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