All-Stars in Action

“I’d always been interested in issues like abortion rights and eating disorders in high school, and college gave me an opportunity to take action and meet other people [who] were also interested in those things,” Squire said. “Women are generally dissatisfied with their bodies because of pressures from the media and socialized perspectives we have of the feminine beauty ideal,” she said. “The bodies of [Amherst] women try to conform to the feminine ideal … The bodies here are certainly not repr

Interesting in any Language

The French and German TAs welcomed The Student into their lives and into their dorm rooms this past week. I sat down with French TAs Hélène Thiercy, Kahina Amoura and Matthieu Hauchorne and German TAs Diana Bujewitsch and Björn Szostak to discuss their interests, their backgrounds, the paths that led them here, the differences between Amherst and their home countries, friendship and pink. Kahina Amoura Kahina Amoura By some mysterious quirk of fate-and IT destiny-Kahina Amoura’s email address

All-Stars in Action: Sarah Godwin '05

She first developed an interest in humanitarian work in high school, after listening to a speech given by Dr. James Orbinski, president of Doctors without Borders. She also won the United States Institute of Peace National Peace Essay Contest in 1998, for her essay on “The Changing Nature of Violent International Conflict in the Post Cold-War Era.” After arriving at Amherst, Godwin started looking for opportunities to engage in humanitarian work. “I read about Kimmie Weeks in the newspaper and

Club Focus-The Woodsy Club

Founded in 1996 by UMass students, the Woodsy Club currently has over 85 members, about 10 of whom are from Amherst College. “We want to learn about nature and understand it enough so that we won’t need to take things from outside in there to survive,” said Charney. “We can work with nature, take what’s in the woods, eat it, live with it.” Members can not only start a fire, but can also make milkweed ropes, clay bowls, arrowheads and knives. The club also seriously pursues animal tracking, most

Fighting the political drug war

His most recent and prestigious award is the Public Welfare Medal, awarded last January by the National Academy of Sciences for the impressive changes that he initiated during his term as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. He is currently serving as the dean of Yale Medical School. Kessler, born in New York City on May 31, 1951, simultaneously obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1979 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1978. He also received an

Club Focus-Cooking Club

“We joined the club in our freshman year and basically revived it last semester,” said Sarah Michelson ’02 and Sarah Short ’02, current leaders of the Cooking Club. “It was basically dead before now; we got funding for it and signed people up at the club fair last fall.” The Cooking Club operates out of the Newport kitchen, where they have managed to build up a considerable stock of utensils and spices. “At first, about three or four people would cook and 30 members of the Club would come for d

All-Stars in Action- Jodie Rothschild '03

Cancer research has always been in Rothschild’s career goals. “In my senior year of high school, I took AP Biology and fell in love with the subject,” she said. “At first I wanted to be an oncology surgeon, then I wanted to work in a research laboratory, then I changed my mind and decided to go to medical school.” Last summer, Rothschild interned with the National Cancer Institute and worked in the research laboratory of the Gynecological Oncology department, with her focus mainly on ovarian ca

This Week in Amherst History: December 3, 1970

Bruce Angiolillo ’74 detained one of the perpetrators in his room by telling him that “he knew of someone who was interested in buying an expensive Funk and Wagnall’s dictionary set,” reported The Student. He then went next door and woke up the resident next door, who called Campus Police. They both then returned to Angiolillo’s room to engage the salesman in conversation until officers arrived and escorted the man out of the building. A second arrest 30 minutes later almost failed when two sus

This Week in Amherst History- November 21, 1974

Marijuana and hashish, perennial Amherst favorites, were still widely available and had increased from 10 to 25 percent in price. “It’s going to go up, you can’t find a $15 mix on the street anymore, and in six to nine months, you won’t be able to at college either,” one dealer predicted. On the hard drug side, cocaine was the only drug available and, even then, only at Hampshire. The shortage was mainly attributed to a big bust for LSD in the past year and two big busts for cocaine on campus i