<p>And the latest good news is that New York State has legalized same sex marriage!</p>
<p>(If some would-be Smith parents have a problem with the fact that 12% of the Smith student body is made up of smart women who are attracted to other women, well too darn bad - for their daughters, that is. I am glad - very glad, and gratified - that Smith, from its administration on down embraces the variety of women’s experience. It is, after all, first and foremost a women’s college - not a liberal arts college that happens to be all women - but a women’s college that embraces the liberal arts.)</p>