AAS Shakes Up Budget Process Amid Fiscal Uncertainty

Amid an ongoing budget deficit and lack of clarity over fiscal figures, the Association of Amherst Students Budgetary Committee has not yet allocated club budgets for this semester, and has adopted a new standard of “urgency” for evaluating budget requests.

The AAS Is Changing for the Better — Will Students?

The Editorial Board calls on students to match the productive changes the AAS is making with democratic enthusiasm, in order to make this spring a fresh start for student government.

Restore the Student Activities Fee

In light of the Association of Amherst Students’ ongoing budget crisis, The Editorial Board argues for a raised student activities fee.

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 (AAS) to change its currently hostile atmosphere and unwritten laws. We demand [https://docs.google.com/document/d/16nB9UCdiDcqtCH1s9KPJ0-UW7aKR4sHseEHe8WsfXYU/edit?usp=sharing] that the