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"We are enormously proud
of these young women and the path they have blazed for those
who will follow them. Technology and engineering are critically
important to our society's development, and I am thrilled
to know that Smith engineers will be shaping that future."
• President Christ, "Smith
College Graduates Country's First All-Female Class of Engineers," Black
Issues in Higher Education, June 3, 2004
"Before coming to college, I didn't
know what an engineer was. I certainly
didn't think I was going to go into
the field. Then I got to Smith."
• Susan Strom '04, "Putting
theory into practice: An all-women's
college engineers a new approach to a discipline
traditionally favored by men," Chicago
Tribune, June 2, 2004
"We were able to elevate the study
of humanities and social sciences to the
same level as math and physical sciences
in the education of engineers. Many of
my colleagues don't agree with me
on this, but I believe that was just as
significant as the fact that the program
was all-female."
• Professor of Engineering Domenico
Grasso, "Smith College's First
Engineers Feel Like ‘Rock Stars,'" Chronicle
of Higher Education, May 28, 2004
"The lack of a diverse
perspective at the design table has distinct societal
costs."
• Professor of Engineering Domenico
Grasso, "More Female Engineers in
the Pipeline," USA Today, May 19, 2004
"[My first engineering course] was
insanely hard and I didn't do well
but I loved it. It was so challenging I
just couldn't get enough."
• Liz Bartell '04, "Engineering
educators reaching out to female students," Associated
Press, May 16, 2004
"I fell in love with the whole logic
behind engineering. I see this as a foundation
for whatever I want to do in my life."
• Sarah Jaffray '04, "At
Smith, Engineer Pioneers to Graduate," Boston
Globe, May 15, 2004
"You learn all types of engineering.
It prepared us for just about anything."
• Meghan Taugher '04, "Engineering
a Milestone," Republican, May 15,
2004
"I can't say exactly what
the future holds, but part of the beauty
of my engineering education is that my
path has not been narrowly defined by the
past four years. Next year I'm headed
to Romania to work in the nursery of a
large orphanage, and following that I intend
to pursue a graduate degree in biomedical
engineering and an M.D. After that, it's
to infinity and beyond."
• Kerri Rossmeier
'04, WFCR, May 14, 2004
"Engineering is one of the last
frontiers for women."
• President Christ, "Smith
Engineering Grads Lead the Way," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, May 14, 2004
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"Economically, politically,
militarily, and socially America is the trendsetter of the
world, but we are also seen as the greatest threat to world
peace."
• Commencement speaker Judy Woodruff, "Woodruff
Praises Smith Graduates," Republican, May 17, 2004
"I would still argue, though, that most of the people
in management are men and I'd like to see more women
in those positions – doing the hiring and firing and
deciding who covers the story and how we cover a story and
who is going to be on air for us, what we're going
to spend our money on."
• Commencement speaker Judy Woodruff, "A
Conversation With Judy Woodruff," Daily Hampshire
Gazette, May 12,
2004
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"[At Smith], there was
a real sense of community. It was something I hadn't
seen at the other schools."
• Mickay Barritt '07, "Overnight
Visit Helps Some See the Light," Boston Globe, June
13, 2004
"You know how when you go somewhere and you instantly
fall in love with it, and you just feel like you're
home?"
• Allison Bellew ‘08, "Foster
Child Found Salvation in Classroom," Los Angeles
Daily Journal, June
4, 2004
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"When you walk through
the Grécourt Gates, the first place you reach is Northampton's
main street. Smith's founders intended the college
and its students to share in the practical and civic life
of the city. It is a mission we continue to hold dear today."
• President Christ, "Remarks
at the 350th Convocation," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, June 7, 2004
"There are issues that come up that are contentious
sometimes, but especially now there's a very good relationship
between the administration of the city and the administration
of the college.'
• Chief Public Affairs Officer
Ann Shanahan, "Smith,
City Enjoy Good Rapport," Republican, May
9, 2004
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"Students change developmentally in the senior year.
You aren't the same kid in June when you graduate that you
were in August."
• Director of Admission Debra Shaver, "Two
chances at early admissions," Boston Globe, June 27, 2004
"In an age of prescription remedies for even slightly
off-kilter kids, it's refreshing to encounter a couple
of misfit characters whose resistance to the world resolves
itself in traditional common sense and celebration of the
individual."
• Lecturer in English Sara London, "What Not
to Wear" [book review], New York
Times, June 27, 2004
"It's
not because women have less education or experience. Those
factors together cannot explain fully the wage gap between
male and female."
• Associate Professor of Economics Mahnaz Mahdavi, "Sex-bias
suit is reminder of salary gap," Baltimore
Sun, June
27, 2004
"Failing to stop the genocide is acquiescing
in the genocide."
• Professor of English Eric Reeves, "Powell
to threaten Sudan with sanctions," Reuters, June 25, 2004
"Recruitment
programs intended to enhance student and faculty diversity,
as well as scholarships and financial aid, are areas in which
[colleges and universities] can expect continued judicial
scrutiny. Testing the recognition of gay, lesbian, transgender,
and bisexual persons as a protected class covered by discrimination
laws will also be the subject of legal action."
• General Counsel Georgia Yuan, "Pressing
Legal Issues: 10 Views of The Next 5 Years," Chronicle
of Higher Education, June 25, 2004
"Vietnam led to deficit spending that contributed
to the record inflation in the 1970's. The early
record about financing the war in Iraq portends more of
the same. Although the media reports the total Iraq spending
allocations are between $150 billion and $200 billion,
the true numbers are higher. This is because many of our
expenses in Iraq are picked up in other parts of the general
government and Pentagon budgets. When soldiers get transferred
from Korea to Iraq, for instance, only the incremental,
not the full costs, of those soldiers appear in the Iraqi
war ledger."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "U.S.
Pursues Reckless Policies," Newsday, June 21, 2004
"It may not be a bad thing to wake up each dawn
to the admonition ‘prayer is better than sleep' mixed
in with the jackhammers, garbage trucks, and school buses
that make up the morning din."
• Professor of Religion Carol Zaleski, "Time
out for Allah," Christian Century, June 15, 2004
"[The newly renovated Smith College Museum of Art]
continues a long tradition of incorporating the arts as
a vital part of Smith College's mission. In his inaugural
address in 1875, the school's first president, L.
Clark Seelye, spoke of the need for the college to ‘have
its gallery of art, where the student may be made directly
familiar with the famous masterpieces.'"
• Curator/Associate Director Linda Muehlig, "Smith
College Museum of Art," American
Art Review, Vol. XVI
No.3, June 2004
"Think of an internship as dating, and
be glad you found out what turns you off before you made
a major commitment."
• Director of Career and Executive Development Barbara
Reinhold, "The Rules: A Survival Guide for Summer Interns
and Their Bosses," Newark Star-Ledger, May 30, 2004
"The
best way to spread democratic and free market values to Cuba
is to expose Cubans to U.S. businesses, academics, journalists
and tourists. The more open the exchange of ideas, people,
capital and culture, the sooner Cuba will become a dynamic
and open society."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics Andrew Zimbalist, "Bush
panders for votes while hurting Cubans" [op-ed], Newsday, May 20, 2004
"Coming to a predominately white campus can be challenging.
Education has always been a premium. If students don't
have the spirit of believing they can do well, it can undercut
everything."
• Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies Kevin
Quashie, "White/Minority Gap Very Real," Republican, May 17, 2004
"This exchange is like living culture for
both groups of students rather than learning about cultural
differences in a dry textbook."
• Lecturer in French Studies Candace Walton, "Students
Make Connections Across Cultures," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, May 12, 2004
"I didn't know there was
money attached (to the award), but as soon as it came, I
knew it needed to go to education. It was an instinctive
reaction."
• Senior Lecturer in Italian Language and Literature
Victoria Poletto, "Professor Uses Prize for Schools," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, May 6, 2004
"There's no infrastructure in the Valley.
We're getting what schools in large cities have at
their doorstep."
• Executive Director of Information Technology Herb
Nickles, " Colleges Plan Fiber-optic Link," Daily
Hampshire Gazette, May 3, 2004
"The more of a perfectionist
you are, the more inhibited you tend to be."
• Associate Professor of Psychology Patricia DiBartolo, "Free
Yourself From Your Inhibitions," Ladies'
Home Journal, May 2004
"I suspect one of the reasons Nader will likely
end up with much less support – aside from the fact
that he's not likely to get on the ballot in some
states – is that many of his voters did accept the
analysis [that he was a spoiler]."
• Associate Professor of Government Howard Gold, "'Nader
Nation' – who are these voters?", Christian
Science Monitor, April 16, 2004
"[The Guggenheim award] is really exciting. It's
going to allow me to not have to teach for a while. I'll
take off a semester or two to get some painting done. With
that time, hopefully I'll be able to branch out and
explore."
• Lecturer in Art Katy Schneider, "Artists,
Writers Win Fellowships," Daily Hampshire
Gazette, April 15,
2004
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"I think
there is a sense that the sports market
has become more competitive because of
all the other entertainment options out
there."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Owners Get Into
the Game: A Public Face Wins Fans," Boston
Herald, May 23, 2004
"A deal is a deal. They don't
have a deal, they don't have to put
a shovel in the ground, but they have to
have legislation and a financial plan in
place…there's not going to
be any ink on a franchise proposal until
then."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Financing May Block
Baseball For District," Washington
Post, May 19, 2004
"The overwhelming conclusion of
studies that have tried to estimate the
economic impact of a football or baseball
stadium is that there isn't any."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "A Team Makes a City
a High-Rent District," New
York Times, May, 2, 2004
"[The Boston Red Sox] deserve
an A-plus in marketing and promoting the
team."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Breaking the Curse;
Can John Henry's Red Sox Finally Win
a World Series?" Business
Week, April
26, 2004
"If you look at the building boom
that's gone on since the construction
of Camden Yards in Baltimore in 1992, you
find that approximately 70 percent of construction
and infrastructure costs associated with
new stadiums have been paid for by the
public."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Commonwealth Journal," WUMB, April 25, 2004
"[Success] isn't
formulaic. There are pitfalls if you try
to do it as a large corporation, with a middle
manager running it. But there are advantages,
too, with the ability to muscle local cable
distributors and have a capital cushion."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Big Baseball, Inc.," Newsweek, April 19, 2004
"If you do a statistical analysis
and you look at the relationship between
payroll and team performance, you find
that only about 20 to 40 percent of team
win percentage variation is explained by
payroll variation, which means that 60
to 80 percent is dependent upon other factors,
such as good player development, good trades,
good chemistry on the team, good managerial
skills, good luck. ... Nobody has ever
argued that payroll completely determines
performance; it's simply one relevant
factor."
• Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Andrew Zimbalist, "Did Revenue-Sharing
and the Luxury Tax Contribute to the Increased
Competition in Major League Baseball Last
Season?" WFCR, April 8, 2004
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