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“Black Panther” Across Smith

The steady build-up of tension, as the release date of any big-screen depiction of a Marvel universe draws closer, is old news at this point. Marvel profits from precisely that public fervor.

Getting A’s are bad for your work ethic

As much as Smith students like to say, “C’s get degrees” and “Done is better than good,” we still have an enormous stress problem on campus. Students stay up later, and wake up earlier than they should, cut class to finish assignments, pass on job opportunities and internships to have more time for their classes, all in search of a perfect 4.0.

Thoughts and prayers won’t stop bullets

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School attack, in Florida, left 17 students and staff members dead and is the deadliest school shooting since 2012. Student survivors from the attack,  the most recent school shooting, have announced a national “March for Our Lives” on Washington to demand political action on gun control. Theirs is just one of many student-led groups calling for protests and working to amass support on social media in the wake of the recent attack.

Keeping Adults in the Game

The benefits of regular exercise, and in particular the participation on a sports team participation in particular, are widely known and accepted. Researchers are trying to pinpoint why it is that adults don’t continue playing the games they loved as kids.

Smith Libraries: Did You Know?

    Do you have a paper due soon? Did you know Smith Libraries has a research librarian on-call Monday through Friday, between the hours…

Review: ‘How to Date a Manic Pixie Dream Girl’

If you have put yourself through “500 Days of Summer” or watched anything involving Zooey Deschanel, then you know what a “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” is. The term, coined by film critic Nathan Rabin, is a trope. In the words of Lyssandra Norton MFA ’18, a “manic pixie dream girl is extremely quirky, plays the ukulele or a sport, and is weird as fuck.”

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