Amherst Hamilton Lifestyle
The Onion, Double Order!
The Onion pokes fun at Hamilton this week, with a brief reference to Amherst. I personally was distracted by the brief shot of a scheduled performance by Mindy Kaling, but that is neither here nor there. (You don’t need Mindy, Hamilton, you already have Bon Jovi–kind of). If you were offended by The Onion’s erroneous [...]
Trinity
Important Administrative Appointment At Trin
This week, Trinity announced the appointment of a new Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Thomas Mitzel. In the past, we talked about how important this appointment would be for a school at a proverbial ‘crossroads’: “There’s an elephant in the room, and it’s the size of 20 additional students in [...]
Bates Lifestyle
The CrushList App, or, Love in a Land of Awkwardness
If you’re a person, you’ve probably at some point worried that a crush did not reciprocate your feelings. If you’re most people, you’ve probably at some point failed to act on those feelings out of a fear of rejection. And maybe, just maybe, your fear was unwarranted, and you missed out on something great. Well, [...]
Lifestyle Opinion
An Accurate Response Paper
I just want to start out by saying, thanks for assigning us a response paper this week. I haven’t done the readings since the third week of the semester, and completing this assignment reminded me why I signed up for this course in the first place. Of course, my ability to tie in these readings [...]
Amherst In The 'Cac
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 [...]
Lifestyle
Best of The ‘Cac on College Confidential
I read it, you read it, we all read it. We’ve been meaning to do a post like this for a while, although I have to say I totally underestimated how wrong it would feel to lurk College Confidential. The only thing I can compare it to is watching someone try and get their finger [...]
Amherst Culture Middlebury Sports
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 Lifestyle The 'Cac
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. [...]
