As Smith College welcomes back all its students to campus over a year into the pandemic, hiccups are inevitable. But what the dining program is facing is not a hiccup.
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It was the best of times for the president of Smith College adorned with her Louboutin’s, it was the worst of times for her students,…
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.
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.
The coolest of the cool had slept through the unconscionably early dining hall breakfast, only to convene two hours after its close in the beautiful light of the Hubbard dining room at 11am, cherry-white chocolate chip scones in hand.
Translated from English by Salma Vargas Me paso todo el día estudiando. Me preocupa que si no sigo trabajando me quedaré atrás. Quiero desesperadamente tomar…
Ha pasado un año y medio desde que me aceptaron en Smith, nueve meses desde que tomé mi primera clase universitaria y tres meses desde que llegué por primera vez al campus. Como una alumna de primer año durante la pandemia, siento que comencé la universidad por etapas; el otoño pasado, experimenté una carga de trabajo a nivel universitario. Este semestre, viví en el campus fuera de casa por primera vez, y el próximo otoño (toquemos madera), finalmente tendré la experiencia universitaria completa: vivir en el campus, ir a clases, juntas y presentaciones en persona. En cierto modo, este ajuste gradual hizo que la introducción a la universidad fuera más fácil y menos abrupta. Pero hace un año, la perspectiva de no tener una transición normal a la universidad fue devastadora para mí.
As people received vaccines and Hot Girl Summer was declared across the nation, I watched as my friends, all newly in love from their coronalationships, peaked longingly through the confines of their fortresses.
It’s been a year and a half since I was accepted into Smith, nine months since I took my first college class, and three months since I first arrived on campus. As a first year during the pandemic, it feels like I started college in stages—last fall, I experienced a college-level workload. This semester, I lived on campus away from home for the first time, and next fall (knock on wood), I’ll finally have the full college experience:
It’s a common story at colleges across the country: student activists demand a phaseout of fossil fuel investment at the institutional level, and the board of trustees offers a provisional fifteen, twenty, or thirty-year plan. Smith made the switch in 2019 following a survey in which 92% of students voted in favor of divestment. Yet the school’s fifteen-year, best-case-scenario promise falls short of scientific consensus– the U.N. writes that we have nine years left before climate collapse becomes irreversible.