Last Saturday night, CAUSE and College Democrats paired up to host a date auction.

Guys and girls from throughout the Pioneer Valley volunteered to raise money for victims of the Pakistani Earthquake. The auction was held in Hooker Auditorium.

Once Faculty Show let out, the house was packed.

Our campus is famed for the conscientiousness and responsibility of the student body, but in the daily grind it is easy for us to forget to put our actions into the context of our local neighbors and the world at large. On Monday, April 3, CAUSE and the Environmental Action Coalition (EAC) organized their second Local Foods Festival, called “Thinking Globally, Eating Locally,” where students and community members had an opportunity to brainstorm ideas about local farming and its role in alleviating world hunger.

Voting for SGA and Class Board elections began April 4. The controversy in this year’s election has been SGA President Katie Kraschel ’06′s active campaigning for Vice-President candidate Tina Pratt ’07.

The Mount Holyoke music department is celebrating its distinguished alums this year with the “Women in the Arts-Mount Holyoke Alums Return!” series. The first event will be held this Friday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. with a performance by soprano Mara Bonde ’91.

What could be better than a hot cup of fresh, gourmet quality coffee? Why, a cup of Fair Trade coffee, Dean Cycon of Dean’s Beans will tell you. Cycon started Dean’s Beans, his coffee roasting company based in Orange, MA, with the aim of selling only the best organic, Fair Trade products.

What defines a women’s college? Since 1837, higher education for women has been an issue of debate. Institutions such as Mount Holyoke and Smith served as hotbeds for women’s rights. Yet with the progression of women’s liberation, many question whether women’s colleges are still necessary.

Yesterday, the Student Government Association held this semester’s Town Meeting in the Blanchard Great Room. The majority of the meeting focused on discussing the purpose and definition of all-female colleges in today’s world and in the future, as well as who should be allowed to attend these institutions.

SGA CANDIDATES

President

Jo Jensen ’07

As a junior, I have had the experience of working with the SGA for the past three years. The purpose of SGA is to be the voice of the students – to represent to the administration what the students want. As SGA President I am going to work hard to get your feedback on important campus issues that affect you.

Class of 2006

Co-Scribe

Annie Brinkmann

Blythe Keller

Amy Cavanaugh

Lindsay “Midget” Nystrom

Class of 2007

President

Reshma Patil

Tamara Bullock

Vice President

Amanda Leinberger

Treasurer

Karen Loweth

Secretary

Chelsea Haynes

On Monday, March 27, Richard August Johnson, a former Mount Holyoke professor of English, died of multiple myeloma. He was 68 and resided in Silver Spring, Maryland at the time of his death.

Johnson was a professor for 41 years. He began his career at the University of Virginia and went on to teach at Mount Holyoke for 39 years, where he was the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English.