Opinion Articles
Resident evil?
Frustrations arise with housing process
When it comes to housing, many students feel that the housing system at Mount Holyoke could use some renovations. The randomness of the lottery system is both what makes and breaks where students will live with every coming year. I think our current housing system lacks structure.…
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Tactical imprecision, cowardly rhetoric and the perils of perfectionism
Sometimes I feel that talking in passive voice, cowardly rhetoric, jargon and far too many extra modifiers gets in the way of making a point. …
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Thinking about a thesis? Two Seniors argue the benefits and anxieties of this final academic feat
A thesis is essentially synonymous with a relationship. It is rewarding, it is frustrating and it is time consuming. Never keen on relationships, I never possessed the desire to write a thesis…until weeks before I returned to Mount Holyoke for my senior year.…
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Thinking about a thesis? Two Seniors argue the benefits and anxieties of this final academic feat
With the repopulation of Skinner Beach and concomitant increase in iced coffees in May comes another distinctly Mount Holyoke College phenomenon-what I fondly refer to as Senior Stack Syndrome. SSS is characterized by a series of stacks: stacks of books, permanent residency in the stacks of the library and stacks of marked-up thesis drafts.…
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A call to action for rape awareness on campus
Did you know that one out of every six American women have been victims of sexual assault? That college age women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted? That 15 percent of sexual assault and rape victims are under the age of 12? That every two minutes, a woman in America is raped (National Institute of Justice & Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; U.…
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