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UMass-Amherst says Harambe jokes are micro-aggressions, violate Title IX

AMHERST — Students at the University of Massachusetts' flagship campus are going ape over a recent email from resident assistants ordering them not to crack jokes about Harambe, the fallen Cincinnati gorilla who happened to have a very similar name as that of a designated African heritage student living area.

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UMass prof vows to bring social justice teachings to classroom

AMHERST — An aspiring University of Massachusetts professor of postcolonial literature has made a public vow to "shift the focus" of her classes in order to hone in on social justice topics like "race and policing in America," according to a "Diversity Statement" she recently

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UMass divests from fossil fuel industry that ‘perpetuates injustice’

(CNSNews.com) – The winters are cold in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the state university relies on a modern central heating plant that burns natural gas most of the time, switching to fuel oil when gas is not available. But no matter.

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Active shooter detection systems recommended by Senate for UMass

The Senate on Tuesday tacked onto its budget a directive for the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of installing on every campus a system to detect gunfire and alert the authorities. The amendment filed by West Roxbury Sen. Michael Rush requires the UMass system to look into installing

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Mass. Senate ready to make case for higher education funding increases

STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts Senate is poised in the coming weeks to press the House and Gov. Charlie Baker to make larger investments in public higher education. The fiscal 2017 budget proposal (S 4) marked for released Tuesday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee will call for a $13

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UMass critics decry veer to left in required courses

AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts has turned a corner and begun to more explicitly prescribe political attitudes and views that students – and faculty – at its flagship Amherst campus must not only study but embrace, critics say. The school, in recent guidelines sent to teachers on constructing new courses or updating

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‘Free speech’ panel triggers insults at UMass Amherst

AMHERST – When three conservatives sought to speak about freedom of speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, they drew shouted insults, apparently from students at the state's premier public university. The event, billed as "The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?" may have succeeded in

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Amherst, Harvard, Williams cited for ‘muzzling’ speech

BOSTON – Three prestigious Massachusetts colleges were singled-out for stifling free speech on campus over the past year, earning them "muzzles" from the Thomas Jefferson Center. Amherst College, Harvard University and Williams College were among 50 U.S. schools that curtailed students' First Amendment rights in 2015, drawing