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CALGARY, Alberta — What's this, victory? On the road? One that included goals scored, more than one even? And scored by their highest paid player, Paul Stastny?
For the Avalanche, it all seemed too good to be true Thursday night, but it wasn't. The Avs used two late Stastny goals in beating the Calgary Flames 6-3 at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
The Avs scored three goals in the game's final 2:48 in getting their first road victory of the season, one that snapped a three-game losing streak.
The Avs went on the power play with 2:48 left in the third period, after Matt Duchene was taken down off the rush by Flames defender Mark Giordano.
Stastny got to a puck in the left crease and kept jamming at it before it finally slipped past Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff with 2:39 left.
"Sometimes you've just got to keep battling back and find a way," said Stastny, whose goals were his first two of the season. "Sometimes you've just got to find a way to get an ugly goal and that's what I got there on that first one."
Newcomer John Mitchell also had a tremendous game. The scarry-faced forward — still stitched up after taking a puck in the face last week — scored two goals himself, including one with 3:02 left in the second period that gave Colorado its first lead of its four-game road trip.
Mitchell, along with linemates Cody McLeod and Chuck Kobasew, formed an effective grind line, with Kobasew making a great steal and setup pass on Mitchell's go-ahead goal.
"I've got to give the credit to my linemates," Mitchell said. "As a team, we just kind of came with a bit of a desperation mind-set. We needed this win."
Former Avs player Alex Tanguay buried a wrist shot past Jean-Sebastien Giguere at 19:42 to tie it, after Stastny coughed up a puck in the Flames zone that led to some tic-tac-toe passing and Tanguay's finish.
For Stastny and linemate David Jones, it was a brutal first two periods. They combined for a total of one shot, no points and a minus-6 rating. To that point in the season, they had two combined points in 12-plus games and a minus-15.
But in the third period? It was all good, at least for Stastny.
"I think Paul can hopefully relax a little bit now and play his game," Avs coach Joe Sacco said. "It was just a matter of time before he got going here, so that's big for our team. We need him going offensively for us."
But Stastny would atone for some of it with his big goal at the end.
Mitchell and P.A. Parenteau scored the Avs' earlier goals, with Parenteau notching his team-leading fourth — well, until Mitchell tied that mark with his second goal. Parenteau got off a good, strong backhander from the slot that slipped through the five-hole of Kiprusoff.
Parenteau would retake the team lead with five, scoring an empty-netter with 48 seconds left.
"What a show of character by Paulie at the end. It was a relief getting that win," Duchene said.
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The Post's three stars
1. Paul Stastny. His game-winning goal, plus another, helped Avs notch first road victory.
2. Jiri Hudler. Scored two goals and assisted on another for Flames.
3. John Mitchell. Scored two goals for the Avs.
What you might have missed: For the sixth time in seven games, Avs defenseman Shane O'Brien was a healthy scratch. Tyson Barrie, who looked shaky in Wednesday night's loss in Vancouver, also was scratched in favor of Matt Hunwick.
Up next: Edmonton, Saturday at 1 p.m., Pepsi Center
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Offerman trial explores baseball's unwritten rules
BRIDGEPORT -- There are 240 pages in the official rule book of Major League Baseball, but it was the game's unwritten rules that occupied much of the testimony on Monday in the trial of Jose Offerman, the batter who is being sued by former Bridgeport Bluefish catcher Johnathan Nathans for an ugly mound-charging incident in 2007.
Nathans claims Offerman permanently injured him when the two-time major league All-Star charged the mound with his bat while playing for the Long Island Ducks. Offerman played for seven teams, including the Mets and Red Sox, between 1990 and 2005.
The jury of six men and four women in U.S. District Court watched a video deposition from Matt Beech, the Bluefish pitcher who said he didn't mean to hit Offerman with a pitch Aug. 14, 2007.
"I threw him a cut fastball that hit him in the lower leg," he said in the deposition that was recorded in Plano, Texas. "I did not hit him intentionally. If I had wanted to hit him, I would have aimed a fastball at his ribs, so no one else would get hurt."
Beech said all career baseball players know that, and the defendant should have known that, too.
Nathans said he suffered a career-ending head injury that evening and Beech had the middle finger on his non-throwing hand broken by Offerman's bat.
Nathans, now an attorney in Portland, Maine, is suing Offerman and his team, the Long Island Ducks, for $4.8 million.
Beech said he didn't see Offerman's bat strike Nathans' head, but he heard it.
"Offerman was swinging his bat -- a helicopter swing," Beech said. "It made a pretty loud `whack' when it hit his head."
Beech also said Offerman's first swing hit him on his gloved hand; that's what broke his middle finger.
The only pictorial record of the mound-charging, bat-swinging incident was a rapid-fire series of 89 photos shot by Connecticut Post photographer Christian Abraham. These were assembled into a video for the jury to see.
Also taking the witness stand was Joseph Klein, executive director of the Atlantic League, the league in which the Bluefish and Ducks play. He has been in that position since the league was created in 1998. Klein played for a minor-league team of the Washington Senators in his early days, then spent decades in front-office positions with the Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers.
Klein was asked a series of questions about the rules governing Atlantic League players and the murky region of "unwritten rules."
"Plunking is wrong," he said. "Hitting players intentionally is not part of the game, as I see it."
When asked whether fights between players are ever encouraged, Klein said, "Never -- this is not hockey."
He agreed with the earlier testimony of Beech, the pitcher, on the rare instances in which players used a bat to hurt another player. Both men said they could recollect it happening only one or two times in the modern era of baseball.
They recalled the infamous Johnny Roseboro incident of Aug. 22, 1965, in which future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants hit Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro with a bat. Marichal was ejected, suspended and fined $1,750.
As for Offerman's punishment, Klein said he was suspended indefinitely the next morning, adding that the punishment remains in effect.
He made it clear that the suspension wasn't permanent and Offerman could have appealed to the league to play again. However, for whatever reason, that discussion never took place.
"We never saw him after that," Klein said under questioning from Nathans' attorney, Craig Smith.
Offerman was arrested by Bridgeport police immediately after the attack, a move that caught the league -- and perhaps all of professional sports -- off guard.
"I was stupefied, amazed and dumbfounded," Klein said. "What happens between the lines should stay between the lines."
The charges against Offerman, who grew up in the Dominican Republic, were later dropped after he applied for accelerated rehabilitation and spent two years on probation.
Klein recalled that he, too, was the victim of a plunking.
"The ball hit me right here," he said, pointing to the base of his skull, just behind his ear.
Smith asked whether Klein ever retaliated for that pitch.
Klein replied that although he didn't charge the mound, the pitcher did get his comeuppance. Klein said he smacked a line drive back at the very same pitcher the next time he faced him 10 days later.
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After an exciting 1999 season, 2000 was a letdown for the Red Sox, who tried and failed to make their third consecutive postseason for the first time in franchise history. With Fenway Park's future in doubt, Red Sox CEO John Harrington declared his intentions to sell the team during the fall.
