2008 Woodie Awards
One of my favorite parts of the UMass campus is the library and its surrounding area. This love of mine is in no small part owed to the flowers that have been planted around the base of the gargantuan tower of books. I don't know about you, but I literally stop and smell the flowers.
Dear Editor: It has occurred to us in the Student Attorney General's Office in the Student Government Association that Sunday night's events need to be addressed - not by the administration but by fellow students interested in the issue of student discipline on campus.
Early yesterday morning, University of Massachusetts authorities discovered a 30-rack box in Herter Hall with a battery attached, wires sticking out and a sign reading, "If this is moved it will explode." An e-mail was sent out at approximately 6:30 a.
Let's examine the structure of the University of Massachusetts for a second. Who are the patrons, the bosses, and the workers? The answers to these questions are somewhat complicated, but several players are easily identified. The administration, meaning the bourgeois upper class of the University, makes the rules, and the workers, meaning everybody else who makes the place run, follow them.
One of the slogans often found on UMass publications claims that "Now's the time to be at UMass." Well, take a look at this period of "now." In the last year or so, UMass Amherst has seen its chancellor basically forced out of his job, various reports have appeared detailing the school's struggles at raising money and the president of the UMass system suffered a no-confidence vote.
Apparently Kermit was wrong. It can be easy to be green. At least Facebook would like to think so. Brent Charbonneau, a University of Ottawa student, has created a way to decrease carbon dioxide production by the click of a mouse. His masterpiece, called Greenbook, has gathered 9,171 daily active users who want to improve their environment.
I have been thinking a lot about the nature of security. The notion probably means quite a few different things from person to person, but in my own terms security is protection from harm or loss.
Dear Editor: On Monday, Oct. 1, students from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, Hampshire College and the Amherst Public Schools walked out to speak out in support of 6 black students in Jena, LA. The walk out and march was a part of a national effort to protest the Jena 6 case, in which six black students were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder after having a small fight with a white student.
Dear Editor, Last night, as hundreds of students surrounded my building and began celebrating the Red Sox ALCS victory, I began to feel a great sense of foreboding. My name is Kevin Bolduc, and as an SGA Student Senator representing the Southwest South living area, I feel a deep sense of commitment to my fellow residents.
Re: "Anti-war groups send mixed message," Ed/Op Oct. 23, 2007 Like a Guantanamo detainee, logic is tortured beyond belief in Greg Collins' recent column. He reasons that anti-war groups like the Radical Student Union are in fact pro-war. Collins defines anti-war as calling for "defeating the specific enemy targeting American forces."
Dear Editor: Re: "Anti-war groups send mixed message," Ed/Op Oct. 23, 2007 Greg Collins claims that the anti-war message of many anti-war groups is lofty and in fact pro-war. Instead, he offers that the U.S. military needs to remain in Iraq in order to foster democracy and that this is the only way for the war to end.