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Men's basketball locks up Little III title: Jeffs hold a tie for the lead in NESCAC behind dominant

The squad began the second part of their season with a win against Averett College on Jan. 2. The Jeffs traveled to Virginia for the contest, and Pat Fitzsimmons ’03 proved to be too much for the home team. Fitzsimmons poured in a game-high 19 points and grabbed 15

SFC cuts Social Council funds

The changes were made, according to Armour, because “we basically felt that we weren’t able to manage [SoCo’s] spending the way we wanted to.” Armour added that the reduction in funding was a result of “the controversy of the first semester.” Last semester, Assistant Dean of Students Samuel

Letter to the Editor

As a junior at Amherst, I often wandered into organic chemistry five minutes late, my slippers covered with snow and my hot chocolate dripping. It was February of 1962 and organic chemistry was an obligatory pre-med course. But it was more of an IQ wall than a key to

Campus Conversation

The bells of Stearns Steeple have been tolling. For whom? For the residents of James and Stearns, during the past two Sunday evenings and “maybe once in between,” according to Alex Hochron ’02, an RC in James. Even though the bell ringer usually plays holiday medleys, “it’s kind of

Campus Speak

JOSE ABAD ’03 “Shake your booty: Salsa and Merengue 11.” LINDSAY CLARKE ’03 “I want to teach people, ‘How to Sleep, With Lindsay.'” RACHEL WURMSER ’01 “Microbes: Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite.” ANITA NABHA ’01 “Dirty Dancing.” MICHAEL RHOTON ’02E “I would call it, ‘Yet another college class

Website Of The Week

If you’ve gotten “Black Beauty” mixed up with “Black Sheep” or find yourself confused about whether “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” or “Ernest Goes to Camp,” one place on the web rises above the pack as the top Internet site for movie information: the Internet Movie Database. IMDB’s

This Week In Amherst History

Tension between the classes of 1942 and 1943, freshmen and sophomores at the time, exploded sixty-one years ago this week in a dorm war, The Student reported in an article titled “Ignominious Root Marks Vain Effort To Discipline Frosh Via Dormitory Raid.” The sophomores planned the invasion carefully, but