Campus Police Log: Sept. 27 to Oct. 3
The latest installment of the Police Log, from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, can be found here.
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Mammoth Moments in Miniature: Sept. 27 to Oct. 3
Mammoth Moments in Miniature provides quick updates on campus happenings. In this week’s edition: the administration makes changes to pass/fail policy, AAS holds fall elections, and its Budgetary Committee approves club budgets.
Old News: This Week in 1920
Working with local unions on a new Labor College, a 40-gallon barrel of cider, dodgy admissions practices, and more. In this edition of Old News, Managing Features Editor Sonia Chajet Wides ‘25 probes the October 4, 1920 edition of The Student.
Fresh Faculty: Matthew Westermayer
Matthew Westermayer is a visiting assistant professor of religion and a scholar deeply interested in the arboreal and nonhuman world, also known as “the tree guy.” He recently completed his doctorate in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell, and is teaching “Ecology and Religion” and “Jesus” this fall.
Exercises in Thought: I Love Eating in Val!/Eat in Val: It’s good for you.
Exercises In Thought Columnists Joe Sweeney ’25 and Tim Carroll ’25 contemplate the pleasures of eating in Val in our post-to-go box era.
Foreign Currents: Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh
Foreign Currents Columnist Cole Warren ’24 calls attention to the ongoing crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Anti-Ableist Amherst: Mark Your Words
Assistant Opinion Editor Willow Delp ’26 inspects how ableism, both silent and verbal, plagues Amherst’s campus.