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For Asian Americans, There is No Winning in the Harvard Lawsuit

Monday, Oct. 15 was the first day of the highly-publicized trial, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. The lawsuit first began when SFFA a conservative non-profit organization, filed a lawsuit against Harvard in 2014, alleging that the school had discriminated against Asian-American applicants

Regardless of Where You Live, You Should Always Vote

Why should you vote if you don’t live in a swing district? If you live in Boston or San Francisco, it can be hard to find the motivation to get to the polls (or request an absentee ballot) because you know the vote will swing overwhelmingly one way. But

Brett Kavanaugh and the Myth of the Cool Girl

In a scene in the movie “Gone Girl,” the protagonist (and antagonist) Amy explains the archetype of the Cool Girl: “Men always saying that as the defining compliment, don’t they? ‘She’s a cool girl’ … Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in the chagrined, loving manner and

Democracy's Most Important Tool

In President Dwight Eisenhower’s last speech as the leader of our land, he urged us all to preserve democracy and not let it become “the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.” We must, in our current political climate, heed such a warning. Our most revolutionary political project, one spawned nearly two

For the Millions Who Can't, You Must

On Nov. 6, the nation will head to the polls for the first midterm election since President Donald Trump took office, with all 435 House seats, 33 Senate seats, 36 state governorships and thousands of state and local offices up for grabs. Voters across America will have the opportunity to

Four Things I Like and/or Don’t Like

Last year, editors decreed that I was writing “too many listicles” and that The Amherst Student is a “serious newspaper.” So, this year I am trying to space out my listicles so that it will not be obvious that I am writing too many. After a few weeks of slaving

Make America Vote Again

Turnout in local, state, and national elections in the United States has long hovered around a historical mean of 53 percent, since the introduction of the Voting Rights Act. This statistic, and perhaps more worryingly, the fact that never in the history of the United States has the youth voter