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...volunteer for the Army Rangers. Selfless and ruggedly handsome, he could have played himself in the Hollywood movie about his life—had he not been shot by his own troops. On April 28, Rene Gonzalez, a political science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, objected to calling Tillman a war hero, pointing out in an essay that this “anti-hero” had not died defending his own country from invasion but had instead volunteered to kill other men in theirs...

Author: By Jonathan D. Farley | Title: Anti-War Hero | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...update yesterday on the Web site for Amherst College in central Massachusetts stated that the Massachusetts Department of Public Health had found that two of the school’s flu cases were "probable" instances of swine...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Dental School Closes After Registering Probable Swine Flu Case | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...some confidence, and it gives my teammates confidence as well,” Gillespie said. “We’re all making strides and are ready to compete against the best in the Ivy League.”UMASS PRECONFERENCE MEETThe bulk of the Crimson traveled to Amherst on Saturday to compete in a field of New England squads. With many of the team’s top competitors missing in action, Harvard nonetheless notched quality efforts on both sides.The Crimson women dominated the distance events, as juniors Caitlin Clifford and Stacy Carlson took...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Records Cleared at Drake Relays | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...neighbor downriver currently have 41 varsity sports teams—tied for most in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. With its recent announcement, MIT—which already cut junior varsity programs earlier this year—joins the ranks of schools such as John Hopkins, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of Vermont, all of which have cut varsity programs in the past three months in response to the financial downturn. “Since well before the current financial crisis, we have faced hard questions about how to sustain our broad scope of offerings at the level...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT To Cut Several Athletic Programs | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...last goal into the back of the Harvard net, ending the contest with a final score of 13-12. Saturday’s matchup was the Crimson’s first home game of the season. Last season, Harvard tallied a 20-11 win over the Minutewomen in Amherst, but this season, the Crimson had some troubles with its intrastate rival. “We definitely didn’t play to our potential,” sophomore Jess Halpern said. “Our problem was that we only played in streaks of intensity. We played down...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Falls Short at Home | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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