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Seeing Double: To Tutorial or Not to Tutorial?

Like many Amherst College students, I frequently wake up in the morning with a happy flutter in my heart, knowing that the value of my Amherst liberal arts education will melt away all the irksome practical realities of life much like the melting snow. Almost immediately, however, my simple tranquility

Coronavirus and the Racism it has Unearthed

Coronavirus and the Racism it has Unearthed

In 2009, my family made the foolish decision to visit Canada. While there, locals were sure to cast great distances between themselves and my family out of fear of catching what was then a newly discovered infectious disease — the American virus. I was confronted with a myriad of angry protestors

A New Time for Media Literacy

Thirty-two years ago this month, students at Hazelwood East High School outside of St. Louis would go from average teenagers to national celebrities as their school became the subject of a Supreme Court case. The case, formally known as Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, questioned conceptions of censorship and free

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

Seeing Double: No Library for You, Billionaire

About 45 miles away from Amherst and 187 years ago, the small New Hampshire town of Peterborough voted to establish the first tax-supported public library in the United States. The Peterborough Town Library, which is still operational today, uses tax money to buy books and make them available to all.

Snow Day

Snow Day

Cartoonist Emi Eliason ’22 envisions how Amherst students can get creative to make a snow day happen.

The Need for a Sustainable Student Center

“The new center will be situated on the current location of Merrill and McGuire,” reads an Oct. 30 email sent by President Biddy Martin to the college community. To many, this line of the email probably wasn’t noteworthy. However, it filled me with distress. We have known that the

Unseen Service

There are 573 federally recognized tribes in the United States, all with their unique customs and traditions, and military service has been a consistent tradition among them. How is it that Native Americans, who serve more per capita than any other racial group, receive little recognition for their sacrifices at