On Tuesday, March 27, Whistleblowing: From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks, kicked off with a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. The event was sponsored by Mount Holyoke College, the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts, Smith College’s Project on Women and Social Change, Hampshire College and the Five Colleges Lecture Fund.

Next week, students and staff who run the Annual Fund will launch their yearly Mind the Gap campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the role of alumnae contributions in running the College in order to encourage students to give back. The campaign began last year when members realized more awareness was needed.

Mount Holyoke will begin reducing the number of visiting professors and focus instead on those on the tenure-track as of the next academic year. President Pasquerella and Dean of Students Rene Davis first spoke to students about the future of visiting professors at the College at the Senate meeting on January 21.

On Tuesday evening, the Student Government Association (SGA) hosted its annual “Meet the Candidates” night to promote the upcoming All- Campus Elections. The elections will take place from March 28 to April 1 and bring in new members for both the SGA E-board and Class Board Representatives.

The Mount Holyoke Physics department has been awarded the prestigious Improving Undergraduate Physics Education Award from the Committee on Education of the American Physical Society.

SuperSearch is Mount Holyoke’s own version of a Google Search that aims to revolutionize the way students conduct paper research. It is considered by LITS to be “the best thing since sliced bread.”

On March 10, Donal O’Shea, who has served as Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty and Elizabeth T. Kennan Professor of Mathematics, was named the next President of New College of Florida. O’Shea has been a member of the Mount Holyoke community since 1980.

During the week of Feb. 27, Squash Coach Allen Fitzsimmons was charged with one count of fourth degree sexual assault, “stemming from an alleged incident in Connecticut in 2006,” according to a March 6 email sent by President Lynn Pasquerella.

On Monday, March 5, Dean of the College Cerri Banks and Dean of Students Rene Davis hosted an open forum regarding Residential Life at 7:30 p.m. in the Blanchard Great Room.

Despite the 4.6 percent average bump in tuition at private colleges this year, Mount Holyoke will not increase for the 2012-2013 school year.