Amrita Acharya ’22 describes her weekly radio show, “413 Ethnography,” as an “exploration of Western Mass niches.” Every Saturday afternoon, Acharya brings in a Pioneer Valley Local to interview. “413” was previously broadcasted over the 91.9FM WOZQ airwaves but is now a biweekly podcast posted on The Sophian website.
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The pandemic has widened the gap between Smith’s most and least privileged members — including its faculty members. On July 6, President McCartney announced Smith’s…
Smith will invite freshmen, sophomores, and students graduating in January back for the fall semester; juniors and seniors may come back in the spring. All students will live in single rooms, and necessary precautions being taken include de-densifying floor populations and limiting the number of students per bathroom.
“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.
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…