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#IntegrateAmherst: Restorative Justice Is Necessary but Insufficient

On January 15 and 16, along with about 25 other students, professors and administrators, I took part in an introductory course on the general principles and goals of restorative justice and the ways to embed these practices into our college community. I entered the first day of training with few

Why We Must #IntegrateAmherst

Johnson Chapel houses portraits of two black men: Charles Hamilton Houston ’15 and William Hastie ’25, major figures of Black history.The two Black faces in the white-portrait-filled Johnson Chapel are Charles Hamilton Houston ’15 and William Hastie ’25, the legal architects of the 1954 Brown v. Board

Seeing Double: A Guide to Living in Interesting Times

For many Amherst students, the COVID-19 pandemic is the most disruptive global event of our lives. As we all adapt to the sudden changes in our learning environments and lifestyles, it’s important to remember that disruptions like this are one of the few certainties of world history. COVID-

Amherst Lacrosse Letter to the College Community

To the Amherst Community and Alumni: Over the past three weeks, the members of the Amherst men’s lacrosse program have struggled to express in writing our collective feelings about the unacceptable actions of three of our teammates on March 8, 2020. The use of racial slurs has no place

Ensuring Our History Does not Become Our Future

It has become a frighteningly ordinary experience for Amherst students to open their email inbox and find a notice from the administration of a “racist incident.” This vague subject line typically reflects the opacity with which the rest of the message is written — as if the email from last time

Push Back our Classes

Fewer than half of Amherst students come from places in the Eastern Time Zone. In any other semester on any other year, this fact would not affect students’ academic experience at Amherst. But this is not any other semester. The transition to remote learning across time zones throughout the country

Seeing Double: Tipping, est. 1865

Believe it or not, tipping is an imported culture: it didn’t exist in the United States until after the Civil War when wealthy Americans brought the practice home after visiting England. By the turn of the 20th century, tipping was a normal practice nationwide — but that didn’t stop