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Camilo's Corner: The Measures Taken to Win

Camilo's Corner: The Measures Taken to Win

It must be a hard time to be a Boston Red Sox fan. The troubles began with Alex Cora, the team’s manager for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. Cora and the Red Sox recently parted ways because he was found to be implicated in the Astros’ cheating scandal during

The False Dialectic of the Video Assistant Referee in Premier League Soccer

At the beginning of the current Premier League season, the Football Association (FA), English football’s governing body, officially implemented the instant officiating replay system known as the Video Assistant Referee. The Video Assistant Referee (affectionately called VAR) had already been in use in the Spanish and Italian leagues, as

Considering the Role of Music in Political Campaigns

Considering the Role of Music in Political Campaigns

Less than 72 hours before the Iowa caucuses began, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, the Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, played an acoustic set at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa on Jan. 31 to garner support for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Vernon performed a set of eight

Men's Basketball Back to Back Wins Secure Home Court Advantage at NESCACS

Men's Basketball Back to Back Wins Secure Home Court Advantage at NESCACS

The Amherst men’s basketball team spent the past weekend in Maine, beating Bowdoin on Friday and following it up with a Saturday victory over Colby. In Brunswick, the Mammoths jumped out to an early lead, scoring the first seven points of the game. It was all Mammoths for the

Combating Coronavirus Racism

On Feb. 1, the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) made national headlines as it infected one patient in Massachusetts. This patient, a University of Massachusetts Boston student from Wuhan, China where the virus was first identified, highlights the degree to which this virus has spread across the globe. At publication time,

Seeing Double: Solving Our Climate Crisis

Socialism as the Solution Cole Graber-Mitchell ’22Columnist Right now, we have what we need to overcome the climate crisis. We have the the will: an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that climate change is both happening and dangerous, according to a 2018 study by Yale researchers. And we have the

Responding to Student Center Sustainability Concerns

I write to thank Margot Lurie ’21 in “The Need for a Sustainable Student Center,” published in The Student on Feb. 5, for advocating that the college embrace sustainable design principles for the new student center and for highlighting the importance of minimizing embodied carbon as part of a sustainability