Website of the Week

Have you ever found yourself saying “Why don’t they have … ?” Well, you’ll be amazed-and probably disturbed-to discover all the bizarre inventions illustrated on the Totally Absurd Inventions and Patents website. The site is updated twice weekly and past entries are archived. Every bizarre invention has actually been patented. Some of the inventions seem useful. Take your average Saturday night. How many times have you been at a party when the Solo cups run out or when a beer helmet just doesn

Website of the Week

In the midst of partisan politics in the legislature and battles over whether or not to destroy the “axis of evil,” an important debate has been glossed over by the American public. It is an issue that has been a point of contention for decades, dividing our country and leaving out-of-state college students torn and mystified. This site aims to solve the conundrum once and for all: is it “pop” or “soda?” Run jointly by CalTech and Lewis and Clark College, “The Great Soda vs. Pop Controversy” we

Club Focus: Fencing Club

Luckily, these students are really quite harmless. They are members of the Amherst fencing club. According to fencing club member Mihailis Diamantis ’04, the club is nothing new to Amherst. “There are documented pictures from all the way back to 1920,” he said. “But, after the first semester of my freshman year, the seniors that were running the club couldn’t keep it up, so the club kind of collapsed.” The next year, Diamantis and Geoff Brounell ’04 took matters into their own hands. “Geoff and