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Colton noted that Amherst College and the town of Amherst signed an agreement in March under which the college will pay the town $120,000 in 2009, with public safety costs central to negotiations. Colton said Stonehill defrays some of the cost of police services in Easton by using its own security force. (Easton Journal, MA)
Creating a global brain May 27, 2008
If these concepts catch on and start to gain acceptance, then 2008 might turn out to be the greatest year for information organization since 1876 the year a young assistant librarian at Amherst College named Melvil Dewey got so fed up with the disorganization that reigned in libraries that he devised a system for classifying and ordering books using a series of decimal numbers. Collective Knowledge Systems The real power of the semantic Web will be realized in applications that bring together... (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Soccer fans' latest fling needs policing May 27, 2008
Prince Albert of Monaco is turning to a former Amherst College soccer teammate to run the principality's entry in France's Ligue 1. Jerome de Bontin, an investment executive (Mekar Financial Services, Sustainability Investments) who has been living near Chicago and is on the US Soccer Federation technical committee, has been named the president of AS Monaco. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Loeffler Joins Lafayette Men's Basketball Staff as Top Assistant May 21, 2008
His squad earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where it knocked off Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Ramapo College to reach the Sweet 16 before losing to eventual national champion Amherst College. Stevens finished the year ranked 24th in the country in the D3hoops. (Goleopards.com)
Events listings May 18, 2008
Ko Festival of Performance Holden Theater, Amherst College, Amherst. 413-427-6147 before 7/7; 413-542-3750 thereafter. (Boston Globe)
Fair Isaac chief to join Capella board May 15, 2008
He holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. cwyant@bizjournals. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Colleges: Less 'stuff,' more money May 15, 2008
Tangible items "are wonderful in their own way, (but) unrestricted gifts are perhaps more valuable to an institution," says Rob Schur, an assistant director in the development office at Amherst College in Massachusetts, which formalized such a plan in 2003. School administrators and philanthropists say the goal is less about dollar amounts and more about cultivating a new generation of alumni givers. (USA Today)
Harvard, Ivy League Get Low Grades in Courting Poor Kids With Free Tuition May 12, 2008
A Massachusetts legislator last week proposed taxing endowments of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College and other wealthy private schools to help plug the state's budget gap. If they limit their enrollments to wealthy students they are basically enriching the rich and impoverishing the poor,'' said , 65, senior scholar for the Washington- based Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. (Bloomberg -- US)
Pricey school, hidden costs May 11, 2008
"Don't look up, it's gross," said Cathy Leung, who is headed to Amherst College. "Some rooms don't even have windows," said Juliet Yuan, bound for Northwestern. (Boston Globe)
Douglas Wilson, 67, journalist, academic May 9, 2008
Douglas C. Wilson, a longtime journalist and Amherst College official, died Monday of cancer at his Amherst home ... Mr. Wilson graduated from Amherst College in 1962 and earned a master's degree from Tufts University ... He edited a compilation of essays on the school titled "Passages of Time: Narratives in the History of Amherst College.". (Boston Globe)
Lawmakers target $1b endowments May 8, 2008
In addition to Harvard, the legislation would affect Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Williams College ... Amherst College's treasurer Peter Shea said that the idea would be "unfortunate" and that the college relies on its $1. (Boston Globe)
NHS grad turns football pro May 8, 2008
He never played organized football before that training camp, having played soccer and ran track instead at Amherst College. Peter Hauschka said the family wishes his son the best. (Needham Tab, MA)
Endicott ousted in NCAA First Round by Amherst May 8, 2008
- Amherst College used a 9-1 run to move past visiting Endicott College, 16-7, in the First Round of the 2008 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship on Wednesday afternoon in Amherst, Massachusetts ... Information Courtesy of Amherst College Sports Information. (Ecgulls.com)
Bracket released, Gulls will meet Amherst May 6, 2008
Endicott will match-up with Amherst College on Wednesday ... - The Endicott College women's lacrosse team won't have to travel far to square-off with its First Round opponent in the NCAA Div. III Tournament, as the Gulls will meet Amherst College on Wednesday afternoon in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Ecgulls.com)
