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Anti-muslim sentiment hits Amherst

One student, who asked to remain anonymous, said that she experienced bigotry at the Spirit Haus liquor store. “I was at the Spirit Haus getting some beer and when I handed the guy my ID, he looked at it, looked up at me and asked, ‘Where are you from?'

Finding a new role for Nuremberg

My major at Brown was political theory. I then went to graduate school at Columbia to receive my Master’s in political theory and then to law school. After Brown, I was in Germany on a Fulbright. Nominally, I was there to continue the study of political theory. I basically

This Week in Amherst History

The money was allocated for a library that was to be “a major center of learning and culture … for scholars and students from the surrounding area,” The Student reported. The library had plans for more than 550,000 volumes and 700 study areas. The committee in charge chose to dedicate

Club Focus--Students for a Peaceful Response

Drawing largely from a pool of Western Massachusetts Global Action Coalition (WMGAC) members, SPR rapidly formed and became official on Sunday, September 16. The Amherst chapter held a rally outside the Campus Center last Thursday at noon, a universal time designated by student activists at UC Berkeley and agreed upon

Campus Speak

HECTOR LUGO ’04 “Graduating high school and being on my own. I lived a way sheltered life.” PHIL W. TUCKER ’03 “When I realized I was never going to learn to ride a bike.” KIM KWEI ’04 “Getting rejected from the college I wanted to go to and coming here.

Campus Conversation

What happens when two different parties have the same theme on the same Saturday night on opposite sides of campus? Many party-goers faced a heart-wrenching decision that night as jungle-themed parties in Stone and Cohan could be seen causing chaos and importing their share of fake trees. “We were inspired

Website of the Week

If there is a quote you heard in some sort of auditory or visual recording, it can probably be found here. And while the site’s focus is clearly on digital amusement, it has a serious side to it as well. The “Quotes In History” Section, which includes an excerpt