In an e-mail sent out to the UMass Amherst campus community yesterday, Chancellor Holub announced the first results of the Budget Planning Task Force’s meetings. Over $500,000 will be cut from the central administration’s executive area, and a spending freeze of $5 million has been placed on capital construction, effective immediately.
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Video: Student town hall on budget cut
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, UMass students gathered to discuss the university budget cut at a town hall-style meeting hosted by SGA President Malcolm Chu and Student Trustee Lindsay McKluskey.
AW Vox Pop Issue #2: Election Moods
On Nov. 4, we asked UMass students and local residents how they felt and tracked the trends in moods from morning to night. This was the result. The bigger the word, the greater the frequency of its use. Click on a word to launch its video. For multiple instances of the same word, use the left and right arrows on your keyboard to browse between clips. Go to this issue now →
Students weigh in on George Allen at UMass
Former Virginia governor and Republican senator George Allen spoke at UMass on energy policy Wednesday. Watch student opinions of what Allen said here, and read the write-up of his speech at the Daily Collegian.
Introducing AW Vox Pop
vox pop: [origin: Latin vōx populī] noun — the voice of the people; popular opinion.
Have an opinion? Make it heard! AW Vox Pop is an ongoing forum for UMass students to voice their thoughts on community issues. We go on campus, film your opinions and publish them online, and invite you to participate through posting comments or sending in your own video responses.
Our first issue is the UMass budget cut. On Oct. 15, Chancellor Holub announced in an e-mail to the campus community that approximately $12 million will be cut from the university’s budget in response to Governor Deval Patrick’s mid-year budget cut of 5 percent due to the economic crisis. Your reactions to the announcement and opinions on what you think UMass should (or shouldn’t) reduce funding for. Go to this issue →
Weekly web radio: The pre-debate show
The Amherst Wire and Commonwealth College collaborated to host an event Wednesday night for students interested in watching and talking about final presidential debate. Politikos Discourse, AW’s web radio show, went on the air at 8 p.m. for students and faculty to talk about their expectations and predictions prior to the debate, and ComCol held a post-debate a discussion led by a panel of professors in Goodell Lounge.
On debate night, UMass classes aflutter over Twitter
“Hey, are you on Twitter?”
“Yeah, I’ll be tweeting during the debate tonight, follow me!”
This was talk heard amongst UMass journalism students all day Thursday and Tuesday as they prepared for the vice presidential and presidential debates over the past week.
Web radio show premieres Oct. 1st
This Wednesday at 6 p.m. EST, we are kicking off an exciting new project on Amherst Wire — Politikos Discourse, a weekly web radio talk show. Hosted by junior political science major Kenneth Sentamu, Politikos Discourse will be a live forum for students to talk about controversial issues of the times. Listeners can call in or comment on the blog to have their opinions read on the air.
David Maraniss talks race, sports and politics
UMass journalism students packed into Flavin Auditorium on Monday to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Maraniss give his talk, “Playing for Keeps: Race, Sports and Politics.”
Wordpress switchover
If you’re a past visitor to this site, you may have noticed that its pages now look a little crisper, more colorful, and easier to navigate. That’s because we’ve made the switch to Wordpress, bringing you a legion of new features come this fall, including photo galleries, a multimedia browser, and podcast subscriptions for iTunes.