House presidents have had enough. Frustrated, feeling taken for granted and ignored by the administration, they won’t put up with it any longer. This Sunday, April 10, 14 of them gathered in Seelye Hall to finalize their plans for a mass resignation from the House President Association. On Monday, April 11, 24 house presidents submitted their resignations, while three more wrote letters of support.
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Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”
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Like many a stir-crazy teenager, I, too, looked to my grandmother’s old yarn hoard as a means of working through my quarantine boredom in the early days of the pandemic. My affair with the fiber arts began as it often does: mindless fiddling with different crochet hooks and tangled skeins of yarn.
就像大多数小型文理学院一样，史密斯学院承诺给予本科学生卓越的教学体验。教授们不会因为自己的研究项目而突然消失，随即把大部分的学生参与度留给助教承担；相反，他们会主动创造教学环境。这种参与程度对教职工的要求很高，即使是那些即将或者已经被授予终身教职资格的教师也会面临这样的问题。教学是一项艰苦、耗时的工作，正如学术界同时对他们抱有不断发表文章的期望。考虑到这些要求，我们很难想象一个访问教授如何能在短暂的逗留期间提供宝贵的的课堂经历。
“Maya Lin: Mappings,” a collection of Lin’s works commenting on the relationship between humans and the environment, will be in exhibition at the Smith College Art Museum through Aug. 7.