Seema Nanda ’12 recently started a column, “Seema Aunty,” that will aim to serve specific audiences and address particular ethnic, religious and cultural sensitivities in Brown Girl Magazine.

After his triumph in Tuesday’s Florida primary, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney took another step forward on the path to becoming ,the Republican Party nominee to run in this year’s presidential election. Had he also won the caucus in Iowa (at first he did) and the primary in South Carolina, this path would have thus far been a walk in the park for him – or more like a jog, as he passes his opponents who opt to take a leisurely stroll.

Interview with Melissa White ’13.

Anita Kazimi Haidary ’14 went back to her home in Afghanistan last summer with a undeveloped goal to start a school, but what she ended up doing was no less challenging. A film and computer science double major at Mount Holyoke College, she now works from her base in South Hadley, Massachusetts to oversee the progress of an organization she founded six months ago half way across the world. With Noorjahan Akbar, Haidary started a grassroots organization called Young Women for Change (YWC) that aims to address problems that women face in Afghanistan.

Flipping through the glossy pages of mainstream magazines for young women, one can observe the numerous eyeliner and lipstick advertisements aimed at enhancing a woman’s natural beauty. Makeup companies guarantee a woman’s success and confidence if she wears their brands. The reader is enticed with slogans such as “Because you’re worth it,” “Easy, breezy, beautiful. Covergirl” and “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.”

Last spring I spent a semester abroad with the School for Field Studies (SFS) Tropical Rainforest Studies program in North Queensland, Australia. The following piece presents a few of the environmental lessons I learned from the experience.

At Mount Holyoke, one of the most valued features is the liberal arts education that encourages students to think critically and analyze all perspectives of their disciplines in a diverse and tight-knit environment. Beyond the College campus, Mount Holyoke belongs to a greater network as one of the Seven Sisters colleges that share the values of women’s colleges and the liberal arts. In keeping with these ideologies, the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) was created

“A lot of our storage collection is paper, because paper does not like to see the light of day,” said Linda Best, Collections Manager of the Mount Holyoke Art Museum as she punches in the number code and opens the doors to the art storage room. Inside are many rows of sliding painting frames, racks that keep the paintings straight and in the air, as if on a normal wall. Portraits of people and landscapes by long-gone art masters are suddenly exposed to the soft white light of the climate controlled room, which deviates only five degrees in either direction from the normal room temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

As a college student, I find myself not eating out much. It happens on occasion—mostly for a friend’s birthday—but it’s never a spontaneous event. As a senior, I’ve been finding out that I am missing a lot by not occasionally indulging in a night out to eat and that there are tons of restaurants in the Pioneer Valley that I need to try before I graduate in the spring.

Yiting Wang said she is hopeful for Rio+20 to turn into the Earth Summit of our generation. “It offers some hope and opportunities to review the pitfalls of the past 40 years of international environmental governance, reset the agenda and allow new actors to emerge.” One of these new types of actors is youth.