Smith In the News

Don't favor boys over girls - USA Today
As girls begin to dominate applicant pools at many colleges and universities some schools are attempting to compensate by rejecting highly qualified girls in the name of a gender ratio, according to this opinion piece. "To a young woman who has grown up in the wake of the feminist movement, this new trend in college admissions policies smacks of injustice," writes the author, Rachel Bolten, the daughter of a "proud graduate of Smith College."

Honoring Faculty and Alums - Daily Hampshire Gazette
On Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in Sweeney Hall, faculty members Giovanna Bellesia, H. Robert Burger, Glenn Ellis and Marguerite Harrison will receive Kathleen Compton Sherrerd and John J.F. Sherrerd prizes for distinguished teaching.

Odd Couples: Chuck Berry & Sylvia Plath - The Independent UK
Writer contends that archetypal rock'n'roller Chuck Berry had a relationship with poet Sylvia Plath at Smith College in 1955, when he and his band played at a summer "homecoming ball". Berry was then 29 and Plath, 22, was a senior who arranged to meet Berry backstage.

Western Mass Students help in New Orleans - The Republican
Smith senior Christina H. Arrison volunteered with about 30 other Smith students under the auspices of United Methodist Committee on Relief.

Women, teens to be focus of Hadassah Meeting - The Republican
Smith Associate Professor of Theater Ellen Kaplan, one of the presenters at a workshop for girls on Jewish culture, will use mime, poetry, music and free writing to delve into the powerful stories of women in the Bible.

Smith's Oscar-Winning Black Mark Hartford Courant
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the film debut of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee's play, about humiliation, illusion, hypocrisy and lost dreams. The Smith buildings used as backdrops for the Warner Bros. movie are still there, but attitudes toward profanity, sex and marriage have loosened considerably.

Piece to depict Irishmen's trial - The Republican
Smith government students will be playing most of the parts in "A Trial By Their Country," a performance piece commemorating the 1806 trial and execution of Dominic Daley and James Halligan for the murder of Marcus Lyon. Smith Associate Professor of Government Alice Hearst said, "It's important for them to see how the law fits into a whole story."