On December 1 2021, the Supreme Court heard arguments on reviving Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.…
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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.
It is against everything Smith College preaches not to provide its students with a free subscription to The Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Smith, like most small liberal arts colleges, promises a superior commitment to teaching undergraduate students. Professors don’t disappear to work on their research and leave the bulk of student engagement to teaching assistants; rather, they create the classroom environment. That level of engagement is a high demand for faculty, even those who are tenure-track or tenured.
I was accepted by Smith College with a caveat — I would have to matriculate in January. Initially, I was too excited about my acceptance to read beyond “Congratulations!” It was only when I examined the letter more carefully that I noticed the minor hitch.
If you don’t know anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 at Smith this academic year, I’m here to tell you what to expect if…
Dear Smith College students, faculty and staff, In intro-level economics classes, professors teach students that monopolies are bad for consumers and the economy while they…
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At first it was easy to give up my normal life in hopes of quelling the surge of disease that spread across the country. Weeks…
Picture me, in 2019, sitting on a couch at some UMass guy’s house while a party slowly died around me. I only came to this…