Archives: October 2008

October 31, 2008

College buys town building for office space

At least one College investment we were previously unaware of appears to have gone through before the belt-tightening we mentioned yesterday. Today’s Gazette reports that Amherst College has purchased the former church building on South Pleasant street next to Hitchcock...

Parker Morse '96 at 10:06 AM | Comments (1)

October 30, 2008

Lives of Consequence: $425 million campaign launched

At last weekend’s Family Weekend event, President Marx unveiled a new $425 million fundraising campaign for Amherst’s future called “Lives of Consequence.” The campaign will support the critically important role of financial aid, just as student need for aid is...

Brian Meacham '97 at 11:21 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

College delaying capital projects

In a statement released Tuesday and e-mailed to members of the College community in the wake of last weekend’s Trustees meeting, President Marx addressed the College’s reaction to “the current economic downturn.” While Williams’ President Morton Schapiro’s letter didn’t mention...

Parker Morse '96 at 10:59 AM | Comments (0)

October 24, 2008

Jeff bookshop closing

The Jeffery Amherst Bookshop, in its 71st year in business, will start the process of closing on Monday with a half-price sale to clear its stock. (The domain for bookstore’s website, jeffbooks.com, expired in early October and has not yet...

Parker Morse '96 at 11:04 AM | Comments (0)

October 17, 2008

Rolling Stone on Wallace's time at Amherst

As newspapers and magazines far and wide comment on the passing of David Foster Wallace last month, Rolling Stone has released part of its upcoming piece on Wallace, entitled “The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace.” The...

Brian Meacham '97 at 11:51 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

October 13, 2008

One student dead, three others injured in car crash

Terrible news broke this morning of a fatal car crash on I-91 North near Holyoke late Sunday evening involving four Amherst students. Jordan Moore-Fields ‘11, from Oak Park Illinois, was killed when the car he was riding in left the...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 08:00 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

October 07, 2008

Rob Brown '08 is The Express

As the opening date for the new film The Express approaches, its star, Rob Brown ‘08, is getting quite a lot of press. The film tells the story of Syracuse University running back Ernie Davis, nicknamed the “Elmira Express” for...

Brian Meacham '97 at 10:34 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

October 05, 2008

"Tom Davis Gives Up"

is the headline of a piece in this week’s New York Times Magazine on Tom Davis ‘71, a seven term Republican congressman from Virginia. Davis has decided not to seek re-election, citing the growing partisan malfunctioning in Congress and...

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 04:08 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

October 02, 2008

Endowment avoids landmines

In this week’s Student, Managing Editor Jonathan Thrope ‘10 brings us news that many have been waiting to hear. Amherst’s endowment grew 4.6% in its latest fiscal year, which concluded in June. The endowment total now stands at $1.7 billion....

Dave Nardolillo '98 at 09:25 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

October 01, 2008

Lots of attention in tech blogs

After we posted last week about the IT Index, we took the liberty of also sending the link to one of our favorite non-Amherst blog writers, Clive Thompson. Clive’s post has had news outlets around the world writing about Amherst:...