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June 20, 2001
BOSTON GLOBE
At a luncheon for women chefs and restaurateurs in Boston,
Julia Child '34 discussed her retirement plans which
include moving permanently this fall to southern California,
where she grew up. She revealed that she has left her house in
Cambridge, where she lived for 40 years and filmed the PBS series
"In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs" and "Julia
and Jacques (Pepin) Cooking at Home," to Smith College.
News of the gift was later reported in newspapers across the
country by the Associated Press. [http://www.boston.com/globe]
June 19, 2001
NEW YORK TIMES
The Times highlighted the Smith College Museum of Art's
"Master Drawings" exhibit, currently at the Frick Collection,
in its "Footlights" section. The item noted that the
drawings, which include works by Tiepolo, van Gogh, Gainsborough
and Matisse, are "assembled from one of the most important
college collections in the United States." [http://www.nytimes.com]
June 15, 2001
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
In an extended essay, professor of English Michael Gorra
remembered the Anglophile Indian novelist R.K. Narayan (1906
2001), author of 14 novels, including "Swami and Friends"
and "The Grandmother's Tale." Narayan's works, Gorra
recalled, are "easy to read but hard to understand; the
more one reads him, Gorra said, "the stranger he seems,
and strange in a way that suggests both his originality and his
extraordinarily deceptive difficulty." [http://www. www.the-tls.co.uk]
June 14, 2001
NEWSDAY
Reflecting on the recent five-day standoff between authorities
and six children in rural Idaho, associate professor of social
work Joshua Miller wrote in an op-ed that "any case
of alleged child neglect poses questions and challenges to society
that should cause anguish and confusion." Protecting children
while respecting the rights of parents to raise them is a delicate
line to walk. However, Miller wrote, the state's decision to
intervene in the Idaho case was clearly the right choice, as
the allegations, if true, certainly "meet the current standard
of neglect and inadequate parental supervision." Moreover,
Miller noted, Americans would agree that children should not
have access to guns that enable them to have a shoot-out with
authorities, even if they are upset about being removed from
their home." [http://www.newsday.com
June 13, 2001
CNN "MONEYLINE"
At the annual gathering of the major league baseball team
owners, the conversation tiptoed around but largely sidestepped
strategies for addressing the pressing issue of significant financial
and competitive gaps separating large- and small-market teams.
Economist Andy Zimbalist pointed out that baseball's "basic
business problem" is that three groups of owners a
high-revenue group (e.g., the Yankees), a middle revenue group,
and a low-revenue group (e.g., the Expos) are in competition
with each other. [http://www.cnn.com]
June 12, 2001
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Although their words are aimed at students, graduation speakers'
"exhortations to cherish grand ideals" speak to many
generations, noted the Monitor. The paper reprinted excerpts
from the remarks of Smith commencement speaker Toni Morrison,
as well as those of notables Madeleine Albright, former Secretary
of State; Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project;
and Jim Lehrer, television news anchor. [http://www.csmonitor.com]
June 11, 2001
NEW YORKER
Government professor Greg White, who specializes in
international relations, took exception to an account by David
Owen of the King Hassan II Golf Trophy tournament in Morocco.
In a letter to the editor, White noted that a country both "dreadfully
poor" and "wracked by drought" has little business
building greens that diminish the water table and remove arable
land for pasturing animals. "Foreign diplomats, businesspeople,
tourists and golf professionals may have fun in the King's amusement
parks but almost none of his subjects can afford to enter,"
White pointed out. [http://www.newyorker.com]
June 11, 2001
WASHINGTON POST
Continuing his campaign against the 18-year civil war in
Sudan, Smith Professor of English Eric Reeves told Washington
Post foreign correspondent Karl Vick of his commitment to bringing
down one of the key players in the conflict: petroleum exporters
doing business in the region with the backing of the ruling government
in the north. Reeves describes the governments' and corporations'
practices driving people off their land, bombing civilians
and hospitals as "war crimes." Vick noted that
Reeves is a leading figure in a campaign pressuring institutional
and individual investors to divest from firms doing business
in Sudan. [http://www.washpost.com]
June 10, 2001
BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD
Gail Scordilis, longtime director of the Smith College Summer
Science and Engineering Program for high school girls, offered
advice to parents on keeping their daughters interested in science
especially during the summer. Whatever science activity
you choose, Scordilis suggested, keep it social. "Be wary
of stereotypes indicating that scientists work in isolation.
"Friendships and peer relationships are important to girls,
and need not be sacrified to science." She advised parents
to look for organizations such as Girls Scouts or Girls, Inc.
that bring girls together for science activities. [http://www.bostonherald.com]
June 8, 2001
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
Viewers with sharp eyes saw several visual snippets of Smith's
commencement, including a "Smith" license plate,
included in NBC's annual tribute to graduating college seniors
and their institutions. [http://www.nbc.com]
June 5, 2001
LOS ANGELES TIMES
The tipoff of the fifth season of the WNBA, the nation's
most visible women's professional sports league, provided an
occasion to examine the league's long-term prospects. At a time
when even established men's sports are struggling to keep fans,
factors such as the WNBA's unusual, "central" business
model whereby players are hired by the league, not individual
teams may be decisive. Economist Andy Zimbalist
pointed out that the model "hasn't been proven in the U.S."
and may have the effect of dampening the all-important sports-page
buzz during the off-season. "Part of the joy that fans feel
comes from talking about trades, free-agent signings and player
development efforts. That kind of thing doesn't exist in the
WNBA." [http://www.latimes.com]
June 4, 2001
THE NATION
In an op-ed, Professor of English Eric Reeves argued
that the role of oil interests in the brutal 18-year civil war
in Sudan epitomizes "a modern reprise of colonial rapacity."
On behalf of greater Africa, Reeves, who is spearheading a divestment
campaign against companies doing business in Sudan, challenged
human rights organizations and advocates to join forces against
"the participants, direct and indirect, in Sudan's oil project."
"If such a brutally destructive venture cannot be stopped,
if a line in the sand cannot be drawn for Sudan, other efforts
at rapacious exploitation in Africa will be encouraged, and the
consequences will often be heightened conflict." [http://www.thenation.com]
June 4, 2001
LOS ANGELES TIMES
In an op-ed, English professor Eric Reeves pressed
his case for divestment in corporations doing business in Sudan,
a nation recently rising to the fore of U.S. foreign policy concerns.
Sudan's 18-year civil war, Reeves contended, devolves largely
from the complicity of Canadian, European and Asian oil companies
with the brutal Khartoum regime in the north. De-listing such
companies from U.S. capital markets would stem considerably the
flow of funds to Khartoum and would, in turn, force serious consideration
of peace discussions. Reeves is nearing the end of a year-long
leave of absence from Smith, during which he completed a book
manuscript about the civil war in Sudan. [http://www.latimes.com]
June 4, 2001
PBS "FLY GIRLS"
Commentary by Ann Baumgartner Carl '39 was featured
in the PBS program "Fly Girls," about women aviators.
After graduating from Smith, Carl joined the ranks of a small
band of heroic women who flew in the military during World War
II despite the common belief that it was inappropriate
for women to be involved in such activities. [http://www.pbs.org]
June 3, 2001
FINANCIAL TIMES
Among the shows highlighted in the FT's "Art: New York"
column was the Master Drawings traveling exhibition of the Smith
College Museum of Art, "featuring rare sheets by Grunewald,
Degas and Dirk Bouts," on view at the Frick Collection through
August 12. [http://www.financialtimes.com]
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