May 28, 2012

Edition: U.S.

FEATURED GPS FOR THE SOUL VOCES (ESPAÑOL) ELECTION BLOG GOOD NEWS SCIENCE BLACK VOICES WORLD RELIGION CRIME GREEN SPORTS THE BREAKDOWN

Amherst

Page: 1

Bullied Teen's Death Was Not A Crime, Police Say

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: New York Schools, Gay Bullying, Video, Lady GaGa, Lady Gaga Bullying, Buffalo Schools, Buffalo, Amherst, Jamey Rodemeyer, Teen Bullying, Amherst New York, Jamey Rodemeyer Suicide, Anti-Gay Bullying, Buffalo New York, School Bullying, Education News

AMHERST, N.Y. — Police investigating the suicide of a bullied gay teenager said Tuesday that offensive comments he endured online and at school ...

Read Whole Story

All Around Amherst: Exploring a College Town

The Cac | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Amherst College, College Town, Umass Amherst, Amherst Campus, Amherst, College News

Read Post

Are Women's Colleges Outdated?

Tom Matlack | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Good Is Good, Women, Swarthmore, Single-Sex, Barnard, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Coed, Bard, Amherst, Tom Matlack, Women's College, Penn, Single-Sex Schools, Co-Ed Schools, Single-Sex Colleges, Womens Colleges, College News

Beyond serving a destination for horny young men, I've always been skeptical about women's colleges.

Read Post

Ilan Stavans' Magnum Opus: After 13 Years, The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature Is Here

Joshua Kors | Posted 05.25.2011

I make my books for elite audiences, mainstream audiences, families in the barrio. That's not a contradiction. It's a full life.

Read Post

The Final Approach to College

Jennie Nash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Admissions Process, College Admissions, College, Amherst, College Acceptance, College News

One school may sparkle for one kid, but appear flat to another. The college counselors would call this "fit" -- and it has to do with tone and texture.

Read Post

Emily Dickinson's Secret Love

The Boston Globe | Lyndall Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lives Like Loaded Guns, Poetry, Emily Dickinson, Amherst, Books, Emily Dickinson Lover, Otis Phillips Lord, Books News

Following her father's death, poet Emily Dickinson did something unthinkable in his lifetime: She began to romance her father's best friend. This exce...

Read Whole Story

Guantánamo Uighurs Are Not Alone: US Communities Welcome Other Detainees in Need of Safe Haven

Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ravil Mingazov, Guantanamo, Amherst, Uighurs, Ahmed Belbacha, Detainees, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

On April 22, attorneys for five Chinese Uighurs who remain at Guantánamo Bay prison will argue for their clients' entry into the US at a hearing sche...

Read Post

David Park, New York Teacher, Enters Stranger's Home And Is Shot Dead

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York, Amherst, Teacher Shot, Guns, David Park, New York News

AMHERST, N.Y. — Investigators in Buffalo, N.Y., are awaiting toxicology test results that might give them clues as to why a school teacher walke...

Read Whole Story

John Bunz, 90-Year-Old, Charged With Killing 89-Year-Old Wife, Virginia Bunz

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murder, Retirement Home Murder, Virginia Bunz, John Bunz, Retirement Homes, Amherst, New York, New York News

AMHERST, N.Y. — A 90-year-old man has been charged with killing his 89-year-old wife in their home in a retirement community in western New York...

Read Whole Story

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

The Daily Collegian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Loan Relief, Obama Student Loans, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Student Debt, Amherst, U Mass Amherst, University of Massachusetts, The Northeast, Obama, Student Debt Relief, Daily Collegian, College News

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

Read Whole Story

Question Everything

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trader Joe's, Watts House Project, Power Structures, Rick Lowe, Project Row Houses, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Community, Conversation, Amherst, Mark Bradford, Artists, Usc, Philippe Parreno, Public Service, Los Angeles News

As the invisible structures which produce mass reality are beginning to shift, artists like Mark Bradford and Rick Lowe provide important reminders that "seeing is not understanding."

Read Post

Raymond Luc Levasseur To Speak At UMass After All

bostonherald.com | Herald Wire Services | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Umass, Terrorist Speech, Education, University of Massachusetts, Terrorism, Bomber, Amherst, Raymond Luc Levasseur, New York City, Levasseur Speech, Levasseur at UMass, Ray Luc Lavasseur, Ray Luc Levasseur, Home News

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

Read Whole Story

On My Ceiling Falling On Me, By Emily Dickinson

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ceiling Collapse, Jane Wald, Amherst, Emily Dickinson, Homestead, Home News

A partial ceiling collapse at the Emily Dickinson Homestead in Amherst has damaged some historical artifacts and forced a temporary closure of the mus...

Read Post

Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF

Dean Sluyter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Advertisements for Myself, Zen, Poetry, Franny and Zooey, Meditation, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anatta, Nirvana, Donald Rumsfeld, World Wrestling Federation, Self-Inquiry, New York Review of Books, Gospel of Thomas, Norman Mailer, Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Advaita, J.D. Salinger, Wwf, Mohandas Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Eastern Wisdom, Emily Dickinson, Buddhism, Transcendentalists, Amherst, Dzogchen, Healthy Living News

When the dream of self dissolves, we awake and see that the true church is wherever we are.

Read Post

Page: 1