Amrita Acharya ’22 describes her weekly radio show, “413 Ethnography,” as an “exploration of Western Mass niches.” Every Saturday afternoon, Acharya brings in a Pioneer Valley Local to interview. “413” was previously broadcasted over the 91.9FM WOZQ airwaves but is now a biweekly podcast posted on The Sophian website.
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Speaking to friends, family and from personal experience, it has become increasingly evident that, perhaps as a way to cope, our days are now being spent in the bottomless inertia of the internet. Alongside the multitude of mainstream media, Smith offers more off-kilter online options for helping students through this pandemic.
Despite the bitter cold plaguing Western Mass last week, over 155 college students, faculty and community members found their way into a packed screening room at Amherst College for the 26th annual Five College Film Festival. The two hour collection of videos were artistic, eclectic, experimental and occasionally abrasive. But regardless of the films’ conceptual or technical ability, there was an infectious and radiant wealth of appreciation and support from everyone within the space.
On Thursday night, the curtain rose on Toni Craige, Xan Burley and Alex Springer’s dance Performance, “Frame[work].” Six enlarged windchimes were suspended in the air…
In the depths of the bottom floor of the Campus Center, tucked into a corner, lies the WOZQ station for Smith College Radio. Lined floor to floor with disks, records, polaroids, drawings, letters and posters (specifically, a four-foot-tall poster of 2010-era Kevin Jonas, red-lipstick-kissed on his cheek), over eighty Smithie DJs come to broadcast their shows seven days a week.
At the beginning of November, Smithies and the Northampton community flooded into the Botanic Garden of Smith College to see the highly anticipated Fall Chrysanthemum Show. Nicknamed “the mum show,” this visually stunning display of bonsai, chrysanthemum cascades, oversized standard blooms and diverse variety of mums has a rich history that stretches across the globe. For a show with a little bit for everyone, its popularity is rightly deserved.
Humans throughout history have connected and emoted through the personal expression that is art. And on Thursday Oct. 10th, Smith community members and students connected with the Smith College Museum of Art exhibit, Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry by Munio Makuuchi, through the use of poetry.
Zoë Crutcher ’22 spent most of the night Oct. 18 sitting at the feet of performers at the Display Art Collective’s “Open Mic Night.” Holding a black microphone up to the mouth to those playing instruments and singing, she laughed at an oversight: they didn’t have a mic stand.
Half a century later, we still continue to learn new truths about America in the Vietnam War. For an international event that dramatically altered the United States’ public trust in the military, there are still many lessons to learn.