Gulls sweep weekly awards May 6, 2008
The Gulls will take on Amherst College (13-3) in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament on Wednesday in Amherst, Mass. Game time is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.. (Ecgulls.com)
The more we imprison, the less we vote May 5, 2008
FOR THE past 12 weeks, we have both been students in an Amherst College class on citizenship ... Conor Clarke is an Amherst College student; Greg Yothers is an inmate at the Hampshire County Correctional Facility. (Boston Globe)
One Hundred Years of Solitude May 2, 2008
Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College in Massachusetts, is author of On Borrowed Words and editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. His Resurrecting Hebrew is due out in September. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Why Don't Modern Poems Rhyme, Etc. Apr 18, 2008
"I tie my HatI crease my Shawl" by Emily Dickinson reprinted electronically by permission of the publishers and the trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the president and fellows of Harvard College. (Slate)
Record Wait List Led by Amherst, Yale, MIT Brings High Anxiety to Students Apr 17, 2008
Yale and Princeton universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Amherst College are among top-ranked U.S. schools that increased, by as much as 50 to 90 percent, the number of students told this month they may be accepted only if those already admitted decline to attend ... It really kind of blows our procedure for the wait list out of the water,'' said Tom Parker, dean of admissions and financial aid at Amherst College, in Massachusetts. (Bloomberg)
Women's Results Apr 13, 2008 IBM to acquire Israeli storage firm FilesX Apr 11, 2008 Track and Field to Host UMass Invitational Saturday Apr 10, 2008 Milton Ebbins, liaison for JFK, Hollywood Apr 8, 2008 Saratoga Phillies Apr 7, 2008 In a rush? Learn to ease 'hurry sickness' Apr 6, 2008 Catching Frost's cadence Apr 6, 2008 $1.6 Million Donated For Baseball Field In Suffield Apr 6, 2008 UW-L jumps to sixth Apr 4, 2008 Robert Fagles, 74, translator of Homer and Virgil Apr 3, 2008 Robert Fagles; gave new life to classic books Apr 2, 2008 LHS grads make progress on chemo drug Apr 1, 2008 Seven-game sweep Mar 29, 2008 Lions Host Two This Week Mar 27, 2008 Seniors led the way for rebound by Brandeis Mar 27, 2008 Steven Madden, Ltd. Announces CEO Change Mar 25, 2008 U of C humanities dean leaving post Mar 23, 2008 Diver's hopes soar as college beckons Mar 16, 2008 Devine divine as BU routs UMBC Mar 15, 2008 Midd Hockey Advances to NESCAC Title Mar 9, 2008 Fame and fortune Feb 28, 2008 Colleges guard soaring endowments Feb 28, 2008 In concert with North Korea Feb 27, 2008 More of this story Feb 26, 2008 UMHB 15th in National Polls Feb 20, 2008 Rechy struggled to be true to himself in a straight, white world Feb 18, 2008 The anatomy of Yeats's inventions Feb 17, 2008 Regional Roundup Feb 15, 2008 Braintree's Brian Ellis, a freshman, is already a major force for Bates basketball Feb 14, 2008 A look on the bright side Feb 5, 2008 Charles Hamilton Houston “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow” Feb 1, 2008 NCAA'S STEALS LEADER - South Carolina's Downey a Finalist for Cousy Award Feb 1, 2008 Natural Gas Formation By Bacteria Linked To Climate Change And Renewable Energy Jan 29, 2008 Where the money is Jan 24, 2008 Man guilty of bludgeoning wife to death Jan 20, 2008 Tonight, the University of Mary Washington will begin its fourth annual "Great Lives" lecture series. Jan 17, 2008 Applications to U.S. colleges are breaking records Jan 17, 2008 UNH squad taps local players Jan 13, 2008 Edelmann Named Men's Tennis Coach Jan 9, 2008 Harvard's next task Jan 7, 2008 ICA's new space is honored as a work of art Jan 7, 2008 High Fidelity Jan 6, 2008 Amherst Nails Buzzer Beater to Sink Gulls Jan 5, 2008 With grit or grace, they left their mark Jan 1, 2008 Jared Diamond and his critics: A question of blame when societies fall Dec 27, 2007 UW-L 23rd in Directors’ Cup fall standings Dec 27, 2007 George Pierce, 84; was judge, educator Dec 22, 2007 Mass. college recruiters court a new frontier Dec 20, 2007 Nathaniel Reed, 77, retired Amherst college dean Dec 18, 2007 Duchesne Scores Conference Honors Dec 18, 2007 Kessler Wasn't Fired as Dean for Whistle-Blowing, California School Says Dec 18, 2007 California Medical School Dean Says Questioning of Accounts Got Him Fired Dec 16, 2007 New Jersey lawmakers vote to end death penalty Dec 14, 2007 Yale University Joins Harvard in Easing Student Costs, Colleges May Follow Dec 12, 2007 Harvard alumni question campus apathy Dec 9, 2007 Sox Add To Minor League Staffs Dec 5, 2007 Despite loss, Chvez holds great power Dec 4, 2007 Meet The New Kid: Sarah Dunleavy Dec 4, 2007 Chavez could hold reins of Venezuela for decades Nov 29, 2007 Venezuelan leader's power play has echoes of Castro Nov 29, 2007 Expanding Opportunities Nov 28, 2007 Giuliani Says He's 'Originalist' on Constitution Nov 21, 2007 NYU Men, Amherst Women Take DIII Crowns Nov 18, 2007 Sweetwater Elementary exercising young minds, bodies Nov 17, 2007 Colleges take steps to defray high cost of a degree Nov 11, 2007
