Williams Women’s Crew to Defend Its NCAA Rowing Title in Indianapolis

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Kate Maloney's Williams College women's crew team has been selected as an at-large entrant to the 2014 NCAA Division III Women's Rowing Championships slated for Indianapolis May 30 and June 1.

Maloney, in her third year at the helm of the Ephs, will be taking her third Eph team to the championship event, which Williams has won the past eight years under four different head coaches.

Williams is making its 11th consecutive appearance in the Division III event and previously had qualified for the NCAA Women's Rowing Championship five times before the Division III event was created in 2002.

The Ephs won the inaugural NCAA Division III Women's Rowing title in 2002 held in Indianapolis and since the Division III event began Williams has only missed qualifying in 2003.

For the first time since 2005 the Ephs did not win the NESCAC's automatic bid to the championship as they finished second in the 1 Varsity race to Bates at the ECAC Championships Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester.



Bates and Williams will be joined at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis by NESCAC foes Trinity and Wesleyan.

"It's been a full team effort from freshmen walk-ons to the seniors and we did not get this far without everyone being on board," said Maloney of the At-Large bid extended to her team Monday night on the NCAA Selection Show.

The Ephs gathered in Thoms Lounge in the Chandler Athletic Center to view the selections. Six teams will be competing in 1 Varsity and 2 Varsity boats and two teams will compete with just their 1 Varsity boat. All four NESCAC teams will have two boats racing along with Wellesley College and Washington College (MD). The University of Puget Sound and William Smith College will fill out the field, but will only have their 1 Varsity boat competing.

"We're still in the process of finding our top end speed and we expect over the next three weeks that we will go to the NCAAs with our two fastest boats," Maloney stated. "I'm excited to get back to work and look forward to working with these women in our pursuit of team speed."

 

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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."
 
The exhibit opened on March 22.
 
According to a press release: 
 
The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. 
 
This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures through centuries. Theologians and lay people alike fervently interpreted the Bible literally and figuratively via number theory, because as King Solomon told God, "Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight" (Wisdom 11:22). 
 
"Cracking the Cosmic Code" explores medieval relationships among numbers, events, and works of art. The medieval and Renaissance art on display in this exhibition from the 5th to 17th centuries—including a 15th-century birth platter by Lippo d'Andrea from Florence; a 14th-century panel fragment with courtly scenes from Palace Curiel de los Ajos, Valladolid, Spain; and a 12th-century wall capital from the Monastery at Moutiers-Saint-Jean—reveal numerical patterns as they relate to architecture, literature, gender, and timekeeping. 
 
"There was no realm of thought that was not influenced by the all-consuming belief that all things were celestially ordered, from human life to stones, herbs, and metals," said WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval, who curated the exhibition. "As Vincent Foster Hopper expounds, numbers were 'fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning.' These artworks tease out numerical patterns and their multiple possible meanings, in relation to gender, literature, and the celestial sphere. 
 
"The exhibition looks back while moving forward: It relies on the collection's strengths in Western medieval Christianity, but points to the future with goals of acquiring works from the global Middle Ages. It also nods to the history of the gallery as a medieval period room at this pivotal time in WCMA's history before the momentous move to a new building," Sandoval said.
 
Cracking the Cosmic Code runs through Dec. 22.
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