Root, root, root for the home team-twice

This is not exactly news to anyone. Nevertheless, I’ve come to realize that, at least in the winter, there are other factors at least partially responsible for the poor attendance. In two separate, yet somewhat related cases, it’s become rather obvious that scheduling, at least in part, has been responsible for the poor attendance at Amherst’s athletic events. Consider the men’s ice hockey team. The Jeffs played three home games in January-including back-to-back contests against the two schools

Monumental Win Removes Williams Hex

It also guaranteed one more thing-like it or not, my class will now graduate from Amherst as “The Class That Beat Williams.” Of course, we’ve beaten them many times since we got here in 1997, including major victories on the playing field-such as the women’s tennis team’s NCAA title-clinching victory in the 1999 Championship-and off, provided that we give credence to U.S. News and World Report. Lately, however, the only victory that has mattered to too many people is the one that came on Saturd