2008 Woodie Awards
Members of the campus Chinese community rallied against the recent violence in Tibet and in support of Beijing on the steps of the Student Union yesterday. "We're in support of peaceful coexistence and against the violence and media distortion in Tibet," said Gorge Liu, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts.
UMass students who head off campus to drink may face a dilemma when it's time to get home. Their options are limited. UMass Transit Services buses make later runs on weekend nights, but many students say they don't run late enough. Amherst has two taxi companies, but they only have four vehicles between them, sometimes causing long waits for students trying to get home.
Each Thursday, Friday and Saturday, hundreds of UMass students walk, carpool, or bus off campus to the characteristic college social gathering - a house party. Evidence enough is North Pleasant Street on Friday night, a corridor of off-campus partying, lined from 10 p.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst's swim, hockey and track and field teams raised over $2,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County during a two day charity bowl-a-thon in Northampton. Hockey Captain Mike Kostka orchestrated the charity event in cooperation with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County alongside other enthusiastic athletes from the three participating UMass teams.
Undergraduates from the University of Massachusetts are working with a local community group to try and solve the environmental problems that can threaten the habitats of state-listed endangered species. The UMass environmental honors class is partnered with the grassroots organization Nuestras Raices [Our Roots], which promotes sustainable development projects in Holyoke, to restore an ecologically sensitive area of the Connecticut River shoreline in Holyoke.