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.
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Elizabeth Muirhead ’20 is a member of the Smith College Ice Hockey team and ice hockey correspondent for The Sophian.
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.
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Do you have a paper due soon? Did you know Smith Libraries has a research librarian on-call Monday through Friday, between the hours…
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.”
Millions of people around the world celebrated Lunar New Year on Feb. 16. Lasting 15 days, the holiday is also called Spring Festival or Chinese…
Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer and Miss Undastood are challenging representations of Black Muslim identity in the United States.
While there is no doubt that being a dancer requires high degrees of strength and perseverance, it is the choreographer that creates the dance. One should never underestimate the power of a choreographer’s creative license. They are the masterminds behind the curtains.
On Saturday evening, from the comfort of the Scales living room, 15 plus smithies gathered to watch the best athletes in the world compete.