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. [...]
Amherst Culture In The 'Cac Music Williams
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 [...]
Tufts
Tufts Christian Fellowship accepts de-funding on basis of views on sexuality
Back in 2000, the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) lost funding and recognition from the Tufts Community Union (TCU) for removing a gay member, Julie Catalano, from her leadership position. Catalano had been “trying to reconcile her sexual orientation with her religious beliefs for her three years at Tufts and, at the end of her junior [...]
Alumni Amherst
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, [...]
Blog In The 'Cac
Celebrating The ‘Cac’s Two Year Anniversary
To all the NESCAC students and alumni, parents and friends; high schoolers; Ivy Leaguers with small-school envy; and people around the world who visited our site this past year: Thank you. Our second year covering all things NESCAC was no less exciting than the first. The stories confined to one of the 11 beautiful campuses [...]
