LINDSEY MCGINNIS: OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE ROLE OF STUDENT JOURNALISTS

Daily Hampshire Gazette (August 13, 2018)

Last month, I read about Zoya Azhar’s experience running the opinions section of Smith’s student newspaper, The Sophian, and how the paper has struggled with low readership and an overall lack of writers.

In some ways, I sympathize. Having just finished my tenure as the editor-in-chief of the Mount Holyoke News, I know firsthand what it’s like to run an independent college newspaper.

PUTTING YOUTH VOICE AT THE CENTER OF MENTORING

Youth Today (August 13, 2018)

One in three young people will grow up without a mentor outside of their family. With someone to help navigate personal, professional, and academic challenges, they are more likely to enroll in college and hold leadership positions in their community. This is something Americans can agree on – nearly 9 in 10 feel that more mentoring is needed in our country.

FORMER RANDOLPH ‘TROUBLEMAKER’ JOINS PAUL PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, BRINGING AN EYE FOR RENOVATION

The Cohasset Mariner (March 19, 2019)

Growing up, Meaghan James frequently visited her local library, but rarely checked out a book. “I was going to the library to hang out with my friends, and there might’ve been some running around, typical middle school things,” she said. A librarian would inevitably ask the rambunctious, tag-playing teenagers to leave, forcing them to regroup at a nearby frog pond.

HAUNTED DIRT: SELLING BELCHERTOWN'S BROKEN DREAM

Narrative Nonfiction Assignment

Tucked in the bucolic Western Massachusetts landscape, just south of Belchertown center, is a sprawling campus of graffitied brick buildings and white cottages. An administration building leers over a gravel parking lot on the property’s outer edge with an air of importance. A dormitory where well-meaning attendants once chemically sedated disabled residents has lost its fire escape to rust and wind. Trespassers brave enough to climb the dark, glass-strewn staircase of the former men’s ward are rewarded with access to a rain-warped rooftop with a westward view of the Mount Holyoke Range State Park. 

CHINA TRAVEL GUIDE

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart”– Confucius

China is a country of diversity and extremes. As the world's most populous state (home to over 1.38 billion people), you can experience different worlds entirely depending on where your feet are planted. Electric energy and human innovation climb as high as the eye can see in Shanghai, but travel 2,900km west and you reach Tiger Leaping Gorge with unmatched hiking panoramas.