Opinion

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

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

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

Jason Victor Serinus ’67, founder of New Haven Gay Liberation Front, writes to respond to “Debunking Professor Arkes’s Radical Anti-Gay Argument,” which appeared in last week’s issue of The Student. As an alum who, in 1971, returned to campus to give the college’s first talk on

The time is 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 10, and I am writing from the comfort of my grey futon in Mayo-Smith: a one-room double of 220 square feet that overlooks College Hall across the buzzing Route 9. I have exactly 10 hours until I’m