Matt Kushi reflects on his experience at the Collegian and at the University in his senior column.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | last update: 1:03 am
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Looking To The Future
Ah, spring is in the air. The trees are budding and the flowers are blooming even in New England. It is the time of year where college students turn their attention to love, summer prospects and wait, textbooks?
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Radicals protest military funerals to oppose United States support of homosexuality
Collegian columnist Matt Kushi maintains that freedom of speech was not intended to protect bigotry.
Tags: Albert Snyder, Bill O'Reilly, Kansas, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, Reverend Fred Phelps, Supreme Court, Topeka, Westboro Baptist Church
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Cooley Dickinson to expand Amherst branch to include emergency care
The town of Amherst recently announced it will be expanding the urgent care center that the Cooley Dickinson Hospital provides in its main Northampton branch to the Cooley Dickinson outpatient center in Amherst at 170 University Dr.
Tags: amherst, Bay State Medical Center, Boston Herald, Calvin Coolidge Bridge, Connecticut, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Hadley, northampton, pioneer valley, students, Sunderland, University Drive
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Climb into someone’s skin before you judge
Matt Kushi believes that if we cut funding to people with disabilities, we will lose our perspective and now acknowledge we are all human beings who deserve compassion.
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Olympic virtues
Times have been intense for the United States in the past few years. The Olympics serve as a healthy reminder that we are still a Nation of one.
Tags: Olympic virtues, Olympics
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‘R’ word degrades people
Many of us read the news every day. If you read the news this past week, you likely saw many stories. How many left an impression on you? I know that I saw two stories that caught my eye. These two stories were different, yet similar. One is a national story, and the other a [...]
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Giving Relief to Haiti
Matt Kushi reminds the UMass community to continue giving its support to the victims of Haiti’s earthquake.
Tags: community service, Haiti
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Nine years in and still no goals
Collegian columnist Matt Kushi wants to know what our objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan are and what we hope to accomplish over there.
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Diane Sawyer, Iraq, Matt Kushi, Osama Bin Laden, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Vietnam, War on Terror, World War II
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Following your own beat
Matt Kushi tells seniors how to adapt to the “real world” and freshman to join a new one without losing one’s identity. In doing so, he tells the story of a friend of his that often lost his. But, just like his friend, Matt says that it is possible to regain what has been lost.
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