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Chronological Listing
October 27, 1999
BOSTON GLOBE
The Globe noted the return to campus of the 29 "remarkable
women of Smith" who were honored for their achievements
at the October 22 "This is About Smith" convocation.
Singled out for mention was Julia Child '34, who took advantage
of the opportunity to sit in on Jonathan Gosnell's French class.
[www.boston.com]
October 25, 1999
FORTUNE
Smith Board of Trustees Chair Shelly Lazarus '68, chairman and
chief executive officer of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, is
the fourth most powerful woman in business, according to Fortune
magazine's annual ranking. The headline? "These Women Rule."
[www.fortune.com]
October 23, 1999
WBUR "ONLY A GAME"
Economist Andy Zimbalist's latest book, "Unpaid Professionals:
Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports" chronicles
the "abuses, crimes and outrages among the sports franchises
attached to our major colleges and universities more systematically
and completely than the books that have preceded it," said
popular "Only A Game" host Bill Littlefield. The problems
go back more than a century, Littlefield noted; should we simply
ignore them? If you look at a certain set of facts, Zimbalist
replied, you become a partisan of change." Zimbalist advocates,
among other reforms, allowing a number of non-matriculated players
on a team and developing minor leagues financed by the NBA and
NFL. [www.wbur.org]
October 21, 1999
ABC "20/20"
"Hoarding is one of the most difficult obsessive-compulsive
disorders to treat," noted Professor of Psychology Randy
Frost in a "20/20" report that profiled a patient participating
in a new treatment program Frost has developed. More than two
million people are affected by a severe hoarding problem, Frost
explained, in which their relationship to their possessions profoundly
affects their ability to function. In weekly therapy sessions,
Frost aims to teach patients to "tolerate the emotional
discomfort that comes with discarding something to which they
are emotionally attached." [www.abcnews.com]
October 20, 1999
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO "TALK OF THE NATION"
Professor of Economics Randy Bartlett, author of "The
Crisis of America's Cities" and director of Smith's urban
studies program, lent his expert voice to a discussion of suburban
sprawl, mass transit and the problems of a car-dependent society.
[www.npr.org]
October 1999
LINGUA FRANCA
Smith is the latest in a series of college campuses where the
Independent Women's Forum, a "right of center women's organization
in Washington, DC," is funding the launch of a student magazine
intended to introduce a "conservative and traditionally
feminine voice." A report in Lingua Franca headlined "Ladies
of the Right" noted that Smith's as-yet-unnamed publication
-- its predecessors are "The Guide: A Little Beige Book
for Today's Miss G." at Georgetown and "Portia"
at Yale -- will be edited by Erin McGlinchey '00, who expects
the magazine may encounter sharper political opposition than
those at other campuses. [www.linguafranca.com]
October 17, 1999
BOSTON GLOBE
"They're making choices based on what's going to give them
a full life they want to lead, not just what will look good on
their resumes," Career Development Director Barbara Reinhold
told the Boston Globe about women in the job market today. With
"three terrific internships," a strong liberal arts
education, and strong quantitative and language skills, Smith
graduates "walk out of here and go where they want to go,"
Reinhold added. Although barriers persist in the sciences, the
article noted that Smith's new engineering program will significantly
broaden the opportunities for women in technical fields. [www.boston.com]
October 15, 1999
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Smith's search for a founding chair for its engineering program
attracted an applicant pool that was 35 percent female -- far
higher, noted the Chronicle of Higher Education, than the 9 percent
of advanced engineering degrees awarded to women. Domenico Grasso,
head of the civil and environmental engineering department at
the University of Connecticut, surpassed two female finalists
to get the job and declined an offer from an Ivy League university
in favor of Smith's liberal arts-based program. In staffing the
program, he says he will "make a conscious choice to hire
people who want to be in a place like Smith." [www.smith.edu]
October 13, 1999
WALL STREET JOURNAL
In an op-ed headlined "The NFL's New Math," economist
Andrew Zimbalist brings his customary brand of rigorous analysis
to bear on the curious phenomenon of mega-million dollar purchases
of football franchises -- most recently in Houston. What would
appear, in a conventional market to be an exorbitant price --
and a foolhardy deal -- "makes sense after all," Zimbalist
demonstrates, if you follow the logic of big-time sports. "The
key to understanding football franchises is two-fold: the sport's
immense popularity, and the NFL's power as a monopoly to restrict
output and raise the price of its teams." On the same day,
the Journal's own editorial condemning the Houston deal referenced
Zimbalist's analysis of the benefits that team owners reap in
such transactions -- at the expense of the taxpayer. [www.wsj.com]
- October 12, 1999
NEW YORK TIMES
- "When I walked in the door, I
thought 'This is home,' I recognized where I was," President
Ruth Simmons told the New York Times of her Oct. 9 visit to Los
Angeles' Hamilton High School, a "grand old building in
a gritty slice of West Los Angeles," where she met with
girls from minority and disadvantaged families. "Stepping
out of the Ivory Tower to recruit at urban public schools"
is rare for a college president, the Times noted, but increasingly
necessary for colleges and universities like Smith, Princeton,
Dartmouth and Hampshire that have "largely hit a wall in
their efforts to lure more minority members." "To me,
this is a matter of national interest, a matter of national salvation,"
Simmons said of her commitment to diversifying the campus, an
effort helped as much by her presence as the programs she has
implemented. As Student Government President Katrina Gardner
noted, "She doesn't have to be speaking about diversity.
