Spring Formal highlighted a weekend full of festivites and beautiful weather this past Saturday.
Photo submitted by Alec Jacobson
Sports
Despite Saturday’s withering heat, the Lord Jeff track and field teams thrived at the NESCAC Championships at Connecticut College in New London, Conn. The Amherst men managed to place fifth out of 11 teams, while the women placed eighth overall in a field of 11 teams.
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By Liza Gilhuly ’12 and Nikki Starrett ’12, Staff Writers
The Trinity College women’s lacrosse team played inhospitable hosts to its Amherst counterpart last Friday afternoon, yanking the welcome mat out from under the Jeffs in a 11-7 win. In the process, the Bantams, ranked 11th nationally, extended Amherst’s late-season losing ...Full Article
By Leon Rauch '12, Staff Writer
In heartbreaking fashion, the softball team ended its 2009 campaign with back-to-back losses to the Ephs of Williams College in the final of the regular season. After defeating the Ephs at home on Friday, the Jeffs needed to win just one of their two contests against their arch n...Full Article
By Julia Steinberger '09, Staff Writer
With the closure of Plaza Dormitory, Waldorf Dormitory, Plimpton House and Tyler House, many students wondered before Room Draw where the rising sophomore class would live. Some believed that opting out would be the best alternative, and that therefore, many sophomores would choo...Full Article
By Kate Jordan '11, Staff Writer
To solicit student, faculty and staff opinion on potential budget cuts, the Committee on Priorities and Resources (CPR) held an open meeting in Cole Assembly Room last night at 8 p.m.
The CPR, comprised of three professors, three students and various members of the administratio...Full Article
By Elaine Teng '12, Managing News Editor
Last weekend, the Amherst College Ballroom Dance Team traveled to Boston for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Ballroom Dancing Competition.
The team had couples competing in the international waltz, international cha-cha, American rumba, jive, swing, mambo, s...Full Article
By Sarah Beganskas '12, Managing News Editor
Opinion
As the economy continues to struggle, students can undoubtedly look forward to further budget cuts at the College. The first round of cuts sparked intense criticism from students, particularly in regard to the cuts at Valentine Dining Hall. Other, more significant budget items, l...Full Article
By The Editorial Board
I have to write this letter to express a deep discomfort with the execution of Friday night’s event. Being a non-student, and having never been to a concert at the college before, I’ve no idea whether campus functions are always organized in this manner " but I will strongl...Full Article
By Taryn Amina
And they’re off!” Those three little words ignite what has been termed the most exciting two minutes in sports " the Kentucky Derby. Today, those words should evoke similar anticipation, passion and exhilaration in any observer of neuroscience.
The past decade has seen an ...Full Article
By Richard F. Horns '11, Bi-weekly columnist
So it’s come to this: the Food Dude’s final article. In honor of my departure from this valley of plenty, I’d like to take a moment to remember some of its unique cuisine. For the Food Dude, graduating means more than saying goodbye to friends and being thrust out into an e...Full Article
By Jasper Zweibel ’09, Staff Writer
This semester’s Flics selections have provided a glimpse at some of the most acclaimed films and performances of 2008, showing off the best, brightest and most expensive of Hollywood’s talent. It is perhaps fitting that we finish off this run with “Slumdog Millionaire,” t...Full Article
By Ethan Gates '12, Arts & Living Editor
Alternative lifestyles such as homosexuality and bisexuality are a hot topic in society today. But one lifestyle that flies under the radar in social discourse is the art of the “bromance.” Urbandictionary.com describes a bromance as “the complicated love and affection shar...Full Article
By AJ Scola '10E, Contributing Writer