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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Sam Keaser '17E

Contributing Writer

Number of Articles: 2

First Article: January 28, 2015

Latest Article: September 16, 2015

Taking Ourselves Seriously: A Response

By Sam Keaser '17E

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September 16, 2015

During my second semester at Amherst, I spent most of my Friday nights at Rao’s Coffee. Around 7 p.m., I would head to town and spend a few hours working on transfer applications to colleges that, however vaguely, offered a better social scene. Or at least, offered something more like the social scene that I was looking for. I was unhappy at Amherst, and I was lonely at Amherst. It wasn’t clear then, and it isn’t clear now, that my unhappiness wasn’t directly and inextricably tied to my loneline

Actually, It’s Not About Ethics in Video Game Journalism: A Reconsideration of Gamergate

By Sam Keaser '17E

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January 28, 2015

The purpose of this article twofold: first, to correct and respond to the piece published in the December issue of The Amherst Student on the Gamergate controversy and second, to dispel notions of the movement as a positive force for any greater good. Bluntly, the Gamergate movement is not actually about ethics in games journalism. Because the movement is still unfolding, it is difficult to tell an accurate story of both what has occurred and what is occurring; nevertheless, if The Student’s ret

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