07 1 5 Amherst College 'A' 4:02 ... 87 2 Women - Team Rankings - 19 Events Scored =============================================================================== 1) Albany, University at 223 2) Massachusetts, University 137 3) Boston College 95 4) Williams College 73 5) Hartford, University of 59 6) Amherst College 44 7) Central Connecticut State 43 8) Stony Brook University 33 9) Westfield State College 25. (Umassathletics.com)
Men's Results Apr 13, 2008
98 2 11 Amherst College 'A' 3:38 ... 50 6) Stony Brook University 54 7) Hartford, University of 48 8) Central Connecticut State 43 9) Amherst College 22. (Umassathletics.com)
FilesX's Xpress Restore software backs up critical business data and makes it readily available when needed, according to IBM. The company's customers include Amherst College, CenterStone Software, and South Nassau Communities Hospital. All told, FilesX has more than 100 customers in the United States and Israel, IBM said. (EETimes)
The meet is scheduled for 11:30 A.M. UMass will host the following teams: Albany, Amherst College, Boston College, Central Connecticut State, Fairfield, Hartford, Stony Brook, Westfield State, and Williams. Both teams are coming off a strong weekend at the UConn Invitational last weekend. (Umassathletics.com)
After briefly attending Amherst College, Mr. Ebbins got his start in show business as a trumpeter, bandleader, and songwriter. By 1940, he had left the stage to be the road manager for Basie, whom he called "the nicest man I ever met.". (Boston Globe)
Who else could they trust more than former New York Collegiate Baseball League teammate and current Amherst College assistant coach, Kevin Graber. "In 2004, Kevin was the first person we wanted to pursue," Kevin Rogers said. (Community News Weekly, NY)
Career counselor and work-life balance consulant Debra Krumholz shares a laugh with student Eloise Green of Brooklyn, NY while viewing the alumni network at her office at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass ... "Everybody I talk to expresses this feeling of being in a race with themselves, and feeling like they're always losing, that they can never keep up," says Debra Krumholz, a work-life consultant and career counselor at Amherst College who finds that even college students nowadays rarely slow... (Boston Globe)
An early example of Frost playing that role is when he goes to meet the president of Amherst College, and I included that to show how long the idea percolated in him. That scene also reveals Frost's resentment toward powerful people. (Boston Globe)
Perhaps more important for his future, Beneski also won a full scholarship to Amherst College, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics. He earned a master's degree from Harvard Business School and is now the CEO and managing partner of Inside Equities, a private equity firm in Texas. (FOX61, CT)
Amherst College, Mass ... The College of New Jersey, Amherst College (Mass. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
He was a junior at Amherst College when he read "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" and longed to learn them in their original language. Fagles' first published translation, of the lyric poet Bacchilydes, came out in 1961, around the same time he joined the Princeton University faculty. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Dr. Fagles was born Sept. 11, 1933, in Philadelphia and went to Amherst College with the aim of studying medicine. After reading Richmond Lattimore's translation of "The Iliad," he began studying Greek and Latin as a college junior. (Boston Globe)
Charles Creekmore is the College Editor at UMass Amherst College of Engineering. Comments Thank you for the abuse report. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Amherst College's Christina Martinez is tackled by Middlebury College's Charlie Hofmann ... AMHERST - Players wearing purple and navy blue capes hopped on brooms and rushed out of tents to a cheering crowd of students and family members, even little kids dressed in wizards hats, who held up signs reading "Chasers, Beaters, and Seekers" and "Remember Cedric Diggory." They were all here yesterday, on the freshman quad at Amherst College, to watch the campus's first game of Quidditch, a sport made... (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Two days later, the Titans hosted Amherst College. Shelly Injejikian's straight set victory at No. 2 singles was the only point Cal State Fullerton managed in a 6-1 loss. (Lmulions.com)
The Judges then lost to powerhouse Amherst College, 65-55, the eventual national runner-up. "This group kind of ruins it. As a coach, I've been spoiled as to what to expect of all my guys. That's not always going to happen," said Meehan, who is 78-53 in his five years at the Brandeis helm. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
