“I remember one reporter asked me what was one of the most important things that I learned after Hurricanes Irma and Maria and I said, we will no longer be able to hide our inequality behind palm trees and piña coladas,” stated former Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz.
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This past weekend, Smith held its first on-campus vaccine clinic at the Indoor Track and Tennis Facility to administer the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to eligible members of the general public, including undergraduate and graduate students participating in Smith’s COVID-19 screening program.
On April 20, Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted on all charges brought against him in the death of George Floyd.
On April 13, The Smith College Office of Multicultural Affairs, supported by the Mwangi Fund, hosted a lecture by Dr. Crystal Marie Fleming on critical race theory and white supremacy for Smith’s inaugural Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture as a part of its annual series.
In an email to the Smith community on Friday, President of Smith, Kathleen McCartney announced the college’s Fall 2021 plan to invite all students to campus for an in-person semester.
On April 1, President of Smith, Kathleen McCartney, hosted a Presidential Colloquium on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Joining her were two disability rights activists, Judy Heumann and Tom Hehir.
On March 25, the NCAA announced that it hired a prominent civil rights law firm to conduct an independent investigative review on gender inequity in its championship events.
Scheduled to open March 29, the newly renovated Neilson Library stands as a beacon of hope and excitement among the Smith College student body and the Northampton community.