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Pressing forward Here's a sampling of recent stories that have touched on matters Mount Holyoke. A December 3 report in the Chronicle of Higher Education focused on religious pluralism at American colleges and discussed Mount Holyoke's conversion of part of Abbey Chapel into an interfaith sanctuary to accommodate the needs of various faiths on campus. The December 28 Springfield (MA) Sunday Republican featured a piece by President Joanne Creighton on the relevance of the liberal arts. The Boston Sunday Globe ran on November 21 a Mount Holyoke-based report on a recent Five College colloquium which brought academic leaders from across the nation to discuss the wonders of institutional cooperation. Criminologist and MHC sociology professor Richard Moran's name has also been cropping up in numerous reports: a story on Halloween-related crime in the October 29 Chicago Tribune cites Moran's findings that reports of Halloween candy poisonings are more myth than fact; the Baltimore Sun of November 7 solicits Moran's opinion of a Maryland hold-up artist who dresses up as Abe Lincoln and whom authorities have dubbed "Dishonest Abe." "Not what you'd call a successful technique," Moran notes, adding that most robberies depend on a more advanced element of subterfuge. And finally, numerous newspapers in New England have run an Associated Press photo of MHC students--members of the Nomads, Steppes, and Cities class--constructing a spacious canvas and wood-framed yurt on campus.