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Jeffs batter Bantams, come up short

The loss dropped Amherst to 5-2 overall and essentially debarred them from the prospect of winning the conference. But with a tilt against archrival Williams College this Saturday, the Little Three Championship can be secured with a win against the Ephs. This week’s loss may actually be the

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Sarah Schulman, co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, will give a talk entitled “United in Anger: A History of ACT UP.” The novelist, playwright and professor at the City University of New York is the latest in the Creative Writing Center’s series of literary speakers. After

Kegan discusses stages of consciousness

discussed stages in the development of consciousness. Kegan spoke specifically about human psychology and its ability to cope with society’s demands. Kegan began the lecture with a classic psychological experiment, showing a slide that, depending on one’s point of view, could be seen as either the profile of

College Visit: Hurricane Katrina forces Dillard University to lay off 59 percent of its faculty and

As is the case with the rest of Louisiana, poor individuals and minorities were most severely affected by Katrina. Although Louisiana State University (LSU) was forced to lay off up to 5,000 employees at its New Orleans campus, Dillard and comparable institutions, like Southern University of New Orleans, were

Danner disapproves of U.S. response to Abu Ghraib

Danner claimed that atrocities committed by U.S. military personnel and CIA officers against detainees, which became public knowledge in 2003, have been glossed since then. “There has not been a restoration to political health,” explained Danner. After beginning his lecture on a lighthearted note, Danner read excerpts from a

Judt discusses proper ways to remember the Holocaust

Judt spoke of the problems involved in the commemoration of World War II and the Holocaust. He began his talk by outlining three notable “misapprehensions” regarding the war’s aftermath. Judt’s first point was that Europe has lived beneath the shadow of the Holocaust since 1945. His second and

AAS discusses senate responsibilities

Vice President Noah Isserman ’07 announced that he will check up on senators’ readings of the weekly agenda and BC recommendations by using the online Blackboard system. He said that he was distressed this week because 15 senators had failed to look at these items on Blackboard before 8:16