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This Feb. 14, V won't stand for just valentine at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this is believed to be the first sanctioned high school performance of the play...
...another one with reckless policies. Most people who will vote in next year's election did not experience the Depression, but let us hope they will have the wisdom to elect officials who will return fiscal sanity to Washington. Depressions don't discriminate between Republicans and Democrats. RALPH CRAIG Amherst, Mass...
Those early losses put Harvard in a tenuous position as it begins the toughest five-game stretch of its season. After Boston College tonight, the Crimson will host No. 8 UMass-Amherst on Saturday, travel to Princeton on Tuesday and play in a holiday tournament on Dec. 27 against No. 6 St. Cloud State and either Clarkson or Providence. Of the six possible teams Harvard could face in its five upcoming games, three are nationally ranked, and two of the others have already defeated the Crimson...
Poet Lisa Jarnot, currently teaching at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, reads from her new book Ring of Fire. Award-winning poet and UMass Amherst professor Peter Gizzi joins Jarnot to present poetry from his new book, Some Values of Landscape and Weather. 5 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books...
Five years ago, Amherst revamped its financial aid options in a pitch to attract a more socioeconomically diverse pool of applicants. After noting the psychological power of promising away debts, the college eliminated loans for low-income students. Amherst also tries to attract that bracket by offering two “opportunity weekends,” or paid visits for about 200 admitted students who couldn’t otherwise afford to make the trip...