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environment free from the ever-present terror that any unverified student

allegation of racism or any other ism has the power to crush our

reputations, ruin our livelihood, and even endanger the physical safety of

ourselves or our family members. That should just be obvious, but it isn't and nobody's talking about this.

Welcome to the Colette Podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay.

That voice you just heard belongs to Jody Shaw, a student support coordinator at Smith College, an elite private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

As a humble administrative worker,

Miss Shaw has relatively little power and prestige

on a campus where the typical professor makes $140,000 a year.

The college president makes almost $600,000 a year, the college president makes almost $600,000, and tuition and board

cost about $70,000.

But last week, Ms. Shaw got the attention of everyone at Smith, when she went public with long

simmering complaints about the treatment of both clerical and blue collar staff by privileged

students and a college president, Kathleen McCartney, who seems more interested in virtue

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