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SMITH IN THE NEWS
April 18, 2002 edition
VIEWER ALERT: SMITH SUMMER SCIENCE
ON NOGGIN
- On Monday, April 22, at 8:30 p.m.
Eastern time, the Noggin cable channel, an educational, commercial-free
channel related to Nickelodeon, will feature Smith on its program
titled "A Walk In Your Shoes." The premise of
the program is that two young people from different walks of
life trade places for several days in order to gain greater understanding
of each other's environments and experiences. A high school student
at last summer's Smith Summer Science and Engineering Program
Diya Sukh of Randolph, New Jersey traded places for
a week with a student at a cheerleading camp in the south. While
Diya strove to learn cheers and formations, the cheerleading
student built robots at Smith. Smith folks featured include Elizabeth
Maynard '03 and Aruna Sarma '04, as well as Associate Professor
of Computer Science Ileana Streinu. Noggin is not carried on
all cable systems but is currently available in about 22 millions
homes nationwide, primarily via satellite or digital cable.
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- CREATING OPPORTUNITY FOR LOW-INCOME
STUDENTS
- "In addition, a recent study
found that schools with need-blind policies actually have fewer
poor and working-class students. The private liberal arts colleges
that have the most students with incomes low enough to qualify
for Pell grants are Mount Holyoke and Smith. Neither has a need-blind
admission policy, but both have historically taken it upon themselves
to seek out first-generation college students as well as women
who are returning to school after motherhood or careers."
- "Pricing the Poor Out of College," New York Times
[editorial], March 27, 2002
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- SMITH CREATES LINKS TO TWO COMMUNITY
COLLEGES
"This agreement is further validation
for these women who, for one reason or another, lack the confidence
to believe that dreams can happen."
- Andrea Gross AC, "Agreement links colleges to Smith,"
Union-News, April 8, 2002
- "It's like a road map from the
community colleges to Smith."
- Associate Director of Ada Comstock Scholars Program Sidonia
Dalby, "HCC, GCC students to get Smith advice," Union-News/Associated
Press, March 26, 2002
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- NEW BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS
- "[The construction crews] have
moved along quite nicely and I think the results will be spectacular."
- Director of Campus Operations and Facilities Bill Brandt, "Building
boom time at Smith," Daily Hampshire Gazette, March
22, 2002
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- MAKING THE CASE FOR WOMEN'S COLLEGES
"in 2000, three women's colleges-Wellesley,
Bryn Mawr and Smith-ranked first, second and third in the nation
among all liberal arts colleges in the number of alumnae with
science and math doctorates."
- "How to get the girls? That's the question for the nation's
women's colleges," Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23,
2002
- "[At a women's college], everyone
is your peer as well as your role model."
- Holly Lincoln '98, "Considering a women's college,"
Private Colleges magazine, 2002
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- ENGINEERING A BETTER WORLD
"The engineers of tomorrow must
be ready to blend the potential of technology with the highest
aspirations of humanity and lead our society toward a sustainable
future. Even when this approach becomes a reality, we as individuals
must not abdicate our responsibility to participate actively
in guiding environmentally sound technological decisions for
the future.
- Rosemary Bradford Hewlett Professor of Engineering Domenico
Grasso, WFCR (commentary), April 11, 2002
"Industry, collectively, has a
responsibility here because they made major profits during a
time when environmental regulations were not part of the consciousness
of this country. So I think there's a historic responsibility
of these industries that shared in the larger profits in a time
when environmental responsibility was not the mindset of the
day. And that's why I think that there should still be some kind
of tax levied on these industries.
- Rosemary Bradford Hewlett Professor of Engineering Domenico
Grasso, "Beyond the Headlines," National Radio Project,
April 4, 2002
- "Technology touches all aspects
of our lives every day, and the WITI Invent Center [at Smith]
is a resource for students and alumnae in all fields and majors,
not just those from the engineering program."
- WITI Founder and Chairwoman Carolyn Leighton, "The WITI
Invent Center: Women in Technology International and Smith College
Share a Vision," Woman Engineer, Winter 2001/2002
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- OPENING DAY
"In short, prognosticating about
the baseball season is simple: mountains of litigation and the
Yanks in seven."
- Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "The
Big Lumber This Season: Lawsuits" (column), Business
Week, April 15, 2002
"Many team owners today also own
entities that do business with their own teams, like TV stations
or stadium concessions . Other owners use teams to develop real
estate near stadiums. Others exploit their community prominence
to foster closer ties with politicians and corporate executives.
Most enjoy substantial tax benefits, eventual capital gains and
the ego ride of ownership."
- Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Baseball
by the Numbers," New York Times Magazine, March 31,
2002
- "I think the players, along with
the owners, were very scared by the devastation of the 1994-95
work stoppage. It's certainly not good for the industry to do
another one of those."
- Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Baseball's
60-40 rule," NPR Marketplace, March 28, 2002
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- FACULTY MAKING NEWS
"Dr. Intrator's most important
point is that these teachers are outstanding not because of their
intellect but because of their emotional commitment to students.
Against all odds, these teachers keep alive the optimism of their
first days on the job."
- "On Teaching, in the Teacher's Voice," New York
Times Education Life, review of "Stories of the Courage
to Teach: Honoring the Teacher's Heart," by Assistant Professor
of Education Sam Intrator; April 14, 2002
"The data suggest a crucial role
for language in development of mature theory of mind."
Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology Jill de Villiers,
"Speak Before You Think: Does how we talk steer our thoughts?"
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 29, 2002
"[Smith is] the only school that
offers a minor in exercise and sport studies among the Seven
Sisters or former Seven Sisters colleges, and the only school
to really take an academic, research-based, investigatory approach
to sport within a liberal arts setting."
- Associate Professor of Exercise and Sport Studies Christine
Shelton, "Smith and Bryn Mawr offer joint course on women
and sport in film," WFCR, March 13, 2002
- "[Y]ou're not having a critical
discourse while you're watching MTV. You're not getting the historical
discourse, the aesthetics, the various ideologies, the issues
of identity-all of which have their own disciplinary complications."
- Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies Kevin Quashie,
"Race in the College Classroom: Minority faculty often face
student resistance when teaching about race," Black Issues
in Higher Education, March 14, 2002
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- STUDENT VOICES
"With enough individual attention,
it's impossible for a kid not to develop the skills they need,
granted they don't have other issues like a reading disability."
- Holly Mott AC, "Word by word, tutors open world of reading,"
Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 16-17, 2002
"I've found nothing more deeply
satisfying [than teaching] as I've dabbled with different career
possibilities over the past several years, in spite of, or maybe
even because of, the overwhelming challenges I know teachers
face."
- Megan Jamieson '03, "Truman Scholarships stop here,"
Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 25, 2002 [Jamieson is one
of 64 college juniors across the country to win prestigious Truman
Fellowships for graduate study; she plans a career in teaching
and, later, educational administration]
- "I want to be the one teacher
a student remembers when she thinks about her own sense of fairness
or her love of Shakespeare. I want to be a role model and an
inspiration in a simple, everyday sense."
- Megan Jamieson '03, "Smith junior earns Truman Fellowship,"
Union-News, March 25, 2002
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- FOR THE RECORD
In her article about the Pioneer Valley's
low-profile, high-tech community, Amy Zuckerman fails to identify
the other colleges that make the area an appealing place to live
and work. For those not in the know, the colleges that help provide
the Happy Valley lifestyle are Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke
and Hampshire."
- Chief Public Affairs Officer Ann Shanahan, "Pioneer spirit"
[letter to the editor], Boston Globe Magazine, March 24,
2002
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