October 28, 2011 

The Newcomb News is a weekly listserv sent to all Tulane women undergraduate students with information about upcoming events and opportunities through both the Newcomb College Institute and other organizations that are of interest. 
 
In this Issue:  
  1. Fridays at Newcomb: Jennie Lightweis-Goff, “Lynched Women: Photography, Voyeurism, and the Limits of Agency”
  2. Annual Book Sale – Last Day
  3. Swing Dancing @ the Rat
  4. Women in Higher Education Discussion Lunch
  5. The State of the Republican Primary
  6. The Gender Gap in College: Implications for Understanding Today's College Women and Men
  7. Cuban Hip Hop: Obsesión Events
  8. Reading Project Film Series: 'Tuskegee' + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
  9. Celebrate Newcomb Week
  10. A reading with Marie Howe, the 13th Florie Gale Arons poet
  11. The Division of Student Affairs Presents a New Orleans Fall Tradition: Swamp Fest at the Audubon Zoo
  12. Applications Now Available to Start a NEW Newcomb Student Organization
  13. The Roots of Music Needs Volunteers
 
1. Fridays at Newcomb: Jennie Lightweis-Goff, “Lynched Women: Photography, Voyeurism, and the Limits of Agency”
Friday, October 28, Noon in the Anna Many Lounge of the Caroline Richardson Building
 
In her newly released book, Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus, Dr. Lightweis-Goff argues that the recovery and exhibition of lynching photographs at the beginning of the millennium provided an opportunity to consider violence’s constitutive roles in the formation of normative citizenship and the practice of witnessing pain.  There exists, she argues, a gulf of difference between how critics have perceived images of lynched women and lynched men.

 
2. Annual Book Sale - Last Day
October 28, 9 am – 5 pm
Nadine Vorhoff Library, Caroline Richardson Building, first floor

It's time for the annual book sale at the Nadine Vorhoff Library. Cookbooks, mysteries, academic books, various books from donations, and duplicates of books already on our shelves. All proceeds of the book sale support the Vorhoff Library and the Newcomb Archives. Email bcalvert@tulane.edu with questions.
 
3.  Swing Dancing Night @ the Rat
Free Swing Dancing Lessons and Social Dancing!
Friday, 8:30 – 11:30 pm in the Rat, LBC
Oct. 28
8:30 pm – “Move of the Week”
9:00 pm – Beginner Lesson
10:00 pm – Social Dancing for all levels
 
Join us any time to give it a try, or come every week for to work on your skills!
This event is co-sponsored by the Reily Student Recreation Center and Tulane After Dark.  For more information contact Michelle Mirpuri at mariley@tulane.edu or call 314-2079
 
4. Women in Higher Education Discussion Lunch
November 1, 12-1 pm, the Newcomb College Institute
 
Newcomb Senate is hosting a special lunch and discussion on women in higher education in honor of Prof. Linda Sax’s upcoming visit to campus November 2nd. Come talk about women and college student development. To RSVP, email swillia7@tulane.edu
 
5. The State of the Republican Primary
Tuesday, November 1, 7 pm, LBC 202 (Rechler Room)

Tulane Women in Politics in conjunction with Tulane College Republicans present "The State of the Republican Primary." The panel-led event will discuss the hot issues in the Republican presidential primary. Does Mitt Romney have the nomination wrapped up? Can Herman Cain continue his fast rise? What are the deciding factors for Republican voters? Join us for this timely discussion. Refreshments will be served. Email wip@tulane.edu with any questions.

6. The Gender Gap in College: Implications for Understanding Today's College Women and Men
Wednesday, November 2 ˇ 6-8 pm, Reception at 6pm, Lecture at 7pm
LBC, Stibbs Conference Room (203)
 
Come to a discussion with Linda Sax, Professor of Organizational Change and Higher Education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men. Dr. Sax’s research focuses on gender differences in college student development, specifically how institutional characteristics, peer and faculty environments, and forms of student involvement differentially affect female and male college students. She also examines the impact of single-sex secondary education on women’s experiences in college. 
 
7. Cuban Hip Hop: Obsesión Events
Thursday, Nov 3,  4-6pm  - informal roundtable with the artists in the LBC “1834 Club”
Friday, Nov 4, 7-9pm  - Obsesión  concert with invited local musicians in The Rat
*Saturday night Nov 5 – Show with local MCs at the Dragon’s Den at  435 Esplanade Ave (doors at 9:30pm, $5 cover). 
 
The pioneering Cuban hip hop group OBESION will be visiting Tulane to participate in two campus events November 3 and 4.  The Havana-based duo of Magia López (MC Magia) and Alexey Rodríguez (El Tipo Este) have played a leading role in Cuba’s evolving hip hop movement, and their music offers entre into the current complexities of Cuban society, while providing perspectives of these realties as young Afro-Cubans. Garnering ample international attention, Obsesión has toured in the UK, France, Venezuela, Canada, and the US.  Member Magia López, moreover, is currently the director of the Cuban Rap Agency, the island’s official state-run institution responsible for the promotion of Cuban hip hop.  As such, Magia offers a unique vantage point as both a female artist and governmental representative vis-ŕ-vis hip hop’s evolving position within rapidly changing Cuba.
 
This event is co-sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New Orleans Gulf South Center, Newcomb College Institute and Tulane International Society, Departments of Music, Anthropology, Spanish & Portuguese, and ADST. Questions: email mperry3@tulane.edu
* off-campus event
 
8. Reading Project Film Series: 'Tuskegee' + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
Tuesday, November 8, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm,
Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium
 
Between the years of 1932 and 1971, the U.S. government used approximately 600 poor, rural African American men from Macon County, Alabama, as human guinea pigs for syphilis research under the guise of treatment for bad blood.  This short film investigates the tragic details of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, cited as “arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history,” which eventually led to federal laws to ensure the protection of human subjects in studies involving human subjects.

