take the lead! Takes the Lead with the Media MHC's inaugural Take the Lead! summit for teen women proved inspirational for its participants and the media alike. Among those attending the program were a freelance writer on assignment for Ms. magazine and a teen participant covering the leadership summit for Teen People. Also picking up on Take the Lead! were two alternative news outlets, the American News Service and Dads and Daughters. A weekly nonprofit subscription news service that functions much like the Associated Press, the American News Service (ANS) sent a story out to its members on Take the Lead! in October, hitting news outlets around the country. Learning of the story through ANS, Dads and Daughters, a national nonprofit membership organization of fathers and daughters, recently written up in the New York Times, is now interviewing Take the Lead! participants for a Denver radio show and a Webcast. Dads and Daughters is interested in informing adults, especially fathers, about the issues facing today's girls and young women.

Radio and the Middle East Mohammed Jiyad, Five College senior lecturer in Arabic, was a guest on Tony Gill's radio talk show on both WMC and WCS 91.9 FM stations October 19. The program, which was originally scheduled to from 9 to
10 pm, was extended an hour due to the interest of listeners and the critical situation in the Middle East. Among the issues covered during the interview were prospects for peace/war, brutality and bloodshed, the level of violence in the region, the upcoming Arab summit in Cairo, and threats to Americans in the Middle East. The situation in Iraq, and the deadly effects of the embargo on the population, was also a topic of discussion. Jiyad has been a frequent guest on the program since the invasion of Iraq to Kuwait in 1990.