" Edward Rosenfeld, formerly Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Finance, has been a member of the executive management team since joining the Company in May 2005. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors since February 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rosenfeld was a Vice President in the mergers and acquisitions group at Peter J. Solomon Company, an investment banking boutique where he focused on the retail and apparel industries. Mr. Rosenfeld graduated... (PR Newswire)
This year she was named a trustee of Massachusetts Amherst College and to the Pulitzer Prize Board. She was a Crains 40 Under 40 in 2004. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Dacey, also a three-year varsity soccer player, had no interest in diving until the age of 12; funny, since her mother, Kathy, swam at the University of Miami, and her sister, Kendall, now a sophomore at Amherst College, was an All-American in swimming and water polo at Choate. "I always thought swimming was boring," Carlin Dacey said. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Amherst College hung with defending national champion and sixth-ranked DePauw (28-3) for 40 minutes, but the Lord Jeffs couldn't close it out, ending their season with a 68-63 loss in Whitewater, Wis. Shaina Pollack had a career-high 29 points for the Jeffs (27-3). (Boston Globe -- Sports)
WATERVILLE, ME - Jamie McKenna (Lake Placid, N.Y.) scored with just 3:06 left in the game to give four-time defending champion Middlebury College a 2-1 win over Amherst College in a New England Small College Athletic Conference men's hockey semifinal game at Colby College's Alfond Rink on Saturday. Middlebury, which has won seven of the eight NESCAC titles since the conference started a playoff format in 2000, will take on sixth-seeded Trinity College in the title game at 1 p.m. Sunday at Colby. (WCAX.com, VT)
Some institutions and businesses - including Amherst College, Boston College, and the Mitt Romney For Governor campaign - also show up on the list. For the rich and famous, the amounts are often too piddling to bother with. (Boston Globe)
Anthony Marx, president of Amherst College, said wealthy colleges should be judged not only on how much financial aid they provide, but how many needy students they enroll. "We need aid policies that ensure access, but that's not the end of the story," he said. (Boston Globe)
But as the chief US negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, said in a recent talk at Amherst College, "We've taken some positive steps there, and we need more." The music made by the New York Philharmonic and the symbols of sociability surrounding the event can only help to convey this positive message. The American side needs to realize, as Hill observed in Amherst, that North Korea has already turned over crucial information and materiel. (Boston Globe)
He is also looking into possibly running for Amherst College in Massachusetts or Washington University in St. Louis. He currently wants to double major in biochemistry and psychology and then go on to medical school for a career in orthopedics. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Defending nationalchampion Amherst College holds down the top spot with 24 first-placevotes and 624 total points. Centre College moved up to second place thisweek with the other first-place vote and 550 total points. (KWTX.com, TX)
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His book "Csar Vallejo: 'Spain Take This Chalice From Me' and Other Poems" (Penguin, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden), will be released in April. (San Francisco Chronicle)
William H. Pritchard is professor of English at Amherst College. His most recent book is "Updike: America's Man of Letters.". (Boston Globe)
Fox received a bachelor's degree in English in 1975 at Amherst College in Massachusetts and graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley in 1980. He lives in Stockton with his wife, Elinor, an adjunct English instructor at San Joaquin Delta College. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Brian Ellis just had his nose shattered courtesy of an Amherst College elbow as he went up for a layup. During the subsequent timeout, as Ellis was being treated for his broken nose, senior tri-captain Bryan Wholey conjured up these sympathetic words for his freshman counterpart. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
But based on general graduation rates, congratulations go out to Amherst College, which won the Division III national women's cross-country title for a school with a female graduation rate of 96 percent. Women's team members were Heather Wilson, Elise Tropiano, Kim Partee, Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, Sophia Galleher, Nicole Anderson, and Margaret Ray. (Boston Globe)
