The Editorial Board

Last week, the Editorial Board published an editorial titled “Take a Break, You Deserve It,” urging readers to use Mammoth Day as a real day off, not just a day to catch up on work. While we stand by that message, we have come to realize that the piece was not written for the full Amherst community, as it was intended to be, because not everyone received that day off — staff members were required to work on Mammoth Day. While students on campus sat in circles on the quad, enjoying fresh pastrie

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

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September 23, 2020

Read more about The Student’s decision to publish the crime log online here [https://amherststudent.com/article/reimaging-the-crime-log-a-promise-of-transparency] . Sept. 7, 2020 10:16 p.m. Mead Art Museum Officers responded to an alarm disarmed past its regular schedule and found an employee working there. Sept. 8, 2020 10:47 a.m., Beneski Building An officer responded to an alarm and found it was set off accidentally by an employee. 5:55 p.m., Gooding Field Officers responded to a

Welcome, New News Writers!

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November 6, 2019

Here at Amherst, we take the notion of community pretty seriously. With a student body of fewer than 2,000 students, there’s a certain pressure to appear tightly knit to the outside world. The spaces in which we live, study, eat and hang out are engineered to optimize interaction and collaboration. For instance, Chief of Campus Operations Jim Brassord recently told The Student that having “a singular space where students can come together in community” is a driving factor in the plan to build a

Tracing Indigenous Lives: Through, Around and at Amherst College

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March 5, 2014

In the past couple of days, students have received emails from the Office of Residential Life about room draw. Room Draw can be extremely stressful; after all, the placement of one’s room draw group on the room draw list might determine a significant portion of the quality of one’s social experience at the College for the entire next year. This is to a large extent unavoidable. There will always be heterogeneity in the quality of rooms and residences, and as long as a scarcity of ideal living sp

Summer Internship Introspection

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February 26, 2014

As deadlines approach for summer internships, The Student can commiserate with the stress and anxiety of prospective interns. Summer internships can be a serious ordeal and scoring a prestigious internship is often more highly valued than success during the academic semester. Internships present a crucial opportunity to not only advance one’s career goals but also to clarify and define what those goals should be. Nonetheless, many students do not carefully deliberate why and where they hope to f

Snow Day or No Snow Day?

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February 18, 2014

There is always something a little magical about snow days. They are a serendipitous holiday — a fortuitous chance to enjoy the idyllic side of the winter season before the snow turns to grimy slush and ice — and for those of us who grew up in the northeast, evoke a certain nostalgia for grade school. Nonetheless, while many of us rejoiced at having our classes cancelled last week because of the snow, it is important to remember that not everyone got off so easy. For the rest us, the inclement

Big Questions, Little Answers

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February 12, 2014

Many of us probably noticed the massive banners hanging from the front of Frost Library and Valentine Dining Hall last week. In prominent bold letters, they displayed the question, “When do you conform?” Ironically, the large size of the banners, their positions overlooking the campus’ main quads and their odd wording in the second person all gave them an eerily Orwellian feel, as if they seemed to be aimed at promoting the same sort of groupthink that the question was meant to address. Perhaps

Change We Can’t Believe In: Examining Administrative Turnover

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April 24, 2013

This exam period, for the first time in our collective student memory, students have as much to look forward to going into finals as they already have to not look forward to: first, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis promises to keep spirits up as students get excited about not having any use for their glass coasters and Spring Formal; second, students should also appreciate the generous end-of-year break we received — an extended “reading period.” In semesters past, reading period has never failed to und

Mascot Question Demands a Positive Proposal for Respect and Hope of Resolution

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April 16, 2013

It’s already been heard that the debate surrounding Lord Jeff has injured many on campus — a phenomenon not unsurprising given the harshness of the rhetoric and the complete disregard for logical argument. The debate is leading students to accuse each other of ignorance and arrogance, hate and immaturity. We can not expect civility when strength of argument is replaced by its loudness. We can only expect pain when we seek to stir hatred rather than compassion. We can only expect vulgarity when

Running For The Gate

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August 31, 2012

The first fall breeze brings with it the fresh and confused faces of first-year students who still don’t know the way to Val and the inevitable “new school year” resolutions which upperclassmen come up with: “this year, I won’t pull any all-nighters” or “this year, I’m actually going to find out what the inside of the Alumni Gym looks like.” Although we at the editorial board of The Student cannot vouch for how likely you are to work out this semester or stop drinking on Wednesday nights, we d

Email Controversy: What To Take Away

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March 7, 2012

This week saw a lot of tension on campus on the subject of mass emails, sparked by a student voicing a grievance that many shared on campus: that the annoying nature of mass mailings requires students to avoid the temptation to an end to the unofficial use of the campus email addresses. Students responded in various ways to this complaint — some of them reactionary and unpleasant in nature. We would like to explain why we see the event as a clash of student interests, while offering visions for