While the past academic year has been well known for its administrative failings, behind the scenes of the Student Government Association, now former President Sonya Epstein, experienced a difficult and tumultuous relationship with members of the SGA. The mental health difficulties of dealing with these confrontations, as well as SGA members spreading rumors about them, eventually led to their decision not to run again despite being only a junior.
In this week's poem, student poet Zach Steward, poignantly reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement as a student of color and poses the question; how can one process all the hate, the anger, the sense of injustice toward Black people in this country when it's so constant? The power of anti-Blackness is so deeply ingrained in our society there can be no way to undo it unless whiteness, capitalism, neoliberalism, settler-colonialism, elitism, neocapitalism and more are decentralized and the idea of white superiority is destroyed. Enough is enough. Black Lives Matter.
According to the 2018 UMass Amherst Waste Management Report, UMass produced 8,103 tons of trash, with 4,889 of those tons being recyclable. Yet, we can not be sure if that amount actually ends up being recycled due to contamination in the recycling stream or a lack of demand from buyers.
My partner knew I had no previous sexual experience and that I was nervous to explore that side of myself. I was naïve and so excited about the start of this relationship that I didn’t process what happened to me until much later.
Only “hundreds” attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s climate strike protest on Sept. 20, 2019.
So what is it? Does no one at UMass care? Do young people turn 18 and collectively root themselves in jaded attitudes or is there something more?
As the upcoming generations of millenials and zoomers make their imprint on the world, there is a shift from the traditional. Altering love stories to questioning their religious roots, there is a path forward tied to an ancient tradition.
In this week's poem, student poet NIck Beaulieu, shares another piece reflecting on the physical separation between the letters u and I in the alphabet; specifically, their permeance in relation to their positions to each other and the permeance of the selfish mindset.
