Opinion
Defying the Invisibility and Misrepresentation of the Asian American Experience
It has been an extremely hard week for people of Asian descent living in the
United States after eight people, including six Asian women, were murdered in
the March 16 Atlanta spa shootings
[https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/7-dead-after-shootings-at-multiple-spas-in-atlanta-updates.html]
What's Taking So Long?
Last Wednesday, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) issued a statement of
solidarity with Asian Americans in the Amherst College community following the
Atlanta spa shootings
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/us/atlanta-spa-shootings.html] on March 16.
This statement ended with a call for an independent
Abolishing the Filibuster May Have Unintended Consequences
In the wake of Democrats winning the House, Senate and White House, progressives
frustrated with the slow pace of legislative reforms have encouraged
[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/us/filibuster-senate-democrats.html] the
Senate to abolish the filibuster. This tactic unique to the U.S. Senate, which
Seeing Double: Our Vaccine Regime is Killing People
So far, the United States has administered more than 124 million
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html]
coronavirus vaccine doses — more than a fourth of the total doses administered
worldwide. About a fourth of the country’s population has received at least one
dose, and
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
How Can We Right Past Wrongs?
Last Wednesday, March 10, the Associated Press (AP) published an article
[https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-massachusetts-c54f6419bf59017ab28956d35981a55e]
following the recent push for reparations in the town of Amherst. The article
draws heavily on a recent interview with former Sociology Professor at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass)