The Amherst Chirp

During its latest iteration, FastWeb’s “Scholarship Detective” contest – which I have unabashedly participated in – presented potential Scholarship Sherlock Holmes’ with four ostensibly unlikely options. Among the improbable possibilities, one in particular stood out – The Amherst Shuffleboard Scholarship, which, according to FastWeb, makes any member of the new Amherst Shuffleboard team eligible for free cash.

Now, I was quick to assume that this dubious Amherst scholarship was the fraud by because, to my knowledge, Amherst doesn’t even have a shuffleboard team.  A few Google searches confirmed my suspicions. Yet I was still left with a lingering suspicion that there was a joke that I wasn’t getting. I gave FastWeb a call, but their customer service failed to answer the phone.

Would anyone actually be interested in joining a shuffleboard team if Amherst created one?