Professor Hachiyanagi charged with attempted murder, assault against fellow faculty member
Ken Burns leads Hampshire in $60 million fundaising campaign
Burns, a Hampshire College alum, was among the Hampshire community members that gathered to kick off the College’s fundraising campaign, “Change in the Making,” on Dec. 3. Burns leads the campaign with four alumni cochairs and says he is proud to be a part of a campaign that is “daunting, but a challenge we are up to.”
Local election results announced
Mount Holyoke College Democrats kick off “Weekend of Action”
Massachusetts bans sale of all vaping products
Western Massachusetts Students Rally for the Green New Deal
BY LIZ LEWIS ’22
“Look us in the eyes,” read a massive sign held by young activists on the steps of the Springfield District Court on Tuesday, Feb. 26. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “over 50 individuals, most of them young students, stood outside of U.S. Rep. Richard Neal’s (D-MA) Springfield office [...] chanting ‘Green New Deal, come on Neal!’” The youth activists rallied to push Neal to co-sponsor the Green New Deal Resolution.
New Amherst cafe raises the question: Is anything really “free”?
Ayanna Pressley elected MA’s first black woman in Congress
2018 midterm election results in Massachusetts
BY ALLYSON HUNTOON ’19
As of Wednesday evening, midterm election results from around the country were still coming in. In Massachusetts, Democrats won all of the Congressional races on the ballot, including the state’s nine seats in the House of Representatives and one Senate seat, to which Senator Elizabeth Warren was re-elected. At the state level, Republican governor Charlie Baker was re-elected, defeating Democrat Jay Gonzalez.