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September, 1999
September 29, 1999
WBUR "THE CONNECTION"
When noted "Connection" host Christopher Lydon
turned his attention to the topic of non-traditional students,
he chose Eleanor Morrissey, a 1992 Ada Comstock graduate, as
one of two featured guests. Morrissey, who returned to college
in her 50s, recalled knowing of the Ada program "because
one always knows about forbidden fruit -- and I thought of it
as that." Why did she choose Smith? "I wanted to deepen
my knowledge," Morrissey explained. "Self study is
wonderful, and you can keep doing it for a long time. But I wanted
to ask questions, and I wanted my questions answered. I wanted
to be able to read something and understand it -- not just imagine
what it might mean." She described the value of her Smith
experience "like pearls under a sweater. I may look the
same on the outside but I'm wearing the pearls and I can reach
up and feel them. I carry the value of my education with me."
[www.wbur.org]
September 28, 1999
NEW YORK TIMES
Attempts to restrict ownership of National Football League
teams are "potential antitrust violations," asserts
Professor of Economics Andy Zimbalist in an article about an
attempt by a group of fans to buy the New York Jets. NFL officials
have spurned the grassroots offer, citing league rules that require
teams to be owned by individuals, rather than a corporate entity.
Of the NFL's opposition, Zimbalist says, "They'd rather
have one zillionaire owner than any other form. But the big issue
is control." [www.nytimes.com]
September 27, 1999
COMPUTERWORLD
Coverage of President Ruth Simmons' keynote address at the
Boston Technology Summit of Women in Technology International
(WITI) noted Smith's efforts to change engineering "from
a pale, nerdy, male occupation" to a career attractive to
girls and women. "So many women tell me they always wanted
to be an engineer, but someone along the way told them that it
was not the right career for a woman," Simmons told the
conference goers. "We are holding up a light toward which
young girls and women can aspire." [www.computerworld.com]
September 27, 1999
ABC NEWS "NIGHTLINE"
"Baseball is becoming a corporate experience,"
Professor of Economics Andy Zimbalist observed in a report on
the demise of Detroit's Tiger Stadium. Zimbalist's comments underscored
the various ways in which local merchants, and families of modest
means, are forced out of the home-team experience when an old-time
sports arena is replaced by a high-priced "modern amusement
center" -- of which the ballpark is only a small part. [www.abcnews.com]
September 27, 1999
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
"I don't think Burton has a leg to stand on," asserts
Smith College Professor of Government Donald Robinson, referring
to Congressman Dan Burton's attempts to subpoena from President
Clinton documents surrounding Clinton's decision to grant clemency
to 16 members of FALN, a terrorist Puerto Rican nationalist group.
The article explains that although Clinton's past invocations
of executive privilege may have had shaky legal backing, the
current claim, experts agree, is legally legitimate. [www.usnews.com]
September 27, 1999
BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE
"A stinging indictment of the system, how it works for
some and victimizes others" is this review's description
of Professor of Economics Andy Zimbalist's new book, "Unpaid
Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College
Sports." Reviewer Mark Hyman is particularly laudatory of
Zimbalist's analysis of the economic ties between athletic shoe
manufacturers and basketball and football coaches. [www.businessweek.com]
September 26, 1999
BOSTON GLOBE
Smith's entry in the Globe's "College Guide '99"
features extensive mention of the college's new Praxis internship
funding program and a prominent photo of students gathered on
the steps of Neilson Library. Among the "campus VIPs"
listed by students: "Head Residents," "Student
Academic Advisors," and "President Ruth Simmons definitely.
She has a lot of respect from the students." [www.boston.com]
September 26, 1999
NEW YORK TIMES
Sports columnist Robert Lipsyte puts Professor of Economics
Andy Zimbalist's new book -- "Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism
and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports" -- first on his
list of recommended fall reading. Lipsyte credits Zimbalist with
writing "remarkably clear and clear-eyed prose" and
commends him for "follow[ing[ the money instead of the ball
in the emotion-charged world of college sports." [www.nytimes.com]
September 24, 1999
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Smith President Ruth Simmons is listed as one of six leading
educators selected as advisors to the Gates Millennium Scholars
program, a $1 billion initiative that will send 20,000 low-income
minority students to college over the next 20 years. [www.chronicle.com]
The story was also reported in the September 23 New York Times.
[www.nytimes.com]
September 22, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE
A review describes Andy Zimbalist's new book, "Unpaid
Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College
Sports," as "a relatively easy-to-read volume that
lays out a series of reforms that challenge the NCAA's central
contradiction: The national governing body of college sports
needs to reconcile its core interest -- protecting its money-making
machinery -- with the avowed central mission of its members --education."
"I'm not against football; I'm not against basketball,"
Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith, is quoted as explaining.
"I'm against hypocrisy. I'm against charades." [www.startribune.com]
September 19, 1999
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
The magazine's special issue "New Eyes: Scenes From
the Millennium, Reimagined by Living Artists" features a
full-page spread of a sculptural montage by 1968 Smith graduate
Sandy Skoglund. Skoglund's "Duck and Cover" "seeks
to evoke what she calls the 'damp feeling' that seeped into every
facet of ordinary life" during the "long, anxious global
twilight called the cold war." [www.nytimes.com]
September 19, 1999
BOSTON GLOBE
Professor of English Michael Gorra reviews Edward Said's
controversial memoir "Out of Place." "If autobiography
is above all a way of explaining one's self to oneself, then
'Out of Place' -- slow-paced, meditative, deeply inward -- must
be seen as a triumph," Gorra writes. "Said wants to
do something more, however, and in that he seems less successful."
