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To Remember Is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology @posthampshire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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OCTOBER 1 By popular demand, we're extending the anthology submission deadline. If you want your work to be available for viewing at commencement, submit now! Everything after will still have a home in Volume 2, published in 2027. posthampshire.org/submit/

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All our Hampshire memories, good and bad; and what comes next.

Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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🎼it’s Christmas in Allston and Christmas in Brighton amd Christmas in gay Somerville! 🎵 if you’re moving or renting or re-decorating there’s treasure for everyone still! 🎶 1/2

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This was a hard piece to write, and a sad one. But a big thank you to everyone who worked with me on this. An especially big shoutout to the folks at the @posthampshire.bsky.social anthology, including Shelley Rosen and Ida Kao. And all the faculty and other alumni who talked to me.

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To Remember Is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology @posthampshire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember, the joy of The Omen is that you can submit as much or as little as you want, and be as happy, sad, bitter, etc. as is appropriate, even if it's just a few paragraphs, a photo with a few words attached to it, or an unedited video of yourself rambling about Hampshire.

To Remember Is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology @posthampshire.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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This is your one week reminder that the deadline for Volume 1 of To Remember is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology is August 31! Submit here: posthampshire.org/submit Feeling stuck? Here are some prompts: posthampshire.org/ideas/

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All our Hampshire memories, good and bad; and what comes next.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New #podcast: #IdaKao @idakao.bsky.social joins the show to talk about having a front-row seat for the decline and demise of our alma mater, #HampshireCollege, and co-curating To Remember Is Not Enough, a Post-Hampshire anthology, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

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Episode 687 – Ida Kao

Virtual Memories Show 687: Ida Kao “I can point to a dozen different problems that all meaningfully contributed to why Hampshire is closing now. How all those things accumulated is pretty tra…

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Ida @idakao.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The deadline for the Last Ever student produced Omen is 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭 If you are tied to Hampshire College in any way, send your stuff to omen@hampshire.edu!!! (@posthampshire.bsky.social is alum produced)

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Ida @idakao.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Omen issue I linked to was published in 2021, but it was written by alums who graduated around that time Unless you mean a different Deathfest Bible?

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Ofc, that's what makes it interesting from a historical perspective, and after I dug into archives as a student, I got a lot of mileage in marketing The Omen as Really Fucking Old™

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 23/04/2026

Not sure what the hostile takeover is referring to but I can assure you there was never really a good balance amongst Omenites. The Omen and by extension Omenites fell in and out of favor over the years, and we got plenty of detractors

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Hampshire College, writes Christopher Benfey, was “the most visible exemplar of a tradition of ‘experimental’ higher-ed,” combining “John Dewey’s ideas of experience-based education with hands-on practice in the arts and a cosmopolitan take on the world.”

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A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey

Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

When I was at Hampshire College, my main extracurricular activity my final two years was helping run The Omen, a strange publication as scrappy as the college. We published anything submitted. The staff was whomever showed up to layout except the signers. We outlived every Hampshire newspaper.

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The Omen Archives : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

And in 2022, many moons after the last Deathfest had been played, I asked some alums to write a guide on how to revive it archive.org/details/hamp...

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The archives of The Omen, a student publication at Hampshire College.

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To Remember Is Not Enough: A Post-Hampshire Anthology @posthampshire.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The last Deathfest is happening right now in FPH! Current students are putting quotes/pics on Discord

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DEADLINES Vol. 1: Aug 31st (published at Commencement) Vol. 2: Mar 31, 2027. WHAT WE WANT Writing, photos, videos, music, games, etc. If it can go online, we want it! Submit today! posthampshire.org/submit

TO REMEMBER
a IS NOT ENOUGH
A POST-
HAMPSHIRE ANTHOLOGY
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS!
INVITING MEMORIES, GOOD AND BAD.
REMEMBERING HAMPSHIRE COMPLEXLY, WITH DEEP ENDURING LOVE, AND WITH THE CRITICAL EYE WE LEARNED THERE.
WHAT WILL WE BUILD
WHEN HAMPSHIRE IS GONE?
DEADLINES
VOLUME 1:
AUGUST 31ST
TO BE PUBLISHED BY F26
COMMENCEMENT
VOLUME 2:
MARCH 31ST , 2027
WE WANT YOUR
• WRITING
• PHOTOS
• VIDEOS
• MUSIC
• GAMES
• CAN WE UPLOAD IT TO THE INTERNET?
THEN YES!
SUBMIT TODAY!
WWW.POSTHAMPSHIRE.ORG

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Jacob Wolf Lefton @watermosaic.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is my subjective experience with an extremely complicated place. Beauty, joy and disappointment all wrapped together. But it feels like something inside fractured with the loss and we have a lot to learn so we can do it better with more trust and more resilience next time.

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

ngl it's very surreal & heartening to see how many people with no personal connection to my weird little alma mater in the woods are treating its closing as a Major Event

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I’m in love with modern moonlight @lively.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My friend just pointed out Hampshire College has been around for longer than Amherst College has been co-ed 🤢

Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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The lifespan of Hampshire College (1970-2026) almost perfectly maps onto the timeline of a Gen Xer eventually crushed by conformity and capitalism.

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jgrdz.bsky.social @jgrdz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I have mixed feelings about my undergrad but it was a unique place, and the world of higher ed will be a little lesser without it. Sad news to receive this morning.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Summer 2002: 17 y.o. me on college tour, telling my dad “I want to go THERE” when learning from a horrified Amherst guide that a pack of Hampshire students stole the American flag from their 9/11 “patriot rally” and burned it. I’m now married to an Amherst grad 😭 Hampshire, you will be missed!

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Thomas F. Varley @thosvarley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

As a Hampshire alum this hurts. I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for Hampshire - the college gave me opportunities I never even dreamed of. In a world that feels darker and more chaotic every year, Hampshire embodied a kind of radical optimism - it sucks to see that flicker out. 1/N

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Truly. Everyone I know who went to Hampshire is smart and weird, and I worry-- for this and many other reasons-- that we are building a version of higher education that simply has no place for the smart and the weird.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m absolutely heartbroken to learn that my alma mater is shutting down after nearly six decades. Hampshire College was one of the most innovative institutions in higher education.😢

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Hampshire College to close after years of financial struggles

Hampshire College will close after fall 2026 due to ongoing financial and enrollment struggles.

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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I owe Hampshire College everything, nearly all of it good. It was a beautiful thing, and we're losing too many of those.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My wife & I both went to Hampshire, & we both ended up getting jobs teaching at Dartmouth, an anti-Hampshire. I have incredible students here. But I was more challenged at Hampshire than this "elite" Ivy's system even allows for.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

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FST @fst.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The Omen alumni farewell issue?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

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The College Archivist told me that they literally did not have a wind down plan which was maybe the most optimistic take I heard from non-leadership. And then his position got eliminated two years later

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In 2021-22 I overheard Writing Center faculty saying they that the felt the plan to increase enrollment felt way too optimistic. After graduating pretty much every decade+ tenure staff left

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Oh and a certain alum reached out to me asking about a certain paper, making clear that he was NOT acting in his capacity as a trustee. And he didn't want to alarm current students by reaching out directly. Hm.

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