by From Our Readers | Mar 10, 2015 | News
Bias and fear: Marijuana, science, and the media Prohibitionists keep circulating scare stories about marijuana, and people keep believing them. Lurid tales of insanity and murder were quite effective in the 1930s. Seen now as ridiculous; yet nonetheless, modern...
by From Our Readers | Mar 3, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
No room for transphobic language in Advocate I’m concerned with the conversation I’ve seen the last few weeks around Mount Holyoke’s student theatre group’s decision to present The Student Body, in place of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. On a community level, I...
by From Our Readers | Feb 25, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
New Deal loopholes need to be patched In 1940 FDR passed legislation that banned corporations that are under contract with the federal government from making contributions to sitting members of Congress. This was part of the New Deal intended to strengthen the middle...
by From Our Readers | Feb 18, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
LGBTQ left out of singles story After reading about all the female/male couples or females who wanted to meet males and vice versa, it seemed to me that the article “All Single and Nowhere to Mingle” (Feb. 5-11, 2015) should have been titled “All Straight and Single...
by From Our Readers | Feb 11, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Vagina dialogue continues One of the goals of art is to experience other points of view. We go to plays about ‘others’ to learn and empathize. How sad it would be to lose that by denying the depiction of different lives. Really, Mount Holyoke, what are you thinking?...