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Smith Stitchers Wonder, ‘How Do We Document This Time in Stitches?’

One night, just before the start of the  2020 remote fall semester, Ruby Lowery ’21 thought “I’m going to create a blanket.”
This idea would become the Smith Covid-19 blanket, a year-long undertaking by Smith Stitchers, the knitting club that Lowery founded with Natalie Mosher ’21 in 2018.

Lessons from 1968 for Today: Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Five years ago, to put it lightly, I was slightly obsessed with the Chicago Seven. Every school report of choice somehow miraculously resulted in writing about this protest of the Demecratic party’s support for the Vietnam War that took place in 1968 outside of the National Democratic Convention in Chicago. Eight left wing radicals of different groups were charged for conspiracy of crossing state lines to incite violence.

SMITH SOSTIENE LA PRIMERA CONVOCACIÓN DIGITAL 

El domingo 31 de agosto, Smith celebró su primera convocatoria digital. 

El evento, que se llevó a cabo como un seminario web sobre Zoom, contó con los discursos del nuevo decano del College Baishakhi Taylor y la presidenta Kathleen McCartney, una actuación musical del Smith College Glee Club y discursos de la presidenta de la SGA, Esther Mejia '21 y la clase Senior. Presidenta Jane Casey-Fleener '21. La ceremonia duró poco menos de 30 minutos. 

Poetry Center Book Launch Brings Students and Alumnae Together Through Art and Words

As community events shift to online platforms, Smith’s Boutelle-Day Poetry Center is finding new and creative ways of gathering virtually to celebrate the joy of writing. On Tuesday Oct. 6, the Poetry Center hosted a book launch via Zoom for the newly published book of poems “The Map of Every Lilac Leaf.”​ The book​ was published in conjunction with the Smith College Museum of Art, and all of the poems draw inspiration from pieces in Smith’s art collection.

Seeking Gratitude During a Pandemic

Lately, I’ve been trying to locate the things for which I am thankful, even in the midst of what is arguably one of the most uncertain moments of my lifetime. The past six months have felt blurred somehow, as though the haze of this pandemic has permeated nearly everything we do; the spaces we inhabit, the people we surround ourselves with, the parts of the world within which we seek refuge. It has felt impossible not to fixate on the enormity of it; the manifold ways in which it can encumber us.

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