“The selection committee was invigorated by the depth and originality of the applications,” said Patricia Pin, residency lead and public programs director at The Mount, as she pointed out the scope of this year’s residents, which includes a disability advocate, a Stanford lecturer, and a Signet Society poet.
I am writing to thank state Sen. Jo Comerford for reminding me that, in spite of my efforts to provide a history of Northampton’s annual MLK Jr. Day community celebration in my Jan. 16 column, “New torchbearers needed for MLK Day tradition,” I had.
The Episode That Roiled Smith College
Readers, including several Smith alumnae, react to a Times account of how a Black student’s bias claims against college employees have created tensions on the campus.
March 6, 2021
Smith College is an elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class neighborhoods.Credit.Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times
To the Editor:
I am disheartened by the coverage of the recent resignation of a white staff member at Smith College over what she calls a “racially hostile workplace” (for white people) in response to an incident involving security being called on a Black student eating lunch in a closed lounge.