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A
Climate of Caution
How the Patriot Act Is Affecting MHC’s International Students,
and What the College Is Doing About It
by Erica Winter ’92
Although MHC’s international students have been affected less
than most students by the USA PATRIOT Act, many are reluctant to express
their opinions on national-security law for fear of government retribution.
Imagination
and Irony in Motion
Martha Mason ’88 Brings a Snappy Vision to Dance
by Mindy Koyanis
Dancer/choreographer Martha Mason brings a collaborative, community-embracing
vision of the arts to audiences through her Snappy Dance Theatre.
Life
Histories
The Power of Biography
by Maryann Teale Snell ’86
Biographies are flourishing partly because “personal histories
have a way of rousing our imagination, making us feel gloriously alive,” as
one MHC biographer put it.
Tiny
Actions
Winner of the Quarterly’s 2004 Essay Contest
by Mollye Maxner FP’05
The winning essay is a poignant piece about a decision the author’s
father made as a soldier in Vietnam and its moving consequences for
two families decades later.
More 2004 Alumnae Quarterly Essay
Contest Winners
Essays by runners-up Abigail Secord Fleming ’96 and Lisa A. Szefel ’88.
Seven
Days and Seven Nights
A Week with MHC Students
text by Elizabeth M. O’Grady ’06; photography by Erin
E. Beckwith ’06
Student photographer Erin Beckwith toted her camera everywhere last
fall to capture a week’s worth of campus life.
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Departments
Viewpoints
Your comments on white-privilege awareness, MHC architecture, and embracing
difference
Campus
Currents
A new admission office, Recyclemania, studying young stars, a liberal
arts path leads to medical school, faculty exchange with China, setting
sail on the Bounty, passing the Musicorda baton, and other news
Alumnae
Matters
Alumnae Association unveils new strategic plan, alum-student videoconference
on Patriot Act, Mary Lyon Award winners, alumnae mentor students, career
services update, and clubs’ news
Off
the Shelf
Books by alumnae on menopause, gardening, life with breast cancer,
the politics of “racial destiny,” abstract modernist paintings,
work/life integration, MHC’s role in the rise of American science,
and other topics
Last
Look
In “Plato Without Apologies,” MHC classics professor Bruce
Arnold argues that liberal-arts institutions shouldn’t lose sight
of their core mission in a rush to meet students’ practical needs. |
