Seeing Double: Bridging Amherst's Athletic Divide

Any student who has lived at the college pre-Covid has experienced the immense divide between athletes and non-athletes. Every evening, varsity teams would fill the back room of Valentine Dining Hall, while non-athletes would instinctively avoid that back room. It isn’t often that the dividing line between two groups is so obvious that it could literally be drawn on the floor. The athletic divide at Amherst pervades nearly all aspects of campus life, from Val seating to parties to study groups