This newsletter contains information on long-service awards, bursary funds, a community show, and an alumnae update about alumnae in the news, an alumna moving to the Government House in Halifax as the wife of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, and details regarding the Alumnae Award for Teaching Excellence. The newsletter includes sections on the President's Holiday, photos taken during Christmas at the Mount, a Self Defence Program, and a Flower Day. There are also sections on additions to the DUET (Distance University Education via Television) program, a C.A.P.U.S. meeting, 'Superhuman Effort' on the part of staff from the Registrar's, Business, and Computer offices, and a section in French regarding the importance of Universities to Canada at large.

This newsletter contains information on 500 graduates at the Spring Convocation. There are sections on President Naomi Hersom's highlights of the previous year, Valedictorian speeches, the conferring of four honorary degrees, and the events of Grad Week, including the Yellow Rose Ceremony. There are pictures of the Convocation throughout the newsletter, as well as quotes from honorary degree recipient Dr. Verna Kirkness.

Three lectures edited for print from the Mount's continuing education department lecture series entitled "Contemporary Woman: Heritage and Hope" (these lectures are by Sister Elizabeth Bellefontaine, Dr. John Klassen, and Norma Coleman), Dr. Eva W. M. Macdonald "Perspectives on Women" course, Janet Kendall current issues in reading, and spilt ink compiled by Larry Spencer

Topics covered include: MPHEC recommendations released, tuition likely to increase; Career exploration; Archaeology of Jordan; Electrical fire in Birches; Winter Frolic '82; Scholarships; Men's Hockey; Cost of Education; Gay rights; Wilfrid Laurier University; Quitting Smoking; Sports; Student Council; Great White North; Pub Crawl; Technical University of Nova Scotia

Topics covered include: Student Union elections; President-elect Susan Smith; Oral contraceptives referendum; Dr. Naomi Hersom; Funding cuts to Campus Canada Employment Centre; University of New Brunswick Student Union and Administration; Expo '86 BC; Bulimia; Mount Mystics Women's at Volleyball Nationals; Basketball; Badminton; Daniel Petrie; Dr. Margaret Fulton; April Final Exam Schedule

Topics covered include: Take Back the Night (event); Gift Trees Smashed; New Smoking Policy at the Mount; Mature Students; Female sailors; New Loan Limits For Students; Clara Brett Martin - first female lawyer and anti-Semitism; Student Union elections; Probation for Homophobic Banner at Acadia; Shiners; Audrey Norman - Player of the Week; For The Run of It Fun Run; Duran Duran (band); Ben Wicks Talks - September 27

Topics covered include: Floor hockey (parody); Naval fleet (parody); Faculty characteristics (parody); Men (parody); Picaro staff profiles (parody); Bachelor of Cheerleading (parody)

Topics covered include: Orientation; Cafeteria; Enrollment; Registration; Student Council; Neptune Theatre; Freshman at Orientation named: Joline Beilliveau; Gail Walsh; Barbara Way; Bonnie Mossman; Lois Jeremias

Topics covered include: the Canadian Union of Students; Martin Loney; Amalgamation of Mount Saint Vincent and Dalhousie University; Mother House; CUSO; Senate Referendum; Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada; Boarders' Council Report; Department of Immigration; Atlantic Students; Student Protests; Atomic Bomb; The Theatre; Mary Clancy; Women of Mount Saint Vincent University named: Chislaine Thibault; Sandra MacNeil; Joan Thibodeau; Nancy MacLellan; Louise Comeau; Anna LeBlanc

Sports highlighted: women's basketball, men's basketball, women's soccer, men's soccer, women's volleyball,