Rose Olver, professor of psychology at Amherst College, has been named by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to head the 1975 Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women. The 40-member commission, which will serve for one year without salaries, will survey and evaluate state laws and programs concerned with women’s issues.
For young men and women in Hampshire County who want to go to college this year, getting enrolled will not be as difficult as in other years. Since registrations are running below normal at many colleges, there is ample room for them. The big problem is how to pay for it. Those attending private colleges will be paying an average of $4,391, and public colleges, an average of $2,679.
On the steps of John M. Greene Hall dozens of city residents and officials gathered to hail the final report of the mayor’s Task Force for Safer Streets, a group charged with finding a better way for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists to share the road. “While the population of this city of Northampton has not changed, the population of cars certainly has,” Mayor Clare Higgins told the gathered crowd.
Susan Alcock remembers that she began her archaeological career digging up her grandmother’s compost heap on Park Street in Easthampton. Now an award-winning and published professor of archaeology, Alcock is one of this year’s recipients of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. “This is really something for an academic,” said Alcock, 39, from her home in Michigan, where she teaches classical archaeology at the University of Michigan.
Many states that opted to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act have seen enrollments surge well beyond projections, raising concerns that the added costs will strain their budgets when federal aid is scaled back starting in two years. But Massachusetts, a pioneer of health care reform, appears well situated going forward.
The 76th New England Regional Morgan Horse Show at the Three County Fairgrounds is throwing out a big welcome mat this week. It’s free to get in for anyone who wants to watch the show. This year’s show has 700 registered horses, with about 2,800 people at the fairgrounds involved in their care, grooming and handling while in the competition rings.