The Importance of Local Politics
Assistant Opinion Editor Caroline Flinn ’28 writes about the importance of treating Amherst as more than a temporary place of residence by engaging in local politics.
Opinion
Civic Engagement: Keep Elections Competitive
Managing Sports Editor Joey Supik ’27 explores why participation in Association of Amherst Students (AAS) elections decreases as grade year increases, and how the student body can keep them competitive.
Bathroom Bulletin: Valentine Dining Hall
In their new column, the “Bathroom Bulletin”, Senior Managing Editor Edwyn Choi ’27, and Contributing Writers Jenny Chan ’28 and Hailey Yoon ’28 rate each campus building’s bathrooms. For their pilot article, they've picked the bathrooms of Valentine Dining Hall.
Uprising in Nepal: The City of Wood Is Burning
Staff Writer Jackson Hersom ’27 shares his personal experience attending protests in Nepal as a study abroad student and explains how a government social media ban triggered such widespread demonstrations.
What’s Between the First Ghost and Last Human Worker?
Contributing Writer Lucas Silva ’28 explores the tensions between artificial intelligence and memory, imagination, and creation, exposing its dangerous impacts on how we interact with our real world.
Editorial: Democracy Day and Genuine Discourse
Reflecting on Amherst’s Democracy Day, the Editorial Board critiques its superficial programming and argues for a deeper, student-driven recommitment to democratic engagement — one rooted in independent journalism, genuine dialogue, and institutional courage.
Growing Pains: The Junior Experience
Contemplating absence, nostalgia, and the passage of time, Managing Opinion Editor Olivia Tennant ’27 explores the disorienting in-between of junior year — suspended between memory and anticipation — and how to make sense of it.