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SMITH IN THE NEWS MONEY MATTERS "Smith College last year started
a series of weekend and evening minicourses as part of its new
Women's Financial Education program, funded by investment bank
Goldman Sachs and an alumna who is a partner there." SUPPORTING WOMEN IN ENGINEERING "[The challenge for engineering
programs is not to show that math and science are fun, but that]
these disciplines have social value and relevance. Students go
to medical school because they want to help people, not because
they like biology." "Generally, most of our classes
relate to the outside world. It's not like I'm just getting the
facts and figures thrown at me." BREAKING GROUND FOR THE CAMPUS CENTER "This will be a great boon for
the students, faculty and staff, alumnae and guests. It is the
hub we have been missing." "It will not have heavy oaken
doors. It will not be dimly lit, with an oil painting of our
founding mother. It will not close at 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. It will
have a fireplace, but it will not be boarded up with a sign that
says 'do not use.'" IN THE WEB SPOTLIGHT "Smith College has assembled an
exhibit of ancient inventions, some still in use today, others
that have outlived their usefulness. Some items on display look
more like devices Wile E. Coyote might have employed to catch
the Road Runner." STUDENTS MAKING NEWS "Eating is still the most fun
part." "Smith College's student newspaper,
run by and for women, accepted the 'controversial' ad [against
The Vagina Monologues] without getting hot and bothered enough
to melt a heart-shaped box of chocolates." "I wouldn't still be at Smith
if it weren't for majoring in African-American studies." "Smith is very good at [vegan
cooking]. They're very supportive of alternative lifestyles across
the board." FACULTY EXPERTS SPEAK OUT "The fact that Bush was there
at all is in itself significant given the way this administration
began in its dealings with China. That's all either side really
wanted." "I have had [older students] choose
not to do certain internships because when they went to interview
it was clear to them it would be like having an overnight at
one of their teenage daughters' pajama parties. But it wasn't
that they were told they couldn't come. It was that they decided
that it wasn't the best learning environment for them." "There has been no book on [the
Justiniac Plague] and only a handful of serious articles-and
this at a time when the Black Death has become a major growth
industry." "Big-time intercollegiate athletics
is a unique industry. No other industry in the United States
manages not to pay its principal producers a wage or salary." "It's a very transitory phenomenon,
what makes a good baseball town. Just look at teams like Atlanta
and Cleveland that strugged in the 1980s and early 1990s, and
who are thriving now." "Answering war with war, in the
manner ["Lessons of Terror" author Caleb] Carr advises,
could well have unintended and counterproductive consequences,
not least costly and quixotic adventures driven by the political
agendas of various interest groups in this country and those
of other threatened nations." "The current cultural climate
has changed [toward whistleblowing]. There's a feeling that there
are serious problems, and we want you to speak up and there will
be a lot of support for you." "There's one point I want to make
sure we don't give up on in the talk about globalization and
everyone wanting to be cosmopolitan: there's a danger of forgetting
that racism continues to exist. In all this talk about the diaspora
and links across the world, I wouldn't want to lose sight of
the persistence of racism, either in the first world or embodied
in the way indigenous peoples are treated all over the world." ******************** |
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