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Chronological Listing
August 23, 2000
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Louisiana State University's $50-million expansion of its football
stadium, as well as similar efforts underway at dozens of universities
across the country constitute an "athletic arms race,"
observed the Journal, as universities attempt to raise funds
and lure recruits by pumping up sports attendance. "It's
the quest for the holy grail," noted economist Andy Zimbalist,
whose latest book, "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism
and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports," illustrates the
pitfalls of amateur sports programs aspiring to the pros. [www.wsj.com]
August 18, 2000
DIE WELT
One of Germany's leading national dailies, Die Welt, profiled
Smith's study-abroad program in Hamburg, noting especially the
amount of individual support and attention that Smith students
receive from faculty, both at "home" and abroad. Even
while studying at the 40,000-student University of Hamburg, Smith
students are in close contact with professor and program director
Joe McVeigh, described in the article as "the well-known
German scholar and editor of the standard work "America
and the Germans." Mc Veigh, in turn, stays in close contact
with the students' professors at the university to make sure
that their transition is smooth and additional rescues can be
provided if necessary. Home base for the program is an apartment
near the university that has been converted into a student center,
furnished with books, computers and a seminar room. Kristen
Kniss '01, a German Studies major, credits the college's
low student/faculty ratio and the availability of the Hamburg
program as decisive factors in her choice to come to Smith. [www.welt.de]
August 18, 2000
WASHINGTON POST
The Khartoum regime, the nominal government of the African nation
of Sudan, has been condemned by the U.S. House of Representatives
for "deliberately and systematically committing genocide
in southern Sudan," in pursuit of domination of the south's
vast oil resources. This vicious air war on civilians, writes
literature professor Eric Reeves in an op-ed published
by the Post, "is without question the cruelest and most
destructive military effort by a recognized government anywhere
in the world." It is a moral outrage, Reeves asserts, that
an envoy from Sudan is set to take a seat this fall on the United
Nations Security Council "the same body that should
even now be issuing the harshest condemnation of Khartoum's actions
" [www.washingtonpost.com]
August 18, 2000
HISTORY CHANNEL
Nineteen hundred and twenty-one years ago this week, Mount
Vesuvius erupted, devastating the southern Italian cities of
Pompeii and Herculaneum. Art historian Barbara Kellum
helped viewers of the "This Week in History" envision
the everyday life of Pompeii's citizens, whose stylish villas
and libertine taverns reflected a life of leisure, prosperity
and indulgence. The ruins of the ancient city are so perfectly
preserved, Kellum noted, that "when you wander down the
streets of Pompeii, you're not exactly sure you're not going
to run into somebody in a toga or a tunic." [www.historychannel.com]
August 9, 2000
ABCNEWS.COM
As the battle for the White House intensified, the Democratic
and Republican candidates stepped up their advertising, including
the so-called "attack ads" decried by proponents of
civility in elections. In an article headlined "Will the
glove come off?" ABCNEWS.com surveyed several political
observers on whether, amid promises of above-board campaigning,
we can expect things to get "down-right dirty"
or not. Government professor Howard Gold foresees a strategic
taming of tempers, especially in light of the selection of Democratic
vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, a senator known
for his aversion to "dirty politicking." "Unless
they spiral out of control, there is going to be an attempt to
eschew the negative," Gold predicted. "There is a sensitivity
to the possibility of a real public backlash." [www.abcnews.com]
August 4, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
During its two-year renovation and expansion, The Smith College
Museum of Art has sent its renowned American collection on
the road, to be exhibited at museums and galleries across the
country, among them the National Academy of Design. In an extended
and highly laudatory review of the New York show,
which "cuts a swath of some 250 years of American art,"
the Times praised the "rhapsodic" collection and credited
particularly Smith alumnae for nurturing "a concise history
of American art since 1880 that has been built up generation
by generation." [www.nytimes.com]
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