On Thursday, November 30, 2017, President McCartney announced to the Smith community the appointment of the new Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: David T. Campbell Bradley. Carreon Bradley previously worked at Vassar College as the chair of the Committee of Inclusion and Equity and as an associate professor in the physics department. The appointment will be effective January 18th 2018.
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An unidentified Smith student was sexually assaulted in the late afternoon on Wednesday, Oct. 25 in the Dickinson parking lot outside of Hubbard House.
Approximately five minutes after the incident, the student called Campus Police and waited over an hour for them to arrive.
Tamar Carroll, associate professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology gave a talk on Friday Nov. 10, entitled “Creating Queer Politics: Coalitions between AIDS and Reproductive Rights.”
Last week, Professor Claire Finkelstein from University of Pennsylvania Law School, gave a lecture at Smith entitled “Is the U.S. becoming a Constitutional Dictatorship? Executive Authority and the Rule of Law in the Age of Trump.” The lecture was sponsored by the Kahn Institute, a liberal arts research institute at Smith.
Last Thursday, Northampton council passed a series of resolutions dealing with a variety of issues.
The resolutions, although not legally-binding, express the council’s views. Yet, these resolutions can also lead to legislature that will enact the ideas of these resolutions. Added surveillance cameras downtown, medical aid in dying, nuclear weapons and school bus safety were all topics of discussion for the council.
On Monday, following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Smith College announced a new program to invite students from the University of Puerto Rico or other affected institutions to study at the college.
A man identified as Sayfullo Saipov killed eight people and injured 11 after driving a pickup truck down a bike path in Manhattan on Halloween. The victims included tourists from Argentina and Belgium, as well as two Americans.
In September, Diovanni Aquino, a student that does not attend UMass Amherst, left Phi Sigma Kappa, a frat on UMass Amherst’s campus following an altercation that went far beyond the norm for fraternity party. According to reports, a disagreement that turned violent broke out at the end of the night at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
Last Thursday, Smith College celebrated the annual Otelia Cromwell Day with special lectures, workshops and talks all honoring the first African-American graduate of Smith College, Otelia Cromwell.
At the Otelia Cromwell Day keynote last Thursday, students dropped two banners from the balcony in John M. Greene, one with the painted statement, “Otelia couldn’t live here,” and another promoting a meeting on the issue this past Saturday.