Ada Class Happenings http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass News and Info for the Ada Class by the Ada Cabinet Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:19:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Quick power-outage and storm tips http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/28/quick-power-outage-and-storm-tips/ http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/28/quick-power-outage-and-storm-tips/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:25:46 +0000 kkatamay http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/?p=2613

Charge your cellphone.

Have cash on you.

Have all the prescription medication you need.

Check the batteries in your flashlight, lantern, smoke detector, or carbon monoxide detector, as applicable.

Fuel your car if you have one.

Have a stash of non-perishable food, if needed.

Move stuff up off the floor in areas of your house vulnerable to flooding.

Use candles cautiously, if at all.

Stay indoors if possible.

Call campus police ((413) 585-2490), local police ((413) 587-1100), or 911 in case of emergency.

Turn your refrigerator and freezer to their coldest settings before an anticipated power loss to extend the life of your food.

And perhaps most importantly: grind or brew some coffee now if you know you’ll want it later.

 

For more information, see the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, the National Hurricane Center, The Weather Channel, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and the Smith website.

]]> http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/28/quick-power-outage-and-storm-tips/feed/ 0 Coming up: Catching Your Breath and Boat House Tea http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/11/coming-up-catching-your-breath-and-boat-house-tea/ http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/11/coming-up-catching-your-breath-and-boat-house-tea/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:03:09 +0000 kkatamay http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/?p=2563 Two equally fabulous events are coming up Wednesday, Oct. 17 from 4:15-5:45.

For entering Adas exclusively, Catching Your Breath is a chance to take a time-out from your coursework and talk with other new Adas about your experiences at Smith so far — the good and the bad, the stressful and the unexpected. Sponsored by Counseling Services, this event meets at Mason Hall (Health Services). If you need childcare get in touch with our babysitters extraordinaire, Jane Ramsey (jcramsey@smith.edu) or Cora Lee Drew (cdrew@smith.edu).

Open to the entire class is a special outdoor fall tea at the boathouse with apple cider and apple cider donuts (!). This is a perfect get-together for a gorgeous fall day — and in the event of a rainy fall day, we’ll still be having delicious treats and camaraderie in Hopkins Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope that regardless of your schedule, you’re getting a chance to both catch your breath and enjoy the beautiful weather.

 

 

 

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Read the October issue here.

 

You can also check out Jan’s Wellness Words of Wisdom blog. (Sample post topic: “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another” – William James.)

]]> http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/10/07/latest-issue-of-well-street-journal-is-out/feed/ 0 Adas eat in style — and for half price! — at The Marina in Brattleboro, VT http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/09/30/adas-eat-in-style-and-for-half-price-at-the-marina-in-brattleboro-vt/ http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/09/30/adas-eat-in-style-and-for-half-price-at-the-marina-in-brattleboro-vt/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:55:08 +0000 kkatamay http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/?p=2512 Fellow Ada and restauranteur extraordinaire Jill Johnson has invited all Adas to enjoy 50% off their meals this school year at The Marina. Just show your OneCard!

The Marina is right on the West River (where it meets the Connecticut) and has a reputation for scrumptious eats in a gorgeous setting.

Thanks, Jill!!

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Applications to be an Ada Gold Key tour guide will be available in the Office of Admissions starting on Monday, Sept. 17th and will be due on Tuesday, Sept. 25th.

Being a tour guide is a  a great way to show off what you love about Smith while boosting your public speaking and backwards-walking chops. Ada tour guides are exempt from the usual Gold Key requirement to host prospective students overnight, and generally give tours to prospective Adas one (paid!) Saturday afternoon a month.

For more information, get in touch with Gabrielle Martone (gmartone@smith.edu).

]]> http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/09/14/apply-to-be-an-ada-tour-guide-2/feed/ 0 Hey, new students! Take the library quiz! Dean Erika Laquer explains how. http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/09/10/hey-new-students-take-the-library-quiz-dean-erika-laquer-explains-how/ http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/2012/09/10/hey-new-students-take-the-library-quiz-dean-erika-laquer-explains-how/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:39:35 +0000 kkatamay http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/adaclass/?p=2462 To help learn how to navigate Smith’s library resources, and refresh yourself on issues of academic integrity, you are required to take the Research Skills Quiz, no later than Friday, September 21st.  It will be administered through a Moodle site in which you are enrolled. The process of taking the quiz is useful. Should you not complete the quiz by then, I will have a “conversation” with you about doing so. The ultimate sanction would be a hold on your BannerWeb account, which would prevent you from registering for spring semester classes in November. The benefit of the quiz is that you will be better prepared to do your work at Smith.

Just log into Moodle and then into “Research Skills for Students – F12.”  Take the brief quiz – read the correct answers – and take again until you get 100%. (You may retake the quiz as many times as you like.)

For more information on the Smith College Information Literacy Program, please go to:

http://www.smith.edu/libraries/services/faculty/infolit/index.htm .

For comments or questions about Information Literacy or the quiz, please contact Bruce Sajdak directly at

bsajdak@email.smith.edu .

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Moana Rawlins, an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College in Northampton, blends her studies and her art. A sociology major with a concentration in community engagement and social justice, she is also a playwright: Her one-act work “Behind Bars: Voices” was performed at Smith this week. Rawlins says she uses the theater to bridge the distance between prison and the community, and to give a voice to those who have been incarcerated and struggled to rejoin society.

April 12, 2012
Neilson Library Browsing Room Smith College Northampton MA 7 PM
Behind Bars: Voices—A One Act Play By Moana Rawlins

This is a five scene one act play which examines the lives of women incarcerated in America. From courtroom to segregation cell we look at the ways women navigate this oppressive, restrictive, and punishing environment. Social conditions, women’s health, mandatory minimum drug policies, and the very real experience of being a mother and becoming a mother while incarcerated are represented in the scenes and the play concludes with a section of poetry. The playwright notes that the fifth scene of the play is intended to include current writing of women who are or once were imprisoned in America.

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Join the Ada group on Linked-in! click here

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As you may have heard, the letter to the Editor printed in the Sophian this week has stirred up a bee’s nest here at our wonderfully diverse school. The response is poignant and beautifully presented in an event called pearls and cashmere that is not only on facebook but put up on a tumbl’r blog.

http://pearlsandcashmere.tumblr.com/

I love my school and I am very proud to be a Smithie!

Wendy

 

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