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If you’re sick with the flu or cold and thinking about dropping by the urgent care clinic at University Health Services, you might want to think again — and pick up a phone instead.
Chances are you’ve noticed an abundance of sniffling and coughing going on around campus lately. That’s because the flu season has gotten a later start this winter than in past years.
For those nervous about the connotations of Friday the 13th, doctors have diagnosed 17 to 21 million Americans with the phobia known as “paraskavedekatriaphobia.”
In an e-mail to the campus community March 12, Chancellor Robert Holub disclosed his plans for reorganizing the system of colleges on campus. A move that was initially intended to help compensate for the significant budget deficit UMass faces in Fiscal Year 2010, it is also described by Holub as an opportunity to make UMass more competitive as a top public research institution.
Can we spend our way out of a bad economy? Six professors from UMass and Mt. Holyoke explore the costs, benefits and impacts of Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill in this interactive video guide by AmherstWire.com.
President Barack Obama signed his economic stimulus package into law on Feb. 17, promising to dish out $787 billion in an attempt to rescue the economy. But questions — lots of them — remain.
