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5. Disney’s Jiminy
7. Mary-Kate and Ashley are twins
10. A Hajj is a visit to this city
13. Peace in Latin
14. Britain’s Got Talent star, Boyle
16. Biting African fly
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Campus Announcements
From Danny Green:
Each year the Diversity Council a Diversity Grant Program so that students, fac
ulty, and staff may apply for one-time funds to help celebrate the diversity of the'
campus. Grants may be in the form of research, programs, or other ways to ensure
that Meredith is a welcoming environment for all'members of bur community. The
Meredith College Diversity Council is committed to creating and improving oppor
tunities to make our campus a more welcoming enviroinnent. ,
The Diversity Council received six grant proposals, and the Council approved
funding for five of the applications for a total of $4,000. The successful proposals
are from your areas and li.sted below:
International Film Festival - Veronique Machelidon, Kevin Hunt, find Debora,
Maldonado-DeOliveria (Foreign Languages)- $1,206 (2011-12) ,
Uncommon Choices Conjunctive Program - Ann Roth and Becky Bailey (Art) -■
$1,000(2011-12) xK>
A Deeper Look: Cambodian Experiences Shared in the Meredith Community -
'iKristen M. Gallagher (Student) - $300 (2011-12) «
jjermanent Flag Display - Kagure Wamunyu, ElizabethX^tos, and Kevin Morris
^n (Student/International Programs) - $750 (2010-11) '
'SmartPen Pilot Program - Henriette Williams-Alexander, Jill Triana, and Liza
Gellerstedt (Disability Semces) - $750 (2010-11)
From Music, Dance and Theatre: * • . - .1
April 15-17: DanceWorlis, the largest performance of the year for {lie Dance
Program, featuring up to 50 student performers in a wide range of works, inclifi
ing ballet, jazz, modern and rhythm. Tickets $10 adults; $5 students and seniorsi
Reservations: boxoffice@meredith.edu or 919-760-2840
April 15: Graduation Recital: Chelsea Stith, piano, at 8:00 p.m, in Carswell Con
cert Hall. Includes works of Gershwin and Handel. Free and open to the public."
The following performance has been added to our calendar: ,; -:
Graduation Recital of Stephanie Thurm, soprano, on Friday, May 6 at 8:00 p.m,^
in Jones Chapel. Free and open to the public.
ACROSS:
Dixon Line
I. Traditionally separates the North and South, the _
4. Canterbury stories
5. Lakota leader at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Horse
6. Minnesota’s 10,000
8. John, Paul, George, and
9. Physicist who was the first person to be awarded with two Nobel Prizes, Marie
II. French for deadly woman, femme
12. mater
15. Mandy Moore and Enrique Iglesias’s exes have this sport in common.
17. Funeral fire
18. Soda made with 23 flavors
Anthropologist
Speaks at Meredith
Nina McManus, Staff Writer
On Tuesday, March 29th,
Meredith College was honored to
host Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Sarah
Hrdy graduated from Radcliffe
College and went on to earn her
doctorate in Anthropology from
Harvard. Hrdy has written six
books, the most recent of which
is Mothers and Others: The
Evolutionary Origins of Mutual
Understanding.
Before the speech, the
Meredith College Department
of Music provided live music to
those waiting. Elizabeth Wolfin-
ger. Vice President for Aca
demic Planning and Programs,
welcomed professor Hrdy and
Jessica Mills provided an intro
duction. Professor Hrdy is an ac
complished lecturer and writer.
She presented her points clearly,
with the aid of a powerpoint
presentation. Most of the audi
ence was especially pleased with
the cute pictures of babies, both
human and primate.
''Hrdy believes
that this
emotional
development
occurred first in
our evolutionary
history and led to
our development
into the dominant
primate species.”
In her speech, entitled
Mothers and Others: How Hu
mans Became Such Other- Re
garding Apes professor Hrdy
focuses on the evolution of the
human species from ancient
apelike creatures to the mod
ern Homo sapiens. While most
people accept the theory that
humans progressed beyond other
primates because, we were more
competitive and more aggressive.
Hrdy presents another theory.
Hrdy compares the behavior
of young children with the behavior
of young primates raised in captiv
ity and young primates raised in
the wild. She found that humans
are the only animals that develop
the ability to judge the emotional
states of others. We are also the
only creatures that look into each
other’s eyes. We are one of very few
species that practice alloparent-
ing, or care of a child by someone
other than the biological parents.
All of this is proof of our emotional
development from a young age.
Hrdy believes that this emotional
development occurred first in our
evolutionary history and led to
our development into the domi
nant primate species. We became
emotional creatures long before
we began behaving like humans, or
even looking like humans. Hrdy’s
theory challenges what we thought
we knew about the strengths of the
human race.
For those interested in
learning more about professor
Hrdy’s theory, the Carlyle Campbell
Library does have a copy of Hrdy’s
latest book. Mothers and Others:
The Evolutionary Origins of Mu
tual Understanding.
image via
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu