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UMass Amherst Broke the Guinness World Record For Largest Fruit Salad

For the fourth time ever, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst put another record-breaker in the books. As students shuffled back to campus over the […]

City Life

UMass Amherst Protesters Called Karl Rove a ‘Terrorist’

Karl Rove probably knew when he agreed to a speaking engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus that this wouldn’t be his crowd. And boy did […]

City Life

Live and Learn: The Advantages of Taking a Gap Year

Want your kid to ace college? Make him wait for it.

City Life

Do the Working Poor Make Too Much Money?

Apparently the right wing strongly believes that, as things stand now, there is simply not enough inequality in this country and the poor currently have too much money. It spoils them so.

Arts & Entertainment

Charles Dickens Returns to Lowell

I remember quite well when Charles Dickens made his famous tour of America. Not that I was there, mind you — this was the mid-1800s. […]

City Life

UMass Football Goes Big… Err, to the MAC Anyway

UMass is hitting the big time. In case you missed the news — which was hard to do if you picked up a Herald yesterday— […]