All-stars in Action

Jenkins, who was born with glaucoma that has left her without most of her sight, got Trina, her first seeing-eye dog, in July. “I’ve grown up with dogs all my life, which really helps,” she explained. “You really have to love animals and be ready to take responsibility. I suddenly felt like I was raising a toddler.” The transition to using a dog was even more of an adjustment because Jenkins chose not to use a cane growing up, preferring to memorize her way around. “It’s a real lifestyle change

Campus Speak

MATT BEVERS ’01 “Because they all have an inferiority complex.” SEAN STAFFORD ’04 “They suck because they have too many hills and no towns.” JOHN PETTEY ’01 “They’ve got a football coach who’s a Dick.” GEORGE TSAI ’02 “Professor Nicholson went there.” PHOEBE STONE ’04 “Because it’s not Amherst.” HAN CHEN ’03 “They’re in the middle of nowhere with no contact with anyone, so they suck at everything because they don’t know what’s going on in the world.” AMBER STROUD ’02E “In lexigrams,

Campus Speak

NICOLE SANDOZ ’03 “The Holyoke Mall because that’s where I’m happiest.” ALAN VAZQUEZ ’03 “I’d want them put on the tallest building so the wind would just take them wherever they would go.” TALIA DUBOVI ’01 “In the lake by where I live.” IRVIN RAKHLIN ’04 “I would want them scattered at the top of Memorial Hill so that I’d never have to run up it again for rugby.” RYAN CRONIN ’02 “I’d want my ashes scattered on the beach at the White Cliffs of Dover because that was the site of my first

Above and Beyond

As head of the Amherst chapter of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) and as the contact for the approximately 100 SFT chapters in the New England area, David has concentrated on exposing people to the human rights situation in Tibet. “We do education about the cause of Tibet, but just telling people isn’t going to do very much,” David explained. Accordingly the SFT plans events to get students actively involved in the organization. This past weekend, the Amherst chapter hosted a regional conferenc

Campus Conversation

We all know that classes can get a little boring sometimes. No Amherst student is immune to naptime in the Red Room or the sporadic yawn during lectures. Some residents of the College have even taken to wallowing in the occasional fantasy to pass the time. Unfortunately, professors’ insistence on talking can sometimes mar these daydreams. But luckily for students who had class in Merrill on Monday, a mysterious bikini-clad sunbather on Merrill Beach helped keep even the sleepiest student up. “W

Website Of The Week

Meet Eric. In time, he will become one of your best friends. To get to know him, log on to Eric Conveys an Emotion, where he posts photos of himself acting out various feelings and situations. The site starts off with the basics: happiness, sadness, anger, fear. Then it quickly moves into more creative and consequently more hilarious “emotions,” ranging from “motherly love” (in which Eric bites the head of a plastic doll) to “morning after horror/disbelief” (which shows Eric in bed with his han