As the primary race comes to the end of its course, talk shifts from an individual candidate to what’s called a ticket: the pair of candidates who will run for President and Vice President. The media makes a huge deal out of who is chosen to run for Vice President.

As students find their groove in classes, we are finding a certain person has a very distinct personality within the class: That Girl. That Girl can take two relatively distinct forms: That Girl who says what you’re thinking in better ways than you can, and That Girl who says random stuff that annoys the crap out of your entire class, sometimes including your professor.

On Thursday, Feb. 9, Mona Sutphen ’89 visited campus to give a talk entitled “The Age of Insecurity: American Leadership in an Era of Change.”

In a conference call with various college newspapers on Feb. 2, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan promoted President Obama’s college affordability plan.

This is going to be a little like Inception: there are lots of levels and sub-plots to this story.

By now, many of us are taking a retrospective look at the situation that was Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s defunding of Planned Parenthood. Before we get to the analysis of the situation, let’s take a little walk down memory lane and review the facts.

My attention has been drawn once again to the issue of bullying legislation. I recently saw the headline “Tennessee Bill Would Give Anti-Bullying Laws a ‘Religious and Political Beliefs’ Loophole” floating in my newsfeed. My emotions climbed a rollercoaster hill of epic proportions as I read the article.

Since its beginning in the early 2000s, the Holyoke Confessional has been one of the most debated elements within the MHC community. Some people love it, others hate it—some don’t care at all. I fall into the latter group.

On Nov. 30, Emmy Bouvier, Maxine Getz, Diane Kim, Jennifer Walsh and I, Carol Still, were invited to participate in the monthly White House Campus Engagement conference call. While we had heard about the experiences of Kiki Boyles, Susanna Labowitz and So Jin Lee, who had participated in an earlier call, we had few expectations as to what the call would entail. Ronnie Cho, a White House staffer who has been with Obama since his Senate 2004 campaign, moderated the call.

The media loves a good sex scandal. There is intrigue, power dynamics, gender relations and, of course, sex. Lately the media has been caught up with two different sex scandals – allegations that Herman Cain sexually harassed female employees while serving as head of the National Restaurant Association, and the cover-up of sexual abuse by an assistant football coach at Penn State.

Caution: Spoiler alert! But really it’s been more than a week, so no excuses for not watching. Glee last week was great. Not because of the surprising song choices, the Irish kid or the “what the bleep!?” moment at the end, but because of the legitimate political arguments.