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SMITH IN THE NEWS
RESPONDING TO TRAGEDY "To call the terrorist attacks
'acts of war' does not allow the families of the victims to experience
and express the true indignation, the pure outpouring of rage
and sorrow, that their losses must engender. By its very nature,
an act of terrorism is far more violating than an act of war." "There is a visceral hatred there,
and if you strike back in an indiscriminate way, you strengthen
it. We must show strength of character in the way we craft a
response." "This occasion comes close to
the matter of repelling a sudden attack in invoking presidential
power." "The scars are never going to
go away. But people learn to live with scars and with pieces
of their hearts ripped out. We continue on because there are
other people we love people we need to take care of and be available
to." "We have the basic desire to help
out. I think a lot of people are at loose ends. Something altruistic
is the best approach." "If you think a terrorist is like
you and me and try to perceive them that way, you'll be wrong-dead
wrong. They are moving to the beat of a completely different
drum." "[The attacks] can create a terrible
sense of insecurity and fear in children. They saw images of
one of the largest buildings in the country crumble. The world
is not the way we thought it was. Adults are struggling with
that, and kids even more so."
TRANSITIONING TO A NEW PRESIDENT "A year can seem like an awfully
long time to an undergraduate. In the life of an institution,
it's not a long time."
NSF RECOGNIZES JOE O'ROURKE "In this field, the frontier of
science is not so distant. There are many unsolved problems and
anyone can work on them." "At the university level, they're
all researchers and some of them are teachers; at the colleges,
we're all teachers and some of us do research."
THE BUSINESS OF SPORTS "There is a rational way to go,
but it depends on whether the owners can stop the haggling among
themselves, which has been historic, and go to the bargaining
table with an agreement that there will be more local revenue-sharing
and a guaranteed minimum payroll. That would take away the incentive
of a free ride in which some owners just pocket the redistributed
money instead of spending it on players. Then it's a simple matter
of horse trading." "When you've got 100,000 seats,
you're expected to fill them every game." "If we pay the star football player,
do we also pay the first violinist in the school orchestra? Will
other academic relationships be similarly mercantilized? And
if we pay the star athlete, how much do we pay him? Do we use
market standards? If we use market standards, then a few players
would be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, a few would be
paid between $50,000 and $100,000, a few would earn their full-ride
scholarship, and hundreds of student athletes per school will
lose their scholarships."
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