On Wednesday Nov. 17, Professor Temple Grandin of Colorado State University, subject of the Emmy award-winning HBO film Temple Grandin, spoke to an audience in Gamble Auditorium. The lecture was also streamed to Hooker Auditorium, where additional lecture attendees watched Grandin’s presentation.

Australian philosopher Peter Singer spoke at Mount Holyoke on Thursday, Nov. 11 to a full audience in Hooker Auditorium. Singer’s talk, entitled “Global Poverty: What are our Obligations?” was the second lecture in the Food Lecture Series sponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership.

Want to know how to avoid setting off a fire alarm? Don’t start a fire. And call the exterminator.

It’s a profound, yet subtle reflection of our socio-economic climate today that as one looks around on the subway in New York City, a flight to Beijing or on the trains in Sydney that almost everyone has an Apple Inc. product in their hands.

Students are actively voicing concerns about the participation of Princeton philosopher and animal activist Peter Singer in a lecture series at the College. Philosopher, controversial ethicist and Princeton University Bioethics Professor. Peter Singer is scheduled to give a presentation at the College on November 11 as part of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts’ 2010 lecture series on food. The highly esteemed scholar has spent his life advocating many virtues traditionally lauded by Mount Holyoke students, including giving to the poor and rejecting consumerism. Yet when the Weissman Center announced his lecture as part of their 2010 Food Series, some students were infuriated and denounced his appointment.

The Wall Street Journal appeared to confirm many Mount Holyoke students’ fears when it published its national ranking of colleges that recruiters favor in its Sept. 13 edition. The highest ranking schools on the list were Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—big public state universities with undergraduate enrollments of over 30,000 students.

For many years, students who walked through the main doors of Porter Hall looking for their dorm were greeted with an unexpected array of office doors and sofas. Since this past June, the space once housed the offices of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives and the administrative offices of the Speaking, Arguing and Writing Program. Today, these centers, along with the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, are located in a newly renovated space in Dwight Hall.

MEChA organised petitions against the law to be sent to the Department of Justice and Governor Brewer. The org also staged a theatrical display of the possible scenarios the new law will now make possible. In the piece, students representing members of the Chicano, Hispanic and Latino communities were arrested by police for harmless matters such as failing to produce ID or simply looking like a possible illegal immigrant. “I am an American, I am human, and I have rights,” each of the arrested students pronounced at the conclusion of the play.

Elections for Student Government Association (SGA) positions are being held a second time due to low student participation in the first round of voting. The election for next academic year’s SGA e-board, which initially concluded on April 4, failed to prompt the necessary votes required to meet quorum. Voting proportional to approximately half the student population is needed to meet the set requirements to qualify the election. Only 25 percent of the student community participated in voting.

Despite the recent overhaul of student loans, the new Obama legislation will not have immediate implications for financial aid policies or loan procedures at Mount Holyoke, according to Kathy Blaisdell, director of student financial services.