The staff of The Mount Holyoke News supports the decision of the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees to immediately remove President Graham Spanier and Head Football Coach Joe Paterno. Given the information released in the Grand Jury report from the state Attorney General’s office, it is clear that both Paterno and Spanier are implicated in the cover-up of Assistant Coach Joe Sandusky’s abuse of eight young boys.

The media loves a good sex scandal. There is intrigue, power dynamics, gender relations and, of course, sex. Lately the media has been caught up with two different sex scandals – allegations that Herman Cain sexually harassed female employees while serving as head of the National Restaurant Association, and the cover-up of sexual abuse by an assistant football coach at Penn State.

Mount Holyoke, I got elfed. And it wasn’t just any old elf. I am convinced that my elf flew to campus on a forest green sleigh that left trails of love and Mr. Goodbars in the sky.

A little over a week has passed since the citizens of Mississippi rejected Proposition 26, an anti-abortion measure which sought to define “personhood” as beginning at the moment of conception.

Caution: Spoiler alert! But really it’s been more than a week, so no excuses for not watching. Glee last week was great. Not because of the surprising song choices, the Irish kid or the “what the bleep!?” moment at the end, but because of the legitimate political arguments.

Can anyone tell me where the women novelists are? Oh yes, I’ve read the works of Toni Morrison, Annie Proulx, Kiran Desai, Harper Lee et al. But why is it that the literati still subconsciously talk about two breeds of novelists: the writer and the female writer (I swear, skirts rustle whenever someone says this).

On Tuesday, Oct 25, President Lynn Pasquerella joined the weekly Senate meeting in Blanchard to discuss the College’s new Strategic Planning. One question students brought up concerned the possibility of accepting men to the College. According to Pasquerella, the College administration felt “obligated to take a look” at the financial implications of becoming coed, so that if “in thirty years from now” there were a legal decision that forced the College to accept men, the College would be prepared, said Pasquerella during the Senate meeting.

It’s not easy to talk about violence in a country that treats it radically different than what you’re used to. The past year alone has seen more fatalities in Pakistan than ever before. The daily losses are the result of a combination of factors: street violence due to ethnic and religious conflicts, target killings in the economic hub of Karachi, insurgents in various parts of the country, drone attacks in the North, civilian casualties from counter-terrorism and bomb blasts that are frequent throughout the land.

After an unexpected blizzard hit Mount Holyoke, leaving seven inches of snow and causing significant damage to campus, students gave their impressions of the storm and its aftermath.

The exact events of Thursday in Sirte, Libya, remain unclear, but one thing is certain: Colonel Muammar el Gaddafi is dead. My reaction to Gaddafi’s death was pretty similar to my reaction to bin Laden’s death- hear the news, sit for a moment, then talk about it for hours with friends and faculty. I’m not happy with the media’s reaction to his death, especially with the video of his body.