Friday, April 15, 2011

Dude, Where’s My Sponsorship? Anti-Israel Boycott Activists Caught Lying About University of Massachusetts Backing

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One has to wonder what was more frustrating for the anti-Israel BDS crowd here in Amherst last night: the modest attendance at the featured...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The Civil War, Massachusetts, New York, and "Ancient Hatreds"

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We are about to be inundated with coverage of our Civil War, which took up a mere four years in the history of a country then not even a cen...
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Un-Civil War. The Anniversary, the Past, the Present

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April 12 is the date of the attack on Fort Sumter, the official beginning of the Civil War, and thus, 150th-anniversary commemorations. As...
Friday, April 8, 2011

African American Student Leadership Group Condemns Appropriation of "Apartheid" Terminology

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The Vanguard Leadership Group , which describes itself as "a leadership development academy and honor society for top students at the n...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Breaking news: Austin Sarat Elected New Library Trustee by Wide Margin

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7:25 p.m. At a joint meeting tonight, the Select Board and Library Trustees elected Austin Sarat the new trustee, to fill the vacancy...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Karl Marx: No Pain, No Gain! (I paraphrase)

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"no royal road to science" Occasionally, when students insist that a reading assignment is difficult or complain about the amo...

Hey, Mom! Hampshire College is Totally Unique! In fact: more unique than the 9 other "most unique" colleges in the US!

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I was of course delighted to see that  Best Colleges Online ranked Hampshire College the #1 entry among " 10 U.S. Colleges That Are Tot...

April Fools Us (but spring is nonetheless here)

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I was excited by the arrival of spring weather and sentiments even before the formal onset of the season. Indeed, in the first week or March...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Town Meeting: Do They Hate Us For What We Do or Who We Are?

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As I recently noted , the low turnout in Tuesday's local election gives one pause for thought. At a moment when protests against dictato...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

New England Elections: Town Meeting, Select Board. . . Hog Reeve?!

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This post originated in a Twitter exchange with historic preservationist and genealogist Marian Pierre Louis . Back in January, on her blog,...
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