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Olivia Tennant '27

Clean Up Your Puke

Managing Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 confronts the campus’ culture of entitlement, arguing that Amherst students’ daily messes expose a larger moral failing: our refusal to recognize the dignity of the workers who sustain our lives here.

The Indicator x The Student: “The Pimple”

The Indicator x The Student: “The Pimple”

In “The Pimple,” Managing Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 reflects on the complexities of beauty and the standards we impose on ourselves, paired with Audrey Yoo ’28’s artwork “Metamorphosis,” which captures feelings of transformation. Both pieces appear in The Indicator’s Spring 2025 issue.

Growing Pains: The Junior Experience

Contemplating absence, nostalgia, and the passage of time, Managing Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 explores the disorienting in-between of junior year — suspended between memory and anticipation — and how to make sense of it.

Bela Achaibar: Unraveling the Fabric of Diaspora

Bela Achaibar: Unraveling the Fabric of Diaspora

Bela Achaibar pieced together an education as layered as the cultures she studied, built on curiosity, creativity, and a deep love for where we come from.

Satire: Cohan Hall: A Communist Utopia

Assistant Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 reflects on her delightful experiences living in Cohan Hall, a socialist paradise.

An Honest Discussion On Affirmative Action: Why It Matters and How It Fails

Assistant Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 provides an open discussion on affirmative action, highlighting the distinction between equality and fairness, and explains the flaws of embracing a strict meritocracy.