Oh hey, yeah, we’re still here.

20Nov09

So maybe life got a little busy. So maybe Sarah’s new life could be titled The Very Busy Job and maybe Amanda’s could be titled Yes, He’s Just That Into You and Now You’re Into a Wedding Dress.
We’re sorry for ignoring this project. But we’re back, inasmuch as we can be. We’ve gone through the [...]

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Art imitates Life?

19Jul09

As an update, the Cybill Shepherd movie “Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith” premieres on the Hallmark Channel on August 1, 2009, at 9 pm/8 central. There’s a nice article about the actress here, and you can see a very short (literally, it’s 8 seconds long) video from it here.
In other news, Commencement, the first novel [...]

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Are Women’s Colleges a Relic of the Past?

02Jun09

A recent op-ed from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, a local paper in Northampton, Mass., states that women’s colleges have no reason to exist anymore:
True, 150 years ago when women were excluded from male academies, colleges and universities, affirmative action was needed to create these special schools. We owe a debt of gratitude to women’s colleges [...]

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Tags: '71, male privilege, Mills College, Mount Holyoke, single-sex education, smith college, Wellesley, women's colleges

Swine Flu & Smith College

06May09

Quote of the week, from a Smith alum’s boyfriend: “So if Hamthrax gets bad, it’ll be an aporkalypse?”
From Smith’s page on Swine Flu:

May 2, 2009
A Smith student with mild flu symptoms has been identified as among the close contacts of one of the Amherst College students with probable swine flu. Samples are being sent to [...]

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Ada Comstock Program

31Mar09

This posts marks the beginning of a series of lengthier discussions around the issue of how Smith is dealing with the recession. For this post, blogger alum opinions were solicited via email. Other comments were taken (with permission) from an online Smith forum. We welcome further comments at smithalumblogs@gmail.com.

At the beginning of March, Smith College [...]

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Gloria Wants You to Be Outrageous

25Mar09

Gloria Steinem is turning 75 (if you can belive that— the woman looks fabulous). In her honor, the Ms. Foundation is starting a social change campaign called “Outrageous Acts for Simple Justince.” Apparently Gloria started urging people to be outrageous years ago:
If each person in the room promises that…the very next day she or he [...]

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Mathematics Quickie

12Mar09

You’ve probably heard that Smith has a relatively new post-bac program at its Center for Mathematics. Here’s a great blog post by a professor at a large research university extolling the virtues of the program’s concept:
As a graduate advisor at a large university, I would be very interested in an applicant who had successfully completed [...]

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Smith. It’s what’s for dinner.

03Mar09

College students as a demographic are not usually known for eating well. When not scarfing down ramen or instant dinners, they struggle to scavange healthy, delicious meals from the dining halls.
However, Smith has a slightly different reputation. While meals prepared en masse are hardly comparable to home- or restaurant-cooking, Smith’s Dining Services usually does a [...]

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Guest Blog: Retirement 2.0

01Mar09

This month we’re starting our feature of guest blog posts by Smith alums, beginning with this one on retirement from Carol Lightwood ‘63. If you are a Smith alum and would like to write a guest post (on any subject of your choosing), please email us at smithalumblogs@gmail.com.
Retirement is a relatively new invention [...]

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Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith!

20Feb09

No, seriously!

Hallmark just wrapped up production of a movie about a 40-something woman who returns to college late in life. And not just any college, but Smith College! (And it’s really called that, not Catamount College or some other pseudonym.) The main character, played by the fabulous Cybill Shepherd (most recently of The L Word) [...]

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