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SMITH IN THE NEWS
June 17, 2002 edition

VEWER ALERT: SMITH TO BE LIVE ON C-SPAN

On Sunday, June 23, from 3 to 5 p.m. ET, Smith College will be the site of a live broadcast about the life and times of Betty Friedan and the impact of "The Feminine Mystique.". Among the primary guests will be Dan Horowitz, professor of American Studies, and Sherrill Redmon, head of the Sophia Smith Collection. The program is part of C-SPAN's noted American Writers series. The program will air again at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, June 28.

SMITH'S 'MOST SENIOR' GRADUATING SENIOR

" I always loved Smith and I loved learning. School was always a refuge for me "
- Anne Martindell '02, "Beat the Odds Graduation Stories," Oprah Winfrey Show, June 7, 2002

"I always wanted to finish college. I don't like unfinished business."
- Profile of Anne Martindell '02, Smith's oldest graduate, NBC Today show, May 24, 2002

"Age doesn't really matter. It's your personality and your determination that count, more than anything else."
- Ruthemma Rush '02, interviewed for profile of Anne Martindell '02, NBC Today show, May 24, 2002

"I love research. I love writing papers. I don't love exams, because as you get older, your mind still works but it does not work as fast, and writing exams is more difficult. But I made dean's list in my freshman year, and I made it again now."
- Anne Martindell '02, "The Graduate, Age 87, Looks Ahead," New York Times, May 20, 2002

"The young women at Princeton were very, very bright, but they didn't speak up. At Smith, we all spoke up."
- Anne Martindell '02, "Woman finally earns Smith College degree at 87," Boston Globe, May 19, 2002

"What [Anne Martindell] did for us was to bring to the classroom the wealth of knowledge and experience she had gathered during her extraordinary life. How many 20-year-olds have an opportunity to meet a woman like her?"
-Eleanor Rothman, director of campaign initiatives for the Ada Comstock Scholars program, "Former ambassador gets college degree ­ 70 years after her first class," Associated Press, May 17, 2002

"It's very, very difficult to do it all [education, work and family] at once. We live so much longer now that we can wait."
- Anne Martindell '02, "Smith graduate learned to wait," Union-News, May 10, 2002

"During her freshman year at Smith College, Anne Martindell goofed off and studied for exams at the last minute. But by her junior year, she couldn't get enough of her textbooks.
"The passage of 69 years will do that to a person."
- "'Never too late' for a lesson" [profile of 2002 graduate Anne Martindell, age 87], Trenton Times, May 9, 2002

CELEBRATING COMMENCEMENT

"The most important thing you can get from a good liberal education is a chance to learn from your failures, not just your successes."
- Commencement speaker Lani Guinier, "Smith graduates told to embrace their failures," Union-News, May 20, 2002

"You have much to be proud of today, your credentials, your connections, the many chances you've been given to succeed. You must lead, not just succeed."
- Commencement speaker Lani Guinier, "'You must lead,' Guinier exhorts Smith grads," Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 20, 2002

"I just kept plugging. I kept that long-range goal."
- Barbara Kozlowski '02, "Never too old for college: Nontraditional students find it's a tradition at area schools," Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 18-19, 2002

SMITH CITED FOR ENROLLING ECONOMIC DIVERSITY

"At the same time, many prestigious institutions that don't pledge to cover full financial need actually do much better in enrolling the poor. At Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Southern California and the University of California campuses, a fourth or more of the students receive federal Pell grants, which are limited to students whose family income is roughly in the lower third nationally."
- "Enrolling Economic Diversity" [op-ed], New York Times, May 4, 2002

A SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEW FINE ARTS CENTER

"The question was where we could add and subtract to make it all work functionally. How do you break it down in scale and make it connect to the historical setting, with materials that are more fitting?"
- Fine Arts Center Architect Susan Rodriguez, Polshek Partnership, "A great space glorifies the arts: A look inside Smith College's new arts center," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 27-28, 2002

"We're a campus museum, and that's our constituency. But we're very much a public museum, too."
- Smith College Museum of Art Director Suzannah Fabing, "For Museum of Art, a chance to trumpet its treasures," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 27-28, 2002

