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Enduring Pandemic Fatigue

As online classes resume this week, it is extremely crucial for the college community to recognize that beyond exciting optimism, a return to campus also comes with tremendous levels of responsibility. The college showed the strength of its pandemic planning last fall, keeping on-campus Covid-19 cases mostly in

The Cost of Corporate Crunch

A year in the gaming press isn’t complete without at least one horrifying tale of terrible labor practices. In 2020, it came from the formerly beloved developers at CD Projekt Red, a Polish video game studio, which recently unveiled Cyberpunk 2077. The main story around Cyberpunk 2077’s release

Seeing Double: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot

These days, social media bots are everywhere. They ask deep, pseudo-intellectual questions [https://twitter.com/deepquestionbot?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] like a blazed Michel Foucault. They write half-nonsensical jokes [https://twitter.com/HEADLINERTRON?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E997144752326922240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%

On Promises Left Unfinished

A pandemic, a civil rights movement, an election — amid a series of local, national and global upheavals, last year looked different at The Student. Besides our transition to an entirely digital distribution, we deepened our commitment to holding individuals and institutions accountable in order to build a more just and

In Response to the Call to Divest

I write in response to the opinion piece, “A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest? [https://amherststudent.com/article/a-letter-to-the-administration-when-will-we-divest] ” about the college’s endowment. I’d like to provide The Student’s readers and the college community as a

Bidding Goodbye to a Chaotic and Illuminating Year

Like any good, cheesy romance film, I stumbled across the news section of The Amherst Student by chance. At the introduction meeting I attended during the very first week of classes my first year, I was intent on writing opinion articles — a testament to the lofty goals I set at

The Symposium: To Desystematize Racism, Start With Criminal Justice

Black Lives Matter. One might see such a statement as uncontroversial. People’s lives matter. Black people are people. Therefore Black Lives Matter. It’s the simplest kind of argument you could make — a deduction following from two premises. And yet, the American justice system routinely devalues Black lives. Black