On Feb. 28, 2022, the Smith College Provost Office released a statement titled “Responding to the Invasion of Ukraine.” The letter unequivocally labeled the events of Feb. 24, 2022 an invasion, which was urgently condemned and its “humanitarian consequences” recognized. The statement was clear; there was no potential ambiguity, no room for doubt or misinterpretation. In this case, history didn’t seem complicated and the conversations weren’t difficult. The discourse was not a mere clash or the latest episode in the convoluted conflict between Russia and Ukraine; it was unmistakably an invasion.
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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…
To the editors: Your article “Protestors March for Palestine at Smith College and Northampton” (Oct. 21, 2023) could have done better. A few examples: The…
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…
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One long-standing Smith tradition for Ada Comstock scholars — the Ada Monologues —hasn’t occurred since 2019 – until now. The Ada Monologues brought audience members…
Originally published in the April 2023 print edition.
I was never in a “Gifted and Talented” program. In fact, I was never whisked away from my classmates and placed in any kind of accelerated program without deliberately having to seek it out first...