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.
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I spend all day studying. I worry if I don't keep working I will fall behind. I desperately want to take time for myself, but I can’t seem to relax. Like most students, I need a break. But our two-day spring break, Meadow Day, is not enough during such an overwhelming time.
Recientemente, un artículo del New York Times, "Dentro de una batalla por la raza, la clase y el poder en Smith College" por Michael Powell, ha despertado gran atención y controversia entre los estudiantes y empleados de Smith. Pone al centro de la atención nacional el incidente de una estudiante negra Oumou Kanoute.
A year after the Louisville police shooting of Breonna Taylor, the question of what justice might look like for her continues.
If you had told me this time last year that I would be rhapsodizing about romance novels I would have laughed in your face. But how could I have predicted what 2020 would bring?
If 2020 has taught us anything: it’s that the importance of maintaining good mental health routines should be a consistent practice, particularly during a pandemic.
In 2017, the Pew Research Center reported that a quarter of American adults identify as “spiritual but not religious”. At Smith, we are exposed to this phenomenon on a daily basis.
A few weeks ago, during Thanksgiving break, I had the time to reflect on my first semester of college.
Who isn’t experiencing pandemic fatigue? It’s easy to think that feeling worn out is just a sign of the end of the semester in 2020; but it’s not.