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Cole Graber-Mitchell '22

Cole is a second-year from Minneapolis, Minnesota --- the land of high voter turnout, cold winters, and nice people. When not writing depressing articles about everything we do wrong, he likes to sin

Seeing Double: Amherst Reorientation 2021

Seeing Double: Amherst Reorientation 2021

Seeing Double columnist Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 shares the difficulty of adjusting to life back on campus after so much time away. He urges students to take their time settling back into in-person college life and make use of college mental health resources when things get tough.

Seeing Double: Let Us Swipe!

Seeing Double columnist Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22 illustrates the importance of student access to the various buildings on campus in fostering a strong community atmosphere. He then asks the college administration for one crucial thing in the upcoming semester: “Let us swipe!”

Seeing Double: Amherst College Should Help Fund Local Schools

Amherst’s local public schools are in crisis. Due to declining enrollments, Amherst Regional Public Schools [https://www.arps.org/] — a cooperative school district that includes the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett and Shutesbury— is facing a $1.2 million budget cut [https://www.amherstindy.org/2021/05/07/town-council-passes-regional-school-budget-with-1-2m-cut-in-services-operating-budget-provides-minimal-funding-for-alternative-to-policing/

Seeing Double: Pros and Cons of Court-Packing

In October 2020, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the controversial decision to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg with Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The move gave Republican appointees a six out of nine majority on the nation’s highest court, a balance that could

Seeing Double: A Love Letter to Bad Drawings

A few weeks ago, I decided to ignore the nagging voice in my head insisting that I do homework and spend some time relaxing in the sun. To distract myself from the fact that I would be doing this alone, I pulled out an old notebook, grabbed a pencil and

Seeing Double: Not Everything Should be an Email

Chances are, you’ve been to a meeting that you thought was unimportant. Maybe it was too long, or maybe it veered far off-topic. And maybe you thought to yourself, “This could have been an email” — or maybe, like I have, you snidely remarked to a colleague that it should

Seeing Double: Our Vaccine Regime is Killing People

So far, the United States has administered more than 124 million [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html] coronavirus vaccine doses — more than a fourth of the total doses administered worldwide. About a fourth of the country’s population has received at least one dose, and one-eighth of