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“To achieve
an urban sense of diversity, we must become more adept at
moving from the private house to the public space, where we
welcome debate, with the expectation that strong argument
not only affirms belief but changes it.”
• President Christ, “What Private Colleges Can Learn
From Public Universities About Public Spaces” [commentary], Chronicle
of Higher Education, March 26, 2004
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“Think
of ‘In Focus: A Brief History of Photography,' which runs
through April 4 at the Smith College Museum of Art, as the
next best thing to auditing ‘Art History 278: History of Photography,'
the Smith course the show complements. … ‘ In Focus' includes
the work of famous photographers (Imogen Cunningham, Eadweard
Muybridge, Edward S. Curtis, James Van DerZee, Cindy Sherman),
but lesser-known images by them. Several of them relate not
just to the history of photography but also to that of Smith
and its academic neighbors.”
• “An
art distilled, from Muybridge to Mapplethorpe” [review], Boston
Globe, March 28, 2004
“Both
The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard and Yale University Art Gallery
should be put on guard. The Smith College Museum of Art, tucked
away in this Western Massachusetts town, gives them a run
for their oil paints. Just a year ago, a big renovation and
expansion of Smith's arts complex were completed. James Polshek,
the architect, has covered the exterior of the Brown Fine
Arts Center (which comprises the museum and the art department
and art library) in a stylish industrial skin. Circle the
outside and take pleasure in glimpsing not just the old masters'
work in some windows, but live, young apprentices learning
their craft in others. The interior lets light in every which
way, providing the effect, at certain locations, of sitting
on a wraparound sun porch with a Matisse view.”
• “Find a pool of sunshine to taste, or
to take in, right in Northampton,” Boston Globe,
February 29, 2004
“The
collection is blessed with so many 19th-century French paintings,
I think all of my favorites may be from here.”
• Smith College Museum of Art Curator
Linda Muehlig, “A treasure-trove of art: The Smith College
Museum houses 19th-, 20th-century masterpieces,” The
(Greenfield, MA) Recorder, February 19, 2004
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“The
engineering program at Smith is designed to diversify the
ranks of America's engineering professionals (and of those
who sit at the highest levels of government and corporate
America) in intellect as well as gender.”
•
Professor and Picker Engineering Program Director Domenico
Grasso, “Engineering and the Human Spirit” [commentary], American
Scientist, May/June 2004 (issue date)
“It's
so gratifying, the excitement the kids bring to this project.
If we could capture that and sustain it through college, we'd
have an excellent educational system ”
•
Professor and Picker Engineering Program Director Domenico
Grasso, “Girls find science is ‘very cool' at TOYchallenge,”
Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 5, 2004
“Each
team wins today, and no one walks away a loser ”
•
Professor and Picker Engineering Program Director Domenico
Grasso, “Everyone a winner in annual toy challenge,” Republican,
April 5, 2004
“One
of the best parts of the [sidewalk design] project is that
we're doing it for the community that Smith is part of.”
•
Becky Silverstein '04, “Smith students design Bridge Road
sidewalk,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, February
28, 2004
“We
feel we're bringing in women who wouldn't otherwise go into
engineering; we don't think many of them are coming here instead
of going elsewhere ”
•
Ford Visiting Professor of Engineering Education Glenn Ellis,
“Ivy League startup draws female engineers,” Automotive
Engineering International, January 2004
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“Difficult
sites often produce spectacular buildings. … Weiss/Manfredi
Architects, the designers of Smith College's new Campus Center,
didn't just make the best of the site – they solved
its problems brilliantly.”
•
Spectacular Results on a Difficult Site, Chronicle
of Higher Education, March 26, 2004
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“The students [at Smith and in France] are really at the center
of it. They're creating the new kind of cultural data by their
conversations and discussions online. I think it's a great
way to bring culture into the classroom and make it real so
that we're not isolated, and so that Americans realize it
is important to establish relationships with other countries
”
• Lecturer in French Studies Candace Walton,
“Computer Cultural Exchange,” WFCR, April
1, 2004
“It
spread out across the network of teachers. Every day, I would
open my e-mail and there would be 15 or 20 messages from teachers
with powerful poems and beautiful stories. ”
• Assistant
Professor of Education Sam Intrator, “Book showcases teachers
and poems they use to kindle learning,” Daily Hampshire
Gazette , April 6, 2004 •
“Perfectionistic
kids are most likely to feel bad when they are faced with
a challenge or any type of evaluative threat such as taking
a test or trying a sport for the first time.”
•
Associate Professor of Psychology Patricia DiBartolo, Canadian
Family, March 2004
“Coolness
is an alternative scale of value constructed against the typical
social hierarchy of money, position, authority. Young people,
to some degree, are able to push off becoming part of that
hierarchy through coolness.”
• Professor of Sociology Rick Fantasia,
“The School of Cool,” WWDFast, March 2004
“Everybody
seems to know someone who has a little bit of [a hoarding
tendency].”
• H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology
Randy Frost, “Finders Keepers: How Phil Catlet's family deals
with his excessive hoarding,” Dateline NBC,
March 14, 2004
“Women
are supposed to be in the background. Not calculating, and
not visibily smart.”
• Head
of the Sophia Smith Collection Sherrill Redmon, “Going
to Extreme: There are some women we love to hate,” Toledo
Blade, March 7, 2004
“Immediate
plans for humanitarian intervention should begin. The
alternative is to allow tens of thousands of civilians to
die in the weeks and months ahead in what will be continuing
genocidal destruction.”
• Professor of English Eric Reeves, “Unnoticed
Genocide,” Washington Post, February 25,
2004
“It
is enormously difficult to pass an amendment. The whole point
of the thing was to make sure there was a very wide national
consensus to do something.”