A special panel discussion on medical ethics will follow immediately after the 22-minute film.  The panel will be co-moderated by Nghana Lewis, associate professor of English and African & African Diaspora Studies, and Lauren Lim, a member of the Women in Science student organization. Panelists include: Dr. Hans C. Andersson, director of the Hayward Genetics Center at Tulane University Medical Center; Susan L. Krinsky, associate dean and adjunct professor of law, Tulane University Law School; and The Reverend Donald P. Owens, Jr., Ph.D., the James A. Knight, M.D. Chair of Humanities and Ethics in Medicine, Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Chaplain of Episcopal Ministry to Medical Education at Tulane University School of Medicine. A reception will be held after the panel.
This event is sponsored by: Reading Project, Newcomb College Institute as well as Newcomb-Tulane College Office of Co-curricular Programs. For more information send email to donuts@tulane.edu or by phone 504-865-5728
 
9. Celebrate Newcomb Week
November 6-11
 
Join Newcomb Senate for a whole week of events!
 
Sunday, November 6
7-9:30 pm, Anna Many Lounge in Caroline Richardson (next to Woldenberg Art Center)
Sunday Sundaes
Come watch the documentary "Cover Girl Culture" and make ice cream sundaes!

Monday. November 7
12-2pm, Newcomb College Institute Patio
Crepes Kick-off
Join us for FREE Nutella crepes from Crepes a la Cart and pick up your Celebrate Newcomb Week schedules of the week!

Poetry Event
7:30-8:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium
Arons Poet Reading featuring Marie Howe

Tuesday, November 8
6:30-8:30pm, Freeman Auditorium
“Tuskegee” + a Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the Reading Project, Newcomb College Institute, Newcomb-Tulane College and Women in Science
 
Wednesday. November 9
7:30-9 pm, Anna Many Lounge in Caroline Richardson (next to Woldenberg Art Center)
“Through the Looking Glass: Women and Politics in Mass Media”
This program features a lecture by Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry; finger food will be served
Sponsor: Women In Politics

Thursday, November 10
7-9 pm, Qatar Ballroom in the LBC
“Women Around the World”
Different cultural student organizations, including AAWS, ASSU, IATU, TIS, and TUFI, will present a trifold on women in their culture; food from every culture present will be served

Friday, November 11
4-6 pm, LBC Quad
Celebrate Newcomb Quad Party and FAQ

Free food, t-shirts, activities, Athletics promo, and great music by TULA and the band Minute Head
Sponsors: FAQ & Newcomb Senate

 
10. A reading with Marie Howe, the 13th Florie Gale Arons poet
Monday, November 7, 7:30 pm, Freeman Auditorium
 
Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); What the Living Do (1998); and The Good Thief (1988); and is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Winner of a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets, she has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.
Marie Howe was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air last week. You can listen to the wonderful interview here:  http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141502211/poet-marie-howe-on-what-the-living-do-after-loss
 
11. The Division of Student Affairs Presents a New Orleans Fall Tradition:
Swamp Fest at the Audubon Zoo
 
Free Tickets for Tulane Students!
 
Spend the day enjoying all the Zoo has to offer with the added bonus of Swamp Fest!  This festival celebrates Louisiana culture and heritage and will give you insight into the Cajun way of life through cultural demonstrations, music, food and crafts.  The weekend salute to Louisiana’s Bayou country at the Zoo features hands-on encounters with live Louisiana swamp animals and special animal feedings. 
 
Register now.
 
Swamp Fest and Zoo admission are free when you register using the following link: 
Bring spending money to sample the great regional fare which includes: Shrimp & Crabmeat Gumbo, Crawfish Bread, Alligator Sauce Picante and more!
 
When: Date:  Saturday, November 5, 2011
 
Where: @ the Audubon Zoo
Shuttle Pick-Up Location:  McAlister and Freret
Shuttle Departs Tulane at:  10:00 am, 12:00 pm & 2:00 pm
Shuttles will return to campus at:  12:30, 2:30 pm & 5:30 pm
 
For more information contact Michelle Riley Mirpuri at mariley@tulane.edu
 
12. Applications Now Available to Start a NEW Newcomb Student Organization
Rolling Admissions; final deadline November 18, 2011
 
Interested in starting a new student organization on campus? Passionate about women’s issues and interests? Applications are now being accepted and reviewed by Newcomb Senate for NEW Newcomb Student Organizations to receive funding starting Fall ’11. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. Please complete the application and submit it to cheaney@tulane.edu no later than November 18, and feel free to email with any questions. Click here for the application
 
13.  The Roots of Music Needs Volunteers!
 
The Roots of Music is looking for volunteer tutors! Roots is a non-profit organization founded by Rebirth Brass band drummer Derrick Tabb, Allison Reinhardt, and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews. The Roots of Music preserves and promotes the great music heritage of New Orleans by provinding free music education, academic tutoring and mentorship to at-risk youth ages 9-14. Tulane students provide the majority of the academic tutoring and homework help. NO KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC IS NECCESSARY. We meet in the lobby of Wall Residential College Monday through Thursday at 3:15, travel by van to the Louisiana State Museum in Jackson Square, and return by 6PM. This is not a daily commitment, come as your schedule allows. For further information, please email Marykate Romagnoli at  mromagno@tulane.edu or Mary Soule at  msoule@tulane.edu