Senate Uncensored: An Ex-Minute Taker’s Take on this E-Board Election

Hello. You may know that I’m studying abroad this semester and currently traveling through Europe on spring break. You may not know that, for the past two weeks, I’ve actually spent most of my time pondering the Amherst Association of Students (AAS) E-Board Election instead. Why? Because I care too much. I worked as Senate Recording Secretary from Fall 2010 until this January, which means that I attended every single Senate meeting during those 18 months, meticulously minuting every last disc

Fresh Faculty of the Week: Manuela Picq

What influenced your decision to teach here at Amherst? It was pure coincidence. I had a friend who’s from Shutesbury, who recommended that I apply for this job. I had never heard of Amherst College before, but the job description was about gender and ethnicity in Latin America, which is very much my area of interest, and it’s very rare to find this kind of job opening. It fit my current interests, so that’s why I applied. What classes will you be teaching during this academic year? This seme

MRC Hosts Sex Talk

This discussion was the latest in the MRC’s Elephant in the Room Dialogues, a continuing series of events designed to raise healthy intercultural dialogue among students at the College by creating safe, open spaces in which such dialogue can take place. “As an institution, we often speak about the potential of using diversity as an educational tool but find the means to do so to be less than what we’d like,” said Andy Tew ’07, coordinator of the MRC. “The dialogues facilitate comfortable and so