Welcoming Justice Ginsburg
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Seeing Double: America’s Sub-Citizens
More than six million Americans could not vote in the 2016 elections because of
felony convictions. In other words, about 4.5 percent of eligible voters were
prohibited from casting ballots simply because they had been convicted of a
felony at some point. Of these disenfranchised voters, 77 percent were
Fighting on a Larger, Local Scale
Throughout the Global Week for Future and the United Nations Climate Summit,
which took place from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27, the world witnessed a global
phenomenon of students, scientists, world leaders and activists working together
to bring attention to the issue of climate change and its growing impacts around
Effects of Vaping Crisis Echo on Campus
With growing fear that use of e-cigarette devices such as Juuls can lead to
respiratory conditions later in life, students are reevaluating the use of vape
pens, e-cigarettes and Juuls on campus.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, declared a public health emergency yesterday,
announcing a four-month ban on
LSAT Joins GRE, MCAT in Offering Digital Exam
After digital exams were introduced in July 2019, the Law School Admission Test
(LSAT) will now be administered digitally in entirety in the U.S. starting in
September 2019, eliminating paper exams. Pre-law students at Amherst and across
the country will have to adjust to this new format.
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Gooding and Hills Fields to Undergo Renovations
Gooding and Hills Fields, which serve as practice and game spaces for multiple
varsity, club and intramural athletic teams, will undergo extensive renovations
beginning in late March. Affected student groups will include varsity field
hockey, varsity men’s and women’s lacrosse, varsity men’s and women’s track and
Sherally Munshi’s Work Sparks Conversation and Thought
Sherally Munshi laughs as she tells us she was expecting an audience of
undergraduates, not tenured professors, before she begins to present her paper,
“The Courts of the Conqueror: Law, Infamy,and the Time of Redemption.”
Instead, she saw six law jurisprudence and social thought (LJST) professors, a
curious faculty