Friday, January 02, 2026

Oh, the humanity!-----Amherst erupts after student reporter exposes sex skits thrust upon freshmen at orientation | The College Fix

Campus leaders and student government officials at the private, preppy $90,000-a-year Amherst College in central Massachusetts are going into overtime working to respond to a lengthy article that detailed sexual students skits performed during freshman orientation and included pictures and short videos. -  Dave Huber - Associate Editor
One in particular earlier this year ruffled a lot of feathers — he dared to take on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and faced harassment and death threats over it, as The College Fix reported at the time. 
  • So upsetting was his op-ed that the school’s Title IX office hit him with a “No-Communications & Restricted Proximity Order” due to a complaint by a female student to whom Allen had never spoken.
Now Allen is back in the hot seat. 
Most recently, Allen — president of the Amherst College Conservatives — published a piece in The Washington Free Beacon about the school’s “Voices of the Class” program, part of its freshman orientation...
  • The same morning Allen’s Free Beacon story hit on Dec. 12, Amherst President Michael Elliot and Vice President for Student Affairs Angie Tissi-Gassoway sent out a campus-wide email informing students the “safety and wellbeing of our students and staff is our immediate priority,” and that they were “exploring possible responses” to Allen’s piece.
  • The officials also provided numbers for the campus Center for Counseling and Mental Health and noted “Student Care and the Class Deans can assist students in accessing further resources.”...

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