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…
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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.
“It felt like it was out of a movie. It felt like: how is this real life?” said Xochitl Krumbiegel ’23 of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. “I was surprised that President Trump was able to get that many people to rally.”
“If they see me talking to you, I’ll be fired,” said a housekeeper who, along with another housekeeper, spoke to The Sophian in a house hallway. They both expressed concern about the housekeeping department’s recent change in management. “They do not care for women,” said the other. “We get treated like crap.”
In August of 1965, former news editor of The Sophian, Marsha Cohen ’68 was escorted off the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Then…
Celebration began as a student response to a hateful incident on campus in the ’90s in which the Wilson House steps were chalked with homophobic…








