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If you’ve gotten “Black Beauty” mixed up with “Black Sheep” or find yourself confused about whether “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” or “Ernest Goes to Camp,” one place on the web rises above the pack as the top Internet site for movie information: the Internet Movie Database. IMDB’s

Tension between the classes of 1942 and 1943, freshmen and sophomores at the time, exploded sixty-one years ago this week in a dorm war, The Student reported in an article titled “Ignominious Root Marks Vain Effort To Discipline Frosh Via Dormitory Raid.” The sophomores planned the invasion carefully, but they

Vincent’s Ear, the brainchild of Andy Reed ’03, Jon Schneider ’03 and Morgan Worth ’03, aims to inundate the campus with, well, art. The trio decided last year that the campus was lacking in public displays of student artwork. Over the summer, the three developed a mission statement for

Ambulance Unit 539, a World War I unit composed entirely of Amherst students, received a citation for bravery from French Field Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain 82 years ago this week. Petain commended the Unit for its outstanding courage and superior efficiency during operations in the region of Oulehy de Ville from

Can you say “Dog”? I admit that’s easy, but did you know that your computer can say “Dog” too, without the Baha Men pumping from an MP3? Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies have created “Text-to-Speech,” which allows users to type a series of words and listen to a digitized

What do students do when the Thanksgiving holiday arrives and they are staying on campus? Going out for some turkey and cranberry sauce is impossible. “We looked for a restaurant for an hour and a half,” according to Brianne Rhodes ’01. “Nothing was open. Our original plan was to prepare