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Amherst boasted its strongest freshman class ever 88 years ago, with various strength tests proving the extreme athletic abilities of the young men of the class of 1916. These “exceptionally interesting” results included outstanding numbers in height, weight, lung capacity and total strength. The central attraction of the class of

JOSH BELL ’02 “I would be a little kid so I could get more candy.” JOHN ABODEELY ’01 “I would probably be my ex-boyfriend just to see exactly what it was like from the other side.” ANNE MCNAMARA ’04 “I’d be a big bag of candy.” ALEXA LAWSON-REMER ’04

Legions of Amherst folk eagerly awaited Saturday night’s annual Computer Dating Tap, shunning old-fashioned fate for a night after spilling the contents of their inner psyches into a survey a week earlier. Some of those who came simply expecting a match made in Hamilton Heaven, however, found themselves in

The result was the creation of Dancing and Stepping at Amherst College (DASAC), a group of students who share a love of modern dance. Goode forged this new club while teaching dance classes in the Octagon and managed to secure a “decent budget” from the SFC for necessities such as

As head of the Amherst chapter of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) and as the contact for the approximately 100 SFT chapters in the New England area, David has concentrated on exposing people to the human rights situation in Tibet. “We do education about the cause of Tibet, but

Piece of the Pie has been the Food Bank’s biggest fundraiser for 12 years. The money raised this year will go to programs such as nutrition education and raising community awareness of hunger, as well as to the distribution of food to needy groups including senior citizens and low-income