Five Colleges

Staff Editorial: Statement on racist emails & incidents at UMass

Dear Mount Holyoke community,

In the second week of September, Black student organizations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst started receiving racist emails. This has since developed into an ongoing onslaught of bigotry and racist language. On Sept. 17, an email was sent to Black student organizations at UMass by a group called the UMass Coalition for a Better Society.

UMass deserves a better reputation in the Five Colleges

BY OLIVIA MARBLE ’21

At my high school in Massachusetts, most people perceived the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as the ultimate safety school. Almost everyone applied, and almost everyone assumed they would get in, due to its reputation as a somewhat “second-tier” institution — somewhere almost anyone could go.

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