Amherst Magazine: Winter 2015

SELECTED STORIES
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Winter 2015 cover: Alicia Glen ’88
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Alicia Glen ’88

Keys to the City
By Rand Richards ​Cooper ’80
As a deputy mayor of New York City, Alicia Glen ’88 is working to make housing more affordable for the 99 percent.

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Watercolor illustration in 4 panels; man diving into blue pool


Behold!
By Emily Gold Boutilier
In one art history seminar, each student spends four months on a single work of art.

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Collage: old postcard, stamp with Hitler's portrait, drawing of buildings, tanks, boy running with hoop and stick
Point of View
George Bria ’38 on his life as a World War II correspondent in Italy, and as a 99-year-old today.


 


DEPARTMENTS

Amherst Made
Bill Wasik ’96 invented the flash mob.