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SMITH IN THE NEWS CAROL CHRIST MAKES FIRST PUBLIC VISIT TO CAMPUS "It's important for us to re-examine
what we think of as the liberal arts. Someone is not able to
fully fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship of she is ignorant
of science and technology, because so many important issues rest
upon technology issues." "Smith is about academic excellence.
Smith is about access. Smith is about diversity. Smith is about
change. Smith is about public responsibility. And Smith is about
women." SMITH TOPS THE (FOOD) LIST "Others making the top 10: Indiana
University, College of Wooster, Virginia Tech, Vassar, Smith,
Elmira College and Bowdoin College." CONTINUED COVERAGE OF JILL KER CONWAY'S SMITH BOOK "Women still need a country of
their mind, their own intellectual turf. If you are a woman in
a male-controlled world, you tend to accept it. If you've had
your own turf [in a women's college], you tend to be more self-assured." STUDENTS SPEAK OUT "Cars are one of the last bastions
of masculinity. We call ourselves liberated but we can't find
a sparkplug." "As we proceed with our lives,
some of us may turn out to be wealthy, some may have working
spouses or partners, but none of us should find ourselves, for
lack of preparation, dependent on these factors for a secure
and independent financial life." "It's a funny song. It makes fun
of Wellesley and Mount Holyoke a little." FACULTY VOICES "One might wonder by what logic
[Washington, DC], the country's eighth-largest media market,
merits a team now, when Major League Baseball is talking about
shrinking to 28 teams, and not before-when the league planned
on sticking with 30 franchises. The answer is that contraction
is not a reality; it is a gambit by team owners and one that
has no place in a sane economic world." "Jian Zemin is at that point in
his term where he's thinking about his legacy. And he wants his
legacy to be closely associated with improved ties with the U.S." "There's no doubt that presidents
historically have violated civil liberties and civil rights in
the conduct of war." "Don't let money be the deciding
factor. There's not enough money in the world to make you happy
if your job doesn't suit you. Workplace dissatisfaction and stress
constitute the number one health problem for working adults." "Our belongings have become more
central to our identity." "New York is the best baseball
city in the world. It should have used that leverage to cut a
better deal for the city's taxpayers." "Global warming is a problem that
will not go away just because we export the worst of it and leave
the rest to our great-grandchildren." "I don't think we have to depart
from civil liberties because of one incident. When you talk about
the rights that are outlined in the Constitution, you're talking
about the fundamental principles of the country." ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS "In 1983, she started Smith College.
In a class of six hundred, there were twenty or so black women.
'I was in heaven. I'd never been with so many black people who
were not my family.'" "At Smith College in the mid-1920s
she was determined to become a writer. No student agonized more
than she over the papers and poems she turned in to her mentor,
the legendary English professor Mina Curtiss. Would they be good
enough? They always were "
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