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.

On Thursday Sep. 23, Mount Holyoke’s inauguration weekend kicked off in Gamble Auditorium with a panel focused on discussing women’s equality and social justice. Moderated by senior advisor and former president of the Global Fund for Women Kavita Ramdas ’85, the forum’s panelists included Princeton University professor of Philosophy Kwame Anthony Appiah, University of Michigan professor of law Catharine MacKinnon, and Joia Mukherjee, medical director of Partners in Health and assistant professor in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Directors of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, which is active on over 80 campuses across the nation, have distinguished the Roosevelt Institute at Mount Holyoke College as this year’s Best New Chapter. Honored at the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network’s sixth leadership training weekend in Hyde Park, New York, Mount Holyoke’s chapter of the student public policy think tank beat out Boston University to receive the title.

Throughout the week of Sunday, April 25 until Friday, April 30, Mount Holyoke students are celebrating Dining Services Appreciation Week or D-SAP, sponsored by the Food Justice Society, Student Coalition for Action and Working Class Student’s Union. The purpose of the week is to provide Mount Holyoke students with the opportunity to thank Dining Services for their commitment to the college community as well as to learn more about the way Dining Services operates.

On Monday, April 19, Dean of Students Liz Braun sent an email to the student body announcing two changes being made by Dining Services for the 2010-2011 academic year.

On April 14 President of the Student Government Association (SGA) May Yang announced at the faculty meeting that the class-colored OneCards will be returning. At the request of the SGA, Dean of Students Liz Braun attended the senate meeting on April 13 and, after discussing the issue thoroughly with students, decided to reinstate the original OneCard system.

At the beginning of this academic year, Mount Holyoke, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Los Angeles partnered with The Posse Foundation, an organization committed to identifying public high school students with exceptional academic potential who otherwise may be overlooked by college selections committees.

On Tuesday, April 6, Dean of the College Liz Braun sent an email to the student body addressing students’ overwhelmingly negative response to the recent decision to unify OneCard colors.

The College announced this morning that New York Times columnist Gail Collins will be the commencement speaker for the class of 2010.

On Thursday, Feb. 25, Amherst residents arrived at the Bangs Community Center to debate the town’s recent proposal to change the laws surrounding smoking in Amherst. The proposed law will not allow smoking on any town-owned outdoor property or outside of any restaurants. Amherst’s health director, in the Feb. 26 issue of the Daily Collegian, [...]