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One Arabian night On Friday evening, students were temporarily transported from New England to an exciting Arabian night filled with entertainment and delicious food. While its exterior remained the same red brick style, Newport’s interior was filled with beaded curtains, sarongs and colorful fabrics and was lit in an

Website of the Week

The global population has been estimated at over six billion. But how can any one of those six billion people have any conception of how immense that number is? This website, home of the Kill Everyone Project, attempts to put that number into some context by relating it to something

Campus Speak

ALI ABATE ’04 ALI ABATE ’04 “I like to study in Merrill by the windows near the beach that overlooks the whole notch area.” SHIVANG SHAH ’03 SHIVANG SHAH ’03 “Steam tunnels, because the heat makes your brain work faster.” ALI HASSAN ’05 ALI HASSAN ’05 “I like to go

Vietnam veteran Merson '66 speaks on own combat experiences, war with Iraq

Merson, who enlisted in the Marine Corps at the beginning of his senior year and served in Vietnam as an infantry scout, radio operator and platoon team leader, began by describing his experiences during the war. He started with his own decision to enlist. Although Merson, along with most of

Five-college students travel to D.C. to protest military action against Iraq

International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), a coalition of antiwar groups, coordinated the rally and media sources have estimated a total attendance of 100,000 to 200,000. The rally began at 11 a.m. on Saturday in Constitution Gardens, near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Reverend

Outreach welcomes Laidlaw as new director

“It was great,” said Laidlaw, “It primarily served to establish contact with student leaders and others interested in community service and started the process of sharing the ideas that will help shape the future of the Community Outreach Program.” “I’m looking for input and feedback from students and student

Nash draws large crowd to UMass

The game theory pioneer, known among students of math and economics for developing the “Nash Equilibrium” for strategic non-cooperative games, has become a pop-culture icon since his recent portrayal in the Academy Award-winning film “A Beautiful Mind,” which gives a fictional account of the scholar’s battle with paranoid schizophrenia.