Student Squared: Rubina Singh ’28
In this edition of Student Squared, Managing Features Editor Talia Ehrenberg ’28 spoke with sophomore Rubina Singh about home, her upcoming year at Oxford, and how she’d spend her perfect day at Amherst.
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Wake Up, Babe, a New Course Review Just Dropped
Contributing Writer Halle Hanna ’26 investigated student reactions to the Amherst College Internal Course Review System (ACICRS), launched on March 3 by student senate members Joanne Opoku ’28, Olivia Salai ’28, and Max Froomkin ’28.
Letter to the Editor: Bravo to Trang-Linh Nguyen’s for her March 11th Opinion piece: The AI Question Amherst Cannot Afford to Ignore
Alumnus Jim Knight ’69 lauds Trang-Linh Nguyen ’29’s March 11 piece, arguing that her call to preserve human creativity amid AI’s rise highlights the urgent ethical need to keep humanity central in technology.
The Violence I Carry in My Pocket
Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 exposes the relentless scroll of death and violence online, arguing that our digital immersion desensitizes us, erodes empathy, and makes human suffering feel ordinary.
On Life Among Queer Men at Amherst College
Staff Writer Shane Dillon ’26 unpacks life among queer men at Amherst, arguing that social pressures and secrecy constrain openness, revealing how even progressive campuses can reproduce broader societal silences.
I Phone Detoxed for 16 Weeks, and I Refuse to Get Bricked
Staff Writer Irisa Teng ’29 dissects Amherst Students Against Phones, arguing that their sixteen-week personal phone detox shows the value of intentional, self-directed digital habits over imposed tech-fast programs.
On Being An “Implicated Subject”
Staff Writer Rizwan Ayub ’27 interrogates Amherst’s opaque endowment, arguing that its entanglement in secretive financial systems renders accountability elusive while leaving students as “implicated subjects” in unseen exploitation.