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Students, faculty and Northampton residents gathered to learn about the role of media during the upcoming elections at the “Constitution Day Panel: Media & Elections,” on Tuesday, Sept. 17 in the Alumnae House.
On Thursday, April 25, students gathered on the Smith College Quadrangle for the 34th Annual Celebrations.
The event began in 1991 as a candlelight vigil in response to an uptick in homophobic and transphobic graffiti and sentiment on campus. Over the years, it has evolved into a celebration of queer love and acceptance.
Smith College’s Director of Culinary Services German Alvarado didn’t always know he wanted to work in the restaurant industry. Growing up in Los Angeles, born to a single mother and raised by his grandmother and aunts, food had been an important part of his life long before he was entirely aware of it.
Despite several stumbling blocks along the way, the UMass Theatre Guild’s spring production of “Firebringer” was a success thanks to the production’s strong crew, adaptable…

For the past few years, the Smith College Crew team has consistently been ranking in the top ten Division III teams in the country, but this season has been one to remember. Three Smith athletes, out of a total of 18 athletes nationally, were recognized by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) as “rowers to watch”: Megan Holm ’24, Linnea Schultz ’24 and Sofia Trotta ’25.
Recently, I forced my girlfriend through the ordeal that any number of my friends, partners and casual acquaintances have been subjected to in the past — a showing of the 1982 classic “The Snowman.” Based on a picture book of the same name, “The Snowman” is a hand-illustrated silent short film accompanied by an original symphonic score. All aspects which my willing or unwilling viewers have no doubt found riveting. Not to mention that it inflicts more emotional damage than any children’s Christmas movie has a right to. Call it my artistic appreciation (or early onset depression) but its bittersweet mood is one of the many reasons it was my favorite film as a child.
On Rally Day, Feb. 22, 2024, President Sarah Willie-LeBreton announced that five distinguished leaders — Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado, Ruth E. Carter, Ertharin Cousin, Jill…
The Student Government Association (SGA) of Smith College held its first presidential debate in several years on Tuesday, April 16. Three pairs of students were…
Putsata Reang, author, journalist and Seattle educator, will be speaking about her memoir “Ma and Me” at the Spring Symposium on Apr. 21. The event…