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|}}The '''University of Massachusetts Amherst''' (otherwise known as '''UMass Amherst''', '''Massachusetts''', or '''UMass''') is a research and [[land-grant university]] in [[Amherst, Massachusetts|Amherst]], [[Massachusetts]]. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study. It was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the [[University of Massachusetts|UMass system]], for which it now serves as the [[flagship]] campus. |
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'''Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station''' is a civilian [[nuclear power plant]] located on an island (Three Mile Island) in the [[Susquehanna River]] near [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], [[United States]]. Its name is derived not from the size of the island, but from the fact that TMI is [[river mile|three miles downriver]] from Middletown, Pennsylvania. It was built with two [[pressurized water reactor]]s, TMI-1 and TMI-2. The plant is most well known for being the site of the [[Three Mile Island accident|worst civilian nuclear accident in United States history]] (there were no deaths) when in 1979 TMI-2 suffered a partial [[Nuclear meltdown|meltdown]]. The core of TMI-2 has since been removed from the site. |
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== History == |
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The event was largely publicized. The radiation leak was contained and killed no people. Response to the event was exacerbated by ''[[The China Syndrome]]'', a movie about a nuclear meltdown that was released 12 days earlier. |
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===Foundation and early years=== |
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The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the [[Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act|Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act]] to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in the "agricultural, mechanical, and military arts". Accordingly, the university was initially named the '''Massachusetts Agricultural College''', popularly referred to as '''Mass Aggie''' or '''M.A.C.'''. At the time, the university had 50 men enrolled and including only a fraction of what the campus is today- including the Old Chapel, South College, and Goodell Hall, which was the library at the time. In 1931, due to an increase in enrollment and support from the Commonwealth, it was renamed '''Massachusetts State College'''. |
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===Post-war growth=== |
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The damaged and deactivated TMI-2 remained under GPUN ownership until 2001, when GPUN was acquired and absorbed by First Energy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC). First Energy continues to own TMI-2, but has subcontracted the maintenance and management of the site to AmerGen Energy from 2001-2003, and Exelon Nuclear from 2003-present. |
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In 1947, the [[Massachusetts General Court]] passed legislation making Massachusetts State College the '''University of Massachusetts'''. Like most schools at the time, it was relatively small, enrolling ~5,000 students annually. Some expansion occurred in the 1950s, but the bulk of its transition to the present size occurred in the 1960s. The new president set a goal of expansion to 20,000 by the end of the decade, and the university entered a program of intense building. Many prominent structures rose during this time, including the Southwest Complex, Student Union, Campus Center, Fine Arts Center and famous 26-story library tower. UMass growth drastically altered the regional economy, prompting the commercial development of Route 9 in [[Hadley]], the extension and redirection of several highways (including the widening of Route 9 in Hadley to four lanes and the relocation of Route 116 to a limited access bypass road around the college) and the transformation of the town of Amherst from its conservative thinking to its liberal reputation today.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} In spite of the various expansions and changes of status of the University, it remains true to its roots, continuing to provide high-quality education in the agricultural (Stockbridge School of Agriculture), mechanical (College of Engineering), and martial (Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC) arts. |
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Anticipating the drastic increase in student population in the 1960s and 1970s, the University underwent major expansion. Many of the buildings were constructed relatively quickly from poured, exposed concrete, which reflected much of the styling of the era. The most prominent examples of exposed reinforced concrete construction are the [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Campus_Center Campus Center and Hotel], [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Fine_Arts_Center Fine Arts Center], [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Herter_Hall Herter Hall], and [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Whitmore_Administration_Building Whitmore Administration Building]. Although this architectural styling is sometimes considered dated or unattractive today, several of these buildings are considered architectural landmarks, notably the Fine Arts Center by [[Kevin Roche|Roche-Dinkeloo]], designers of the [[United Nations Plaza]]. There are several recently completed buildings that are both modern and functional. Some examples of these buildings include the Mullins Center, The Polymer Science Facility, the Computer Science Building, and the Engineering and Computer Science II facility. |
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The plant was originally built by General Public Utilities Corporation, later renamed GPU Inc., and operated by [[Metropolitan Edison Company]] (Met-Ed), a GPU subsidiary. Following the accident at TMI-2, the plant was transferred under the ownership and operation of a new subsidiary company, [[General Public Utilities|GPU Nuclear]] (GPUN). GPUN continued to operate TMI-1 until its 1998 sale to [[AmerGen Energy Corporation]], a joint venture of [[Exelon|Philadelphia Electric Company Energy, Inc. (PECO Energy)]] and [[British Energy|British Energy Group Plc]]. PECO's share in AmerGen was acquired by [[Exelon|Exelon Corporation]] in 2000, after that company was formed from the merger of PECO and [[Unicom Corporation]]. Exelon acquired British Energy's share in AmerGen in 2003, and transferred the plant under the direct ownership and operation of its Exelon Nuclear business unit. |
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===Architecture=== |
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The school has several buildings of importance in the modernist style, including the campus center designed by [[Marcel Breuer]], the [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Southwest Southwest Residential Area] designed by [[Hugh Stubbins Jr]] of [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]], The [[Fine Arts Center]] by [[Kevin Roche]], and the Mullins Center by [[Gordon Bunshaft]]. The eclectic mix of building styles draws mixed reactions from students and visitors. The [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Lederle_Graduate_Research_Center Lederle Graduate Research Center] is currently undergoing an exterior renovation. New construction projects on campus include the Studio Arts Building and the Integrated Sciences Center. |
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=== Recent expansion project=== |
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[[Category:Energy resource facilities in Pennsylvania]] |
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In 2004, [[Mitt Romney|Governor Mitt Romney]] proposed an ambitious expansion project in which the size and population of the university would almost double as it took over the role of the state's community college system which Romney has begun to consolidate and dismantle. While this proposal received the support of the student government, town residents are exceedingly resistant to any such plan as it would increase the already critical traffic congestion in the center of town. |
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[[Category:Nuclear power stations in the United States Region 1]] |
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[[Category:Towers in Pennsylvania]] |
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[[Category:Dauphin County, Pennsylvania]] |
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Following Mitt Romney's mandate, the UMass Amherst administration has pushed for admission of more students than there are residences. A large construction initiative, known as "New Dirt" is currently underway, in renovating and building new residential and academic facilities. Before the completion of North Apartments, the increasing size of the undergraduate body caused residence halls to reach maximum capacity, and many first year and transfer students were placed in area hotels until housing became available. |
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===Designation as flagship campus=== |
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In 2003, for the first time, UMass Amherst was legally designated by the state legislature to be a "research university" and the "flagship campus" of the UMass system.<ref>[http://www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2003/09/19/News/Amherst.Is.Now.Legally.The.Flagship.Of.Umass.System-1553931.shtml?norewrite200607100908&sourcedomain=www.dailycollegian.com Amherst is now legally the flagship of UMass system - News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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== Academics == |
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{{see also|Degree programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst}} |
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=== Admissions === |
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The number of applications to UMass Amherst has almost doubled from 16,500 to 29,000 in just five years, increasing for the third consecutive year. Sixty-four percent of applicants were accepted to the University, and 2% to the Commonwealth College (14% of those accepted). The incoming Class of 2012 had an average 3.55 GPA in high school, also an increase from previous years.<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/77590.php Incoming Class of 4,100 Students at UMass Amherst Carries Impressive Academic Credentials]</ref> |
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=== Commonwealth College === |
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The Commonwealth College (ComCol) is the honors college at UMass. The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum. The requirements of the college are to complete a set number of the required classes for one's major at the honors level as well as complete a senior year thesis or capstone project and several Dean's book courses. Completion of the ComCol courseload is required in order to graduate the University with higher Latin honors designations, such as [[magna cum laude|magna]] or [[summa cum laude]]. Graduates with Grade Point Averages of higher than 3.2 on a 4.0 scale receive the Latin honor [[cum laude]] whether they are members of the ComCol or not. ComCol provides honors students an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department. |
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=== Library === |
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The [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/W.E.B._DuBois_Library W.E.B. DuBois library] is the tallest library in the [[United States]]<ref>[http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=129720 Tallest library in the United States]</ref> and the tallest academic library in the world<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/umhome/photogallery/scenes/10 Photos: - University of Massachusetts Amherst<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><!-- I think they change the numbering on these photos occasionally so the library picture with its caption may not always be number ten -->. It is also well regarded for its innovative architectural design, which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building.<ref> |
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[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2006/11/30/colleges_moves_to_shake_up_libraries_speak_volumes Colleges' moves to shake up libraries speak volumes]</ref> It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] as well as being the depository for other important collections, such as the papers of the late Congressman [[Silvio O. Conte]]. |
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Special Collections<ref>[http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/collections/index.htm DuBois Library Special Collections]</ref> include |
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* Social change and movements for social change |
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* African American history and culture |
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* Labor, work, and industry |
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* Literature and the arts |
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* Agriculture |
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* The history of the region |
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The W.E.B. DuBois Library is also notable for being home to the Learning Commons,<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/learningcommons/index.html UMass Amherst Learning Commons - W.E.B. Du Bois Library<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> opened in 2005. The Learning Commons provides a central location for resources provided by several departments across campus including Library Reference, Office of Information Technologies help desk, Academic Advising, Writing Center, Career Services, and Assistive Technologies Center. The Learning Commons has 164 computers with a broad range of software installed arranged in a variety of configurations for both individual and collaborative work. The library has all sorts of services including tutoring, writing workshops, and supplemental instruction scattered among its 26 floors. The building itself is so large that it needs a security force. That security force is the Building Monitor Desk. The desk is managed by various supervisors and student employees. |
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The [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Integrated_Sciences_and_Engineering_Library Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library] is the other main library on campus. It is located on the 2nd floor of the [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/LGRC Lederle Graduate Research Center] (occasionally referred to as the Lederle "low rise"). |
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UMass Amherst is home to the DEFA Film Library [http://www.umass.edu/defa/], the only archive and study collection of East German films outside of Europe. |
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Other libraries include the Shirley Graham Du Bois Library in New Africa House, the Biological Sciences Library in Morrill Hall, and the Music Reserve Lab in the Fine Arts Center. |
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=== Information technology === |
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UMass Amherst is a member of [[Internet2]]. |
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The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) provides all faculty, staff, and students with an OIT account which provides access to a variety of services including email ([https://mail-www.oit.umass.edu/horde/imp/ UMail]), online storage space ([https://udrive.oit.umass.edu:443/xythoswfs/ UDrive]), web hosting space, and [http://blogs.umass.edu/ blogging space].<ref>http://www.oit.umass.edu/news/blogs.htmll</ref> |
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OIT maintains 11 computer classrooms across campus with approximately 300 computers available to members of the UMass community. Many of these are the computer available in the Learning Commons located in the WEB DuBois Library. Additionally many departments and programs have their own computing resources available for members of those groups. |
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Many UMass Amherst instructors make use of [[Blackboard Inc.|Blackboard's]] WebCT Vista [[Learning Management System|learning management system]] (which has been branded as SPARK on campus<ref>[http://www.oit.umass.edu/webct/campus-vista/name_change.html][</ref>) for delivery of course content via the web. |
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In the winter of 2003, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) rolled out the [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/SPIRE SPIRE] system, which is based on [[PeopleSoft]]'s student information system. At UMass, SPIRE is a web-based system used to register for courses, as well as a variety of other tasks. |
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On [[October 21]], [[2005]] UMass Amherst was designated as the first-in-the-nation [[Microsoft]] IT Showcase School by [[CEO]] [[Steve Ballmer]], recognizing the university's innovative leadership in applying information technology to teaching and learning.<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/24104.php Microsoft IT Showcase School]</ref> |
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In April 2008, UMass Amherst announced a campus alert system whereby members of the university can receive emergency notification via text messaging. <ref>[http://www.umass.edu/campusalerts/index.html Campus Alerts - University of Massachusetts Amherst<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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=== Five College consortium === |
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UMass Amherst is part of the [[Five Colleges (Massachusetts)|Five Colleges]] consortium, which allows its students to attend classes, borrow books, work with professors, etc., at four other [[Pioneer Valley]] institutions: [[Amherst College|Amherst]], [[Hampshire College|Hampshire]], [[Mount Holyoke College|Mount Holyoke]], and [[Smith College|Smith]] Colleges. |
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All five colleges are located within 10 miles of Amherst center, and are accessible by public bus. The five share an [[astronomy]] department and some other [[undergraduate]] and [[graduate student|graduate]] departments. |
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=== Research labs at UMass Amherst === |
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Autonomous Learning Laboratory (Computer Science) |
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* Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (Computer Science) |
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* Knowledge Discovery Laboratory (Computer Science) |
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* Laboratory For Perceptual Robotics (Computer Science) |
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* Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics, and Graphics (Mathematics) |
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* Center for Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Computation (Mathematics) |
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* Center for Economic Development |
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* Political Economy Research Institute |
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* Center for Education Policy |
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* The Environmental Institute |
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* Center for Public Policy and Administration |
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* Labor Relations and Research Center |
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* Virtual Center for Supernetworks |
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* Antennas and Propagation Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
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* Center for Advanced Sensor and Communication Antennas (CASCA) (Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
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* Multimedia Networks Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) |
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* Network Systems Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) |
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* Wireless Systems Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) |
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* VLSI Circuits and Systems Labaratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) |
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* Scientific Reasoning Research Institute |
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* National Center for Digital Government |
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* Renewable Energy Research Laboratory |
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* Center for e-design |
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==Ranking and reputation== |
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''[[U.S. News and World Report|U.S. News and World Report's]]'' 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges placed UMass Amherst at #102 on their list of "Best National Universities"<ref>The list includes 113 universities</ref> ranking it the joint 46th amongst Public Universities.<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search/page+5</ref> |
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[[The Times]] Higher Education Supplement ranked UMass Amherst as the 175th best university in the world.<ref>[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=144 Times Higher Education<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The [[MBA]] program is highly ranked by the [[Princeton Review]].<ref>[http://www.umassonline.net/news/855.html UMass Amherst Isenberg School's MBA Program Earns Four Top Ten National Rankings from Princeton Review<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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==Student life== |
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===Registered Student Organizations=== |
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UMass Amherst has [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/List_of_RSOs_by_category many registered student organizations (RSOs)]. Most RSOs are funded by the Student Government Association (SGA), from the activity fee that all students pay, however, the SGA has oft been criticized for not funding all clubs fully or equally. In recent years, the fee has been about $81. In order to start an RSO, one needs a group of at least 8 interested students, who then petition the SGA for recognition. Each semester, the SGA reviews RSOs, and those which have too few members are considered inactive. Club Sports, which are non-NCAA athletic or organized sports teams, are considered RSOs. |
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On May 6 of 2008, the [http://www.umass.edu/csd/ Center for Student Development] hosted an awards show entitled ''The Sammies'' for the second time. ''The Sammies'' is designed to allow RSOs to give awards to other outstanding RSOs. Over 50 different awards were presented to student leaders and exemplary RSO in more than 20 categories. Among the winners was the [http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~irclub/irc/index.html Umass International Relations Club] which garnered the coveted "Best RSO of the Year" award. |
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===Student government=== |
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The Student Government Association (SGA) is the undergraduate student governmental body, and provides funding for the many registered student organizations (RSOs) and agencies, including the Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) and the Student Center for Educational Research and Advocacy (SCERA). The SGA also makes formal recommendations on matters of Administration policy and advocates for undergraduate students to the Administration, non-student organizations, and local and state government. |
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The SGA has three branches: the President and Executive Cabinet, the Undergraduate Student Senate, and the Student Judiciary. |
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'''Area governments''' |
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There are a total of six area governments. Each of the campus's six residential areas has an area government, and there is also a Commuter Area Government to serve commuter students. Area governments provide social programming for their areas, and are in charge of the house councils for the dorms in their area. They also represent the needs and interests of students in their areas to the Administration, Housing Services, and the SGA. |
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Area Governments have a tradition of sponsoring large events, generally in the Spring, such as Fill the Hill, Bowl Weekend and Southwest Week. |
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'''House councils''' |
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Each residence hall or residential "cluster" (a group of residence halls) at UMass Amherst has a house council. House councils report to their respective area governments. Its budget comes from voluntary dues collected in return for access to common supplies (access to the [[kitchenette]], rental access to vacuums, brooms, games, etc). House councils also engage in social programming for their halls or clusters, and advocate to housing staff in regards to concerns of students in their hall/cluster. |
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===Army ROTC=== |
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The [http://www.umass.edu/armyrotc Minuteman Battalion] is one of the permiere Army ROTC battalions in the Army {{Fact|date=December 2007}}. Boasting a program that annually performs well above national averages and among the top handful of programs in the northeast USA, Army ROTC recently enjoyed the announcement of a senior Cadet being named the #1 Cadet in the nation in a national class of over 4,000 Cadets. UMass has earned this prestigious achievement twice in the last 15 years. The training program is among the best at preparing officers for the US Army and commissionees regularly outperform their peers in initial Army officer training. Active on the Amherst campus, the program's [[Scabbard and Blade]] community service club is very active and represents UMass well throughout the year with food drives, assistance to local veteran's groups and assistance with the Medical Readiness Corps at UMass in preparing for large-scale medical disasters. The most unusual activity associated with Army ROTC is the Light Leader's Tactical Society, in which Cadets train in dynamic real-world environments and scenarios. Most students are on a [http://www.armyrotc.com full tuition scholarship.] UMass-Amherst is the host program for the Pioneer Valley and Five Colleges Army ROTC programs including: Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Western New England College (WNEC), Springfield College, Westfield State College and American International College (AIC). At [http://www.aic.edu AIC] and [http://www.wnec.edu WNEC], students on Army ROTC Scholarships also earn free room and board. |
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===Marching band=== |
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{{main|University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band}} |
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UMass Amherst has the largest marching band in New England. The Minuteman Marching Band consists of over 390 members and regularly plays at football games. The band is led by [[George N. Parks]]. The Minuteman Band also won the prestigious Sudler Trophy in 1998 for excellence. The band is well known across the nation for its style and excellence, particularly for its percussion [http://www.umassdrumline.org/ UMass Drumline] and tuba sections. The band also performs in various other places like [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], [[Bands of America]], Boston, and on occasion Montreal. |
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===Fraternities and Sororities=== |
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UMass is home to numerous fraternities and sororities, organized under four councils: [[North-American Interfraternity Conference|IFC]], [[National Panhellenic Conference|NPC]], [[National Pan-Hellenic Council|NPHC]], and the [[National Multicultural Greek Council|MGC]]. Several Greek Life organizations had houses on [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/North_Pleasant_Street North Pleasant Street]until Alpha Tau Gamma, Inc. who owned the property for many years, did not renew the leases. The North Pleasant Street houses were colloquially known as Frat Row. Most of Alpha Tau Gamma Properties' houses were out of [[Building code|code]] and were razed November, 2006. The land was then sold to the University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.umass.edu/fp/umassbuys5houses/ |title="Facilities and Campus Planning UMass Buys 5 Houses" |accessdate=2007-04-24 |work="UMass Buys 5 Houses" |author=Holly Angelo, The Republican}}</ref> Currently several sororities & fraternities still live in "Frat Row" including [[Sigma Delta Tau]], [[Pi Kappa Alpha]], [http://www.iotagammaupsilon.com Iota Gamma Upsilon], [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] and [[Theta Chi]]. Behind "Frat Row" or North Pleasant Street there are more sorority houses such as [[Sigma Kappa]], [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]], and [[Alpha Chi Omega]]. Two other houses [[Chi Omega]] and [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] are situated on Olympia Drive, on the northern outskirts of the campus. [[Delta Upsilon]] is also situated on North Pleasant Street just past Lederle and Totman. [http://aepiumass.com Alpha Epsilon Pi] is also on campus. [http://aepiumass.com Alpha Epsilon Pi]recently relocated to Sunset Ave, and [[Pi Kappa Alpha]] returned to campus in Spring of '07. |
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Several organizations do not have houses, such as [http://www.pikappumass.com/ Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity], Alpha Epsilon Phi, [[Zeta Psi]] and the [[National Pan-Hellenic Council|NPHC]], and the [[National Multicultural Greek Council|MGC]] fraternities and sororities. |
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The Greek community has several annual traditions, including UDance, the [[Relay for Life]] and the annual '''Greek Week''', during which the various fraternities are partnered with sororities, and these teams compete with each other throughout a week of challenges. |
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===The Daily Collegian=== |
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The student-operated newspaper, [http://www.dailycollegian.com/ The Daily Collegian], is published Monday through Friday during the University of Massachusetts' calendar semester. The Collegian is independently funded, operating on advertising revenue. Founded in 1890, the paper began as ''Aggie Life'', became the ''College Signal'' in 1901, the ''Weekly Collegian'' in 1914 and the ''Tri-Weekly Collegian'' in 1956. Published daily since 1967, the Collegian has been broadsheet since January 1994. The Daily Collegian is the largest daily campus newspaper. |
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===UVC-TV 19=== |
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The Union Video Center is the University of Massachusetts' student-run television station, located in the basement of the Student Union. [http://www.umass.edu/uvctv19/ UVC-TV 19] is part of the University's Housing Cable Services Network and airs on channel 19 to over 11,000 viewers on campus via a closed circuit system. UVC began as the Student Video Project in 1974, and was renamed the Union Video Center in 1978 after growing into a full-fledged television station. Today, UVC-TV 19 serves as a resource on campus for full-time undergraduate students interested in learning about any aspect of television, video production, or cablecasting by providing access to audio and video equipment, studio, and editing workstations. Student members cover campus events and guest lectures, produce original shows, films and documentaries, and air their work on UVC. |
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===WMUA 91.1FM=== |
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The student-operated radio station, [http://wmua.org/ WMUA 91.1 FM], is a federally licensed, non-commercial broadcast facility serving the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, Northern Connecticut, and Southern Vermont. Although the station is managed by full-time undergraduate students of the University of Massachusetts, station members can consist of various members of the University (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff), as well as people of the surrounding communities. WMUA began as an AM station in 1949, and today broadcasts music, news, sports, and public affairs programming. The station is located in the basement of the Lincoln Campus Center. |
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== Campus == |
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[[Image:UmassAmherstSkyline05.JPG|thumb|left|The University of Massachusetts Amherst|400px|Skyline of the university from the South Athletic Fields]] |
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=== Buildings and layout === |
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The campus ({{coord|42|23|20|N|72|31|40|W|type:edu}}) extends about a mile from the Campus Center in all directions. The university owns significant amounts of land in the nearby town of [[Sunderland, Massachusetts|Sunderland]]. |
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The campus may be thought of as a series of concentric rings. In the outermost ring are parking lots, the admissions center, playing fields and barns for the animal science program. In the middle ring there are the six residential areas and dining commons. The innermost ring has most of the classroom buildings and research labs. |
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====South Campus==== |
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The [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Isenberg_School_of_Management Isenberg School of Management] has its buildings in the southernmost part of campus near the Visitors Center and the Newman Center, the Catholic student center. In addition to being the site of the main administration building, [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Whitmore Whitmore], the southeast side of campus has buildings mainly dedicated to the humanities and fine arts. Buildings include [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Herter Herter], [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Bartlett Bartlett], Mahar and the [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Fine_Arts_Center Fine Arts Center] (Abbreviated "FAC"). Between Whitmore, the FAC and Isenberg lies the Haigis Mall, a local stop on both the [[PVTA]] and Peter Pan bus lines. The buildings on the southwest side of campus house the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. These include Dickinson Hall and Tobin Hall. |
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[[Image:Umass Amherst Chapel & Library in the evening.jpg|thumb|225px|left|The center of the UMass Amherst campus. To the left is the Old Chapel, and to the right the W.E.B. DuBois Library.]] |
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=====Student Union===== |
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The [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Student_Union Student Union Building] houses most of the University's [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/RSO Registered Student Organizations] (RSO's) and it is the home of the Student Government Association. Other facilities include the Campus Design and Copy (CD&C) center, a convenience store, a ball room, and a student lounge. Several student-run businesses and co-ops are also present including Tickets Unlimited (Tix), Bike Coop, the [[Fair trade]] convenience store, bagel shop ''People's Market'' and a vegan/vegetarian eatery ''[http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Earthfoods_Cafe Earthfoods Cafe]''. |
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=====South College===== |
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South College is the home of UMass' world renowned linguistics department. The DuBois library was intended to be an annex to South College. |
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'''Campus Center''' |
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Designed by famed architect [[Marcel Breuer]], the Murray D. Lincoln [http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Campus_Center Campus Center] is located adjacent to the Student Union and is accessible via passageways from both the Student Union as well as from the main level of the parking garage. |
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On the concourse level are the campus store, restrooms, graduate student lounge, which serves beer, and the Bluewall, which contains a cafe, a smoothie stand and a fair trade coffee stand. This level is a high-traffic area throughout most of the day with students and faculty not only using it as a 'pass through' from one building to another, but also as the central hub of on-campus life. Many people often pass the time between classes on this level and it is common to find vendors and organizations operating from fold-out tables along either side. |
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The lower level of the campus center has multiple conference rooms and a large auditorium. Within the central space of the lower level are telephones, ATMs, vending, as well as couches and television. The offices of the University newspaper, The Daily Collegian, can be found at the far end of the level, along with the University radio station, [[WMUA]], and its offices. One of the basement rooms is home to the UMass Science Fiction Society's library which is the second largest Science Fiction library on the east coast. |
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The top floor of the Campus Center, "The Top of the Campus" recently underwent a complete renovation. It is home to a state of the art teaching kitchen, beverage lab and dining room facility. |
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'''Campus Center Hotel''' |
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Above the concourse level is the Campus Center Hotel [http://www.aux.umass.edu/hotel (official website)], a five-level full service facility with 116 rooms, including two suites located in the Campus Center. The Campus Center Hotel is the training ground for the university's Hospitality and Tourism Management students. |
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'''Fletcher's Cafe''' |
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Fletcher's Café is a student run business on campus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It is located in Flint Lab, the Hospitality and Tourism Management building, which is next to the campus center parking garage. Students that are part of the Hospitality and Tourism Management major take on full managerial responsibilities and are required to hire employees, order food and drinks, take care of accounting and hopefully make a profit by the end of the semester. |
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====North Campus==== |
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The north side of campus is mostly dedicated to science and engineering, and many buildings there are newer than their counterparts in the humanities. The Physics Department primarily uses Hasbrouck Lab, located at 666 North Pleasant Street. The Lederle Graduate Research Tower is the largest building on the north side, housing the Math department on its sixteenth floor. As the Math Department headquarters, the sixteenth floor is prominently labeled 4². The [[Silvio O. Conte|Silvio Conte]] Polymer Research facility is located in North campus. |
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=====Computer science===== |
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The Computer Science department recently moved into an airy new building built for them on the edge of campus, though classes are often taught elsewhere, especially for lower division classes. Between the imposing concrete LGRT, the second-story walkway from it to its sister structure the LGRC, the glass-and-aluminum Computer Science building, and other new buildings for the Engineering and Polymer Science departments, North Campus looks more "high-tech" than the rest of campus. |
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===Sports, recreation, and exercise=== |
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[[Image:UMass Nova RTS 3101.jpg|UMass and the PVTA, employing student workers, provide campus bus service throughout both the UMass Amherst campuses and the northern region of the PVTA service area.|thumb|200px]] |
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Major sporting events, such as UMass's hockey and basketball team games, are held in the [[Mullins Center]], amidst the fields to the west. Other locales for sporting events include [[Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium]] (where UMass holds its football games) and Garber Field, which is an artificial-turf field adjacent to Boyden Gym used for lacrosse, field hockey, and various team practices. |
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On campus there are two major gyms, the Totman Gym near Northeast and Sylvan and the Boyden Gym to the south. Each houses basketball courts, a weight/fitness room (Boyden's is free to undergraduates), and various other resources such as racquetball and squash courts. To the west of campus are numerous fields used for recreation and for soccer and baseball. There is also a set of tennis courts located north of Boyden. |
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In addition to Totman and Boyden, there is [[Curry Hicks Cage]], which hosts a small indoor track, pool, and basketball court. It is also occasionally used as a venue for guest speakers (such as the fall 2006 visit from comedian [[Bob Saget]]) and for the Western Mass high school basketball championships and other similar sporting events. The Cage was the home of the UMass men's and women's basketball teams before the Mullins Center was built. |
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Ground was broken in fall 2007 for a new building across the street from the Mullins Center. It will be a three-floor rec center, complete with a weight/fitness center spanning two floors. It is estimated to be constructed by spring 2008 and commissioned in spring 2009. |
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'''Campus Bus System''' |
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The [[Pioneer Valley Transit Authority|PVTA]] bus system is the second largest free public transportation system in the world. It serves not only the University of Massachusetts campus, but also the surrounding colleges and communities. This bus system is run primarily by University students and is free for students, which allows them to easily get to classes at the other four colleges. |
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=== Residential areas === |
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At UMass Amherst, first and second year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year. Upper-class students who have continuously lived on campus during their first and sophomore years are guaranteed housing as long as they choose to live on campus. If, however, a student is admitted after their sophomore year, or moves off campus, and wants to move back onto campus, they are not guaranteed housing, but instead must go through a housing lottery, since demand outstrips supply. Building and room selection is accomplished by a [http://www.housing.umass.edu/hao/selection_process_fall07.html complex system] that takes into account building seniority as well as class year; those choosing to move from their building are subject to a lottery system. There are approximately 12,000 students living on-campus. |
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Students living on the UMass campus live in one of the six residential areas: North, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, and Southwest. Several residential areas have a student-run business. All campus residence halls are staffed by Resident Assistants, who provide programming and community development, as well as enforce policies, and have quiet hours, which start at 9 pm on weekdays, 12 midnight on the weekends, but may vary from hall to hall. |
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====North Residential Area==== |
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Recently completed, the newest residence halls on campus opened in the Fall of 2006. Located between Sylvan and Northeast, these apartment-style dormitories house approximately 850 undergraduates in four buildings. The buildings are currently named North A, B, C, and D. Each unit comprises four single bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a shared common area including a full kitchen. Other amenities include [[Ethernet]] and cable access, central air, and laundry on-site. New to North in 2008 includes free wireless access throughout the North Residential area. This is separate from the main UMASS wi-fi and allows for faster speeds and easy connectivity in the area. This is a nine-month housing area, which allows students to remain on campus from September to May. |
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====Sylvan Residential Area==== |
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Sylvan is adjacent to the North Residential Area, and before the opening of North in 2006, was the newest residential area on campus, construction having been completed in the early 1970s. Sylvan is distinctive for offering suite-style living in a shady wooded area. Sylvan derives from Latin silva, "a wood or grove." Each residence hall contains 64 suites and each suite is either all-male or all-female. For Fall 2007, a gender-neutral suite is being made available "to students who do not want to identify a gender, students whose gender identity is in transition, and their friends and allies."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.umass.edu/stonewall/transguide/#Housing |title="Does UMass Amherst Provide Gender-Neutral Housing?" |accessdate=2007-04-17 |work="Campus Transgender Guide" |author=The Stonewall Center}}</ref> |
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Each suite is a mixture of double and single rooms, a common bathroom, and a common living room. Suites accommodate six to eight residents. Sylvan is also home to the ''Sylvan Snack Bar'' (SSB) one of eight student-run businesses on campus. The SSB delivers food right to students doors in the Sylvan living area. The snack bar, located in the basement of the McNamara building, provides food and a student hang out for the Sylvan residents. |
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====Northeast Residential Area==== |
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Northeast is across the street from North and diagonal to Sylvan. The residential area consists of nine buildings assembled in a rectangle surrounding a grassy quad. Northeast is one of the oldest residential areas on campus and has what one might call classic academic architecture, consisting of red brick buildings and gabled/shingled roofs. Buildings of note in Northeast include Johnson, which is an all female dorm; Hamlin, which is an all male dorm; as well as Lewis, which provides international students with 9-month housing and is home to one of the [http://www.housing.umass.edu/hallserv/well_centers.html Residential Wellness Center] facilities offered on campus. Thatcher is unique because it has a foreign language program, which includes several floors, each with a different language. The residents of these floors are encouraged to speak the language they are studying with their floor-mates. Dwight Hall offers Asian-American Student Program. Crabtree Hall and Leach Hall house the Engineering Residential Academic Programs (RAPs). There is also the 2 in 20 floor, whose location is to remain private, to protect the privacy of the floor members.<ref>[http://www.housing.umass.edu/living/llc_legacy.html#2in20 UMass Amherst - Housing and Residence Life: Legacy Communities]</ref> |
