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SMITH IN THE NEWS
'TOYCHALLENGE,' JOINT VENTURE OF SMITH ENGINEERING, HASBRO AND SALLY RIDE, IS LAUNCHED "What we're trying to do is excite
the kids, especially girls, about careers in engineering and
science." "If we can get students, especially
girls, excited about the idea of what can happen when you design
and build things, then we think we might encourage people to
think about careers in science and engineering-that it's not
a stale, boring profession, but that it really is about changing
the quality of life." "The idea is to excite young kids,
especially girls, about the design process and what the potential
can be for engineering. It's the application of math and science
in service to humanity."
PRESIDENT CHRIST SETS THE TONE AT OPENING CONVOCATION "Smith's founders specifically
rejected designing a college that would be an ivory tower, apart
from the town. They imagined Smith as a part of the practical
life of the town. That's a vision we must embrace." "[President Christ] was inspiring.
She inspired us to be a liberal, open-minded school, to be a
community."
MEDIA TAKES NOTE OF BACK-TO-SCHOOL TOPICS "Enter this conversation [about
diversity] wherever you feel most comfortable. I just insist
that people enter it." "People are much more concerned
about financing and cost." "Smith College anticipates making
127,000 tuna sandwiches, 27,000 hamburgers and 21,500 gallons
of coffee. It will also need more than 2,000 boxes of cereal,
and 64,800 gallons of milk and nearly seven tons of tofu."
REFLECTING ON THE IMPACT OF SEPTEMBER 11th "I am deeply concerned about what
sets off such a rage and such a willingness (for terrorists)
to sacrifice their own lives, and what is still going on that
feeds that : "[Students] really are asking
much more penetrating questions about what should be the culmination
of their Smith College education in the world." "There will be some folks who
will be profoundly affected. And other will be cranky, saying,
'Let's get on with it.' So a manager has to be careful, pretty
strategic about crafting a response."
SMITH'S PRESIDENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT "It's easy for women in smaller
proportions to feel isolated, different or exceptional." "As a result of my years at Berkeley,
I understand that race, ethnicity, and class intersect in very
complex ways-that students and others don't take their identity
from a single issue. That relates to September 11 in that the
patterns of immigration that have dominated the world have made
identity extremely complex Just as college is a place in which
people learn about and build a sense of national diversity with
underrepresented minority groups, it is also a very important
place for building a sense of international diversity." "My heart leaps when I see more
women college presidents. Mine was the first generation of women
in academia that really benefited from the women's movement.
I want to see that continue."
YOUNG ALUMNA CITED AS 'RISING STAR' "[Xiaole] understands the process
of getting knowledge from the bench to the bedside very well,
from an informational point of view. So I think she's well-equipped
for the rest of her career to identify important problems both
in basic biology as well as in clinical medicine."
CREW COACH A STANDOUT "Without a team that's willing
to do the work, you're just a silly loud person in a motorboat."
MUSEUM'S ARTIST-DESIGNED RESTROOMS LAUDED "When the reconstructed Smith
College Museum of Art opens in the spring, it will include a
pair of 'art' bathrooms where museum-goers can carry on their
private ablutions in style." "It seems unfortunate that the
ICA didn't include artists in the design process from the get-go.
The new facility won't have anything like the tunnel of light
designed by artist James Turrell that passes under Houston's
Main St., connecting the old and new wings of the city's Museum
of Fine Arts, or the bathrooms in the new Brown Fine Arts Center
at Smith College, designed by Sandy Skoglund and Ellen Driscoll,
who is turning the women's room into an underwater grotto."
SMITH IS HOME TO NEW INTERNATIONAL-STUDY GROUP "We've developed this forum so
that all the different people involved in study-abroad programs
can come together and talk about what needs to be done to improve
the field."
MAKING SENSE OF BASEBALL'S LATEST CHALLENGES " [Webcasting baseball] could
have enormous implications for the economic structure of the
leagues. As the local and national TV contracts expire, the league
could do as much of its telecasting over the Internet as it wants,
and could probably generate a lot more money than is being generated
now." "What is has done is exacerbate
the competitive balance problem because the teams are being run
as software or programming for the media companies. The teams
are subordinated to the profit-maximizing schemes for the media
operations." "Baseball is going to have better
competitive balance as a result of this agreement. There's going
to be some drag on salaries, and the bottom teams, financially,
will be better off. So I think we have a lot to lot to look forward
to in the next four years. I'm sure there'll be some more tweaking
and tinkering that needs to be done, but I think it's a positive
step for everybody."
FACULTY IN THE NEWS "While it is true that the number
of male wrestling and gymnastics teams has been sharply reduced
since Title IX's passage in 1972, it makes little sense to blame
Title IX for these cuts. Further, even though some male teams
have been diminished in number, others have grown so that the
total number of intercollegiate male athletes continues to increase." "'Rereading Sex' is a splendid
work of scholarship: crisply written, meticulously documented,
full of fresh material, shrewd analysis and sound judgment. But
one need not be a historian to enjoy this book. Horowitz's enthusiasm
and sense of fun are infectious." |
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