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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-14T22:19:38.000Z",
  "site": "https://michaelkupietz.com",
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    "CBS News: Hampshire College closing in Amherst, Massachusetts. Graduate Ken Burns calls it \"incalculable loss.\"",
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  "textContent": "Coming from an alternative education background, I'm saddened to hear that Hampshire College is closing. I looked at attending Hampshire, and the friend of mine who I heard the news from went to the same orientation as I did and wound up going.\n\nI didn't end up going there but always felt an affinity for the place. I believed in the model and in the need for small, funky schools, offering more self-directed education than traditional schools, for students like myself who didn't thrive in more conventional educational settings. (AKA \"underachievers\". I believe I'm the only person I know with a C average in high school, a teenage arrest on my record, and a degree in physics. Cowabunga, man.)\n\nObviously this is the result of bigger economic and societal currents that I have no wish to comment on. But it's a loss.\n\nLink: CBS News: Hampshire College closing in Amherst, Massachusetts. Graduate Ken Burns calls it \"incalculable loss.\"\n\nfediverse",
  "title": "Hampshire College Is Closing",
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