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2004 tanner conference celebrates off-campus learning
hirsch lecture: fall in love with poetry
trustees OK oakwoods plans, increase mortgage limit
wellesley theatre offers new version of trojan women
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november
2004
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2004 tanner conference celebrates off-campus learning
Wellesley will celebrate the 2004 Tanner Conference on Tuesday, Nov. 9, from 8:30 am-4:10 pm. Established through the generosity of trustee emerita Estelle “Nicki” Newman Tanner ’57, the Tanner Conference explores the relationship between the liberal arts classroom and student participation in an increasingly diverse and interdependent world.
The conference offers lectures, panel discussions and roundtables in which participants share their off-campus experiences in internships, international study, experiential learning, research opportunities and fellowships.
The conference provides a venue for sharing and learning about off-campus experiences. Representing the work of approximately 300 students, alumnae, faculty and staff, the conference is organized around four broad themes: Cross-Cultural Interaction; Learning, Service and Youth; Politics, Economics and Activism; and Science, Medicine and Public Health.
Under the Politics, Economics and Activism theme, for example, one presentation, “Campaign 2004: Getting Out the Vote,” will be given by six students who attended the Democratic National Convention. They will discuss what they learned about mobilizing young voters. Under the Science, Medicine and Public Health banner, Elizabeth Molnar ’05 will make an individual presentation, “Beyond Beer and Bread: Using Yeast as a Eukaryotic Model System,” talking about her summer research at Indiana University Medical Center. Under Cross-Cultural Interaction, Hao Nguyen ’05 and Cristina Greavu ’05 will present “Relationships Bridging Race and Culture,” describing their travels through four countries with the International Honors Program. A Learning, Service and Youth presentation, “From Homeless to Housed: The Politics of Not-for Profit Social Work in San Francisco,” by Esther Handy ’05, will explore a summer internship that focused on creating shelters and supportive housing in a city with a booming homeless culture.
For a schedule and abstracts from all the presentations, go to www.wellesley.edu/CWS/Tanner2004/tannertop.html.
hirsch lecture: fall in love with poetry
On Monday, Nov. 15, at 4:30 pm in Collins Cinema, Edward Hirsch will present “A Passion for Poetry: A Poetry Reading.” Hirsch has published six books of poems and three prose books, including the national bestseller, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. He writes a weekly column on poetry for the Washington Post Book World and has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He taught for 18 years at the University of Houston and is now the fourth president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
“I believe he has a unique voice in American poetry,” said writer and poet Marjorie Agosín, Spanish, “a voice that conjures the possibility of looking at the visible as well as the invisible world, a poetry that is both sophisticated and accessible at the same time. I also think he has allowed so many readers to truly become passionate about reading poetry, becoming a lover of poetry, because he believes that poetry is a way of achieving inner knowledge and illuminating journeys.”
The event is sponsored by the Spanish Department, the Writing Program and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. A reception will be held prior to the lecture at 4 pm in Collins Café . For more information, call x2576.
“Did you know that your computer can be compromised just by being connected to the network?” asks Susan Hafer Richman, Information Services. “Did you know that Wellesley College has a site license that allows Wellesley faculty, staff and students to install protective software on your own personal computers?”
Learn how to help secure your computers on and off campus by keeping virus protection updated, running Ad-aware, doing operating system updates and more at www.wellesley.edu/Computing/Security/.
trustees OK oakwoods plans, increase mortgage limit
At their Oct. 28-29 quarterly meetings, Wellesley College trustees approved design plans for Oakwoods, increased the loan limit for faculty mortgages and discussed efforts to increase hiring of faculty of color and maintain Wellesley’s academic excellence.
The Landscape & Building Committee approved design plans for the renovation of Oakwoods, the gray building next to Stone-Davis, which has formerly served as the home of the Dean of Students. During the coming months, the building will be expanded and renovated to become the new home of the Admission Office. After Admission moves to Oakwoods next year, its current space on the second floor of Green Hall will be renovated to become the Newhouse Center for the Humanities.
In response to price increases in the local real estate market, the board voted to increase the maximum loan amount for the faculty mortgage program from $600,000 to $800,000.
