While so much of our day is spent sitting, reading, typing away at a computer or staring at a bright screen, chances to learn while doing something other than sit are often forgotten. Some students take solace in working out or playing a sport, a small group of students put their minds at ease while working and crafting pieces of rock into beautiful pieces of art. The lapidary club will close at the end of the term, after almost 50 years. The club has been a student org since the 1960s, when College master carpenter Sid Burelle, who did lapidary as a hobby, started up the club with students.

What I Learned This Year: Senior Edition.

When Zoe Darrow ’12 plays the fiddle, she closes her eyes and softly beats her foot on the ground. Her fingers nimbly move over the frets as her bow skips over the strings. She is totally Zen. You can tell her sense of pleasure and absolute bliss that she feels when she’s playing, and it’s contagious. She has been playing the violin since she was four years old, when she discovered the instrument while watching her sister play, and soon took up playing as well. It wasn’t long, however, before Darrow discovered Celtic music and was inspired to begin fiddling.

With summer rapidly approaching, stacks of leisure books are looking rather enticing compared to that mountain of textbooks and PDF files you’ve collected over the past semester. As soon as finals are through, you’re itching to pick up something that doesn’t include the words “gender,” “lipid,” “tariff,” or “mise-en-scene.” So when you rally yourself for days in the sun, fully equipped with a bottle of SPF 30 and a mobile-library’s worth of books, be sure to scope out these sites that will take your summer reading list out of your bookshelf and into your closet.

After a four-month hiatus, the time has finally arrived for the latest episode of Glee. Placed in a post-Idol time slot this past Tuesday, the much-anticipated 14th episode, “Hell-o,” was an absolute thrill to watch. The episode dives right back into tense character dynamics, while accompanied by show-stopping beats and enthralling tunes.

It’s hard to believe that the millennium began ten years ago. But as the 2010 census starts this month, all students are required to participate to some degree while at Mount Holyoke. The College is requiring all students to respond to a question on students’ nationality and race in order to register for classes next year.

During my time at Mount Holyoke, my definition of diversity has constantly been evolving. Mount Holyoke women come from a wide variety of social, economic, cultural, national and religious backgrounds. Recently my definition expanded to include physical diversity as well. Not just in terms of body weight, but height and able-ness too.

Recently, The Mount Holyoke News sat down and talked with Mount Holyoke’s new staff member fellowship and graduate school advisor Elizabeth Mandeville.

On Saturday, March 27th the Lyon’s Network held their annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference. The conference featured speakers from a wide range of careers and disciplines like business and management to marketing, advertising, non-profit and environmental work. President Joanne Creighton spoke before attendees.

It was an evening no student should miss. Quite literally, since Faculty Show occurs only once every four years. It is a sort of Faculty Olympics that caused Chapin Auditorium to be packed full for both Friday and Saturday night to see the famous tradition that is more than a hundred years old.