On Campus: Diversity and Social Justice, Visual Culture, Staff Association, Wyndham Dining Room Manager Honored

Diversity and Social Justice. The Office of Intercultural Affairs will inaugurate its 2007-08 series of Diversity Conversations on Friday, Sept. 21, with a discussion titled "Raising Awareness: The Relationship Between Diversity and Social Justice." The conversation will take place at the Multicultural Center, on Cambrian Row, at noon; lunch will be provided.

The discussion, which is free and open to all, will be led by Associate Professor of Education Alison Cook-Sather and Maeve O'Hara '08, both of whom serve on the steering committee of the student-led Social Justice Pilot Program. The program is an experimental effort that encourages students to examine hierarchies and relationships of power and to develop the ability to communicate respectfully and productively in an increasingly diverse, global society.

The Diversity Conversations take place every other week at the Multicultural Center, and the Intercultural Affairs staff encourages everyone in the College community to participate. For a schedule of this year's topics, see http://www.brynmawr.edu/intercultural/0708conversations.shtml.

Visual Culture Colloquia. The Center for Visual Culture's weekly colloquium series, which will present speakers on topics ranging from eroticism in medieval art to representations of Israel in American movies of the 1950s and '60s, is underway.

Next week's presenter is medievalist Elaine Beretz, a research associate at the Center, who will offer "Glimpsing a Lost Urban Culture Through Scraps of Beauvais Romanesque" on Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. in Thomas 224. She will be followed on Oct. 3 by Yale University art historian David Joselit, whose talk is titled "Art and Life: Toward an Ethics of Images."

The Center's weekly colloquia are held in Thomas 224 from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. each Wednesday; they are free and open to the public, and light refreshments are served. For more information, see the Center's Web site.

Staff Association General Meeting. Next Thursday, Sept. 27, the Bryn Mawr College Staff Association will hold a general meeting at 10 a.m in Thomas Great Hall. On the agenda: an overview of the College's new emergency notification system from Director of Public Safety Mike Hill and Environmental Health and Safety Officer Don Abramowitz;
a discussion of the College's Employee Assistance Program by a representative of Horizon, the counseling service that provides the benefit; and a report from GSSWSR Co-Dean and Staff Issues Liaison Raymond Albert and Associate CIO and Equal Opportunity Officer Florence Goff on the results and recommendations of the Performance Management Focus Group. Refreshments will be offered; a 50-50 drawing will benefit Main Line Animal Rescue.

Forty Years of Hospitality. Wyndham Catering and Dining Room Manager Willie Mae Taylor was recently honored with a reception celebrating her 40 years of service to Bryn Mawr College. Taylor has brightened the days of generations of students, professors and fellow staff members with her warm smile and painstaking attention to detail, always the gracious hostess.

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