Archives: September 2008

September 24, 2008

If you're a freshman, you use a laptop

For years, Beloit College in Wisconsin has published a “Mindset List” designed to help acquaint faculty and staff with the concepts they take for granted which are foreign to incoming first-years. (Example from this year’s list: for these students, “Lenin’s...

Parker Morse '96 at 09:22 PM | Comments (4)

September 16, 2008

Win Smith '71 on the Merrill Lynch sale

Monday was a remarkable day in what is turning out to be a remarkable week (and year) on Wall Street. Lehman Brothers, which started as a dry goods store in Alabama in 1850 and eventually evolved into a globally recognized...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 02:34 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

September 15, 2008

Mr. Marx goes to Washington

Although the biggest piece of Amherst-related news last week was the shocking death of David Foster Wallace ‘85, many media outlets covered the congressional testimony last week of several college presidents, including Amherst’s Tony Marx. President Marx’s testimony was part...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 12:54 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

September 13, 2008

David Foster Wallace '85 dead

Some very sad news is breaking tonight, that the phenomenally talented writer David Foster Wallace ‘85, author of Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion, among other works, was found dead in his home yesterday, having apparently hanged...

Brian Meacham '97 at 10:44 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack

September 05, 2008

Welcome, freshmen

Another year is beginning at the College, and after a summer off from posting, we’re getting back into the swing of things. The Boston Globe this morning covers college freshman orientations around the state. Dean of new students Allen Hart...

Brian Meacham '97 at 10:57 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack