On Tuesday, Feb. 25, roughly 100 student athletes from 30 teams met in the McCullough Social Space to discuss homophobia and athletics as a follow-up to Wade Davis’ visit in January. The discussion, organized and facilitated by James Clifford ’15 and Katie Linder ’15 and co-hosted by Queers and ...
On Tuesday evening, the Office of the Dean of the College held its third annual Student Leadership Awards Ceremony in Atwater Dining Hall to recognize students, groups and organizations for their public service, leadership and talent. Three years ago, the Office of the Dean of the College and ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 26, Be Bright, the College’s energy literacy campaign, held a kick-off dinner event to launch its initiative. The dinner was held in Atwater Dining Hall and featured Professor of Environmental Studies and Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben. The dinner was the first ...
JusTalks, a student-led forum to engage identity and promote campus-wide discussion on personal and social issues, will launch its pilot event Friday, Jan. 18. The event will begin on at 7 p.m. with an address from keynote speaker Professor of Africana Studies, Dr. Tricia Rose of Brown University. Her ...
This fall, the College announced the launch of MiddCORE Immersion, a new summer leadership and innovation program to be based at Sierra Nevada College (SNC). MiddCore Immersion, which will closely resemble the College’s existing winter term MiddCORE course and curriculum, will run its inaugural month-long ...
It Happens Here (IHH), a student-organized sexual assault awareness and prevention group at the College, has launched its Map Project, an initiative which seeks to compile on-campus locations where students have experienced some form of sexual assault. The student organization, co-founded last year ...
Amherst Student Publishes Account of On-Campus Rape (The Amherst Student) A former Amherst College student detailed her experience of on-campus rape in an op-ed in the Amherst Student on Oct. 17. The 5,000-word piece, which was published with a “trigger-warning” due to its disturbing nature, was ...
This fall, residents of the Weybridge Environmental House altered the frequency with which they serve meals to the campus population, veering away from a three-year long tradition of providing meals four nights per week. Starting this year, dinners will be held two nights a week, in addition to Saturday ...