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Start of Spring Semester Classes Delayed to Feb. 15, Per Faculty Vote

Faculty voted to move the start of spring semester classes from Feb. 3 to Feb. 15 during a meeting held on Dec. 15. Eighty-seven percent of the faculty, or 161 members, voted in favor of the motion, while 24 members voted against. Supporters cited the need for a longer

In Response to the Call to Divest

I write in response to the opinion piece, “A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest? [https://amherststudent.com/article/a-letter-to-the-administration-when-will-we-divest] ” about the college’s endowment. I’d like to provide The Student’s readers and the college community as a

Bidding Goodbye to a Chaotic and Illuminating Year

Like any good, cheesy romance film, I stumbled across the news section of The Amherst Student by chance. At the introduction meeting I attended during the very first week of classes my first year, I was intent on writing opinion articles — a testament to the lofty goals I set at

The Symposium: To Desystematize Racism, Start With Criminal Justice

Black Lives Matter. One might see such a statement as uncontroversial. People’s lives matter. Black people are people. Therefore Black Lives Matter. It’s the simplest kind of argument you could make — a deduction following from two premises. And yet, the American justice system routinely devalues Black lives. Black

A Farewell to the Worst/Best Year of an Unexpected Editorship

I accepted this job during a sweaty summer in 2019 when I was interning for a magazine in New York. Something about this incessant, unresolved question of whether to take the offer or not clicked into place one day, and I carefully typed out sentences into the text bubble on

A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest?

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, It is past time to divest from fossil fuels and the prison-industrial complex. We write to you on the eve of Amherst’s bicentennial, in a year that has brought continued police violence, a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the most hurricanes

As Pandemic Poses New Strains on Low-Income Families, Campus Life Provides Students a Sense of Stability

Amherst College prides itself on offering some of the most generous financial aid packages in the country, matriculating a socioeconomically diverse student body and offering programs, offices and spaces to support and foster community among low-income students. Leveling the socioeconomic playing field, however, has become a far more arduous