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Amherst needs to fix email's unreliaibility, NOW!

Seriously, this “gift that keeps on giving” is becoming more than the proverbial pain-in-the-ass; it’s downright problematic. In the past 10 days alone, email has been down at least six times for significant periods: last Sunday night, last Monday night/Tuesday morning, Wednesday night/Thursday morning, Thursday evening, Saturday

College environment stifles communication and learning

My point is that it’s a pity that culture has given us arbitrary rules to live by that in many cases, hinder comfort, efficiency and even mental health. I think that society’s stifling of human processes is responsible for many of the mental problems that people possess. Anthropologist

Affirmative action is the most effective solution

Officially, it is the set of public initiatives designed to help eradicate discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or nationality. It is most commonly exercised in education admissions and hiring in the workplace. Recently, it has resurfaced as a political bone of contention with the Supreme Court’s decision

Resist the temptations of apathy

However, I do believe she brings up a valid point. This frustration with our lack of activism has manifested itself in the form of Daily Jolt postings recently. This is not purely an Amherst problem. It is a problem with our generation and the way we view things. As one

It's getting hot in here: The naked phenomenon

The first 18 years of my life were relatively nudity-free (not to be confused with free nudity), with the exception of the innocuous baby butt or accidental slippage of towels in locker rooms. Then I came to college, and nekkidness exploded into my existence with the force of the entire

Lewis-Sebring exposed: Fine dining on the other side

There is a certain thrill of eating in Lewis-Sebring, not unlike traveling back in time to pre-Columbian Mexico or peeking through a hole into the girls’ locker room. Lewis-Sebring decidedly eclipses those other experiences both in terms of quantity as well as quality of ritual sacrifice and tender nudity. The

A tale of two schools

In order to come back, the deans told me that I had to take a semester at another school. Although I was ambivalent about returning to Amherst, I figured that I might as well keep my options open and take a semester elsewhere. I am now going to C.W.