Opinion

In his response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin intoned ominously that unless America put its fiscal house in order, we would face the harsh austerity measures currently in vogue in Europe. “You want those austerity measures!” A friend of mine exclaimed.

With all due respect to Dave Hixon, who was in my class (albeit at Amherst), the men’s team should do what the women do — show up and be counted. There must be as many boyfriends of the women as there are young women rooting for the men’s team.

A big problem with how Senate is run is the allocation of responsibility. One might expect that the President or Vice President has the toughest job, yet, the position of Treasurer is unquestionably the most exhausting and thankless job in the AAS. For proof, look to the fact that our

Our department manages the back-end servers and related services, and we are not part of the help desk, so we don’t get the first phone call when there is a problem seen by a user. I was in the office (as were other members of our department) the entire

On Feb. 18, 2011, a Chinese court rejected an appeal by Feng against his long sentence despite the extensive help Washington had been giving to free him. As a U.S. citizen, Feng received much attention from U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman. Huntsman has attended the Beijing people’s intermediate

As I got more acquainted with Amherst life, I realized that there was a certain stigma attached to students living in sub-free housing. My fellow freshmen thought that sub-free kids went to bed at 9:30 after dutifully finishing their homework, or were stuck in their rooms playing Dungeons and