2016: Summer

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Editor
Emily Gold Boutilier
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magazine@amherst.edu

Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
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Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi

Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05

Featured Stories

Home: Some Thoughts on the Frost Library Protest

Catching Fire

Might and Right in the Pioneer Valley

The Father of Photojournalism

College Row

News and Views from Campus

Education as Antidote

In her annual commencement address, President Biddy Martin told the newest alumni that these times require the best of their liberal arts educations.

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Amherst Recognized with $1 Million Cooke Prize

The College will use it to close “invisible opportunity gaps.”

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If you were watching television on the evening of April 3, 1949, chances are you were choosing between one of two shows: WATV’s broadcast of a western film or NBC’s broadcast of Julius Caesar, performed by Amherst students at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Begging to Be Made Whole

What does a curator do with a half-missing work of art? That was the challenge facing Bradley Bailey, former curatorial fellow at the College’s Mead Art Museum.

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Being Unafraid

Catching up with three of the first nine women to graduate from Amherst.

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Hearing From Students

For the new Amherst Voices video series, President Biddy Martin sat down with graduating members of the class of 2016. Here's some of what they told her.

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LGBT Rights in Latin America

A Q&A with Javier Corrales, the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and co-director of the LGBT Rights in the Americas Timeline, an Amherst College-based digital history initiative.

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How to Make Sense of U.S. Politics

How can alumni deepen their own understanding this election season?

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Publishing Arabic Voices

With its new issue, Amherst's literary magazine brings once-inaccessible writing to an English-speaking audience.

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Two Alumni Join Board

The new trustees are an ’82 psychologist and a ’76 lawyer.

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Beyond Campus

Alumni in the World

A New Way to Pray

A Reform rabbi led a sweeping rewrite of the High Holiday prayer book. SECTION MENU

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Another Reason to Check Your Kid's Phone

In “Does This Tweet Make Me Look Fat?” a psychologist studied how social media can stigmatize weight.

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Beyond High School

When a disillusioned teacher chose to leave the system, he created a way for teens to leave it, too.

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Immersed in International Law

A lawyer will head to The Hague to clerk for a United Nations judge.

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The Puget Sound is the New Hudson River

Seattle is not known for its rich art heritage. One collector aims to change that.

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Amherst Creates

Arts News and Reviews

Book Review: No Happy End

If the stories of Nazi hunters have a heroic ring, they also beg for an unromantic telling.

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Book Review: That Kind of Mother

Parenting is hard. Most parents books make it harder. This one will make you feel less alone.

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Interview: Not a Great Love Story

Working backward from a "fever-dream-ending," a former Obama administration speechwriter wrote a novel.

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TV Review: The Legacy of Anita Hill

HBO takes on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

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Transferring In

A local townsperson wanders into reunion weekend at a small college, falls in love with the wife of a ’71 alum, and keeps coming back to the reunion over the next 75 years.

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Special Section

Creating Connections

2016: Summer

Section Navigation

Featured Stories

Education as Antidote

Amherst Recognized with $1 Million Cooke Prize

Before Masterpiece Theatre

Begging to Be Made Whole

Being Unafraid

Hearing From Students

LGBT Rights in Latin America

How to Make Sense of U.S. Politics

Publishing Arabic Voices

Two Alumni Join Board

A New Way to Pray

Another Reason to Check Your Kid's Phone

Beyond High School

Immersed in International Law

The Puget Sound is the New Hudson River

Book Review: No Happy End

Book Review: That Kind of Mother

Interview: Not a Great Love Story

TV Review: The Legacy of Anita Hill

Transferring In

Your Favorite Places

Thank You from the Annual Fund

Six Decades of Support

Bringing in the Light