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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Emmett Knowlton '15

Executive Adviser

Number of Articles: 2

First Article: January 29, 2014

Latest Article: August 28, 2014

Amherst Terms and Expressions: An Exhaustive Glossary

By Emmett Knowlton '15

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August 28, 2014

AAS: The Association of Amherst Students; specializing in election scandals, infighting, obscure bylaws and referendums. A capella: The best way to kill many, many hours with your parents during Parents’ Weekend. AC Voice: Polemical online-only publication; favorite topics include bathrooms, Keefe Campus Center, privilege. AmCo: Abbreviation of Amherst Coffee, home to English and philosophy majors. [q.v. David Foster Wallace ’84] “Amherst Awkward”: One of two ill-defined and alliterative ca

Letter from the [New] Editors

By Emmett Knowlton '15

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January 29, 2014

Since returning from abroad, I’ve found myself picking up on all sorts of new and different phenomena at Amherst that didn’t exist last May. We have a musically maniacal Provost and a Dean of Faculty without Einstein hair; Frost Cafe’s serving iced coffee in a Polar Vortex and Val’s ditched the Jamaican Jerk for, of all things, Turkey Burgers. Even Keefe has spiffy (well, spiffy-ish) new lights and circular couches. I got an email about a package last week as I checked online the status of the l

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