WINTER 2004 / VOLUME
9, NUMBER 2
Mount
Holyoke News
On Halloween Eve,
the Mount Holyoke College Orchestra performed a live score to
the 1927 silent film classic The Phantom of the Opera,
starring Lon Chaney.
 Senegalese
filmmaker Ousmene Sembène was on campus this fall to screen
his most recent film Moolaadé, a 2004 winner at
the Cannes Film Festival.
The incoming class
of 2008 formed a global book circle encompassing six continents
when they read Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran as
part of first-year orientation. New students received copies of
the book during the summer and participated in discussions after
their arrival on campus this fall.
Thanks to the Weissman
Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts' voter registration
drive, hundreds of MHC students voted for the first time in the
presidential election this fall. The Weissman Center also sponsored
a semester-long series of public conversations and events titled
The Road [Not] Taken: The Real Choices of the 2004 Presidential
Election.
Both the soccer and
field hockey teams qualified for the NEWMAC Championships, which
were held in October. Soccer gained a spot by way of an upset
against Smith College. Field hockey also defeated Smith, securing
sixth place in the final NEWMAC standings.
Former U.S. poet laureate
Rita Dove, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987, was
on campus in October to read from her new collection, American
Smooth.
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PHOTO
BY FRED LEBLANC
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Kristel Thompson '05
(left) and Jennifer Gomez '05 showed their student IDs at the
College's 168th convocation ceremony. Seniors donned their caps
and gowns for the celebration that officially kicks off the academic
year.
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