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Can't get no SATisfaction--President Joanne Creighton has weighed into an emerging debate regarding the use of SAT scores in the University of California system. While some have called on the system to drop the scores entirely in order to increase enrollments of minority students, others are demanding that SAT scores be weighted heavily in admission decisions. Writing on the op-ed page of the September 29 Boston Globe, Creighton counseled the UCal system to follow the example of Mount Holyoke and other institutions that use SAT scores and a wide variety of other measures in assessing students' abilities. "Institutions of higher education should resist easy answers, formulas, or overreliance on flawed tests in making these decisions," Creighton opined. "The young people of this country deserve more consideration than that."

Horse hall of fame--The slick equestrian magazine Spur plans to devote an issue to celebrating women in horse sports, past and present. In this "Dynamic Horsewomen of the Year" publication, which is slated to be published in early 1998, Mount Holyoke's C. J. Law will be honored. Law, riding program director and riding coach at the equestrian center, will be joined in the "hall of fame" list by such notables as Virginia Hyland, the first woman president in the fifty-six-year history of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA); Tami Purcell, the first AQHA woman jockey to win a million-dollar race; and Ellin Dixon Miller, U.S. Olympic Festival gold medalist and president of the U.S. Dressage Federation. Under Law's leadership, the MHC equestrian center hosted a national competition for college riders last May.

Reviewers find alum's Bombs in the Ladies Room effective--Playwright-

performer Megan Rodgers's latest production, Bombs in the Ladies Room, has anything but "bombed" in Chicago. Her one-woman performance examines the real-life punishment meted out to women convicted of various terrorist activities. Some were imprisoned and kept constantly awake in cells painted white and brightly lit twenty-four hours a day. Rodgers's "postmodern collage of a play" examines both the women's crimes and whether their punishments fit the crimes. The Sun-Times reviewer called it a "deeply perceptive and at times wittily irreverent show" reflecting "the state of justice in a world ruled by violence."

More female "fish" in the college applicant "pool"--According to the September issue of American Demographics, there will be a marked rise in the number of women enrolling in colleges between now and 2007. "The number of men [enrolling in colleges] is expected to increase at less than half the rate of women. About 5.4 million women may be enrolled full time in 2007, a 30 percent increase from 1995. The 4.2 million full-time men [sic] projected for 2007 represent only a 13 percent increase," according to the magazine.