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Opinion

Reflections on a Year of Debate

A school year has almost passed us. Ask anyone to summarize the collective experience of students this year and they will place the unfolding of much public drama at the center of it. Pleasant memories dot our individual recollections, but painful ones sit squarely within those memories shared by most

The Social Order Project

Only the most cold-hearted and quite frankly misguided individuals uniformly support not giving aid to the homeless. Comparatively, there are many people who think the idea of giving money to the homeless is good and that supporting charity efforts to counter inequalities is the culmination of social responsibility to the

End of the Year Surprises

This exam period, for the first time in our collective student memory, students have as much to look forward to going into finals as they already have to not look forward to: first, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis promises to keep spirits up as students get excited about not having any

The Admissions Race

The Admissions Race

As high school seniors prepare to send in their college deposits by May 1, they may breathe a sigh of relief that the admissions process is finally over. With the number of college applications proliferating and admissions rates plummeting, the process has never been more competitive and stressful. For those

Lessons We Have Yet to Learn

This past year we’ve read the powerful words of rape survivors, as they bravely testified to their experiences of mistreatment at the hands of the Amherst administration. We’ve seen a fraternity’s sexism and misogyny on full display in a deeply offensive t-shirt. We’ve read and denounced

Are You a Gifter?

CALLING ALL SENIORS!!! It’s the middle of April and the time for giving has finally arrived. So what is Senior Gift anyway? If you haven’t heard by now, Senior Gift is a great way to show your appreciation for everything that Amherst College as provided for you over

Being Asian-American in a Colorblind Society

I want to tell you that our racial identity means something even on this liberal arts campus that has tokenized students of color, collapsed multiculturalism into an empty catchphrase and reduced diversity to glossy half-pages in admissions brochures. At this college with no Asian American Studies courses and few Asian