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In Fall 2008, the cluster of Crabtree, Mary Lyon, and Knowlton (CMLK) will become all-freshmen housing, as Northeast will join Central, Southwest and Orchard Hill as the fourth residential area to offer freshman-only living. Knowlton will become co-ed, and Johnson will take its place as the new all-female dorm. |
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====Central Residential Area==== |
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Central is unique because it has three academic buildings in addition to nine residence halls located along a hill on the east side of campus. Academic buildings in Central include Hills House,<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/larp/ Landscape Architecture & Regional Planing ||Umass Amherst]</ref> New Africa House,<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/afroam/ W.E.B. Du Bois Department]</ref> and Fernald Hall.<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/ent/ UMass Amherst: Department of Plant Soil and Insect Sciences]</ref> Central is also home to the Central Art Gallery in Wheeler House.<ref>[http://www.housing.umass.edu/reshalls/central.html UMass Amherst - Housing and Residence Life: Central Residential Area]</ref> New Africa House has a particularly interesting history; the building was formerly known as Mills House, and was a dormitory prior to an incident in 1969 when a group of black students seized the building and barricaded themselves within, ordering all white residents to either join forces with them or get out of the building. The faculty of the newly formed Afro-American Studies department responded by moving its offices into the building to show solidarity with the black students, and the building became New Africa House. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DOvtQ3mrd4wC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=%22New+africa+house%22+barricaded&source=bl&ots=I8N-8iLmux&sig=Xs9yNvP3HnoSO1Ds94I5eXfVC4A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA155,M1]</ref> |
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Central is organized into 4 clusters of buildings: Gorman-Wheeler and Brett-Brooks at the bottom of the hill, Baker, Chadbourne and Greenough ("BCG") organized in a quad halfway up the hill, and Van Meter-Butterfield ("VMB") at the top of the hill. Gorman Hall is a building-wide Living Learning Community called NUANCE. Founded in 1989, it is a diversity awareness Living Learning Community. Wheeler is home to the Central Art Gallery. Brett is a nine-month housing dorm, allowing students to stay during breaks for a fee. Both Wheeler and Brett are popular living options for student-athletes. Brooks is a "Wellness" dorm, requiring its residents to abstain from substance use. Baker houses the Area Office and a freshman-only floor. Chadbourne houses the Josephine White Eagle Native American Cultural Center. Butterfield and Van Meter are freshman-only dorms. Van Meter is the largest dorm on campus in terms of residents, while Butterfield is the smallest and has a rich community history. |
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The Greenough dorm is also home to the ''Greeno Sub Shop'', another one of the student run businesses. |
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====Orchard Hill Residential Area==== |
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Completed in 1964, The Orchard Hill residence area is north of Central, and has four residence halls: Dickinson, Webster, Grayson and Field. As of the 2007 school year, Dickinson and Webster buildings were converted to freshman-only housing. Webster is home to one of the [http://www.housing.umass.edu/hallserv/well_centers.html Residential Wellness Center] facilities offered on campus. Orchard Hill is known for its yearly spring event, Bowl Weekend, which is put on each year by the Orchard Hill Area Government. Many students from the Commonwealth College honors program live in Orchard Hill as part of Learning Communities. Orchard hill also houses a number of Talent Advancement Programs. <ref>http://owl.cs.umass.edu/umassrap/tap/tap_faq.html</ref>. Orchard Hill also refers to the hill on which the [http://www.astro.umass.edu/~rdubois/Observatory/ Orchard Hill Observatory] and a cell phone tower are located. The cell phone tower also supports a microwave relay system for [[internet]] and land phone service at the [[Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory]], located on a peninsula within the [[Quabbin Reservoir]]. Field also houses ''Sweets 'n More,'' a student run business on campus. |
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====Southwest Residential Area==== |
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[http://www.umasswiki.com/wiki/Southwest Southwest] is the largest residential area on the UMass campus. |
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Southwest is composed of five 22-story towers (Coolidge and the all-freshman Kennedy are side-by-side in the north and John Quincy Adams, John Adams and Washington are arranged in a cluster in the south) and 11 smaller residence halls, also known as low-rises (the height of which varies from building to building), holding a total of around 5,500 students. The low-rises are arranged as such: two freshman-only clusters in the north (James-Emerson and Thoreau-Melville), a freshman-only cluster in the south (Cance, Moore, and Pierpont), and located along Sunset Avenue to the east are two clusters (Prince-Crampton in the north and MacKimmie-Patterson in the south) offering nine-month housing. Cluster offices are located in James, Melville, Cance, Prince, MacKimmie, Pierpont, and in each of the five towers. Additionally, Thoreau and Cance are home to the area office for the north and south portions of Southwest, respectively. Moore is home to the Residence Life Resource Center. Meanwhile, JQA and Washington are the homes to two of the [http://www.housing.umass.edu/hallserv/well_centers.html Residential Wellness Center] facilities offered on campus. |
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Southwest houses three of the five campus dining commons, including the inactive Hampden Dining Common. Hampshire is in the north and the newly-renovated Berkshire is in the south, both offering traditional food. Hampden, which was originally going to be a tower itself before contractors realized the foundation would not be able to support one{{Fact|date=June 2008}}, is host to the Hampden Art Gallery, Convenience Store (C-Store), Southwest Area Government(SWAG) Office, Latin American Cultural Center(LACC) and the Southwest Cafe & Pita Pit. |
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Also found in Crampton in Southwest is the Stonewall Center, a resource for [[LGBT]] students and allies. |
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Southwest houses approximately 50% of the students living on campus. Southwest is known for its lively, festive, and active community spirit, often stereotyped (both positively and negatively) as a center for "party" activity. After both victories and losses by the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox in 2002, 2003 and 2004, as well as after the December 2006 UMass defeat in the NCAA Division I-AA football championship game, students held large impromptu festive gatherings (also referred to as riots) in the Southwest Mall which led to injuries, incidents of property destruction, and significant police involvement. The first of these so-called riots was in 1996 when the Minutemen lost to Kentucky in the NCAA Final Four. Although the Patriots were not involved in [[Super Bowl XLI]], campus security was tightened on Super Bowl Sunday in 2007 as a precautionary measure. The 2007 [[Boston Red Sox]] playoffs and World Series games were met with tight security as well and proved to be effective. On the night of the Red Sox World Series victory there was loud but peaceful celebration and minimal arrests were made. |
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=== Parking on-campus === |
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Parking at UMass is open to all students via [http://parking.umass.edu/ Parking Services] for a fee. Cost varies depending on seniority and location. The most typical student parking permits range from $60 to $300 for the year. It is a color coded system with Green, Purple and Yellow Lots available to students. Purple Lots are typically closest to the dorm/housing areas; Yellow Lots are the cheapest but the farthest away; Green lots are for commuter students<ref>[http://parking.umass.edu/ Parking Services<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. |
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Parking is also available in the campus garage for a fee of $1.50 per hour during the day. In the evening there is a night rate of $3.00. Payment options include cash or ucard. Meter parking is also available at select locations through out campus. The meters accept nickels, dimes, and quarters only. |
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== Athletics == |
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{{main article|UMass Minutemen}} |
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[[Image:UMassMinutemen.png|right|thumb|UMass Minutemen logo]] UMass is a member of [[Division I]] of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA). The university is a member of the [[Atlantic Ten Conference]], while playing ice hockey in the [[Hockey East]] Association. For football, UMass competes in the [[Colonial Athletic Association]] (CAA), a conference of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; known as Division I-AA before the 2006 season). UMass originally was known as the Statesmen, later the Aggies, then the Redmen, before changing their logo and nickname to the Minutemen. In a response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots, they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman. This has been lauded by many in the NCAA as being one of the greatest name changes due to the "minuteman" relationship with Massachusetts and its historical context. Women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen. UMass considers Boston College, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Connecticut as their biggest rivals. |
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The UMass-Amherst Department of Athletics currently sponsors Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Football, Lacrosse, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming and Track & Field. They also sponsor Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Softball, Cross Country, Rowing, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming, Field Hockey, Track & Field and Tennis. Among Club Sports offered are Men's Varsity Wrestling, Men's Rowing, Men's Rugby, Women's Rugby and Men's And Women's Bicycle Racing. |
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== Notable faculty == |
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* [[E. Wayne Abercrombie]] (Music) |
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* [[Andrew Barto]] (Computer Science) |
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* [[Madeleine Blais]] (Journalism) |
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* [[Samuel Bowles]] (Economics) |
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* [[Wayne P Burleson]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Chuck Close]] (Fine Arts) |
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* [[E. Bryan Coughlin]] (Polymer Science and Engineering) |
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* [[Walter Denny]] (Art History) |
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* [[Martín Espada]] (English) |
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* [[Fred Feldman (Philosopher)|Fred Feldman]] (Philosophy) |
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* [[Carl R. Fellers]] (Food Science and Technology) |
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* [[Aura Ganz]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Dennis L. Goeckel]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Sheldon Goldman]] (Political Science) |
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* [[Lisa Green]] (Linguistics, African-American English Studies) |
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* [[Ian Grosse]] (Mechanical Engineering) |
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* [[Thomas P. Hannum]] (Music) |
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* [[Jeffrey Holmes]] (Music) |
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* [[Neil Immerman]] (Computer Science) |
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* [[Sut Jhally]] (Communication) |
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* [[Hossein B. Kazemi]] (Finance and Operations Management) |
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* [[Angelika Kratzer]] (Linguistics) |
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* [[Sandip Kundu]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Jim Kurose]] (Computer Science) |
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* [[Joseph Levine]] (Philosophy) |
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* [[Lynn Margulis]] (Biology and Evolutionary Science) |
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* [[John McCarthy (linguist)|John McCarthy]] (Linguistics) |
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* [[Warren P. McGuirk]] (Physical Education) |
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* [[Dick Minear]] (History) |
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* [[Anna Nagurney]] (Finance and Operations Management) |
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* [[Max Page]] (Architecture) |
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* [[George N. Parks]] (Music) |
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* [[Barbara Partee]] (Linguistics) |
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* [[David Pozar]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Stephen Resnick]] (Economics) |
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* [[Roger Rideout]] (Music) |
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* [[Thomas P. Russell]] (Polymer Science and Engineering) |
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* [[Daniel Schaubert]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Thomas Schneeweis]] (Finance and Operations Management) |
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* [[Ramesh Sitaraman]] (Computer Science) |
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* [[James Tate (writer)|James Tate]] (English) |
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* [[Russell G. Tessier]] (Electrical Engineering) |
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* [[Don Towsley]] (Computer Science) |
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* [[Michael Wex]] |
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* [[Tilman Wolf]] (Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
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* [[Richard D. Wolff]] (Economics) |
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* [[Robert Paul Wolff]] (African-American Studies) |
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== Alumni == |
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{{main article|List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni}} |
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The slogan of the Alumni Association, "You were. You are. UMASS."<ref>[http://www.umassalumni.com/ UMass Amherst Alumni Association]</ref> |
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The University is campaigning<ref>[http://www.umassalumni.com/licenseplate.html Order Your UMass Amherst License Plates Today]</ref> to get Alumni to purchase specialty Massachusetts license plates with the UMass Amherst logo. The proceeds from sales of the plates would go to help fund student scholarships. |
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The University Alumni Association operates out of Memorial Hall. |
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==Campus activism== |
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While some students at UMass add to its reputation as a party school, others among the undergraduate and graduate population have also received press for their [http://people.umass.edu/geo/gp/news/campus-w-cause.html activism], including rallies to repeal the imposition of a [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/30/1522252 Student and Exchange Visitor Information System Fee] in 2003-2004, to protest for more favorable in 2005 and 2007, protesting tuition and fee hikes that make the university the second most expensive for in-state students (behind the [[University of Vermont]]) and many other campus issues. |
