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Mellon grant to address faculty aging

Recent studies cited by Five Colleges, Inc. suggest that the two biggest challenges facing higher education in the decade ahead are the increasing number of faculty near retirement age, and the hiring and retention of dual-career couples. According to Lorna M. Peterson, executive director of Five Colleges, Inc., the Mellon

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The Amherst Student

Poet Matthew Zapruder '89 considers time well spent

Zapruder did not always know he wanted to be a poet. “Because of who I was and how I was brought up, I came to think that certain things like politics, economics and law were more valuable than literature,” he said. Before long, however, he “gradually sort of realized how

One down, seven to go: Freshmen reflect on first semester

Home sweet hall Home sweet hall After about 18 years of life at home, many freshmen had to adjust to dorm living. Residents of James and Stearns Halls find their dorms cramped and noisy. Freshmen living in Valentine grumble that their laundry machines won’t take AC dollars. Freshmen from

Club Focus: Progressive Students' Alliance

“It basically started when Joe Rachiele [’05E] brought together a group of people he knew to talk about the idea of a progressive group on campus to pursue a few different projects,” explained Tom Fritzsche ’03. “The main objective of the group is to provide students with a means to

Campus Conversations

An incendiary message Perhaps creation and destruction aren’t as different as one might think. At least that’s what a group of College artists set out to demonstrate on Valentine quad before students left for the Thanksgiving break last Wednesday. The project may have appeared to be nothing more

This week in Amherst history: Dec. 10, 1951

In the decision, President Woosley Cole highlighted that all of the football team’s intercollegiate opponents, with the exception of Colby College, had also indicated that they would follow similar de-emphasis plans, The Student reported. At the time, the football team was not involved in an organized league. Of over