Zoya Azhar ’20 | Associate Editor
Every year, Smith students face rising annual tuition fees. To put this into perspective, the traditional undergraduate fee for attending Smith in the 2016-2017 academic year was $68,482; now, two years later, the fee stands at $72,292. This trend has been observed for many years now and is expected to continue in the coming years.
Elizabeth Muirhead ’20 | Assistant Sports Editor
With the start of the school year and the beginning of the fall sports season, it’s easy to forget that the summer sports season is approaching its end.
Somto Okonkwo ’21
In August, Elizabeth Myers, director of Special Collections at Smith, was a featured storyteller for “A Finding Aid to My Soul: An Archivist Storytelling Event,” sponsored by the Society of American Archivists’ Committee on Public Awareness.
Hannah Vogel ’21
When most people think of synchronized swimming, they envision flowery caps, neat side dives and a lot of floating in circles. While this may have been the true during the Esther Williams era of synchronized swimming, it most certainly isn’t indicative of the synchro world today.
Chantelle Leswell ’20J | Staff Writer
From that dreaded moment in the early hours of Nov. 9, 2016, survivors of sexual trauma have been in a state of bereavement — of raw, unadulterated pain — as they saw election results prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that their voices and their experiences didn’t matter.
Claudia Olson ’22 | Assistant Features Editor
Last weekend, the Smith Debate Society traveled across Massachusetts to attend the Boston University Novice tournament. Smith brought the biggest team, with 22 competitors and five board members who served as judges during the rounds and led the team around the Boston area.
Hazel Garrity ’21 | Contributing Writer
As a bright-eyed incoming first year, many things about Smith excited me. The house communities, beautiful campus, lack of general education requirements and especially, the variety of dining options, were the major reasons I chose to come to Smith.
Kelly Coons ’22 | Assistant Opinions Editor
A is for apple. B is for book. And G is for… gun? Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to arm U.S. teachers. She claims it will make schools safer by deterring mass shootings, like the one that claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members in an elementary school in my home state, Connecticut.
Emily Buxengaard ’22 | Assistant News Editor
I used to hate it when people asked me what I was reading. I loathed the snide remarks I'd get about the tattered Harlequins I liked to pick up from the thrift store.
Jacqueline Richardson ’21 | Assistant Arts Editor
Currently on display at the Smith College Museum of Art is Alma Thomas: The Light of the Whole Universe, comprising art from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s by Alana Thomas and her contemporaries.