Space the nation In an survey of student activism on U.S. campuses in the October 5 issue of the Nation, Sarah P. Gamble '98, last year's editor-in-chief of the Mount Holyoke News, writes on the genesis of new cultural and community spaces for Asian and Asian American students and lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students. The "great space debate," Gamble believes, reveals much about the state of activism here and the difficulties that largely liberal communities have in understanding the needs of targeted groups for, in Virginia Woolf's words, "money and a room of one's own." Gamble is now a member of the Alumnae Association staff.

Glam slam A special back-to-college section of the October Glamour magazine features two mentions of Mount Holyoke. Meghan E. Freed '98, student commencement speaker this past May, is featured in an item on "Great 1998 Commencement Speeches by Women Grads." And, in another item on "What Men Learn at Women's Colleges," Hampshire student Che Broadnax notes that he took classes at MHC because "I just thought I might learn more--the women were really motivated. They were there to learn." Che admits that some of his friends thought he might have other, non-academic motives as well.

Impeachment; no bulls In a demonstration of writerly dexterity, history professor Joseph Ellis has been featured in two big-ticket publications in recent weeks. The September 19 opinion page of the New York Times ran a piece by Ellis on "The Muddled History of Impeachment," in which he argues that the founders of the Republic "would produce a clear majority for the conclusion that President Clinton has committed censurable sins but not impeachable offenses." That op-ed was followed by a September 22 appearance by Ellis and others on the National Public Radio show "Fresh Air," in which the topic was again the ramifications of the Lewinsky scandal. And, in the September 13 Chicago Tribune Magazine entitled "After the Ball is Over," Ellis, a Boston Celtics fan, counsels Chicago Bulls fans on how, through a four-step recovery program, to deal with the likelihood that the Bulls streak of championships is likely coming to an end.