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SMITH IN THE NEWS
JULIA CHILD '34 VISITS CAMPUS AS 'ALUMNA IN RESIDENCE' "You have to want to learn and
you have to love to eat." "We've been very well fed." "I haven't found any [Smith students]
that seem to be interested in food at this point. They like to
eat, but I haven't found anyone who wants to go into the profession."
THELMA GOLDEN'87 NAMED ONE OF THE 'TIME 100' "Brash, visionary and often controversial,
Golden, 35, is the country's major cheerleader for what she calls
'Post-Black' art After majoring in art history and African-American
studies at Smith College, Golden spent nearly a decade as an
associate curator at the Whitney Museum, where she first made
a name for herself with the provocative 1994 exhibit "Black
Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art"
which attempted to subvert old stereotypes about black men and
black sexuality by placing them in a fresh context."
CONTINUED RESPONSES TO TERRORIST ATTACKS "We don't have a solution, but
we need to create a dialogue and we need to ask questions about
what our government is doing." "Clearly, sitting on Neilson lawn
is not going to stop the bombing. But it's been very one-sided,
implying that the entire American public is for war." " if our commitment to a war on
terrorism takes the form of abandoning people like those of southern
Sudan; if it entails looking away from longstanding patterns
of support for terrorism such as we see in Khartoum, then we
will be handing the terrorists of September 11th a victory." "When children come to political
consciousness, external events have great consequences." "What happened was so overwhelming
and fantastic-in a negative sense-that we had no concepts, no
words, no containers to put it in. Where have we seen these images?
Only in movies." "People ought to know what the
implications of [the Congressional resolutions] are, and they
are tremendous. They give the president great power over productivity
and movement. When you are in war, you want that. These are not
powers you use lightly." "This was not an act of God. It
was an act of man. It was completely avoidable. That affects
us in a much deeper, more painful way." "It is very clear that bin Laden
has substantial assets in Sudan that are still active. What you
have to remember about Sudan is that all of the government officials
who were in power during bin Laden's exile are still in power
today. These are the same ministers who provided asylum to bin
Laden." "When thousands of people have
perished, it can almost be like, 'What are we doing?' You may
question the meaning of life, your religious beliefs, your own
sense of purpose. And there are the emotional reactionsthe
anxiety and guilt that they couldn't save someone."
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "Certainly, he would have been
a plausible and indeed deserving selection at any time in the
last 20 years. For much of that period he would, however, have
been seen as too controversial a choice; there was a backlash
against him among other post-colonial writers and especially
post-colonial critics and theorists."
"THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD" "I'm sure it's happened in the
history of Smith, but it's not very common. That's Hollywood."
CHOOSING COLLEGE LATER IN LIFE "For a lot of women, it validates
them intellectually. They were smart before they got here, but
now the whole world knows they're smart."
THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS "There has never been a negotiation
without a stoppage. At the same time, both sides want to get
it done more than ever, and there is more corporate ownership
than ever before."
REFLECTIONS ON ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH '28 "She said that we cannot survive
without taking the rest of the world into consideration."
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