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Throughout the school's history, it has been the site of many sit-ins, and protests, often led by the Radical Student Union and its successor movements, Take Back UMass, amongst others. |
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== UMass Amherst in the news == |
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==="Most violent campus" controversy=== |
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On [[November 17]], [[2005]], ABC News' ''Primetime'' reported University of Massachusetts at Amherst as having the highest rate of violent crime on a campus of its size. |
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UMass officials said the report was flawed in two ways: first, ABC used figures from 2002 and 2003, when UMass reported 57 and 58 violent crimes, and did not take into account the data from 2004, when only 28 violent crimes were reported; second, the news program calculated the rate of violent crime by dividing the number of crimes by the total enrollment rather than by the number of on-campus residents."'Just as you would not include visitors, commuters, and tourists to calculate the crime rate among a city's population, neither should an aggregate number including off-campus students be included in a calculation of an on-campus crime rate", O'Malley, the general counsel, wrote to ABC News.<ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/11/17/umass_raps_data_as_primetime_prepares_to_air_crime_report/ UMass raps data as "Primetime" prepares to air crime report], Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe, November 17, 2005. </ref> |
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===UMass Amherst Team of Scientists Create "Nano Nose"=== |
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A team of scientists at UMass, led by Vincent Rotello, have developed a molecular nose that can detect and identify various proteins. The research appeared in the May 2007 issue of [[Nature Nanotechnology]], and the team is currently focusing on sensors which will detect the malformed proteins made by cancer cells.<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/51484.php/ UMass Amherst Scientists Create Nano Nose With Aim of Sniffing Out Diseased Cells], UMass Amherst, April 23, 2007. </ref> |
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===UMass Amherst Team Create Fire-Safe Plastic=== |
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UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris, Todd Emrick, and Bryan Coughlin lead the research team that has developed a synthetic polymer that doesn't burn. This polymer is a building block of plastic, and the new flame-retardant plastics won't need to have flame-retarding chemicals added to their composition. These chemicals have recently been found in many different areas from homes and offices to fish, and there are environmental and health concerns regarding the additives. The newly developed polymers would not require the addition of these potentially hazardous chemicals. Coughlin, one of the research team leaders, notes that this is "really a two-birds-with-one-stone approach for a new polymer. It is extremely fire-safe and does not contain halogenated additives, which are known to be environmentally hazardous."<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/53157.php/ UMass Amherst Scientists Create Fire-Safe Plastic], UMass Amherst, May 30, 2007.</ref> |
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===Andrew Card Protest=== |
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On [[May 25]], [[2007]], a large protest was held during the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Graduate Commencement where [[Andrew Card]] received an honorary degree. The protest was picked up and broadcast by MSNBC, as well as receiving a writeup by the Associated Press stating that hundreds of students and faculty booed and held up signs while Andrew Card was given his honorary doctorate in public service. Due to the protests, Card neglected to speak and Provost Charlena Seymour's comments regarding the award were drowned out by the hundreds of people involved in the protest.<ref>[http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UMASS_CARD?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME/ Former Bush Aide Card Is Booed at UMass], Associated Press, May 26, 2007. </ref> |
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The commencement protest followed two large demonstrations on campus on May 8th and May 15th, 2007, respectively, with regards to the honorary degree.<ref>[http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/05/11/News/Umass.Speaks.Out.Students.Protest.Universitys.Honorary.Degree.Decision-2899578.shtml/ UMass speaks out: Students protest University's honorary degree decision], Michelle Osorio, Daily Collegian, May 11th, 2007. </ref> Card was also protested earlier in the year when he came to UMass to give a lecture entitled "The American Political Landscape: Looking Towards 2008" on April 11th, 2007. The Radical Student Union and the Graduate Student Senate organized protests which included a "die-in," where students fell prone with fake blood spattered on their clothes, as well as protest signs and the unfurling of a very large protest banner.<ref>[http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/04/12/News/Lecture.Met.With.Protest-2836620.shtml/ Lecture met with protest], Ibid, Daily Collegian, May 12th, 2007. </ref> |
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===Jack Wilson's Restructuring of the UMass System=== |
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University of Massachusetts president Jack M. Wilson has proposed a "one university" plan for the UMass system, part of which included the excision of the Chancellor position. There are also other leadership restructurings which have received a fair amount of complaint from faculty and administration of the various UMass schools in the state: the faculty of UMass-Amherst passed a no-confidence vote in both the president and the trustees; UMass-Boston is currently considering doing the same. |
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There has been concern that much of the proposed plan has been developed behind closed doors within a small circle of the Board of Trustees. Members of the board have noted that even within the board itself there were members that were aware of the plan prior to it being transmitted to the board-at-large,<ref> [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/02/wilson_surprised_by_uproar_at_umass/ Wilson surprised by uproar at UMass], Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe, June 2, 2007 </ref> a fact that has led some to speculate about the evolution of an insider group with its genesis in the involvement of Romney's appointments to the board and other organizations during his gubernatorial tenure. Stephen Tocco, Chairman of the Board, was backed and elevated by then-governor Mitt Romney. Romney also made other appointments to the board just before leaving office, as well as appointing Wilson as a Massachusetts Commissioner to the Education Commission of the States shortly before his exodus.<ref> [http://www.jackmwilson.com/ Jack Wilson Biosketch], Jack Wilson, Jack M. Wilson, September 1, 2006 </ref> The current plan centralizes some of the power within the UMass system by effectively combining the role of President and Chancellor into the President's office. Due to the uproar from a wide variety of camps, some commentators worry that this reorganization plan may weaken Wilson's position, depending on the effects of the various no-confidence votes and future reactions of the administration and faculty. |
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== See also == |
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*[[William S. Clark]] (1825-1886), [[professor]], [[Massachusetts senate|Massachusetts state senator]], third president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and first vice president of [[Sapporo Agricultural College]], [[Japan]]. |
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Motto | Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem |
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Motto in English | By the sword we seek peace; but peace only under liberty |
Type | Public |
Established | 1863 |
Endowment | US $348,100,000 |
Chancellor | Dr. Robert C. Holub |
Undergraduates | 19,934 |
Postgraduates | 5,699 |
Location | , , |
Campus | 1,463 acres (5.87 km²) |
Athletics | Official site |
Nickname | Minutemen and Minutewomen |
Mascot | Sam the Minuteman |
Website | http://www.umass.edu |
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, or UMass) is a research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study. It was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the UMass system, for which it now serves as the flagship campus.
History
Foundation and early years
The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in the "agricultural, mechanical, and military arts". Accordingly, the university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College, popularly referred to as Mass Aggie or M.A.C.. At the time, the university had 50 men enrolled and including only a fraction of what the campus is today- including the Old Chapel, South College, and Goodell Hall, which was the library at the time. In 1931, due to an increase in enrollment and support from the Commonwealth, it was renamed Massachusetts State College.
Post-war growth
In 1947, the Massachusetts General Court passed legislation making Massachusetts State College the University of Massachusetts. Like most schools at the time, it was relatively small, enrolling ~5,000 students annually. Some expansion occurred in the 1950s, but the bulk of its transition to the present size occurred in the 1960s. The new president set a goal of expansion to 20,000 by the end of the decade, and the university entered a program of intense building. Many prominent structures rose during this time, including the Southwest Complex, Student Union, Campus Center, Fine Arts Center and famous 26-story library tower. UMass growth drastically altered the regional economy, prompting the commercial development of Route 9 in Hadley, the extension and redirection of several highways (including the widening of Route 9 in Hadley to four lanes and the relocation of Route 116 to a limited access bypass road around the college) and the transformation of the town of Amherst from its conservative thinking to its liberal reputation today.[citation needed] In spite of the various expansions and changes of status of the University, it remains true to its roots, continuing to provide high-quality education in the agricultural (Stockbridge School of Agriculture), mechanical (College of Engineering), and martial (Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC) arts.
Anticipating the drastic increase in student population in the 1960s and 1970s, the University underwent major expansion. Many of the buildings were constructed relatively quickly from poured, exposed concrete, which reflected much of the styling of the era. The most prominent examples of exposed reinforced concrete construction are the Campus Center and Hotel, Fine Arts Center, Herter Hall, and Whitmore Administration Building. Although this architectural styling is sometimes considered dated or unattractive today, several of these buildings are considered architectural landmarks, notably the Fine Arts Center by Roche-Dinkeloo, designers of the United Nations Plaza. There are several recently completed buildings that are both modern and functional. Some examples of these buildings include the Mullins Center, The Polymer Science Facility, the Computer Science Building, and the Engineering and Computer Science II facility.
Architecture
The school has several buildings of importance in the modernist style, including the campus center designed by Marcel Breuer, the Southwest Residential Area designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, The Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche, and the Mullins Center by Gordon Bunshaft. The eclectic mix of building styles draws mixed reactions from students and visitors. The Lederle Graduate Research Center is currently undergoing an exterior renovation. New construction projects on campus include the Studio Arts Building and the Integrated Sciences Center.
Recent expansion project
In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney proposed an ambitious expansion project in which the size and population of the university would almost double as it took over the role of the state's community college system which Romney has begun to consolidate and dismantle. While this proposal received the support of the student government, town residents are exceedingly resistant to any such plan as it would increase the already critical traffic congestion in the center of town.
Following Mitt Romney's mandate, the UMass Amherst administration has pushed for admission of more students than there are residences. A large construction initiative, known as "New Dirt" is currently underway, in renovating and building new residential and academic facilities. Before the completion of North Apartments, the increasing size of the undergraduate body caused residence halls to reach maximum capacity, and many first year and transfer students were placed in area hotels until housing became available.
Designation as flagship campus
In 2003, for the first time, UMass Amherst was legally designated by the state legislature to be a "research university" and the "flagship campus" of the UMass system.[1]
Academics
Admissions
The number of applications to UMass Amherst has almost doubled from 16,500 to 29,000 in just five years, increasing for the third consecutive year. Sixty-four percent of applicants were accepted to the University, and 2% to the Commonwealth College (14% of those accepted). The incoming Class of 2012 had an average 3.55 GPA in high school, also an increase from previous years.[2]
Commonwealth College
The Commonwealth College (ComCol) is the honors college at UMass. The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum. The requirements of the college are to complete a set number of the required classes for one's major at the honors level as well as complete a senior year thesis or capstone project and several Dean's book courses. Completion of the ComCol courseload is required in order to graduate the University with higher Latin honors designations, such as magna or summa cum laude. Graduates with Grade Point Averages of higher than 3.2 on a 4.0 scale receive the Latin honor cum laude whether they are members of the ComCol or not. ComCol provides honors students an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department.
Library
The W.E.B. DuBois library is the tallest library in the United States[3] and the tallest academic library in the world[4]. It is also well regarded for its innovative architectural design, which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building.[5] It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native W. E. B. Du Bois as well as being the depository for other important collections, such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte.
Special Collections[6] include
- Social change and movements for social change
- African American history and culture
- Labor, work, and industry
- Literature and the arts
- Agriculture
- The history of the region
The W.E.B. DuBois Library is also notable for being home to the Learning Commons,[7] opened in 2005. The Learning Commons provides a central location for resources provided by several departments across campus including Library Reference, Office of Information Technologies help desk, Academic Advising, Writing Center, Career Services, and Assistive Technologies Center. The Learning Commons has 164 computers with a broad range of software installed arranged in a variety of configurations for both individual and collaborative work. The library has all sorts of services including tutoring, writing workshops, and supplemental instruction scattered among its 26 floors. The building itself is so large that it needs a security force. That security force is the Building Monitor Desk. The desk is managed by various supervisors and student employees.
The Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library is the other main library on campus. It is located on the 2nd floor of the Lederle Graduate Research Center (occasionally referred to as the Lederle "low rise").
UMass Amherst is home to the DEFA Film Library [3], the only archive and study collection of East German films outside of Europe.
Other libraries include the Shirley Graham Du Bois Library in New Africa House, the Biological Sciences Library in Morrill Hall, and the Music Reserve Lab in the Fine Arts Center.
Information technology
UMass Amherst is a member of Internet2.
The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) provides all faculty, staff, and students with an OIT account which provides access to a variety of services including email (UMail), online storage space (UDrive), web hosting space, and blogging space.[8]
OIT maintains 11 computer classrooms across campus with approximately 300 computers available to members of the UMass community. Many of these are the computer available in the Learning Commons located in the WEB DuBois Library. Additionally many departments and programs have their own computing resources available for members of those groups.
Many UMass Amherst instructors make use of Blackboard's WebCT Vista learning management system (which has been branded as SPARK on campus[9]) for delivery of course content via the web.
In the winter of 2003, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) rolled out the SPIRE system, which is based on PeopleSoft's student information system. At UMass, SPIRE is a web-based system used to register for courses, as well as a variety of other tasks.
On October 21, 2005 UMass Amherst was designated as the first-in-the-nation Microsoft IT Showcase School by CEO Steve Ballmer, recognizing the university's innovative leadership in applying information technology to teaching and learning.[10]
In April 2008, UMass Amherst announced a campus alert system whereby members of the university can receive emergency notification via text messaging. [11]
Five College consortium
UMass Amherst is part of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes, borrow books, work with professors, etc., at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.
All five colleges are located within 10 miles of Amherst center, and are accessible by public bus. The five share an astronomy department and some other undergraduate and graduate departments.
Research labs at UMass Amherst
Autonomous Learning Laboratory (Computer Science)
- Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (Computer Science)
- Knowledge Discovery Laboratory (Computer Science)
- Laboratory For Perceptual Robotics (Computer Science)
- Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics, and Graphics (Mathematics)
- Center for Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Computation (Mathematics)
- Center for Economic Development
- Political Economy Research Institute
- Center for Education Policy
- The Environmental Institute
- Center for Public Policy and Administration
- Labor Relations and Research Center
- Virtual Center for Supernetworks
- Antennas and Propagation Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Center for Advanced Sensor and Communication Antennas (CASCA) (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Multimedia Networks Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering)
- Network Systems Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering)
- Wireless Systems Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering)
- VLSI Circuits and Systems Labaratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering)
- Scientific Reasoning Research Institute
- National Center for Digital Government
- Renewable Energy Research Laboratory
- Center for e-design
Ranking and reputation
U.S. News and World Report's 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges placed UMass Amherst at #102 on their list of "Best National Universities"[12] ranking it the joint 46th amongst Public Universities.[13] The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked UMass Amherst as the 175th best university in the world.[14] The MBA program is highly ranked by the Princeton Review.[15]
Student life
Registered Student Organizations
UMass Amherst has many registered student organizations (RSOs). Most RSOs are funded by the Student Government Association (SGA), from the activity fee that all students pay, however, the SGA has oft been criticized for not funding all clubs fully or equally. In recent years, the fee has been about $81. In order to start an RSO, one needs a group of at least 8 interested students, who then petition the SGA for recognition. Each semester, the SGA reviews RSOs, and those which have too few members are considered inactive. Club Sports, which are non-NCAA athletic or organized sports teams, are considered RSOs.
On May 6 of 2008, the Center for Student Development hosted an awards show entitled The Sammies for the second time. The Sammies is designed to allow RSOs to give awards to other outstanding RSOs. Over 50 different awards were presented to student leaders and exemplary RSO in more than 20 categories. Among the winners was the Umass International Relations Club which garnered the coveted "Best RSO of the Year" award.
Student government
The Student Government Association (SGA) is the undergraduate student governmental body, and provides funding for the many registered student organizations (RSOs) and agencies, including the Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) and the Student Center for Educational Research and Advocacy (SCERA). The SGA also makes formal recommendations on matters of Administration policy and advocates for undergraduate students to the Administration, non-student organizations, and local and state government.
The SGA has three branches: the President and Executive Cabinet, the Undergraduate Student Senate, and the Student Judiciary.
Area governments There are a total of six area governments. Each of the campus's six residential areas has an area government, and there is also a Commuter Area Government to serve commuter students. Area governments provide social programming for their areas, and are in charge of the house councils for the dorms in their area. They also represent the needs and interests of students in their areas to the Administration, Housing Services, and the SGA.
Area Governments have a tradition of sponsoring large events, generally in the Spring, such as Fill the Hill, Bowl Weekend and Southwest Week.
House councils Each residence hall or residential "cluster" (a group of residence halls) at UMass Amherst has a house council. House councils report to their respective area governments. Its budget comes from voluntary dues collected in return for access to common supplies (access to the kitchenette, rental access to vacuums, brooms, games, etc). House councils also engage in social programming for their halls or clusters, and advocate to housing staff in regards to concerns of students in their hall/cluster.
Army ROTC
The Minuteman Battalion is one of the permiere Army ROTC battalions in the Army [citation needed]. Boasting a program that annually performs well above national averages and among the top handful of programs in the northeast USA, Army ROTC recently enjoyed the announcement of a senior Cadet being named the #1 Cadet in the nation in a national class of over 4,000 Cadets. UMass has earned this prestigious achievement twice in the last 15 years. The training program is among the best at preparing officers for the US Army and commissionees regularly outperform their peers in initial Army officer training. Active on the Amherst campus, the program's Scabbard and Blade community service club is very active and represents UMass well throughout the year with food drives, assistance to local veteran's groups and assistance with the Medical Readiness Corps at UMass in preparing for large-scale medical disasters. The most unusual activity associated with Army ROTC is the Light Leader's Tactical Society, in which Cadets train in dynamic real-world environments and scenarios. Most students are on a full tuition scholarship. UMass-Amherst is the host program for the Pioneer Valley and Five Colleges Army ROTC programs including: Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Western New England College (WNEC), Springfield College, Westfield State College and American International College (AIC). At AIC and WNEC, students on Army ROTC Scholarships also earn free room and board.
Marching band
UMass Amherst has the largest marching band in New England. The Minuteman Marching Band consists of over 390 members and regularly plays at football games. The band is led by George N. Parks. The Minuteman Band also won the prestigious Sudler Trophy in 1998 for excellence. The band is well known across the nation for its style and excellence, particularly for its percussion UMass Drumline and tuba sections. The band also performs in various other places like Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bands of America, Boston, and on occasion Montreal.
Fraternities and Sororities
UMass is home to numerous fraternities and sororities, organized under four councils: IFC, NPC, NPHC, and the MGC. Several Greek Life organizations had houses on North Pleasant Streetuntil Alpha Tau Gamma, Inc. who owned the property for many years, did not renew the leases. The North Pleasant Street houses were colloquially known as Frat Row. Most of Alpha Tau Gamma Properties' houses were out of code and were razed November, 2006. The land was then sold to the University.[16] Currently several sororities & fraternities still live in "Frat Row" including Sigma Delta Tau, Pi Kappa Alpha, Iota Gamma Upsilon, Phi Sigma Kappa and Theta Chi. Behind "Frat Row" or North Pleasant Street there are more sorority houses such as Sigma Kappa, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Alpha Chi Omega. Two other houses Chi Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon are situated on Olympia Drive, on the northern outskirts of the campus. Delta Upsilon is also situated on North Pleasant Street just past Lederle and Totman. Alpha Epsilon Pi is also on campus. Alpha Epsilon Pirecently relocated to Sunset Ave, and Pi Kappa Alpha returned to campus in Spring of '07.
Several organizations do not have houses, such as Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Zeta Psi and the NPHC, and the MGC fraternities and sororities.
The Greek community has several annual traditions, including UDance, the Relay for Life and the annual Greek Week, during which the various fraternities are partnered with sororities, and these teams compete with each other throughout a week of challenges.
The Daily Collegian
The student-operated newspaper, The Daily Collegian, is published Monday through Friday during the University of Massachusetts' calendar semester. The Collegian is independently funded, operating on advertising revenue. Founded in 1890, the paper began as Aggie Life, became the College Signal in 1901, the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri-Weekly Collegian in 1956. Published daily since 1967, the Collegian has been broadsheet since January 1994. The Daily Collegian is the largest daily campus newspaper.
UVC-TV 19
The Union Video Center is the University of Massachusetts' student-run television station, located in the basement of the Student Union. UVC-TV 19 is part of the University's Housing Cable Services Network and airs on channel 19 to over 11,000 viewers on campus via a closed circuit system. UVC began as the Student Video Project in 1974, and was renamed the Union Video Center in 1978 after growing into a full-fledged television station. Today, UVC-TV 19 serves as a resource on campus for full-time undergraduate students interested in learning about any aspect of television, video production, or cablecasting by providing access to audio and video equipment, studio, and editing workstations. Student members cover campus events and guest lectures, produce original shows, films and documentaries, and air their work on UVC.
WMUA 91.1FM
The student-operated radio station, WMUA 91.1 FM, is a federally licensed, non-commercial broadcast facility serving the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, Northern Connecticut, and Southern Vermont. Although the station is managed by full-time undergraduate students of the University of Massachusetts, station members can consist of various members of the University (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff), as well as people of the surrounding communities. WMUA began as an AM station in 1949, and today broadcasts music, news, sports, and public affairs programming. The station is located in the basement of the Lincoln Campus Center.
Campus
Buildings and layout
The campus (42°23′20″N 72°31′40″W / 42.38889°N 72.52778°W) extends about a mile from the Campus Center in all directions. The university owns significant amounts of land in the nearby town of Sunderland.
The campus may be thought of as a series of concentric rings. In the outermost ring are parking lots, the admissions center, playing fields and barns for the animal science program. In the middle ring there are the six residential areas and dining commons. The innermost ring has most of the classroom buildings and research labs.
South Campus
The Isenberg School of Management has its buildings in the southernmost part of campus near the Visitors Center and the Newman Center, the Catholic student center. In addition to being the site of the main administration building, Whitmore, the southeast side of campus has buildings mainly dedicated to the humanities and fine arts. Buildings include Herter, Bartlett, Mahar and the Fine Arts Center (Abbreviated "FAC"). Between Whitmore, the FAC and Isenberg lies the Haigis Mall, a local stop on both the PVTA and Peter Pan bus lines. The buildings on the southwest side of campus house the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. These include Dickinson Hall and Tobin Hall.
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Student Union
The Student Union Building houses most of the University's Registered Student Organizations (RSO's) and it is the home of the Student Government Association. Other facilities include the Campus Design and Copy (CD&C) center, a convenience store, a ball room, and a student lounge. Several student-run businesses and co-ops are also present including Tickets Unlimited (Tix), Bike Coop, the Fair trade convenience store, bagel shop People's Market and a vegan/vegetarian eatery Earthfoods Cafe.
South College
South College is the home of UMass' world renowned linguistics department. The DuBois library was intended to be an annex to South College.
Campus Center Designed by famed architect Marcel Breuer, the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center is located adjacent to the Student Union and is accessible via passageways from both the Student Union as well as from the main level of the parking garage.
