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Men's ice hockey hopes to improve on last season

Last year’s team began the season with a 9-4-2 start, winning the Ben McCabe Memorial Tournament, and rising to an impressive 14th in the national rankings. However, a disappointing midseason five-game losing streak evened the Jeffs’ record. Down but not out, the squad recovered, qualifying as

Youthful women's hockey will challenge conference powers

This year’s team isn’t expecting to overtake either dynasty just yet, in Head Coach Jim Plumer’s second season behind the bench. However, that doesn’t mean the Jeffs aren’t capable of playing the spoilers in the toughest women’s hockey conference in Div. III. “I do

Game of the Week: NCAA Cross Country Championships

With Honors: Flethcher Ladd '05E and Justin Macione '07

Quad-captain Ladd ended his stellar career on Saturday with a touchdown on 34 carries for 179 yards, pushing Amherst past rival Williams College and securing the Little Three Title for the Jeffs. His efforts at tailback earned him the NESCAC Offensive Player of the Week award for the second

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Renowned investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh will deliver Hampshire College’s seventh annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture. Hersh has uncovered numerous scandals including the tortures at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for cracking open the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. He

THIS WEEK IN AMHERST HISTORY: November 13, 1979--Where is Sabrina?

John Ross ’79 parachuted into the center of the field to distract the viewers from seeing Sabrina riding on a motorized cart escorted by four people in tuxedos. The audience broke out in hysteria and excitement after witnessing this “coup of the first magnitude,” according to The Student. It was

the personals: questions for Jennifer Salcido '05

Well, I grew up in the South (Texas, Va., Ky.) and I just moved to a suburb of Philadelphia right before I finished up high school. It’s not very different from Amherst at all … lots of pastels, soccer moms, big SUVs, drunk teenagers, that sort of thing. If you