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Chronological Listing
October 31, 2000
BOSTON GLOBE
According to the Globe, paganism is on the rise on college
campuses. An article headlined "Back to Nature" cited
figures suggesting that more than a hundred groups have formed
on college campuses in every state and at schools from Australia
to the United Kingdom. At least seven Massachusetts colleges
have student pagan groups, including Smith, Wellesley
and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [www.boston.com/globe]
October 31, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
Michiko Kakutani reviewed "The Unabridged Journals of
Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962," edited by associate curator of
rare books Karen Kukil. "The publication of Plath's
unabridged journals," Kakutani wrote, "provides us
with a fuller, more nuanced portrait of her: this 'litany of
dreams, directives and imperatives,' as she once described her
diary, gives us a depressed, self-dramatizing woman, but it also
gives us the popular golden coed familiar to readers " [www.nytimes.com]
October 30, 2000
ENGINEERING NEWS RECORD
For its annual feature section on higher education, Engineering
News Record, the leading publication of the construction industry,
featured Smith's Picker Program in Engineering and Technology
as a model for attracting and retaining women in engineering.
ENR described program director and professor Domenico Grasso
as "a man with a mission" to promote diversity in the
engineering profession. Grasso noted the program's rigor
"it's going to be a demanding degree covering the hardest
subject areas of all engineering disciplines" and
also emphasized its strong link to social issues and humanistic
concerns. "We want to teach the use of fundamental principles
to solve problems, coupled with a strong dose of social responsibility
so [the students] understand engineering's impact on humanity."
[www.enr.com]
- October 27, 2000 (issue date)
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Coverage of the reconstituted Knight Foundation Commission on
Intercollegiate Athletics noted that Smith economist Andy
Zimbalist was among the "most outspoken critics"
of college sports invited to testify before the panel at hearings
in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 18. www.chronicle.com
October 26, 2000
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
As pundits attempted to predict the effect of Ralph Nader's
bid for the presidency, political scientist Howard Gold
cautioned Dallas Morning News readers that Nader's impact could
far outstrip that of a much-watched independent candidate of
1992. "Nader may arguably have one of the biggest impacts
we've seen from a third-party candidate," Gold said, "certainly
bigger than Perot." [www.dallasnews.com]
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- October 25, 2000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO
When the NCAA punished the University of Minnesota for academic
fraud and other violations, Minnesota Public Radio invited economist
Andy Zimbalist, author, most recently, of "Unpaid
Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College
Sports," to offer his thoughts on collegiate athletic reform.
[www.mpr.org]
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- October 23, 2000
BUSINESS WEEK
With the Boston Red Sox up for sale for the first time since
the Great Depression, speculation is rife as to the price the
franchise will command. It's impossible to gauge the marketplace
impact of the team's emotional appeal, but Smith economist Andy
Zimbalist offers a figure based on prevailing baseball economics:
$320 to $340 million. www.businessweek.com
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- October 22, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
Amid politicians' claims that this year's "subway series"
will inject millions of dollars into the New York City economy,
Smith economist Andy Zimbalist remains highly skeptical.
"There is no basis to think this is going to be a material
lift to the New York City economy," said Zimbalist, whose
research focuses on the economics of professional sports. "The
city would do better if the Mets were playing Seattle. Basically,
you have fewer people coming in, bringing less money." www.nytimes.com
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- October 22, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times (and numerous other publications) carried
notice of the death of Katherine Fanning '49, first woman
editor of the Christian Science Monitor. www.nytimes.com
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- October 22, 2000
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
In a special advertising supplement devoted to issues of workplace
diversity, Smith Career Development Director Barbara Reinhold
argued that the first hurdle in creating a heterogeneous workforce
is changing attitudes. "Einstein said that you can't fix
a problem from the mindset that created it in the first place,"
she said. "The 21st century is the century of the diverse
customer base. The customer is no longer a white guy. So customer-seeking
solutions from white-guy dominated companies just won't cut it."
www.nytimes.com
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- October 22, 2000
BOSTON GLOBE
Mikela Licona '02J, founder of the campus environmental group
Gaia, represented Smith at a conference in Connecticut of college
students and administrators aiming to make their campuses "eco-smart."
"I'm getting ideas here," Licona told the Boston Globe.
