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Sports
The men’s soccer team’s bid to reach their second consecutive NCAA Final Four appearance came to an end last Sunday when they fell 2-0 to York College.
The Jeffs entered the York match on the back of a 4-0 first round victory over Salem State College. However, the Spartans ...Full Article
By Elaine Teng '12, Editor-in-Chief
After defeating Eastern Connecticut State University 3-0 in the first round, the impressive women’s soccer season ended this week with a final shut-out delivered by the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). The defeat occurred at Hitchcock Field and got the team knocked out in the seco...Full Article
By Hal Rogers '13, Managing Sports Editor
The Amherst cross country teams achieved another goal on Saturday, as both the men and women qualified for the National Championship meet. With second and fourth-place team finishes, respectively, the men and women harriers of Amherst showed their strength at the D3 New England R...Full Article
By Tim Butterfield '12, Staff Writer
Decision-time has arrived. Almost one year to the day that Dean Ben Lieber made public his intention to step down as Dean of Students, the fourth and final candidate for the position has come to the College and gone, and College President Tony Marx has a decision to make " whic...Full Article
By Jonathan Thrope '10, Senior Writer
From Nov. 5 to 12, five teams of students took part in the Gumball Challenge, a social entrepreneurship competition hosted by the Center for Community Engagement (CCE). Each team was given $27 and 27 gumballs and, over the course of one week, asked to raise the greatest amount of...Full Article
By Jisoo Lee '13, Managing News Editor
Opinion
On Saturday, four busloads of students endured the bumpy two-hour trip to Williamstown to watch the Lord Jeffs beat the Williams Ephs for the NESCAC title. This group was much larger than expected; Social Council had to rent an additional bus in order to meet the demand to attend...Full Article
By The Executive Board
The East is Red! Mao Zedong has appeared in China!” Substitute “Barack Obama” for Mao in the old propaganda tune and you have today’s China. The president landed here Sunday; greeting a country with 5,000 years of history, a booming economy, a powerful military and the ...Full Article
By Jared Crum '11
Outlasting Vietnam by three years and matching its complexity, if not its loss of life, the War in Afghanistan today is at the forefront of the administration’s long list of foreign policy problems. The “deliberate haste” that has often characterized Obama’s decision-maki...Full Article
By Carlos Sabatino Gonzalez '11
Thanksgiving break is almost upon us, a perfect time to sit back and reflect on the things for which we are most grateful. I, of course, am grateful for all the usual blessings " family, friends, health, yadda yadda. Mostly though, I am thankful that I have successfully made it...Full Article
By Ethan Gates '12
Where are you from? What do you miss the most about home?
I’m from Boca Raton, Florida. The thing I miss most, besides the fact that the average age of people there is about 90 years old, is definitely the weather. It’s great to go home over winter break, for example, and t...Full Article
By Jorge Alvarado '12
“Midsummer,” the senior directing project of Brooke McVety ’10, promises to challenge the elevated, poetic tradition of Shakespearean theater by igniting the material of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with a new sense of relatable tangibility.
The performance uses only ...Full Article
By Carly Leahy ’11