SMITH IN THE NEWS
August 3, 2001 edition
SMITH'S NEW PRESIDENT
"Smith College has named Carol
Christ as its 10th president. Christ succeeds Ruth Simmons. Christ,
57, a widely respected scholar of Victorian literature, served
as executive vice-chancellor and provost at the University of
California-Berkeley from 1994 to 2000 before returning to teaching
full time."
- National News, USA Today, August 1, 2001
- "Meeting [Carol Christ], she
seemed such a natural for Smith, as if she had graduated from
here."
- - Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Louise Ayars Barden AC '00, "Christ deemed 'very Smith'
in early reaction," Daily Hampshire Gazette, August
1, 2001
"I think Smith is awfully lucky.
She is wonderful to work with, a woman of enormous compassion,
vision and the capacity to attend to details."
- University of California-Berkeley English Department Chair
Janet Adelman '62, "Smith Names New President," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, "July 31, 2001
"I am absolutely delighted that
Carol has been named Smith's next president. While it is a great
loss to Berkeley, her energy and intellect make her eminently
qualified to lead Smith in the 21st Century."
- University of California-Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl,
"UC Berkeley Prof is Smith College's President," Oakland
Tribune, July 31, 2001
"Carol Christ, once the highest-ranking
female administrator at the University of California at Berkeley,
was named president of Smith College yesterday."
- "UC administrator to head Smith College," The
San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2001
"It's the difference that attracts
me."
- Smith College President-Elect Carol T. Christ, "New Leader
At Smith," The New York Times, July 31, 2001
"It's wonderful to come to a college
that has had such strong leadership, because it implies that
there is a good sense of trust between the various communities
and the administration and that the college is on strong footing."
- Smith College President-Elect Carol T. Christ, "Smith
College Appoints President," Union-News, July 31,
2001
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- THE 2001 "HARRIMAN EXPEDITION
RETRACED"
"Anthropologists were all over
the world collecting cultural artifacts. I believe they may have
used bad judgment, they may have been insensitive, but I don't
believe the intention was to hurt the Saanya Kwaan."
- Clark Science Center Director Thomas S. Litwin, "Tlingit
tribal descendents celebrate return of artifacts," National
Public Radio, July 29, 2001
"The same day as the celebration,
a crew from Smith College will dock in Ketchikan aboard the Clipper
Odyssey bearing a totem pole and two house posts. The ship is
retracing the route of the George W. Elder, the steamer commissioned
by railroad magnate Edward Harriman that carried off the artifacts
in the first place."
- "Coming Back Home," The Anchorage Daily News,
July 11, 2001
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- FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN
"I'm not a trust fund baby, and
one of my goals personally is not necessarily to get married.
At this point, I'm really excited about having a career and I
don't think you can really be free or be independent, or even
go off and do all the things you want to do unless you can finance
them."
- Eryn Lessard '04, "Growing involvement of women in financial
markets," National Public Radio, July 23, 2001
"This is a program that anyone
can benefit from. But women seem to be moving more slowly than
men who are investing. It's not that they can't do it, but there's
a psychology in society that seems to get in their way."
- Associate Professor of Economics Mahnaz Mahdavi, "Smith
College adds dollar sense," CNN.com (from Associated
Press reports), July 11, 2001
"I have an aunt who is almost
50 and she hasn't started thinking about her retirement. I don't
want to be in that situation, and I think other young women need
to be concerned about their retirement."
- Rosy Fynn '03, "Students Get Personal Finance Class,"
The New York Times, July 10, 2001
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- MUSEUM SHOWS MAKING HEADLINES
"Few of the images are famous;
many are amazing. For sheer charm, however, none can top Louis
Leopold Boilly's "The Happy Family," which depicts
a fop, his swan-necked wife, and their three tots engaged in
a communal smooch. Domestic bliss doesn't get any giddier than
this."
