Opinion
Community Advisor Applicants: Don’t Sign Contracts with Residential Life
Community Advisors (CAs) play a vital role in our campus community. We offer
support, guidance and snacks to our residents. We respond in times of crises
and foster relationships and community. We take great pride in our work because
giving back to this place that has given us so much
Finding the Silver Lining
As vaccines become more widely available in the United States, normalcy seems to
be in sight. We are all ready to leave behind the horror and psychological toll
that the pandemic has inflicted on us and embrace a full return
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Seeing Double: Pros and Cons of Court-Packing
In October 2020, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made the controversial
decision to fill the seat of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg with
Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The move gave Republican appointees a six out of nine
majority on the nation’s highest court, a balance that could
Red Herring: Matter of Time
Communism and Abolition: Where the Conversation With Angela Davis Came Up Short
Angela Davis is one of the most prominent communist activists and academics in
the history of the United States. In her April 15 talk at Amherst, however,
Davis shied away from some of the more adversarial ideological stances that make
up the core of her public political identity, including her
Abolish ACPD: It’s Time to Try Something New
This week, the Town of Amherst’s Community Safety Working Group has revealed
some of the items requested in its proposal for the future of policing in the
town, to be decided on in an upcoming May 3 Town Council budget meeting. It
proposes
[https://www.gazettenet.com/Community-responders-team-sought-in-Amherst-budget-40131259]
slashing