Spring 2012
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FEATURE
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![]() For his 2012 senior thesis, Richard Galluzzi wrote a novella, while Dana Kaufman composed an opera and Brian Kim figured out exactly how to throw a curveball. Portraits of 10 of this year’s thesis writers. |
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![]() Until Brian Smith ’12 picked up his phone and began calling strangers, no one had reexamined the Red Wing studies of 1943. Now, a more complete story of these troubling, influential experiments is finally being told. By Caroline J. Hanna |
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![]() The new science center, cased in glass and embedded in the hillside, will look like nothing Amherst has ever seen before. By Rand Richards Cooper ’80 |
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![]() Three students. Two professors. One extraordinary Spanish meal—for credit. By Nina M. Scott |
departments
Letters
Greek drama—More on the 100th anniversary issue—Veterans at Amherst
College Row
Proof that the Civil War is over—Flooding in Johnson Chapel—Picking a new board chair—And more
Sports
24 hours in LeFrak
Insights
All they can say is “no”
Amherst Creates
Fiction: Arcadia, by Lauren Groff ’01—Nonfiction: God’s Jury, by Cullen Murphy ’74; Hitlerland, by Andrew Nagorski ’69—Profile: Herb Coursen ’54 wrote 104 books during his lifetime—What Deborah Gewertz is reading—Short Takes
Visit
Little white houses at the Emily Dickinson Museum
Class Notes
Class Notes and In Memory pieces (password required)
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Going Public
Inspired by a controversial database that ranks public school teachers based on the standardized test scores of their students, Elias Johansson-Miller ’12 wrote a play that explores public education through the real stories of teachers and administrators. Going Public, his senior thesis, was performed at Amherst’s Kirby Theater in April.
Photo by Alec Jacobson ’12