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February 5, 2003 edition
"[Self-censorship] severely
limits the kind of public involvement
and political involvement that
individuals are willing to take
on or feel themselves able to take
on." -- Professor of Women's
Studies
Marilyn Schuster, WFCR, January
27, 2003
"It's important not to
assume that times have changed." -- Shane Landrum '98, "Keeping
civil liberty in view," Daily Hampshire Gazette, January
25-26, 2003
"Colleges and universities
are the object of surveillance
and an arena for dissent and debate.
I hope this conference will help
us understand our own political
climate today." -- President Carol
T. Christ, "Civil
liberties forum links then and
now," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January
24, 2003
"Smith is doing a worthy
public service in organizing the
[Homeland Insecurity] program -- and in
doing so, is attempting to right
the wrong some feel was committed on its own campus more
than 40 years ago." -- "Current history" [editorial], Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January
23, 2003
"[Ned Spofford and
Joel Dorius] experienced the events
of 1960 as an invasion of privacy
and as a personal humiliation.
What I hope the conference can bring
out is that what most people thought
in the 1960s was a personal event was
really a political event. " -- Professor
of Women's Studies Marilyn Schuster, "Smith conference
focuses on civil liberties," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January 22, 2003
"I think that one
of the particular responsibilities
of gays and lesbians, after what
I think is a primarily very successful
social movement, is to say we have to continue to
be vigilant. We have to continue
to be part of the process that
involves not only our own lives but
the lives of other people who
are vulnerable. What it's about
for me is solidarity among marginalized
groups." -- Professor
of Women's Studies Marilyn Schuster, "Scholars explore homophobia
in times of 'Homeland Insecurity,'" Bay Windows, January
10, 2003
"The issued raised
now, and raised back then, concern
us deeply." -- Professor
of American Studies Daniel Horowitz, "Smith sets forum on
civil liberties," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, December 28,
2002
"Many students want to
have a job as a reverse graduation
present to their parents. That's
just not going to happen for most
of them. There will be jobs but
it will happen over the summer and through
the fall. That's not necessarily
a bad thing, to take a little time
to recoup from years of study." -- Director
of Career and Executive Development
Barbara Reinhold, "Smith urges
parents not to press seniors
on post-grad plans," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, December
30, 2002
"This year's seniors are telling
us they hope their families will
give them some space from worrying about their futures at holiday time. They
need permission to make
decisions in their own way and
on their own timetable." -- Director
of Career and Executive Development
Barbara Reinhold, "Colleges
tell parents to go easy on seniors," Boston
Globe, December 22,
2002
"What
I dread, going home, is my friends'
parents. I say, 'I'm
an English major,' and they say, 'What are you going to be, a teacher?' It
makes me panic." -- Christina Forrestal '03, "Colleges
tell parents to go easy on
seniors," Boston Globe, December
22, 2002
"This year's seniors hope
their families will give them
some space from worrying about
their futures at holiday time.
They need to make decisions
in their own way and
on their own timetable." -- Director of Career
and Executive Development Barbara
Reinhold, "College grads prepped for tough
job market," USA Today, December 16, 2002
"Smith College is
trying to attract more minority
students, especially blacks,
to its classrooms. The women's
college has launched a pilot
program to
recruit minority
students in Philadelphia and
plans a similar program in Springfield because those cities have high concentrations
of blacks and Hispanics." -- USA Today, January 14,
2003
"The student body
at Smith is not as diverse as
I want to see it, particularly
with regard to African-American students." -- President Carol
T. Christ, "Smith
College seeks minorities, " Union-News, January
13, 2003
"Different colleges
are like different communities.
It's important for the student to know himself and for parents
to know their kid and understand
the kind of environment
in which he will thrive. " -- President Carol T.
Christ, "50 Best Colleges For African
Americans," Black
Enterprise, January
2003
"I want to make
Smith a model of a culture that
values diversity
and respects it in all its forms." -- President Carol T. Christ, "Growing
Where She Is Planted: Smith's new president settles
in," Women's Times, January
2003
"A lot of elite colleges
in the past were quit focused on the
traditional four-year students. We were not as interested in recruiting a diverse
student body. But
there's so much more consciousness
of the value of that today." -- President Carol T. Christ, "A community
of achievement: 2-year colleges attracting more
standout students," Chicago
Tribune, December 29, 2002
"Community college students
actually have a better chance at getting
accepted by us than transfers from other four-year universities. They provide
the socioeconomic and
racial diversity that we, and
basically every other four-year college, is looking for." -- President Carol
T. Christ, " Junior Colleges Try Niche
as Cheap Path To Top Universities," New York Times, December
15, 2002
"I feel like [bridge]
should be more popular. I wanted to teach
this class because I'm concerned about the longevity of the game." -- Lecturer
in Music Jonathan Hirsh, "Tricks, no-trump, one
club, ruff," Daily Hampshire Gazette, February
1-2, 2003
"It's school without the
school. It gives you independence to
do whatever you want. Plus, you get to explore all these great things." -- Lynn
Peck '04, "Colleges Offer Light Interterm Courses," Associated
Press (national wire)," January 23, 2003
"The audition class was great
because it outlined the transaction that
takes place in a professional audition very clearly. It was comforting and helpful
to be reminded that
everyone involved in the audition
process is human and therefore fallible. I feel like the advice given will help
me to succeed at
auditions as an actress and otherwise." -- Portia Krieger
''03, "Smith
workshop focuses on audition
skills, Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January 20,
2003
"I like to cook. It
looked like fun. I signed up." -- Jennifer Fitzsimmons '03, "Students
