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Lucas Silva '28

Contributing Writer

Community Advisors Unionize to Address Grievances

After years of informal conversations with different union leaders, community advisors sent a letter to the administration requesting union recognition, supported by 46 of the 60 student workers. The Association of Amherst Students also passed a resolution in favor of their unionization on Monday.

Burnout: We Talked Democracy to Death

Staff Writer Lucas Silva ’28 dissects Amherst’s paradoxical “commitment to democracy,” arguing that constant messaging about democratic crisis has become so abstract — and everyday campus life so unchanged — that students are tuning out rather than showing up.

You’re Not Reading The Amherst Student. That’s How Polarization Spreads

Contributing Writer Lucas Silva ’28 investigates the collapse of local journalism and asks what it would take for students and citizens alike to reclaim a stake in the information that shapes democracy.

What’s Between the First Ghost and Last Human Worker?

Contributing Writer Lucas Silva ’28 explores the tensions between artificial intelligence and memory, imagination, and creation, exposing its dangerous impacts on how we interact with our real world.