Editing Mount Holyoke College (section)

== In popular culture ==

=== Literature ===

* [[Wendy Wasserstein]]'s 1977 play, ''[[Uncommon Women and Others]]'', is based upon Wasserstein's experiences at Mount Holyoke of the early 1970s. The play explores the lives of the fictional characters Carter, Holly, Kate, Leilah, Rita, Muffet, Samantha, and Susie as they gather for lunch five years after graduation and reminisce about their collegiate days. The play was adapted into a [[Uncommon Women and Others (film)|television movie]] starring a then-unknown Meryl Streep.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rewatchclassictv.com/products/copy-of-chaplin-the-movie-mp-1992|title=Uncommon Women and Others  (PBS 1978) – (Meryl Streep/Swoosie Kurtz)|last=|first=|access-date=2018-11-02|language=en-us}}</ref>
* In [[Tayari Jones]]'s 2011 novel, ''Silver Sparrow'', the two protagonists, Dana and Chaurisse, apply to Mount Holyoke College.

=== Film ===
Several feature films reference Mount Holyoke. Prominent among them are:
*''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' (1987), which is set at a summer resort in the [[Catskill Mountains|Catskills]] in the summer of 1963. The [[protagonist]], Frances "Baby" Houseman (named after Mount Holyoke graduate [[Frances Perkins]]), plans to attend Mount Holyoke in the fall to study the economics of underdeveloped countries and then later to enter the [[Peace Corps]]. The film is screened annually for first-year students.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.mtholyoke.edu/thegates/a-very-mount-holyoke-move-in-day|title=A very Mount Holyoke move-in day|last=College|first=Mount Holyoke|access-date=2018-11-02|language=en-us|archive-date=December 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203204509/https://blog.mtholyoke.edu/thegates/a-very-mount-holyoke-move-in-day|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''National Lampoon's [[Animal House]]'' (1978), which is set in 1962. It satirizes a common practice up until the mid-1970s when women attending [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sister colleges]] were connected with, or to, students at [[Ivy League]] schools. In the film, fraternity brothers from Delta house of the fictional [[List of fictional schools#Film|Faber College]] (based on [[Dartmouth College]]<ref>{{cite interview|title=Live from the Headlines – Interview with John Landis|last=Landis |first=John |subject-link=John Landis |interviewer=Soledad O'Brien |url=http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/29/se.09.html |date=2003-08-29 |work=Live from the Headlines |publisher=CNN |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311042218/http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/29/se.09.html |archive-date=2007-03-11 }}</ref>) take a road trip to the fictional [[List of fictional schools#Film|Emily Dickinson College]] (Mount Holyoke College).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://notesfrommynotebooks.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-favorite-movies-whats-up-doc.html|title=Notes From My Notebooks|date=2013-02-24}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/427a2a42-5e61-4b2c-adc7-be0c96261638|title=New math. Mount Holyoke.|website=Yarn}}</ref>

=== Television ===
An urban legend says that the characters of the hit 1960s cartoon [[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!|''Scooby Doo Where Are You!'']] are said to be modeled after the Five College Consortium. Scooby Doo is meant to be [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], Shaggy is [[Hampshire College|Hampshire]], Fred is [[Amherst College|Amherst]], Daphne is Mount Holyoke and Velma is [[Smith College|Smith]]. These characterizations are made under the assumptions of stereotypes of the students from the Five Colleges.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sophia.smith.edu/blog/smithipedia/smith-in-popular-culture/|title=Smith in Popular Culture « Smithipedia|website=sophia.smith.edu}}</ref>

=== Humor ===
* A 1968 article in the [[Columbia University]] student newspaper ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'' repeated a line from the 1964 movie ''[[Sex and the College Girl]]'': "Smith to bed, Mount Holyoke to wed". This referred to the reputation of students from the two Seven Sisters Colleges.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19681017-01.2.13&|title=Columbia Daily Spectator|date= 17 October 1968 |website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}}</ref> In the 1980s, Mount Holyoke students launched a campaign against a dating book and article written by two [[Princeton University|Princeton]] graduates that tell men how to pick up female students at women's colleges. Under the "Pickup Strategy" category, the article states: '"Low Key. Recall the Smith saying, 'Holyoke to bed; Smith to wed.<nowiki>''</nowiki><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/12/14/Students-at-Mount-Holyoke-College-have-launched-a-campaign/6974471848400/|title=Students at Mount Holyoke College have launched a campaign...|agency =UPI}}</ref>
* The Mount Holyoke song, "We're Saving Ourselves For Yale", alludes to the Ivy League-Seven Sisters relationship, which amusingly relates tales of women who hold onto their virginity long enough to catch a [[Yale University|Yale]] graduate to marry. The song features prominently in Wendy Wasserstein's "Uncommon Women and Others".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/wendywasserstein00clau|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/wendywasserstein00clau/page/97 97]|quote=we're saving ourselves for yale mount holyoke.|title=Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780815329534|last1=Barnett|first1=Claudia|year=1999}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6Ztf7-C3SYC&q=we%27re+saving+ourselves+for+yale+mount+holyoke&pg=PT403|title=Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights|date=2013|isbn=9781136521195|last1=King|first1=Kimball|publisher=Routledge }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=33743|title=Lyr Req: Mildred Maud and Mabel (Yale Song)|first=Max|last=Spiegel|website=mudcat.org}}</ref>