Record: 85-77, 2nd in American League East
Manager: James F. Williams
Attendance: 2,586,024
The Red Sox entered the 2000 season trying to make the post-season for a third consecutive year, something they had never done before. Over the winter, the team dealt prospect Adam Everett for Houston outfielder Carl Everett and also signed Korean left-hander Sang-Hoon Lee, known for his long, orange-tinted hair.
Pedro's brother Ramon Martinez, who the club had acquired in 1999, pitched the home opener and Boston trounced Minnesota 13-4 behind home runs from each side of the plate by Everett.
The center fielder made less positive news on July 15 when he butted heads with plate umpire Ron Kulpa in an argument. Everett was suspended 10 games but still led the team in home runs (34) and RBIs (108).
Pedro Martinez towered above everyone else in 2000 and followed his spectacular 1999 with another brilliant campaign. For the second year in a row, Pedro won the Cy Young Award with a 1.74 ERA and an MLB-record 0.7373 WHIP. Derek Lowe saved 42 games in 74 relief appearances and Nomar Garciaparra won his second consecutive AL batting crown with a .372 average, the highest single-season average ever for a Red Sox right-handed hitter.
Despite these individual achievements, the Red Sox failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in three years. On October 6, CEO John Harrington announced that the team would be put up for sale after plans for a new Fenway Park across the street collapsed.
In December, the Red Sox signed outfielder Manny Ramirez to an eight year, $160 million deal, the largest in team history.
In 2000, two noticeable additions were made on the roof in right field. Before the season, a Hood milk carton was installed on the right-field light tower and on September 4, 2000, the Red Sox officially retired Carlton Fisk's #27 and added his number to the right-field roof façade.
For the third time in five years the University of Massachusetts captured the Baseball Beanpot, downing Northeastern 13-8 in the championship game at Fenway Park.
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|University of Massachusetts 13, Northeastern 8 (Beanpot Championship)*
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|Boston College 8, Harvard 5 (Beanpot Consolation)*
*Starting in 1990, Fenway Park has hosted the annual Baseball Beanpot, baseball's version of the longstanding Boston hockey tradition. Originally, the competition featured the same schools that battle for Hockey Beanpot: Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University and Harvard University. However, when BU dropped their baseball program after the 1995 season, the University of Massachusetts took their place. The Baseball Beanpot has been held at Fenway Park every year since its inception except for in 2004 and 2010, when the tournament was played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton, MA.


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Noise is part of the two-piece band's formula, although there are very clear hooks as well. The album was recorded live and there is very little studio magic--what you hear is pure rock and roll. I feel that the songs have the sound to appeal to the indie crowd and the 20-something partying lyrics that appeal to any rock music fan. David Prowse is a powerhouse of a drummer. Supposed to put on one hell of a live show too.
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- Major reserves of gold and other precious metals (including copper, uranium, mercury)
- Support from bilateral and multilateral donors
- Strategic pivotal position between Asia and Europe
- Membership of Eurasian Economic Union since 2015 (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Armenia)
- Poor diversification of the economy, which remains reliant on gold, agriculture, and remittances from expatriate workers
- Landlocked country with high energy dependency
- Difficult business climate
- Political and social instability associated with high poverty rate and inter-ethnic tensions
- Difficult relations with its neighbors (water management, borders...)
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Dependence on Remittances from Expatriate Workers, Gold, and Agriculture
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Higher private transfers – which account for about 30% of GDP – and an improved trade balance should help reduce the current account deficit slightly in 2018. However, considering the country's energy and food dependence and poor sectoral diversification of exports, it is likely to remain high. The foreign exchange reserves, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports of goods and services, may not be sufficient to withstand an external shock.
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This is my favorite book by Sarah Dessen. It is very sad because it is about a teenage girl's experience with an abusive boyfriend, but it shows how she overcomes this challenge and becomes a strong young woman. I also like how it has allusions to The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
I have read it twice now, and each time I was sucked into the world of Caitlin O'Koren.
There are some days I really wish Sarah Dessen would write sequels to her books, but I think that this one is great just as it is.
Before I even started writing anything let me say I got goosebumps. This was my favorite Sarah Dessen novel. I had this book on my shelf like forever until my bestie told me to read this. This book I have no words to describe. Caitlin suffers through everything. Her parents are upset about her sister Cass running away. She is upset that her perfect kind of sister is no longer present and there is nobody that she actually can talk to. She seeks her herself under Rogerson. Now before I begin my rant about this gentleman I am undecided about him. I know for sure what he did was not justified in any case. But he was also a victim of abuse. I cant judge him before I read Lock and Key. This book will definitely give a new persective and was a life changing for me. There are some books that you read and then you cant stop thinking about it, you thing how differently you could have done things if you were in Cass positition. But it wont justify. Nothing will justify. But when it ended I had tears of joy and sad. I didnt know what to feel. Thats what Ms. Dessen does to you. This was my 5th Sarah Dessen book and I looking forward to read all of them... <3
I've read this book about 5 times now, and I still enjoy it every time I read it. It is one of my favorite books of all time and I would absolutely recommend this book.
Wow.... this book was so amazing and heart wrenching its actually hard to describe. Ive recently been going on a Sarah Dessen reading spree and this is different then any of the other books ive read by her. Caitlin can relate to a lot of teens when she relizes she is loving someone she shouldnt and just cant stop. This story has some definite lows and some not so high highs but truly encompasses some of the choices that teens have to make. This book will give you a new insight on life, what it means to break the mold and really show how lucky some of us really are.
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Dreamland is probably Sarah Dessen's most haunting, passionate, strongest book she has ever written. While reading this book I felt like I was going to cry harder and harder every chapter. This book proves that everything is not what at it seems but at the same times doesn't surprise you at all. Dreamland is a must see.
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This book is about the life of Caitlin O'Koren, after her sister runs away on Caitlin's birthday.
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We are currently helping the guys at Buffer redesign the UI for their native iPhone application. It's a fun project, primarily because Buffer is a tool I use everyday.
We had an interesting conversation about focus and vision that I wanted to share with you because I think it has lessons for all of us.
In case you don't know Buffer allows you to add your social media updates to a 'buffer' that then posts to various networks throughout the day. Updates to your buffer can be done via browser extensions, email, third party apps or their own Buffer app.
While working on the wireframes for the app, Rob Borley (our mobile expert) couldn't shake a nagging feeling he had about the app. He kept worrying that the app lacked focus.
Apps need to be extremely focused
This is an important factor in app design. Successful apps are those that do a few things well and allow the user to instantly grasp what the app does.
Eventually we pinned down the problem. Because there was a prominent button for posting to your social networks it felt too much like a Twitter client. This was a problem because it was a crap Twitter client! You can't view your timeline, reply to other messages or DM people.
