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The Editorial Board

Bring Staff from Behind the Scenes to Center Stage

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

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

The Editorial Board spent this weekend commiserating about the mid-semester exhaustion that inevitably strikes each semester but feels particularly intense given the circumstances of this time. Our weekly editorial meeting on Monday became an almost therapeutic session of airing out our mid-semester struggles, and we felt compelled to call on

Is Snitch Culture a Problem?

When the Editorial Board set out our priorities [https://amherststudent.com/article/we-are-all-the-institution-making-change-amid-a-pandemic-and-anti-racist-movement] at the beginning of the semester, we looked to explore questions of institutional and individual responsibility. That is, with the unique backdrop of this semester, what is the college’s obligation to us? What is our obligation

Campus Police Log: Sept. 21 to Oct. 4

Monday, September 21, 2020 10:22 a.m. Keefe Health Center An officer responded to a call to the emergency line with no response from the caller. No one was in distress. 11:05 a.m. Valentine Dining Hall An officer responded to a report of an unknown individual tapping

On the DOE's Princeton Investigation: Looking Beyond the Public Statement

On Sept.16, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) notified Princeton University that it would be under investigation for violations [https://www.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/Princeton-Letter-9-16-20-Signed.pdf] of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity rights, potentially leading to “an action to recover funds” from the university

2020-2021 AAS Senate Candidate Statements

From Thursday, Sept. 24 to Friday Sept. 26, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) will hold elections for AAS Senators in each grade and transfer students. The students below have announced their candidacies for these elections. Students who are interested in hearing from these candidates or are interested in running

The College’s Fires to Put Out

If the United States didn’t already feel like it was figuratively on fire all of this year, it literally is now. Wildfires have been ravaging the West Coast since mid-August (in general, since far before then). But over the past couple of weeks, the fires have been blazing much