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TAP a keg of brew Despite a premature end to the night, traditional TAP returned from summer vacation to campus last Saturday night in Hitchcock in the form of Patriotic TAP. Also returning, albeit after a longer hiatus, was a 21+ room serving up beer and associated munchies to those of age. “One of the problems with TAP is that it gets too overcongested with people,” said Joshua Podell ’03. “So the environment enabled me to be [with] a controlled number of people and I knew most of the people

Campus Speak: If You could add a sport to the olympics, what would it be and why?

“Pie-eating, because it would be the only sport where ‘training’ involves eating lots of delectable desserts.” BAKER FRANKE ’02 “Bowling, to increase the level of athletic prowess that’s exhibited by such sports as curling.” RACHEL DUNHAM ’05 “Miniature golf, because that would be hilarious.” ADAM SEGAL ’03E “Tiddlywinks. My grandmother and I used to love to play it.” JOANNE WANG ’04 “Sledding on Valentine trays, so I could train on Memorial Hill.” DANNY PEREZ ’04 “Ballet. It involves

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A new age has dawned at Amherst. Gone are the days of thumbing through slice after slice of stale bread to find the last piece with some moisture. Gone are the opaque bins that surround the island near the servery entrance-well, some of them, at least. The future is here. The future is now. The future … is a bread dispenser. Proving once again that necessity is not always the mother of invention, the new bread machine in Valentine is making a number of students ask, “What the hell is that for?”

Ask Doc Tyler

This long, strange trip has nearly come to its end-and what a trip it’s been. I’ve been at Amherst College since September of 1997; it pains me to say that I’ve stayed here as long as possible. This December, in a cloudy, unnoticed ceremony, my time here will have passed. Oh, help me deal with this depression, this fear of what has gone and what is still to come! -Lamenting in Leland Dear Lamenting, Often, with autumn’s advent, we find ourselves preoccupied with thoughts of death and fading a

Campus Conversations

Not even the snow of Friday afternoon could stop the crowds from trudging through the slush to Jester’s first concert of the semester in Marsh House. Members of the band are Ethan Greene ’04 on bass, Nathan Shike ’03 on vocals and guitar, Jes Therkelsen ’02 on keyboard and Nick Wexler ’03 on drums. They played to a crowd of well over 100 students, drawn from the Five-College community as well as Springfield Technical Community College (STCC). Band members and listeners alike had a fabulous time

Campus Speak: QUESTION: If you could make a snow sculpture of any person, who would it be and why?

“Probably President Bush so we could throw snowballs at him.” KATHERINE MOONEY ’04 “Elvis because doing the hair would be a real challenge.” YVY RIVERA ’03 “Jeff Bogino’03 because he’s a great guy and we love him.” MIKE NICHOLS ’02 “Peter Juran ’02, because he’s the only person on the Amherst campus with a mullet.” MIKE NERONI ’04 “The golfer from ‘Caddyshack.'” HEATHER WERNER ’03 “Martha Graham because she’s one of the founding people of modern dance.” RAQUEL CARDONA ’04 “Prince be