When he graduated at the age of 15, he received a partial scholarship to Amherst College and became the only black student in the class of 1915. After graduating from Amherst, he taught English at Howard University. (South County Chronicle, VA)
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Additional members of the team include post-doctoral researcher Michael Formolo and undergraduate student Jeffrey Salacup of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Anna Martini, a professor of geology at Amherst College. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America. (Science Daily)
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Other colleges that have replaced loans with grants include Harvard University, Yale University, and Amherst College. CONCORD, N.H. Plan to rename I-93 stretch is put off The plan to name a stretch of Interstate 93 for fallen Franconia police Corporal Bruce McKay has been put off for a year. (Boston Globe)
Martha Saxton of Amherst College's departments of history and women's and gender studies will give tonight's centennial lecture ... JAN. 17: "Mary Ball Washington" Special Centennial Lecture, by Martha Saxton, Amherst College, departments of history and women's and gender studies. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Other campuses reporting double-digit increases included the University of Chicago (18 percent), Amherst College (17 percent), Northwestern University (14 percent) and Dartmouth (10 percent). Officials said the trend was a result of demographics, aggressive recruiting, the ease of online applications and more students applying to ever more colleges as a safety net. (International Herald Tribune)
The coaches scheduled to speak include Jeff Jagodzinski and Frank Spaziani from Boston College; Don Brown of UMass-Amherst; Sean McDonnell from UNH; Kevin Doherty of Harvard; Rocky Hager of Northeastern; and E.J. Mills from Amherst College. The clinic draws football coaches from all levels of competition. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Edelmann comes to Endicott after a three year stint as the head coach at Amherst College. Under his leadership, the Lord Jeffs made the NCAA Division III Tournament round of 16 three straight times. (Ecgulls.com)
Amherst College is opening its doors to more students who come from less privileged backgrounds, and is doing it by expanding the size of its enrollment. Harvard could do the same. (Boston Globe)
The firm Payette, for a lab and museum building for the earth sciences at Amherst College. Maryann Thompson, for a riverfront house in a large meadow in Westport, Massachusetts. (Boston Globe)
At the same time, Donovan said, Fidelity still hires other analysts at a young age, such as Michael Valentine, a 2005 Amherst College graduate who follows the steel industry. That traditional model "will still be the majority of analysts here, but that could change over time," Donovan said. (Boston Globe)
- The Endicott College women's basketball team dropped a heartbreaking buzzer beating decision to Amherst College in the Gulls' opening game of the Florida Sunshine Shootout on Friday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Lord Jeffs, coming off a 65-62 win over Saint Norbert on Thursday, were dominant in the opening half as they built a 41-26 advantage entering halftime. (Ecgulls.com)
Presidents Calvin Plimpton (Amherst College), Stanley Ballinger (New England Conservatory), Nils Wessell (Tufts), Jack Nolan (Mass College of Arts), and Jean Paul Mather and John Lederle (UMass) made their marks on the ivory tower also, as did Brandeis scholar Charles Warner, MIT provost Francis Low, and educator F. Champion Ward, who helped devise the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grants. The local scene. (Boston Globe)
"Diamond in effect argues that no one is to blame," said Deborah Gewertz, an anthropologist at Amherst College. "The haves are not to be blamed for the condition of the have-nots.". (International Herald Tribune)
The Bears are followed by Amherst College (Mass. with 291 points, Williams College (Mass. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
He graduated from Amherst College in 1947 and earned a law degree from Columbia University. He worked as a lawyer in Boston for 20 years: as a trial attorney with Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., an associate in the firm of Spencer and Stone, and as a partner in the law firm of Langenbach, Reynolds, Pierce and Aisner. (Boston Globe)
Tom Parker, dean of admissions and financial aid at Amherst College, said the pending dip in college-age population paled in comparison to the so-called "baby-bust" from 1979 to 1993. That decline, about 40 percent in New England, forced elite colleges such as Amherst and Williams to establish a national base they can now rely on. (Boston Globe)
Nathaniel Reed, retired Amherst College dean ... A former dean of freshmen at Amherst College, he died of cancer on Dec. 11, a few hours after moving from his house in Manchester-by-the-Sea to the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers ... He also received a master's and a doctorate from Yale, the latter while he already was teaching at Amherst College. (Boston Globe)
