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Behind the Board: Sports Recruiting Boosts the Desirability of Amherst College

Two weeks ago, The Student’s editors met to discuss equity in college admissions. Spurred by a Williams Record article [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/11/lets-lose-the-directors-cup-a-call-to-end-athletic-recruitment/] calling for the end of athletic recruiting, we embarked on a discussion of the

Hillel Responds to Swastika Incident… Again

As many students are aware, several swastikas were found carved into a table at Book and Plow Farm this past Saturday, Oct. 10. The Amherst College Hillel community is deeply affected and hurt by the use of the swastika, a symbol which is a direct assault on our Jewish identities

Seeing Double: Amherst’s Invisible Financial Aid Crisis (Part Two)

This is the second part of a two-part series about Amherst College’s financial aid program. Check out the first part [https://amherststudent.com/article/seeing-double-amhersts-invisible-financial-aid-crisis-part-one] here. Last week, we showed how Amherst College’s financial aid fails its students. Once

Fleet Foxes Return with Pensive New Album ‘Shore’

During the first few months of quarantine, indie folk band Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold struggled with songwriting. Bored, exhausted and uninspired, he started going for long drives through upstate New York. All of a sudden, the pieces clicked into place: “It was kind of like I was going around collecting

The Symposium: Election Season is Almost Over, Make the Most of the Final Stretch

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

Cartoon: Some Issues I Have with the Science Center

Isaac shares some of the many “quirks” of Amherst’s Science Center

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

The Editorial Board spent this weekend commiserating about the mid-semester exhaustion that inevitably strikes each semester but feels particularly intense given the circumstances of this time. Our weekly editorial meeting on Monday became an almost therapeutic session of airing out our mid-semester struggles, and we felt compelled to