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A Place for Classical Music at Smith: On “The Timeless Genius of Chopin”

Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”

Ode to the Fiber Arts

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.

The “Visiting” Conundrum

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.