The internet has transformed the way we live. As Pew Research Center found in 2021, “85 percent of Americans say they go online on a daily basis”[1]. For teens and young adults, it has become an unavoidable resource. Fifty four percent of teens feel that it would be hard to give up social me…

Animal testing has been a subject of controversy for many decades. During the 18th century after hundreds of years of animal testing, we concluded that animals could indeed feel pain (1). That brought up the moral dilemma in the next century of whether or not this pain could be justified for…

I grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, a three-mile long strip of low valley about 25 minutes north of campus, tucked between Lexington, Medford and Somerville, and jammed right up against Route 2 to the South. It’s a largely white, lower-middle to upper-middle class suburb—one that has an u…

As many of you might have learned, a train carrying large amounts of vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals derailed and crashed in East Palestine, Ohio on Feb. 3 [1]. Over the past two and a half weeks or so, media outlets have released a steady stream of media capturing the horrifying ef…

“My dear, terrified graduates—you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives.” - Lin-Manuel Miranda[1]. 

It’s no secret that food is becoming more and more expensive every day. During a time where college tuition is skyrocketing, wages are stagnant and the price of housing is out of control, food prices are really pushing people into dangerous economic territory. As a university that advocates …

As an international student visiting the United States for the first time this spring, I noticed, as the Office of Historic Preservation says, the City of Boston promotes the benefits of preservation, “the adaptive reuse of historic buildings and materials,” and “[fostering] economic develop…

So here we are again, in the aftermath of a rash of high-profile mass shootings. I say high-profile because there are literally hundreds of mass shootings in the U.S. every year that go underreported [1], yet it takes high-profile ones to get the general public to, again and again, confront …

On Tuesday, Jan. 17, Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco—along with Provost Berger—sent out an email to faculty and students regarding the upcoming “Dorchester Bay City” project. The project is essentially a massive new complex of buildings to be developed over at Bayside Lot once our new parki…

I’m sure many of you will know by now that, on Jan. 4, we lost one of our fellow students. An email from the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the Interim Dean of Students, Karen Ferrer-Muñiz, was sent out to all faculty and students, notifying us of the “passing” of Sayed Arif Faisal.…

The following letters come from the Classified Staff Union members of UMass Boston. The CSU aims to provide fair and safe working conditions for its members, as well as negotiate in order to improve these conditions—and advance the well-being—for these members.

I recently read an article from The Wall Street Journal based on an interview with Stanford historian David Kennedy (1). The theme of the article, as well as the PBS production interviewing Kennedy and Condoleezza Rice, questions whether the new immigrant motivation and experience echoes tha…

During my years in higher education—which are more numerous than I generally like to admit—I have, as you might imagine, developed quite a few pet peeves regarding the way things are done at colleges and universities. Obviously, I believe strongly in higher education; if I did not, I would n…

If I’m going to be completely honest, I didn’t even know UMass Boston had a radio station until our opinions editor, James Cerone, brought it up in an article, and I’m sure many students feel the same way. I guess some could call WUMB UMass Boston’s best kept secret, but I think there are pl…

Working on college and high school campuses throughout most of my adult life gave me the incentive to join the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program at UMass Boston. I wanted to be where younger people gather and continue to interact with them. The OLLI program provides courses and progr…

The UMass Boston Fall 2022 semester is racing to a close with slightly less than two weeks before the last day of classes. When this term closes, many students will be spending their winter break reflecting over their accomplishments and their failures, all the while worrying about the conti…

As you read the title, it probably made you think of all the times you scrolled through social media, visited online shops, ate junk food...or done anything else to delay starting that one assignment. The word procrastination often carries a negative connotation, and I’m not here to deny tha…

Have you ever taken the time to look over the various posters tacked up to poster boards around campus? If you haven’t, go find some and check them out. What do you notice about them? Consider why you haven’t bothered to check them out before.