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The Editorial Board

Behind the Board: The Editorial Board on Amherst’s Admissions

The Amherst College community is about four weeks into its first full pandemic semester. So far, one thing has become very clear: Covid-19 has created a moment of disruption that has enabled Amherst College to expedite changes that were once cripplingly impeded by bureaucracy. This week, as with every other

Reimaging the Crime Log: A Promise of Transparency

Every issue, The Student prints a copy of the police log with a tally of the week’s disturbances and police calls. It’s entertaining and light and an incentive for people to pick up a print copy of our paper. But, of course, the print issue does not exist

Keeping in Touch With the Town (Without Touching)

The notion of the Amherst College bubble is not new. But this semester, amid a global pandemic, it has taken on an entirely new meaning. In past years, the Amherst bubble referenced (sometimes derisively) the idea that the Amherst College community insulates itself from the towns that surrounded it. Now,

2020-2021 AAS E-board Candidate Statements

On Thursday, Sept. 10, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) will hold elections for AAS president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. The students below have announced their candidacies for these elections. Students who are interested in hearing from these candidates or are interested in running but were unable to submit

Is It Time To Abolish The Open Curriculum?

On July 31, The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University’s student newspaper, published an editorial [https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/07/31/brown-update-open-curriculum-diap-shouldnt-optional/] urging their college administration to update their open curriculum to establish a “diversity and inclusion action plan course requirement.” In the piece, The Herald’s editorial board

We Are All the Institution: Making Change Amid a Pandemic and Anti-Racist Movement

Every August, we all take part in the ritualistic dance of the back-to-school season. First-years explore the ins and outs of where they plan to spend the next four years. All students network their way through an underground market of free PDFs in order to (with varying degrees of success)

The Student Commits To Change

The Editorial Board unequivocally stands with the Black Lives Matter movement, along with the Black students, faculty and staff at Amherst who not only continually navigate the racist structures embedded in the predominantly white institution but have often also carried the weight of anti-racism work on our campus since its