“Concinnitas” was a term used by 15th-century scholar and architect Leon Battista Alberti to describe beauty in architecture, which he believed existed when — and only when — parts of a building cohered to a harmonizing whole. It was also used to name The Concinnitas Portfolio, to which Professor Pau Atela responded in his Re(Creations) and MathStudio. Both the portfolio and Atela’s work will be displayed at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass until Dec. 9.
The Sophian
If you’ve ever taken a class with me, or really if you’ve ever met me, you know that I ask a lot of questions. I…
Capricorn: You work way the F too much. Remember that work can’t replace emotional connection/friends/family, so you need to work on accessing your emotional side…
Last Thursday, the Conway Center held a workshop as part of its “Innovative Strategies” series. “Last year most of the students came up with their…
As a result of the Trump administration’s endless attack on Reproductive Rights, the future of menstrual equity in the United States gets seemingly murkier each…
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of meeting Smith College alumna Ann Martin ’77, well-known for writing “The Baby-Sitters Club.” I was invited to a dinner with Martin, her editors and members of the Friends of the Smith College Libraries.
“Dear young people, don’t vote.” I’m sure, as election day approaches, you’ve been hearing this public service announcement (PSA) a lot. Have you ever stopped to watch the whole thing, though? It’s a lot of old, white people sneering at the screen, but I encourage you to because I will be tearing this public service announcement apart.
When I told my friends I would be spending the summer at the end of my sophomore year in the Valley, all of them told me to brace myself.
Smythology episode 4: If Smithies today used Smith slang from 1893
I have a complicated relationship with the word “slam.” Every time I hear the word qualifying some literary event — a poetry reading or a storytelling event — I feel my stomach lurch, as though I caught a whiff of some food that once gave me torrential runs. Not that I only have bad experiences with slams, not at all. But for every poem I’ve heard that revelled in the snap of a word as it rolled off the tongue, for every story I listened to that sparked against the speaker’s animated telling, there were five, ten, fifteen others that made me cringe back into my seat.