By McKenna Premus and Cassie McGrath
April 11, 2021
Students gather on and off-campus following the UMass Hockey NCAA National Championship win.
UMass expects campus to ‘return to normal’ in fall, will allow full dorm capacity
April 8, 2021
“When our community returns to campus in September, we plan to offer students a full college experience.”
Patrick Collins elected as next SGA speaker
April 8, 2021
The SGA also voted to co-sponsor a solidarity event between the Asian American Pacific Islander and Black UMass communities.
UMass support groups reflect on a year of social isolation
April 7, 2021
By Olivia LeDuc, , Collegian Correspondent
April 1, 2021
“The Amherst School Committee voted unanimously for the elementary schools and the Regional School Committee voted unanimously for the middle school and high school,” Allison McDonald said.
Following weeks of dropping cases, UMass lowers risk level to ‘Guarded’
March 24, 2021
Since early February, when UMass recorded over 750 COVID-19 cases in two weeks, new positive tests have fallen significantly. Last week, there were only 55 new cases and the positivity rate fell to 0.26 percent. By @will_katcher.
Four UMass professors challenge COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, local and national
March 18, 2021
“There seems to be a real reluctance to voice anything but a certain narrow and well-worn set of views about the nature of this pandemic and about the appropriate response from political and educational authorities."
Massachusetts state legislature creates online COVID-19 vaccine preregistration system for residents
March 15, 2021
Easily sign up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Massachusetts' new pre-registration system.
By Sophia Gardner, Assistant News Editor
April 8, 2021
The SGA also voted to co-sponsor a solidarity event between the Asian American Pacific Islander and Black UMass communities.
SGA endorses MassPirg petition at weekly meeting
April 1, 2021
The petition urges an increase in funding for Open Education Resources
Prabhu Rajkumar, Ben Katzman to serve as the next SGA president and vice president
March 23, 2021
Rajkumar and Katzman won 43 percent of the vote.
SGA proposes new RSO application process
March 18, 2021
SGA proposes bylaw change regarding RSO applications.
February 22, 2021
After classes resumed in early February UMass saw its largest spike in positive COVID-19 cases to date with over 600 new cases in the span of two weeks, largely due to social gatherings that broke COVID-19 rules and guidelines. The fallout from the massive increase was felt in a multitude of ways including a self-sequester period, UMass students losing access to their jobs, systematic failures, among others issues.
The Collegian News Hour S6 E2: SGA elections, COVID-19 cluster and spring semester outlook
October 12, 2020
The News Team discusses the recent SGA elections and results after the debate and individual interviews with each of the candidates. Also, recorded before the larger number emerged, the News Team talks about the first UMass-linked COVID-19 cluster, its implications and how the coronavirus will affect next semester amid UMass’ shift in dates for the spring semester.
The Collegian News Hour S6 E1: Summer recap, Beginning of fall semester
September 27, 2020
The Daily Collegian News team begins their 6th season, giving a recap of the summer, and discussing how the start of the fall semester is going. This episode was recorded on September 7th, 2020.
The Collegian News Hour S5 E13: Hillel vandalism, last SGA meeting and COVID-19 changes campus life
April 27, 2020
This week, our news team talks about an act of vandalism that occurred at Hillel House on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, the final SGA meeting of the spring semester which voted to sponsor two letters requesting that the University use its excess spaces to house vulnerable people from Amherst and surrounding communities and how students remaining on campus and at the UMass Student Farm cope with changes due to COVID-19. We also look back to the 2006 summer orientation edition of the Collegian and share some of our favorite news story over the past academic year.
