Like many a stir-crazy teenager, I, too, looked to my grandmother’s old yarn hoard as a means of working through my quarantine boredom in the early days of the pandemic. My affair with the fiber arts began as it often does: mindless fiddling with different crochet hooks and tangled skeins of yarn.
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It is against everything Smith College preaches not to provide its students with a free subscription to The Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Smith, like most small liberal arts colleges, promises a superior commitment to teaching undergraduate students. Professors don’t disappear to work on their research and leave the bulk of student engagement to teaching assistants; rather, they create the classroom environment. That level of engagement is a high demand for faculty, even those who are tenure-track or tenured.
I was accepted by Smith College with a caveat — I would have to matriculate in January. Initially, I was too excited about my acceptance to read beyond “Congratulations!” It was only when I examined the letter more carefully that I noticed the minor hitch.
Smith’s COVID-19 Incident Response Team (CIRT) announced that the college will further relax COVID-19 guidelines with a shift to “green mode,” starting on Monday, Feb. 28.
On Valentine’s Day, between 4 and 6 p.m., nearly 240 students crowded around tables in the Special Collections Reading Room on Neilson’s third floor, decorated…
As part of Smith’s 2021-2022 Presidential Colloquium series, Masha Gessen, a transgender and nonbinary Russian-American author and journalist, was invited to deliver a webinar on Feb. 15 to the student body and Smith community members.
Photo by Helen McColpin
At first it was easy to give up my normal life in hopes of quelling the surge of disease that spread across the country. Weeks…
The recent reduction in operating hours for Dawes dining, part of a broader series of changes to dining, has negatively impacted some students at Smith.