2008 Woodie Awards
Five years after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell in Baghdad, the University of Massachusetts is still adjusting to the influx of student soldiers and veterans on campus. For Jon Zagami, who served with the United States Army Engineering Corps in Iraq, the University was largely unprepared to handle a population of veterans and servicemen and women when he arrived as a freshman at UMass four years ago.
Editor's note - The following article is the third in a week-long series covering violence on campus. Crime on campus is reported frequently at the University of Massachusetts, but only because it is a public university. A Massachusetts law states that complete information on burglaries, stabbings and any other illegal acts that may occur on campuses at private institutions can be withheld by campus police.
Two University of Massachusetts student groups are holding a fundraiser to send packages to service members abroad on active duty. The Veterans and Service Members Association, in association with UMass Red Cross, are holding the package drive that began last week and will accept donations into the month of May to send packages to service members abroad, hopefully by Memorial Day.
Yesterday morning, students, faculty and staff at the University of Massachusetts were invited via e-mail to subscribe to the new emergency text messaging service on campus. According to University spokesman Ed Blaguszewski, the text messaging service will transmit time-sensitive messages to subscribers' cell phones about situations that pose an immediate risk to the safety of the community or could radically disrupt campus activities.
"Where do we go from here?" was the theme for the 40th anniversary event of Martin Luther King's death, hosted by the Black Student Union "Dr. M.L.K was somebody that fought for justice and to bring out the qualities in our country," said Afro-American studies Professor John H.