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UMass Alumni Contest the 'Amherst' Name
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 18, 2008
Some think the regional designation diminishes the school's reputation.
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UMass’s Controversial Safer-Sex Brochure
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 27, 2008
It has had two student groups fighting for at least a week.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 14, 2007
Students plan to go on strike at the University of Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts Can't Get Enough Weird Bomb Scares
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 29, 2007
Massachusetts has had several bizarre bomb scares, including an empty Keystone Light box at UMass.
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Can You Dishonor an Honorary Degree?
The Paper Trail
- March 26, 2007
Despite many violent deaths attributed to his regime, Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe still holds the honorary degree he got from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, the Daily Collegian reports. "UMass President Jack Wilson has acknowledged that stripping Mugabe of his degree is not out of the question, but almost no real action has been taken in the 20 years since the degree was given," the paper writes.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- December 18, 2006
–Students at Yale Law sued the Department of Homeland Security last week, charging racial discrimination against local Hispanic residents. It was the second time in the last month the law school has taken on the department, the Yale Daily News reports.
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Afroman Plays at Northwestern, Stays in Wisconsin
The Paper Trail
- November 20, 2006
Northwestern's Chi Psi fraternity hosted the rapper Afroman this weekend, paying him with two 40-ounce bottles of Colt, dinner, and a hotel room. Afroman, whose song "Because I Got High" has won him a place on many iPods, "didn't have a dressing room, and the stage was only about 8 by 15 feet," but his biggest complaint was with the hotel.
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Girls Are Crazy, Female Columnist Declares
The Paper Trail
- November 10, 2006
The University of Massachusetts Daily Collegian columnist's reasons? They don't like being rejected, they don't like being led on, they get attached to people they spend a lot of time with. Hmm: Does crazy mean human?
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Second Bests: "In a Relationship" . . . with Voting
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Inspired by Gov.-elect Deval Patrick's higher-ed positions, University of Massachusetts students voted enthusiastically, the Daily Collegian reports.
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