News College Celebrates Bicentennial with Blowout Bash The college held a lavish Bicentennial Party for the campus community on Oct. 15. The celebration served an array of New England foods, boasted a Ferris wheel and 100-foot slide, and featured a performance by Grammy Award-winning artist Common.
News College Announces End of Legacy Admissions In an email sent to the college community on Oct. 20, President Biddy Martin announced that starting in the 2022-2023 academic year, the college will end its legacy admission preference as well as implement an expanded and simplified financial aid program.
Opinion Red Herring: The Journey of Your Package Red Herring cartoonist Isaac Streiff ’24 presents the journey of a package through the delivery system traveling to the mail office at Keefe Campus Center.
News CA Fired for Claimed Negligence, Alleges Wrongful Termination CA Shoshanna Peifer ’23 assisted a drunk Smith College student on Morris Pratt quad on Sunday, Sept. 12. Five days later, Peifer was fired. Peifer and her coworkers suspect that her involvement with the student workers’ union played a factor in her firing.
Opinion Beyond Acknowledgment The Editorial Board questions the college’s failure to reckon with the past during Indigenous People’s Day or Bicentennial events. The Board argues that it’s time to take concrete actions to improve life on campus for Indigenous community members.
News Indigenous Students Reflect on Community, Identity and Need for Change The Student interviewed members of the Native and Indigenous Students Association (NISA) on their experience at the college in light of Indigenous People’s Day on Oct. 11. Interviewees discussed community, identity and the changes they hope to see in the college going forward.
News From the Red Room: Oct. 18 AAS Meeting Updates The Association of Amherst Students (AAS) discussed a new program called Amherst Superfan, their internal communication practices, and an upcoming hearing with the Judiciary Council in their most recent meeting on Oct. 18.
News ACPD to Adopt Comfort Dog; Students Critique Motives ACPD will adopt a comfort dog before the beginning of the spring semester in an attempt to improve mental health and the department’s relationship with students. Though they appreciate the sentiment, students are wary that it does not actually respond to demands surrounding campus safety.
News Administration Affirms Support for A/P/A Studies in AAAN Meeting Leaders of the Amherst Asian Alumni Network (AAAN) met with members of the administration on Oct. 6 to discuss the open letter they published calling for A/P/A studies. The administration affirmed their support of pursuing an A/P/A studies major at the college.
News Campus Police Log: Oct. 12 to Oct. 19 The latest installment of the Police Log, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 19, can be found here.
Sports Jon Gruden Resigns Following Leak of Vulgar Emails After being one of the most recognizable names in the NFL world for years as both a coach and member of the media, (now-former) Oakland Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden was forced to resign after emails leaked in which he used racist, homophobic and misogynistic language.
Sports Volleyball Falls to Tufts and Bowdoin in Battles for NESCAC Position Women’s volleyball fell short against two tough NESCAC competitors — Tufts and Bowdoin. They are looking to rebound from the hard weekend this upcoming weekend at home, when they face Wellesley and Westfield State.
Sports Football's Comeback Falls Short Against Bowdoin Despite a valiant comeback effort, rallying from two scores down on two separate occasions, football lost their first road game of the season to NESCAC foe Bowdoin this past weekend in a thriller, 14-21.
Sports Field Hockey Battles Tufts, But Falls Short in Battle of NESCAC Powers Coming into the game with two wins last weekend, Amherst field hockey fell short 1-0 to national No. 3 Tufts in a hard fought match-up.
Sports Cross Country Finishes Regular Season on a High Note, Notching Strong Race The Mammoths completed their regular season with some very impressive results at the Connecticut College Invitational in Waterford, Conn. These results are promising for when both the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country teams will be competing in the NESCAC championships in two weeks.
Sports Women's Soccer Wins Again, Goes 2-0 in Big Weekend Women’s soccer has proved to be unstoppable, putting two more wins under their belt this weekend. On Saturday, the team took down Tufts in an overtime nail-biter, and finished the weekend with a 3-0 shutout to move to 11-1-1.
Sports Men's Soccer Falls in NESCAC Overtime Thriller Men’s soccer barely fell short in its toughest test of the season so far, losing 2-1 to No. 3 Tufts on Saturday, Oct. 16 on a set-piece goal in the third-to-last minute of double overtime.
Opinion Some Pandemic Policies Deserve to Stay Staff writer Yasmin Hamilton ’24 discusses students’ difficulty of adjusting to the pre-pandemic academic expectations this semester in light of many ongoing effects of the global crisis, and argues for the maintenance of the increased academic leniency from last year.
Opinion Satire: Amherst Celebrates 200th Year of Being Students’ Second Choice Satire columnist Andrew Rosin ’25 pokes fun at Amherst’s prestige as it celebrates its Bicentennial through imagined interviews about the college’s role as “the nation’s most prestigious back-up school.”
Arts and Living Bash at the Base of the Hill: Grammy Award-Winning Artist Common Comes to Campus Amherst celebrated its bicentennial last Friday with a concert from Grammy Award-winning artist Common. Managing Arts and Living Editor Brooke Hoffman '23E and Staff Writer Brianne LaBare '25 cover the bash at the base of Memorial Hill.
Opinion Seeing Double: We Need Mammoth Student Loans Seeing Double columnist Thomas Brodey ’22 touches on the worsening student debt crisis and argues that Amherst should give students the option to borrow tuition money directly from the college, so that students don’t have to turn to the merciless for-profit loan system as their last resort.
Arts and Living Lights, Camera, Action: Emma Ratshin Takes the Stage in "Bad Jews"! Emma Ratshin 22E's senior thesis — a performance of "Bad Jews" by Joshua Harmon — will kick off the Amherst Theater and Dance Department's annual schedule. Our editors sat down with Ratshin to discuss some of the play's highlights and her background in theater.
Arts and Living Find Your Fright: What to Watch this Halloween Season Staff Writer Kaelyn Milby ‘22 shares some fan-favorite films to take your spooky season to new heights. With no shortage of eerie suspense, slasher thrills, and sinister plotlines, this list of horror movies is sure to haunt you all October long.
Arts and Living Stolen Storylines and the Bad Art Friend: Are There Licenses on Language? A recent dispute over one writer's use of her colleague's personal experiences in a story has made waves over the last few weeks. But staff writer Ross Kilpatrick '24E questions whether copyright and the language of theft make sense in a literary context.
Arts and Living Three New Artists Challenging Conventions in Country What does it take to challenge conventions in country music? Staff writer Brianne LaBare ‘25 covers the work of three country artists who are inspiring change by pushing for more inclusivity in the genre while also introducing exciting new sounds.
