by Angela Zhu in News
Sylvia Plath is one of the most prominent and admired Smith alumnae. Like many other Smith students, Aubrey Menard '08 is well-acquainted with Plath's work. She recalled her first encounter with Plath's literature in her sophomore year of high school, when her English teacher played a recording of Plath reading "Daddy.
by Alex Davis in News
As Janis Joplin echoed from a giant speaker on Wilson lawn, students and local families gathered around Morrow house for tie-dying shirts and watching jousters compete on an inflatable gladiator game.
by Liz Brasington in News
On April 24 at 7 p.m. in Seelye 106, the Kahn Institute will hold the last event for the project Undergrounds Underworlds. Barbara Hurd, a professor at Frostburg State University, editor for the literary publication Nightsun and award-winning author, will be reading some of her work.
SGA Elections Wrap Up
by Meredith Byers in News
Marlowe Dieckmann '09 could not keep her eyes off her phone in the tense moments before she found out that she would be the next SGA president.
"I was pretty much just holding my phone and staring at it," Dieckman said.
Before long, the phone rang, and Emily Taylor '08, the current SGA president, called Dieckmann with the good news.
by Angela Zhu in News
With over 2 million articles and over 684 million visitors, it is no surprise that Wikipedia was recently hailed as the largest, fastest-growing and most popular general reference work currently available on the Internet by Time magazine. The Wikipedia phenomenon has become so huge that it has inspired several spin-offs, such as Uncyclopedia, a Wikipedia parody, and Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki.
by Meredith Byers in News
SGA President was not the only student leader elected last Thursday. Aliza Leventhal '09, Elaine Harris '10 and Keturah Edwards '11 each became president of her respective class and will assume office in the fall.
Aliza Leventhal, Class of 2009 President
Q: What do you hope to do as president? What are your responsibilities? What are your plans?
Leventhal: My goal as senior class president is to really unite my class through various events and help build a community, not only between seniors - both traditional and Ada Comstock scholars - but have seniors help to build the Smith community.
