Feminists
Gloria Steinem '56 wrote about sisterhood in this new magazine for women in the spring of 1972
What is Ms.?
The real secret passage way in Sessions House is rumored to have been the meeting place between lovers Lucy and John, a British captive, during this war
What is the Revolutionary War?
Instead of calling new students freshmen, Smith uses this non-gendered term
What is first year?
This semiaquatic mammal can be frequently found frolicking around the pond on campus
What is an otter?
Smith College students can sip this at the Haymarket Café knowing it's what café means
What is coffee?
This Smith Professor is credited with coining the term "Reproductive Justice," and has written many books on the topic
Who is Loretta Ross?
Popular legend says that Sophia Smith's will requires each new building to be constructed with the correct this for the current time period, explaining the eclectic campus
What is architecture?
Smithies commonly have a dramatic hair change after starting class on campus, referred to as this synonym for cut
What is chop?
Talbot House's mascot is the head of this animal from the largest species in the deer family
What is a moose?
This troubled poet, an alumna of Smith College, used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
Who is Sylvia Plath '55?
An unfulfilled housewife in this feminist classic by Betty Friedan '42 asks Is this all?
What is The Feminine Mystique?
In 2011 rumors spread that Smith was going entirely this type of diet, it was really a prank started by two logic professors
What is vegetarian?
In 1893 Smithies used just the first four letters of this synonym for genius to describe someone brilliant or brilliantly annoying
What is prodigy?
The slang word, prod
Cushing House dresses as bunnies for Convocation, a nod to former house resident Gloria Steinem '56 who went undercover as one of these when working as a journalist
What is a Playboy bunny?
Julia Child says this wickedly rich chocolate dessert may be made a day or so before serving
What is chocolate mousse?
This author of The Handmaid's Tale was given an honorary degree from Smith in 1982 even though she got her bachelors in Canada
Who is Margaret Atwood?
A popular legend says that the five characters in the animated Scooby-Doo series are based on stereotypes of the five college consortium, with this character representing Smith. The writers have denied the theory
Who is Velma?
The group of historically women's colleges called the "Seven Sisters," established to provide women with an equivalent education to the male-only Ivy Leagues, include Smith and these six other colleges
What are Wellesley, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Vassar and Radcliffe?
What is tracking?
Completes Gloria Steinem's line Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to...
What is marry?
She was Kenya's first female physician, in 1973 Smith's Cultural Center was named after her
Who is Ng'endo Mwangi '61?
Rumor has it that when President Nixon's daughter attended Smith, Secret Service members lived in what is now this type of store, to stay in close proximity
What is a bakery?
What is Hungry Ghost Bakery?
This acronym for a certain humanities department can also mean stolen goods or free promotional items
What is SWAG (Study of Women and Gender)?
The campus club with this two-word alliterative name champions animal rights
What are the Animal Advocates?
A course in playwriting at Smith College inspired this author of The Heidi Chronicles
Who is Wendy Wasserstein?