Archive for September, 2005

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Big Drunk Idiots


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Friday, September 16th, 2005

Filthy Lucre

More fisking of the misdirection in contemporary financial aid policy and reporting. Didn’t get enough here? See below.

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Friday, September 16th, 2005

Photo ID, #20


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Thursday, September 15th, 2005

How Colleges Responded to Katrina


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Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Solitude


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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Seniors: Embrace Serendipity


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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Zuckerman ‘93 Interview


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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Fight the Power V


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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

LJ Ephs


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Monday, September 12th, 2005

The Bicentennial Medal Presentation — Highly Recommended

On Saturday, Williams will present Bicentennial
Medals to six alumni:

Bernard Bailyn, Pulitzer Prize-winning
historian
Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World
Jewish Congress
A. R. Gurney, Jr., playwright
Glenn D. Lowry, director of New York’s
Museum of Modern Art
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist
Marisa E. Reddy Randazzo, threat assessment
expert

This ceremony will be special for me, as one of the major reasons I attended Williams was [...]

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Monday, September 12th, 2005

In Whose Name

More financial aid fun from the Boston Globe.
Morton Schapiro was caught in the middle, between his parents and his children.
”When my parents gave money to their grandchildren [for college], they put it in their names, not the kids,” he said. ”I cringed.”
Morty has some smart parents! Naifs in the world of college financial aid [...]

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Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Recruiting Athletes, Small College Style


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Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Only For A Moment

As long as there is an EphBlog, there will be a remembrance of the three Ephs who died on 9/11: Howard Kestenbaum ‘67, Lindsay Morehouse ‘00 and Brian Murphy ‘80. Previous entries here and here (warning: kleenex required).
It is amazing how much the trauma of that day lives on.
We are looking for Howard [...]

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Saturday, September 10th, 2005

Traister ‘01 to MCLA


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Friday, September 9th, 2005

Blog Health Trivia


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Friday, September 9th, 2005

Photo ID, #19


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Thursday, September 8th, 2005

An Exercise for Liberal Arts Brains


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Thursday, September 8th, 2005

Time Off


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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

Price ‘00: Violin Maker


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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Winter Study: A Katrina Course?


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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Boundless Optimism


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Monday, September 5th, 2005

Double Counting

How is a Canadian who is part black and part Chinese classified by the nose counters at Williams? I don’t know.
I would assume that “Pookrum” filled out the Common Application and checked several boxes. Does Williams keep track of non-American racial classifications for enrolled students? If so, why isn’t this data reported? Certainly, the state [...]

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Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Chivalry


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Sunday, September 4th, 2005

A Public Service: Off-Campus Alumni Events by Location


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Sunday, September 4th, 2005

PJ and the Bulls


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Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Backyard


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Friday, September 2nd, 2005

For Those Wondering About Williams Friends & Katrina


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Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Photo ID, #18


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Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Williams and Katrina


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Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Shame on you, Rich.


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