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Seeing Double: A Legitimate Political Party

The GOP: Increasingly IllegitimateCole Graber-Mitchell ’22 When Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt searched through history to distinguish failed democracies from those like the United States, they found a crucial factor that prevented backsliding: strong political norms. Their book, “How Democracies Die,” starts with the Federalists and Democratic-

Dear Faculty: The Importance of Content Notices

Dear faculty of Amherst, Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. With constant encouragement from my professors to pursue even the most complicated of questions, I am writing with a proposal regarding the engagement of potentially traumatic material in courses. Traumatic material comes up often in courses,

Faculty and the Affordable Housing Project

Many students are extremely upset about the views expressed by some professors about the likely occupants of the affordable housing project at 132 Northampton Rd., as first reported in The Student on Nov. 13. The linked letters submitted to the Town Council represent the voices of a small number of

Dear Amherst Faculty: An Open Letter about the Letter

Dear Amherst Faculty: An Open Letter about the Letter

As students of Amherst College and members of the Amherst town community, we do not exist in a vacuum. Our actions have an effect on the greater community within the Town of Amherst. We, as a group of low-income student advocates, are of the opinion that our student body

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

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