<p>Accepted to a Masters, not major. And I sure wish I hadn’t written prestigious, but I just meant to convey that I think the name meant something.</p>
<p>To me it’s just more money to spend. Ugh.</p>
<p>And TheDad: I meant to say your joke is cute.</p>
<p>But I’m pretty sure the Barnard girls would be in class, just wearing their last night’s clothes. LOL. No, I didn’t mean to be naughty of the women’s behalf, just that they hadn’t had time to go to sleep.</p>
<p>CrewDad (and everybody)–have you seen the latest t-shirt in Amherst? It says:
“Amherst. Where only the “h” is silent”</p>
<p>sums it up, right? :)</p>
<p>SSM, by campus “emptying out,” I meant into the city, not going home, though I suppose there’s a normal amount of that too.</p>
<p>MM, I agree about not forgetting Bryn Mawr. (I was appalled when I read one student knocked it off her list because it was “too much like Hogwarts.” Then again, we’re going to see the new HP movie tonight and I’m wearing my Gryffindor tie.) </p>
<p>The Seven Sisters et al connections keep popping up. D’s roommate is from Wellesley. One of her newest friends she’s made through a church group is from Bryn Mawr. And then there are the Swat people from her work. Makes me wonder if they have signet rings with the Cross of Lorraine or RAF identity disks concealed in the heels of their pumps.</p>
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<p>Pretty much. Amherst is also euphemistically referred to as the Republic of Amherst.
Remember when Am’erst made national news b/c the school board allowed the Vagina Monologues’ to be performed but banned West Side Story? Only in MA.</p>
<p>^^they might have been banning for taste reasons
Vagina monologues is a good show
west side sucks</p>
<p>i agree with the ban</p>
<p>I’m wondering whether a transfer applicant needing heavy financial aid is at a disadvantage today at both these schools.</p>
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<p>That’s the point. Since when was a school board elected to dictate what’s a good play or not? If the students who are putting immense effort and time in the preparation of a play want to perform West Side Story, the board is overstepping their elected mission negating the will of the students and performing arts teachers.</p>
<p>A few folk enjoyed West Side Story. The film version won ten Academy Awards. 
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<p>Edit: When/if you’re a Smithie, I’d like to see someone attempt to dictate your artistic pursuits. ;)</p>
<p>CrewDad…
it was meant to be a joke…seriously</p>
<p>i go to a high school that isn’t allowed to do Grease…and i don’t believe in censorship…i’m on your side</p>
<p>Hey, don’t get me wrong–The Republic rocks! but you don’t want to come to school in the Happy Valley if you’re not up for some “lively discussion”! :)</p>
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<p>No problem. I agree though. WSS, imo, is a lousy play. But I loved Rent and disliked Cats (except the music) so what do I know? :o</p>
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<p>Couldn’t agree more with both points. Except I’m very sad the Lord Jeffery is closed. Another causality of Amherst College’s financial issues, I believe.</p>
<p>TheDad: We drove an hour in our convertible and saw HP for the second time. Our kids went with us.</p>
<p>We’ve read and seen every book and movie together, and I’m hoping it holds out for the last two movies, too.</p>
<p>S did see it with his GF first, so it was three times for him.</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t think The Vagina Monologues is all that. Ntoshake Shange (Barnard alum) wrote For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enough fifteen years before Vagina Monologues and covers the same material more trenchantly.</p>
<p>West Side Story is most notable for its dancing (sorry Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim) and if the kids can’t do the dancing, the show is not going to carry a punch.</p>
<p>Be that as it may, it’s none of the school board’s business.</p>
<p>CrewDad–here’s the latest on the Jeff: [Amherst</a> officials hope Lord Jeffrey Inn will reopen, despite delay in start of renovations - MassLive.com](<a href=“http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/amherst_officials_hope_lord_je.html]Amherst”>Amherst officials hope Lord Jeffery Inn will reopen, despite delay in start of renovations - masslive.com)</p>
<p>and mythmom–the West Side Story controversy was waaaaaay more convoluted than anyone can imagine! 
Also several years before the Vagina discussion–which wasn’t much of a flap, actually, at least by Amherst standards, and the kids perform it every year.</p>
<p>Anybody want to talk about Smith vs. Mt. Holyoke? :)</p>
<p>i think bowatch may want to hear about the two schools. . .ya know, art departments, transfer possibilities, financial aid . . . .;-)</p>
<p>CrewDad…i couldn’t agree more. Loved Rent, HATED Cats…</p>
<p>And i love Sondheim…but i love him for Sweeney Todd, not WSS</p>
<p>I’ve often mused that West Side Story has become pretty opaque to this generation…it doesn’t translate as well to a contemporary audience. As for Sondheim, he’s one of the four S’s that I wish to fill my empty nest months with, the others being Shakespeare, Stoppard, and (Al) Stewart. Pretty light on Stoppard this year, though we did attend a radio play of “The Real Thing” a few months back. “As You Like It” was last weekend and we have both “Cymbeline” and “Julius Caesar” coming up. Saw a 70mm. print of “Westside Story” a few months back but that was, I think, last year. And have been to not one, not two, but three Al Stewart concerts this year. Would like to see a good production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” And am dying to see a production of Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” which is put together so beautifully.</p>
<p>I saw “Romeo and Juliet” at a local Shakespearean festival, but I couldn’t enjoy it because it was such an obvious rip-off of “West Side Story.”</p>
<p>:) !!</p>
<p>Maybe we can start a new thread to name the most off topic threads! This one is near the top!!! We started out in “regular” thread territory…we’re definintely in Cafe territory, now!</p>
<p>^^hahah…i know right…
It’s fun though…</p>