“For years, studies of indigenous issues and Native America have been conducted and taught in the Five Colleges without proper support,” wrote University of Massachusetts Professor of Communication Donal Carbaugh. “Too many times, courses in this area could not be taught, personnel and related programs could not be funded.”
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.”
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.