This of course was by design. Buffer is about managing your buffer of upcoming updates. It does not want to be a full twitter client because there are so many brilliant ones out there.
The trouble is the app felt like a twitter app and so left the user with the wrong impression. To solve the problem we had to refocus the user interface on management rather than posting. By doing so you made it clear what the app is and more importantly what it is not.
The lessons for us all
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Kid Tats: A Guide to Getting a Tattoo Dedicated to Your Child
For some moms, stretch marks aren't the only permanent reminders of their children's births. As discussions on Circle of Moms (and Angelina Jolie's infamous upper arm) reveal, many are getting tattoos to honor their offspring.
Moms who are fans of "kid tats" describe them as "forever symbols" that proclaim their love for their children in new, creative ways. Barbara H. explains that she'd never been interested in having a tattoo until her daughter came along, but then "felt a strong urge to have a tattoo to remind me of that special day." Jeanne V., a mother of two who is eagerly anticipating an upcoming tattoo appointment, says she too wants to create lasting impressions of her kids: "I am going to get my daughter's name and birth date on the inside of my left wrist all shaded in lavender, and on the inside of my right wrist I am going to get my son's name and birth date all shaded in blue."
But other Circle of Moms members insist there are better ways to demonstrate love for your children. "I would hate to have anyone's name put on my body in permanent ink," says Amanda B. "As you age, skin texture and elasticity change and soon what was a colorful picture of a butterfly is a grayish, oddly shaped circle. I prefer to show my kids I love them by telling them every day." And Christy F., thinking of her professional image, declares that "I wouldn't, period." She believes that a tattoo of any kind is a bad idea:"If you plan on working, ever, unfortunately a tattoo on your neck is going to stick out like a sore thumb. It's great to love your kids that much, but it's all in the heart and doesn't have to be printed on your body."
Still, there's one thing moms agree on: like a tattoo, your bond with your child is forever. As Shelley A. puts it, if you're going to get a tattoo, an image that represents your offspring "is pretty much a safe bet. (LOL) I don't plan on breaking up with my son anytime soon."
If you do decide to get a kid tat, Circle of Moms members say there are a number of practical matters to consider: namely where, and what.
Location, Location, Location
"I want to get one I'm just not sure what it will look like or where I will put it" says Kimmy G. Tyrae O. advises tats in hidden places. "I will be getting a tattoo of my daughter's name soon, but it's not going to be on my neck. That is just too visible and if I ever want a job in customer service or where people will be seeing me, that would be a horrible place to get it (unless it can be covered with hair)."
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Initials are popular ways to etch your child onto your body, but many Circle of Moms members try to be more unique. Ashlyn W. turned to an artist to create an original sketch for her tat. She had her two-month-old son's feet scanned and printed, then sketched onto her back for the tattoo artist to use as a the tat template. Gwen L. went with a tiger to evokes her son's name (Tyger). "No initials or anything else," she says. "I know what it means and that is all that matters."
The possibilities for tats symbolizing your kids are endless says Sadie E. "My sister-in-law got her son's name on her shoulder blade with two handprints on the upper part of the shoulder blade, as if he was resting his hands there like most newborns do while burping or resting," she says. Margaret C. chose a Pisces Zodiac sign with koi fish around it to symbolize her son's February birth. Her husband got the same tattoo. "Except mine is on my foot and his is on his shoulders," she says.
For Kimberly, tattooing is a family affair: "All of my tattoos (I have large ones) are symbolic of my family and me," says Kimberly. "There is a custom star piece starting on my foot and going all the way to my knee made up of 26 stars representing me, my husband, my children, my siblings, their spouses, their children, and my parents"
And Tiffany D. has decided that the right tattoo design is worth waiting for. She wants her sons' signatures, so she'll be waiting until they're old enough to sign their names themselves. "Then I'll get their signatures [tattooed] on me."
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This seemed to work well last week so I'm going to try a Dear Abby like format again this week. Back in November I received a comment from Barbara about driving with dementia. Going through some of the more recent comments it seems like this issue is on a lot of your minds.
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I'm glad to have found this board! I haven't been diagnosed because I'm afraid if I do receive the diagnosis of early-onset dementia, my insurance company will find out and not insure me to drive - although I haven't had any problems so far. I live alone, so I have to depend on myself. What made you go to the doctor in the first place? Can somebody please tell me what they were experiencing?
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I'm glad you found us too!!! It's so nice to have good company on a long journey (and this is a LONG journey!) It would be unusual to not fear diagnosis with a dementing illness because there is no cure. With the newer drug treatments and number of good informative support groups in the world now, I do encourage seeking help at the first sign of cognitive decline or trouble. Even if the result is a dementing illness diagnosis, there are so many of us who are leading the way to a full and healthy life after diagnosis that you will not be alone.
Insurance is an issue on many fronts. If you have insurance, life, health and home, make certain of your policy limits before discussing your diagnosis. If you do NOT have insurance, it is imperative to obtain insurance before diagnosis because afterwards it is expensive and generally impossible to secure. As for driving, that is an individual skill that is lost differently for each of us. There are some good suggestions about having a trusted friend or family member be your mentor on this issue. Discuss your limits and concerns. Define the terms under which you are willing to stop driving. For some of us the problem is navigating (even with a GPS). For others a GPS system prolongs our independence. For others it's the chaos of busy traffic and interstate travel that is the first to go. If I lived in a city with good mass transit I wouldn't drive as much but I don't so I continue to drive but I have some limits. In general I do not drive alone, but when I do, I use the GPS. I keep a cell phone near me and charged at all times.
Oddly enough, getting lost in a familiar place while driving, is one of the number one reasons people who are eventually diagnosed with dementia seek medical advice. While the experience of getting lost is deeply unnerving, most of the people I talked to were later able to continue driving. My own doctor would prefer I not drive but he's never been in the car with me. I trust my family's experience better than his. He is approaching this from a global perspective and dementia has unique features to each sufferer. Some people find good information about their cognitive concerns from their family doctor or GP. Others feel best when consulting with a team of internist, neurologist and neuropsychometrist. Diagnosis is a long and difficult road because there is no definitive test for dementia yet. Let me know how your journey is going. I've enjoyed reading all the comments!


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Arsene Wenger says Real Madrid's proposed €100 million transfer of Tottenham's Gareth Bale makes a "joke" of Financial Fair Play - while describing Arsenal's talks with Liverpool for Luis Suarez as "amicable".
Real have reportedly lodged what would be a world-record fee for Bale, who is said to be angling for a move to the Bernabeu after an award-winning season at White Hart Lane.
Wenger has gained a reputation for spending frugally at Arsenal since he took over in 1996, although this summer the club have bid £40,000,001 for Liverpool forward Luis Suarez.
Speaking ahead of this weekend's Emirates Cup, Wenger said of Bale's mooted switch to Real in relation to Financial Fair Play: "It's quite amazing in the year when Financial Fair Play comes in, world football goes completely crazy.
