2008 Woodie Awards
Environmental activist and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke spoke at the University of Massachusetts Campus Center last night on the topics of global warming and environmental social justice. LaDuke, an Ojibwe activist and author of the 1997 novel "Last Standing Woman," as well as several non-fiction books, is a self-described "rural economist by training" who got her degree in native economic development from Harvard University in 1982.
Directing Attorney of Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) Charles DiMare urged senators to take responsibility for policies that affected student affairs during last night's Undergraduate Student Senate meeting. "It's critical to understand that you are actually a formal member of University governance," DiMare said.
As the flagship campus of the university system, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is looking to make a mark in Massachusetts with clean energy efforts. The goals were presented to the Faculty Senate at its meeting Oct. 4 by Paul T. Kostecki, vice provost of research and UMass alumnus.
Authors Carole O'Malley Gaunt and John Hanson Mitchell read excerpts from their memoirs Tuesday night, bringing the past to life. "An Evening Celebrating the Literary Genre of the Memoir," hosted by the University of Massachusetts journalism department, was held in Memorial Hall.
The Supreme Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injection at the end of September. Since then, at least 10 states have postponed executions in anticipation of the Court's decision. The debate centers not so much on the legality of lethal injection in general but on the type and amount of drugs used in the procedure.