Zainab Salbi speaks on women and Islam

BY ABBY BAKER ’19

Zainab Salbi, the 2016 Carol Hoffman Collins Global Scholar-in-Residence, spoke at Gamble Auditorium to dozens of Mount Holyoke students and members of the Pioneer Valley community. Her talk on Oct. 13 was called “Women, Islam and the Middle East,” and addressed issues of identity and culture that many Muslim women face.

Students rally for climate justice

Students rally for climate justice

BY ANNA SHORTRIDGE ’19

The Mount Holyoke Climate Justice Coalition held a climate justice rally, “Climate Justice is Social Justice," on Oct. 14. The rally’s aim was to showcase climate justice’s relationship to all social justice issues on personal, community and global levels.

Author Caitlyn Shetterly discusses the future of our food

Author Caitlyn Shetterly  discusses the future of our food

BY ABBY BAKER ’19

Caitlyn Shetterly, author of “Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future,” spoke at Mount Holyoke College on Sept. 26. The event was co-sponsored by the Odyssey Bookstore and the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, and was attended by dozens of community members and Mount Holyoke students. 

Kassy Dillon ’18 appointed to Western Mass Republican PAC

Kassy Dillon ’18 appointed to Western Mass Republican PAC

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM '17

President of the Mount Holyoke College Republicans Kassy Dillon ’18 has been appointed to the board of directors of the Western Mass Republicans political action committee with a focus on leading the organization’s youth engagement efforts.