"You wonder what kind of impact and effect it has on the football world. It looks like it has made everybody worse than before. It makes a joke of it."
The French coach was also asked about the Gunners' interest in Suarez, who Liverpool are keen to keep hold of despite the player making no secret of his wish to leave.
"I don't want to speak about Suarez, because that is between Liverpool and Arsenal. We will completely respect what Liverpool wants to do. We want to [sign the player] if it is feasible in an amicable way," Wenger said.
"I am a great believer you have to keep as much confidentiality as possible, which is quite difficult in the modern world.
"But we work very hard, not only on the case you name, but on other different cases.''
Suarez is currently serving a domestic ten-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season.
The Uruguay international had previously received an eight-match suspension and £40,000 fine from the FA for racially abusing Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra in December 2011.
Wenger indicated, should the striker become an Arsenal player, such future behaviour would not be tolerated.
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"This club has built a reputation, not only during my period here but over 127 years, and the values that are very important for this club have to be respected by every player, no matter where he comes from. That will be with every potential signing."


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On Monday night, students, faculty, staff and administrators met in the Red Room to discuss the possibility of changing the College's mascot, Lord Jeff, in order to distance the College from Lord Jeffery Amherst's genocidal legacy. The meeting — which was organized by Risalat Khan '13, a Senator in the Association of Amherst Students (AAS), included a historical presentation by Michael Kelly, Head of Archives and Special Collections and a town hall–discussion between attendees.
Khan decided to organize the meeting in response to longstanding concerns about the mascot's connections to Lord Jeffery Amherst's genocidal statements and actions towards Native Americans during his time as the commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America.
"This has been something that I've been thinking about for a while. To be honest, when I was a freshman, I heard about Lord Jeff and I was sort of disturbed by the celebration of him as the mascot, which I feel is different from naming ourselves Amherst after the town. We are representing ourselves with a figure actively associated with a dark part of history. In my senior year, I asked myself what I wanted to do with my senior year, and I knew that I had to bring up the issue of the mascot," Khan said.
While the precise extent and nature of Lord Jeffery Amherst's connection to genocide is unclear — the efficacy and historical accuracy of the infamous smallpox blanket incident has been questioned — it is undeniable that Lord Jeffery Amherst promoted genocide against Native Americans both in word and in deed, according to Kelly. In several letters written during the Pontiac uprising in 1763, Lord Jeffery Amherst mentioned wanting to "Bring about the Total Extirpation of those Indian Nations," calling Native Americans an "execrable race" and aiming to "put a most Effectual Stop to their very Being."
However, it is clear, Kelly said, that Lord Jeffery Amherst never had any direct connection with the College. In fact, there is no record of Lord Jeff ever being officially chosen as the College's mascot.
"The historical connection between the College and Lord Jeffery Amherst is zero. The town was named for him, specifically — the town actually petitioned to be named in his honor. The College was just named because it was founded in Amherst, and so it's Amherst College. If you search the Amherst College website, there's very few mentions of Lord Jeff, and as Suzanne Coffey mentioned at the meeting, he's not on the uniforms — they've always just had an 'A' on them. I don't think the mascot was ever voted on by the trustees or the students or the faculty. I don't know that there are any records of it ever being considered," Kelly said.
According to Kelly, the first mention of Lord Jeffery Amherst as a part of College traditions did not occur until 1906, when James Shelley Hamilton, a member of the Glee Club and the Class of 1906, wrote a song called "Lord Jeffery Amherst," which includes the line "to the Frenchmen and the Indians he didn't do a thing." However, Kelly said, it is unlikely that anyone at the College knew about Lord Jeffery Amherst's connection with genocide.
"They knew he was involved in the French and Indian War, but Hamilton admits that he did no research on Lord Jeff before writing the song. He cites a poem in the Amherst Literary Monthly of February 1903 as his inspiration, which has a biographical sketch attached to it, and the sketch only mentions that 'he was not successful' during the Pontiac uprising," Kelly said.
Nevertheless, Kelly said that he felt that it was time for the College to find a mascot with more positive associations.
"We have the opportunity to change this. One-hundred ten years ago some students just like you guys, sitting around and deciding to write a song for the College, and it turned into this. I think this is a moment too, where students can decide who we want to be going forward. Just because of this accident of history, we don't have to stick with this. If we want the College to be some place that's inclusive and open, and something that we can be proud of, I think we need to just sit down and do it right this time," Kelly said.
Several students echoed Kelly's sentiments. Danielle Trevino '14, who is Native American, said that she thought is was inappropriate for the College to be represented by a "symbol of oppression" like Lord Jeff.
"Some people believe that drawing a parallel between Jeffrey Amherst and Adolf Hitler is going too far, but for me and many other Native people, Amherst is our Hitler. Amherst referred to Native Americans as an 'execrable race' and wanted to exterminate us as if we were vermin," Trevino said. "Knowing that he acted on that desire via biological warfare, how can that not be understood as genocide?"
However, other students, such as Adam Medoff '13, a member of the College's baseball team, felt that the issue was more complex and that there was value in maintaining the College's traditions.
"I think that there hasn't been enough discussion about what it means to Amherst to change it. I definitely understand the argument, but I don't think enough has been said about the traditions of this school and how they're being lost. We're one of the oldest schools in the country, but I don't think anyone knows our fight song. There's not much that makes Amherst unique except for the fact that we're a great liberal arts college and maybe our open curriculum," Medoff said.
Participants at the meeting also considered the impact of Lord Jeff on the College's efforts to recruit students from a diverse background. Several students mentioned that they had had hesitations about coming to the College after finding out about the mascot, and Dean of Admissions Katie Fretwell said that although she had never faced any direct questions about the mascot she felt that it did not capture the full diversity of the College.
"I struggle with the conflicting nature of the College's interest in sustaining traditions, as a proud and old institution as ours is wont to have, and the fact that our current mascot may symbolize genocide to many, a value to which the College is most distinctly opposed. Many see our commitment to the development of a learning environment where difference is examined and celebrated being thwarted by our having Lord Jeff be the icon behind whom we rally in pride. I am also uncomfortable with the practice of female athletes being called by a male name," Fretwell said.
Across their disagreements about the suitability of the College's mascot, many attendees of the meeting agreed that the College needed to work to build a stronger community that is both inclusive of all its members and in touch with its traditions.
"This issue is a manifestation of the fact that this institution has transformed in a lot of significant ways. I have seen it, the very sudden change in the demographics of our student body that is increasingly international, increasingly diverse in terms of socio-economics, ethnicity and race. We have precedents with the College going through these kinds of changes. Certainly with going co-educational, people had concerns that 'this won't be the Amherst that I knew,' but I think hopefully we can all agree that the decision to go co-educational strengthened this institution, and that we look back on this as a positive change in this college," said Robert Hayashi, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, who spoke in favor of changing the mascot at the meeting. "The challenge of difference is one way in which we could use more intentional structures in terms of enabling students, faculty, administrators and staff to have productive, generative and honest conversations about difference that are targeted towards moving forward with a collective desire to do so. I do think there is a need for that and this is another manifestation of that."
