This Saturday, Oct. 22, three hundred protesters marched from Lampron Park to the steps of the Northampton City Hall in support of the event Stomp and Holler to protest victim blaming and resist sexism. The protest was an attempt to unite people “in order to fully resist sexism in all of its manifested forms,” according to the event’s Facebook page. Though it was originally called SlutWalk Northampton, in the weeks leading up to the protest, the name was changed to Stomp and Holler; in spite of this the event continued to be in solidarity with SlutWalk movement.

On Oct. 3, the College Planning Committee released the reports drafted by the Presidential Task Forces. According to the report, the Task Forces, committees of eight to ten people each, were created to “develop recommendations for bold yet realistic change through review of current practice at Mount Holyoke and best practices elsewhere.” As a result of the research and work done by the 2010-2011 Strategic Planning Committee, four Task Forces, including Academic Core, Admissions and Retention, New Markets and Career to Curriculum, were created in April to explore the four highest priority areas in order to strengthen the College and make it more financially stable.

This fall, Mount Holyoke’s Office of Residential Life faced a bigger housing crunch than in previous years. Jodie Castanza, the new director of Residential Life, estimated that there were about 25 students living in housing assignments in apartments on Morgan Street, College Street, Woodbridge Street and Silver Street. Castanza attributed the housing crunch to numerous [...]

The additional cost of implementing an amendment in the Massachusetts fire code may spell trouble for Mount Holyoke’s student organizations’ budgets. The amendment that will come into effect on June 5, 2011, requires that a designated “crowd manager” above the age of 21 be present at several establishments including dance halls.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Annual Fund, a component of the Campaign for Mount Holyoke, organized Mind the Gap, an event to symbolize the time in the fiscal year when tuition revenue runs out and the College has to rely on alumni giving for its day-to-day functioning. The Campaign, the fundraising organ of the College, recently extended its $300 million goal from Dec. 31, 2011 to 2013.

Over the past weeks several Mount Holyoke students have been the victims of hackers and online impersonators. “The easiest way to explain it is that I was hacked by a cyber representation of my friend’s dog,” said Kara Neidhardt ‘11 who had both her Facebook and Gmail accounts hacked last week.

Since its founding in 1837, Mount Holyoke has been a women’s college with a mission of undergraduate education. Now, the Complementary Program Development unit, a newly formed unit, is considering the introduction of graduate level programs at the College. The unit, whose opening coincided with the beginning of President Pasquerella’s presidency, is also looking to [...]

“When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go,” Mount Holyoke’s founder Mary Lyon famously said. Today, even though less than one per cent of female college students attend women’s colleges, a recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education placed Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley in the top 30 producers of Fulbright scholars.

In 1986, a library development project created the Library Atrium and the Miles Smith wing of the library. This fall, after 24 years, the Library Information and Technical Services (LITS) Space Planning Committee is drafting a new plan that will revamp the library complex over a ten year period.

On Sept. 15 College President Lynn Pasquerella discontinued a controversial fee imposed on faculty and staff last spring concerning the use of Kendall Athletics Complex facilities. The $150 fee was instituted last February, and was met with intense opposition from faculty and staff.