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SMITH IN THE NEWS VIEWER ALERT: OXYGEN TO FEATURE ADA STUDENT On Monday, March 25, the Oxygen cable channel's "Pure Oxygen" program will feature a profile of Ada Comstock Scholar Barbara "Boe" Morgan, a 45-year-old truck driver studying sociology at Smith and aiming for a career in international law. The show will air live from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern time on the 25th and will repeat at midnight and at 9 a.m. the following day. Oxygen has a viewership of 32 million households but is not carried by all cable providers. Service is available in New York City (Channel 61 on AOL Time Warner), Atlanta, Chicago (on AT&T Broadband), Dallas, Pittsburgh and numerous other metro areas. To determine if it's available in your area, log onto www.oxygen.com and enter your zip code. For those without access to Oxygen, a recent profile of Boe from the Daily Hampshire Gazette may be of interest: http://www.gazettenet.com/03052002/five_col/12125.htm FACULTY VOICES "It's quite strange to me, as
a college professor, that every March college becomes a news
item about basketball teams rather than about the more exciting,
in my view, intellectual and scientific projects that are going
on at American universities."
"[The topic of murdering mothers
is] a hook. The first thing people think is, 'What a horrible
monster' and the next step is to try to figure out why It gets
your audience's attention by getting them to stop, look, think,
and try to explain why, and then you can get them to think about
other things."
"Despite what Professor [Carol]
Zaleski calls James' 'lifelong allergy to institutional religion,'
she hails 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' for sounding
the death knell of all theories that dogmatically reduce the
religious impulse to something else, whether a disorder of the
psyche or the spleen, a quirk of evolutionary biology or a cultural
construction." SMITH AS PIONEER "On Wednesday night, March 22,
1893, [Director of Physical Training Senda Berenson] staged the
first organized game in the history of women's basketball. The
event was extraordinary for many reasons, not the least of which
was that at a time when the sport was in its infancy, the participants
at Smith College sensed that they were writing the first chapter
to a very special story." "There wasn't much sense training
[women] for medicine [in the 1830s] if medical schools wouldn't
take them." WOMEN MASTERING MONEY " education is absolutely important,
because we have to have some way of knowing how to diversify
[our retirement investments], where to invest, and the issues
related to investment, whether short-term, long-term or emergency
funds." MUSEUM COLLECTIONS MAKING WAVES "Smith places a greater emphasis
on portraiture, sculpture and, by virtue of the fact that it
is a teaching institution, unfinished works. Hence, art that
offers insight into process adds a nice dash of sloppy spice
to a stew of mostly polished pieces." TRIVIAL PURSUIT Clue: Many Smith funders. Answer: Alumnae. |
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