Spring Break
This year UMass President Jack Wilson awarded $175,000 partitioned in seven $25,000 grants to UMass researchers to turn technologies developed at UMass labs into commercial products.
These grants were awarded through the Commercial Ventures and Intellectual Properties (CVIP) Technology Development Fund created by Wilson in 2004.
Let's get this out of the way: I liked this movie. It's very well-made. A solid script with beautiful cinematography. It's better than Slumdog Millionaire. The film was shot beautifully and captured the Mexican landscape in fantastical ways. It changed this socially complex travel tale into a fairy tale.
"Bueno! Bueno? Bueno? Is there a Mr. or Ms. Bueno in the room?" my elementary school teacher yells as she runs through the roster of names for the year. I wave my arm frantically back and forth worried, more so, about being marked absent and not really realizing at that time, how this racialized interaction has been one of many.
The inequality in the United States can be seen in the stratification of wealth, income, and political voice. Our system is a democratic system, but in the U.S. not everybody has equal opportunities for education, influence, social and economic mobility. Most Americans are not able to move up the economic ladder.
When I was selecting the "keepers" in my ESPN Fantasy Baseball League this winter, I made it a point to not keep any player whom I deemed too old (Troy Glaus), too injury prone (Milton Bradley) or too shady in terms of supposed performance enhancing drug use (B.
