Last week, 88 Afghani girls fell ill due to poisoning attacks for which local authorities suspect the Taliban. Only five months after Greg Mortenson’s inspiring speech at Mount Holyoke, Afghanistan is still struggling to educate its girls and, hence, its communities.

As the summer is drawing closer, many of us are digging through our closets, doing the spring cleaning and planning to restock our summer clothes inventory. But before you hit the Holyoke Mall, you may be interested in reading New York Times finance reporter Tara Siegel Bernard’s column called “Financial Advice by Women for Women.”

Despite the rigorous academics associated with science, many scientists fall subject to the same weakness: they can’t write. Science magazine explores the importance of reading, writing and debate in an article published this week.

On April 14th, an earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hit the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province in northwest China. Two Mount Holyoke students are running an on-campus initiative to gather donations for the quake victims.

Last night Kate Gosselin was finally booted off of Dancing With the Stars. Her negative attitude (“You’re not taking into account how I learn.”) and constant arguing with her partner Tony Dovolani ruined the fun of this exceptionally meaningless and often ridiculous show. Ironically, Nadya “Octomom” Suleman appeared on Oprah yesterday because she wanted the world “to see her for who she is”.

Out of the many meal options at Blanchard Campus Center, most of us have tried the numerous SunChips available. SunChips are already a well-known healthy multigrain alternative to highly processed snack items. But later, as we compost the remnants of our veggie wraps in the compost/trash station, we cannot help but feel the guilt of trashing the empty SunChip bag. Well, now feel guilt no more, because SunChip bags are going green!

On Monday, Microsoft announced that it will be releasing a new social phone, called the Kin. But is there a more interesting target market for the product than the one envisioned?

“The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new Cosby Show.” – Conan O’Brien (via Twitter)
The Late Night War between Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno was a bitter battle. Ultimately no one won though, when Conan and NBC parted [...]

As the semester winds down, most of us are getting ready for or looking for internships and employment for this summer. With Mount Holyoke is raising the cost of tuition next year and many students shuddering at the thought of paying for loans, being paid to go to school sounds like a very good idea.

Since Smith College opened its doors in 1875, 38 years after Mount Holyoke College, the schools have been each other’s biggest rivals when it comes to sports. No matter what sport the Mount Holyoke vs Smith games always receive large, and sometimes rowdy, crowds. When it comes to rowing, a sport where one can loose by a millisecond, the competition can become very fierce. “Want to and do,” says rower Robyn Kranzler ’11 about winning against Smith.