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Amherst Students Taken Aback By Display of Nature
At approximately 3pm today, a hawk ate his lunch, causing some of the passing Amherst students to lose theirs. Right outside Mo Pratt dorm, this hawk sat pretty and tore apart his squirrel while sophomores, horrified, watched the spectacle outside their windows. Some students’ reactions: The hawk must’ve smelled Val lunch and [...]
Elite 8: In case you missed it…
Former Sports Illustrated writer, now contributor, Jack McCallum penned a great piece on the Midd, Williams, and Amherst men’s teams making the elite 8–with high praises for their cultures of scholar-athletes: “Statistics aside, the most significant numbers attached to the three NESCAC schools are these—1, 2 and 4. That is the U.S. News ranking, respectively, of Williams, [...]
Amherst Students Standing For Freedom (For a Really, Really Long Time)
On Tuesday, March 12th, Amherst students started noticing one or two people standing in front of Valentine Dining Hall out in the cold, pouring rain, holding up signs saying: “27 hours/27 million lives.” They were there at breakfast, then at lunch, then again at dinner. What were these students doing? They were standing for freedom. [...]
One More Way Amherst Tops Williams
We get their concert instead of them. Yup. After canceling on their Apr. 14 concert at Williams to play for MTV, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are coming to the ‘Herst. The Spring Concert Chair Peter Crane ’15 sent out an email yesterday prepping students of this “special announcement” to be made today (3/12), which has [...]
Kenyatta (Amherst c/o ’85) helps Lord Jeffs retain NESCAC War Crimes Cup
You would think Amherst would be pretty excited to announce that one of its alumni was just elected as the head of state of a large country, but if you go to the news section of the Amherst website, you won’t find any mention of this fact. Uhuru Kenyatta, the newly elected president of Kenya, [...]
Amherst Crushes: Sex Positivity Starts With Personality Positivity
If you go to Amherst and use Facebook (i.e., every Amherst Student), you have seen the amorous explosion that is “Amherst Crushes.” Much like its predecessor “Amherst Compliments” (the two groups are purportedly in a FB relationship) and in a vein very similar to our very own ‘Cac Connections, Amherst students send messages about their [...]
One Offer, One Refusal
***Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of reflections on “consent” written by our writers in a lead-up to our coverage of ConsentFest. Romantic Comedies may portray a refusal as coy, and “I hate you” as “I can’t admit I want you.” But, in the context of a college hook-up, or any sexual [...]
One more…
…before we’re all thoroughly over it.
