BY MERYL PHAIR ’21
Early in the morning on Saturday, Sept. 16, Amanda DeBellis ’18 and her rabbit, Hazel, were woken up around 1:30 a.m. in Mead Hall by the sound of a blaring alarm. When DeBellis went out into the hallway to check it out, she immediately smelled smoke. Grabbing her rabbit and her roommate, the trio made their way down from the second floor and outside into the night.
BY KATE TURNER ’21
This week marked the 40th anniversary of Mount Holyoke’s Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program (ADAP). To celebrate the occasion, ADAC, or the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Committee — an offshoot organization of the college-run program — is holding several awareness-raising events, including a reading by Anita Devlin, the author of “S.O.B.E.R.*,” free training with Narcan kits for emergency response in the case of an opioid overdose and a history exhibit which will be featured in the library for the upcoming weeks.
BY ANNA SHORTRIDGE ’19
On the evening of Sept. 21, the Mount Holyoke community gathered in Gamble Auditorium to hear from chemist, former congressional candidate and now nonprofit founder, Shaughnessy Naughton. The event was titled “From the Chemistry Lab to Public Policy: The Science of Creating a Political Movement” and was sponsored by the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, the department of environmental studies, and the Science Center.
BY ABBY BAKER ’19
Mount Holyoke has the second-highest international student population of the nation’s liberal arts colleges, according to the 2018 rankings that were recently released by the U.S. News & World Report. Twenty-seven percent of the student body are international students, according to the report.
BY KATE TURNER ‘21
Hurricane Irma was the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in America since Katrina in 2005. The hurricane developed near the Cape Verde Islands in late August and grew to a Category 3 storm shortly after its creation. It made its slow but devastating way up the Atlantic Ocean, reaching Category 5 on Sept. 5 and growing to peak intensity on the next day. During its time in Category 5, Irma devastated the Caribbean Islands in its path, including Barbuda, Saint Martin, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Cuba.
