By Brie Thompson-Bristol As I have continued to sit at home with family, counting the days
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A Job to Die For
By Nat Luftman, Alice Troop, and James Cordero Being a Residential Assistant (RA) or a Peer Mentor (PM) at UMass Amherst is a true honor. In our roles as the Residential Life staff who support students living on campus, we have built meaningful relationships with dozens of residents and have fostered various living-learning communities. Thanks to our status as unionized workers, we are able to collectively bargain for dignified working conditions and wages.
UMass Amherst Student Organizations Come Together in Starting Conversations on Police Reform and Abolition on Campus
By: Elienishka Ramos Torres On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, “Re-imagining Public Safety,” a zoom meeting hosted by several UMass Amherst student organizations, provided participants with an insight on their current goals of police abolition within the UMass community.
Trustee Woolridge: It’s Time for UMass to Live Up to Its Promise
By: UMass Amherst Racial Justice Coalition Recently, Victor Woolridge, a member and former Chair of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, wrote an article calling upon America to acknowledge its history of anti-black racism and take concrete steps to achieve racial justice. We, a group of UMass students advocating for racial justice, wish to comment on Woolridge’s message. One of the few Black members of the Board of Trustees, Woolridge is, to our knowledge, the only member of the Board to publicly write about the need for systemic change following the death of George Floyd. Overall, we commend Trustee