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What living in Bo-kaap, South Africa taught me

Yawen Tsao ’19 | Contributing Writer
The Nurul Islam Mosque is a mosque that was founded in 1844 in Bo-Kaap, South Africa. Last Monday, I went there for an Islamic class with my host mom, who has been an Islamic teacher for her whole life — 72 years.

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Sylvia Moon | Staff Writer There is a sophomore that lives in my house named Kim. We all love her so I decided share that…

Freeman Hrabowski discusses the importance of diversity in STEM education

Claudia Olson | Assistant Features Editor

According to Freeman Hrabowski, the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, STEM fields in higher education need to better serve students from underrepresented backgrounds. Hrabowski came to Smith Mon., Oct. 29 to talk about this as part of the Presidential Colloquium series.

Entrepreneurship conference connecting to people outside of Smith

Lingchuan Xu ’21 | Features Editor

This weekend (Oct. 26–Oct. 28), the Western Massachusetts Idea Jam (WMIJ) was held at UMass Center in Springfield. It was an entrepreneurship event cosponsored by Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and Western Massachusetts University; other universities were invited to attend. People from a range of different schools met and got to know each other, exchanging their ideas.

How an internship panel gets planned

Lingchuan Xu ’21 | Features Editor

On October 15, Smithies in Business held its second annual internship panel. The flow of students continuously came and went: some of them chatted with representatives while the others ate lunch and talked to their peers. This created a strong and effective networking environment for students to achieve related internship experience as well as to build professional and personal relationships with those interested in the same field.