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SMITH IN THE NEWS
CONTINUED VISIBILITY FOR THE "The repatriation festivities
at Ketchikan [Alaska], became a highlight of "Harriman Expedition
Retraced, a recent expedition following the 1899 route. Tom Litwin,
director of the Clark Science Center at Smith College, brought
together 30 scientists-half of them Alaskans-and some 70 Smith
patrons and alumnae as well as filmmakers working on a two-hour
documentary that will air on PBS next year. Their four-week voyage,
which ended in Nome on August 19, sought to gauge the ecological
and social changes since Harriman's day."
TRAVELING MUSEUM COLLECTION NOTED "A benefit of traveling is discovering
lesser known art collections One of our favorites is the Smith
College Museum of Art in Northampton, Mass. Can't get there?
It comes to you. American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculpture From
the Smith College Museum of Art is at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts through Sept. 30."
AN ALUMNA RETURNS-AFTER 40 YEARS "Maybe it's the rarefied atmosphere,
maybe the focus on women, but mothers float to mind often at
Smith. How far have we come since they sent us here to learn
to be educated wives and mothers and where do we go from here
now that that task is done"?
FACULTY VOICES "Each major professional sports
league is a monopoly. A monopolist reduces output below what
a competitive level would be-fewer good available mean higher
prices." "What you're going to see is a
determination that will not go away as long as this situation
endures." "How would these two big egos,
Lee [Teng-hui] and Chen [Shui-bian] ever work together? In the
minds of mainland leaders, these are the world's two worst people." "This is not a question that can
be finessed by politics or compromise. American capital markets
either will or will not host companies complicit in what is,
finally, genocide. By all accounts, oil is now fueling Sudan's
civil war and has convinced the Khartoum regime that it can acquire
the revenues to effect a military solution to its southern proble." "I think part of baseball's popularity
has to do with the fact that it's an antidote to the quick pace
of our lives. It's a time when you just slow down and relax and
you don't worry about time. That's one of the beauties of baseball." "A plant that has been safely
modified to imbibe a higher concentration of metals from its
environment cold be a significant advance in restoring many abandoned
sites." "What you're getting when you
invest in a sports franchise more than anything is exposure and
connections. Part of it is, you get to invite the mayor or the
governor or the president of the United States once a week to
your box." "I expected something to have
happened by now, some sort of genuine indication of intentions.
But there is a degree of divisiveness among owners that is troubling.
If the owners can't see the sense in bilateral sacrifice, it
really doesn't matter that [union chief' Donald Fehr and [baseball's
chief operating officer] Paul Beeston can talk nicely to each
other over the phone."
STUDENT VOICES "I think the biggest myth about
Smith is that all Smithies are rich, come from wealthy families
and are snobby, when that's simply not the case. We have women
here from every socio-economic bracket I see a lot of diversity:
socio-economic diversity, ethnic diversity, political alignment
diversity, racial diversity. We have all groups represented here." "I don't know what happened. It
was like someone waved a magic wand and [Smith] became the only
college for me. There was an instant click and I was home again."
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