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2025-2026

I Phone Detoxed for 16 Weeks, and I Refuse to Get Bricked

Staff Writer Irisa Teng ’29 dissects Amherst Students Against Phones, arguing that their sixteen-week personal phone detox shows the value of intentional, self-directed digital habits over imposed tech-fast programs.

On Being An “Implicated Subject”

Staff Writer Rizwan Ayub ’27 interrogates Amherst’s opaque endowment, arguing that its entanglement in secretive financial systems renders accountability elusive while leaving students as “implicated subjects” in unseen exploitation.

Before You Preach About Democracy, Do It

Staff Writer Max Feigelson ’27 interrogates Amherst College’s performative politics, arguing that symbolic resolutions and faculty-led statements fail to empower students, revealing a deeper crisis of political imagination that undermines the practice of democracy on campus.

Satire: Rating Things in the Newsroom That Just Make Sense

Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 and Assistant Opinion Editor Syla Steinman ’29 lament the Editorial Board’s goodbye to the newsroom in Morrow Dormitory at the end of the semester, rating the objects they so deeply cherish.

Ninth Annual Black Art Matters Visual Arts Showcase Highlights “Inclusivity, Community, Sharing, and Celebrating”

With the opening of the ninth Black Art Matters (BAM) Festival on March 3, Contributing Writer Isabelle Sloan ’28 shares details and background about the program and some of the artworks exhibited this year.

The Indicator x The Student: “I Go Back to Jamjar”

The Indicator x The Student: “I Go Back to Jamjar”

From The Indicator’s Spring 2026 issue, “I Go Back to Jamjar” by Venumi Gamage ’26 paints a picture of love as a dance of the senses — sticky marmalade, warm sunlight, and skin against skin — that consumes body and mind alike.

The Indicator x The Student: “Blood of ’02”

The Indicator x The Student: “Blood of ’02”

“Blood of ’02” by Jorge Rodríguez Jr. ’26 tells an eerie story of two young boys’ realization that their uncle has disappeared. From The Indicator’s Spring 2026 issue, this story explores uncertain yet palpable loss.