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Pressing Forward Mount Holyoke continues to play in press reports far and wide. A November 29 report on National Public Radio station WFCR featured Jill Bubier, assistant professor of environmental studies, discussing her work in local bogs, which she conducts with MHC students. Recent issues of both the Harvard Crimson and the Boston Herald featured a piece by women's studies professor Martha Ackmann on plans by Harvard to supply their busy students with four meals a day. They are hungry in Cambridge, apparently. An October 3 review by historian Joe Ellis in the Washington Post of Edmund Morris's Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan has also run in a number of other newspapers including the Detroit Free Press and the Birmingham (AL) News. Ellis expresses little sympathy with Morris's approach, in which the author has combined numerous fictional elements with the facts of Reagan's life and presidency. "What Morris has done," Ellis writes, "is a scandal and a travesty...Although I never found it possible to vote for Ronald Reagan, as an historian it seems utterly clear to me that Dutch deserved better." And, from Bangladesh, two recent issues of the Star Weekly Magazine have featured pieces by first-year student Sayeema Hasan about her first year at Mount Holyoke.