- Amherst adopts an honor code
- New textures for lectures
- New committee to consider the college’s long-term academic needs
- Amherst is top liberal arts college in listing of student choices
- Animals on the fritz
- Valentine’s in-the-buff buffet
- Speaking on the record
- From the Folger
- Verbatim
Verbatim
A compilation of recent remarks made at Amherst.
“It’s tougher to be a Republican than a homosexual in Massachusetts. My parents have been in therapy for 18 years since I told them I was a Republican.”
Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans
Discussing the role of gays and lesbians in the Republican Party
Johnson Chapel, Oct. 28, 2004
“People think that book tours are glamorous, flying from city to city and hanging out with Oprah. It’s not true. Book tours were actually invented in 1483 by Torquemada.”
Author Chris Bohjalian ’82
In a discussion about being a writer
Archives and Special Collections, Nov. 9, 2004
“Napalm is the most terrible thing—gasoline burning under the skin. The pain was unbelievable. The soldiers who helped me didn’t know about napalm, and when they poured water on me, it just made the napalm burn deeper.”
Kim Phuc, the subject of a famous Vietnam War photo showing her as a crying child running from her burning village
Speaking as part of the Pain of War exhibition at the Mead Art Museum
Stirn Auditorium, Nov. 4, 2004
“Although we too often forget this fact, history is not the past, but the stories we tell about the past. It’s not that the past ceases to exist if we fail to tell stories about it. But unless we tell stories about [lives and events], they pass from living memory and vanish from history in any meaningful sense.”
William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
Delivering the Hugh Hawkins Lecture, titled “The Portage: Time, Memory and Storytelling in the Making of an American Town”
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Nov. 4, 2004
“When I arrived at Amherst, there was no Gramps on campus; there was Officer Bob Keyes. Back then, he smoked a pipe. I think he was practicing to be Gramps. None of us knew it, but I think he did. And I think he knew he needed to practice to be Gramps because he knew he loved Amherst College, and he knew he’d be here a long time.”
Ed Zaniewski, assistant chief of campus police
At a memorial service for Robert “Gramps” Keyes, who died Oct. 6, 2004
Johnson Chapel, Oct. 26, 2004