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Amherst students work and play hard. At least that’s what they did last Wednesday night at the premiere of the Spring Beirut Shoot�Out, which took a tournament-style take on the popular drinking game. The brainchild of John Frechette ’02 and Bill Orum ’02, the competitive school-wide event was

Finally, a website that’s all business. Sorry, but this week’s feature won’t give you a free t-shirt or let you rate people’s attractiveness on a scale of 1 to 10. But there are other concerns in life. This website will give you one thing: a leg

It is mediums such as architecture and crafts that Pfaffenroth will focus on next year when she travels to Vienna on a Fulbright Scholarship to study the art nouveau movement. “The art nouveau movement wasn’t just about painting, but was about architecture and design,” said Pfaffenroth, who added that

If you could take a semester off, what would you do? Megan Shields-Stromsness ’03E took two teaching jobs in her hometown of Oakland, Calif. She left Amherst last spring to teach fourth-graders with severe disabilities at Park Day School and an adult ESL class at Diablo Valley Community College. Shields-Stromsness

Disciplinary statistics show an increase from three in 1998 to 16 in 1999 and 19 in 2000. Between 1990 and 1998 the average number of combined cheating and plagiarism incidents per year was 4.55. The report described the increase in the last three years as a “dramatic rise” and

“For some years now The Amherst Spectator had upset our convictions in the pursuit of Conservative and Libertarian thought,” wrote Brad Tytel, the publication’s new editor-in-chief, on the inside cover. “However much we may have disagreed, we were probably better people for having thought about it.  Now this mission