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It had to happen sooner or later. There, on the first Sunday of April 2003 in historic, downtown Amherst, forty activists gathered with signs, "No blood for oil" and "No more wars." Directly across the street, another forty activists took their places, signs saying, "Support Our Soldiers." For nearly twenty-five years, a weekly peace demonstration has been held on the Amherst common at this time and place. Was this a challenge? Those supporting the U.S. military appeared to keep to themselves - waving Old Glory and receiving the lion's share of approving honks from motorists. Then the peace protestors tried...

Students stage rally to support troops 04/03/2003 By PATRICK JOHNSON Staff writer AMHERST - Amid flags and yellow ribbons, students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yesterday staged a rally on the steps of the Student Union to urge support of American troops fighting in Iraq. From Our Advertisers More than 75 people stood quietly, while speakers urged support for the troops, President Bush and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. The rally came on the same steps where a week ago opponents of the war staged an anti-war vigil. The latest event was sponsored by the UMass Republican Club and a...

<p>In a show of defiance to a statewide election, bilingual education proponents in Amherst and neighboring towns are seeking to exempt their schools from a voter-passed initiative replacing bilingual education with English immersion.</p> <p>After receiving more than 600 signatures on a petition, the Amherst Board of Selectmen will call a special Town Meeting to consider asking the Legislature to exempt Amherst and the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District from the mandates of Question 2. Only 200 signatures were needed to call a special Town Meeting, and the town clerk certified them yesterday.</p>

These days, defining diversity seems to be the big issue on campus.But at Amherst College in Mass. they are doing more than just talking about it.They're adding 'diversity seats' to the 32 member Student Senate for groups that have been 'historically silenced.'Five candidates representing different minority groups applied for the seats, including an international student, a homosexual, a Conservative (!!), a Latino, and an Asian.All but one were chosen-the Conservative candidate.Ted Hertzberg the conservative student says he deserved the seat for the same reasons the others did.

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advertisement home > this article Dinesh comes to Amherst By Isabel Lymanweb posted April 29, 2002Multiculturalists, wearing hijabs and keffiyehs, in earnest anxiety, attended Dinesh D'Souza's speech on "The Superiority of Western Civilization" at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on April 24.So, if you thought that a topic like this would be a d'snooza on a campus where bored students elevator surf for fun, you would be wrong.The multicultis showed up - not to listen and learn - but to protest. A South Asian (anti-) American named Sonny Suchev said he came "to show my resistance to this bigoted...

Pushy feminists, who want to remake competitive boys into cooperative girls, run rampant in my neck of western Massachusetts. There are five colleges in the area, including two for women - Smith and Mount Holyoke - that aid and abet this old girls network through their respective (but not respectable) women's studies departments. These academic gulags are typically run by masculinity-and-make-up-hating harpies.If you are a guy who digs NASCAR, shingles roofs for a living, and was moved by We Were Soldiers, this place is an estrogen chamber of horrors. In fact, when someone sneezes, the politically correct say, "Goddess, bless...

MASS AND CONN FREEPERS: DAVID HOROWITZ APPEARING TOMORROW NIGHT IN AMHERST!! Speaking time is 7:30 in Amherst at the Johnson Chapel of Amherst College. Leftists will be in attendance!!!