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Letter to the Editor

We, the Community Health Organizers, constructively disagree with the article, “How to Have a Good Convocation,” published on September 1st in The Sophian. Although we recognize that the article was not meant to be taken seriously, all Smith students have a responsibility to model safe and inclusive practices for living in community, meeting new people, partying, and participating in consensual sexual encounters. This is even more important during a pandemic, to keep everyone safe and healthy. 

But What Can We Do About the Peeping Toms at Convocation?

Women of color need to be protected at all costs because our identities have been marketed to evoke sexual utility by an industry that makes our bodies readily accessible to anyone on the internet. While we are conditioned to feel vulnerable, men are miseducated to believe that our bodies are objects for them to take, distort and photograph.

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. 

Smith celebrates the start of a new academic year at convocation

Students and faculty members at Smith celebrated the start of the new academic year at convocation on the evening of September 6. Classes began on Thursday, September 7.

   The celebratory, student-focused college tradition first introduced by the college’s first female president Jill Ker Conway in 1975 now features house-themed costumes, house chants and minimal clothing. 

Smith Holds Its Annual Convocation Ceremony

Molly McGuire ’18 News Editor On Sept. 7, President Kathleen McCartney greeted Smith students returning from their summer vacations as she began the annual Convocation…