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Seeing Double: Amherst’s Invisible Financial Aid Crisis (Part Two)

This is the second part of a two-part series about Amherst College’s financial aid program. Check out the first part [https://amherststudent.com/article/seeing-double-amhersts-invisible-financial-aid-crisis-part-one] here. Last week, we showed how Amherst College’s financial aid fails its students. Once

The Symposium: Election Season is Almost Over, Make the Most of the Final Stretch

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

Cartoon: Some Issues I Have with the Science Center

Isaac shares some of the many “quirks” of Amherst’s Science Center

Take Your Break, You Deserve It

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