An Open Letter from President Martin

An open letter to the Amherst Community: I write to you today with an enormous sense of sorrow. Yesterday, a website for the Good Men Project posted a suicide note written by a former Amherst student, Trey Malone, who took his own life in June 2012. Trey’s death is a tragedy. My deepest sympathies are with his family members and friends, who have suffered the most painful imaginable loss. Suicide could not be more heart-wrenching. It leaves those who remain not only with incomprehensible loss,

Letter to the Editor from President Martin

President Carolyn “Biddy” Martin writes in to update the student body. This is an extraordinary time at Amherst College, one that demands all of the resources we can muster, both from within our community and from outside. In an effort to ensure that all members of this community (students, faculty and staff) have the resources they need to feel safe and supported, I am bringing to campus Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, Ph.D., Director of College Mental Health Programs at McLean Hospital, a nationally