Amherst Terms and Expressions: An Exhaustive Glossary

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

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