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SMITH IN THE NEWS
CELEBRATING CAROL, CELEBRATING SMITH "Smith has built its distinctive
sense of community through uniting the culture of the New England
private college with a socially progressive vision. It is a private
college with a public conscience." "It's not the most we can do.
It's the least we can do." "It's not that Smith taught me
that women can do everything but Smith taught me to assume
that women can do anything." "Smith's founders wanted the college
to be built in such a way that its students would be part of
the practical life of the town. We must now imagine the town
as a global village, linking the local and the distant, the familiar
and the foreign." "We are glad you are a scholar.
We are glad you are a teacher. We are glad you are here." "In part, what defines Smith as
a community is an intensely shared sense of place. However, it
is not only a common physical place that builds college community,
but intense experience in that place." "Of all the people the college
possibly could have speak, poetry-wise, this is my top choice." "What I asked for was something
that would celebrate not me but Smith. I wanted to provide an
opportunity to display the wealth of achievements and wonderful
features of the college." "We make everything from scratch.
We are squeezing lemons ourselves, out of respect for Joyce (Goldstein
'56, San Francisco chef)."
PRESIDENT CHRIST IN THE NEWS "Access to higher education for
all students is crucial, but so is equity in hiring men and women
faculty, especially in the sciences, [Christ] says." "Higher education is not an arms
race and it is not a winner-take-all market. The breadth, number
and variety of colleges and universities in this country are
a unique strength, providing wide access to the higher education
that promotes economic development and social mobility."
FACULTY EXPERTS AND AUTHORS "There's still a kind of stereotyping
about what it means to be a chief executive. But as we get more
and more models of women, people like Madeleine Albright, women
in cabinet positions, women serving as governors and senators,
we're going to realize that there is a wide variety of women.
Not all men lead in the same way, and neither do women." "And only about a tenth of hoarders
ever come to the attention of public officials, according to
Randy Frost, a professor of psychology at Smith College who is
widely considered the nation's leading researcher on compulsive
hoarding. His work suggests that there are 350 hoarders per 100,000
people, or about 6,300 people suffering from the syndrome in
King County alone." "Although the economic transformation
is not as dramatic as that in the Republic, the Northern Irish
have clearly benefited from the Good Friday Peace Accord-and
not least in the increase in foreign investment and the surge
of tourist interest." "Whenever your defenses are down,
your subconscious can deliver messages that you can harvest." "Instead of demanding that Yiddish
translate itself into English, [Emanuel] Goldstein's anthology
['Yiddish Literature in America, 1870 2000'], demands that
America Yiddishize itself in order to appreciate the true aesthetic
achievements of this literature." "In a sense, external events seem
to guide Japanese foreign aid policy. But it is what is happening
inside Japan that catches our attention." "They had trouble talking about
parts of the chicken when sitting around the table." "It's been clear for a long time
that Florida is the state that stands to gain the most if the
embargo is lifted."
MONEY AND BASEBALL "With any team that does well,
it enhances the baseball culture in that area. People at work
are now talking baseball as well as basketball, football or Iraq.
It ups the interest in the sport in general." "It's sound economics. They perceive
excess demand for some seats and they can get away with charging
higher prices, but at the same time they want to reach out to
their mass base." "I think it's going to have a
slight retardation effect on the high-paying teams. I think you'll
see some leveling, but it's not going to be dramatic." "Anaheim is simply a suburb of
Los Angeles that happens to have a good baseball team. If they
think somebody is going to watch the Angels beat the Yankees
on TV in Georgia and say, 'Anaheim, where is that? I've got to
take my family there,' they're mistaken. I don't think that happens." "The more the stadium is financed
with public funds, the more Major League Baseball will be able
to sell it to any prospective ownership group."
STUDENTS MAKING NEWS "If we instill a sense that coral
reefs are a beautiful and wonderful natural habitat, the kids
will want to do what they can to protect it." "If something interests me, I
usually remember it. I find a lot of things interesting, so I
guess I remember a lot."
ANTICIPATING NEW FACILITIES "Over the next year, Smith is
anticipating the completion of a number of exciting new architectural
projects. [Each] of them reflects the contemporary era while
paying homage to the campus' historic surroundings." "We're going to have a daily viewing
hour, when the [artist-designed] restrooms are off-limits to
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