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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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Senate meeting discusses parking shortage, dining services

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Senate meeting discusses parking shortage, dining services

The Nov. 1 senate meeting began with a land acknowledgment from Chair of Halls Serynn Nowlin ’25, as well as an announcement that a donation link would soon be made available to support members of Indigenous nations. The evening’s agenda featured E-Board updates, as well as open-floor discussion between commission members and senators. This meeting was the first of the academic year to follow a typical senate schedule, as most of the previous meeting was dedicated to a Q&A session with Health Services Medical Director Cheryl A. Flynn.

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MHC Collective to vote for unionization in November

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MHC Collective to vote for unionization in November

In the second week of November, the MHC Collective, a group of 78 Residential Advisors and Residential Fellows, will vote as to whether they will form the first student union in Mount Holyoke College’s history.

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Counseling Services introduces ProjectConnect, builds community

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Counseling Services introduces ProjectConnect, builds community

Weathers sought to find a way to alleviate an experience of chronic loneliness on the College’s campus. This search led her to ProjectConnect, a program created by the former associate director of the Counseling Center at Amherst College, Jessica Gifford.

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MHC COVID Safety Now protests new COVID-19 guidelines

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MHC COVID Safety Now protests new COVID-19 guidelines

In response to Mount Holyoke’s administrative decision to make mask-wearing optional in all indoor campus spaces as of Oct. 14, a group of students, identifying themselves as MHC COVID Safety Now, has initiated a protest effort to invoke change in the College’s approach to their COVID-19 policy.

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COVID-19 booster offered to students via shuttle service

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COVID-19 booster offered to students via shuttle service

The Division of Student Life recently announced that Mount Holyoke will be providing shuttles to the University of Massachusetts Amherst COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. The statement also provided updates to its shuttle service to a CVS in Chicopee, Massachusetts, for eligible students to receive a bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccination. The UMass shuttle will run every Thursday and Friday through Nov. 17 and 18, respectively. The CVS shuttle will run every Wednesday and Sunday through Nov. 13 and 16 respectively.

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MHC students prepare for midterm elections

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MHC students prepare for midterm elections

With less than a month until the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Mount Holyoke students have started preparing to vote in pivotal elections. All House seats are up for election, as well as 35 of 100 Senate seats. 36 states will also be electing governors according to Ballotpedia.

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Biden administration extends Public Loan Service Forgiveness program

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Biden administration extends Public Loan Service Forgiveness program

College graduates previously employed in public service are getting a break this month. The Biden administration and Federal Student Aid office announced that the ongoing Public Service Loan Forgiveness program will extend its services to previously-ineligible borrowers. The deadline for this small expansion is Oct. 31.

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Student Financial Services begins new counseling initiative

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Student Financial Services begins new counseling initiative

The executive director of Student Financial Services, Tayler Kreutter, recently announced in an email to the College community that Mount Holyoke College students would each be assigned a financial counselor. The email, personalized for each student, notified them of their respective counselor’s name and email address.

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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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