Medoff agreed, saying that he thought the primary goal of the discussion should be to build a stronger Amherst College community.
"I think that conversation is a good conversation to have. I just think there needs to be more discussions about clinging onto our traditions just because there are so few of them, and that's a shame for a school that's been around for so long. I definitely don't think it's a black and white issue; many opinions should be heard. We should do something that the entire Amherst community supports, from the people who are here to the people who have been here; all voices should be heard," Medoff said.
I always thought our mascot name was a bit odd. It's not very catchy. It doesn't seem to elicit any prowess or uniqueness that we would boast. Tradition is hard to break. But we did become co-ed and ended our fraternities. We have room to go. The most powerful argument, in my mind, would be to have our female athletes feel more included by changing to a gender neutral figure.
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I applaud the discussion but disagree with the need to change the mascot. LJA did give smallpox blankets to the native americans, but the native americans were also raping and killing british women and children on behalf of the French. It was a different time and it was a time of war, and while LJA has become synonymous with genocide, the attribution is not entirely accurate. We need to better understand our mascot in order to embrace his good qualities.
An Alumnus
P.S. Almost everyone knows our fight song.
"Lord Jeff" as Amherst's mascot can only be appreciated in the context of Charles Hamilton 1906's song. Hamilton composed "Lord Jeffery Amherst" to lampoon the pomposity of Harvard and Yale apotheosizing their respective, lackluster, namesakes on behalf of their football chauvinism ("Forget your Johnies and your Elis."). His invocation of "Lord Jeff" as the College mascot was tongue-in-cheek. Sophisticated readers will catch his implicit lyrical critique of the historical figure. The default choice of Lord Jeff as the College's mascot reflected a turn-of-the century Amherst student culture that was anti-"rah-rah," nonchalant in its observance of then imperative collegiate conventions and adverse to hysteria, athletic or otherwise. It is the apparent extinction of those hallmarks of Amherst College character, more than any fantasized injury to contemporary sensibilities, that perhaps argues most forcefully for a new mascot. That being said, "Lord Jeffery Amherst" makes a catchy little tune, one of the more famous in the repertoire of "College Songs", and one of the few that does not valorize excessive alcohol consumption, as the analog Williams song "Come Fill Your Glasses Up" does. It would at least amount to a material loss of nuance in Amherst College identity to efface or supplant Lord Jeff as our mascot. But, in any event, the proposal strikes this history major as a bit Stalinist in its justification and begging more rigorous and capacious cultural analysis than its advocates have summoned to date.
I live and work in the Navajo Nation; many students in the area who've visited Amherst College felt that it was cold, unwelcoming, and homogenous. This isn't just a once-or-twice report. And these same students have had great impressions of Williams.
I haven't told them about Jeffery Amherst because, while I love my college, I'm ashamed of our mascot. What message would that send to young people who already feel marginalized or unwelcome?
If we're remotely concerned about alienating an entire group of people from our campus, which strives through imperfections to be inclusive, why is the appropriateness of our mascot even a question
- An alumna
P.S. I don't know our fight song.
this conversation is stupid. leave lord jeff as the mascot. why would you change something that has been around for ages? people at amherst just love to complain. if we change mascots i am definitely not donating when i'm an alum
Seems like this comes up every other year. I am in the "no change" camp. I'll say a couple of things.
The first is about Lord Jeffrey Amherst and the circumstances surrounding the alleged biological warfare. Michael Kelly clearly knows more about this than I, and the article is correct in stating that Lord Jeffrey Amherst "promoted genocide against Native Americans both in word and in deed." He exchanged letters in which he supported the tactic of infecting Native Americans with smallpox with inoculated blankets.
Now, while this is a despicable act, a few facts about the world Lord Jeffrey Amherst inhabited bear mentioning. First of all, the acts in question took place in the aftermath of the French and Indian War. The British drove out the French and treated the Native Americans as if they had no right to the land, clearing trees and allowing pretty much any British settler to occupy what he pleased. What followed was a war caused by British expansionism and all of the accompanying circumstances, though a war initiated by Native American raids throughout the Great Lakes region.
To my knowledge the British were not at that time actually killing Native Americans, but rather taking their land. It should be noted that the truer scourges to the Native Americans brought by the British were alcohol and disease epidemics. Smallpox was rampant among the Native Americans simply because they had no immunity to it.
Now, when Lord Jeffrey Amherst wrote to one of his colonels in support of the use of chemical warfare, it was assuredly an underhanded tactic he was agreeing to employ. However, it is also true that this exact tactic was already being used by the officers at Fort Pitt where Lord Jeffery Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet conspired to use it. This was not an idea unique to either man. And ultimately, the tactic's effectiveness is unclear, as so many Native Americans were contracting the disease through contact with the British regardless of the character of those interactions, hostile or friendly.
It must also not be lost in this discussion, seeing as we are weighing the morality of the deeds of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, that the tactics of the Native Americans were hardly nobler. They raided frontier settlers (families), killing scores of them without discrimination or mercy. It is hard for me to see who gets excused for what. There were terrible acts committed by both sides, regardless of who held the upper hand, or who would eventually "triumph" in the larger conflict.
The main point I wish to raise is that Lord Jeffrey Amherst's willingness to employ biological warfare against the Native Americans on behalf of the British colonies was neither novel nor even particularly heinous in the larger context of a) the war in which it took place, and b) warfare in general. It is certainly the case that many great men lauded in the history of every nation were guilty of far bloodier, more damaging attacks than Lord Jeffrey Amherst's smallpox blanket assault – which, I feel it necessary to reiterate, may not have done any additional damage to indigenous tribes beyond the smallpox that the British colonists were already inadvertently communicating to the Native Americans.
My second point relates to those voiced by Mr. Medoff. As a graduate of Amherst College, I strongly support her institutions and her traditions. It is a tradition that students sled down Memorial Hill on Val trays upon the first snow of the year. It is a tradition that the senior class travels to Myrtle Beach before they graduate. It is a tradition that the school's faculty forms a gauntlet through which seniors walk during the commencement ceremony.
I am at pains to find another Amherst tradition that inhabits the muddled moral space that Lord Jeffrey Amherst seems to. However, the importance of Amherst's traditions do not rely on their controversy or even their many merits. It is certainly fun to sled down Memorial Hill, and it is a fitting tribute to the seniors who have worked so hard for four years that they are greeted at that final moment as students by the professors with whom they've shared so much.
