Red faces and sweaty bodies fill every elliptical, treadmill, and stationary bike. People are standing around waiting for equipment to be free. Yoga mats on…
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On Thursday night, the curtain rose on Toni Craige, Xan Burley and Alex Springer’s dance Performance, “Frame[work].” Six enlarged windchimes were suspended in the air…
On Feb. 1, Residence Life sent an email to the Smith community detailing changes to special interest housing for Fall 2020. The email also included…
“Social Justice belongs to all of us,” said Laura Katz. In 2008, the Social Justice Curricular Design Group proposed a potential new minor focused on social justice. Laura Katz, co-chair of SJCDG, presented the group’s proposal of a new minor in social justice this semester with the hopes that it become an interdepartmental minor.
Earlier this semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) asked students to participate in a survey regarding safety on campus. Many respondents expressed concern about poorly-lit areas, and the issue prompted discussion about preserving safety while reducing light pollution.
In September, Smith college joined 165 other higher education institutions throughout the state of Massachusetts in signing an Amicus brief opposing the Trump administration’s revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. This comes in anticipation of the upcoming supreme court decision on the legality of DACA, which the Trump administration initially rescinded in September 2017. Arguments on the case began Tuesday, Nov 12. This ruling will impact the future of some 700,000 young immigrants.
Important changes marked this year’s Otelia Cromwell Day.
Smith is a mystical place.
In an Oct. 18 email to the Smith Community, President Kathleen McCartney announced that the Smith College Board of Trustees voted in its October meeting to “direct Investure, the college’s outsourced endowment management firm, to exclude from the Smith College endowment all future investments with fossil fuel-specific managers” and also voted to enact a “phaseout of all current investments with fossil fuel-specific managers in the Smith College endowment.”