This week, I had the privilege of attending three vastly different live performances in Northampton.
The Sophian
Trigger Warning: This story chronicles grooming, rape, sexual assault and abusive relationships. We have decided to include the details of these horrible events to open…
The horrifying middle school classroom paranoia that your period has started fades away mostly in high school, and nearly completely at an institution like Smith. However, I think we need to do more than simply remove the stigma around periods. Smith College, which has posited itself as a progressive institution for gender and sexuality has to understand that accessibility remains a serious issue for menstrual hygiene.
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center hosted the second guest poet of the Fall 2021 Reading Series, Jenny Johnson, a writer known for her exploration of queer identity in relation to nature and reality.
Before the Pearl Street Nightclub doors opened at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers huddled under awnings for shelter from the rain. The suboptimal weather conditions did nothing to hamper the excitement. In the next hour before the live performance began, there were plenty of people crowding into the intimate venue and singing along to pre-show music.
Brittany Wood Nickerson is a local herbalist who offers books, posters, journals and various online classes for the layperson to learn the skills of herbalism…
“When anybody dies, it’s like a library burning,” said Sam Wentworth, an Ada Comstock Scholar who ventured out to Hollywood when she was 16 years…
Universities often talk about providing support to international students, particularly because many of us have flown halfway across the world to a foreign place where nothing feels familiar. This year, against the backdrop of a global pandemic, this feeling is even more intense.
En campus por primera vez después de un año de clases y actividades en línea, la clase de 2024 de Smith expresó niveles variados de confort con la vida social del campus. Muches terminaron sus años finales de la escuela secundaria en línea, durante el cierre de primavera 2020; todes pasaron su primer año de universidad en clases en línea. Mientras que les estudiantes de segundo año ya se habían ajustado al ritmo académico de vida en la universidad, el ajuste social este año es nuevo. Por algunes, ha sido difícil encontrar un equilibrio entre vida social y académica.
An immigrant, an artist and a documentarian, Ada Comstock scholar Lilo Danielyan’s journey to Smith is a story about a woman’s determination to receive an education.