University of Massachusetts

Five Things No One Ever Tells You About College

Marlena Bradford | Posted 04.10.2012

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Marlena Bradford

Accepted student tours provide you with such cursory information as, "This is the library" and "It's good to study here." I thought that I'd provide incoming freshmen with some tips that they won't get from their tour guide.

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Which University Won the Intercollegiate Programming Championship?

David Thielen | Posted 04.13.2012

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David Thielen

Each team wrote the A.I. for a computer game. The contest is then the A.I.s from each team fighting each other where one will reign victorious over the others on the field of battle.

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University Of Massachusetts Students Injured In Bus Accident

dailycollegian.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over a dozen students were injured when a bus transporting University of Massachusetts students on a ski trip overturned and slid into an embankment o...

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Towson President Interviews For Head Of U Mass

thetowerlight.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Towson President Robert Caret has made it to the second round of candidates to take over the presidency at the University of Massachusetts, according ...

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Average Debt Load At U Of Mass Tops $20,000

The Daily Collegian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Twenty-one thousand six hundred fourteen dollars -- that's the amount of debt facing the average University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate of 2008,...

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UMass Sophomore Eyes Senate Seat

The Daily Collegian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many college students are involved in campus politics, but University of Massachusetts Lowell sophomore Jonathan Loya is shooting for Beacon Hill. ...

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AB 32 Opponents Vulnerable on Pollution's Health Hazards

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Kim

Opponents of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gases in California to 1990 levels by 2020 are asking us to put short-term economic interests ahead of people's health and safety.

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Raymond Luc Levasseur To Speak At UMass After All

bostonherald.com | Herald Wire Services | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Deval Patrick won't take anymore action to prevent a convicted terror bomber from speaking at the University of Massachusetts Amherst despite his...

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Fonkoze: Haitian Diaspora Unites Across U.S.

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

"The Diaspora is the driving force for the economic development of the country, but in order to reach that objective, overseas Haitians need to be organized locally, state-wide, and nationally."

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