But the true value of a tradition is that it connects you to those who have come before. Amherst is what it is above all because of its community. The professors who work harder than they do anywhere else to accommodate and help students; the students who hail from every conceivable background and location, and who are, in my experience, humble and kind to a fault; the alumni whose fond memories oblige them to return, to help those younger than they, to eternally refresh the resources and opportunities of those lucky enough to be welcomed into this community. And despite the hip posture of many a disgruntled undergrad that they don't feel accepted at Amherst, or that they don't believe in its community, in its administration, in its alumni, in its students, my experience has been so resoundingly the opposite that I can only shake my head. These elements of our community are important. The fact that, as Alan Bard so eloquently pointed out, our fight song is essentially satirical, that it is "nonchalant in its observance of then imperative collegiate conventions and adverse to hysteria," marks it as truly unique to our truly unique community. It is creative and funny. The adoption of a particular man as our mascot is at once idiosyncratic and rather bold. It connects the laughter we have now to those of our forebears. It embodies, in every aspect, the legacy left to me and my peers by those that studied at Amherst before us, and it is part of the legacy that we (I and those I know from my time there) wish to leave to those who are there now and who will come later.
And as a legacy, this mascot is ideal. It is ideal because it is flawed. Did Lord Jeffery Amherst attempt to infect Native Americans with smallpox? Yes. Are we lampooning the man while simultaneously honoring the wonderful town that happens to be named for him? Yes.
Deep in my bones, I hate the idea of changing the mascot because it reeks of revisionism and a supercilious brand of political correctness, that Amherst must cleanse itself. This is not true. Amherst is a wonderful place. It has its blemishes, but its blemishes are those of the prevailing society, blemishes it shares with the country it is part of and that country's history. They are not private sins for which we as an institution must self-flagellate in quiet corners. We should bear our legacy with pride, knowing it is imperfect. Anything else amounts to an attempt to rewrite our history, which we know no amount of scrubbing can do. No, instead, I say we wear this conversation as a badge confirming that Amherst can discuss the concerns of its community and ultimately come to the right conclusion: that the facts, such as they are, deem changing the mascot to be silly, wholly revisionist, and ultimately more damaging to the community than helpful. Why more damaging? Because any Amherst Student whose response to learning of Lord Jeffrey Amherst is to accept received facts and pass judgment off the cuff is not the student I want at Amherst; it is not the student that Amherst hopes to attract. The Amherst students I know are the ones who look beyond the face of any issue, who dive into it until they wear it like…a…shirt…who can see that there is no interesting yes/no question, and, above all, who can take a joke.
Our mascot lampoons a silly little man from a horrible time whose name fell to a kick-ass town where the greatest college in the world happily rests. Changing that mascot won't erase his deeds nor bring any glory to the college; it will only cheapen our values and mark us as resoundingly thin-skinned.
I agree with the call for a more nuanced approach to thinking about what Jeffery Amherst and the fight song mean to our college. As articulated by "Albert Bard" and "Class of 2011" above, neither the lyrics of the song nor the adoption of LJA as our mascot serve to endorse his treatment of Native Americans. Both the song and the mascot itself, in fact, drip with irony. To outright condemn these traditions without recognizing the subtle but significant value of their presence to the culture and identity of Amherst would be an unfortunate reaction derived from a cheap, simplistic, and superficial interpretation of the song and the mascot. The fact that the song lyrics (and the mascot they inspired) are at once creative/witty and provocative of critical thought and moral reflection about an ethically questionable time in American history makes the mascot a fitting testament to the creative and intellectual culture of Amherst. Representing the Lord Jeffs on the athletic fields never reduced my respect for Native Americans in any way, but it did make me more conscious of my ancestors' path into this nation and enabled me to think more critically about how we should retrospectively regard racists like Lord Jeff, or for that matter slave owners like Washington and Jefferson. And hearing the song at basketball games made me realize that even in 1906, Amherst students like Charles Hamilton were starting to pry into these issues, and were able to do so in a humorous and engaging way, through the creative medium of music. The fact that we can connect with Hamilton's satire today, and that his creative work sparks such debates within the college's community, reflects the power of the tradition that he started back in 1906 by composing "Lord Jeffery Amherst." The invocation of humor and intellectual debate across generations of students is a mark of a strong tradition, and indeed makes for a more memorable mascot than a Yale Bulldog, a Stanford Cardinal, or a Middlebury Panther (in fact, there has recently been a debate across the Middlebury campus about changing their mascot on the grounds of its irrelevance to the school and region, which in my opinion provides a much stronger foundation for debate).
Also, there is much to be said for having a similar-sounding and equally silly, quirky, cheeky mascot as our rivals across the Berkshires. Losing that Eph/Jeff dynamic would be sad. As to the point about making female athletes feel more comfortable, I would be in full support of the addition of a Lady Jeff mascot!
Does it somehow make it better that we're considering the targeted killing of Native Americans to be "cheeky?"
The Amherst baseball team used to put on minstrel shows in black-face to raise money each season. It was, of course, just a joke. They weren't endorsing racism or violence against African-Americans; they were just being funny. A few decades ago (unfortunately I don't know the exact date) the College decided that minstrel shows might be inappropriate for an institution of the College's stature, and the practice ceased. But they were just being thin-skinned, right? I mean, come on, take a joke!
On a serious note, there is nothing wrong with traditions, but we shouldn't endorse the mascot simply because of tradition. Dozens of colleges and universities across the country have changed their mascots for similar reasons; not because they were thin-skinned or revisionist or Stalinist (as one commenter suggested), but because mascots that celebrate genocide alienate members of the College community who hail from historically oppressed backgrounds or simply find the concept of exterminating an entire race of people distasteful.
Yes, I know, the conflict between the British and Native Americans was morally ambiguous, etc., etc. and the College only uses Lord Jeff "ironically" so it's no big deal, right? First off, the conflict is no where near as morally ambiguous as you portray it. The British invaded North America and drove Native Americans off land they had inhabited for centuries, introduced terrifying diseases, and intentionally hunted down and murdered Native American men, women, and children. Lord Jeff himself said that he wished that he could "extirpate this execrable race" using any means necessary: smallpox, "hunting down by dogs," and traditional military methods. Lord Jeff, as the commander-in-chief of British forces in North America, led a concerted effort to commit genocide against a people merely defending their lands against invasion by the French, Spanish, Dutch, British, and others. We wouldn't make Jean Kambanda or Yahya Khan our mascot, even if the College were in a town named after. Lord Jeff is no different. Also, your assertion that our mascot "lampoons a silly little man" is both unsupported and irrelevant to this discussion. The College has a portrait of Lord Jeff displayed prominently in the Mead Art Museum, and for about forty years, the china in Val depicted Lord Jeff hunting down Native Americans on horseback. James Shelley Hamilton, the composer of the song mainly responsible for Lord Jeff's prominence at the College, never intended to "lampoon" Lord Jeff (see: http://consecratedeminence.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/hamilton-letter.pdf), but rather sought to give the College a "personality" to celebrate in a "cheerful ditty." Moreover, even if Lord Jeff is only "lampooned" by the College, it doesn't change the fact that the mascot is offensive. You wouldn't lampoon Adolf Hitler by naming your athletic teams after him, would you?
