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<p>Very true. Smith still struggles, like many places, to be more welcoming to people of different faiths and ethnicities, sexual orientations, people with special needs, people of different classes. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don’t. What I did like about attending Smith though was that we would acknowledge these things and talk about them. We’d form support groups and hold vigils and the President would call a fireside chat or whatever and we’d try to unpack what went wrong and how we can stop it from happening again. It’s not the achievement of perfection, so much as the striving to always be better than we were before, more tolerant, more accepting, more open, that I think defines Smith’s character.</p>