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Campus Speak--QUESTION: if you won the lotto, what's the first thing you would do or buy?

DEL WRIGHT ’05 “I’d take a trip to Europe for a year because the drinking age is 18.” DAREN CHEATHAM ’02 “I’d buy my own island, just to hang out.” ALICIA CARRASCO ’03 “Buy a farm with chickens and a cow. And I’d live there.” MELISSA MARTINEZ

Students called to action in D.C.

A separate peace The trip developed when Students for a Peaceful Response, a Five-College organization, contacted Outreach coordinator Jen Cannon and asked her if there was any interest in attending among Amherst students. Cannon passed the information on to Moran-Nieves, who undertook the responsibility of coordinating the trip.

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.