Firstly, I know this is a controversial topic so believe me when I say I am reporting everything here as objectively as possible. In fact, I would not have even considered doing an article on this topic, not because it doesn’t matter, but because until outgoing Governor Deval Patrick spoke …
Read More »A Look at Chanukah, an Unfortunately Underrepresented Holiday
As a kid I was more fortunate than most around the holidays, due to the fact that I got to celebrate both Christmas and Chanukah. Chanukah, or Hanukkah, or Hanukah or whatever other way you choose to spell it, is commonly known as the Festival of Lights and is one …
Read More »Targeting Terrorists and the use of drones
Last week I had the chance to sit down and talk with another of UMass Dartmouth’s distinguished political science professors, Professor Avery Plaw. Professor Plaw, as I mentioned last week in my Drone Database article, is one of the founding members of the database and also the university’s coordinator for …
Read More »Imaging Hoover Dam: An Interview with UMass Professor and Writer Anthony Arrigo
Many know about the Hoover Dam – it’s one of our most famous landmarks and public works projects. Right on the border between Nevada and Arizona, on the Colorado River it sits funneling tons of water through itself, turning the rush of the river through its turbines into power for …
Read More »An opinion on Thanksgiving and Black Friday
Here in New England and especially Massachusetts we have a closer relationship to the holiday than most others do. As a kid I didn’t particularly like Thanksgiving. I was a picky eater, so naturally I hated almost everything put in front of me, and the only part of it I …
Read More »The Drone Database and UMass Dartmouth
To us citizens of southeastern Massachusetts, drone strikes couldn’t be farther from our minds and who could really blame us? It’s rare that I see an article on CNN or USAToday or a piece on the nightly news talking about drones. Usually we only see these stories when they involve …
Read More »An Interview with UMass Dartmouth Professor and Author Lucas Mann
This past week I sat down with Professor Lucas Mann, author of Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere and an upcoming book that should be out around May 12th of next year called Lord Fear: A Memoir. Professor Mann went to Dasser College in New York, where he …
Read More »UMass Dartmouth’s Pet Project: My Opinion on Transform 2020
Earlier this year I wrote about how I believe that the campus up here at UMass Dartmouth is better looking than most people give it credit for, but my opinion on that didn’t mean that there was no room for improvement. After all the food isn’t the best, and security …
Read More »The Votes are in, so what happens now?
On November 4th, residents from all over Massachusetts turned out and voted in many statewide and local races. One especially notable result of this election has made Charlie Baker, a Republican, the new state governor. Baker had surprised many in recent days when polls showed the race between him and …
Read More »UMass Dartmouth Students Discuss Importance of Voting
When it comes to voting, I’ve found over the course of my life so far, that people tend to have a special relationship with voting. They think it’s important enough to encourage people to do it and yet when it comes to voting themselves most people don’t want to be …
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