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This Week in Amherst History

Twenty-five years ago this week, a routine search of dorm rooms during Spring Break uncovered massive amounts of Valentine property, including hundreds of glasses and plates, as well as a large number of marijuana plants. During the search, Campus Police felt it was their duty to seize the plants upon

Tales from the west wing: Weiss '90

In the west wing After graduating from Amherst, Weiss spent the next five years working at the Atlantic Monthly, where he rose through the ranks, performing various jobs such as fact-checking, desktop publishing, researching and writing and eventually becoming an editor. But his career path changed the day after the

Campus Speak

LEIGH BORUM ’04 “It would involve three goats, an eggbeater and a whole lot of shaving cream.” NADIA LATIF ’01 “I’d vacuum all the snow.” ELANA BERNSTEIN ’03 “Take the pillow out of my friend’s pillowcase and fill the pillowcase with shaving cream.” TOM FRITZSCHE ’03 “Hide the

Amherst students fire things up

Before receiving certification, Tornabene and Rodriguez had to undergo a strict training session before the beginning of the semester, which was followed by additional classes once the academic year had commenced. “The training consists of a very intense, 12-hour-a-day training week before school starts,” Tornabene said, adding that the training

Ask Doc Tyler

Some of my friends and I are having the Room Draw crisis to end all Room Draw crises. There are seven of us, all freshmen, going in together. There is one other friend who wants to live with us, who we definitely do not want to live with for several

Professor Speak

“Innocence and Worldliness. The first reading would be ‘The Little Prince,’ the last Machiavelli’s ‘Prince.’ We would examine the ways ideas of innocence and worldliness play a role in orienting political, cultural and legal ideas.” REBECCA SINOS “Greek History … with archaeological and literary evidence from this finite period.” NATASHA

Jere Mead '68 is Scrabble superstar

Mead has finished second, third and sixth in the North American Scrabble championships in the premier division against 50 other competitors. He is one of two people to win a “major,” an intense Boston-area competition, three times, and the only person to win it two years in a row. “It’