In the interests of this discussion, I think it is absolutely necessary to dispense with this lazy and unfounded Holocaust comparison.
Let me be clear: the subjugation of the Native Americans was an abomination, a catastrophe, a Shoah in the truest sense of the word. There is no disputing that.
Further, it has always struck me as futile and vain to compare human suffering and agony across time and space. Critical discourse somehow loses its meaning in the examination of the depths of human pain. It seems more likely to me that the agony of any single person can so obscure our senses and disorient the faculties that merely comprehending the agony of many is not possible. This makes the following discussion all the more difficult and sensitive.
But on the same token, not only in this discussion but in a society at large in which spurious comparisons to Hitler and the National Socialist Party are rampant, we must be able to differentiate between a certain group of human calamities that include the Holocaust, the reign of Kmer Rouge, the Armenian genocide, and the Stalinist rule in Soviet Russia; as opposed to other horrible events that, though horrible, are very different in terms of magnitude, context, and animating spirit.
I will point out two main aspects of the Holocaust that differ fundamentally from the Native American plight, not to claim that the Native American downfall in the Americas was not a terrible chapter in our history, but that the Holocaust was a unique expression of human vileness that is not really comparable. Please observe that I make no claims about what is relatively "worse" - no such claim can be made by a reasonable person. I only claim that they are fundamentally DIFFERENT, and that invoking one inevitably obscures the discussion of the other. My claim is not that the Native American subjugation was "less bad"; in fact, in terms of the total number of fatalities, the Native American experience dwarfed the death toll of the Holocaust. Rather, my claim is that simply acknowledging the fundamental differences must lead one to conclude that the two cannot be used as evidentiary support for a claim made about the other; that they are not relevant to one another, that they occupy two very different locations in the history of our consciousness and therefore say very different, incompatible things about our past.
The first aspect of the Holocaust I will point out is what I will call its "animating spirit." The animating spirit of the Holocaust was to annihilate several specific groups of people from the earth, or, more specifically, in any territory that came under Nazi control. This involved 1) sending out "death squads" to murder the inhabitants of towns in the Wehrmacht's wake as they pushed east, and 2) sending millions of people to death camps. What I will point out is that the groups were targeted for extermination based on their ethnic identity (contrived though it was) with no ability to defend themselves and almost no variability in their treatment. In other words, groups were targeted because of WHO they were, and EVERYONE who was THAT KIND OF THING was murdered, no questions asked. Now contrast this to the Native American situation. The Native Americans were targeted because of WHERE they were; it is a fact that, instead of murder or war, in many cases the Native Americans were compelled to leave their land. This is a different fate. Would we view the Holocaust the same way if all of the Nazi's victims were offered the chance, as was deceptively suggested to usher them onto cattle cars, to be "evacuated," relocated, simply moved somewhere else? No, we would not. And not all Native Americans the British/Americans could get there hands on were indiscriminately slaughtered. There were at times and in different places peace accords between the colonists and the Native Americans. There were wars that broke out and ebbed, there were Native Americans who were absorbed into the encroaching society, and there were long periods of time in various places where the Native Americans and westward expanding British/Americans lived side by side. Thus, these are not comparable events.
The second aspect of the Holocaust I will label its "repetitive and evolving brutality." The Nazis invented and developed a method of murdering large groups of people as efficiently as possible. This is related to the animating spirit of their terrible endeavor, but it also bears another horrible aspect: the Nazis saw the potential of their works, and instead of being horrified, they worked toward INCREASING that efficiency. They made bigger gas chambers, bigger crematoria, and so on. They were faced with the outcomes of their works, and pushed on to lower and lower realms of mass murder. The British/Americans did not seek to collect the Native Americans in one place and slaughter them. In fact, the VAST MAJORITY of the deaths of Native Americans, from present-day Canada down to South America, can be attributed to an inadvertent communication of contagious diseases. Simply by arriving in the Americas, European colonists effected the deaths of millions INDEPENDENT of any ill will or barbaric campaigning to gain more territory. There is an enormous difference between the mechanistic expansion of the Nazi extermination campaign and the massive epidemics of colonial America and the ensuing overpowering of the Native Americans.
Again, I say this not to make any comparison between the two events, but instead to claim, simply, that they are not comparable. I make the further request, based on the distinctions and reasoning I've mentioned, that the invocation of Hitler or Nazis no longer have a place in this discussion; such citations are not constructive, nor are they relevant to Lord Jeffrey Amherst himself, nor to the larger context of the military operations he commanded.
Needlessly breaking century old traditions further severs Amherst from its history and its Alumni. Colleges do not exist for a period of time like people, but rather they (theoretically) exist forever. Having those linkages through time is what makes Amherst such an amazing place. When you're back on campus for reunion or otherwise and you see or hear something you recognize and can identify with, you can remember your friends, your memories, great parties, amazing professors, etc. That's the point of having tradition and trying to preserve it. It creates a common unifying bond between the different class years.
Through haphazardly and poorly executed building renovations, the College has already turned its back on tradition and preserving that what makes Amherst unique and helps bond all those proud enough to graduate a Lord or Lady Jeff. This call to change a mascot accomplishes nothing but a short-term social objective that isn't aimed at any of the reasons the College exists or should exist. It does not improve the quality of education and it does not increase the availability of that education to others. It merely attacks an old tradition meant to unite those from different backgrounds who all had the privilege of attending Amherst and receiving their education there.
If our mascot had been implicated in the Holocaust, we wouldn't think twice about changing it. And please don't try to argue that the scale here is fundamentally different, or that it was a different time. Genocide is genocide, and Lord Jeff's intent was, certainly, genocide. If you don't believe me, take a look at his letters.
"...an old tradition meant to unite those from different backgrounds who all had the privilege of attending Amherst and receiving their education there."
Tradition is not exempt from moral consideration. Our chummy feelings don't outweigh the discomfort of others, who by the way, do not necessarily have the "'privilege' of attending Amherst," or are "lucky enough to be welcomed into this community" (Lord Jeff '11 and Class of 2011, respectively).
Our college is no island, whether we like that or not. We are members of a global community that learns from us and contributes to us. Sure, our sins are not private sins. Does that make them any less sinful? Like Class of 2011 asked, should we self-flagellate in quiet corners?
Not at all. First, we have no quiet corner. Our college on the hill can be seen from a distance, as we've discovered last semester. Also, we need not self-flagellate if we shed the shame altogether. Sure, we can be content to steep in a cesspool of "society's sins," but the institution has the unique leverage to be an example.
Also, Class of 2011, I'm sorry, but Amherst students do not hail from "every conceivable background and location." Look around your campus. How visible is the Native American population? Does your idea of a joke includes a cheeky jab at the marginalization of a group whose persecution persists to this day?