The Blue and Green will match-up with Amherst College on January 4th, and will then take on Spalding (Ky. the following day. (Ecgulls.com)
Kessler graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1973 and Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1979. He was a consultant for the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, and from 1982 to 1984 he was special assistant to the president of Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to his official biography on the FDA Web site. (Bloomberg -- US)
Kessler, a pediatrician, graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1973 and Harvard Medical School in Boston in 1979. He served as a consultant for the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, and from 1982 to 1984 he was special assistant to the president of Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to his official biography on the FDA Web site. (Bloomberg -- US)
Austin Sarat, a professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College and the author of two books on the death penalty, said New Jersey's action was a sign that the nation was "in a period of national reconsideration of the death penalty." He noted that both death sentences and executions had dropped in recent years. Sarat predicted executions would be outlawed state by state but acknowledged that it was "likely to be a long road to abolition.". (Los Angeles Times)
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, are among more than 30 institutions who have already instituted programs such as the elimination of loans for some lower-income students, according to the nonprofit Project on Student Debt. With Harvard, if it is a straight-up competition thing, we can't compete on an endowment level,'' John Burness, Duke University's senior vice president for public affairs... (Bloomberg -- US)
Grade yourself with a new Parental Overinvolvement Quiz by Willard Dix, a Chicago-based private college counselor and former associate dean of admissions at Amherst College. Dix lists 21 questions in the quiz he put in blog recently, Life as a College Counselor, at http. (Boston Globe)
Banner, a former baseball captain at Amherst College, originally joined Bostons baseball operations department in June through the organizations Fellowship program. Jared Porter, who had been serving as Player Development Assistant has been promoted to Coordinator of Professional Scouting, where he will work with Red Sox Assistant to the General Manager Allard Baird. (Boston, TheInsiders.com)
Despite loss, Ch;vez holds great power - 12/04/2007 - MiamiHerald (The Miami Herald)
Matthew was a senior tight end for Amherst College this past season. (Purduesports.com)
"Venezuela is going to be a big, big headache (for Washington if Chavez wins the referendum)," said Javier Corrales, a political-science professor and Chavez analyst at Amherst College. Experts disagree on just how much of a threat Chavez poses. (AZCentral -- News)
"Venezuela is going to be a big, big headache" for Washington if Chvez wins the referendum, says Javier Corrales, a political science professor and Chvez watcher at Amherst College. Corrales says an emboldened Chvez could drive up energy prices through his control of Venezuela's oil industry, refuse to cooperate with U.S. anti-drug efforts and undermine the fight against Islamist militants through his economic partnership with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism. (USA Today)
At Amherst College, one of the classes that I taught as a visiting professor was made compulsory for graduating seniors, against my wishes, and just a couple of students with bad attitudes managed to dampen some of the other students, who were outstanding in themselves. A graduate seminar that I taught at UCLA was a great experience the first year I taught it, largely because of one outstanding student who raised the level of discussion for the others. (Human Events Online)
"A decision to go for him is really a decision to remove the Republican Party as the pro-life party," said Hadley Arkes, professor of jurisprudence and American institutions at Amherst College in Massachusetts. "He talked about everything today except the issue of abortion and this was not inadvertent.". (CNSnews.com)
The women of Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. also brought their school its first national cross-country title today, after losing by one point to Middlebury College at last year's championship. (Kpmariners.com)
SOURCE(S): Compiled by News Researcher Janice Cahill from Amherst College; ; World Book Encyclopedia. . (Daytona Beach News Journal)
In July, Amherst College announced a similar change, following Davidson College. In 2001, Princeton University became the first school to eliminate loans from student-aid packages. (Boston Globe)
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