Verbatim
A compilation of recent remarks made at Amherst.
“And when we call to our fellow students to come out to
this rally,
or to come out to organizing meetings, or when we call to you here, assembled,
to continue fighting for change in our country’s actions, that call is
one echoed in history. It is a historical call for student involvement, for
student action, grounded in necessity. Students have a very special, very vital
place in this movement, and in so many recent movements. The struggles for
women’s rights, for civil rights, for an end to
the war in Vietnam, for the abolition of sweatshops—these are all recent
movements that had as a backbone students. Students like us. We see pictures
of massive rallies in Washington, D.C., from the ’60s, but we rarely
ever see pictures or hear stories of students gathered on campus, sometimes
just a handful, organizing rallies, teach-ins, protests.”
Marisol Thomer ’03E
at a Five College rally of students opposed to war in Iraq
November 20, 2002
“It’s difficult for conservatives on a liberal campus.
Absolutely. Which is a good thing, a good thing. That’s why I came to
Amherst, so I’d
be challenged and I’d become a stronger thinker . . . . Amherst is a
liberal liberal arts college.”
Ted Hertzberg ’04
on Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes
November 19, 2002
“Fayerweather Hall was not only a commitment by the trustees
to put Amherst in the forefront of colleges adapting their curriculum to the
experimental
sciences, but a determined bid to get in touch with metropolitan fashion. The
college had built amply but modestly for its natural history collections since
the Civil War—impressive collections of fish skeletons, geological specimens
and zoological collections which served a science curriculum still tied to
inspiring awe for the wonders of God’s creation. Fayerweather Hall, with
its spacious laboratories, was to provide a wholly new type of teaching space.”
Barry
Bergdoll, professor of architecture at Columbia University
at the dedication of the newly remodeled Fayerweather Hall
November 8, 2002
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