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Seeing Double: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot

These days, social media bots are everywhere. They ask deep, pseudo-intellectual questions [https://twitter.com/deepquestionbot?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] like a blazed Michel Foucault. They write half-nonsensical jokes [https://twitter.com/HEADLINERTRON?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E997144752326922240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&

On Promises Left Unfinished

A pandemic, a civil rights movement, an election — amid a series of local, national and global upheavals, last year looked different at The Student. Besides our transition to an entirely digital distribution, we deepened our commitment to holding individuals and institutions accountable in order to build a more just and

In Response to the Call to Divest

I write in response to the opinion piece, “A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest? [https://amherststudent.com/article/a-letter-to-the-administration-when-will-we-divest] ” about the college’s endowment. I’d like to provide The Student’s readers and the college community as a whole with some important facts that give a

Bidding Goodbye to a Chaotic and Illuminating Year

Like any good, cheesy romance film, I stumbled across the news section of The Amherst Student by chance. At the introduction meeting I attended during the very first week of classes my first year, I was intent on writing opinion articles — a testament to the lofty goals I set at

The Symposium: To Desystematize Racism, Start With Criminal Justice

Black Lives Matter. One might see such a statement as uncontroversial. People’s lives matter. Black people are people. Therefore Black Lives Matter. It’s the simplest kind of argument you could make — a deduction following from two premises. And yet, the American justice system routinely devalues Black lives. Black

A Farewell to the Worst/Best Year of an Unexpected Editorship

I accepted this job during a sweaty summer in 2019 when I was interning for a magazine in New York. Something about this incessant, unresolved question of whether to take the offer or not clicked into place one day, and I carefully typed out sentences into the text bubble on

A Letter to the Administration: When Will We Divest?

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, It is past time to divest from fossil fuels and the prison-industrial complex. We write to you on the eve of Amherst’s bicentennial, in a year that has brought continued police violence, a global pandemic, unprecedented wildfires, and the most hurricanes ever