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MHC women among USA Today's "Bright Lights"--Four Mount Holyoke students are among the sixty that have been chosen for the All-USA College Academic Teams by USA Today. They were selected from among 1,253 nominees for their "blend [of] academic brilliance and leadership with a commitment to better society."

Chosen for the All-USA College Academic Second Team were Lydia Okutoro '98 and Khanh Thu Pham '97. Okutoro, a special major in oral, visual, and written literatures of the African diaspora, is the editor of Quiet Storm, a collection of poetry by young people of African descent. Pham is a politics major who has researched domestic violence in Vietnamese-American communities.

Two Frances Perkins scholars, Cheryl Gittens and Beverlyn Zebrowski, were selected for the All-USA College Academic Third Team. Gittens is a special major in Caribbean women's studies, has researched the Caribbean slave trade, and wrote three plays on the lives of Caribbean black women. Zebrowski, who finished her coursework in December, majored in African American studies and produced a film on Massachusetts girls coping with the problems of teenage motherhood.