Monday, February 7, 2011

Hampshire College Update: report to follow soon

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The promised longer report on the events surrounding the talk by IDF Sergeant Benjamin Anthony of "Our Soldiers Speak," will indee...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Hey, Mom, We're No. 2! Hampshire College only second school to disrupt talk by Israeli speaker

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We may be only # 119 on the US News and World Report overly influential and basically bogus ranking of American colleges (though, all the ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Arab-Israeli Conflict at Home: Struggling for Civility on Campus

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Amidst all the recent despair over the apparent collapse of peace negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis came a surprise last wee...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Whiz Kids (Pissed Off)

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Colleagues occasionally describe petty academic rivalries as a pissing contest.  Now you know why: (01-27) 05:04 PST San Fernando, Calif...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

29 January 1963: Death of Robert Frost (and a reminder about his presence in western Massachusetts)

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The Mass Moments post for today discusses his career as a whole, in a narrative arc that moves from early literary struggles and disappoint...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Current and Coming Openings on Amherst Boards and Committees

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The Select Board and Town Manager encourage civic-minded members of the Amherst community to apply for voluntary service on one of the Town ...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Surname Update: geographical distribution of names in the United States

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Serendipity again. Not what's in a name? but: where's that name? As a nice follow-up to my recent post on Jewish surnames , I ca...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

19 January 1749: Birthday of Isaiah Thomas: Patriot, Printer, Founder of American Antiquarian Society

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Mass Moments tells us: On this day...in 1749, the Patriot printer Isaiah Thomas was born. In 1770, Thomas established the Massachusetts Sp...

Update on Architecture and Preservation

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The post on "Historic Preservation and the Modern" will be back up soon:  there were some adjustments at the host site for the ful...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Coming (Back) Soon

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As I finish up a forthcoming blog post on historic preservation for the Public Humanist , I realize that several recent contributions for th...