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Halfway Through a Turbulent Semester, Students Reflect on Areas for Change in Open Forums

President Biddy Martin, joined by members of her senior staff, hosted two Zoom forums to gauge student feedback on the fall semester, one for on-campus students on Sept. 30 and the other for remote students on Oct. 1. Among the highlights of the forums include the opening of more

Local Restaurants See Uptick in Business as College Enters Delivery Express Partnership

Amherst residents stroll through the town on an afternoon before the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.In an email to on-campus students on Sept. 11, Chief Student Affairs Officer Karu Kozuma announced that the college would launch a new partnership with Delivery Express, a local food delivery service akin

UMass Opens Feinberg Series, With a Focus on Indigenous Knowledge Systems

On Sept. 30, Robin Wall Kimmerer, an author and founding director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, kicked off the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst 2020-21 Feinberg Series. The free virtual seminar, which was promoted by the Amherst Environmental Studies Program, was the first of nine

Black Visions Collective Activist Discusses the Need for Intersectional Environmental Justice in Campus Virtual Visit

Kyra Brown, an environmental justice activist and social media strategist at Black Visions Collective [https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/], gave a virtual talk on the Black Lives Matter movement, policing and environmental justice for the college community this past Thursday; the talk covered the inextricable links between racism and climate change

Staff Spotlight: Billy McBride

Billy McBride is the assistant athletic director of diversity and inclusion, the director of club sports and a senior coach from Syracuse, New York. McBride has been a coach at the college for 30 years, before which he was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers, played professional football in the

Campus Police Log: Sept. 21 to Oct. 4

Monday, September 21, 2020 10:22 a.m. Keefe Health Center An officer responded to a call to the emergency line with no response from the caller. No one was in distress. 11:05 a.m. Valentine Dining Hall An officer responded to a report of an unknown individual tapping

Two Weeks After Off-Campus Party, UMass Reports Over 100 Covid Cases

Over the past two weeks, the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) has reported over 100 positive Covid cases, all but two of whom are students living off campus, according to the UMass Covid-19 Dashboard [https://www.umass.edu/coronavirus/dashboard]. As of Oct. 6, UMass has reported 124 cumulative