Let’s take a short walk down memory lane.

In 1859, the American Medical Association announced its opposition to abortion. Fourteen years later, the Comstock Law was passed, which deemed information about contraception “obscene material.”

Legislation was proposed in New Hampshire last month that would eliminate students’ right to vote in the town where they attend school, unless they were state residents before enrollment. The bill’s Republican sponsor, Gregory Sorg, defended his position to the Boston Globe, saying that the goal was to prevent voters without long-established community roots from influencing election results. Sorg expressed concern for the small-town folk of New Hampshire, a well-established swing state, and their influence over their own politics, present and future.

How do you deal with stress when the semester gets busier?

“I am sorry that we were unable to support you for a full year of study abroad. As you know, international students generally are limited to one semester of funding. In order to meet our goal of funding as many qualified students as possible, the only exceptions we made to that policy were for students who were selected for a Mount Holyoke exchange that is offered only for a full year,” read the letter I recently received in response to my study abroad application. My advisor and I had planned for me to study at Sciences Po in Paris for a whole year.

Two weeks into my last semester at Mount Holyoke and battling a severe case of senioritis, I thought that reflecting on my MHC experiences might help motivate me and other students to get through this cold, cold Spring semester. While it’s arguable whether I’m any wiser than I was a year ago, there is knowledge and experience I’ve accumulated that is worth sharing.

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I love you.
Three simple syllables, but so many ways to say them.

“Fairness is a very powerful argument, but also vastly irrelevant.” Vinnie Ferraro, professor of international relations, sat in the front row of Hooker. The auditorium had emptied out after his last J-Term session of American Foreign Policy.

The proposal of the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” presents a serious civil liberties issue for women.

The newsroom was abuzz as the editorial board descended; Thursday marked the first meeting of the semester and the energy was hard to tame. As stories were swapped and articles pitched, a member of The Mount Holyoke News revealed some very disturbing information—soy milk causes cancer.