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Scott Brasesco '22

Smith College, Free Speech and the Modern Left

In 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College reported an incident of racial profiling on campus via a Facebook post that immediately sparked student outrage and an apology from the Smith administration. The ACLU picked up the case [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=560747387688597], and several Smith

Don't Pack the Courts, Improve Them

Don't Pack the Courts, Improve Them

In early March, when it appeared that Senator Bernie Sanders had clinched the nomination in the Democratic primary, I wrote that Democrats should come together to support his candidacy but also push back against his more radical and less democratic impulses while he was in office. I was later surprised

Charlotte Blackman: The Pragmatic Idealist

Charlotte Blackman: The Pragmatic Idealist

Blackman has used her drive and idealism to improve Amherst for survivors of sexual violence and other oppressed groups, and she hopes to do the same for the world at large. Photo Courtesy of Charlotte Blackman ’20. When talking with Charlotte Blackman ’20, one thing that becomes immediately clear is

Push Back our Classes

Fewer than half of Amherst students come from places in the Eastern Time Zone. In any other semester on any other year, this fact would not affect students’ academic experience at Amherst. But this is not any other semester. The transition to remote learning across time zones throughout the country