{"id":1924,"date":"2012-02-23T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2018-10-20T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:36:55","slug":"alumna-anne-spurzem-writes-letter-to-the-sophian-attacking-diversity-and-changing-student-demographics-at-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/2012\/02\/23\/alumna-anne-spurzem-writes-letter-to-the-sophian-attacking-diversity-and-changing-student-demographics-at-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Anne Spurzem writes letter to the Sophian attacking diversity and changing student demographics at Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Alumna Anne Spurzem writes letter to the <i>Sophian<\/i> attacking diversity and changing student demographics at Smith<\/p>\n<p><i>On Rally Day, Anne Spurzem, who graduated in 1984, wrote to the Smith Sophian. In her letter to the editor, Spurzem criticized Smith for accepting students who are people of color, gay, low-income, international, or straight and white but unable to get into Ivy League schools. She insinuates that Smith\u2019s reputation has gone down due to these students, and bemoans the fact that \u201cthe days of white, wealthy, upper-class students from prep schools in cashmere coats and pearls who marry Amherst men are over.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Anne Spurzem\u2019s letter can be viewed <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/2012.02.23.-Opinion-Page-Anne-Spurzem-Letter-to-the-Editor-4.jpg\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 20, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2012 Alumna Anne Spurzem writes letter to the Sophian attacking diversity and changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[93,94],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010s","tag-93","tag-hateful-discourse","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}