“Hi there Billy, I am the one that took your sign,” began local student Zahra Ashe-Simmer’s open letter to a Northampton community Facebook page, where she sparked nearly one thousand comments about a controversial yard sign commissioned by Northampton resident Billy Park.
The Sophian
On Sunday, May 17, Smith College held its first ever virtual commencement ceremony. Over 3,900 tuned into the program on Facebook Live, which started at noon and lasted just over an hour.
The Sophian is proud to introduce its first zine, highlighting student art made amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the switch to remote learning.
Nadia is a rising senior hoping to do an Honors Thesis in her lab. She was planning on using SURF, the Summer Research and Fellowship Program, to push forward with the experiments. “I’ve never had just one thing that I am working on,” she says, and SURF was an opportunity to focus.
Speaking to friends, family and from personal experience, it has become increasingly evident that, perhaps as a way to cope, our days are now being spent in the bottomless inertia of the internet. Alongside the multitude of mainstream media, Smith offers more off-kilter online options for helping students through this pandemic.
Nueve años después de comenzar su transición de género, Cristina Morales tomó la decisión de emigrar a los Estados Unidos desde Celaya, Guanajuato, México. El año era 1997 y ahí comenzó su carrera como activista y como inspiración para mujeres transgénero indocumentadas.
In a March 27 tweet, President McCartney announced that Smith, in partnership with Cooley Dickinson Hospital, is donating on-campus housing “to support the hospital’s needs…
Photo courtesy of Charlotte Samuels Approximately one month ago, my senior year of college abruptly came to an end and I packed all of my…
Even if you don’t follow the account yourself, if you’re a student with an Instagram at a historically women’s college, you’ve probably seen memes from the account @historicallywomens.c0m. In fact, for many students, this account makes up the bulk of interactions they have with...
Yesterday morning, I woke up smiling at a text from my ex, “I had a dream I made the biggest loaf of banana bread last…