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Opinion

Denouncing the New Travel Ban

On Saturday Feb. 1, students, faculty and staff received a message from President Biddy Martin regarding President Trump’s policy to expand the travel ban. The ban adds the nations of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania to the list of countries on which Trump has imposed travel blockades.

The CAA and NRC: Fueling Discrimination, Violence

We are writing in regards to the protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens in India. Through this letter, we hope to echo and amplify the concerns raised by students at institutions not only in India but worldwide, and we ask the Amherst

Seeing Double: To Tutorial or Not to Tutorial?

Like many Amherst College students, I frequently wake up in the morning with a happy flutter in my heart, knowing that the value of my Amherst liberal arts education will melt away all the irksome practical realities of life much like the melting snow. Almost immediately, however, my simple tranquility

Coronavirus and the Racism it has Unearthed

Coronavirus and the Racism it has Unearthed

In 2009, my family made the foolish decision to visit Canada. While there, locals were sure to cast great distances between themselves and my family out of fear of catching what was then a newly discovered infectious disease — the American virus. I was confronted with a myriad of angry protestors

A New Time for Media Literacy

Thirty-two years ago this month, students at Hazelwood East High School outside of St. Louis would go from average teenagers to national celebrities as their school became the subject of a Supreme Court case. The case, formally known as Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, questioned conceptions of censorship and free

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

About 45 miles away from Amherst and 187 years ago, the small New Hampshire town of Peterborough voted to establish the first tax-supported public library in the United States. The Peterborough Town Library, which is still operational today, uses tax money to buy books and make them available to all.

Snow Day

Snow Day

Cartoonist Emi Eliason ’22 envisions how Amherst students can get creative to make a snow day happen.