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Massachusetts Daily Collegian

A free and responsible press serving the UMass community since 1890

Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Opinion & Editorial

Spanish won’t bite, only heal
Spanish won’t bite, only heal
By Sally Mendelsohn, Collegian Correspondent • October 27, 2025
“We have languages coming into our country [...] it’s the craziest thing – they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard
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We are too accepting of extremists in pop culture
By Shon Eric Hernandez, Collegian Contributor • October 19, 2025
Integrated Learning Center, seen in Spring of 2025
Agreeing to disagree has its limits
By Julia Bragg, Collegian Columnist • April 27, 2025
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What AI reveals about how we learn
By Diko Karim, Collegian Correspondent • October 6, 2025
“Not using AI isn’t the answer, using AI effectively is.”
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Appeasement has never worked and it won’t save us now
By Jacob Nevins, Collegian Correspondent • April 8, 2025
UMass Amherst during sunset on 10/16/2023.
UMass Amherst is failing its students
By Jacob Nevins, Collegian Contributor • February 26, 2025
Red in the Blue ocean
Red in the Blue ocean
By Kaleigh Phalen, Collegian Contributor • November 10, 2025
“In a place where nearly everyone around me leans left, I’ve learned what it means to stand alone and stay true to myself,” writes Phalen.
Microphones in the UMass Marriot Center on 02/19/2025.
No, we can’t find a middle ground
By Jennifer Slawson, Collegian Contributor • October 15, 2025
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Gavin Newsom is the ultimate performative male
By Melanie Guilderson, Collegian Columnist • September 24, 2025
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How your gullibility funds media grifters
By Shon Eric Hernandez, Collegian Contributor • October 26, 2025
The uncomfortable reality is we cannot separate the grifter from the audience that sustains them, Eric-Hernandez writes.
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A case for the student voice in a world full of AI
By Fiona McFarland, Collegian Contributor • September 28, 2025
The most extensive efforts to combat AI should be made in convincing students why the work they’re doing is important, getting them to buy into the course being taught.
Our laundry system is terrible, and it needs to change
Our laundry system is terrible, and it needs to change
By Piper Morgan, Collegian Contributor • October 21, 2024
College life won’t be like the movies
College life won’t be like the movies
By Katie Seda, Collegian Columnist • April 16, 2024
Photo courtesy of Nubelson Fernandes on Unsplash
College kills creativity
By Hailey Furilla, Collegian Columnist • April 11, 2024
The Opinion Havers Podcast Election Special Episode 
By Manas Pandit, Zach Leach, and Hailey Furilla November 6, 2024
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7FHOYLPTJRyX8Wlw8MseuS?si=Di3jVXA0TiWD8NT53FXrew

On this special episode of the Opinion Havers, the Opinion section team, joined by Editor-in-Chief Caitlin Reardon, Managing Editor Johnny Depin, Head News Editor Daniel Frank and Assistant News Editor Alex Hill, discusses and live reacts to the 2024 Presidential Election. The team shares their wildcard electoral prediction!
A protester's sign on 12/07/23
Letter: Defend democracy against unchecked presidential power
By Ray La Raja, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts • October 13, 2025
‘Every generation is called to renew democracy. Yours will be tested,’ writes Ray La Raja
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Editorial: Community, not division
By Collegian Staff May 4, 2022
We, the members of the Massachusetts Daily Collegian editorial board, write today to condemn the individuals involved in sending a racist, hateful email to Black members of