HC AMHERST CAMPUS CELEBRITIES
Friday, May 11, 2012
This week’s Campus Celeb is Danica Richards. While I’m abroad next fall, she’ll be taking over as the Amherst Campus Correspondent for Her Campus. Danica is a rising junior from Atlanta, Georgia. She is an English and Environmental Studies major. She is also the Vice President of Program Board. When she is sixty, she wants to be a philanthropist, focusing on education. She likes...
Saturday, May 5, 2012
I don’t know if you’ve been following the women’s softball team this year, but talk about an impressive season! On their spring break trip to Florida, they posted a record of 12-0. When they got back to New England, they continued on their amazing winning streak, climbing to a record of 22-0 before losing for the first time to Keene State. They now have a BAMF end of season...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Nancy Tang is sophomore from China and a member of the Women of Amherst. This is her second year performing the Vagina Monologues, this time not only as a performer, but as a director too.
I met with her to ask her a few questions about her experience and how it may have affected her, with a particular emphasis on her cultural background.
HC: So what made you...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Amherst alum, Julie Powell, is known for writing about food, which, considering how much we write about food, is something the staff of Her Campus Amherst can relate to. Powell grew up in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Amherst in 1995, a double major in theater and English.
In August 2002, Powell began the Julie/Julia Project. The goal of the project, as...
Friday, April 13, 2012
This week, your campus celebrity is none other than Tricia Lipton ’12! Hailing from Kenilworth, IL, Tricia is a senior history major who just finished her thesis last week. (Congrats, Tricia!) I sat down with Tricia to talk about Ultimate Frisbee, home-school pride, and her last four years at Amherst College.
Ever since her first semester at Amherst, Tricia has...
Friday, April 6, 2012
You may know her as that crazy, hot, somewhat hipster girl doing sexy dance moves at squash parties. But there’s something you don’t know about Chandler Lusardi. A hidden talent for which the press had to go through many trials and tribulations to get all the juicy details:
She can kick your ass at badminton. Chandler began playing this illustrious...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
David Foster Wallace was arguably one of Amherst College’s coolest and most impressive alums. He was born in Ithaca, New York, but his family moved to Urbana, Illinois when he was in fourth grade. Wallace was a member of the Amherst class of ’85.
Talk about an overachiever. As a kid, he was a regionally ranked tennis player. At Amherst, he double...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Four months after Tony Marx’s little driving incident in New York, a few of my Amherst friends and I started to wonder what Tony is up to now, and just how his whole crusade to make Amherst one of the most socio-economically diverse colleges in the country all began. I dug around a bit to find out more about his mission and the controversies surrounding it.
After...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Our Campus Celeb this week, Prince Albert II of Monaco, was in my mother’s class at Amherst, the class of ‘81. My question is, why am I not a princess? Although the guy isn’t much of a looker, so I guess you can’t blame her. Prince Albert II is the son of Rainier III and the beautiful Grace Kelly. He was born in the Prince’s Palace of Monaco....
Thursday, March 1, 2012
This week’s campus celebrity is Rohan Mazumdar ’12! This guy is truly everywhere on campus – he performs with Route 9 and the Glee Club, plays upright bass in a Jazz Combo, and does Amherst Dance. On top of that, he is a Tour Guide, an RC, an AAS Senator, and a Physics TA. If somehow you still haven’t met this guy, you’ve probably seen him walking...
