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Applying Mount-ing pressure--A group of local residents, including former MHC trustee Robert Barrett, professor emeritus of biological sciences Curtis Smith, dean of administration Wayne Gass, and South Hadley town official Wayne Boulais, is trying to have the word "Mount" put back on official maps that now label the nearby mountain chain simply the "Holyoke Range." According to a recent article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the group is petitioning the U.S. Board on Geographical Names to restore the original term "Mount Holyoke Range" when official maps are updated next year.

Having the last word--"It has been many years since the poet and essayist [and MHC professor of history] Peter Viereck called anti-Catholicism 'the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals'," begins a May 3 New York Times article about how anxiety about Catholicism helped shape the outlook of modern American intellectuals. The Times discusses a forthcoming article by John T. McGreevey in The Journal of American History, in which he argues that "From 1928 to 1960, anxiety about 'Catholic power' became a defining factor in the evolution of American liberalism, along with opposition to fascism, Communism, and racial segregation." The Times writer, Peter Steinfels, calls Viereck's quip "the last word on the topic."