The following public comment was submitted in writing to the Jones Library Section 106 review on September 26, 2024. I left Needham MA to attend Mount Holyoke 70 years ago and have lived here ever since except for 3 years on the Upper West Side to earn a PhD in neuroscience. So I’m well-acquainted with Amherst in the “olden days” when UMass had only 3700 students, Amherst College was all male, it’s frats great for partying, and the downtown was a tourist Mecca for its bookstores, fine restaurants, quaint shops….