Arts & Living

This Novel’s Only “Fault” is in its Title
By Meghan McCullough ’15   |   Issue 141-12
“Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory,” says 17-year-old Augustus Waters, the co-protagonist of young adult author John Green’s latest novel, “The Fault in Our Stars.” Augustus and the 16-year-old narrator of the novel, Hazel Grace Lancaster, are forced to come to terms with this ...Read More
An Early Inheritance: Amherst Royalty
By Daniel Parel ’15   |   Issue 141-12
Every Amherst student has something special that got them accepted into this school in the first place. There are any number of things that can help someone get in, from the mundane such as good grades to the extraordinary like being a ballroom dancer....Read More
Resolve to Re-envision Your Year
By Nicole Chi ’15   |   Issue 141-12
Ahh, January. A time when our self-confidence is, paradoxically, both at its highest and lowest....Read More
Just Can’t Get Enough
By Andre Wang ’14   |   Issue 141-12
“Shame” is about Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a sex addict whose ill-kept personal life takes a downturn when his volatile and damaged sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) visits....Read More

Opinion

Program Board, the Little Red Schoolhouse and Other Housecleaning
By John Yarchoan '13   |   Issue 141-12
This will be a somewhat rambling piece about what was discussed at Monday’s AAS meeting, but if there is one thing to take out of the column it is this: the AAS has no intimate relationship with Program Board and should not be held responsible for the Spring Concert fiasco....Read More
This Spring, We Are Program Bored
By The Student Editorial Board   |   Issue 141-12
While the recent email sent out by Program Board about the Spring Concert came as a disappointment to many students, it was met with more resignation than indignation....Read More
A Christmas Lifestyle
By Ophelia Hu '12   |   Issue 141-12
Christmas began last year in the United States on November 25, on the heels of our national celebration of over-stuffing and cross-country flights, as it is every year....Read More

Top News

Thoughts on Theses- Ben Colon
By Eirene Wang ’13   |   Issue 141-12
Ben Colon ’12 Major: Theatre and Dance Thesis Advisor: Connie Congdon...Read More
Fresh Faculty- David Hanneke
By Rama Hagos '15   |   Issue 141-12
Physics Professor David Hanneke graduated with a Bachelors of Science from Case Western Reserve Univ. He received his Masters of Arts and Ph.D. from Harvard University. ...Read More
Economics Majors to Pioneer New Bloomberg Assessment Test
By Ethan Corey ’15   |   Issue 141-12
This Saturday, Jan. 28, the College Career Center will be hosting a free administration of the Bloomberg Institute’s Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT)....Read More
Fourth Annual Fink Bioscience Symposium Focuses on Risk Taking
By Alissa Rothman '15   |   Issue 141-12
The College recently held the fourth annual Gerald R. Fink ’62 Bioscience Symposium. Over 150 students registered for the event, which is the largest registration the symposium has received thus far. The subject of the symposium, proposed by Dr....Read More
College Joins Team Amit
By Alissa Rothman '15   |   Issue 141-11
On Sept. 22, Amit Gupta ’02 was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Four days later, he started treatment. Gupta learned that the average cure rate, or average rate of being alive and in remission at the five-year mark, was only 35 percent without a transplant....Read More
Recent Grad Receives Mitchell Scholarship
By Amber Khan '14   |   Issue 141-10
Amherst alumna, Bessie Young ’11, was recently named a Mitchell Scholar by the US-Ireland Alliance. Chosen from a pool of 300 applicants, Young is one of 12 Mitchell Scholars from the United States and the first in Amherst history. ...Read More

Sports

Women's Hockey Glides to No.2 NESCAC, 12-3 Overall
By Reilly Horan '13   |   Issue 141-12
Reilly Horan ’13 Staff Writer...Read More
Men’s Basketball Surges to Top of NESCAC Standings
By Karan Bains '14   |   Issue 144-12
While much of the Amherst student body finished the fall semester and went off to enjoy the holidays, the men’s basketball team remained hard at work throughout December and the first few days of the new year to build momentum over the middle of the season’s slate of games....Read More
Grow Up, LeBron
By Varun Iyengar ’14   |   Issue 144-12
“I’m taking my talents to South Beach.” Those words will go down in history as some of the most infamous in sports history. Yet, a year and a half later, it is time to ask whether LeBron James lied to us. ...Read More