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Check out eC.H.I.C. eC.H.I.C., an "e-zeen" "for today's teen girls who are cool, hip and in control," is currently featuring Mount Holyoke's "Take the Lead!" program on its front page. News of the College's call for nominations for this new leadership program for high school girls first went up on the two-year-old Web magazine's site last week. eC.H.I.C. boasts contributing teen writers from around the world. The site's traffic continues to grow, and as of last October it was receiving 10,000 visitors per month. Check out eC.H.I.C. at www.echic.com

Not Horsing Around An oil painting by Mount Holyoke art professor, painter, and horsewoman Marion Miller has been reproduced on the cover of the April 7 issue of the Chronicle of the Horse, the nation's premier journal of equestrian competition. The painting, titled Pink Wall, depicts a horse and groom and is part of an ongoing series of paintings of horses and riders by Miller. The April 7 issue is devoted to intercollegiate riding. Miller is well known as a painter and portraitist. She has been commissioned to paint two United States poet laureates, and four or her portraits hang in the new federal courthouse in Boston.

Waterworks Sandra Postel, a visiting scholar in environmental studies at MHC and director of the Global Water Policy Project, was quoted in the March 22 issue of the Philadelphia Enquirer about programs in various Philadelphia suburbs that use recycled wastewater to water lawns.

Yahoo! On April 18, Yahoo!, the Internet search outfit, released its annual listing of the one hundred most wired colleges and universities. Mount Holyoke is number nineteen on the list. Read them all at http://www.zdnet.com/yil/url/0005/wiredcolleges.html

Application Surge An Associated Press article running in mid-March in scores of newspapers throughout the country detailed surging numbers of college applications across the nation. The piece included MHC.

Time Encapsulated The opening of MHC's class of 1900 time capsule drew stories from outlets across the country--among them, the Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennesseean.