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Eleanor Walsh '25

Managing Features Editor

Student Squared: Robert Bischof ’25

Student Squared: Robert Bischof ’25

In the second installment of a new column, Managing Features Editor Eleanor Walsh ’25 interviews a student from a list randomly generated by Associate Dean of Students Scott Howard. This week's lucky student is Robert Bischof ’25.

Student Squared: Daniel Lee ’26

Student Squared: Daniel Lee ’26

In the debut of “Student Squared,” Managing Features Editor Eleanor Walsh ’25 interviews a student from a list randomly generated by Associate Dean of Students Scott Howard.

The Indicator x The Student: “Hymn”

Originally published in the Spring 2023 edition of “The Indicator,” this poem by Managing Features Editor Eleanor Walsh ’25 was inspired by Dean Young’s “Belief in Magic.”

No Small Potatoes: Val From a Kids-eye View

No Small Potatoes: Val From a Kids-eye View

This week, The Student gets a new perspective on Val by talking with Maya (7) and Asher (12), the children of two Amherst history professors who frequent the dining hall for meals with their parents.

Veggie Febbie: Cultivating a Plant-Based Community

Veggie Febbie: Cultivating a Plant-Based Community

This February, Veggie Club challenges Amherst students to try a plant-based diet for “Veggie Febbie.” Their end goal is to build a plant-based community and, for President Tim Carroll ’25, to convert a new class of long-term vegetarians.

Casting the Big Screen — Alumni Profile, David Rubin ’78

Emmy award-winning casting director and former Academy President David Rubin ’78 approaches his job through the lens of a former actor, and eternal lover of theater.

Thoughts on Theses: EJ Collins

EJ Collins is a Black studies and education studies double major. His thesis focuses on how North Carolinian independent schools served as spaces for liberatory education, how the state restricted those efforts in the ’80s, and the lasting impacts of those restrictions.