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May 21, 2001 (issue date)
BUSINESS WEEK
Pointing out that "fewer women than men are adept at
money management," columnist Toddi Gutner lauded Smith's
new Women's Financial Education Program, the first such program
aimed at undergraduates. A key backer of the program is trustee
Ann Kaplan '67, one of the first women partners at Goldman
Sachs. "The vast majority of women in our country are still
in situations where men handle the money," Kaplan said.
"I don't think there have been enough opportunities for
women to learn basic financial skills." Smith economist
Mahnaz Mahdavi, who directs the program, concurred. "The
time is right, the need is here, and the demand is here."
[http://www.businessweek.com]
May 13, 2001
NEWSDAY
Citing surveys showing that young women are more comfortable
with consumption and debt than with saving and investment, columnist
Patricia Kitchen highlighted Smith's new Women's Financial Education
Program as a way for women to gain financial empowerment. Program
director Mahnaz Mahdavi, associate professor of economics,
said the purpose of the program is not to promote getting "richer
and richer" but to give young women "baseline knowledge"
so that they will be, as Kitchen put it, "less intimidated
by terminology, more inclined to face the music and therefore
more enabled." [http://www.newsday.com]
May 12, 2001
ASSOCIATED PRESS
One sign of the growing influence of the AIDS advocacy group
ACT UP is its increasing role in setting domestic and international
AIDS policy. ACT UP Philadelphia, one of the nation's largest
such groups, has been credited with pressuring the Clinton administration
to change its AIDS policy and is currently working with health
leaders from Zimbabwe to Thailand. "It's a movement that
has definitely grown up," observed assistant professor of
government Gary Lehring. "They were always fairly
sophisticated, but they've become more sophisticated and they've
joined the international community."
May 8, 2001
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
While many college alumni groups participate in annual volunteer
events, typically a day of service in their community, the Smith
College Club of Washington, DC, has committed to volunteer work
year-round. Some thirty alumnae have adopted the inner-city Martin
Luther King Jr. elementary school as their ongoing project, providing
weekly tutoring sessions, reading to children, and organizing
field trips. The DC club's school involvement stretches back
13 years; "it's so rewarding that anyone who has done it
continues," explained Margaret Greene '58 who coordinates
the effort. Inspired by their counterparts in Washington, alumnae
in New York and Chicago are launching similar commitments to
underserved schools. [http://www.csmonitor.com]
May 5, 2001
BOSTON GLOBE
"So it goes for Vonnegut," was the headline for
a front-page account of celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut's
year at Smith, a year in which the "frumpy author"
managed to "raise a bit of a ruckus" largely
by just being himself. For many students, especially those who
participated in Vonnegut's master classes or sought him out for
conversation, the presence of the irreverent, outspoken writer
in their midst was bracing. "It was really refreshing because
he's not PC at all," explained Mary Anne Van Tyne '02.
"At Smith, there is an idea that you don't want to offend
a woman's image. He's reached a point in his life where he doesn't
care and he'll just say whatever." [http://www.boston.com/globe]
May 4, 2001
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
As part of an effort to keep art alive on the Smith campus
during the renovation of the Museum of Art, the Museum and Botanic
garden hosted a visit by North Carolina naturalistic sculptor
Patrick Dougherty, a.k.a. "the Twig Man." Chronicle
writer Zoe Ingalls eavesdropped on the process as Dougherty and
a cadre of volunteers and built out of twigs, over the course
of three weeks, ""a fantastical series of domed towers
and archways" known as "Paradise Gate." As the
20-foot high site-specific sculpture took shape on Burton Lawn,
Dougherty's project became, as curator Linda Muehlig described
it, "a pilgrimage point," drawing families and students,
the skeptical and the entraced, to witness the process of creation.
[http://www.chronicle.com]
May 3, 2001
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
U.S. businesses and workers are watching closely to see the
economic effects of a government-mandated shorter workweek in
France. French labor unions claim the 35-hour work week is responsible
for lowering unemployment and raising GDP; business leaders say
those improvements are simply a result of a strong world economy.
However, one fact is undisputed. The United States is the only
country among major industrial powers where people work more
than they used to, noted professor of sociology Rick Fantasia.
This article ran originally in the April 16 edition of the Christian
Science Monitor. [http://www.suntimes.com]
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