The Case for Mask-optional Classrooms at Amherst
Poler Family Professor of Psychology Catherine A. Sanderson argues that the college’s current mask policy for classes makes little scientific sense and calls for in-class masking requirements to end.
Catherine A. Sanderson
Letter to the Editor: “Every Person for Themselves”
In a letter to the editor, Chair of Psychology Catherine Sanderson criticizes the new housing process, arguing that it only puts stress on close relationships in a time when students are most in need of social support.
Letter to the Editor
Catherine A. Sanderson is a professor of Psychology at Amherst College.
The lengthy article in last week’s Student on Carleen Basler’s resignation
thoroughly conveyed the range of reactions, including shock, disappointment and
sadness, that students, faculty and administrators have had to learning of the
apparently widespread plagiarism in