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Chronological Listing
- January 26, 2000
Los Angeles Times
Erin Sheehy '88 isn't trained as an engineer but that hasn't
stopped her from starting a successful business in environmental
consulting. Her firm, Environmental Compliance Solutions, helps
client companies such as Arco and California Steel and Waste
Management maintain compliance with government air-quality standards.
In a profile headlined "Liberal Arts Grad Brings Fresh View
to Tech Firm," Sheehy attributes her success largely to
her communication and analysis skills, abilities furthered by
her education as an economics major at Smith. [www.latimes.com]
January 25, 2000
BOSTON GLOBE
Crossing the Atlantic ocean alone, in a rowboat, is an adventure,
Tori Murden '85 acknowledges, but the greater challenges are
on land. "The more important adventures are urban adventures,"
Murden told the Boston Globe when she returned to Smith to give
the All-College Meeting address. "I come back to civilization
and I see all the people we've left behind: the homeless, disturbed
teenagers, the poor, and recognize that as a society we will
not truly arrive if we continue to leave those people behind."
The full-page profile of Murden, the first woman and first American
to row across the Atlantic, noted that she learned to row on
Paradise Pond and competed on Smith's varsity crew team as an
undergraduate. [www.boston.com]
January 24, 2000
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Michael Jordan's emergence as part-owner and manager of the Washington
Wizards elicited huge media coverage -- and even a visit from
President Clinton -- but Andy Zimbalist says the Jordan effect
isn't enough to rescue the NBA. In an op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal, the Smith economist argues that "fans get excited
by who's on the court, not who's in the boardroom." At best,
Zimbalist predicts, Jordan's return may provide the team and
the league a temporary boost. Jordan himself, however, will profit
considerably from the deal, as will the team's majority owner
Abe Pollin. [www.wsj.com]
January 24, 2000
WALL STREET JOURNAL
A brief item in the Journal reported the appointment of Smith
President Ruth Simmons to the board of directors of Goldman Sachs
Group, Inc. The article noted that Simmons is the first woman
director and first African-American director of the securities
firm. [www.wsj.com]
January 23, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
Although Smith played the first women's basketball game in 1893,
it wasn't until 1971 that the Pioneers first faced the arch-rival
Mount Holyoke Lyons. In a feature-length preview of this season's
match-up, the Times noted that the game would be no less intense
for being played outside the glare of television lights. More
than 800 spectators typically wedge themselves into Ainsworth
Gymnasium when the teams meet on Smith ground. "They are
playing for pride and academics, and a woman's right to choose
her own educational model, and they bring a 100-year-old basketball
tradition -- if not against each other -- to their yearly contest."
[www.nytimes.com]
January 19, 2000
BOSTON GLOBE
"Basic Auto Mechanics" isn't a course-option during
Smith's regular terms but it's a mainstay of Interterm, the four-week
break in January when students can explore subjects and experiences
off the beaten path. In a front-page story featuring Smith's
would-be mechanics, the Boston Globe examined the range of courses
-- flower arranging at MIT, woodworking at Colby College, ceramics
at Middlebury, etc. -- that traditionally comprise students'
"terms of endearment." [www.boston.com]
January 11, 2000
USA TODAY
When America Online merged with Time Warner, the Internet entity
suddenly became a player in the world of professional sports,
taking ownership of the Atlanta Braves, Hawks and Thrashers as
well as their associated media properties. The consolidation
could mean new developments in sports programming. But in a front-page
story economist Andy Zimbalist advised investors to be cautious.
"The Internet stocks are in a bubble right now," he
said. "AOL is more solid than most, but I don't think it's
impregnable." [www.usatoday.com]
January 9, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
"When I got the letter that I was accepted, I sat on the
floor of my living room and I cried," recounted Sandy Colvard,
then 43, to reporter Sara Rimer in an extensive feature story
in "Education Life" about Smith's Ada Comstock Scholars
Program. Noting that adults are going to college in growing numbers
-- and women even more frequently than men -- the article examines
the challenges and joys of being an undergraduate later in life
than usual, as well as the reasons why a woman's education often
gets sidetracked. Rimer tells her story largely through the experiences
of five current and former Adas: Colvard; Kathi Legare, 36, a
mother of seven and now a graduate of the Smith School for Social
Work; Alyssa Mahoney, 36, a single parent pursuing premed studies;
Kimberly Marlowe, 42, a former reporter for the Seattle Times;
Anne Martindell, 85, the first female ambassador to New Zealand,
back on campus to finish her degree; Liz Land, 72, who was forced
to leave Smith when she married in 1945; and Roberta Jordan,
60, whose education was passed over in favor of her brothers.
The story's headline, "A Lost Moment Recaptured," conveys
a central purpose of the Ada program: "One of the missions
of women's colleges," noted an historian of women in higher
education, "has always been to allow women to think of themselves
as individuals and not just in terms of social or familial roles."
[www.nytimes.com]
January 4, 2000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
With the first course of Smith's new engineering program well
under way, the Christian Science Monitor took the opportunity
to examine the ways in which learning in a women-only setting
may re-shape the field. In a full-page story featuring photos
of Smith engineering students building Lego robots, reporter
Mark Clayton shows how an emphasis on teamwork and a commitment
to addressing real-world problems promise to help Smith students
persist -- and become leaders -- in one of the fastest-growing
career fields. The story also features a profile of Domenico
Grasso, the program's founding director, who believes that redefining
engineering education can have far-reaching effects. "We
can change not just the complexion of engineering, but the future
of society," he predicts. "Even though their numbers
are going to be somewhat small, the character of the graduate
here is going to be quite unique." [www.csmonitor.com]
January 2, 2000
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
"Zimbalist got game!" declares writer John Greenya
in an enthusiastic review of economist Andrew Zimablist's new
book, "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict
in Big-Time College Sports." Greenya commends Zimbalist
for both "solid analysis" and "wry humor"
and particularly lauds his exposure of the influence wielded
by corporate interests, notably athletic shoe manufacturers,
over public discussion of collegiate athletics. [www.washpost.com]
January/February 2000 (issue date)
MORE
Smith President Ruth Simmons and board chair Shelly Lazarus '68
join 34 other notables -- including Hilary Clinton, Madeleine
Albright, Marian Wright Edelman and Oprah Winfrey -- in More
magazine's celebration of "the alpha woman": "She's
smart, she's seasoned, she's at the top of her game."
December 10, 1999 (issue date)
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
"I know when I've seen a morally unambiguous situation and
this is it," says Professor of English Eric Reeves in explaining
his commitment to ending the 16-year civil war in Sudan. In an
extended profile of Reeves, the Chronicle documents how the successful
publication of a series of pointed and eloquent op-eds about
Sudan has landed the "public policy neophyte" near
the center of international debate about the country. "I've
been around a long time and I've never seen a single person in
humanitarian advocacy make as much of an impact as (Eric) has
in a fairly limited period of time," notes Roger Winter,
executive director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. The Chronicle
profile describes how Reeves' activism began in an avocation
-- woodturning -- that has turned out to yield a significant
profit. Reeves continues to donate those profits to Doctors Without
Borders, the Nobel-prize winning medical relief group whose current
work centers around Sudan. [www.chronicle.com]
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