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Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium Comes to SmithSylvia 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.
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Beyond Office Hours: Professor GrazioliFriendly and fashionable, Professor Bruno Grazioli makes the already enjoyable experience of learning the Italian language even more entertaining - not to mention that it is great to explain that your native-born Italian professor has a British accent.
Grazioli grew up in the region of Lombardia, in Northern Italy, where he chose to attend high school in Asola.
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Abbie Chase '10 and Janessa Kowl '08 in Smith's Festival of One-Act Plays |
Festival of One-Act Plays PremieresThe Theatre Festival of One-Act Plays opened Thursday, April 17, at Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center.
Opening the night was the play "Ephemera," written by Darren Harned, Hampshire College '07. "Ephemera" took second place in last spring's Five College Denis Johnston Prize competition and was accepted into the 32nd annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival.
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Sex and the Smithie: It's Not Just UsSmith College is hardly "Sex and the City": I wish more of us had designer shoes sometimes, or the high-end sexual liberation with the fabulous New York City backdrop. Instead, the sexual community at Smith is a little less haute couture and a little more pansexual.
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Etta Grover-Silva '10 looks to improve upon her second-place finish last year. |
Track & Field to Host 2008 NEWMAC Championships Track and Field will be hosting the 2008 NEWMAC Championships Saturday, April 26. The meet will take place on the outdoor track, beginning with the National Anthem at 9:55 a.m.
Co-captain Etta Grover-Silva explains that "We've been building. Many people PR'ed [reached personal bests] last weekend and hope to qualify this weekend.
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Strong Female Vocals and Innovative Sounds Unite Tuesday ReleasesNext Tuesday, April 29, two of the most anticipated albums of 2008 - at least as far as I'm concerned - will drop. And, yes, I know that Gnarls Barkley's sophomore effort is already out - another great 2008 LP.
Although these two albums might not be chart-toppers - I mean, they are no "High School Musical 2" or "Now 57" - they are both bound to be instant classics.
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Smithies Teach For AmericaIn lieu of graduate schools, living at home or working at the Haymarket, an increasingly large number of students have opted for corps programs, such as AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps and, most recently, Teach for America (TFA). The latter seems to have exploded onto the post-undergraduate scene in recent years, after the hardly nascent organization was created in 1990.
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Music, Bubbles, Ice Cream: Quadstock Rejuvenates Campus
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.
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Lacrosse Falls to WheatonThe Pioneers fell to the Wheaton College Lyons last Saturday by a score of 11-9. Their record fell to 4-8 (1-4 in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference) while the Lyons improved to 7-8 and 3-3 in the NEWMAC.
Smith took an early lead in the game and eventually led 5-3 after the first half on goals by Sara Smyth '08, Carolyn Whiting '10 and Caitlyn Kennedy '11.
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Senator v. Supreme Court Justice Nominees"Isn't it funny," Robert Frost once asked, "that anything the Supreme Court says is right?" This sentiment is particularly relevant at the moment, although to many people it probably seems more scary than humorous.
While the current campaign trail is judged by a capacity for endurance that seems almost inhuman, it is probably fair to say that the halls of the Justice Department do not operate with such limitless vigor.
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