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Old News: This Week in 1988

Old News: This Week in 1988

In this week’s Old News, Managing Features Editor Sonia Chajet Wides ’25 sums up a 1988 edition of The Amherst Student — a time of new meal plans, record-breaking diversity rates, and purple ice cream — showing how an ’80s Amherst is different (and strikingly similar) to the school we know today.

A Ride on the Rail Trail

A Ride on the Rail Trail

Photo editor Claire Beougher ’26 answers the questions plaguing Amherst students: Where can I find good ice cream? Where can I see beautiful rainbows? How can I get to Northampton without spending an hour on the PVTA? Ride with her down the rail trail and find out!

Fresh Faculty: Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito

Fresh Faculty: Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito

Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito is a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of English. She spoke to The Student about storytelling, Asian American studies, and the “ecologies of death” produced under militarism.

Animals on the Rail Trail

Animals on the Rail Trail

Nina Aagaard ’26 chronicles the various creatures she discovered on the rail trail over this past summer. Meet the four-legged (or non-legged) friends who call Amherst’s rail trail home.

Maira Owais: Tenacious and Poised to Confront Health-Care Policy

Known by peers for her excellence and composure, Owais is leaving Amherst having integrated a solid sense of identity — from her long-time love of the health sciences and a newfound interest in economics, to her roots as a Pakistani immigrant.

Kelechi Eziri: A Devoted Teammate and Community-Builder

Anchored in the “familial” nature of the track and field team, Kelechi Eziri built power among student-athletes of color, linking his Black studies and psychology coursework with his leadership ethic.

Helen Feibes: A Colorful Practitioner of the Liberal Arts

Her radio show is called “And She Was,” but Helen Feibes is anything but a has-been. Finding joy in everything from neuroscience to creative writing, Feibes is the personification of the liberal-arts ideal.