Also, please don't assume that one or another "type of student" is the one that Amherst hopes to attract. Amherst would do well to attract those who love their school enough to desire improvement and make it more welcoming to all.
It is not merely sufficient for a minority of dissenters (which the anti-Lord Jeff contingent is) to state that they disagree with the prevailing circumstances in order to have those circumstance changed. We live in a pluralistic society where these things are discussed on their merits (at least that's what we foster in our own community) and, on balance, nothing you have said adds much weight to your side of this story.
To your specific points…
I highly doubt anyone much cares about the obscure 18th century British officer we lampoon as our mascot. Note that this "call to action" comes not from anywhere outside of our walls; on the contrary, it comes from a small contingent of undergraduates who, with absolutely no offense intended, are not nearly as experienced or wise as the vast majority of the community, namely the alumni – a group that, as you'll notice, has a range of well-articulated and principled reasons for why the mascot should NOT be changed.
As for the diversity of our school, as Pond Class of '88 mentions, Amherst is, in fact, one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies in the world. While the last five classes have only had a total of 4 students self-identifying as Native American, that number is not too far off statistically from the less than 0.8% of current American citizens who are of that ethnicity. In any case, it is not a plausible goal for an institution of our size to accurately reflect the make up of the American population.
Further, it is not simply incumbent upon us to child proof our entire campus and culture. If we did so, we would probably want to start with tearing Johnson Chapel to the ground in penance for all of the witches who were wrongly persecuted here by colonial Massachusetts Christians around the time of the town's founding. I'm quite confident there is a number of self-identifying Wiccans among the student population commensurate to that of Native Americans. Not to mention the vast number of people who Christianity has, in one way or another, persecuted. Shall we start with the arguments on behalf of the Jews or the Muslims on campus?
The point, cheekily made though it be, is that we can't accommodate every cast-off whim of prospective and current students. We should have a discussion about it, such as this one, but as the conclusion has been reached every time before, the facts do not merit the proposed action. When we EXAMINE what Lord Jeffrey did and did not do, and when we EXAMINE our relationship to him, we find that our mascot is not quite the monster some flippantly suppose him to be, and that our adoption of him as our mascot is far more complex than simply "rooting for" him as a person or an idea. As Mr. Bard mentioned, our stance relative to Lord Jeff is the irreverent thumbing-of-the-nose that has marked all of our finest graduates.
And your last point about the type of student Amherst hopes to attract: our school makes it an explicit mission to attract STUDENTS of a certain quality. I believe my definition of those students holds up: that we want students who will consider all sides of a certain issue, even where they initially disagree with the prevailing opinions about that issue. I believe I have done that in my two posts. Everyone wants Amherst to be the best it can be. Our view is that Amherst is best with Lord Jeff as its quite imperfect and appropriate unofficial mascot, and that an administrative or student-driven edict condemning the spirit of so many of our forerunners is fundamentally damaging to the student culture of our campus: it wags a self-righteous finger at the alums who, in all honesty, are AGREEING with you in principle, but simply taking a more subversive and interesting approach to voicing their principles. Further, such an edict it creates an atmosphere that tends toward a political correctness that is, in all honesty, no less repugnant than the sentiments it finds error with. All no-questions-asked revisionism, which replaces conversation with unassailable, cursory taste-testing, is just as odious.
In response to your assertion that no one cares about Lord Jeffery Amherst, I have a hunch that the commander of British forces in North America will be of some concern at this conference on Pontiac's War. http://www.mceas.org/pontiac/index.htm
Re: Lord Jeff...I like a lot of what's been said in this comment section. And I'm pretty shocked to hear that our mascot, Lord Jeff, is coming under fire. Among other reasons for Lord Jeff's enduring quality as a mascot, the Jeff sets us apart from the panthers and minutemen and cougars and cardinals of this world.
As far as I know, the founders of Amherst College, riding across the Pioneer Valley on horseback away from the wretched isolation of Williamstown, arrived on our glorious hilltop and named their college after a town.
Sure, this town was named for a blanket-giving Englishman, but without reiterating much of the smart commentary above (Albert, Coburn, class of '11, etc..), if we're worried about the name "Lord Jeff," then why don't we consider changing the name of our college entirely? If Lord Jeff offends and marginalizes, then Lord Jeff's last name is just as offensive. Right?
Final thought, to the above post from the member of the class of '12: I'm a little confused by your second-to-last paragraph. From everything I've heard at recent reunions and on the Amherst website, our college tops the nation in socioeconomic diversity. So it sounds like the school is doing well to make the place more global and increasingly more inclusive. Maybe that's not the case? And as a quick, cheeky comment in reply to your question about the visibility of the Native American community on campus: the population of the US is around 1% Native American. I'd be willing to bet that Amherst has a higher percentage than that.
Let the discussion roll on.
And let's go Jeffs!
Dear Ms. Hu,
The social forces at work that have made Native Americans underrepresented at Amherst and other colleges across the U.S. have nothing to do with our school's choice of mascot. You're conflating your arguments.
Secondly, the mascot of Lord Jeff as the symbol of our College is not an endorsement of the man or what he stood for. The original design of the United States' flag was first created when slavery was legal and women couldn't vote. Yet we don't interpret the flag now (which is the same plus a few more stars) to represent such things. Lord Jeff is meant to serve as a symbol for the College community to link us to those that came before. It's a symbol that we all received our educations there. If you take issue with the College's approach to access to education, that's an entirely different issue.
The Ghost of Pond '11
With over 118 people responding (from posting this survey here and on facebook and twitter), almost 3/4 of respondents think AMHERST SHOULD - YES - HAVE A NEW MASCOT
This same arguments were raised against Lord Jeff while I was at Amherst. My opinion has always been that it is absurd to judge an 18th century man by 20th (or 21st) century standards. The town is named for Lord Amherst (whom even J.S. Hamilton realized would never have been called "Lord Jeff") because he was a hero in his day. That society has progressed to a point where his beliefs are considered atrocious should foster discussion (as it has) but not shame.
Besides, I do love the song "Lord Jeff", and no one should underestimate its importance to alumni of all ages and sexes.
Yes, let's change our mascot! While we're at it -- let's relocate the college from Amherst, Mass because we can't continue supporting a town that is synonymous with genocide. And let's petition to have the Hudson River renamed because Henry Hudson was an imperialist pig! Also, Washington, DC? Gotta go! President George Washington owned slaves. This country will never reach post-racism until we unhinge every last nominal tie that we have to any vague sense of our inherently imperialist past. Pretend it never occurred, that's the motto baby PINO!
There's a vote among alumni on planworld on which mascot to change it to. Alumni suggested alternatives. 36 alumni have voted so far. But polls are still open. Go to erfuller00 and vote.
As Sarah '02 said, a group of alums are voting among 39 proposed alternatives, ranging from ridiculous to awesome. Feel free to cast your vote.
Why stop at the mascot? The College's name must be changed, no?