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2025-2026

Confessions of a Chronically Over-Word-Count Editor

Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 tells the story of her time in the newsroom working with The Student. She discusses the strangeness of becoming a part of this community, and how their experience has become so much more than the tangible work that goes into it.

The Wrong Solution for Grade Inflation

Staff Writer Christopher Karmonik ’27 criticizes approaches to grade deflation that opt for one-size-fits-all solutions rather than holistic, institution-based ones. Karmonik urges the college to engage in a rigorous consideration of their "why" in combating grade inflation.

Bathroom Bulletin: The Last Dump of Keefe Campus Center

Bathroom Bulletin: The Last Dump of Keefe Campus Center

Editor-in-Chief Edwyn Choi ’27 and Staff Writer Jenny Chan ’28 give Keefe Campus Center one last taste of the glory that it will certainly lose upon the opening of the Student Center and Dining Commons in the form of a bathroom review.

Why I’m Into the Abolitionists (And You Should be Too)

Staff Writer Rizwan Ayub ’27 analyzes the ideology of the abolitionists and their radical re-imagination of what America could be. He connects it to the work of contemporary scholars Dorothy Roberts and Angela Davis, and finally to how we can fight injustice here at Amherst.

Revisiting Shakespeare: Finding Monstrosity in “The Tempest”

Revisiting Shakespeare: Finding Monstrosity in “The Tempest”

Examining Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in this edition of Revisiting Shakespeare, Editor-in-Chief Edwyn Choi ’27 explores Caliban’s legacy and how the play’s language of monstrosity, law, and property continues to shape conversations about colonialism and race.

Taking the Plunge into “Sátántangó”

Taking the Plunge into “Sátántangó”

In this film review of “Sátántangó,” Contributing Writer Lucy Li ’28 reflects on the immersive experience of Béla Tarr’s slow-cinema epic and its adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s novel, exploring how duration and bleak humor reshape the act of watching a film.

The Indicator x The Student: “Final Draft”

In this chilling campus horror story, “Final Draft” by Jude Tait ’28 tells a story of how an issue spirals into a deadly urban legend. As paranoia spreads, the story builds toward a meditation on authorship, ambition, and the terrifying cost of finding your voice.