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...down the hall, telling younger students, "It's the third building on the right" or "Now cut that out!" These resident assistants (RAs) are rarely the biggest stars on campus--but now at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, they have the most muscle. Union muscle, that is. At Umass-Amherst, RAs may be stashing their Strokes CDs and joining in a chorus of Solidarity Forever...
...effort to alleviate Massachusetts’ worsening budget crunch, last Thursday Acting Gov. Jane Swift proposed cutting $10 million from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst budget. This ill-advised decision threatens to negate the advances the Massachusetts public university system has made and to jeopardize the status of UMass-Amherst as one of the nation’s premier public universities...
...rest may deal a harsh blow to the academic reputation of the UMass system. Due to Swift’s cuts, deep reductions will have to be made in a wide variety of areas. Library budgets will be slashed; hundreds of journal subscriptions have already been dropped and fewer books purchased. Departmental budgets will also suffer; next year, some of the smaller departments may be combined or discontinued altogether. Especially damaging are plans to reduce resources allocated to the UMass-Amherst honors program, Commonwealth College, which since its 1997 inception has been a crown jewel of the Massachusetts university system...
...UMass system, and particularly its Amherst campus, is one of America’s leading public universities. It offers a quality, affordable education to Massachusetts residents and out-of-staters alike. These budget cuts, combined with recent tuition increases that will raise the cost of attending UMass-Amherst to $11,000 a year for Massachusetts residents, are the first steps towards compromising UMass’ hard-earned reputation...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse team didn’t return from its season opener at UMass-Amherst on Saturday with a win, but it brought back plenty of confidence...