-Gallery listing for "Master Drawings From the Smith College
Museum of Art" at the Frick Collection, The New Yorker,
August 6, 2001
"This selection of drawings spanning
six centuries has compelling works on paper by some of the more
resonant names in Western art history, names like Tiepolo, Boucher,
Ingres, Gericault, Beardsley, van Gogh, Mondrian and others.
There are works of only academic proficiency, but in far more
cases the drawing sings "
- "Art Guide" listing for "Master Drawings From
the Smith College Museum of Art" at the Frick Collection,
The New York Times, July 27, 2001
"Before he was done, President
Laurenus Clark Seelye had launched a collection studded with
what now are considered the greatest artist of modernism - names
such as Degas, Cézanne, Monet and Picasso - and helped
create at the prestigious women's college one of the leading
modern art collections in academia."
- "Masters of Modernism," (review by Jack Fischer of
"Corot to Picasso: European Masterworks From the Smith College
Museum of Art" at the Cantor Visual Arts Center at Stanford
University), San Jose Mercury News, July 25, 2001
"With this kind of show, you don't
have to eat the whole cheesecake. Just two bites made my day."
- "Show's success a result of its variety," (review
by Edward J. Sozanski of "American Spectrum: Paintings and
Sculpture From the Smith College Museum of Art" at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts), Philadelphia Inquirer, July
15, 2001
"Founded in 1875, Smith College
was committed from the start to the idea that the study of art
should be an integral part of a liberal education. A year after
its founding, the college began to build what would become one
of the best college art collections in the United States. But
we might ask, in what sense is the study of art educational?
The academic disciplines of art history and studio art expose
students to culturally important bodies of knowledge, train them
in skills of analysis and synthesis and teach them modes of professional
conduct. But there is a deeper way art educates: like literature,
music and dance, it educates the imagination, and in so doing
deepens and refines awareness of how inert physicality may be
brought to life by human touch."
- "Masters Who Put Art on Paper," (review by Ken Johnson
of "Master Drawings From the Smith College Museum of Art"
at the Frick Collection), The New York Times, July 13,
2001
"The Monet is here until Sept.
23 with nearly 60 other European paintings and sculptures from
the Smith College Museum. It is not the only masterpiece, and
it is not the only Monet-there are two others. Smith College
is blessed with one of the finest college art collections in
the country, and many of its best works come from the period
between the late 18th century and the early 20th century, the
subject of the exhibition."
- "Smith exhibition makes impression," (review by David
Bonetti of "Corot to Picasso: European Masterworks From
the Smith College Museum of Art" at the Cantor Visual Arts
Center at Stanford University), The San Francisco Chronicle,
July 11, 2001
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- FACULTY VOICES
"'One Nation Underground' is an
interesting and amply illustrated commentary on cold war concerns:
the 'Better Dead Than Red' political mantra that was voiced by
hawkish leaders, the scary scenarios of the game theorists, and
the anxiety spread by detailed instructions of how we might save
ourselves in factories, schools, office buildings, and in fallout
shelters."
- Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Peter
I. Rose, "A house for Dr. Strangelove" (book review),
The Christian Science Monitor, August 2, 2001
"There's a sense that Chinese
documents coming from ethnic Chinese have more credibility."
- Sophia Smith Professor of Government Steven Goldstein, "Scholar
Had Hoped to Help China," The Washington Post, July
28, 2001
"I think the authorities are alarmed
less at the actual content of the information than at the general
porousness through which it leaks."
- Sophia Smith Professor of Government Steven Goldstein, "China
Convicts Third Scholar Tied to U.S.," The New York Times,
July 25, 2001
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- STUDENT VOICES
"We are black and here.
We are female and here. We are here, at Smith,
where women are expected to be leaders, expected to shine brightly
in an incandescent sky. We are coming into our inheritence, living
out the dreams of our mothers. We are here at Smith."
- Maria Velazquez '04, "Ms. Goes to College," Ms.,
September 1, 2001
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