This week in Amherst history: Dec. 10, 1951

In the decision, President Woosley Cole highlighted that all of the football team’s intercollegiate opponents, with the exception of Colby College, had also indicated that they would follow similar de-emphasis plans, The Student reported. At the time, the football team was not involved in an organized league. Of over 400 students of the College polled by The Student during the controversy, 52 percent supported the ban of out-of-season practice. The poll also disclosed that 17 percent would be i

Mulholland Drive winds through surreal LA

Lynch concocts several storylines from the outset, baiting his audience to settle in comfortably to a standard film noir that ties the stories together in a clever conclusion. But don’t be fooled into putting your feet up; you’ll have to cling to your Junior Mints to survive, as topsy-turvy elements teasingly surface from a world that could only exist in L.A. Lynch breaks all Hollywood storytelling conventions; he lures viewers with the cliched dramas of a sexy amnesiac, a hopeful starlet and a

Johnston plays to mixed response at Iron Horse

After entering the spotlight with teenage excitement, Johnston quickly plunged into a solemnly focused demeanor, any trace of personality emerging only briefly after each song. The Freedy fans in the crowd snatched it up hungrily, mirroring Johnston’s attitudes by oscillating between listening intently and enthusiastically laughing at not-so-funny jokes. “I hope I didn’t hack it to death,” Johnston said after opening with an Al Green tune including, as he described, “a lot of chords.” He did bu