spend time in a kosher kitchen, " Daily Hampshire Gazette, January 22, 2003
"The Quran says
one thing and people practice another-because of tribalism,
because of geography, because of culture." -- Advisor to Muslim students
Khalilah Karim-Rushdan, "Setting the Record Straight on Islam," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January 11-12,
2003
"[Prospective] teachers
should not be intimidated by urban educational
systems. These kids know a lot about life. They know a lot about diversity. They
are just really
strong characters, and I want
to be one of those teachers who's able to teach any student anything." -- Larissa
Jarzylo '04, WFCR, February 3, 2003
"What
you see is that, while a lack of resources makes it hard
for
some schools to operate, a wealth of resources doesn't make it that much easier
for students if they're
coming from home environments
that are very different from those of students in suburban districts. One of
the girls I tutor, her
mother definitely encourages
her to read but doesn't have time to read to her because she's working two jobs
and she's my age." -- Hannah Betesh '03, WFCR, February
3, 2003
"Just because you didn't
grow up here, that doesn't mean you don't
know what happens here. You should always try to leave a place a little better
than how you found it." -- All-College Meeting Speaker
Mary Clare Higgins, "Higgins to Smith students: Get involved," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January 28,
2003
"You walk on Northampton streets,
you drink Northampton water,
your faculty's children go to Northampton schools. If there's a fire in your
dorm, it's the Northampton Fire
Department that will come to
put it out. Like it or not, you're a passenger on the Starship Northampton. The
question is: Will you
be a passenger, or will you do
more?" -- All-College Meeting Speaker
Mary Clare Higgins, "Mayor challenges Smith students," Union-News, January
28, 2003
"When I first saw the digital
projections, I was very impressed. The images
are just juicy on the screen." -- Alice Pratt Brown Professor
of Art John Davis, "Art History Without Slides," Chronicle
of Higher Education, January
24, 2003
"The reasons are different,
but I've never met anybody who wasn't
fascinated with silk. Its name alone is a metaphor for its sheen and feel."
-- Louise Wolff Kahn Professor
in Mathematics and History of
Science and Technology Marjorie
Senechal, "Yearlong
project unravels art and history
of Northampton's silk industry," Associated
Press, December 18, 2002
"Go point by point
and compare football to the cost of the teams that
are getting eliminated. You can see there is more than enough money out there
for everyone if they would
just get rid of the waste."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Therapeutic Treatments for Title
IX, " New
York Times, February 2, 2003
"If you were to reduce
[Division I football] scholarships from
85 down to 60, you would save somewhere between $700,000 and $800,000 a year." --
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, CBS
Evening News, January 26, 2003
"[Women are] being told
to play in dumpy locker rooms, on dumpy
fields, with no travel, and no print attention in local papers. They don't get
any of the resources that
make it an attractive thing to
do. Suppose you take somebody to McDonald's for dinner, instead of the Four Seasons.
If they don't
want to eat at McDonald's, it
doesn't mean they don't like food."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "It's Tough Being in This Title
Role, " Washington
Post, January 25, 2003
"If you were to go to the
football team at a Division 1A school,
where they're allowed to have 85 full grants-in-aid or full scholarship players
and say to them, 'We want
you to make do with 60 full grants-in-aid,
so cut it by 25,' you could save about $700,000 to $800,000 a year."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, Concerns
over Bush administration appointing
commission to review Title IX," All Things Considered, National
Public Radio, January 10, 2003
"Coaches' compensation
packages have more in common with reported
executives' stock option plans in Enron, WorldCom and other corporations than
they do with the
competitive marketplace."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Women's group rips panel over
Title IX; Threat to federal policy
brings an angry response," Baltimore
Sun, December 20, 2002
"The problem with college
sports today is not Title IX nor its
implementation. The problem is endemic waste."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Title IX bout; Changes could
cost athletic opportunities for
women," CNNSI.com, December
20, 2002
"Schools consistently
figure that football will cost less than
it really does. Despite the evidence, you have leaders who are jock happy, who
love football and who project
their own desires onto the community.
Underlying it is a kind of desperation."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
house is a little like football
at Florida," Miami Herald,
January 26, 2003
"At the moment, [football]
fans like the uncertainty, like the
rotation at the top. But is it the Super Bowl or is it now the Ordinary Bowl?
It seems to be the latter,
and this could become problematic
over time."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "A level playing field," Financial
Times, January 25, 2003
"Certainly, the economy
is having its impact on the sports world.
The sports world, in turn, doesn't have much impact on the economy. The average
sports team employs
100 people in its front office
and contributes less than one-half of one percent to a local area's income."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "The
News With Brian Williams," CNBC, January
23, 2003
"You should anticipate
no economic benefits to the area for having
a team. Teams are pretty much neutral for the local economy."
-- Robert A. Woods Professor of
Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "District Boosters Believe Downtown
Stadium Would Outperform Suburban
Site, " Washington
Post, January 20, 2003
"For us at Smith,
we are facing, over a few years, a very substantial
turnover of 15 to 17 percent of our faculty with retirements. So the opportunity
to offer couples
greater options for finding two
jobs in the Valley is terribly important and makes us much more attractive as
an institution."
-- Provost and Dean of Faculty
Susan Bourque, "Grant to help five colleges hire shared faculty," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, January
15, 2003
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