2016 Election

400 people protest Hampshire College's removal of the American flag

400 people protest Hampshire College's removal of the American flag

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM '17 

Hampshire College became the site of protest by outraged veterans and community members this weekend when school officials decided to remove the American flag from the flagpole after a student reportedly stole and burned it.

"Love and peace will overcome this hate": Mount Holyoke reacts to the election results

"Love and peace will overcome this hate": Mount Holyoke reacts to the election results

BY HANNAH ROACH '17 & LEAH WILLINGHAM '17

The morning after Donald Trump was chosen as the president-elect of the United States was drizzly and quiet. Students walked with bags under their eyes — many had stayed up to see the results come in early Wednesday morning.

Trump’s “locker room talk” criticized by Amherst College athletes

BY BRONTE BRECHT '19

Senior David Lander of the Amherst College men’s soccer team made waves across the internet recently with a Huffington Post article that garnered over 39,000 shares on social media. The topic in question was “locker room talk,” a phrase presidential candidate Donald Trump used to dismiss his boasts about touching women without their consent in the 2005 videotape released by the Washington Post.