Winter is coming and with it the crisp New England weather we all love so much. If you’re like me, nothing is more exciting than a day spent out in the cold enjoying the snow-covered landscape.
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The Smith College Ice Hockey (SCIH) team began practicing the day after fall break, preparing a team with eight new players for a long, cold and competitive season.
Are the Republicans right – is it time to revisit the taxation of college endowments?
Briana Brady ‘21Staff Writer If you’ve been following the news, amidst everything else, you’ve most likely come across something having to do with Trump’s…
Weaving Voices was a project that frequently came up in conversation during my first year, but I had not attended the event until this semester.
Asghar Farhadi’s 2016 film “Salesman” tells a thought provoking story about a young married couple living in Tehran, which was shown last weekend by the Student Events Committee. Rana (Taraneh Alidootsi) and Emad (Shabaab Hosseini) are forced to evacuate their home once a construction mishap causes their apartment to become unlivable.
Tamar Carroll, associate professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology gave a talk on Friday Nov. 10, entitled “Creating Queer Politics: Coalitions between AIDS and Reproductive Rights.”
Last week, Professor Claire Finkelstein from University of Pennsylvania Law School, gave a lecture at Smith entitled “Is the U.S. becoming a Constitutional Dictatorship? Executive Authority and the Rule of Law in the Age of Trump.” The lecture was sponsored by the Kahn Institute, a liberal arts research institute at Smith.
Last Thursday, Northampton council passed a series of resolutions dealing with a variety of issues.
The resolutions, although not legally-binding, express the council’s views. Yet, these resolutions can also lead to legislature that will enact the ideas of these resolutions. Added surveillance cameras downtown, medical aid in dying, nuclear weapons and school bus safety were all topics of discussion for the council.
On Monday, following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, Smith College announced a new program to invite students from the University of Puerto Rico or other affected institutions to study at the college.