by Julia Reed in Opinions
Is it better to be apathetic or passionate but ignorant? This was the question I posed while attending the recent faculty panel "Peace in Our Time? War and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East." I once declared in the Sophian that the activist Smithie was dead.
by Johanna Johnson in Opinions
Could the Supreme Court soon regress back to an all-male institution? Speculation on this question centers around the possible retirement of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who returned to the court last week after having surgery for pancreatic cancer on Feb.
Ada class size reduction beneficial
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In a recent meeting, college administrators discussed decreasing the target class size of Ada Comstock Scholars from 55 to 33 students, a change that would help reduce Smith's operating budget to reflect the decrease in the endowment resulting from the financial crisis.
by Julia Kiefer in Opinions
Think back on your adolescence and consider the music that you were listening to at the time. Was it charged with sexual lyrics and undertones? If so, did these lyrics ever compel you to consider abandoning your virginity and have as much unprotected sex as possible? Unless you said yes to this last statement, it is possible that you are in the minority.
by Julia Lavine in Opinions
I was horrified and shocked to hear of the apparent Rihanna-Chris Brown domestic abuse case that erupted two weeks ago. Of course, when things like this happen to a famous person, it gets more attention than if it happened to an average person. I am actually very glad about that this time.
by Dana Glass in Opinions
Welcome, dear reader, to the annals of the Smith College archives, where disarmingly amiable librarians stand guard over an increasingly huge stash of yellowing paper. Together, we'll find some greatest hits, more greatest misses and lots of references to people named after our buildings - or is it the other way around? Either way, by the time our metaphorical pencil is thoroughly gnawed, we hopefully will have stumbled across something noteworthy.
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To the Editor:
My name is Dina Jacir and I was the student from Hampshire's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) interviewed for the Sophian. I wanted to make some clarifications regarding misinformation in the story, made explicit in the title "Controversy surrounds Hampshire's recent divestment from Israel.
