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The Status Quo is Not Enough

The fight for a concrete Asian American studies program at Williams College made significant progress this year when the Williams Curricular Planning Committee, comprised of faculty, staff and students, recommended a renewed push to hire more Asian American studies faculty at Williams. It is notable that the Asian American studies

Bridging the Town-Gown Gap

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

Tracing Indigenous Lives: Through, Around and at Amherst College

Tracing Indigenous Lives: Through, Around and at Amherst College

The land on which Amherst College sits is Nonotuck land, with the Nipmuc and the Wampanoag to the east, the Mohegan and Pequot to the south, the Mohican to the west and the Abenaki to the north. Trigger warning: Some of the material in this spread may be disturbing to

The Fight Does Not End Here

One of the most closely-watched cases in higher education received judgment last week when District Judge Allison D. Burroughs ruled in favor of Harvard in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The decision marks a great victory for advocates of affirmative action, but it is also important to recognize the

Fighting on a Larger, Local Scale

Throughout the Global Week for Future and the United Nations Climate Summit, which took place from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27, the world witnessed a global phenomenon of students, scientists, world leaders and activists working together to bring attention to the issue of climate change and its growing impacts around

The New American Experiment

Last Tuesday, Facebook announced plans to establish an independent “Oversight Board” by early 2020. The committee will handle matters related to content-moderation, taking CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hand off the big red button that decides which posts get taken down and which stay up. This new governing body, which has

Does Character Belong in Court?

On March 12, the college admissions world was shocked by over 50 charges against wealthy parents who were involved in a conspiracy to bribe college officials and to cheat on critical college entrance exams. These wealthy parents spent $500,000 to $6.5 million to bribe officials and guarantee their