Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rugby team finished a surprising second in the New England Championships at Amherst over the weekend, winning its first three matches before bowing out to the University of Massachusetts by a 15-9 score in the finals...
Perhaps the highest-placed Harvard undergraduate is Sam Medalie '83, who works as Kennedy's nuclear freeze coordinator. In that capacity, he has established a statewide "freeze network." Medalie has also set up several rallies across the state, including one at UMass-Amherst last Tuesday, which attracted more than 20,000 people. Daniel Frahm '83, youth coordinator for McNamara, supervises a $4000 budget for rallying student support at the 12 colleges in the district...
Other colleges followed suit. Amherst now requires all freshmen to take an interdisciplinary program called Introduction to Liberal Studies. At Washington University in St. Louis, the science and math requirements, which were cut in half during the heady days of student power, have been restored to the old levels (four semester-long courses). "The students were evading the real purpose of their education," says Associate Dean Harold Levin, adding, in the language of deans everywhere, "The product we were turning out was not what we wanted." All told, according to a survey of 272 universities and colleges last spring...
...second bill before the legislature that could benefit Harvard would provide the preliminary steps for a statewide telecommunications network. The system would allow instant, two-way communication between Massachusetts universities. For example, a professor at UMass-Amherst could give a guest lecture at Harvard without leaving his campus, and students would be able to ask questions from their Cambridge classroom...
Paley's move signaled the final transfer of power to his hand-chosen successor, CBS President Thomas Wyman, 52. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, Wyman joined the company in June 1980 after holding top positions at Polaroid, Green Giant and Pillsbury...