Website of the Week- www.liquidgeneration.com

The site seemingly has something for everyone; it is a smorgasborg of videos, games, chat rooms and other activities, all hoping to elicit laughs. A flashy interactive web design adds to the site’s appeal. Even if you manage to sample all that the site has to offer, there is a host of links that claim to lead to the best sites on the web. It is unlikely, though, that one could exhaust the site’s resources. But if you do go through everything on the site, take heart-it is updated regularly with n

This Week in Amherst History

In a desperate attempt to save TAP, students created an organization called Project Facelift that sought to dissolve the demes and create a new social structure for funding student organizations. A forerunner of the present day SoCo, Project Facelift planned to create a central fundraising committee to address the issue. Paul Siegel ’91 conveyed the weight of the situation in saying, “Unless Amherst students begin to understand that the time has come for them to be privately responsible for the

Website of the Week

Among the seemingly endless opportunities for wasting time on the Internet, www.amused.com may be the most effective in whittling away the hours. The site itself admits as much, professing itself to be “The ultimate guide to wasting time online.” With numerous engaging portals to explore, this site certainly lives up to that claim. To access procrastination tools, visit the site’s “classics” section, which offers such games as Alcohol and Ammo, in which the player attempts to shoot an apple off

This Week in Amherst History

Ninety-three years ago this week, Amherst’s department of physical education adopted a new system of ‘Equivalents’ for the sophomore and junior classes, according to an article in The Student. A student in either of these years could be excused from attending gym one day each week as long as he pledged in writing that he would exercise sufficiently on his own time. This pledge was apparently based on the honor system. Exercises accepted as suitable stand-ins to gym class included football, mou

Website of the Week

“Everyone’s a director,” proclaims a banner on eveo.com , a site dedicated to the amateur filmmaker in us all. But eveo.com isn’t just a source for information-it allows anyone to submit an “eveo” for broadcast. Just what are eveos, you ask? According to the site, they’re “personal and engaging short videos that convey unique creative visions.” But before you rush to send in a creation of your own, remember that submissions are scrutinized by professionals, so not just any schlock will suffice.