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Lucas Silva '28

Contributing Writer

Early Decision and the Limits of Competition

Managing Opinion Editor Lucas Silva ‘28 dissects the antitrust lawsuit challenging Early Decision admissions at Amherst and peer institutions, arguing that a decades-old system may also suppress competition for students by limiting their ability to negotiate financial aid.

Nora Lowe: At the ‘Corps’ of Scientific Journalism

Nora Lowe: At the ‘Corps’ of Scientific Journalism

Nora Lowe’s storytelling instinct, paired with admirable rigor, has given Amherst — and the wider world — a writer to watch, read, and learn from. She is indefatigable!

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.