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Well, good news. The Student has received a copy of a confidential report that Petit Consulting LLC, a firm specialized in providing food service and hospitality consulting, created for Dining Services. The report offers recommendations and improvements for the upcoming school year. Highlights of the six-page report included the

On Monday, Feb. 14, Robert Juckiewicz, Vice President for Information Technology at Hofstra University, visited the College to conduct an external review of the Information Technology (IT) Department. Juckiewicz held an open lunch meeting Monday afternoon for students to share their opinions about IT at the College. Attendance was relatively

This year’s THiNK benefit dinner raised over $850 in donations thanks to publicity through tabling at Valentine Dining Hall and Keefe Campus Center and food offerings ranging from local Korean fare to local favorites such as Antonio’s and Paradise of India. Haneui Bae ’13, THiNK chair, was extremely

What influenced your decision to teach here at Amherst? It was pure coincidence. I had a friend who’s from Shutesbury, who recommended that I apply for this job. I had never heard of Amherst College before, but the job description was about gender and ethnicity in Latin America, which

Sexual Awareness Week has evolved and expanded since then; it is now centered around the Clothesline Project, a Five College project where students display on a clothesline “shirts that cover the number of people abused as kids, [the number of people] targeted by hate crimes, show the support of allies

I don’t know all of the finer points. I’ve been following it for my own personal interest, and it’s ridiculously complex. The problem is, the current pension and retirement program was brought in after the Second World War, part of the broadening of the welfare state and