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...University, hunger strikers met with university officials Monday, but failed to see any real changes after a week of protest. The protesters want Columbia to diversify its Core Curriculum and improve ethnic studies and multicultural resources, according to a report by the Columbia Spectator. Finally, starting today, students at UMass-Amherst plan to stage a two-day strike to push for decreased student fees and a relaxation of aggressive police patrols of dormitories. The university’s administration met with strikers on Tuesday, but “agreed to disagree,” said spokesman Ed F. Blaguszewski...
...scientists are hard at work trying to find alternative sources of fuel. On Aug. 23, Sony announced its green-battery prototype, which is made out of a vegetable-based plastic and is powered by converting sugar into electricity. "We need to always be thinking green," says Derek Lovley, a UMass-Amherst microbiologist who does his part by researching mud-microbe batteries. Other sources tapped into...
...closed it out,” she added. “I feel my tennis is really improving.” A week off will provide an opportunity for the Crimson to recover and train. Harvard returns to the courts next Tuesday against UMass-Amherst. NOTE: Bad weather in Chicago led to airport delays and a cancellation of yesterday’s scheduled match against Northwestern. —Staff writer Tyler D. Sipprelle can be reached at sipprell@fas.harvard.edu...
...fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of Massachusetts-based electric and gas utility NStar and UMass-Amherst footballer—800 evacuated, and at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer when it exploded...
...Massachusetts face an average debt of $15,399, a 39 percent increase from the 1992-1993 academic year. The big jump in college costs and, therefore, debt, has forced many students to drop out of college before getting a degree—the six-year graduation rate at UMass-Amherst is 62 percent for students who enrolled in 1998. The number decreases at other UMass campuses, with UMass-Dartmouth at 50 percent and UMass-Boston at 28 percent. However, Long added, the onus is also on families to plan ahead for their children’s education so that they...