Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, Floyd Cheung, Smith’s newly appointed Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Susan Etheredge, Dean of the College and…
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Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, Floyd Cheung, Smith’s newly appointed Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Susan Etheredge, Dean of the College and…
On Thursday night, 10 candidates took to the stage in Houston, Texas for the third Democratic debate in the 2020 presidential race. The debate was…
On Thursday night, 10 candidates took to the stage in Houston, Texas for the third Democratic debate in the 2020 presidential race. The debate was…
In January 2019, Daniel Hect was hired as the campus police chief for Smith and Mount Holyoke. After students from both schools saw the anti-immigrant, pro-Trump tweets he had liked and retweeted, they spoke out against the newly appointed Hect.
On Saturday, April 20, Glazed Doughnut Shop closed its Northampton location. The shop had been a downtown staple for Smith students and Northampton residents for two and a half years.
Original article by Jamie Mastrogiacomo.
四月十一日星期四，在史密斯首届“融入日”落幕后的第二天，SSJIC（史密斯促进社会正义组织）在JMG礼堂外举行抗议集会。而在“包容日”当天，学校还开设了若干会议，讨论的主题正是学校的多元化与包容性。
On April 10, Smith held its first ever “Inclusion in Action” conference. Classes were cancelled and administrative offices were closed so that students, faculty and staff members could attend workshops, which were designed to try to foster open dialogue about issues facing marginalized students and to work towards creating a more inclusive environment.
On Thursday, April 11, workers at the Northampton Stop & Shop on King Street walked off the job as part of a union strike involving over 30,000 employees and spanning across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This strike comes after months of failed negotiation to reach a new contract between the union and company. Stop & Shop employees are represented by the larger United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union. Many Stop & Shop stores across New England have been forced to close their doors due to a lack of working employees.
On Thursday, April 11, the Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change (SSJIC) held a protest outside of John M. Greene Hall. This demonstration was held the day after Smith’s first Inclusion in Action conference, where sessions were held to discuss issues regarding diversity and inclusion.