<p>In case anyone else heard on the local news tonight about the TB case at Smith and would like to know more, here is what the College is saying about it:</p>
<p>[Smith</a> College: News](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/news/2007-08/TBUpdate.php]Smith”>http://www.smith.edu/news/2007-08/TBUpdate.php)</p>
<p>I just heard about in the e-mail edition of The Sophian.</p>
<p>Btw, how do you pronounce that: I say so-fee-an, someone else says so-fie-an (middle syllable rhymes with “eye,” not “knee”).</p>
<p>My D is constantly correcting me: it’s so-fie-an.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s Soph-EYE-An and Soph-EYE-ah Smith. </p>
<p>The TB thing is not too big a deal. It’s contained and the infected people don’t have active TB (except the girl that originally infected everyone) and the Dept. Of Health is getting them their treatment with Smith’s assistance.</p>
<p>Huh. I sit corrected. Well, next, do they pronounce it “Fred-er-ick” or “Froh-der-ick”?</p>
<p>S&P: I gather the same thing from what my D says – the TB case has been contained. Nonetheless, it was a bit worrisome, as a parent, to hear about it on two different news channels, having not heard peep about it before.</p>