This newsletter discusses funding for research projects, ceramics, faculty research, publications, and participation in fellowships. It also discusses the life of Bonnie L. Broderick, an MSVU alumnae, as well as the public relations office publications of 800 speakers' bureau brochures. The newsletter contains discussions of Needham, the effects of breast cancer on women, distance learning, and the creation of the Institute for the Study of Women.

Topics covered include: Coup D'etat; Keiran Gibbs; Bush administration reject bill S-139; Tim Fisher; Government takes back $1 million from Universities; Low and Middle-income Students Hit Hardest by PSE Costs, Study Says; Student Union Hawk; What's the Good News at MSVU; Mount Saint Vincent University Confers Honorary Degrees to a Piano Virtuoso and an Acclaimed Maritime Filmmaker; Westwood Residence; My First Editorial; Chris Langille; The Neoconservative Ethic, Under Duress; Shaun MacMullin; Confessions of a Wasted Mind; Lauren MacDonald; Parking; Dane Butler; Under Shadow; Poetry; Main Street Melody; Robert Broderick; Not Untitled; When Man Meets Women; Movie and Music Reviews; Heather MacDonald; Back in Rotation; Mark Sitter; Sign on the Dotted Line, Please...; Major Changes Made to Life in Residence;

Topics covered include: Recession - Women forced to study part-time; Campaign posters defaced; Federal Budget Cuts Education Funds; Lists of Accused Rapists Removed - University of Pennsylvania and Brown University in Rhode Island; Native Women Concerned with Basics; Media and Gender; Sexual Assault - No means No; Sexism in the Media; Thin is Not Everything; Women's Political "Herstory" in Canada; Basketball - Heading into Season Finals; Women's Hockey; 12th Annual Fashion Show; The Doors (Oliver Stone film); Scenes from the Mall (film)

This newsletter contains information on a Mount conference concerned with the relocation of Africville, the Care for Caregivers Program, the Mount-Air Canada partnership's benefits for voluntary agency, and exhibits at the Art Gallery contrasting space-age and earthy styles. There is a section titled 'Capital Campaign Bulletin,' highlighting pledges, faculty campaigns, and a donation by the Royal Bank of Canada to the Learning and Leading capital campaign. There are sections on Dr. Naomi Hersom's promotion to be a president of CEA (Canadian Education Association), computer simulation challenges facing Mount marketing teams, an non-smoking policy in effect at the Mount, and an 'On the Move' section discussing Dr. Norman Uhl's career path, Dorothy Wills's appointment to the Order of Canada by the Governor General, and David Westwater's victory in the Mount United Way Campaign draw. The newsletter concludes with discussions of the Mount's sports teams and a weekend program planned at the Renewal Centre.

Topics covered include: Student Council; Government program for students; Cultural Affairs Committee; Opportunities for Youth Application Form; Dan George; Neptune Theatre; Abortions; Food

Topics covered include: Rosemary Brown; Services for Sexual Assault Victims (SSAV); Howard Crosby; The Pub Flamingo; Bedford Highway crosswalk; Rod Blake - Picaro Player of the Week; Sherry Parks; Mount Basketball

This newsletter contains information on donating $10 to the Mount's recreation program, pet placements for the elderly to take care of animals, plans made for the recreational program, a union of women scientists, and plans for distance education following a press conference. It also includes sections on scholarships and bursaries offered by the Alumnae Association, displays at the Art Gallery, faculty publications, winter weather warnings, spring employment opportunities, information on continuing education and co-operative education, art gallery volunteering, summer research awards, films featuring women, and help with stuttering at the Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Clinic.

Topics covered include: Student Union fires office manager; The Nexus; Student Union Launches ''Philosophical Protest"; Privatization of Student Loans; Student Union elections; Candidates for Student Union - Sonia Baillon, Joe Strolz - President, Trendal Bolivar - FT BOG rep, Dawn Yochoff, Todd Jackson - External VP, Tara Duffy - Ombudsperson, Angela Hill, Sheryl Pendelbury - Internal VP, Lori Anne Jones, Richard Smith - Academic VP, Kofo Gill - Board of Governors rep, Sheri Moore, Rebecca Nelson - Executive VP; Pink Triangle Day; Basketball - MSVU Mystics Head Into Playoff Stretch Run

Topics covered include: Elections; Child Study Society; the Picaro; Rape; Leslie McKinnon; Psych Society; the Picaro Society; Child Study Department; Student Union; Michelin; Don McLean; Student Council; Athletics/Recreation Department; Jazz; Leonard Melfi; Art Show; Art Gallery; Entertainment Events

This newsletter contains information on new Board appointments, a record number of graduates for the 59th Convocation, sabbatical leave granted to faculty for 1986-1987, promotions, the goal of building a world free from the 'three-fold threat,' the third phase of the Mount's longitudinal research project in the Institute for the Study of Women, and Dr. Rosemarie Sampson's presentation of Elizabeth Mann Borgese as 'A woman with an understanding of the world.' There are also sections on the scientist not being divorced from the citizen, justice as 'the essential ground upon which peace stands,' the wife and mother who earned an honorary degree, a profile description of Dr. Susan Boyd, a presentation by Professor Earl Martin of Sister Mary Evelyn Fitzgerald, and many countries represented as foreign students graduated. There is a 'Convocation Highlights' section with photos of Convocation, as well as information on research grants awarded, a 'Flash' section on the installation of Dr. Naomi Hersom as Mount president, a meeting of Home Economists at the Mount, and Carol Goodwin-Hatt's efforts to take down trees from the campus that were dead or dying. There is an in memoriam section for Sister Mary Agnes White, as well as sections on piecing together the future, faculty awards, conferences, lectures, departures from the university, courses, and appointments, 1984-1985 yearbooks, changes in the PR (Public Relations) department, and students receiving NSERC (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council) awards. The newsletter discusses a study of unmarried teenage mothers, the Mount Playhouse's Dinner Theatre and Cabaret, and Judy Manchester's valedictorian address.