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2022 midterms results slowly trickle in after elections

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2022 midterms results slowly trickle in after elections

he 2022 midterm elections took place on Nov. 8, 2022. There has been a lot of lead up to this election, with several prominent officials such as President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D) claiming that “democracy is on the ballot,” as noted on Al Jazeera and Warren’s Twitter page. Numerous news outlets, including The Hill, predicted that the slim Democratic majority would fall. It is common for the party in power to switch in the midterm elections, but, as the Daily Kos explains, there have always been exceptions.

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Mount Holyoke to end mask mandate on Oct. 14

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Mount Holyoke to end mask mandate on Oct. 14

The Oct. 5 MHC This Week email to the College community included a letter from Interim President Beverly Daniel Tatum which stated that the campuswide mask mandate will end “at the close of business on Oct. 14.”

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Theta Chi allegations spark protests across UMass Amherst’s campus

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Theta Chi allegations spark protests across UMass Amherst’s campus

Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst led protests on their campus this weekend in response to allegations of sexual assault made against fraternity Theta Chi. A post on the anonymous social media app Yik Yak alleged a first-year student at the university had been drugged and assaulted by a member of the fraternity at a Theta Chi party on Saturday night, Sept. 18. The following Sunday, Sept. 19, around 300 people gathered outside the fraternity house to protest the member’s involvement in the sexual assault allegations.

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Through flame and pestilence, The Odyssey Bookshop persists, living up to its name

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Through flame and pestilence, The Odyssey Bookshop persists, living up to its name

The relationship between Mount Holyoke College and The Odyssey Bookshop dates back to 1963 and has survived many trials — economic recessions, global health crises and arson, to name a few. At least that’s how Joan Grenier, the Odyssey’s current owner, tells it.

South Hadley Town Meeting Members vote down proposal to reduce police funding by $90k

“The Movement for Black Lives calls for us to … actively invest in systems that promote the wellbeing rather than the harm of Black people,” Adam Reid said at South Hadley’s annual Town Meeting on June 9, as he proposed a police budget decrease. The proposal, which would reallocate some money from the police budget to public schools, was shot down by voting members during the meeting.

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Italian professor’s departure would mean end of Italian major and minor programs

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When the Mount Holyoke College Italian department learned that Martino Lovato, visiting lecturer in Italian and classics, would not have his contract renewed for the upcoming academic year, his fellow faculty members were distraught.

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Photo Essay: Gorse Closure Protests

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Photo Essay: Gorse Closure Protests

“I don’t want people to have to fight for a while,” said Michael Eason, a parent of a Gorse student. After Mount Holyoke extended Gorse Children’s Center’s contract by one year, Eason attended a demonstration at the College gates, calling for a long-term plan for childcare beyond the one-year timeline.

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South Hadley School District Prepares for Reopening

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South Hadley School District Prepares for Reopening

In late January, the South Hadley School Committee approved a phased-in learning process set to begin on Feb. 22. On this date, high needs students, or middle and high school students whose parents are essential workers or need critical child care, will start to return to school for four days a week.

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Attorneys Present New Arguments in Hachiyanagi Case

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In a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 8, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Thomas filed a motion to obtain the employment records of former Mount Holyoke Professor of Art and Studio Art Chair Rie Hachiyanagi based on the advice of an unidentified third party. According to Hachiyanagi’s defense attorney, Thomas Kokonowski, the anonymous third party is also employed by Mount Holyoke College.

As previously reported by the Mount Holyoke News, Hachiyanagi was charged with multiple counts, including attempted murder, following her alleged assault on a fellow Mount Holyoke faculty member sometime between Dec. 23 and Dec. 24, 2019, to which she has pled not guilty. She has been in custody since December 2019.

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