An Open Letter on Social Clubs

Dear President Martin, Chief Student Affairs Officer Coffey, Dean of Students Vasquez and members of the administration: On Tuesday, Nov. 4, students received an email from the Office of Student Affairs, signed by a coalition of nine students, inviting them to a “Social Club” Town Hall Meeting. At the meeting, while repeatedly citing the alarming statistic that 76 percent of Amherst students self-report loneliness, the committee of students proposed the creation of “selectively inclusive social