Cartoon: Some Issues I Have with the Science Center
Isaac shares some of the many “quirks” of Amherst’s Science Center
Opinion
Take Your Break, You Deserve It
The Editorial Board spent this weekend commiserating about the mid-semester
exhaustion that inevitably strikes each semester but feels particularly intense
given the circumstances of this time. Our weekly editorial meeting on
Monday became an almost therapeutic session of airing out our mid-semester
struggles, and we felt compelled to
Is Snitch Culture a Problem?
When the Editorial Board set out our priorities
[https://amherststudent.com/article/we-are-all-the-institution-making-change-amid-a-pandemic-and-anti-racist-movement]
at the beginning of the semester, we looked to explore questions of
institutional and individual responsibility. That is, with the unique backdrop
of this
Behind the Board: Athletic Recruitment Has Got to Go
It’s time to ditch athletic recruiting as we know it.
I’m not writing to encourage the end of Amherst College sports or varsity
athletics but rather to advocate for a reform of the way that teams are built.
Two weeks ago, The Student’s Editorial Board resurfaced a
Seeing Double: Amherst’s Invisible Financial Aid Crisis (Part One)
As we write, one of us is on track to graduate from Amherst College with
$135,000 in student loan debt. The other will graduate with $27,000 of debt in
his name and $110,000 in his parents’. And we aren’t alone: 28 percent of
graduates in the
The Symposium: Does Your Mail-In Vote Count?
The Symposium is a column by Leland Culver ’24 intended to act as a forum for
the Amherst community to engage in dialogue together about current issues. If
you would like to contribute to the Symposium, whether with suggestions for a
topic, your opinion on this week’s topic or
What Should We Get Out of Education?
We live in a stratified and unjust world. Laborers in nearly every global
industry face horrible conditions and receive wages that can not be justified by
any humane reasoning. Marginalized people face brutalization at the hands of the
state and systemic obstacles to opportunity. As the nation turns to interrogate