• Charles N. Clark Professor of Government
Don Robinson, “Same-sex unions not recognized in Florida,”
Florida Today, February 21, 2004
“The
enduring party image is that Republicans are the party of
national security and Democrats the party of the economy.”
• Professor of Government Howard Gold,
“Politics drives economic debate,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
February 20, 2004
“[Hoarders] ... apply emotions to a range of things that others would
consider worthless.”
• Professor of Psychology Randy Frost,
“The danger of hoarding,” USA Today, February
19, 2004
“A
sound knowledge of financial basics allows a woman to be an
active participant in many of her family's most important
decisions.”
• Associate Professor of Economics Mahnaz
Mahdavi, “Every Smart Woman Knows About Family Finances,”
Woman's Day, February 17, 2004
“The
American people deserve to know whether Mr. Bush or anyone
in his administration were cooking the books in order to justify
pre-emptive war.”
• Professor of Government Martha Ackelsberg,
“The Intelligence on Iraq: What Went Wrong?” New York
Times, January 30, 2004
“After
several decades of moving off the national radar. America's
labor leaders are taking their heads out of the sand and restoring
some of the tactics that helped build the great unions in
the first place.”
• Professor of Sociology Rick Fantasia,
“Taking steps to the bosses' doorsteps,” Christian
Science Monitor, January 30, 2004
“The
trade-off is that as consumers get to buy inexpensive goods,
jobs are exported.”
• Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American
Studies Dan Horowitz, “‘Made in the U.S.A.' is becoming an
obsolete phrase,” San Antonio Express-News,
January 25, 2004
“A
lot of people are in denial that hoarding is even a problem,
so recognizing it is a problem is a good first step.”
• H.E. and E.S. Israel Professor of Psychology
Randy Frost, “A hard habit to pack in,” New York Daily
News,” January 22, 2004
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“It
was to be expected, given the new collective bargaining agreement.
Beware, however, about the team-by-team numbers, because they
don't adjust for cash considerations in trades.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “Yanks' payroll soars as MLB average falls,”
USA Today, April 12, 2004
“Higher
payrolls raise the probability of winning but, in fact, it's
in Major League Baseball's interest to have large-market teams
win more often than small-market teams. That's the way to
maximize revenue.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “The Yankees on Trial,” ESPN,
April 8, 2004
“[Steroid
use in baseball] is a black mark that says all the things
that fans have been rooting for since the 1994 strike, the
McGwire record, the Bonds record, the other feats that have
been accomplished, all those things are now called into question.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “The Flip Side,” CNNfn,
March 25, 2004
"If
one player is taking steroids, it imbalances the playing field."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “ Major-league baseball faces scrutiny over
steroid use and lack of drug testing,” NPR Marketplace
Morning Report, March 11, 2004
“This
year isn't going to be great for [the Yankees] for profits.
But not to worry. There's always next year and the year after
that, now that A-Rod is here.”
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, “How
to succeed in baseball without really overpaying,” Barron's,
February 23, 2004
“...
A-Rod's appeal for Mr. Steinbrenner is clear. It is impossible
to know with any precision, but the above numbers suggest
that Rodriguez's arrival may boost the Yankees' local revenues
somewhere around $20 million, and perhaps more.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, New York Sun, February
20, 2004
“It
adds some extra confidence and swagger to have him on the
team.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist , “A-Rod deal stokes Boston-New York rivalry,”
Christian Science Monitor, February 18, 2004
“You
cannot buy, with any certainty, a pennant or World Series.
If you do the statistical analysis, roughly somewhere between
20 and 40 percent of team performance is determined by payroll.
So the Yankees being able to spend $70 million more than the
Red Sox certainly gives them a leg up. It gives them an advantage,
but it does not guarantee that they are going to win the American
League East and certainly doesn't guarantee they're going
to win in the post season.”
•
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, “The
Flip Side,” CNNfn, February 18, 2004
“I
have always believed, and various economists who write about
stadiums say, that building an arena is more akin to a decision
for a public park or opera house than it is to give incentives
to get General Motors to your area.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “Excitement Bound to Spill Over, Analysts
Say,” New York Sun, January 23, 2004
“The
revenue sources in sports over the last 20 years have been
taken over by television; hockey hasn't participated in that.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “Massive Revenue Problems, Looming Lockout,
Limited Fan Base Could Leave Game in the Cold,” Washington
Post, January 17, 2004
“I
feel very strongly that we need to preserve this notion of
amateurism --
we
just have to get it right.”
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, “Paying Players: Rethinking College Athletics,”
Justice Talking, January 15, 2004
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“The
really great thing about being a geek is that you can get
excited about obscure things.”
• Smith students' sci-fi convention organizer
Shannon Foreman '06, “Parallel Universe: The worlds of Valley
fandom,” Valley Advocate, April 8, 2004
“‘Did
you personally witness George W. Bush reporting for drills
in the Alabama National Guard? If so, there's a $10,000 reward
at stake,' Smith College Democrats wrote in a recent e-mail
to over 700 students.”
• “Primary sparks campus interest,” Daily
Hampshire Gazette, March 2, 2004
“People
who simply dismiss [Syliva Plath] as morbid fail to see the
complexity of her late work and her active search for an individual
voice.”
• Shannon Hunt '04, “Why Sylvia Plath
is more than just a tragic film role,” BBC News,
February 2, 2004
“There's
a lot of concern among students that changes in the dining
system will change the Smith community. Whether [the current
system] is economically practical is another matter.”
• Jacquie Shine '05, “Campus Insider,”
Boston Globe, February 1, 2004
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