Cartoon: A Facemask Alignment Chart
Where does your mask of choice fall?
Opinion
The Symposium: How Should News Outlets Cover Violent Protests in a Violent System
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
On the DOE's Princeton Investigation: Looking Beyond the Public Statement
On Sept.16, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) notified Princeton University
that it would be under investigation for violations
[https://www.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/Princeton-Letter-9-16-20-Signed.pdf]
of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity rights, potentially leading to “an
action to
From the Red Room: Screw Complacency
I remember my first senate campaign for the Association of Amherst Students
(AAS) as if it were yesterday. During speech night, I remember looking across
Paino Lecture Hall at the other 15 candidates, all of us vying for one of the
eight coveted senate seats and sweating nervously at the
Seeing Double: Confessions of an Accepted Student
I made a terrible mistake the other day: I read my old Common App essay. Like
most Amherst students, I hadn’t given much thought to my personal essay since
the day it had been ritually sacrificed to the gods of comedy at Amherst Voices.
I can’t say what
Cartoon: Boomers of Ages Past
The College’s Fires to Put Out
If the United States didn’t already feel like it was figuratively on fire all of
this year, it literally is now. Wildfires have been ravaging the West Coast
since mid-August (in general, since far before then). But over the past couple
of weeks, the fires have been blazing