Divest Smith spoke to a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees about tackling new efforts to divest Smith from the fossil fuel industry on Feb. 22
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Macroeconomic historian and Smith alumna Gillian Brunet ’08 gave a talk titled “Stimulus on the Home Front: the State-Level Effects of World War Two Spending” last Friday to Smith students and faculty.
The theatre department debuted a production of “The Wolves”—a new play by Sarah DeLappe on Friday, Feb. 23.
A finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize Award in Drama, “The Wolves” is taking the theatre world by storm. Directed by Daniel Elihu Kramer, “The Wolves” tells the story about high school girls on a soccer team. This might make you groan, but DeLappe’s play disturbs stereotypical notions about teenage girls.
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In most cities across the United States, it’s still too cold to start thinking about baseball. But by the end of March, teams will embark on a six month long, hot, competitive season.
Top-seeded Smith basketball suffered a bitter defeat this Saturday in the NEWMAC semifinal, falling to Massachusetts Institute of Technology 51-64.
Cape Town is set to run out of water in June.
According to USA Today, Cape Town has imposed a limit of 13.2 gallons of water per day. Members of the Cape Town community have severely cut back on showering, washing and flushing toilets to try to prolong the water source, but with 3.7 million people living in the metropolitan area, every drop counts.
The opioid epidemic resulted in the direct and indirect deaths of 30,000 lives in 2015 in the U.S., according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). This number has continued to rise rapidly.
With Airbnb’s rising popularity, residents of Northampton and the Pioneer Valley are weary of the effect that the industry will have on local businesses.
Last Thursday, the Study of Women and Gender and Engineering Departments hosted a forum on diversity in the construction force. At the “Only 3% Are Women?! A Forum on Diversifying the Construction Workforce” talk on Feb. 15, panelists and representatives of the administration discussed the necessity of a more diverse representation of women and people of color in the construction industry.