A few weeks ago, in Acting Studio 2 of the Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, a one-night performance was staged for a small but attentive audience. Emma O’Neill-Dietel ’21 describes her show “What?” as a solo, memoir-based performance about her experience growing up with hearing loss.
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Roughly around this time last year, when I told my friends that I was going to a women’s college, almost all of my friends asked me the same question: “You sure? How are you going to find a boyfriend at Smith?” As a straight prospective student at a women’s college, I am pitied by my friends for not being able to date in my college years.
On Saturday, April 20, Glazed Doughnut Shop closed its Northampton location. The shop had been a downtown staple for Smith students and Northampton residents for two and a half years.
We all know Smithies, and we agree we’re all wonderful people. We code apps, crank out theses and post about our angst on social media. We go on to be activists, artists and leaders, and yet, we’re clueless on how to maintain healthy social lives — especially romantic relationships.
On March 6, local educators and students filled the Carroll Room for a celebration dinner. They were celebrating the culmination of the Urban Ed Pathway, a program run by the Urban Education Initiative (UEI), part of the Jandon Center for Community Engagement, and Teach Western Mass, a nonprofit working to ensure that all students have access to an effective educator and a vibrant education.
Original article by Jamie Mastrogiacomo.
四月十一日星期四，在史密斯首届“融入日”落幕后的第二天，SSJIC（史密斯促进社会正义组织）在JMG礼堂外举行抗议集会。而在“包容日”当天，学校还开设了若干会议，讨论的主题正是学校的多元化与包容性。
On April 11, the organization Students for Social Justice and Institutional Change (SSJIC) held a massive protest outside of John M. Greene Hall that was attended by hundreds of, if not a thousand, students.
In an increasingly polarizing world nothing is as it seems and the fight for ideals bleeds into all aspects of life. A political statement can come from anywhere or anyone and the basketball court can be a platform for change.
On April 10, Smith held its first ever “Inclusion in Action” conference. Classes were cancelled and administrative offices were closed so that students, faculty and staff members could attend workshops, which were designed to try to foster open dialogue about issues facing marginalized students and to work towards creating a more inclusive environment.
On Thursday, April 11, workers at the Northampton Stop & Shop on King Street walked off the job as part of a union strike involving over 30,000 employees and spanning across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This strike comes after months of failed negotiation to reach a new contract between the union and company. Stop & Shop employees are represented by the larger United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union. Many Stop & Shop stores across New England have been forced to close their doors due to a lack of working employees.