On the concourse level are the campus store, restrooms, graduate student lounge, which serves beer, and the Bluewall, which contains a cafe, a smoothie stand and a fair trade coffee stand. This level is a high-traffic area throughout most of the day with students and faculty not only using it as a 'pass through' from one building to another, but also as the central hub of on-campus life. Many people often pass the time between classes on this level and it is common to find vendors and organizations operating from fold-out tables along either side.
The lower level of the campus center has multiple conference rooms and a large auditorium. Within the central space of the lower level are telephones, ATMs, vending, as well as couches and television. The offices of the University newspaper, The Daily Collegian, can be found at the far end of the level, along with the University radio station, WMUA, and its offices. One of the basement rooms is home to the UMass Science Fiction Society's library which is the second largest Science Fiction library on the east coast.
The top floor of the Campus Center, "The Top of the Campus" recently underwent a complete renovation. It is home to a state of the art teaching kitchen, beverage lab and dining room facility.
Campus Center Hotel Above the concourse level is the Campus Center Hotel (official website), a five-level full service facility with 116 rooms, including two suites located in the Campus Center. The Campus Center Hotel is the training ground for the university's Hospitality and Tourism Management students.
Fletcher's Cafe Fletcher's Café is a student run business on campus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It is located in Flint Lab, the Hospitality and Tourism Management building, which is next to the campus center parking garage. Students that are part of the Hospitality and Tourism Management major take on full managerial responsibilities and are required to hire employees, order food and drinks, take care of accounting and hopefully make a profit by the end of the semester.
North Campus
The north side of campus is mostly dedicated to science and engineering, and many buildings there are newer than their counterparts in the humanities. The Physics Department primarily uses Hasbrouck Lab, located at 666 North Pleasant Street. The Lederle Graduate Research Tower is the largest building on the north side, housing the Math department on its sixteenth floor. As the Math Department headquarters, the sixteenth floor is prominently labeled 4². The Silvio Conte Polymer Research facility is located in North campus.
Computer science
The Computer Science department recently moved into an airy new building built for them on the edge of campus, though classes are often taught elsewhere, especially for lower division classes. Between the imposing concrete LGRT, the second-story walkway from it to its sister structure the LGRC, the glass-and-aluminum Computer Science building, and other new buildings for the Engineering and Polymer Science departments, North Campus looks more "high-tech" than the rest of campus.
Sports, recreation, and exercise
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Major sporting events, such as UMass's hockey and basketball team games, are held in the Mullins Center, amidst the fields to the west. Other locales for sporting events include Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium (where UMass holds its football games) and Garber Field, which is an artificial-turf field adjacent to Boyden Gym used for lacrosse, field hockey, and various team practices.
On campus there are two major gyms, the Totman Gym near Northeast and Sylvan and the Boyden Gym to the south. Each houses basketball courts, a weight/fitness room (Boyden's is free to undergraduates), and various other resources such as racquetball and squash courts. To the west of campus are numerous fields used for recreation and for soccer and baseball. There is also a set of tennis courts located north of Boyden.
In addition to Totman and Boyden, there is Curry Hicks Cage, which hosts a small indoor track, pool, and basketball court. It is also occasionally used as a venue for guest speakers (such as the fall 2006 visit from comedian Bob Saget) and for the Western Mass high school basketball championships and other similar sporting events. The Cage was the home of the UMass men's and women's basketball teams before the Mullins Center was built.
Ground was broken in fall 2007 for a new building across the street from the Mullins Center. It will be a three-floor rec center, complete with a weight/fitness center spanning two floors. It is estimated to be constructed by spring 2008 and commissioned in spring 2009.
Campus Bus System The PVTA bus system is the second largest free public transportation system in the world. It serves not only the University of Massachusetts campus, but also the surrounding colleges and communities. This bus system is run primarily by University students and is free for students, which allows them to easily get to classes at the other four colleges.
Residential areas
At UMass Amherst, first and second year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year. Upper-class students who have continuously lived on campus during their first and sophomore years are guaranteed housing as long as they choose to live on campus. If, however, a student is admitted after their sophomore year, or moves off campus, and wants to move back onto campus, they are not guaranteed housing, but instead must go through a housing lottery, since demand outstrips supply. Building and room selection is accomplished by a complex system that takes into account building seniority as well as class year; those choosing to move from their building are subject to a lottery system. There are approximately 12,000 students living on-campus.
Students living on the UMass campus live in one of the six residential areas: North, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, and Southwest. Several residential areas have a student-run business. All campus residence halls are staffed by Resident Assistants, who provide programming and community development, as well as enforce policies, and have quiet hours, which start at 9 pm on weekdays, 12 midnight on the weekends, but may vary from hall to hall.
North Residential Area
Recently completed, the newest residence halls on campus opened in the Fall of 2006. Located between Sylvan and Northeast, these apartment-style dormitories house approximately 850 undergraduates in four buildings. The buildings are currently named North A, B, C, and D. Each unit comprises four single bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a shared common area including a full kitchen. Other amenities include Ethernet and cable access, central air, and laundry on-site. New to North in 2008 includes free wireless access throughout the North Residential area. This is separate from the main UMASS wi-fi and allows for faster speeds and easy connectivity in the area. This is a nine-month housing area, which allows students to remain on campus from September to May.
Sylvan Residential Area
Sylvan is adjacent to the North Residential Area, and before the opening of North in 2006, was the newest residential area on campus, construction having been completed in the early 1970s. Sylvan is distinctive for offering suite-style living in a shady wooded area. Sylvan derives from Latin silva, "a wood or grove." Each residence hall contains 64 suites and each suite is either all-male or all-female. For Fall 2007, a gender-neutral suite is being made available "to students who do not want to identify a gender, students whose gender identity is in transition, and their friends and allies."[17]
Each suite is a mixture of double and single rooms, a common bathroom, and a common living room. Suites accommodate six to eight residents. Sylvan is also home to the Sylvan Snack Bar (SSB) one of eight student-run businesses on campus. The SSB delivers food right to students doors in the Sylvan living area. The snack bar, located in the basement of the McNamara building, provides food and a student hang out for the Sylvan residents.
Northeast Residential Area
Northeast is across the street from North and diagonal to Sylvan. The residential area consists of nine buildings assembled in a rectangle surrounding a grassy quad. Northeast is one of the oldest residential areas on campus and has what one might call classic academic architecture, consisting of red brick buildings and gabled/shingled roofs. Buildings of note in Northeast include Johnson, which is an all female dorm; Hamlin, which is an all male dorm; as well as Lewis, which provides international students with 9-month housing and is home to one of the Residential Wellness Center facilities offered on campus. Thatcher is unique because it has a foreign language program, which includes several floors, each with a different language. The residents of these floors are encouraged to speak the language they are studying with their floor-mates. Dwight Hall offers Asian-American Student Program. Crabtree Hall and Leach Hall house the Engineering Residential Academic Programs (RAPs). There is also the 2 in 20 floor, whose location is to remain private, to protect the privacy of the floor members.[18]
In Fall 2008, the cluster of Crabtree, Mary Lyon, and Knowlton (CMLK) will become all-freshmen housing, as Northeast will join Central, Southwest and Orchard Hill as the fourth residential area to offer freshman-only living. Knowlton will become co-ed, and Johnson will take its place as the new all-female dorm.
Central Residential Area
Central is unique because it has three academic buildings in addition to nine residence halls located along a hill on the east side of campus. Academic buildings in Central include Hills House,[19] New Africa House,[20] and Fernald Hall.[21] Central is also home to the Central Art Gallery in Wheeler House.[22] New Africa House has a particularly interesting history; the building was formerly known as Mills House, and was a dormitory prior to an incident in 1969 when a group of black students seized the building and barricaded themselves within, ordering all white residents to either join forces with them or get out of the building. The faculty of the newly formed Afro-American Studies department responded by moving its offices into the building to show solidarity with the black students, and the building became New Africa House. [23]
Central is organized into 4 clusters of buildings: Gorman-Wheeler and Brett-Brooks at the bottom of the hill, Baker, Chadbourne and Greenough ("BCG") organized in a quad halfway up the hill, and Van Meter-Butterfield ("VMB") at the top of the hill. Gorman Hall is a building-wide Living Learning Community called NUANCE. Founded in 1989, it is a diversity awareness Living Learning Community. Wheeler is home to the Central Art Gallery. Brett is a nine-month housing dorm, allowing students to stay during breaks for a fee. Both Wheeler and Brett are popular living options for student-athletes. Brooks is a "Wellness" dorm, requiring its residents to abstain from substance use. Baker houses the Area Office and a freshman-only floor. Chadbourne houses the Josephine White Eagle Native American Cultural Center. Butterfield and Van Meter are freshman-only dorms. Van Meter is the largest dorm on campus in terms of residents, while Butterfield is the smallest and has a rich community history.
The Greenough dorm is also home to the Greeno Sub Shop, another one of the student run businesses.
Orchard Hill Residential Area
Completed in 1964, The Orchard Hill residence area is north of Central, and has four residence halls: Dickinson, Webster, Grayson and Field. As of the 2007 school year, Dickinson and Webster buildings were converted to freshman-only housing. Webster is home to one of the Residential Wellness Center facilities offered on campus. Orchard Hill is known for its yearly spring event, Bowl Weekend, which is put on each year by the Orchard Hill Area Government. Many students from the Commonwealth College honors program live in Orchard Hill as part of Learning Communities. Orchard hill also houses a number of Talent Advancement Programs. [24]. Orchard Hill also refers to the hill on which the Orchard Hill Observatory and a cell phone tower are located. The cell phone tower also supports a microwave relay system for internet and land phone service at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, located on a peninsula within the Quabbin Reservoir. Field also houses Sweets 'n More, a student run business on campus.
Southwest Residential Area
Southwest is the largest residential area on the UMass campus.
Southwest is composed of five 22-story towers (Coolidge and the all-freshman Kennedy are side-by-side in the north and John Quincy Adams, John Adams and Washington are arranged in a cluster in the south) and 11 smaller residence halls, also known as low-rises (the height of which varies from building to building), holding a total of around 5,500 students. The low-rises are arranged as such: two freshman-only clusters in the north (James-Emerson and Thoreau-Melville), a freshman-only cluster in the south (Cance, Moore, and Pierpont), and located along Sunset Avenue to the east are two clusters (Prince-Crampton in the north and MacKimmie-Patterson in the south) offering nine-month housing. Cluster offices are located in James, Melville, Cance, Prince, MacKimmie, Pierpont, and in each of the five towers. Additionally, Thoreau and Cance are home to the area office for the north and south portions of Southwest, respectively. Moore is home to the Residence Life Resource Center. Meanwhile, JQA and Washington are the homes to two of the Residential Wellness Center facilities offered on campus.
Southwest houses three of the five campus dining commons, including the inactive Hampden Dining Common. Hampshire is in the north and the newly-renovated Berkshire is in the south, both offering traditional food. Hampden, which was originally going to be a tower itself before contractors realized the foundation would not be able to support one[citation needed], is host to the Hampden Art Gallery, Convenience Store (C-Store), Southwest Area Government(SWAG) Office, Latin American Cultural Center(LACC) and the Southwest Cafe & Pita Pit.
Also found in Crampton in Southwest is the Stonewall Center, a resource for LGBT students and allies.
