On Tuesday Oct. 27, Gina Siepel presented her work-in-progress environmental arts project, “To Understand a Tree.” The virtual event was hosted by Joanne Benkley, the…
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El 28 de septiembre, la presidenta de la clase de seniors (estudiantes de último año) en Smith, Jane Casey-Fleener '21, lanzó una petición titulada: “Traiga la clase de 2021 de regreso para el semestre de primavera.”
“Call elections office.” In the past year, it has been on my weekly to-do list over ten times. Allow me to explain why. I…
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.
On September 28th, Smith’s Senior Class President Jane Casey-Fleener ’21 launched a petition titled: “Bring Class of 2021 Back for Spring Semester.” The purpose of…
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.
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.
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.
I consumed my fair share of “highbrow” media over Quarantine Summer: I finally watched “Fleabag.” I got deeply into the twisted capitalist world of HBO’s “Succession.” I read a lot of modern literary fiction and finally took advantage of that Smith College New York Times subscription.
But my one true quarantine love, the one piece of media that made good on the promise of important art and transported me out of these Unprecedented Times, was "Riverdale," the CW’s violent, glossy, completely off-the-wall adaptation of the Archie Comics.
Original por Amanda Chisolm 21 de agosto de 2020
Traducción por Laisha Aniceto 30 del agosto de 2020
A pesar de la reciente decisión de Smith College de ir completamente remotamente en
línea durante el semestre de otoño de 2020, la universidad no reducirá su matrícula
2020-21.