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SMITH IN THE NEWS
WOMEN'S FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM LAUNCHED "I was committed to the idea that
I didn't know money and money didn't know me." "Smith has taken the lead on financial
literacy and confidence for women as a subject that everyone,
regardless of their specialty, should study. So it's not necessarily
about women going into the financial field, although many may.
It's about each person being confident in the financial field
for what they need individually." WITI OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT SMITH "[Women] are still a minority
[in IT]. By developing networks in their particular companies,
they will gain strength and therefore be able to promote new
ideas. You need power to do that, and if the numbers increase,
you have more power." SMITH AS INSPIRATION FOR CBS'S "MAX BICKFORD" "The show is probably as close
to academic life as 'ER' is to hospital life." CONTINUED REFLECTION ON SEPT. 11 "The concern we have as researchers
and as citizens is that in a period emphasizing patriotism and
pulling together, dissent becomes extremely difficult-especially
within agencies in which any sense of disloyalty can be condemned." "It is much easier to look outside
ourselves for threats, because if we look inside ourselves and
see something we don't like, we might have to make deep and fundamental
changes in the way we live our lives." "there is a sense we are still
in the middle of this, and we have not been able to relax." "Sensual language is used when
more abstract terms fall dead. The latter don't really reach
the imagination and inspire hope." JILL KER CONWAY WRITES OF HER SMITH YEARS "My conversation often stumbled
over the puzzled question about why women would want to be educated
separately, and why I, whom my questioner clearly thought competent,
would want to run a women's 'school.' The subtext of the question
was that women could not possibly have any intellectual reason
for being together. The life of the mind was a male activity
to which women were lucky to be admitted." FACULTY AND STUDENT VOICES "There are certain kinds of third-party candidates that women voters appear less likely to support. Like Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura and Pat Buchanan. I don't think it's an ideological argument. There's something about their styles. They appeal to disaffected men with a nostalgia for a time past. And to that extent their messages may turn off women." - Associate Professor of Government Howard Gold, "51%, Northeast Public Radio, November 1, 2001 "The very fissures in its structure,
its change from voice to voice, transform 'Half a Life' into
a meditation on the difficulties of building a coherent self,
suggesting that there is always an unrealized and true self that
remains separate from the conditions under which we live." "The CIA has some stigmas attached
to it, but I think it would be a great job." "I was glad to see the report.
There has been so much criticism that colleges are lowering the
bar. To see some quantitative information that supports our experience
is wonderful." "If it can get infected, it's
biology." ******************** Smith in the News is distributed regularly,
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