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Beneath the Blue Hat, a Devotion to Her Art

Beneath the Blue Hat, a Devotion to Her Art

“If the mammoth ever goes out of style, her blue baseball cap should be the new Amherst mascot.” In one sentence, longtime friend Hannah Firestone ’19 encapsulated what makes Emily Park ’19 so special: she is what every student coming to Amherst envisions they will be. Park, a native of

“If You Want to Act, Understand the Stage”

“If You Want to Act, Understand the Stage”

Yixin “Arthur” Xiao ’19 sees the world through the lens of a different language. It’s not because he came to Amherst as an international student from a home on the southern coast of China, but it is because he sees the world, and all within it, through the language

A Meandering Path to Higher Education

A Meandering Path to Higher Education

At the beginning of this past semester, I was not the biggest fan of the English class Arthur Pero ’19 and I shared. There seemed to be an underlying competition of who had the brightest idea, and this led to disjointed conversations about the texts we read. Nevertheless, as the

A Champion for First-Generation Students

A Champion for First-Generation Students

I first met Alyssa Snyder when I was a high school senior. At the time, she was a diversity intern for Diversity Open House (DIVOH), a fly-out program hosted by the Office of Admission that brings high school seniors from underrepresented backgrounds to Amherst. Though our interactions were brief, her

Letter to the Editor: On Protesting Jeff Sessions

To the Amherst College student body, Please know how proud so many of us in the alumni community have been to see the footage of your defiant, peaceful protest of Jeff Sessions. Your actions were in the best tradition of making clear your principled opposition without preventing the speaker from

Jeff Sessions Speaks On Free Speech, Addresses Mueller Report

Jeff Sessions Speaks On Free Speech, Addresses Mueller Report

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke to the college community about free speech on April 24 in an event jointly organized by the Amherst College Republicans (ACR) and the conservative youth organization Young America’s Foundation (YAF). The event was held in Johnson Chapel, with only Amherst students, faculty and

College Community Protests, Organizes Against Jeff Sessions

College Community Protests, Organizes Against Jeff Sessions

The Amherst community demonstrated against former attorney general Jeff Sessions in a variety of ways on Wednesday, April 24, as his scheduled talk at 8 p.m. in Johnson Chapel loomed over campus. [https://amherststudent.com/article/jeff-sessions-speaks-on-free-speech-addresses-mueller-report] A former Alabama senator, Sessions was appointed attorney general by President Donald