""Now I have the vocabulary for my arguments, and good
examples. Smith is progressive but environmental issues are not
brought up." www.boston.com/globe
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October 20, 2000
TIMES
In its higher education supplement, the Times of London featured
Smith's new engineering program under the headline "Initiative
changes image of engineer." A photo accompanying the story
showed program chair Domenico Grasso helping first-year
student Simone Koo work out a calculation in EGR 110, "Fundamentals
of Environmental Engineering." [www.thes.co.uk]
October 19, 2000
WASHINGTON POST
In a section headlined "District Extra," the Post
noted the visit of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School
Choir of Southeast Washington to the Smith campus. The MLK students
visited Smith at the invitation of President Ruth Simmons
as part of National College Week. Alumnae of the Smith Club
of Washington helped to sponsor the visit. [www.washpost.com]
- October 13, 2000
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Many fans of professional sports have lately become frustrated
by the ways that money or lack of it determines league
outcomes. Or, as Chronicle of Higher Education writer D.W. Miller
put it, "The growing financial disparity between the richest
and poorest teams threatens to consign some teams to perpetual
mediocrity." Miller talked to a number of academics
among them economist Andy Zimbalist whose analyses
often provide documentation for fans' suspicions. Zimbalist is
particularly opposed to team-owners' arguments that building
new sports stadiums or arenas largely at taxpayer expense
will create jobs and stimulate economic development. He
repeated to Miller a point about stadiums made eloquently and
convincingly in his 1997 book, "Sports, Jobs and Taxes":
"There is no economic benefit." www.chronicle.com
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- October 11, 2000
CBS, "THE EARLY SHOW"
Just days before its 25th anniversary, Smith's Ada Comstock Scholars
Program got a national boost when CBS featured it on its morning
news show. The segment, hosted by Lisa Birnbach and introduced
by Bryant Gumbel, featured three current Adas (all women beyond
the traditional age who have enrolled at Smith to complete their
undergraduate degrees): Laurah Morningstar Winder, Jeri
Hise, and Anne Martindell. Martindell, who entered
Smith at age 85, told Birnbach she isn't sure what she'll do
after graduation; some of her friends, she says, have advised
her to "take a year off to find herself." www.cbs.com
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- October 10, 2000
BOSTON GLOBE
The 2000 annual meeting of the Women's College Coalition (WCC),
held at Simmons College, served as a hook for Globe higher education
writer David Abel to speculate on the future of women's colleges,
a topic further fueled by Emmanuel College's recent decision
to go co-ed. That decision, remarked WCC President Jadwiga Sebrechts,
was consistent among a small proportion of women's colleges
"small, liberal arts-oriented Catholic institutions that
have a very slender financial cushion." The Seven Sisters,
now Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley,
the article noted, "are among the nation's top liberal arts
schools"; applications to those institutions "have
increased nearly 50 percent" over the last ten years. www.boston.com/globe
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- October 9, 2000
ESPN.COM
The October 6 announcement that the Red Sox would be sold unleashed
a flurry of commentary on why the Yawkey Trust the team's
majority general partner would put the team on the auction
block. Many experts agreed that the financial setbacks encountered
in building a new Fenway Park were an important factor. "The
trust was intending to put the team up for sale all along and
they figured they would have a feather in their cap if, before
they sold it, they could adorn it with a stadium and get several
hundred millions more," explained economist Andy Zimbalist.
"Well, they bungled that and couldn't get good interest
rates on their financing, so instead of staying on course, they
decided to get out of the mess that they created." www.espn.com
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- October 8, 2000
PALM BEACH POST
The Florida Marlins claim they can't survive without a new $400
million stadium largely taxpayer-funded -- to boost attendance.
Professor of Economics Andy Zimbalist disagrees. Even
with low turnstile numbers, Zimbalist says, the team should be
able to turn a profit through television revenues, more modest
player salaries, player development and scouting expenditures
closer to the league average, and overall fiscal tightening.
www.pbpost.com
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- October 3, 2000
NPR, "TALK OF THE NATION"
Smith alumna and trustee Gloria Steinem was a guest on
NPR's "Talk of the Nation" for a discussion about the
future of feminism. Steinem joined Amy Richards and Jennifer
Baumgardner, authors of "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism
and the Future." When the discussion turned to the need
to advance women in technical fields, Steinem held up her alma
mater as a pioneer: "I've very proud of my college, Smith
College, which is a women's college that has started a school
of engineering with the premise that not only will engineering
change women, but women will change engineering. www.npr.org
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- October 3, 2000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"How coeducation has redefined college life" focused
primarily on new housing trends at co-ed colleges, where mixed-gendered
groups of students can often live together in apartment-style
suites. A sidebar to the article noted, however, that single-sex
learning environments remain an important choice for many students.
It cited Smith's impressive record in the sciences as proof of
women's colleges' academic strength. www.csmonitor.com
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- October 2,000
WORKING WOMAN
When noted interviewer Charlie Rose spoke with President Ruth
Simmons at this summer's Rising Tide Summit, a conference
on culture and technology, Working Woman magazine was taking
notes -- especially when the conversation turned to women in
engineering. They reprinted the following quote in their October
issue, accompanied by a photo of President Simmons and a description
of the college's new engineering program and WITI Technology
Center. "Can you imagine the impact when women are involved
in designing technology and determining how it will be used?
We've created an engineering program because women were being
left out of the design of the future." www.workingwoman.com
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- October 1, 2000
BOSTON HERALD
Prior to the first presidential debate, held at UMass Boston,
Associate Professor of Government Howard Gold cautioned
Boston Herald readers about the impact of debates on election
outcomes. "It is fair to guess that a decisive debate victory
may well pave the way to victory in November. But short of a
major gaffe, who wins and who loses is a function of expectations."
www.bostonherald.com
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- October 1, 2000
DETROIT NEWS/FREE PRESS
In a lead-up article to the first presidential debate on October
3, government professor Howard Gold predicted the encounter
would be far more decisive than debates in previous elections.
With the race considered a dead heat, Gold commented, "the
debates may very well prove to be the turning point of the campaign."
www.freep.com
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