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Board Meets The Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees covered much territory in meetings on March 2, 3, and 4. According to a letter to the Mount Holyoke community from President Creighton and Eleanor Graham Claus '55, chair of the board, the trustees considered first steps in the generation of a campus master plan and reviewed the status of the College's use of computer technology as a teaching tool. The board also approved a number of faculty members for tenure (see article next week) and approved a 4.2 percent increase to the rate for tuition, room, and board for next academic year for the College. In addition, the board discussed a proposal, recently endorsed by the faculty, to make submission of SAT scores optional by applicants for admission. The board will consider this proposal further at an upcoming meeting. Following a Friday forum on "Campus Landscape, Architecture, and Culture," trustees also had dinner with a group of faculty members selected by the Faculty Conference Committee.

High-Tech Pedagogy Chronicled The March 7 online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article about Mount Holyoke's powerful use of technology in the classroom. Several MHC professors, including Rachel Fink, Bob Schwartz, Vincent Ferraro, and Gabrielle Wittig Davis, are cited in the story, as they explain how Web publishing is improving their courses. From science to the humanities, classes are incorporating such high-tech features as time-lapse videos and hyperlinks in text documents. Subscribers can read the story on the Web at http://chronicle.com/free/2000/03/2000030701t.htm.

Czitrom Considers the Telegraph MHC history professor Daniel Czitrom was featured in a March 2 National Public Radio story on the significance of the telegraph as a harbinger of our modern media system. The piece, which was by correspondent Susan Stamberg, ran on All Things Considered as part of an NPR series that is examining technology in American life.

Celebrating the Piano Music professor Allen Bonde was featured in a February 29 [Springfield] Union News article regarding Reflections in Spirit, a new piece he composed to celebrate the purchase of a piano for Saint Theresa's Church in South Hadley. Bonde and his wife, Maria Kusmerick Bonde, performed the piece for the first time at a concert held at the church March 7.

Topping the Klezmer Charts Associate Professor of Music Adrianne Greenbaum, director of the MHC student klezmer band and the professional klezmer band, The Klezical Tradition, reports that Klezical Tradition's CD, Family Portrait, was named a top ten klezmer CD of 1999 by Moment magazine. It was also picked as one of the top twelve klezmer CDs by the New York Jewish Week.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and author who is a resolute defender of the environment, will deliver a lecture at Mount Holyoke titled "Our Environmental Destiny" Friday evening, March 24. Students can meet him at 4 pm in Mary Woolley's New York Room.

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