Category: Clubs

Every Tuesday in the ARHS English hallway, the Best Buddies club meets in the Pathways to Independence Program (PIP) room. Best Buddies is an international organization that aims to promote friendship and social opportunities...

The Buddhist mountainous region of Tibet has been governed by Communist China since 1959, after a failed uprising to gain its independence. Since then, many activists and dissidents have been arrested, tortured, or exiled...

POCU, or People Of Color United, is a club that has been at ARHS for decades. Interim Assistant Principal Mary Custard  and health and physical education teacher Elizabeth Haygood co-advise the club. This year’s...

Everyone needs food and water to survive, but very often, just the basic physical needs aren’t enough for people. Humans also crave love, attention, and company, and stray away from loneliness. However, groups of...

According to a 2010 ABC News and Washington Post poll, only 37 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of Islam, partly due to biased perceptions and misrepresentations of Muslims in politics, the media,...

After three weeks of travel to Senegal and The Gambia, ARHS students felt like they not only experienced the culture, but learned a great deal. “For me, it filled a gap of knowledge that...

Tristan Whalen’s love of philosophy is no secret to those who know him best. In the past two years alone he has completed courses at Hampshire College in Plato’s Moral and Political Philosophy and...

One of the many distinctive qualities we are exposed to by living in a town like Amherst is its international population. And at ARHS, we have the International Students Club to bring their energy...

Consent Week has been a staple of ARHS’s social awareness campaigns since its debut in 2015. Now, in its fourth year, the week, which will take place between Monday, April 9 and Friday, April...

One day senior and SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Alliance) president Abigail Morris was walking through the math hallway at ARHS, when she heard someone say something along the lines of “That’s gay, bro, don’t...