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Dear Dedicated Readers, As a graduating senior, I have experienced Smith in many forms: completely online from my home in the fall of 2020, taking…
Recently, we were in the archives looking through old Sophian editions and came across an editorial from the Feb. 1967 issue of the Sophian. In…
Dear Dedicated Sophian Readers, We are proud to present our October publication, the second print edition of the year. With the Northampton municipal elections coming…
We, the 2023–24 Editorial Board members, are proud to present our first print edition of the academic year. Every year brings many exciting changes to…
On Oct. 3, I was pleased to receive an email from the Student Government Association informing me that all Smith students now have a $35…
I couldn’t remember a single word, so I stood there for ten awkward seconds until my professor finally came to my aid and completed the sentence for me. I sat down, embarrassed, anticipating judgment from my classmates, my professor — everybody.
A couple weeks ago, my Russian language professor took us on a field trip. We piled into a van and drove to the nearest Russian grocery store, in Springfield. Entering the store felt like being absorbed into another world. Our trip was a fascinating and humorous language-learning experience. But shopping there almost two months into Putin’s war in Ukraine has generated some questions.
For those of us dwelling on the margins, the Smith bubble can be a challenging terrain to navigate. Recently, a new Ada brought up feeling isolated at Smith, asking if anyone else felt this way and, if so, how we deal with it.
Like many a stir-crazy teenager, I, too, looked to my grandmother’s old yarn hoard as a means of working through my quarantine boredom in the early days of the pandemic. My affair with the fiber arts began as it often does: mindless fiddling with different crochet hooks and tangled skeins of yarn.