The sun has yet to rise and the birds are just beginning to chirp at 6 a.m. when Cathy Keough opens the Wheatberry Bakery and Café. Though the café doesn’t open until 7:30 a.m., she arrives early to get the day’s products baking. Wheatberry is located on Main Street five minutes from Amherst Center, where [...]
The first in a series of profiles of some of the University’s most interesting professors.
The March 4th Day of Action to Defend Education- UMass Amherst Coalition issued a set of demands to Vice Chancellor Jean Kim on Thursday, March 4th at around 1:00 p.m.
The march began at the Student Union with chants and shouts for economic justice. When the crowd, led by megaphone-brandishing Sarah Meunier of the March [...]
Students from all five colleges and members of the Amherst community gathered together in the FAC to celebrate the Dominican Republic Independence Day.
A common love and respect for the works of Edgar Allan Poe brought authors Elizabeth Hand, John Crowley, and Martín Espada to Bowker Auditorium Oct. 29 to read some of their favorite Poe pieces along with their own writings.
The UMass English department sponsored the Oct. 29 event as well as a weekend of Poe events [...]
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.
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.
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.
