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Fighting on a Larger, Local Scale

Throughout the Global Week for Future and the United Nations Climate Summit, which took place from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27, the world witnessed a global phenomenon of students, scientists, world leaders and activists working together to bring attention to the issue of climate change and its growing impacts around

The New American Experiment

Last Tuesday, Facebook announced plans to establish an independent “Oversight Board” by early 2020. The committee will handle matters related to content-moderation, taking CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hand off the big red button that decides which posts get taken down and which stay up. This new governing body, which has

Let's Reclaim Patriotism and the American Flag

Let's Reclaim Patriotism and the American Flag

Our nation currently stands in a precarious position. There are serious issues across the country that require our immediate attention: a humanitarian crisis at the southern border, a rapidly changing climate and a presidential administration built on lies, scandals and shameless bullying. With everything going on, it can seem like

Seeing Double: The Missing Ingredient

Seeing Double: The Missing Ingredient

Global warming seems to be an unstoppable trend. The United Nations estimates that we now have only 12 years to reduce carbon dioxide emissions enough to prevent a catastrophic global temperature increase of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Despite the dire timeline, scientific consensus and widespread awareness, global carbon

Freshman Add/Drop Period

Freshman Add/Drop Period

Cartoonist Emi Eliason ’22 pokes fun at how first-year students socialize.

Seeing Double: How to Read Local

At Amherst, we know to emphasize eating and buying local. Valentine Dining Hall serves local food from as close as the Book & Plow Farm, and A.J. Hastings and Amherst Books, both independent businesses, are our campus bookstores. What we forget about, however, is reading local. For example, take

9/11 Cannot be Business as Usual

I don’t have any memory of the attacks that took place on Sept. 11, 2001. I was one year old, fast asleep in my crib in northern New Jersey. My parents got the rest of the day off from work, which, on any other occasion, would have been cause