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Latin American Studies and Spanish Dept. merge
Spanish major changes its name to Hispanophone
The Latin American Studies Program and the Spanish Department will officially merge under the title "Spanish, Latina/o and Latin American Studies" starting next fall.
The decision has already been approved by the trustees, and the permanent faculty members of the Spanish Department and the Latin American Studies Program are currently meeting to make final arrangements such as the course catalogue.…
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Gym hour set for employees
Kendall tests new restriction
On Friday, Sept. 25, Mount Holyoke officially unveiled the new Kendall Sports and Dance Complex. In addition to the new dance studios that opened last spring, the fitness center introduced a mezzanine level above the exercise machines, complete with a space for classes such as "spinning.…
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Candidates for Kennedy seat field questions at UMass panel
Last Sunday, Western Massachusetts voters met five of the six contenders for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat at a panel discussion held in Bowker Auditorium at the University of Massachusetts. The two-hour debate, which was free and open to the public, was sponsored by the Women's League of Voters and public radio stations WFCR and WNNZ.…
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Cold Until Copenhagen
Mount Holyoke students joined the Leadership Campaign for their third consecutive sleep-out on Boston Common last Sunday to demand a state bill that will power Massachusetts with clean energy by the year 2020. The protests also aim to raise awareness nationwide, and will continue until the Dec.…
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SAW Center Welcomes Peer Tutors
Frances V. Condon, associate professor of English and Faculty Coordinator of the Writing Center at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, gave her keynote address in Chapin on Saturday during The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). She focused on anti-racism and leadership within writing centers.…
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UMass offers Amazon trip
For Five College students interested in studying plant-based Shamanic Medicine and traveling in the Amazon, Chris Kilham proposes an offer: a three-credit course, Amazonian Shamanic Medicine: The Shaman's Pharmacy offered this January. The ethnobotany course offered through the UMass Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences will include an introductory two-hour class at UMass on issues of environmental sustainability prior to a trip to Peru, where the students will travel up the Napo River, a major river in Peru surrounded by thick rainforest, and will learn from the local medical plant experts.…
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Public Safety Log
November 4 9:16 a.m. A concerned parent contacted Public Safety since she had not heard from her daughter. The student was located and she contacted the concerned party (Incident 0901-545-OF). November 5 7:04 p.m. A student reported her bicycle missing from outside Torrey Hall.…
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Athletic Department hosts Sports Career Night
Mount Holyoke College has always been making great efforts in helping students link their college experiences with future careers. To give current Mount Holyoke athletes a better knowledge of future opportunities, the Athletes Department hosted a Sports Career Night on Thursday, Nov.…
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Field Hockey falls to MIT?in NEWMAC semifinals
Mount Holyoke Field Hockey fell 2-0 to second seeded MIT in the semifinal round of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament Saturday, ending their season with an overall record of 10-8, and 4-4 in NEWMAC. The Lyons were hoping for an upset after falling 7-1 to MIT in league play.…
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Mount Holyoke riders win home show
Spirits were high at the Equestrian Center on Saturday as the Mount Holyoke riding team out-showed twelve other colleges as part of the Mount Holyoke Horse show. Mount Holyoke captured first with a total of 46 points.
The twelve other colleges were Amherst, Assumption, Becker, Clark, College of the Holy Cross, Hampshire, Landmark, Smith, Springfield, Westfield State, Williams College, and the University of Massachusetts, which came in second with 35 points.…
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NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship
With the NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship just two weeks away, the committee announced the 24 teams that will compete in the 2009 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship. The first round of the championship begins Nov. 11 leading to the second/third-round play on Nov.…
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Basketball kicks off with "Midnight Madness"
The 2009-2010 basketball season officially opened last Thursday night at midnight, when the team held its first practice. The event was open to fans in the wider College community and included contests, giveaways and good-spirited fun. …
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Ice Hockey faces off against Smith and Bates in a double-header
Last weekend Mount Holyoke's ice hockey team faced off in a double-header against both Smith College and Bates. "Unfortunately Mount Holyoke lost both games (Smith 5-0) and Bates (5-0). But the scoreboard did not reflect the true competitiveness of the games.…
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What's Happening Beyond Campus
NOVEMBER 14th: Montague, MA The Accident That Led Me To the World An all-acoustic, non-percussive chamber folk trio from Massachusetts, the band is an eponymous collection of bluegrass picking, sea chantey sing-a-longs, and folk singer-songwriting. You and Yourn Since 2001, Heather and Nic Dillon have recorded together and toured throughout the United States and Canada.…
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Spotlight Event: Ani DiFranco
NOVEMBER 15th Ani Di Franco The fiercely independent singer-songwriter is known for her refusal to conform to popular record labels. Her songs are bold, innovative and honest; her performances are raw, well crafted and imaginative. Winner of NOW’s Woman of Courage Award, Ani Difranco is emblematic of an entire genre of folk music.…
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What's Happening In the Valley
NOVEMBER 12th: Thorny Issues and Perilous Coalitions: Gender, Race and Sudanese Exile Politics Nada Ali will examine the discourses and practices of the exiled Sudanese opposition in the 1990s. She will draw on in-depth interviews with male and female politicians and activists, documentary analysis and participant observation.…
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