You look at her and it's like, wow, that's who she is."
[www.nytimes.com]
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- October 11, 1999
WBUR "THE CONNECTION"
"Homo reparans" -- beings that repair -- is a useful
way of describing mankind, proposed Professor of Philosophy Elizabeth
Spelman in an hour-long interview with "Connection"
host Christopher Lydon devoted to the following question: in
a throw-away society like ours, what does repair really mean?
In a conversation that ranged from repairing windows to mending
international fences to fixing a broken heart, Spelman described
her first-year seminar -- "The Work of Repair" -- and
argued for the ubiquity of repair and its importance as "one
of many principles of continuity with the past." "One
of the nice things about having something broken and then fixed,"
she noted, "is that it does carry a history -- even if that
history might be painful." [www.wbur.org]
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- October 11, 1999
BUSINESS WEEK
Consolidating the number of major league baseball teams --
an idea being touted by team owners as a way to address the sport's
economic problems -- would be "absolutely disastrous,"
economist Andy Zimbalist noted in a Business Week article headlined
"And Then There Were 28..." While fewer teams would
mean less revenue-sharing for the richer franchises, Zimbalist,
who has consulted for the baseball players union, says the proposal
is short-sighted. "It's not a long-term solution, not a
fan-friendly solution and isn't an economically efficient solution
from the standpoint of the game's public relations." [www.businessweek.com]
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- October 10, 1999
NEW YORK TIMES
- Chief executives communicate their
values and priorities to their employees by their actions as
well as their words, Shelly Lazarus '68 said during a recent
roundtable discussion with three other corporate CEOs. "If
the C.E.O. isn't going to the school play, and the C.E.O. is
canceling his vacation, and the C.E.O is not coming home to be
at his 6-year-old's birthday party, well then the rest of the
company knows how they're supposed to behave." Lazarus is
the chairman and chief executive officer of Ogilvy & Mather
Worldwide, a New York-based advertising agency. She and Lawrence
Bossidy of Allied Signal, Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco International
and Charles Wang of Computer Associates International talked
about preparing their companies for the future and the challenges
of managing people, including the competition for talent, the
need to communicate effectively and the growing demand for healthier
balance between work and life outside the workplace. The discussion
was hosted by the New York Times and excerpts of the two-hour
session appeared in the Times business pages. The four are among
those featured in a recently published book, Lessons from the
Top: The Search for America's Best Business Leaders by Thomas
J. Neff and James M. Citrin. [www.nytimes.com]
October 10, 1999
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"'What surprises me is it doesn't surface every day,"
economist Andy Zimbalist told Associated Press national sports
writer Hal Bock in an interview about abuses in big-time collegiate
athletics. "Ninety percent of Division I plays games with
tutors and everybody knows it." Although college presidents
have traditionally been loathe to intervene, Zimbalist notes
that there may be a groundswell of opinon supporting college
sports reforms. "This is the right time to send out the
message," Zimbalist said. "People seem to be resonating
and responding. Fewer people suffer from the student-athlete
illusion. More and more have caught on to the game." [www.ap.org]
October 1, 1999
WASHINGTON TIMES
Citing numerous academic, financial and moral abuses in big-time
college sports, economist Andy Zimbalist challenges the National
Collegiate Athletic Association to "repudiate tinkering"
in favor of significant changes to the way it does business.
Among the reforms advocated in Zimbalist's Washington Times op-ed:
"loosen restrictions on athletes testing their value in
professional markets and earning summer income" and "set
up minor leagues in basketball and football with financial support
from the NBA and NFL." [www.washtimes.com]
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