Opinion

During the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity of working for desktop computing here on campus. A large part of my job, not to mention a personal burden while I was trying to move from summer to fall housing, requires me to push computers and monitors around the

Forgotten, that is, until mid-summer. All of a sudden, the former Portuguese colony of under 200,000 people snagged a few headlines when a bloodless coup d’etat unseated the popularly elected government and threatened to wipe out the nation’s long tradition of democratic rule. Under significant pressure-suspended aid

I just completed my second tour of duty as a D.C. intern and I feel compelled to share with my fellow Amherst students advice about the job. Here is my first piece of advice: no one cares who your daddy is (except if your last name is Bush and

Gerety has maintained and strengthened Amherst’s flagship status, increasing both student body and faculty unity, through such moves as the reinstitution of a “common first day” freshman orientation in 1997. We all know of and applaud his skill in fundraising-the endowment having almost tripled during his term-firmly securing the

Should you believe France or Russia? They are indeed crucial members of NATO and permanent veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council. But as we are now beginning to see, the moralistic stance of these countries is perhaps not so much a function of their enlightened attitudes towards humanity

We talk a great deal about the endowment, about protecting the endowment, about “growing” the endowment. The student/faculty ratio to the endowment’s wealth is a major factor in determining our standing among our fellow institutions. We plan our budget according to a concept called “financial equilibrium,” whose standards