Chris Heinz, the stepson of Senator John Kerry, attended a roundtable discussion among a small group of students from the Five College area Friday at the Hampden Student Center at the University of Massachusetts. He and Kerry’s daughter Vanessa have been visiting college campuses across the nation with the hope of enlisting students to Kerry’s [...]

Lani Guinier of Harvard Law School, and Dr. William Spriggs, from the National Urban League, spoke Friday on “The Future of Affirmative Action in the Academy.” Nancy Folbre, current chair of the economic department, introduced the two speakers. “I appreciate the steadfast commitment to affirmative action on this campus,” she said. Guinier was the first [...]

The University of Massachusetts Police Department released photos Friday of a second man they believe was involved in inciting the crowd during a disturbance after the Boston Red Sox’ Game 7 loss early morning, Oct. 17. The disturbance led to the arrest of 15 people on the scene after a group of at least 100 [...]

Richard D. James, named after an older brother who died during childbirth (his gravestone appears on the cover of Aphex Twin’s “Girl/Boy EP”), is one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed electronic musicians of all time. His parents met while working in a mental institution and regularly filched LSD prescribed to the patients there. [...]

By Ken Maguire Associated Press BOSTON (AP) – Gov. Mitt Romney said Tuesday he “may have been wrong” to not invite University of Massachusetts President William Bulger to a meeting of chancellors – a meeting that was canceled when school officials refused to attend. Romney, who has proposed eliminating Bulger’s office in his plan to [...]

Lackadaisical, aloof, slower than Tim Turner in sand, waste of space, and Helen Keller; senior Micah Brand has heard it all this season from the UMass critics. One NBA scout went as far to say that Brand “has the intensity and rebounding ability of a prepubescent school girl. I see him succeeding in the Canadian [...]