2008 Woodie Awards
Regardless of whether you think the name of the UMass Republican Club-sponsored Abortion Graveyard this week is hyperbole, the message it conveys should resonate in the souls of all UMass students and faculty. Human beings should honor the precious lives of unborn children, starting at conception, by ensuring their right to be born, and thereby upholding God's natural law that all people are born on the same level of creation.
Andrew "Andy" Card, the former Chief of Staff of the Bush Administration, is getting an honorary degree from UMass, and our campus is up-in-arms. His speech in April angered students, and now the University is growing louder in protest. These protests have taken the form of 'Die-ins', as well as organized meetings.
A telecommunications giant wants you to know that it can hear every word you say on your cell phone and once you utter a syllable into your Razr, it belongs to the company to do with as it pleases. In a new take on our First Amendment rights, Verizon now claims that in handing over customer's calling records to the U.
Every student has probably heard that the administration and local police forces are trying to cut down on drinking on campus. Most of us don't think they've managed to get the job done at all. While the large police presence hasn't really affected drinking on campus, they have affected what we do while we are drinking on campus.