A Precedent for Pay
The Editorial Board commends AAS’ decision to pay its members for the potential it creates for increased accessibility across student organizations.
AAS
Seeing Double: Stop Pretending AAS Is Democratic
Seeing Double Columnist Thomas Brodey '22 argues that the Association of Amherst Students fails to live up to its democratic image.
The AAS Budgetary Committee’s Past Should Not Determine its Future
A pattern of intimidating, unwelcoming experiences and discriminatory approaches
to funding via the Budgetary Committee (BC) has existed from the 1970s to the
present. We write to shed light on current practices and the history of the BC
with the hopes that this will propel the Association of Amherst Students
Students Demand Immediate Release of College’s Student Relief Funds
On Sunday, April 18, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS), the First
Generation Association and the Covid-19 Student Task Force released a letter
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHu2D4VD493PDVtXw6bFEeuGQplSYNj13WH1OCKUabE/edit?usp=sharing]
calling on the Office of Financial Aid to immediately disburse the Higher
Education Emergency Relief Funds III
AAS E-Board Winners Shed Light on Campaigns and Plans for Office
The Association of Amherst Students (AAS) announced the results of the
2021-2022
AAS Executive Board (E-Board) election
[https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/aas/elections-2021-22] on April 18 at 12
a.m. EST. Presidential candidate Angelina Han ’22 came out on top with 64
percent of the vote. Basma Azzamok ’22,
Let's Start With Disarmament
Yesterday, April 13, the Black Student Union (BSU) called for a college-wide
walkout via a message
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zRYhv1evj0Qz5v1ZXG6VeRofkXMtjRETh3qFTCWhsEA/edit?usp=sharing]
circulated by the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) and on the BSU’s
Instagram page [https://www.instagram.com/p/CNlyuqIBaLz/]. The walkout was
2021-2022 AAS E-Board Candidate Statements
The Association of Amherst Students (AAS) will hold elections on April 15 for
five executive board members, President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary
and Judiciary Council Chair. On that day, students will receive an email with a
ballot page to vote. The following candidates submitted blurbs to AAS to be
published