Southwest houses approximately 50% of the students living on campus. Southwest is known for its lively, festive, and active community spirit, often stereotyped (both positively and negatively) as a center for "party" activity. After both victories and losses by the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox in 2002, 2003 and 2004, as well as after the December 2006 UMass defeat in the NCAA Division I-AA football championship game, students held large impromptu festive gatherings (also referred to as riots) in the Southwest Mall which led to injuries, incidents of property destruction, and significant police involvement. The first of these so-called riots was in 1996 when the Minutemen lost to Kentucky in the NCAA Final Four. Although the Patriots were not involved in Super Bowl XLI, campus security was tightened on Super Bowl Sunday in 2007 as a precautionary measure. The 2007 Boston Red Sox playoffs and World Series games were met with tight security as well and proved to be effective. On the night of the Red Sox World Series victory there was loud but peaceful celebration and minimal arrests were made.
Parking on-campus
Parking at UMass is open to all students via Parking Services for a fee. Cost varies depending on seniority and location. The most typical student parking permits range from $60 to $300 for the year. It is a color coded system with Green, Purple and Yellow Lots available to students. Purple Lots are typically closest to the dorm/housing areas; Yellow Lots are the cheapest but the farthest away; Green lots are for commuter students[25]. Parking is also available in the campus garage for a fee of $1.50 per hour during the day. In the evening there is a night rate of $3.00. Payment options include cash or ucard. Meter parking is also available at select locations through out campus. The meters accept nickels, dimes, and quarters only.
Athletics
UMass is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The university is a member of the Atlantic Ten Conference, while playing ice hockey in the Hockey East Association. For football, UMass competes in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), a conference of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; known as Division I-AA before the 2006 season). UMass originally was known as the Statesmen, later the Aggies, then the Redmen, before changing their logo and nickname to the Minutemen. In a response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots, they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman. This has been lauded by many in the NCAA as being one of the greatest name changes due to the "minuteman" relationship with Massachusetts and its historical context. Women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen. UMass considers Boston College, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Connecticut as their biggest rivals.
The UMass-Amherst Department of Athletics currently sponsors Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Football, Lacrosse, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming and Track & Field. They also sponsor Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Softball, Cross Country, Rowing, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming, Field Hockey, Track & Field and Tennis. Among Club Sports offered are Men's Varsity Wrestling, Men's Rowing, Men's Rugby, Women's Rugby and Men's And Women's Bicycle Racing.
Notable faculty
- E. Wayne Abercrombie (Music)
- Andrew Barto (Computer Science)
- Madeleine Blais (Journalism)
- Samuel Bowles (Economics)
- Wayne P Burleson (Electrical Engineering)
- Chuck Close (Fine Arts)
- E. Bryan Coughlin (Polymer Science and Engineering)
- Walter Denny (Art History)
- Martín Espada (English)
- Fred Feldman (Philosophy)
- Carl R. Fellers (Food Science and Technology)
- Aura Ganz (Electrical Engineering)
- Dennis L. Goeckel (Electrical Engineering)
- Sheldon Goldman (Political Science)
- Lisa Green (Linguistics, African-American English Studies)
- Ian Grosse (Mechanical Engineering)
- Thomas P. Hannum (Music)
- Jeffrey Holmes (Music)
- Neil Immerman (Computer Science)
- Sut Jhally (Communication)
- Hossein B. Kazemi (Finance and Operations Management)
- Angelika Kratzer (Linguistics)
- Sandip Kundu (Electrical Engineering)
- Jim Kurose (Computer Science)
- Joseph Levine (Philosophy)
- Lynn Margulis (Biology and Evolutionary Science)
- John McCarthy (Linguistics)
- Warren P. McGuirk (Physical Education)
- Dick Minear (History)
- Anna Nagurney (Finance and Operations Management)
- Max Page (Architecture)
- George N. Parks (Music)
- Barbara Partee (Linguistics)
- David Pozar (Electrical Engineering)
- Stephen Resnick (Economics)
- Roger Rideout (Music)
- Thomas P. Russell (Polymer Science and Engineering)
- Daniel Schaubert (Electrical Engineering)
- Thomas Schneeweis (Finance and Operations Management)
- Ramesh Sitaraman (Computer Science)
- James Tate (English)
- Russell G. Tessier (Electrical Engineering)
- Don Towsley (Computer Science)
- Michael Wex
- Tilman Wolf (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Richard D. Wolff (Economics)
- Robert Paul Wolff (African-American Studies)
Alumni
The slogan of the Alumni Association, "You were. You are. UMASS."[26] The University is campaigning[27] to get Alumni to purchase specialty Massachusetts license plates with the UMass Amherst logo. The proceeds from sales of the plates would go to help fund student scholarships. The University Alumni Association operates out of Memorial Hall.
Campus activism
While some students at UMass add to its reputation as a party school, others among the undergraduate and graduate population have also received press for their activism, including rallies to repeal the imposition of a Student and Exchange Visitor Information System Fee in 2003-2004, to protest for more favorable in 2005 and 2007, protesting tuition and fee hikes that make the university the second most expensive for in-state students (behind the University of Vermont) and many other campus issues.
Throughout the school's history, it has been the site of many sit-ins, and protests, often led by the Radical Student Union and its successor movements, Take Back UMass, amongst others.
UMass Amherst in the news
"Most violent campus" controversy
On November 17, 2005, ABC News' Primetime reported University of Massachusetts at Amherst as having the highest rate of violent crime on a campus of its size.
UMass officials said the report was flawed in two ways: first, ABC used figures from 2002 and 2003, when UMass reported 57 and 58 violent crimes, and did not take into account the data from 2004, when only 28 violent crimes were reported; second, the news program calculated the rate of violent crime by dividing the number of crimes by the total enrollment rather than by the number of on-campus residents."'Just as you would not include visitors, commuters, and tourists to calculate the crime rate among a city's population, neither should an aggregate number including off-campus students be included in a calculation of an on-campus crime rate", O'Malley, the general counsel, wrote to ABC News.[28]
UMass Amherst Team of Scientists Create "Nano Nose"
A team of scientists at UMass, led by Vincent Rotello, have developed a molecular nose that can detect and identify various proteins. The research appeared in the May 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, and the team is currently focusing on sensors which will detect the malformed proteins made by cancer cells.[29]
UMass Amherst Team Create Fire-Safe Plastic
UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris, Todd Emrick, and Bryan Coughlin lead the research team that has developed a synthetic polymer that doesn't burn. This polymer is a building block of plastic, and the new flame-retardant plastics won't need to have flame-retarding chemicals added to their composition. These chemicals have recently been found in many different areas from homes and offices to fish, and there are environmental and health concerns regarding the additives. The newly developed polymers would not require the addition of these potentially hazardous chemicals. Coughlin, one of the research team leaders, notes that this is "really a two-birds-with-one-stone approach for a new polymer. It is extremely fire-safe and does not contain halogenated additives, which are known to be environmentally hazardous."[30]
Andrew Card Protest
On May 25, 2007, a large protest was held during the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Graduate Commencement where Andrew Card received an honorary degree. The protest was picked up and broadcast by MSNBC, as well as receiving a writeup by the Associated Press stating that hundreds of students and faculty booed and held up signs while Andrew Card was given his honorary doctorate in public service. Due to the protests, Card neglected to speak and Provost Charlena Seymour's comments regarding the award were drowned out by the hundreds of people involved in the protest.[31]
The commencement protest followed two large demonstrations on campus on May 8th and May 15th, 2007, respectively, with regards to the honorary degree.[32] Card was also protested earlier in the year when he came to UMass to give a lecture entitled "The American Political Landscape: Looking Towards 2008" on April 11th, 2007. The Radical Student Union and the Graduate Student Senate organized protests which included a "die-in," where students fell prone with fake blood spattered on their clothes, as well as protest signs and the unfurling of a very large protest banner.[33]
Jack Wilson's Restructuring of the UMass System
University of Massachusetts president Jack M. Wilson has proposed a "one university" plan for the UMass system, part of which included the excision of the Chancellor position. There are also other leadership restructurings which have received a fair amount of complaint from faculty and administration of the various UMass schools in the state: the faculty of UMass-Amherst passed a no-confidence vote in both the president and the trustees; UMass-Boston is currently considering doing the same.
There has been concern that much of the proposed plan has been developed behind closed doors within a small circle of the Board of Trustees. Members of the board have noted that even within the board itself there were members that were aware of the plan prior to it being transmitted to the board-at-large,[34] a fact that has led some to speculate about the evolution of an insider group with its genesis in the involvement of Romney's appointments to the board and other organizations during his gubernatorial tenure. Stephen Tocco, Chairman of the Board, was backed and elevated by then-governor Mitt Romney. Romney also made other appointments to the board just before leaving office, as well as appointing Wilson as a Massachusetts Commissioner to the Education Commission of the States shortly before his exodus.[35] The current plan centralizes some of the power within the UMass system by effectively combining the role of President and Chancellor into the President's office. Due to the uproar from a wide variety of camps, some commentators worry that this reorganization plan may weaken Wilson's position, depending on the effects of the various no-confidence votes and future reactions of the administration and faculty.
See also
- William S. Clark (1825-1886), professor, Massachusetts state senator, third president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and first vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan.
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References
- ^ Amherst is now legally the flagship of UMass system - News
- ^ Incoming Class of 4,100 Students at UMass Amherst Carries Impressive Academic Credentials
- ^ Tallest library in the United States
- ^ Photos: - University of Massachusetts Amherst
- ^ Colleges' moves to shake up libraries speak volumes
- ^ DuBois Library Special Collections
- ^ UMass Amherst Learning Commons - W.E.B. Du Bois Library
- ^ http://www.oit.umass.edu/news/blogs.htmll
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- ^ Microsoft IT Showcase School
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- ^ Times Higher Education
- ^ UMass Amherst Isenberg School's MBA Program Earns Four Top Ten National Rankings from Princeton Review
- ^ Holly Angelo, The Republican. ""Facilities and Campus Planning UMass Buys 5 Houses"". "UMass Buys 5 Houses". Retrieved 2007-04-24.
- ^ The Stonewall Center. ""Does UMass Amherst Provide Gender-Neutral Housing?"". "Campus Transgender Guide". Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ UMass Amherst - Housing and Residence Life: Legacy Communities
- ^ Landscape Architecture & Regional Planing ||Umass Amherst
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- ^ UMass Amherst Alumni Association
- ^ Order Your UMass Amherst License Plates Today
- ^ UMass raps data as "Primetime" prepares to air crime report, Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe, November 17, 2005.
- ^ UMass Amherst Scientists Create Nano Nose With Aim of Sniffing Out Diseased Cells, UMass Amherst, April 23, 2007.
- ^ UMass Amherst Scientists Create Fire-Safe Plastic, UMass Amherst, May 30, 2007.
- ^ Former Bush Aide Card Is Booed at UMass, Associated Press, May 26, 2007.
- ^ UMass speaks out: Students protest University's honorary degree decision, Michelle Osorio, Daily Collegian, May 11th, 2007.
- ^ Lecture met with protest, Ibid, Daily Collegian, May 12th, 2007.
- ^ Wilson surprised by uproar at UMass, Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe, June 2, 2007
- ^ Jack Wilson Biosketch, Jack Wilson, Jack M. Wilson, September 1, 2006
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