with this requirement is very important. For more information, call x3583. william cain, English, wrote a review, “How Two of the Founding Fathers Employed Their Political Power to Preserve Slavery,” for The Boston Sunday Globe. The article examined “Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills and An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek. “We know Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned slaves – we commend ourselves for being able at last to acknowledge this fact in the lives of great Americans we admire and honor,” Cain noted. “But are we mature enough as a nation to face the possibility that we should not admire or honor them at all? This is the question strongly implied by Garry Wills’s and Henry Wiencek’s new books.” eleanor delorme, art history, delivered the keynote lecture, “The French Crown Jewels,” under the auspices of Van Cleef and Arpels, Paris, at the Alliance Française in Chicago. Wellesley Friends of Art in Chicago participated. natalie kuldell, biological sciences, wrote “Read Like a Scientist to Write Like A Scientist: Using Authentic Literature in the Classroom” in the November Journal of College Science Teaching, on using primary scientific literature to teach about investigation and writing. “...students explore scientific approaches to questions (including examples of experimental design, data presentation and critical thinking) in ways that allow them to improve their own writing and thinking,” she noted. julie norem, psychology, and her research were featured in a Fortune magazine “Brainstorm” column titled “A Little Worry Is Good for Business: Optimists May Not Be Prepared When Things Go Wrong. Defensive Pessimists Are Ready for the Worst.” bodhi day. Buddhist tradition. info session. “Financial Aid for Study Abroad.” Speaker: Sylvia Hiestand. 12:30 pm, GRH 338. Sponsor: International Studies. Info: x2320. cws info session. “Summer Stipend Program.” 12:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Info: x2352. religious service. Liturgy for the Immaculate Conception. 12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Newman Catholic Ministry. Info: x2688. film/lecture. “‘Disease of the Wind’ - The Measles Initiative: An Inside Look.” Speaker: Brian McQuillan, American Red Cross. (See story, above.) Refreshments. 4:30 pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: Red Cross Club. Info: x7405. cws workshop. “Résumé Writing.” 4:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352. english tutoring. 6-9 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. cws workshop. “Self-Assessment.” 7-9 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. tuesday december 9 raffle. 2003 Charitable Giving Campaign Raffle. 10 am, Academic Council Room. Sponsor: Charitable Giving Campaign. Info: x2208. president’s open office hour. 12:30-1:30 pm, GRH 350. Info: x2243. french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Conference Room. Info: x2415. lecture. Speaker: James O’Gorman, art history. Sponsor: Grace Slack McNeil Program in the History of American Art. 5 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Reception follows. Info: x2042. unitarian universalist meeting. 5-7 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. theatre. "Moving On..." Director: Nandita Dinesh '06. 7pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theater. Sponsor: Theatre Studies. Info: rkayes@wellesley.edu. academic council meeting. 12:30-2 pm. Academic Council Room. spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info: x3571. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. community event. “Holiday Tea.” 3:30-5 pm, College Club. Reserve. Cost, info: x2700. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. concert. “The Flowering of Latin Lyric in the 12th Century.” Collegium Musicum. 8 pm, Houghton Chapel. (See story, below.) Info: x2028. thursday december
11 concert. Synergy Jazz String Ensemble, Body & Soul, and Fiddleheads. 7 pm, Molly’s Pub. (See story, above.) Info: x2028. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9 pm, Little Chapel. Refreshments. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. muslim prayer. 12:30-2 pm. Muslim Prayer Room, Houghton Chapel. Refreshments. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. religious service/celebration. Our Lady of Guadalupe Liturgy. 4-6 pm, Munger. Sponsors: Newman Catholic Ministry. Info: x2688. saturday december
13 worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. catholic
mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious
Life. Info: x2688. monday december 15 meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. exhibit. One
Hundred Years Ago: The Class of 1904. Archives, Clapp Library.
Info: x2127.
don't miss... the flowering of medieval music will be celebrated dec. 10 The Wellesley Collegium Musicum, under the direction of Tom Zajac, will perform a program of medieval music, “The Flowering of Latin Lyric in the 12th Century,” Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 8 pm in Houghton Memorial Chapel. The concert will feature a staged version of Hildegard of Bingen’s powerful liturgical drama Ordo Virtutum with guest Pamela Dellal in the role of Anima. Dellal has performed and recorded this same role with the acclaimed medieval music ensemble Sequentia. The second half of the program consists of selected songs from the original Carmina Burana, featuring soloists from the Collegium, Boston area bowed-string specialist Laura Jeppesen and guest instrumentalists from the Longy School of Music. For more information, call x2028.
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