In the News

• Here's the scoop--The November 2 Daily Hampshire Gazette previews this year's upcoming Founders' Day tradition in which seniors and trustees gather at Mary Lyon's grave to enjoy ice cream at 6 am.

• President emerita--Former president Elizabeth Kennan and her plans for the next two years are featured in an article on what former college presidents are doing in the November 5 Education Life supplement to the New York Times. The story is aptly titled "You've Been President. Now What?"

• Growing like fungus--Press coverage on the Hypersea theory developed by Mount Holyoke geologist Mark McMenamin and his wife Dianna is growing and replicating in much the same way as the ancient organisms the South Hadley paleontologists describe. The Hypersea theory is the subject of the November 5 Boston Globe Magazine's Ideas column.

• Like a rolling stone--Ever the hip, quotable moneymeister, College Treasurer Mary Jo Maydew was sought out for comment in an October 19 Rolling Stone magazine report on the costs of higher education. According to the piece, called "The Big Squeeze," colleges and students alike are trying to figure out how they can bankroll higher education. According to Maydew, academia is watching with interest the University of Rochester's recent move to cut tuition while maintaining academic quality.

• Rave reviews--Programs and exhibitions offered by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum have received much local press in the past few weeks. The October 29 Family Day activities at the museum, which gave local children a chance to try their hands at printmaking, garnered two stories and a slew of photos in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, including a shot of studio art major Gia Sung '96 collaborating with a very young artist in making a print. The November 5 Sunday Republican touts the two shows currently on view at the museum--Meditations on the Seasons: Photographs by Kathie Florsheim and Tom Zetterstrom and Peasants and "Primitivism": French Prints from Millet to Gauguin. The print exhibition, organized by the museum and Robert Herbert, professor of art and internationally-recognized authority on nineteenth-century French art, "may include works that are familiar in terms of representational style and rural subject matter, but it asks us to ponder a lot of notions that permeate modern life, ideas and myths we take for granted," wrote reviewer Gloria Russell. See also: "Exhibit Questions Rural Escape".