Deans Andy Shennan, Joanne Berger-Sweeney and Adele Wolfson led a lively discussion with the Trustee-Faculty Committee on Academic Affairs about efforts to recruit and retain a diverse faculty. Five new trustees were welcomed to the board: Douglas Bennet, president of Wesleyan University; Mahnaz Ispahani ’79, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Lynn Dixon Johnston ’64, foundation director and community volunteer; Heather Long ’04, young alumna trustee and Rhodes Scholar; and Joan Wallace-Benjamin ’75, president and CEO of The Home for Little Wanderers.
wellesley theatre offers new version of trojan women
Wellesley College Theatre’s fall production is a new version of Euripides’ Trojan Women, written by Brendan Kennelly and directed by Nora Hussey, theatre. The production features performances by Wellesley students and members of the Boston theatre community.The ancient Greek playwright Euripides shocked his audiences by portraying their great heroes as cruel and cowardly, and his Trojan Women is a powerful indictment of war.
In this new version, Kennelly gives the play a 20th-century edge. The women are usually seen as passive victims at the whimsical mercy of their male conquerors, but Kennelly draws from them a strong, active, resolute and shrewd note. “It was their different kinds of intensity that I found most magnetic,” he says. “This play tries to present those mesmeric intensities in a fit language.”
Trojan Women will be presented in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theater in Alumnae Hall Thursday, Nov. 11, at 7 pm, Friday, Nov. 12, at 8 pm, Saturday, Nov. 13, at 2 pm, and Sunday, Nov. 14 at 2 and 7 pm. Tickets are $12 for general admission, $10 for seniors and Wellesley faculty and staff, and free for Wellesley and MIT students with ID. For more information and reservations, call x2000.
celebrating new book on the buddha
The Department of English will hold a reception to celebrate the publication of An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004) by Pankaj Mishra, Wellesley Robert Garis Fellow in Writing, Thursday, Nov. 11, at 5:30 pm in the English Department Common Room. “It is a fascinating and wide-ranging narrative, deftly intertwining several stories: the historical Buddha’s life, the dissemination of the Buddha’s teaching in the West as well as Asia, and Mishra’s own itinerary of travel in search of deeper knowledge of the bearing of Buddhist teachings on both historical and contemporary political and social life,” said Margery Sabin, English. For more information, call x3797.
jane kyricos, admission, has accepted an Award of Excellence for the Wellesley College viewbook at the 2004 University & College Designers Association (UCDA) Annual Design Competition, part of the UCDA’s annual conference in Vail, Colo. The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote higher education. Print entries are judged for excellence in concept, design, illustration, typography and printing, as well as effectiveness, quality and creativity in solving the problems inherent in institutional design. UCDA judges evaluated over 1,300 print entries, awarding 199 awards, including 10 awards in the category of viewbook/recruitment. In addition to Wellesley, nine other institutions received the Award of Excellence in the viewbook/recruitment category: Babson, Bennington, Carleton, Harvard Business School, Middlebury, Northeastern, the College of New Jersey, the University at Buffalo and the University of Vermont. In addition to Kyricos, who served as Wellesley’s viewbook project director, editor and writer, others receiving credit for the Award of Excellence were Janet Friskey of Friskey Design; writer Gerry Cohen; and photographers Richard Howard, John Mottern and Justin Allardyce Knight.
nancy mullin-rindler, director, Project on Teasing and Bullying, explained the growing issue of online harassment among teenagers in the Oct. 5 Chicago Tribune article, “Cyber Cruelty,” saying, “Online harassment isn’t just between the bully and his or her victim. Bullies love an audience and are likely to tell other kids. Bullying is about one kid feeling powerful over another.” Those who are bullied should not feel responsible. “It’s not up to them to stop it—they’re the victims,” she said. Telling parents or other authority figures is a better way to end bullying.
cws workshop. “Job Search Correspondence.” 12:30 pm, GRH 428. Info: x2352.
cws workshop. “Simmons College Graduate Programs in Health Studies.” 12:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352.
italian table. 12:30 pm, Tower. Info: x2616.
workshop. “Brazilian Music.” Speaker: Monica Salmaso, singer. 4-6 pm, JAC 106. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2077.
lecture. “Bugs, Blobs and Roto-Routers.” Speaker: Jim Propp, mathematics, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison. 4:15-5:30 pm, SCI 396. Sponsor: Math. Info: x3148.
apt workshop. “Ummm, Talking in Class?” 4:30 pm, Tower Great Hall. Info: x2641.
cws workshops. “Effective Networking,” 4:30 pm, GRH 330. “Job Shadowing,” 5 pm, GRH 442. “Using the Wellesley Network,” 6 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
meeting. CG Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
film. Kung San of Africa. 8-10 pm, PNE 125. Info: anthromail@wellesley.edu.
tanner conference. (See story) 8:30 am-4:10 pm. Info: tanner@wellesey.edu.
walk with spirit. 4 pm, Chapel lawn. Sponsor: Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: x2687.
sharing circle. 7-8 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Unitarian Universalist. Info: x3484.
german table. 7:30-8:30 pm, Schneider loft. Info: x2584.
aylat al-qadr. Islamic tradition.
lecture/recital. “Singing with Different Tongues: Cultural Identity Revealed Through Music.” Triple Helix Piano Trio. 12:30 pm, Jewett Aud. (See story) Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.
cws workshops. “How to Find an Internship,” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. “Résumé Writing,” 12:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352.
meditation. 12:30-1 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
disability discussion. 12:30-1:30 pm, FND 305. Sponsor: Disability Services. Info: x2434.
lecture. “Why American Studies Needs Latina Studies.” Speaker: Paul Fisher, English. 12:30-1:30 pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: Mezcla. Info: Mezclamail@wellesley.edu.
spanish table. 12:30 pm, Tower. Info: x3571.russian table. 1-2 pm, FND 416. Info: x3584.
apt workshops. “Test Well, Feel Swell,” 4 pm, Freeman living room. “Public Speaking Workshop,” 5 pm, Dower living room. Info: x2641.
meeting. “Latin American Studies.” For majors. 6 pm, Pendleton Atrium. Info: x2202.
applied arts workshop. “Suminagashi and Stab Binding, Part 1.” 6-9 pm, JAC 254. Info: x2030.
meeting. “Good Book Club.” 6:30 pm, BIL 202. Sponsor: Protestant CC. Info: x2655.
cws workshop. “Medical School and Residency.” 7 pm, SCI 277. Info: x2352.
panel. “Market Research.” 7-8:30 pm, PNW 212. Info: PreBusinessmail@wellesley.edu.
film session. “Image and Sound.” 7-9 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
veterans day.
birth of baha’u’llah. Baha’i tradition. Begins at sundown.
fall admission open campus. 8:30 am-4 pm. Info: x2270.
cws workshop. “Internships in Africa.” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352.
panel. “Finance 101.” 12:30-1:20 pm, PNE 122. Info: PreBusinessmail@wellesley.edu.
lecture. “The Road Paved by Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections on Race and Culture.” Speaker: Donna Harris, education. 12:30-1:30 pm, PNW 212. Info: x3259.
president’s open office hour. 12:30-1:30 pm. GRH 350.
wcw seminar. “Impact of War-Related Stress on Military Families: Violence Against Women and Children.” Speaker: Linda Williams, Stone Center. 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Info: x2483.
apt workshops. “Assertion: Self-Advocacy,” 4:30 pm, Shafer living room. “Wendy Wellesley & The Prisoner of Exams,” 4:30 pm, Tower Great Hall. Info: x2641.
book reception. ”An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.” Speaker: Pankaj Mishra, author. 5:30 pm, English Dept. Common Room. (See story) Info: x2591.
panel. “Women in International Relations.” 6-8 pm, Collins Cinema. Info: IRCmail@wellesley.edu.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.presentation. “Classical Japanese Theatre.” 6:30 pm, PNE 225A. Info: japanclub@wellesley.edu.
theatre. Trojan Women. 7 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free with Wellesley/MIT student ID; seniors, $10; others, $12. (See story) Info: x2000.
slide show. Images of Women. Speaker: Catherine Collins, health education. 7 pm, Bates living room. Info: x2821.
cws alumnae panel. “Advertising and Marketing Jobs.” 7-9 pm, PNW 212. Info: x2352.
apt workshops. “Speak up! It’s Time for Class: A Public Speaking Workshop,” 7 pm, Stone-Davis living room, and 8 pm, Beebe living room. “Effective Reading Strategies,” 8:30 pm, Bates living room. Info: x2641.
film. Spike Lee’s Crooklyn. 8:30 pm, PNE 125. Admission: Donation for Botswana orphanage. Info: Ethosmail@wellesley.edu.
diwali. Sikh/Hindu tradition.
walk with spirit. 7:30 am, Chapel lawn. Sponsor: Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: x2687.
cws workshop. “Los Angeles Film Internships.” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352.
prayer/discussion. Muslim communal (Jummah). 12:45-1:30 pm, lower chapel. Info: x2025.
bible study. 7 pm, lower chapel. Sponsor: Asian Baptist Student Koinonia. Info: x4692.
films. We Don’t Live Here Anymore; Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. 7-11 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society. Info: FilmSocietymail@wellesley.edu.
theatre. Macbeth. 8 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost: students, $5; others, $10. Sponsor: Shakespeare Society. Info: x3192.
theatre. Trojan Women. 8 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free with Wellesley/MIT student ID; seniors, $10; others, $12. (See story) Info: x2000.
art/travel symposium. 9:45 am, DMCC. Lucy Lippard, cultural critic; 10:45 am, Marjorie Agosin, Spanish; 1 pm, Lesley Dill, artist; 2 pm, James Oles, art; 3 pm, Phyllis McGibbon, art. Info: x2051.
theatre. Trojan Women. 2 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free with Wellesley/MIT student ID; seniors, $10; others, $12. (See story) Info: x2000.
films. We Don’t Live Here Anymore; Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. 7-11 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society. Info: FilmSocietymail@wellesley.edu.
theatre. Macbeth. 8 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost: students, $5; others, $10. Sponsor: Shakespeare Society. Info: x3192.
lecture/recital. “Music from the Melting Pot: Celebrating Our Diversity.” Triple Helix Piano Trio. 8 pm, Alumnae Hall. (See story) Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.
concert. Baby Strange, Passenger and the Halogens. 9-11:30 pm, Molly’s Pub. Sponsor: WZLY. Info: x2690.
sunday november 14eid-ul-fitr. Ramadan ends. Islamic tradition.
worship service. 11:15 am, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant CC. Info: x2655.
theatre. Macbeth. 1 and 7 pm, Shakespeare House. Cost: students, $5; others, $10. Sponsor: Shakespeare Society. Info: x3192.
dober memorial concert. Wellesley College Choir; Cornell University Glee Club. 1:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.
theatre. Trojan Women. 2 and 7 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free with Wellesley/MIT student ID; seniors, $10; others, $12. (See story) Info: x2000.
festival. “World of Wellesley.” 2-5 pm, Sports Center. Sponsors: Administration & Community Affairs. Info: 781-237-5202.
catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Newman Catholic Ministry. Info: x2688.
meeting. Darshana. 5 pm, meditation room, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Hindu Community. Info: x2794.
monday november 15
italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm. (See 11/8 listing.)
lecture. “A Passion for Poetry.” Speaker: Edward Hirsch, poet. Refreshments: 4 pm, Collins Café; program: 4:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsors: Writing, DMCC, Spanish. (See story) Info: x2576.
apt workshop. “Get Help, Make New Friends: Student-Professor Interaction.” 5:30 pm, Dower living room. Info: x2641.
cws workshop. “Navigating the CWS Library.” 6 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
meeting. CG Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
exhibit. Mayling and Emma: A Chinese-American Friendship. Clapp Reference Room, through Dec. 31. Info: x2128.
exhibit. Inspired by Flowers. Botanic Gardens Visitor Center, through Nov. 24. Info: x3094.
exhibit. Presidential Elections at Wellesley College. Archives, Clapp Library, through December. Info: x2127.
exhibit. Infinite Possibilities. Through Dec. 12. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
exhibit. American Identities. Through Dec. 14. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
book sale. Clapp Library. Donations $.50 to $2. Info: x2894.
11/20/04: Wellesley African Students’ Association African Cultural Gala and Celebration. 6:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Info: wasamail@wellesley.edu.
don't miss...triple helix piano trio launches new series of concerts
Wellesley’s acclaimed ensemble-in-residence, the Triple Helix Piano Trio, will launch a new festival this week.
“A Sense of Place: Music Shaped by its Culture” is a two-year series of concerts and lecture-recitals exploring the rich and growing repertoire of chamber music inspired by, and often incorporating, authentic folk traditions.
The series will capture the essence of the music in diverse lands while exploring indigenous cultural traditions. On Saturday, Nov. 13, at 8 pm in Alumnae Hall, Triple Helix—Lois Shapiro, piano, Bayla Keyes, violin, and Rhonda Rider, cello—collaborates with the Wellesley Summer Theatre and Wellesley College Theatre Program, directed by Nora Hussey.
“Music from the Melting Pot: Celebrating Our Diversity” is a multi-media program highlighting the experiences and celebrating the diversity of American immigrant groups through music, movement, and dramatic readings from diary entries. The trio will perform music of Frank Martin, David Baker, Charles Ives, Bright Sheng and Astor Piazzolla. Offering a preview of Saturday’s concert, the festival’s first lecture/recital, “Singing with Different Tongues: Cultural Identity Revealed Through Music,” will be presented Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 12:30 pm in Jewett Auditorium. For more information, call x2028.
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