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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

An American in Barcelona: What We Can Learn about Spain’s Reaction to the Coronavirus

It’s pretty hard for me to think about the fact that just 10 days ago, I was in Spain, studying abroad in Barcelona. It’s even more difficult for me to comprehend that two weeks prior to that, I was in Italy (Rome, to be exact). I’m still

Amherst College Is Ill-Equipped to Handle Racist Violence and Threats of Racist Violence

On Saturday night, several white lacrosse players and other white students screamed and chanted “N*gger! N*gger! N*gger! Goodnight, N*gger!” outside of a Black lacrosse player’s room, while the Black lacrosse player and another Black student were inside of his room, as reported in The Student