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This Week in Amherst History

One of many bold moves for increased freedom of the female sex occured 40 years ago this week when a group of Morrow freshmen formed CHASTE (Committee on Housing Accommodations Suitable for Tactful Entertainment) to protest the administration’s decision to forbid women from freshmen dorm rooms. “The principal speaker,

Website of the Week

Working on the newspaper, I know as well as anyone the importance of extensions. But, what if you have a problem set due tomorrow and, instead of writing your paper, you decide to participate in a Beirut tournament in Valentine? Now with the “extensionmatic,” your buzz should not affect your

daisy mayhem comes up roses

Arbo heads the group with her famous fiddling and strong vocals. She describes the group’s performing and producing as “genre bending string acoustic music.” Many groups like Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem have struggled to perform and to do something they love and their hard work and dedication to

Club Focus

Looking to have fun and make a fundamental difference in people’s lives? Do you enjoy kar-aoke, basketball, volleyball, board games and working with individuals who have special needs? Difference for the Development-ally Disabled (3D) is a community service program created by Brett Farson ’03 in fall 2001 to provide

Campus Conversation

Did you see a chicken running around town last Friday? Or, perhaps, a guy dressed in a chicken suit marching in the town common talking about killing whales? Wait � killing whales? An anti-whale protest? In Amherst? If you happened to walk into town, you might’ve seen a handful of

Campus Speak

DAN GROSS ’05 “‘Tidy Whitey,’ because it’ll be snug and comfortable and everyone will want to look at it.” GEOFFREY DEWIRE ’02 “Dorms that aren’t really dorms because they’re in trailers and are called modular housing.” NICK JUVER ’05 “‘Sloppy seconds,’ because it’d be roomdraw’s

This Week in Amherst History

Seventeen years ago this week, the College instituted its current policy of locking campus residences for the entire day because a non-student was seen lurking in the dorms, according to The Student. Not only was he loitering, but the unidentified male had also been seen urinating into the women’s