Last Wednesday, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) issued a statement of
solidarity with Asian Americans in the Amherst College community following the
Atlanta spa shootings
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/atlanta-spa-shootings.html] on March 16.
This statement ended with a call for an independent major and department of
Asian and Pacific American Studies at the college, recognizing the role of
higher education in pushing back against harmful stereotypes at a societal
level.
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