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Apr
Truth.
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Mar
Sanjay Gupta Deals with the Grey Areas of Hospital Anatomy
My latest for Divanee…
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Feb
Rep-re-sent.
Sabeen H. Ahmad & friends. Classes 2001 through 2006. People of color: 7; U.S. Diplomats: 1; Fulbright Scholars: 2; Top-tier law students: 4; Medical school attendees: 1; Scholars: 9; Allies: 9; Proud Smithies & Capenites: all of us.
This is Smith.
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Feb
“If my skin wasn’t Black, i would have been exactly the type of student Smith would have recruited in the 1950s.”
Smithie from 2007. Major: Afro-American Studies. Black. Straight. Third generation Ivy leaguer. Parents met and married at Columbia University with advanced degrees in business and engineering. Grandparents met and married at Yale university with advanced degrees in nursing and religion. My grandfather also has degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. My sister went to Dartmouth. If my skin wasn’t Black, i would have been exactly the type of student Smith would have recruited in the 1950s.
Ms. Spurzem is unfortunately extremely misinformed. Smithies are not all poor, colored, international and queer. But even if we all were…we still deserve to be Smithies. Smithies are smart, passionate, creative people who desire, and WILL, change the world. Consider this another step along the way.
24
Feb
Sheer Poignance
Well Done Emily Morris. Smithies like you, make me proud.
Dear Ms. Spurzem,
Thank you. Your letter to the Sophian jolted me out of Smith’s dreamy bubble of acceptance, diversity and community. After four years I was beginning to think this was the status quo. Your letter reminds me that the Smith environment is so enriching precisely because it…
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Feb
Anne Spurzem = Hilly Holbrook. Just sayin'.
A hot racist mess masquerading as a Smith College alum who as the President of her local Smith College Club, INTERVIEWS POTENTIAL STUDENTS, had the sheer gall of whining to the college paper about how her alma mater isn’t white enough.
There are some PHENOMENAL responses to her ridunculous letter including one by a Lola W:
Dear Anne Spurzem,
In the Sophia Smith Archives, one can find a letter written to President Neilson by a well-heeled society woman and Smith alumna. In it she complained about the rising number of Jewish women who were being admitted to Smith in part because they were all so unattractive and all looked exactly the same.
President Neilson, in his infinite wisdom replied (to paraphrase): I’m sorry that your Smith education failed you so terribly.
I am not the President of Smith, but to you, my fellow alumna, I offer you a similar sentiment.
That said, I was totally reminded of a character from this Oscar-nominated film:
To read the lovely letter by Sparky McSpurzem, check it out here. While there, be sure to read the eloquent responses by some of Smith’s finest, not to mention those below:
Anne Spurzem, class of 1984, majored in economics, attended the MacDuffie School for Girls. She attended Duke University after Smith, where she got her MBA in marketing, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, the 2006 American city with the highest median income, where I am sure there are no…
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