On April 9, an email from Dean Davis announced that the Torrey Grab ’n Go will be shut down. While the message, titled “Dining Services changes for the upcoming academic year,” came as a surprise to many students, there are also other changes in the works. The most alarming of these for cooking enthusiasts in particular is the proposed closure of the Golden Pear kitchens.

On Tuesday, the Student Conduct Process Review Committee presented the results of their efforts to examine student conduct processes to Senate. Rosa Frias ’13, Kristen Koepsell ’12 and Susanna Labowitz ’12, members of the committee, explained that it was formed in view of the present student conduct processes, which were confusing, contradictory and lacked impartiality.

Three racist and discriminatory notes, including one from a Smith alum, have caused the Smith campus to take serious measures regarding prejudice on campus.

Last week, Amherst College found itself embroiled in a presidential scandal. A whistleblower, going by the name Q, told The Amherst Student that Diwa Cody, a member of the current student government’s E-board and the Association of Amherst Students Treasurer, had unauthorized access to real-time election results, which she allegedly released to one of the presidential candidates.

On April 18 at 4:30 p.m., students and faculty gathered in the New York Room to attend a lecture given by Sarita Gupta ’96. Gupta is now Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, an organization that brings together many different people to fight for the rights of working individuals.

Ecstatic Facebook posts streamed in all through the first week of April as Mount Holyoke aced the Princeton Review’s Best Professors List. 14 faculty members, the highest number from any U.S. college or university, made it to the list.

On Wednesday, April 11, students, administration and community members from the Five Colleges and Pioneer Valley gathered in a crowded Blanchard Great Room for “The ‘Untouchable’ Caste of the United States: The Stigma of Incarceration and the Metamorphosis of Legal Discrimination.”

On April 11 at 4 p.m. several faculty members and students gathered in the Stimson room to discuss the possibility of Mount Holyoke switching to Gmail.

On Friday April 6, the student organization Afghani Spirit held Mount Holyoke’s first Afghan Cultural Awareness Night.

On Saturday March 31, Chapin auditorium witnessed a full house when renowned American television host and political commentator Rachel Maddow came to talk about her new book, Drift . Maddow hosts the popular show The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, for which The Guardian has called her the “star of cable news.”