[www.boston.com]
September 19, 1999
SUNDAY STAR-LEDGER (Newark, New Jersey)
Reporter Amy Ellis Nutt '77 followed 85-year-old Anne Martindell,
the college's oldest student, as she prepared to enter her junior
year. Martindell left Smith in the 1930s to marry and later had
a storied career as a state politician, campaign official in
presidential politics, a federal disaster relief official and
an ambassador. Of Martindell's first day of school, Nutt writes:
"[She] is just another student at convocation ... in John
M. Greene Hall. Dressed in her white sneakers and new blue Smith
t-shirt -- with matching blue chiffon scarf -- Martindell straddles
the generations gracefully. And she clearly revels in her role
as senior student." [www.nj.com/news/ledger] A similar article
about Martindell's return to Smith appeared in the September
5 Trenton Times.
September 17, 1999
KANSAS CITY STAR
Of the rumor that major-league baseball owners are contemplating
pulling the plug on struggling teams -- including the Kansas
City Royals -- Professor of Economics Andy Zimbalist concedes,
"it's possible." More likely, he predicts, is a decision
to allow teams to move to new, more profitable markets. It's
also possible, he says, that team owners would buy out smaller
franchises and sell them, at a profit, to investors in a new
location. After all, he reasons, "Why would they allow some
new owner the windfall of being able to move your team from Kansas
City to Washington?" [www.kcstar.com]
September 14, 1999
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Using information gleaned from Amazon.com's new "purchasing
circles" feature, higher education reporter Mark Clayton
reveals which books top the "bestseller" lists at various
colleges, including Smith, Mount Holyoke, Harvard, MIT and Cal
Tech. The winners at Smith? "The Double Helix: A Personal
Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA" and "The
Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe." "Riveting
or not," Clayton observes, "both books have sufficient
intellectual gravitas to uphold the school's reputation."
[www.csmonitor.com]
September 15, 1999
BOSTON GLOBE
"Everybody's free to give some advice to students"
was the headline the Globe used to present five tips for college
success from Professor of Women's Studies Susan Van Dyne. Van
Dyne presented the tips in her speech to students at the fall
all-college welcome. Among Van Dyne's advice: "Keep a list
of things you once were absolutely sure of but now have changed
your mind about. During my 25 years of professing, that list
has grown embarrassingly long and I refer to it often."
[www.boston.com]
September 10, 1999
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
An article headlined "Turns Out She Had the Money and
the Brains" features the new book by Quentin Quesnell, Roe/Straut
Professor Emeritus in the Humanities. "The Strange Disappearance
of Sophia Smith" details how the credit for the college's
beginnings shifted from Smith to her pastor, the Rev. John M.
Greene, who outlived Smith by 50 years. "Through most of
the 20th century," the article explains, "Sophia Smith
was given credit only for having the money and the 'conscience'
to start the college; it was Greene who provided the 'mind.'"
Quesnell's book proves that Greene "was not the close adviser
he had painted himself to be." [www.chronicle.com]
September 7, 1999
CNN.COM
"China has viewed itself as both an international and
a regional power," explains Professor of Government Steve
Goldstein, in an article headlined "Regional Godfather or
Local Bully: A Look at China's Relations With Its Neighbors."
Goldstein recounted political events that have led to an apparent
shift in Beijing's world view in light of the post-Cold War era.
[www.cnn.com]
September 7, 1999
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
In an article headlined "Keep an eye out for innovative
programs," Smith is listed among a handful of colleges that
have recently integrated speaking skills into courses across
the curriculum, especially in courses enrolling first-year students.
[www.csmonitor.com]
September 6, 1999
U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Smith is listed among the top 20 "great schools at great
prices." [www.usnews.com]
September 1999
TIME
A number of Smith students are featured prominently in the
1999 Time/Princeton Review "Best College for You" guide.
Sarah Winge-Sorenson '02 is mentioned as a rugby player (p. 18).
A photo of Kari Detwiler '01 occupies a half-page spread in an
article on finding the best college; Kari is quoted as saying
"I really feel like I am someone here" (p. 28). An
article headlined "When Race Matters" features a photo
of Janelle Banks '00 ("To win Janelle Banks, Smith College
actively recruited her" (p. 39)). An article titled "For
Women Only" is illustrated by a quarter-page photo of Georgianna
Goodman '00 ("Georgianna Goodman finds no shortage of role
models at Smith College" (p. 42).
September 1999
TALK
Smith alumnae Gloria Steinem '56 and Catherine MacKinnon
'68 are listed among "The Best Talkers in America."
The "feminist crusader" and "feminist lawyer,"
as they are described, respectively, are included among the magazine's
designation of "50 Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up."
September 1999
TWA AMBASSADOR
An article headlined "School Colors," features
a quarter-page photo of Smith students gathered for a class under
spectacular fall foliage. The caption explains the tradition
of Mountain Day, which is declared by the college president on
the day she deems "the most beautiful."
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