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Extracurricular activities and additional learning opportunities planned by students fill the summer weeks from the Student Orientation, to the Senior Skit and graduation. Through the sponsorship of various student organizations, students host lectures, discussion groups, demonstrations, and other creative events that inspire and ignite campus energies. Students also present their research project at community colloquia and organize a range of varied social and recreational events during the summer months. As a largely residential community, exchanges among students, and between students and faculty extend beyond the classroom, spilling into dining halls and cross-campus walks, creating an informal and ongoing supportive environment.

Student Organization is the central organizing body for students at the School for Social Work. This highly active organization is committed to responding to the changing needs of Smith students and has several functions which have evolved through the years. Its primary role includes providing student representation and input into all aspects of the School, taking an active role in shaping School policies and procedures, organizing extracurricular activities, both social and intellectual, providing a forum within which all groups and special interests of the student body can be heard, and working together to share and allocate resources. Student Organization serves as an umbrella for a number of special interest student groups. These groups increase, and vary from year to year, but have in the past included:

Social Welfare Action Alliance

Council for Students of Color

Feminist Alliance

HIV/AIDS Coalition

Jewish Students Group

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer & Questioning Alliance

Men’s Consortium

Students with Children

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