2008 Woodie Awards
Members of the University of Massachusetts Republican club spoke out against today's planned student strike during a rally on the steps of the Student Union at noon yesterday. Standing below a display advertising the two-day student boycott of classes in the window of the Student Government Association [SGA] offices, Republican club leaders called the strike a "politically motivated stunt" and the grievances filed by the SGA and Graduate Student Senate [GSS] "ridiculous.
The Amherst Pride Alliance rallied yesterday on the Valentine Quad at Amherst College in response to a recent incident involving the harassment of several homosexual Hampshire students attending one of their GAP (Gay Amherst Party) functions. On Saturday, Nov.
In an e-mail addressed to all students and parents, Interim Chancellor Thomas Cole dismissed rumors that class would be canceled Thursday and Friday in reaction to the student strikes. He assured students and parents that the University would be conducting business as usual, including the full class schedule, for which students would be held accountable.
One of the issues students are protesting about today and tomorrow is control over student space - particularly free student use of the Campus Center and Student Union. "A few years ago we had unlimited access to equipment and space in the Student Union and Campus Center," said Registered Student Organization (RSO) member Susan Allen in a statement.
Pulitzer Prize winning author, H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger spoke on "The Art of Non-Fiction Storytelling" last night, and addressed the craft of writing as a sacred skill that has many non-writers questioning its future in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union.
A computer program at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library was taken out of service last week due to a security problem. On Nov. 5 and 6, ILLiad, a document delivery system most often used by faculty and graduate students at the University of Massachusetts, suffered downtime and caused several requests to be lost, according to MJ Canavan, Coordinator for Library Systems and Web Development.
The University of Massachusetts Police Department announced a Washington residence hall break-in that resulted in the theft of electronic equipment from the unlocked rooms of students. According to the UMPD's Web site and a public service announcement sent to student e-mail address at 10:50 a.
A new Registered Student Organziation at the University of Massachusetts, Advancing Democracy, will host speaker John Bonifaz, founder of the National Voting Rights Institute. The young group has been able to draw in a big player in fair election rights for their event.
Evan Shapiro, general manager and executive vice-president of the Independent Film Channel, spoke to a crowd of 70 people at Flavin Auditorium on the changing media landscape last night. "The revolution is already over," he said. "It was a bloodless coup.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have discovered large, metal-rich sedimentary deposits in a New Hampshire lake. These sedimentary deposits, more specifically referenced as "nodules," measured in at record sizes - 46 cm in diameter. They are the first seen in any New England state, and they have a morphologically distinct form and the highest content of manganese in any nodule known so far.