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Evicting Gender Discrimination

Gender-neutral housing is sweeping college campuses across the country. Over 50 American liberal arts colleges and elite institutions like Princeton and Brown have a gender-neutral housing policy, and the number steadily grows every year. Amherst students reignited a long-simmering debate with a recently-drafted online petition [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/

Is Government Broken? No, but Washington Is

Last week, both parties saw angry defections on the 2011 budget vote, citing all sorts of reasons. The defections by Republicans on the large budget threatened to throw Washington back into debate over an eighth temporary spending measure in a row, something the President threatened to veto. Luckily, they were

Rebuking Romen Borsellino

While I applaud Romen for his attempt at informing and involving the student body at-large with the Senate happenings, I also feel that the student body deserves opinion pieces that do not leave out important details or focus on the least compelling arguments from the other side. Clearly, Romen is

How to Fix Hydrofracking

Hydrofracking’s dangers arise from its lack of regulation. The fluids used in hydrofracking have been known to infiltrate ground water supplies and contribute to air pollution. Companies that use hydrofracking, however, have not been required to disclose which chemicals they use since a 2005 revision of the Energy Policy

I'm Hungry For a Late-Night Dining Option on Campus

People get hungry late at night — especially college students. But on this campus, we have a multi-faceted food problem: on one hand, nothing on the meal plan exists to serve students past 7:30 p.m. (as in, there is no “free” food). While we do have Schwemm’s as

Speaking About Senators, While the Senate Speaks About Speakers

I write about what we do in the hopes of getting a conversation going, whether or not you agree with me. And to be honest, I have been thrilled to hear about people finally talking about us. Last week, the AAS was mentioned in four separate opinion columns in The

Democracy at War With Liberalism

So we all clearly notice the academic distinction between liberal democracies and illiberal democracies. Why do we care? Libyans or Egyptians or the American colonists did not die for the right to scribble on paper slips in an election between corrupt government A and corrupt government B. They also did