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COMMUNITY

Llamarada Yearbooks Are Here!

The 1998 Llamarada yearbooks have arrived and are available at the Blanchard Information Desk. Students who preordered and prepaid can pick up their yearbooks through Friday, April 2. A limited number of yearbooks are also available for sale. The cost for students is $10; faculty, staff, and departments can purchase copies for $45. Be sure to bring your MHC ID. Cash and checks are accepted.

Tickets Available for Martin Sexton Concert

Tickets are now on sale for the April 24 concert by singer-songwriter Martin Sexton. Tickets for MHC ID holders (students, faculty, and staff) can be purchased for $10 only at the Blanchard Information Desk, x2045. General public tickets are $16.50, and can be purchased at For the Record in Amherst, B-Side Records in Northampton, and at all Strawberries record stores. To charge by phone, call ProTix at 800-477-6849.

Explore Mount Holyoke

The Office of Admission is preparing to welcome high school sophomores and juniors to campus for Explore Mount Holyoke 1999. "Explore" will take place on April 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, and 23. The program is designed to acquaint prospective students and their parents with the College and to offer them a sense of what makes us unique. Visitors will tour campus, attend an information session, and have lunch with current students and other members of the campus community. They will also have the opportunity to have an admission interview and meet with coaches and financial aid representatives.

Please join us in welcoming these visitors to campus. While the Office of Admission maintains primary responsibility for Explore, the program's success depends on the assistance of faculty, students, and staff. Explore will be most visiting students' first time on campus; please help make this first impression a positive one.

Walk-a-thon

The Community Service Volunteer Program will sponsor a Walk-a Thon Sunday, April 25 to benefit local shelters. The event will begin at 2 pm and walkers should meet at the green across from the Village Commons at 1:45 pm. Please contact Kerry O'Brien (kpobrien) or visit our new Web site at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/org/comserv for more information.

STUDENTS

Orientation Volunteers Needed

Sign up to be an Orientation volunteer for fall 1999. Sign-ups will take place in all luncheon centers during lunch the week of April 5 - 9.

Clio-Melpomene Prize

This prize, for outstanding work by a graduating senior, will be offered again this year. The prize, funded by Professor Emeritus Peter Viereck, is intended to assist aspiring poets and/or historians in travel or study after graduation. The deadline for submission of application materials is Friday, April 30, at 5 pm in the Career Development Center. Applicants must be graduating seniors and submit the following application materials: 1. a sample of work in poetry and/or history large enough to fully represent the applicant's work. 2. a one- to three-page personal statement, addressing the work, aspirations for continued work in the field, and plans after graduation. 3. optional: one or two recommendations from faculty or other mentors who know the work well. The judging committee is made up of members of the English and history departments; Professor Viereck does not sit on the committee. The $1,500 prize will be announced shortly before commencement. There are no GPA or citizenship requirements and no requirement that the work have been done for a course, independent work, or major at MHC.

Department of English Prizes for Writing

The following prizes will be awarded this year in the English department. For details on submitting entries and to pick up an application, stop by 201 Clapp. Entry deadline is 4 pm Monday, April 26.

The prizes are: the Virginia Lee Barnes Prize for the best critical essay by a senior in English, American studies, medieval studies, or women's studies; the Barbara Benson Award for distinction in prose writing; the Gertrude Claytor: Academy of American Poets award for a poem or group of poems of not more than four pages; the Minnie Ryan Dwight Prize for excellence in journalistic writing; the MacArthur-Leithauser Travel Award for creative writing; the Sydney Robertson McLean Prize for short story writing; the Anne Singer '69 Memorial Award for poetry, story, play, or any other form of creative writing; and the Ada L. F. Snell Poetry Prize for a poem or group of poems of not more than fifty lines.

Upcoming CSJ Deadlines

Calendar items must be received by Cindy Benoit in the Student Activities Office (Blanchard) no later than 3 pm on the "copy due" dates below. Notices are due at the same time to Emily Weir in the Communications Office (Mary Woolley).

###	Copy Due	CSJ Delivered	Calendar covers these dates
26	Fri., April 2	Fri., April 9	Fri., April 9 - Fri., April 16
27	Fri., April 9	Fri., April 16	Fri., April 16 - Fri., April 23
28	Fri., April 16	Fri., April 23	Fri., April 23 - Fri., April 30
29	Fri., April 23	Fri., April 30	Fri., April 30 - Fri., May 7