The Editorial Board

This Thursday, Nov. 12, marks the five-year anniversary of Amherst Uprising [https://www.amherst.edu/library/find/researchguides/amherstuprising]. The movement, which was initially planned as a one-hour solidarity protest [https://amherststudent.amherst.edu/article/2015/11/13/students-protest-racial-discrimination-sit.html] with students at the University of Missouri, Yale and other

This Wednesday is going to feel different. Regardless of the outcome of the election — and we may not know for days to come — the presidency does not solely solve the nation’s problems and never has. There is still much work to be done, and the urgency of that work

Last Monday, Oct. 19, President Biddy Martin sent an email recognizing the importance of voting in the coming election and urging departments and staff supervisors to be “as flexible as possible” with work schedules so staff would be able to vote on Election Day. However, like our fellow editors at

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