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Rule-Breaking, Bubble-Bending: Students Work With — and Around — Covid Protocols on Campus

In a Sept. 25 article, Fortune magazine [https://fortune.com/2020/09/05/covid-bubble-testing-safety-amherst-college-coronavirus/] summarized the college’s creation of a Covid-19 “bubble,” mentioning that students’ adherence to health and safety protocols, including three tests per week and a limited number of students,

The Symposium: Does Your Mail-In Vote Count?

The Symposium is a column by Leland Culver ’24 intended to act as a forum for the Amherst community to engage in dialogue together about current issues. If you would like to contribute to the Symposium, whether with suggestions for a topic, your opinion on this week’s topic or

What Should We Get Out of Education?

We live in a stratified and unjust world. Laborers in nearly every global industry face horrible conditions and receive wages that can not be justified by any humane reasoning. Marginalized people face brutalization at the hands of the state and systemic obstacles to opportunity. As the nation turns to interrogate

Halfway Through a Turbulent Semester, Students Reflect on Areas for Change in Open Forums

President Biddy Martin, joined by members of her senior staff, hosted two Zoom forums to gauge student feedback on the fall semester, one for on-campus students on Sept. 30 and the other for remote students on Oct. 1. Among the highlights of the forums include the opening of more

Local Restaurants See Uptick in Business as College Enters Delivery Express Partnership

Amherst residents stroll through the town on an afternoon before the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.In an email to on-campus students on Sept. 11, Chief Student Affairs Officer Karu Kozuma announced that the college would launch a new partnership with Delivery Express, a local food delivery service akin

Cartoon: A Facemask Alignment Chart

Where does your mask of choice fall?

UMass Opens Feinberg Series, With a Focus on Indigenous Knowledge Systems

On Sept. 30, Robin Wall Kimmerer, an author and founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, kicked off the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst 2020-21 Feinberg Series. The free virtual seminar, which was promoted by the Amherst Environmental Studies Program, was the first of nine