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Editorial: Our New Room: Seeing Red

Editorial: Our New Room: Seeing Red

The Editorial Board challenges Amherst College’s decision to relocate The Student into an undersized newsroom, arguing that the move threatens the community essential to student journalism, revealing how institutional support shapes the future of independent campus media.

The Betty’s Issue

Managing Sports Editor Joey Supik ’27 critiques Betty’s Kitchen, arguing that its design weakens the everyday interactions that once connected students and dining staff, revealing how institutions can make essential labor increasingly invisible.

I Survived the Great Lesbian Bar Discourse of 2026

Managing Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 and Managing Graphics Editor Lucy Jones ’27 examine the viral backlash against a Massachusetts lesbian bar, arguing that online outrage has eclipsed meaningful conversations about accessibility and solidarity, revealing the limits of performative politics.

Why I Have an iCloud+ Subscription

Staff Writer Jenny Chan ’28 unpacks the culture of digital hoarding, arguing that subscription-based storage feeds our desire to preserve every moment, revealing how technology can blur the line between remembering our lives and archiving them.

Hope is a Discipline

Staff Writer Trang-Linh Nguyen ’29 confronts the culture of political apathy, arguing that hope is not a feeling but a civic practice, revealing how democracy depends on ordinary people choosing action over cynicism.

Bathroom Bulletin: Beneski Museum of Natural History

Bathroom Bulletin: Beneski Museum of Natural History

For this week's edition of the Bathroom Bulletin, Editor-in-Chief Edwyn Choi ’27, Staff Writers Jenny Chan ’28, and Will Chen ’29 investigate Amherst’s most overlooked campus spaces, arguing that the Beneski Museum’s bathrooms combine comfort and geological charm.

Letter to the Editor: How Amherst Nuked WAMH

The WAMH Executive Board investigates the troubled rollout of the Ford Student Center, arguing that the loss of promised studio space, communication failures, and last-minute operational disruptions reveal a deeper institutional pattern in which student input is solicited but ultimately disregarded.