A Better Amherst: Amherst Isn't Doing Its Job
Charles Sutherby ’23E and Mason Quintero ’23 discuss the tiny percentage of Amherst graduates pursuing public service in the first of a three-part series.
Reform
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
[https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/president/statements/node/797790] to
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
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
Letter to the Editor: Reframing the Campus Safety Conversation
As tempers flare on campus and the rhetoric heats up, it’s easy to forget how
far our community already has come in the debate about campus policing and the
many constructive ideas that students and staff have floated. Faculty members
have a responsibility now to help these deliberations move
The AAS Budgetary Committee’s Past Should Not Determine its Future
A pattern of intimidating, unwelcoming experiences and discriminatory approaches
to funding via the Budgetary Committee (BC) has existed from the 1970s to the
present. We write to shed light on current practices and the history of the BC
with the hopes that this will propel the Association of Amherst Students
“Disarm ACPD”: The Association of Amherst Students’ Position on Campus Public Safety
On Monday, March 29, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety John Carter
attended the public safety town hall
[https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/aas/senate/aasminutes/spring-2021] hosted by
the Association of Amherst Students (AAS). This meeting occurred on the first
day of Derek Chauvin’s trial for