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Illustrating a classic: Smith professor’s artworks featured in an exhibition honoring the centennial of Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd’
10-09-2024 3:11 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Barry Moser, an illustrator and professor of art at Smith College, has works featured in a New York City exhibition honoring the centennial of Herman Melville’s novel “Billy Budd.” Moser’s work will be shown as part of the “Melville’s Billy Budd at...

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Seeking to be more inclusive, Campus School of Smith College replacing Halloween Parade with Mountain Day
10-26-2024 3:26 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

NOTHAMPTON — The Halloween Parade at the Campus School, a lab school of 155 students affiliated with Smith College, had appeared to build community around the American tradition of dressing up and collecting candy.Each year in October, students would...


Smith College Pioneers to honor local businesses
09-26-2024 11:42 AM

Smith College volleyball is hosting local business appreciation night on Oct. 1 when it hosts WPI at 7 p.m. at Ainsworth Gymnasium. Entry into the game is free and Smith College is planning to print and distribute game programs to fans that will...


Farewell to the ‘Doctor of Rock’: Sept. 29 Iron Horse concert pays tribute to Smith professor before he hops the pond
09-20-2024 12:54 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

After more than two decades at Smith College, a beloved music professor will say goodbye to Northampton with a farewell concert at the Iron Horse next week. Professor Steve Waksman, who has taught at Smith for 23 years, will complete his last semester...


Local colleges see effect of Supreme Court ruling
09-08-2024 12:01 PM

By SCOTT MERZBACH

A steep drop in the number of Black students in the Class of 2028 at Amherst College compared to the preceding year’s incoming class, and less racial diversity in the first-year class, is likely a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against...


Colleges holding breath on FAFSA financial aid fix
08-16-2024 5:13 PM

By EMILEE KLEIN

With the announcement last week that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2025-2026 year will open to all students on Dec. 1 — two months later than the usual rollout date — Hampshire College has begun to prepare for another financial...


Rendevous with the paper of record: Northampton artist Katy Schneider paints official portrait of New York Times publisher
05-17-2024 2:23 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Growing up in New York City, Katy Schneider recalls that the New York Times was pretty much sacrosanct in her home. Her late parents read the paper closely, her father often cutting out articles he particularly liked, and both referred to the...


Easthampton author Emily Nagoski has done the research: It’s OK to love your body
05-03-2024 3:44 PM

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

‘Emily’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.”This sentence mesmerized me.It’s an assured statement about a complicated topic: body image and sexuality, and it is the crux of sex educator Emily...


The power of poetry: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón to speak at Smith College
04-26-2024 12:17 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

Ada Limón made history in 2022 when she became the first Latina to become U.S. Poet Laureate. And last year, she became just the second national poet laureate to have her term extended for another two years.Now Limón, a MacArthur Fellow and the winner...


Arts Briefs: A themed exhibit in Northampton, new opportunities for artists in Easthampton, and more
04-25-2024 11:54 AM

Witnesses to difficult journeysNORTHAMPTON — As Passover takes place, local Jewish activists are working with a New Hampshire photographer and the New England Visionary Artists Museum (Anchor House of Artists) to stage an exhibit drawing links between...


Smith College exhibit explores Sylvia Plath’s botanical inspiration
04-21-2024 10:21 AM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A new exhibition at Smith College shows how one of the school’s most famous and acclaimed alumnae may have drawn much of her creative inspiration from a freshman botany course.Sylvia Plath, whose 1963 novel “The Bell Jar” proved to be a...


Smith College students end sit-in over divestment, but vow to expand their protest movement
04-09-2024 5:01 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Aiming to expand their protest across campus, students who have occupied Smith College’s administration building for almost two weeks said Tuesday they are moving the focus of their activism to Seelye Lawn.“We are choosing to relocate to...


Little progress after Smith College president meets with student occupiers
03-31-2024 12:59 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Student activists reported Sunday that more than 50 of them remained inside College Hall on their fifth day occupying the Smith College administration building to demand the college divest from weapons manufacturers profiting from...


Taking a stand by sitting-in: Smith College students continue to occupy College Hall
03-28-2024 5:32 PM

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Dozens of Smith College students entered the second day of a sit-in Thursday to pressure the college to divest from companies supplying armaments for Israel’s Gaza offensive. “The numbers are solid,” said Ruby Masters, an organizer with...


Women’s basketball: Unbeaten NYU fends off Smith College to win first NCAA Div. III national championship since 1997
03-16-2024 10:09 PM

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Smith College women’s basketball team refused to go away in the NCAA Division III National Championship game on Saturday night. Undefeated NYU — which entered with an unblemished 30-0 record on the season and had outscored its...


NCAA Div. 3 women’s basketball: One victory away from first-ever national title, Smith College prepares for undefeated NYU
03-15-2024 6:35 PM

By GARRETT COTE

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Wartburg’s Sarah Faber stepped back and let fly a 3-pointer in the waning moments of regulation against Smith College in the NCAA Division 3 Final Four on Thursday night. If she missed, the Pioneers would go to their first-ever...


Smith College women’s basketball reaches Div. III title game for first time in program history with 61-54 OT victory over Wartburg
03-14-2024 9:34 PM

By CONNOR PIGNATELLO

Smith College point guard Ally Yamada escaped the press in the backcourt, dribbled out the final seconds of the clock and jumped into Jessie Ruffner’s arms. Then, she hopped down, violently high-fived Ruffner multiple times and jumped right back into...


Women’s basketball: Smith College turns its attention to Wartburg in second consecutive NCAA Division 3 Final Four appearance
03-13-2024 1:52 PM

By GARRETT COTE

Trailing by one point with under five minutes left in the game, the Smith College women’s basketball team found itself in an unfamiliar situation.It wasn’t the fact that the Pioneers were trailing in the fourth quarter of an NCAA Division 3 Elite...


Photos: Smith College’s Final Four send off
03-13-2024 8:14 AM

Well-wishers greeted Smith College’s basketball team with high-fives and cheers Tuesday afternoon on campus as they prepared to depart for the Final Four for the second straight year. The Pioneers will play in the national semifinals of the NCAA...


Jessie Ruffner, Smith College punch return ticket to NCAA Division III Final Four via 51-47 win over Bowdoin
03-09-2024 9:19 PM

The Smith College basketball team is Final Four-bound, again.For the second straight year, the Pioneers will play on the biggest stage in NCAA Division III women’s basketball thanks to a 51-47 victory over host Bowdoin in the Elite Eight on Saturday...


Women’s basketball: Jessie Ruffner’s last-second basket lifts Smith College past Wisconsin-Oshkosh, into NCAA Div. III Elite 8
03-08-2024 6:47 PM

For the second year in a row, the Smith College women’s basketball team will play for a spot in the NCAA Division III Final Four.With the game tied and under 10 seconds to play in their Sweet 16 game against Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Friday night, Smith’s...

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