As the primary race comes to the end of its course, talk shifts from an individual candidate to what’s called a ticket: the pair of candidates who will run for President and Vice President. The media makes a huge deal out of who is chosen to run for Vice President.

April is the month of minding the gap, and April 17 is Equal Pay Day. This day marks the gap between women’s and men’s wages. In the same mood of awareness, this past week MHC hosted the second annual Mind the Gap campagin to raise awareness about the total cost of a Mount Holyoke education.

It is too easy to hate poetry. Many of us are scarred by memories of misinterpreting classical poetry during high school English courses and oftentimes feeling too inadequate or unsophisticated to understand or appreciate poetry.

If I could meet my first year self, we probably wouldn’t be the best of friends. She had a strange sense of fashion, went to every party at Blanchard, showed up to class at least 15 minutes early and did all of the homework ahead of schedule.

Technology is taking over. All too often we are distracted by the virtual world to pay attention to the real world. Technology takes our attention away from the present whether through text messages, Facebook notifications or emails.

As the saying goes, you don’t know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes. I think that this saying is going a little far. First of all, a mile is a super long distance—unless, of course, you live in Abbey, Buckland or Dickinson, and then that’s just your normal day-to-day walk about campus. Secondly, I think that we Mohos express ourselves through our footwear, and therefore we don’t need to walk a mile in someone’s shoes.

To the Mount Holyoke Community: I think that printing costs too much and is an undue burden on students. While $15 for printing may seem cheap, the price is too damn high.

At the recent forum in Blanchard, called in response to student concerns about lack of consultation and transparency in Residential Life (ResLife), Deans Davis and Banks repeatedly insisted that there have been a) solely nominal changes in residential life and that b) had the changes been greater the larger campus community would have been consulted.

On Feb. 27, in a town a couple of minutes away from where I grew up, a 17-year old boy entered a high school cafeteria with a handgun and shot at students. At the time I write this, three young men are dead as a result of the shooting; Daniel Parmertor, Russell King and Demetrius Hewlen’s families all must bear the sudden and violent loss of a son, hopefully the other two wounded will survive.

Last month, Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” and demanded that she produce a sex tape for public consumption saying, “post the videos online so we can all watch.” Limbaugh exploded at Fluke after she testified in support of a federal mandate of health care coverage for contraception.