By now, the sickening video of a male Rand Paul supporter stomping on the head of a fallen female protestor has gone viral. I am sure that the majority of those who will read this article have seen it on RSS feeds and Facebook news posts, and have already come to their own conclusions regarding the Kentucky Tea Party candidate for Senate.

Students debate choice of spring concert performer, Mickey Avalon: As a women’s college, do we have a responsibility to respect women? Do we have a duty to encourage healthy views of female sexuality and women’s worth? To decry those who would promote violence against women, and give voice to those women who need it? Yes, we do.

The Internet has fostered communication between diverse people in a way that is completely unprecedented. One can speak to someone halfway across the world with the click of a button, and discover an entirely different worldview. But what happens when such opportunities are abused, and people use the Internet to locate self-affirming political echo chambers?

The state of Utah has done some ridiculous things as of late. It has considered eliminating the 12th grade in a desperate bid to save state money and it has also proposed celebrating noted gun manufacturer John Browning—on the same day as noted pacifist Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ukraine’s recent presidential election appears to have erased the demands made by the Ukrainian people in the 2004 Orange Revolution. The February election exposed the difficulty of keeping up with the revolution’s promises and demonstrated the nation’s split between two opposing political ideologies.

The issue of international adoption is one that arouses strong feelings in many people. Some support it as a case of the fortunate reaching out in love to the less fortunate, while others are upset to see would-be parents pass over foster children in their own cities for the “trendiness” of adopting a third-world child. [...]

Search-engine-turned-tech-giant Google has recently changed its policy on censorship of search results in China, following a December infrastructure attack on Chinese human rights activists. The incident, as Google outlined in a blog posted on Jan. 12, affected over 20 companies and was primarily focused on gaining access to the Gmail accounts of several Chinese activists. [...]

The crisis in Haiti has been raging on for weeks now, and everywhere one turns, there is evidence of the natural human urge to help those in need. Food boxes, donation drives, relief events: the outpouring of support has been extremely visible. However, there is another aspect to the relief effort that is happening on [...]

Regardless of whether or not the Stupak-Pitts Amendment or something like it makes it into the final health care reform bill, and indeed regardless of how you feel about the topic of health care reform in general, the fact that it was introduced and passed at all raises some serious questions about what the people we have elected to represent us are doing with that power.

“Bitch,” “slut,” “whore,” “skank,”—these are words we hear every day at Mount Holyoke, in our friends’ groups, on the street and in dining halls. Gendered slurs are prevalent on the Mount Holyoke campus—something somewhat surprising considering that all of these words are “read” as female.