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Nov. 20, 2009

MEDIA ALERT

Tune in to NBC's "Today Show" Monday, Nov. 23, between 9 and 10 a.m. to hear Smith engineering student and bone marrow recipient Anna Robinson discuss her experience and to promote awareness about the Bone Marrow Registry. Read about Anna.

SMITH COLLEGE MENTIONS

BOSTON GLOBE, Nov. 19, 2009
Gentlemen chill in style
TV's ‘Ugly Betty’ star Eric Mabius is photographed at Smith's Campus Center for a men's fashion section.

DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, Nov. 19, 2009
Colleges' safety chief moves to Princeton
Paul L. Ominsky, director of public safety at Hampshire, Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges, will be leaving as of January 31, 2010, for a position at Princeton University.

See also GRECOURT GATE, Nov. 19, 2009

WWLP-TV, CHANNEL 22, Nov. 19, 2009
AAA says holiday travel to increase
When asked recently if they planned on flying home for the holiday, several Smith students said airfare was too expensive for a four-day break.

DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, Nov. 19, 2009
Bean Farm purchase on council agenda tonight
At its Nov. 19 meeting, the City Council will consider an order that calls for connecting the Manhan Rail Trail on the Village Hill development's south campus to a Smith College-owned sidewalk on the north campus. The trail would eventually connect to an existing bike path in Village Hill's north campus. Also on the docket: an ordinance change regarding off-street parking areas near Smith.

SHARON ADVOCATE, Nov. 19, 2009
Obituary: Yafei Hu, 54
Smith alumna Yafei Hu, DIPL '88, AM '89, a beloved Sharon High School Chinese educator who left China for the first time in 1987 to study at Smith, died Nov. 6.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 18, 2009
Hannah returns: Responding to comments on women’s colleges
Hannah Smith, a high school senior in La., who is currently applying to colleges, including Smith, responds to the more than 300 comments on an essay she wrote about her interest in women’s colleges.

COLUMBUS BUSINESS JOURNAL, Nov. 16, 2009
Arena deals have costs, few benefits
Public ownership of sports stadiums and arenas tends to be a bad deal for taxpayers, according to Smith professor and sports economist Andrew Zimbalist. “The (research) suggests you can’t rely on a team to generate positive activity for the economy. Given there will be an economic cost, the issue is whether the social and cultural benefits perceived by local people are worth the additional cost,” said Zimbalist.

HIGHER EDUCATION STORIES

BLOOMBERG NEWS, Nov. 19, 2009
Tufts says wealthy college endowments should take less risk
American colleges and universities with the largest endowments should abandon an investment strategy that has contributed as much as 49 percent to their annual operating budgets because such risk-taking resulted in disruptive cost-cutting in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow said.

THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Nov. 19, 2009
Opinion: Title IX includes maternal discrimination
Concrete measures at both the student and faculty levels would go far toward reducing the unnecessary loss of female Ph.D.s in academic science. The changes our report suggests would help to stop the female brain drain and would satisfy both the letter and the spirit of Title IX.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 18, 2009
New cases of flu drop on college campuses
For the first time since fall began, new cases of flu among college students have started to drop, hinting that this wave of the swine flu pandemic has peaked, the American College Health Association reported.

HUFFINGTON POST, Nov. 17, 2009
Opinion: Liberal arts education: From clubbiness to cosmopolitanism
The writer, president of Wesleyan University, says students at liberal arts institutions are developing skills, learning how to learn, in ways that will serve them for decades.

NEWS RELEASES

Smith Again Tops in Sending Students to Study Abroad

Smith College is once again at the top of the list among baccalaureate institutions nationally for sending the largest number of its students abroad for a full year in 2007-08, as reported by the 2009 Open Doors report. More

New Works Featured in Popular Fall Faculty Dance Concert

In addition to performances of original choreography by Smith dance professors Susan Waltner and Rodger Blum, the Fall Faculty Dance Concert, the season's most anticipated dance event, will feature a dance by guest choreographer David Dorfman, artistic director of David Dorfman Dance, and a professor of dance at Connecticut College. More.