by Julia Reed in Opinions
Paris is known as the City of Lights, but I don't think it's ever glowed as strongly as it did last week, when angry Parisians forced the extinguishment of the most famous light in the world.
Like many in Paris that day, I watched with disbelief as the Olympic flame was turned off, and the torch placed on a bus to protect its bearers from the surging crowds of protestors.
by Kalen Wheeler in Opinions
On the laundry list of reasons Smith toots its own horn, study abroad is near the top. At convocation, when President Christ reviews the previous years' achievements, she often cites the percentage of students who studied abroad. Yes, the college does send nearly half its students abroad - an impressive statistic; yet, we should question how accessible the college makes study abroad opportunities to students in "financial need.
by Natasha Haney in Opinions
The campus's most recent dialogue on the question of whether Public Safety should have guns took place last Monday, April 7. Ominously entitled Arming of Public Safety II," the forum was much the same as its predecessor: tense, animated and utterly unproductive.
Reactions to My Short Skirt
by Alison Doherty in Opinions
Last Monday I apparently made a mistake of monumental proportions. When the sun came out and the temperature started to rise in the afternoon, I thought maybe I would change into that cute little dress my grandmother bought me last time she came to visit. The Massachusetts winter made me bored with the limited fashion choices it provided - jeans and a coat or leggings and a coat, the latter of which is only attempted by the incredibly bold or athletic.
by Anna Sauber Kuntz in Opinions
It's a contradiction that's struck me ever since my first week at Smith; for a supposedly feminist school, Smith sure has a lot of things that could be used as evidence in a sexual harassment suit against it.
The Convocation theme for Lamont, I was told as a first-year in 2004, was the mafia.
