<p>I heard the dining options may change next year. Does anyone with an 'in' at Smith know where they are considering putting the vegetarian/vegan hall if it moves from Northrop/Gillette?</p>
<p>correction on the kosher kitchen:</p>
<p>cutter/ziskind serves kosher/halal (at most meals...possibly not some weekends and/or breakfasts). that food is prepared in cutter ziskind, in a seperate area from the non kosher/halal food that's served on a seperate line in C/Z.</p>
<p>on friday nights, there is a student-prepared kosher meal served at the kosher kitchen attached to dawes house (across bedford terrace from albright and baldwin)</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarifications Stacy.
I feel guilty I havent personally visited the new dining area.
The SQA article I posted explains a great deal.</p>
<p>"The kosher side of the kitchen, with separate areas for meat and dairy, was carved out of an empty apartment that flanked the main kitchen. Last August, the staff kosherized all the kitchen equipment, which meant taking apart the commercial stoves and laboriously soaking and cleaning every last greasy part. After they were cleaned, we had to apply extreme"</p>
<p>OT--How are your friends enjoying working at the Brookings Institution?</p>
<p>lol. Well, we've all gotten an education on Kosher food at Smith now :) Looks like it was my bad as well RLT.</p>
<p>Looks like it was my bad as well RLT.]]</p>
<p>I was worse. I read the article in the SAQ which explained about the new kitchen and still didn't get it. ;)</p>
<p>I heard the dining options may change next year]]</p>
<p>Next yr meaning Sept 07 or this Sept?</p>
<p>[[I got to go to a ball with Julie and David in 1967 at the Hotel Northampton.]]</p>
<p>Ok, Ill admit it; my curiosity has gotten the better of me. How did a Williamss student (and Democrat I assume) get invited to a ball at the Hotel Northampton with David (an Amherst alumnus and Republican) and Julie?</p>
<p>The thing that has always intrigued me is how the two ended up at colleges on the same block, so to speak, considering they knew each other from childhood, b/c Dickey was Eisenhowers VP when both David and Julie were young and living at home--if you consider the WH and VPs house a home. I wonder what kind of games the kids really played in the Rose garden. :)</p>
<p>OTFor you history buffs, the Wiggins Tavern, my favorite area of the Hotel Northampton, was not part of the original building. Wiggins Tavern was built in 1786 in Hopkinton, NH and was moved to the hotel 141 yr later.</p>
<p>I heard the dining options may change next year]]</p>
<p>Next yr meaning Sept 07 or this Sept?]] </p>
<p>Probably this September. It wouldn't surprise me if they moved the dining rooms around a bit year to year. For all the up to date info, you guys can go to <a href="http://www.smith.edu/2eat%5B/url%5D">www.smith.edu/2eat</a>. If the Dining Services website says it, then it is so. Sometimes. ;)</p>
<p>These are useful sites</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smith.edu/diningservices/%5B/url%5D">http://www.smith.edu/diningservices/</a></p>
<p>"Ok, Ill admit it; my curiosity has gotten the better of me. How did a Williamss student (and Democrat I assume) get invited to a ball at the Hotel Northampton with David (an Amherst alumnus and Republican) and Julie?"</p>
<p>Oh, my first love was a Smithie! I didnt know David and Julie from hole in the wall (and they didn't know me any better ;)) But I used to travel down to Smith on a regular basis, and somehow my sweetie (who lived in Chapin) got an invite for the fall weekend ball (I don't know how that happened), and I had a tux from singing in the choir, and the rest is, shall we say, history. </p>
<p>I have no memory of her to speak of. He was very, very bright, and it came across the first minute you met him.</p>
<p>(For the record, I wasn't a Democrat then, and still am not. I have voted for a Dem for Prez precisely once in my life, and quickly lived to regret it.)</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me about Lamont? I'm just getting a high off of all this new information :) I'm so excited!</p>
<p>From the other member of the mini household; he is not a democrat but he is also not a republican and he never votes republican. (His children might disown him if he did.)
Ellen</p>
<p>See how much my "significant other" knows? I once worked for John Lindsay (Republican!). In the 2000 Presidential primary, I voted in the Republican primary, and voted for John McCain (I intensely dislike John McCain, but you know who the utter guy was ;)). The only Dem for Prez I ever voted for was Clinton in '92 (I couldn't stand the sound of "Read My Lips" any longer, but in hindsight I am sorry I voted for Bill the mass murderer, and have learned my lession). </p>
<p>The best Presidential vote I ever cast was for my good friend David McReynolds (twice) - how often do we get the chance to support a gay, pacifist, socialist?</p>
<p>In the 2000 Presidential primary, I voted in the Republican primary, and voted for John McCain]]</p>
<p>Nice going, now your kids might disown you :)</p>
<p>how often do we get the chance to support a gay, pacifist, socialist?]]</p>
<p>Every two yrs if you reside in VT. Bernie Sanders qualifies for two out of three. He isn't gay.</p>
<p>I hesitate to acknowledge this b/c I don't want to ruin my rep as a capitalist pig.</p>
<p>I liked Bernie very much when I lived in Vt. Still do as a matter of fact. If Im not mistaken, he still doesnt take PAC money.</p>
<p>I may not agree with him on some issues, but he possesses what the vast majority of politicians (from both parties) are seriously lacking, integrity.</p>
<p>I like Russ Feingold for the same reason. Im sure TD will suffer a coronary when he reads this. :)</p>
<p>RLT, so far so good at brookings from what I hear. the one in the more econ-focused area is learning a LOT about the computer programs she needs to use, and the more policy-oriented one just got her first major assignment...and she has an (ivy-league student) intern! </p>
<p>business cards, 401k plans, supervising other workers...pretty heady (nervy, intellecutally exciting, lol) stuff for the just-turned-22!</p>
<p>Brookings is a great place. I had lunch the week before last with an uncle, now retired, who worked at Brookings for several decades setting up conferences and such. If D's interests were only slightly different, I would have pointed her in that direction.</p>