Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 128
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
“Let’s Purple Cow this …”
Yeah, I’d never heard or seen of one being used as a verb until this article in The Atlantic on John McCain, lobbyists, and the FCC.
Here’s the potential trouble for McCain: intervening with the FCC to force a vote on a lobbyist’s behalf is a lot like a self-dealing lawmaker earmarking money on a [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Trickiest Year
Some of our readers will soon find themselves on the Williams wait list.
Like jittery investors scrambling to hedge their bets, selective colleges and universities are placing far more applicants than usual on their waiting lists this spring as a safeguard against an unusually murky admissions season. But while the policy gives colleges some peace of [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Admissions by David Kane
Monday, March 31st, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 127
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 126
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Lawrence Interview
Interesting podcast interview with Trustee Frederick Lawrence ‘77 on hate crimes.
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Discretion To Make Adjustments
Provost Bill Lenhart’s recent letter on changes in financial aid (hat tip to EphNotes) is a model of clarity. Read the whole thing but note this part:
Until two years ago there was no limit to the amount of home equity taken into account, though financial aid officers could use discretion to reduce it when doing [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Financial Aid by David Kane
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 125
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 124
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Bloody Morning Scout
One of my side projects this year will be collecting information on the Bloody Morning Scout, the battle in which Ephraim Williams died. Here is a brief account from Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman. There is an amazing senior thesis to be written, not so much about the Bloody Morning Scout itself, but by [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Col. Ephraim Williams, Jr. by David Kane
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 123
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 122
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Alternate Spring Break
Bloomberg reports on students using Spring Break to do community service:
Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has seven public service field trips this year, involving about 65 students, said Rick Spalding, the college’s chaplain and community service coordinator. The ranks of student volunteers swelled after Katrina, and the numbers have remained high because of students’ awareness [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Advice to Undergraduates, Charity/Fundraisers by ronit
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Pub Update
Yesterday’s North Adams Transcript ran an article with an update on the Pub reopening and the former home of Subway et. al. Last I read, the Pub was all set to reopen in January, now it has been pushed back to the start of next school year, anyone know the cause of the delay (the [...]
34 Comments » - Posted in Williamstown by jeffz
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Happy Birthday Ephraim!
Ephraim Williams’ birthday was three weeks ago. I am sorry to have missed the party. Were any readers present? EphBlog author Morgan Goodwin ‘08 certainly looks dashing in a tricorner hat. I liked this part:
Williams College traditionally recognizes the birth date of founder Colonel Ephraim Williams, Jr., as March 7, 1715, but a February [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Col. Ephraim Williams, Jr. by David Kane
Friday, March 28th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 121
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 120
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Susan Schwab ‘76 Pushes Hard for Free Trade with Colombia
United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab ‘76 is pushing hard for Congress to ratify the free trade agreement with Colombia and warning economic illiterates about the dangers of gutting NAFTA by “renegotiating it” or imperialistically and unilaterally demanding that other countries adopt our labor, wage, and environmental standards.Read the excerpts from the U.S. News & [...]
28 Comments » - Posted in Alumni by Loweeel
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Fear of Repaying
Director of Financial Aid Paul Boyer is an excellent guy but a lousy spinmeister.
“There have been a number of colleges and universities recently, with enough endowment, to be able to afford to eliminate loans from their financial aid packages and that’s what Williams has done,” said Williams College public affairs assistant director Jim Kolesar.
It’s a [...]
15 Comments » - Posted in Financial Aid by David Kane
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 119
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Ephs, meet Mary Beard
In my Ides of March post, I mentioned that it would be an excellent thing if Williams were to be able to convince Mary Beard to come speak on campus. Those who heard my interview with her know she is one smart and very witty woman. Here is the beginning of her latest post on her [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Academia, General by cgondek
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 118
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Yalta Conference
Some WSO comments are brilliantly concise and well-written. Like this one from Eric Maier about Willy E. N-word:
Is anyone out there saying there isn’t a problem? This is a problem. The question is how to DEAL with the problem, i.e. what the response should be. It’s not about ‘waiting around for something bad to happen’ [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 117
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 116
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Man With a Plan
Lots of interesting background on Hal Steinbrenner ‘91.
Hank and Hal Steinbrenner agree that they hold equal power atop the Yankees’ organization. They just express themselves differently.
Both Hank, 51, and Hal, 39, are general partners of the Yankees and the sons of principal owner George Steinbrenner. Despite wielding the same ability as Hal to make decisions [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Women’s Hoops Recruits
Three recent articles have focused on future women’s basketball players Jill Greenberg (a Boston Globe all-scholastic selection as a Junior), Lisa Jaris, and Laura Renfro (who is caoched by Jim Tildsley, father of former Eph Kaylan ‘07). Congrats to all three.
2 Comments » - Posted in Athletics by jeffz
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Unwell
Middle of Spring Break. Admit it. You are going through a cappella withdrawal. EphBlog is here to help!
Great solo. And thanks to “ephvazquez” for posting so many videos.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
1988 Yearbook: Page 115
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Impassioned Plea
Who knows about this story?
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend tells the tale of the Princes as a story-within-a-story. Shortly after moving to Guilford, Vt., Gerzina and her husband, Anthony, were surprised to learn that in the early 1800s a pair of freed black slaves [...]
