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This week in Amherst history: April 30, 1952

As reported in an extra edition of The Student, the last two freshmen pledged in the wee hours of the morning on the day of the rushing deadline, under the College’s new “over-quota” rushing system, designed to allow more freshmen to live with brothers of their choice. House

Doc Tyler

One of my friends wants to be me. I wear a headband to breakfast and when I see her at lunch, she is suddenly wearing a headband, too. I hook up with a guy, and she hooks up with that guy weeks later. This is out of control, I can’

Campus Conversation

Amherst students work and play hard. At least that’s what they did last Wednesday night at the premiere of the Spring Beirut Shoot�Out, which took a tournament-style take on the popular drinking game. The brainchild of John Frechette ’02 and Bill Orum ’02, the competitive school-wide

Website of the week

Finally, a website that’s all business. Sorry, but this week’s feature won’t give you a free t-shirt or let you rate people’s attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. But there are other concerns in life. This website will give you one thing: a

Pfaffenroth off to Austria with a Pfulbright

It is mediums such as architecture and crafts that Pfaffenroth will focus on next year when she travels to Vienna on a Fulbright Scholarship to study the art nouveau movement. “The art nouveau movement wasn’t just about painting, but was about architecture and design,” said Pfaffenroth, who added that

The List

“Locally Grown,” featuring Pioneer Valley subjects photographed by Jerome Liebling, explores the life of the fields and the labors of those who tend them. (Runs in Mead Art Museum through July 29, Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free.) FLICKS Academy of Music Theater (584-

Dig it?

“I wanted to create a story out of nothing, and then follow the improvisational spirit,” explained Professor of Theater and Dance Wendy Woodson, the director of the project. The plot centers around two female characters’ ambiguous relationship. It is unclear whether they are sisters, twins or anything definite. The two