Archives: February 2008

February 26, 2008

"All-Academic team of the year"

Before the basketball playoff season gets seriously underway with both Amherst teams seeded first in the NESCAC, I want to gloat for a few more sentences about the national champion women’s cross country squad. Today I got a press release...

Parker Morse '96 at 08:26 PM | Comments (1)

February 14, 2008

College houses get new homes

Thursday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette reports that a pair of local developers doing business as Hills House LLC have purchased two houses from the College to be moved to lots the company owns on the corner of Gray Street and Main...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:08 AM

$100 million was a little high

Not long ago, we passed along a story that the College had captured $100 million from the sale of oceanfront property in California. The Boston Globe has done its own reporting and found that the sale generated only $58 million....

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 03:27 AM | TrackBack

February 13, 2008

Handling student voters fairly

The Massachusetts presidential primary took place on February 5th, “Super Tuesday,” and in Amherst hundreds of students from UMass, Amherst College, and Hampshire College went to the polls. Allen Nunnally ‘99 wrote us about a complicated problem facing students and...

Parker Morse '96 at 12:46 PM

February 12, 2008

College gives $120,000 to town

A bit less than a month ago, we mentioned the discussion in Amherst of the College’s relationship with and responsibilities towards the Town of Amherst, particularly in light of the Town’s looming budget shortfall. This morning’s Daily Hampshire Gazette has...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:10 AM | Comments (7)

"Stray Questions" for Prof. Stavans

The New York Times’ Paper Cuts blog puts its weekly “Stray Questions” to Professor Ilan Stavans this week, including this question: “How much time, if any, do you spend on the Web? Is it a distraction or a blessing?” Professor...

Brian Meacham '97 at 12:15 AM | TrackBack

February 07, 2008

Parrish '99 asks, Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture?

In an online quiz highlighted in today’s issue of the Very Short List, painter Graydon Parrish ‘99 and Mikhail Simkin ask the age-old question, does a particular photo depict “exquisite furniture, created by the famous minimalist sculptor Donald Judd,” or...

Brian Meacham '97 at 02:08 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack

February 03, 2008

College gets $100 million on Orange County oceanfront property sale

The Orange County Business Journal (behind a paywall) reports on the sale of the Capistrano Shores beachfront cottages in San Clemente. According to the article, the price is estimated to be close to $100 million. The seller? Amherst College. According...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 06:22 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack

February 01, 2008

Habitat house occupied, second one on the way

It’s been over two years since we first mentioned the Habitat for Humanity houses being built on land donated by the college at the corner of Stanley Street and South East Street in Amherst. (That would be about here, for...