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March 31, 2001
BOSTON GLOBE
In its community profile section, the Globe highlighted Northampton,
Smith College's home town, a city of fewer than 30,000 people
that nonetheless boasts a best-selling book written about it,
its own poet laureate, and a U.S. president among its former
mayors. [http://www.boston.com/globe]
March 31, 2001
BALTIMORE SUN
The annual book sale by the Smith College Club of Baltimore,
now in its 43rd year, has such a good reputation among book professionals
that admission lines start forming shortly after dawn, some four
hours before the doors open. Some 40,000 50,000 volumes,
donated by Smith alumnae, are offered at the three-day sale;
veterans of the process know that it's important to get there
early for the best pickings; last year, some 250 buyers crossed
the threshold in the first 10 minutes, evoking comparisons to
Filene's basement. Profits from the event support scholarships
for Smith students. [http://www.sunspot.net/news/printedition/]
March 28, 2001
BOSTON GLOBE
On the eve of Ford CEO Jacques Nasser's visit to Smith, the
Globe noted that the college would receive $10 million from the
car company to in support of a new building for its engineering
program. The story was also carried by the Associated Press,
Detroit Free Press, Mass. High Tech, and numerous other outlets.
[www.boston.com/globe]
March 21, 2001
WASHINGTON POST
A profile of Smith President Ruth Simmons described
the important role that education played in her early life. "School,"
Simmons told the Post, "was a refuge from hopelessness,
the turmoil of the day, the civil rights struggled, the inclination
to dismiss blacks and their capabilities which was so much
a part of growing up in the South when I was young." Stepping
into a classroom, Simmons recalled, "was magical. "I
don't know what I would have become if it hadn't been for my
teachers." [www.washpost.com]
March 19, 2001
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
The opening of professional baseball's spring training season
prompted speculation into whether, in predicting a team's overall
success, hard cash might prove to be more important than home
runs. Economist Andy Zimbalist pointed out a direct correlation
between a team's financial assets and its post-season record.
"Since 1994," he noted, "only three out of 189
playoff games have been won by teams in the bottom half of payrolls."
[www.abcnews.com]
March 18, 2001
NEW YORK TIMES
Among the honored guests at the March 8 United Negro College
Fund anniversary dinner was Smith President Ruth Simmons,
who received the organization's President's Award in recognition
of her "outstanding record of achievement and service in
the area of higher education." [www.nytimes.com]
March 14, 2001
MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE
Players in the NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament
boast a slightly higher combined graduation rate than the overall
rate in big-time college basketball. But economist Andy Zimbalist,
author of "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict
in Big-Time College Sports," noted that neither figure is
reliable. "One has to know what kinds of things they're
learning and studying and, closer to home, who's writing papers
for whom." [www.startribune.com]
March 6, 2001
NEW YORK TIMES
More and more, believes Professor of Mathematics James
Henle, citizens are being asked to function like presidents
or governments, developing their own individual foreign and domestic
policy agendas to guide them in making charitable contributions.
In an op-ed headlined "Spending My Surplus," Henle
outlined his own, somewhat conflicted, approach: "Like most
governments, I have trouble separating what's my responsibility
and what's the responsibility of other entities. Sometimes it's
clear: for example, I don't give to diseases. The real government
should handle diseases. Sometimes it's less clear. Should I give
to food banks? The real government should see that its citizens
don't starve. But it doesn't, so I have to help." [www.nytimes.com]
March 5, 2001
NEW YORK TIMES
Janet Maslin reviewed "Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters
of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925 - 1964" by
Emily Bernard, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies.
[www.nytimes.com]
March 5, 2001
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
In the wake of a school shooting in San Diego that left two
students dead and 13 others wounded, experts debated how to distinguish
murderous intent from idle threats. One point of agreement was
that schools need to take the precursors to violence bullying,
and harassment and exclusion seriously. Assistant Professor
of Social Work Joshua Miller cited examples of schools
creating "bullyproofing groups." Such groups, Miller
said, "teach students strategies who to talk to and
what to do because kids get bullied so much." [www.csmonitor.com]
March 4, 2001
CBS "60 MINUTES"
Shortly on the heels of President Bush's address to Congress,
in which he vowed to raise educational standards and refused
"to leave any child behind," 60 Minutes broadcast a
profile of Smith President Ruth Simmons, an educator "fanatical
about learning," a child born into poverty for whom education
was profoundly transformative. It's a message that Simmons herself
brings to inner city children, encouraging them to stake their
claims to knowledge and to seek out education less as a means
to a job and more as nourishment for the soul. When asked by
Morley Safer "why a tenant farmer's kid from the wrong side
of the tracks in this country decided to study French literature,"
Simmons replied firmly, "Because everything belongs to me.
There is nothing that is withheld from me simply because I am
poor. That's what children have to understand." [www.cbs.com]
March 4, 2001
TOLEDO BLADE
When it came time for her niece to apply to college, Vanessa
Winans '86, a staff writer at the Toledo Blade, was reminded
of all the reasons she herself resisted an all-women's college
and the many moments since when she has felt profound gratitude
for the rigorous education she received at Smith. "While
the occasional man from a neighboring college showed up in a
class, most of my courses had entirely female enrollments. That
was when I found I couldn't coast as I often had before. There
were no convenient, aggressive boys to answer all the questions.
This meant that many of us had to stretch in new, and often uncomfortable
ways." It was through that process, Winans recalled, that
she learned to value her own voice, "to stand up and be
myself with style and pride." [www.toledoblade.com]
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