It’s 1 am on a Friday night in New York City. I am staying with my friend at Barnard College and she won’t stop talking about DateMySchool.com, the website she is currently interning for. She goes on about how more than 25% of New York University and Columbia students are using it and how she met her current boyfriend through the website.

Since its beginning in the early 2000s, the Holyoke Confessional has been one of the most debated elements within the MHC community. Some people love it, others hate it—some don’t care at all. I fall into the latter group.

On Nov. 30, Emmy Bouvier, Maxine Getz, Diane Kim, Jennifer Walsh and I, Carol Still, were invited to participate in the monthly White House Campus Engagement conference call. While we had heard about the experiences of Kiki Boyles, Susanna Labowitz and So Jin Lee, who had participated in an earlier call, we had few expectations as to what the call would entail. Ronnie Cho, a White House staffer who has been with Obama since his Senate 2004 campaign, moderated the call.

I was recently perusing Professor Christopher Benfey’s latest blog post on The New York Review of Books website, when I noticed the Classifieds section lingering on the top bar. Who knew that The New York Review of Books had a Classified Section? A London flat here, a Paris apartment there, and then this advertisement for a special service called “Sacred Space?”

From my perspective, Dr. Laura Greenfield’s departure was an abrupt and devastating shock. Though I believe that I understand the nature of the decision, I am still aware that much has been withheld from the faculty of the College and staff at the Speaking, Arguing and Writing Program. I am cognizant of the fact that this silence is intended to protect both Dr. Greenfield’s professional reputation and College administration.

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.