Opinion Articles
Asking an all-female campus: how safe are we?
As a member of the Mount Holyoke community, I like to believe this environment fosters conversations that bring about change or challenge traditions and social norms. But is this really true? To test this, I have embarked on my own personal mission to raise awareness regarding sexual assaults, rape and their prevention.…
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Free Binns
Facing the Mirror
What does it mean to "face your fears?" You hear the cliched phrase every so often, particularly if you are a senior who doesn't want to cope with the rushing train of reality: face your fears.…
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The Definite Article
Reading Men
Being a woman in college usually entails lots of parties with balconies, sloshing cups of beer and boys with red faces and wispy facial hair drunkenly unloading their autobiographies onto your nice new blue dress. All of a sudden, you're soaked with a monologue you never even wanted in the first place.…
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Let's talk about sex-in the classroom
Abstinence-only sex education is just about one of the worst policies that the Bush administration has ever enacted. It does nothing to lower the rates of teen pregnancy, abortion or sexually transmitted infections (STIs).…
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