CONTINUED RECOGNITION FOR ENGINEERING

"Two years ago, the college began offering an engineering program, which makes Smith the first women's college to offer such a program."
- "Closing the gender gap," Washington Times, June 3, 2002

"So, yes, I support the idea of an engineering school for women. Smith College has a new engineering school. It essentially got together with young graduates to create a new educational experience."
- Computer scientist Anita Borg, "Connecting women to technology," Boston Globe, May 12, 2002

LEAVING SMITH WITH FINANCIAL TOOLS AND REAL-WORLD SKILLS

"My concern is starting to set up everything. I want to have a secure financial future. I learned so much today."
- Nellie Taylor '02, "Pop goes the bubble: Students get lesson in 'Life 101'," Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2002

"[College students] often don't understand how important it is to start thinking of retirement funds at this end of life."
- Professor of Economics Randy Bartlett, "Smith grads take interest in real world" [account of Women & Financial Independence program's "financial bootcamp for seniors"], Sunday Republican, May 19, 2002

"Often when students take out these loans, they aren't focused on how they are going to pay them back. But now that they are seniors, they are very interested. It's when they are about to graduate that they begin to panic."
- Associate Professor of Economics Mahnaz Mahdavi, director of the Women and Financial Independence Program, "In Student-Loan Payment Options, A Continuing Financial Education," Washington Post, May 16, 2002

"In a nod to the global economy, Smith College in Northampton offers workshops such as Going to Work in Strange Places, to help seniors (and juniors) gain cultural awareness. In one exercise, students assigned to clashing cultures (one open and aggressive, the other one more reserved) must try to establish rapport."
- "Colleges teach seniors about the real world," Boston Herald, April 21, 2002

SMITH RESPONDS TO HATE INCIDENTS

I want everybody to know that we take these events seriously and will respond vigorously. We regard these threats as entirely unacceptable."
- Acting President John Connolly, "Hate graffiti spurs emergency meeting," Union-News, April 25, 2002

"I see this (meeting) as a vehicle to avoid future incidents."
- Johanna Gutierres '04, "Investigation of slurs pressed, Emotions run high at meeting at Smith College," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 25, 2002

ADMISSION ISSUES MAKE NEWS

"We're hoping some of the people we accepted will take a year off. We'll be tight for bed space."
- Director of Admission Audrey Smith, "No lack of students for WMass colleges," Union-News, June 11, 2002

"It's another year of maturity. Often the students [who take time off between high school and college] are exposed to a completely new experience, a new culture a new group pf people, new responsibilities. It gives them confidence, a set of skills, maturity and appreciation for academic work."
- Director of Admission Audrey Y. Smith, "The 'gap year': Time off can benefit some students," Sunday Republican, April 28, 2002

STUDENTS STAND OUT

"Sophomore Yakhara Sembene never thought of herself as a natural leader, but she said, 'People have been telling me that I am.'"
- "Student honored as global leader" [through Goldman Sachs program], Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 29, 2002

"We've had people join the club who can't float very well. Synchro isn't very hard, once you learn the basics."
- Allison Crosby '04, "In Sync: The Smith College synchronized swim team may be small but it plans to make a splash at commencement," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 24, 2002

FACULTY VOICES IN THE NEWS

"After five or seven years in teaching, most teachers have a moment of existential terror: Will I be able to sustain this kind of effort over a career? They need to return to the original source of their calling, which was to make a seismic difference in the lives of their students."
- Assistant Professor of Education Sam Intrator, "You Gotta Have Heart," Teacher Magazine, May 2002

"When you look at South Asia, where most women live lives in which they are not put in positions of decsion-making or leadership, where almost half of the population are women, they are not given the opportunity to contribute in the way they could."
- Professor Emeritus of Psychology Fran Volkmann, "Planning a college for women in Bangladesh," Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 28, 2002

"It seemed like the vibe at the conference was that people could be funny and still make a point."
- Assistant Professor of Music Steve Waksman, "Rock 'n' Roll Grad School" (coverage of the Experience Music Project's Pop Music Studies Conference), Village Voice, April 24, 2002

"We won't have music at the college level unless we reach out to children and expose them to music at a young age."
- Lecturer in Music Jonathan Hirsh, "Smith musicians take road show to schools," Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 24, 2002

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