The Episode That Roiled Smith College To the Editor: March 6, 2021 Re “Tensions Simmer Over Race and Class at Smith” (front page, Feb. 25): I am disheartened by the coverage of the recent resignation of a white staff member at Smith College over what she calls a “racially hostile workplace” (for white people) in …
Smith College and the racist incident that wasn’t By Matthew Stewart, March 4, 2021 The New York Times recently reopened a story that it first reported on in July 2018. Back then the Times joined other national media in recounting an alleged story of racism at Smith College, an elite all-women’s school in Northampton, Massachusetts. Last week’s update by reporter Michael …
Smith College Defends Focus On Diversity After Employee Claims Bias Against White Staff By Karen Brown, March 3, 2021 A former Smith College employee says she has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging a hostile environment for white people on campus. Jodi Shaw, who worked in the student support office, has …
Crying ‘racism’ at Smith College By Gene Lyons, March 3, 2021 Had I not once spent a semester living adjacent to the Smith College campus in Massachusetts years ago, I’d probably never have read Michael Powell’s extraordinary New York Times account of a tragi-comic racial debacle there. Ho-hum. Isn’t this what they do at these …
Smith College controversy highlights struggles schools face in making racially equitable campuses By Taylor Romine, March 2, 2021 (CNN)In the summer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute read a book and ate her lunch in a common room area of a Smith College residence hall that required keycard access. Since she was in a program teaching high …
Smith College and the Failing Liberal Bargain By Bret Stephens, March 1, 2021 Like many readers of The Times, I was riveted by Michael Powell’s account last week of a 2018 incident at Smith College that illustrated the tension between issues of race and class. It’s a striking — and increasingly familiar — tale of the …