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A Response to Opposition on Affordable Housing

A Response to Opposition on Affordable Housing

As letters flowed in opposing a town proposal to allocate $500,000 toward the development of a single-room occupancy (SRO) affordable housing development at 132 Northampton Road, Amherst finally got its chance to take part in a time-honored national tradition: good ol’ American NIMBY-ism (which stands for “Not In My

Risk and Reward

Everything comes with a price. Most of us have learned this lesson in one way or another. To gain one thing is to sacrifice another. In the case of Valley Community Development Corporation’s (Valley CDC) affordable housing project, the price of building such a complex takes a certain amount

Seeing Double: How History Can Make You Better

Out of Amherst College’s 40 majors, a major in history can sometimes seem an old-fashioned, somewhat out-of-touch field. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of history degrees given to graduates in the United States dropped 30 percent, the most of any significant field, according to the National Center for

Ideals Beyond the Brochure

Last Wednesday, on Nov. 13, The Student published a story about the Valley Community Development Corporation’s plan to build 28 affordable housing units at 132 Northampton Road. The Town of Amherst has identified the project as long overdue, investing $500,000 into the complex in July. Despite the necessity

“Share A Family”

“Share A Family”

In the spirit of recreating Thanksgiving at Amherst, the college hires a racist uncle to accompany you at Val.

Seeing Double: On Optimism

If you read this column regularly, you’ll know that I tend to write about what I see going wrong in the world. In the past few weeks, I’ve written about the harms of our immigration laws, felony disenfranchisement and the slow death of local news. All of these

Pharma Research: Changing But Still Expensive

Last week, Gabrielle Levy, a sophomore at Dartmouth College, outlined her take on Big Pharma for the college’s newspaper The Dartmouth: Drugs are expensive, sure, but the research is worth it, and demonizing the pharmaceutical industry plants a seed of anti-science beliefs in the general American populace. Though Levy’