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Gittens makes USA Today list again Last year, Cheryl Gittens was one of four MHC women on a list of outstanding college and university students published by USA Today. Last week, the paper chose the Frances Perkins scholar for a second straight year for its All-USA College Academic Third Team. Gittens was cited for her "research on Goree, an island off Senegal where slave ships embarked for the Americas," and for her play Shaduhs uh Voodoo.

Music to our ears When more than 600 voices are raised in song this weekend at the Five College Choral Festival, many of them will belong to MHC women. Led by Catharine Melhorn, choral director and professor of music, and Christopher Aspaas, lecturer in music, the Concert Choir and the Glee Club will perform at the February 21 event. Each group will perform a piece, then all singers will join for a dramatic finale. This year, it's a three-minute piece whose libretto consists of a single word: amen.

Also at the festival, Mark Gionfriddo's arrangement "Music of Broadway"--a medley of four songs by Berlin, Porter, Kern, and Gershwin--will be premiered by the Hampshire College Chorus. Gionfriddo is an instructor in jazz piano, staff accompanist for the music department, and music director for Catholic worship.