Opinion

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

The price tag of this “big-ticket” event stands at $28,000-or at least that is the amount allotted by the Association of Amherst Students. Questions have been raised about the expense of the event, especially in light of two essential facts: last year’s Spring Formal cost $18,000, and

In the aggregate, Amherst College students are no exception to this national trend; this is not their fault. Although some truly accomplished students of foreign language matriculate at Amherst College, they are relatively rare. Moreover, increasing the minimal training required of our applicants could be viewed as discriminatory. Only the

In an effort to get bigger, stronger, faster and better, athletes have increasingly been taking supplemental over-the-counter drugs in the past decade. Although illegal drugs such as steroids have long been a problem in sports, the new trend of taking these dietary supplements is in some ways more dangerous because