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College Seeks to Modernize Information Systems in BIG Initiative

College Seeks to Modernize Information Systems in BIG Initiative

This past July, the college started implementing the first phase of its Business Improvement Group (BIG) Initiative, a project designed to modernize business processes at Amherst. The initiative seeks to overhaul the college’s nearly two-decade-old business management software and consolidate workflow — from payroll and human resources activities to student

ResLife Implements a Series of Changes, Including Free-Play Laundry

Effective for the beginning of fall semester, students will no longer have to pay $1.25 for each laundry wash or dry cycle, instead facing a $33 increase in residential fees to offset the costs of operating the laundry machines. The change to laundry payment, called the free-play laundry initiative,

Walk for Mental Health Funds Made Available for Student Projects

Students, faculty and staff can now request funding from the newly-established Community Mental Health Fund for projects intending to promote positive mental health on campus. The fund, announced more than a year after the first fundraising effort in May 2018, contains half of the money raised from the last two

Amherst College Republicans Appeals Sanctions From Judiciary Council

Amherst College Republicans Appeals Sanctions From Judiciary Council

The executive board (E-board) of the Amherst College Republicans (ACR) has asked the Judiciary Council (JC) to appeal its decision last spring to sanction ACR after the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) was made aware of ACR GroupMe screenshots containing derogatory language toward LGBTQ students and staff. The request, however,

Seeing Double: How to Read Local

At Amherst, we know to emphasize eating and buying local. Valentine Dining Hall serves local food from as close as the Book & Plow Farm, and A.J. Hastings and Amherst Books, both independent businesses, are our campus bookstores. What we forget about, however, is reading local. For example, take

9/11 Cannot be Business as Usual

I don’t have any memory of the attacks that took place on Sept. 11, 2001. I was one year old, fast asleep in my crib in northern New Jersey. My parents got the rest of the day off from work, which, on any other occasion, would have been cause

Fresh Faculty: Victor Guevara

Fresh Faculty: Victor Guevara

Victor Guevara is an assistant professor of geology. He completed his undergraduate studies at Middlebury College, holds a master’s degree from the University of Montana and a doctorate degree from Virginia Tech. Q: What was your first encounter with the study of geology and what drew you to the