Graduate Students Demand Less Policing At UMass In Order To Fight Racism

Getting rid of the campus police anonymous tip line and severing the university's relationship with town police were among the demands of about 200 graduate students who marched through the University of Massachusetts at Amherst campus on Thursday afternoon.

The campus police tip line "targets people of color" and the town police cooperation with UMass officials "encourages highly punitive University measures against students for any number of nonviolent/minor infractions and has somehow seemingly left racist terrorizers free of any meaningful response from UMass," organizers said in a written statement, according to MassLive.com.