Beautiful?
When we meet someone new, our first impression is often about looks; only later do things such as personality, brains, and character start to take on meaning. Why is it that prettiness or attractiveness...
Routes and commutes
Getting to work in the morning can be hard enough for people who clock in at 9 a.m. But for students and teachers who need to be at ARHS by 7 or 7:30 a.m,...
Transgender and non-binary students speak out
For students at ARHS who identify as transgender, gender-nonconforming, or gender-queer, navigating the often binary world of gender can be challenging. I spoke with a handful of these students about what their experiences were...
An office run with love and laughter
Pat Keenan and Jane Fitzgerald are two Irish women running the ARHS main office, with a goal of making every person who passes their way smile and laugh a little. Ms. Keenan’s favorite thing...
Democrats and Republicans back their political picks
The U.S. is on fire with political fervor, as the country marches closer and closer to November’s U.S. presidential contest. Though politics are often a subject left to those 18 and older who can...
Touching story behind big check
Approximately one year ago, the ARHS library received a very special and surprising letter from a court in Douglas County, Kansas. The letter reported that Ann Louise Hyde left 2% of her estate for...
Jamie Staples hits 1,000 points mark
Jamie Staples, a senior at Amherst Regional High School, has managed to score 1,000 points in all of her high school basketball career. Staples is the first girl to reach this accomplishment since Alyssa...
Classics-lovers bond during Latin Club
Latin club is a place where interested, Latin students of all grades continue their classics studies after school. Latin student Sean Smith is the faculty advisor of the club, which he brought from the...
Women’s Rights Club: activism and awareness
Every Tuesday after school in room 177, about 20 students come together to discuss current global and personal gender issues. The Women’s Rights Club, run by ARHS seniors Izzi Tripp and Bethany Vickery and...
Outing Club: They’re one with nature
The Outing Club is gearing up for their winter events and trips led by Jess Gerber Dolan, Sophie Ackerman, and Joe Woynar. To be a part of the Outing Club, you do not need...
Boys’ track wins fifth straight PVIAC Indoor Championship in Northampton
Jericho Sylla and Owen Wright, ARHS seniors and members of this year’s Super Seven selection went into the season with high aspirations for the boy’s indoor track team, and they nabbed their fifth straight...
Swim team enjoying new schedule and new coach
There have been plenty of changes for ARHS’s swimming and diving team this year, including new swimmers, no morning practices, different practice time, and a new coach, Sean Clark. Coach Clark has a way...
Hockey team well-rated and eyeing Western Mass championship
After losing many influential seniors from last year, Amherst boys’ ice hockey is off to a hot start this season. The Hurricanes started the year with a crucial win over Chicopee Comp, the same...
Rec league competitors prepare to put their best feet forward
Although Amherst Regional High School is home to an elite basketball program, it is the rec league that garners most of the attention throughout the early winter months. Marc Keenan is the self-proclaimed commissioner...
Girls’ basketball hanging tough
According to the girls’ varsity basketball team captain Jamie Staples, “this will be one great season!” She said she was excited by the opportunity for her team “to show off what they are made...
Boys’ basketball doing well despite player injury
This has been the best year in ARHS boys basketball history since the 2003 state championship, with 20 wins and 3 losses. This year’s squad had a lot of weight on its shoulders and,...
Girls’ indoor track keeping “their streak going”
The girls’ indoor track team are the two-time defending Western Mass champions. This year they are hoping to keep the streak going. “We want to hold on to our title,” said Eva Feyre-Febonio. The...
School lunches need local sourcing
Hungry students stare at the clock during the enterity of C period, waiting for lunch to begin. They are starved and tired. Differential and integral calculus does not seem as relevant as eating food....
Teachers go gourmet
David Jean, the culinary arts teacher at ARHS, has been making lunches for school staff and teachers for nine years now. The lunches are offered every month or so by Mr. Jean’s C period...
Lending a hand: advisory groups serve community
Though ARHS has always used advisory time to talk about important issues and bring the student body together as one, many advisories have taken the next step and have begun organizing community service projects....
Mental illness awareness club
New to the schools’ club count this year is Mental Illness Awareness Club. The group meets in room 173 every Monday (except the first Monday of each month) at 3 p.m. with advisor Kathy...
ARHS pack heads to Cinemark for Star Wars mania
The brand new Star Wars movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released on December 18, 2015, has caused fans across the nation to go wild. ARHS students were among the crazed. Jack...
Don’t worry, be happy! Guidance program will help students to de-stress
“Stress Less” is the newest creation out of guidance, a stress-relief group for students that meets during a different period once a week in room 166. It is slated to run for six to...
Welcome!
This is the online home of The Graphic, the student newspaper of Amherst Regional High School. Articles written by the Journalistic Writing classes are compiled and edited by The Graphic staff. We are currently busy working...
Alpine ski teams small but talented and ready to compete with rivals
Despite placing in the top five in many of their races, the Alpine ski team is still one of the most overlooked teams at ARHS. But after completing a month of conditioning before the...
Undoing Racism Organizing Collective hosts racial equity meeting at Jones
On Saturday December 19, a meeting “for racial equity” was held by the Amherst chapter of the Undoing Racism Organizing Collective. The group met in the Amherst Room at the Jones library, with about...
Star Wars a winning film
The Force Awakens came out in December, and the reviews around ARHS were positive overall. Student Adi Shmerling loved the film. He said that the main character, Rey, was “great” and that co-star Finn...
Force Awakens just a “lazy, soft-reboot” of original Star Wars flicks
What is Star Wars? Certainly a cultural icon, a hegemon of the American film industry, and as box office receipts indicate, world pop culture. When it was released in 1977, Star Wars opened in...
Time for soccer to embrace an equal playing field for women
It all started when I had nothing better to do at recess, so I figured, why not? It was the first time I remember feeling a sense of pride and courage, emotions I had...
