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"V-Day" in Amherst December 28, 2003 by Isabel Lyman Sexualizing minors, in the name of art, has found a niche in Amherst, Massachusetts. Last week the college town was abuzz after learning that The Vagina Monologues will be performed at the Amherst Regional High School in February with the approval of the school committee and the superintendent, Jere Hochman. According to the Amherst Bulletin, Hochman chirped, "We hope that there are ways for our students to find their voice in their years with us."As part of a global campaign, students and staff at the school will stage the work of...

SJC ruling irks local conservatives --------------------------------------------------------------------------------By IZZY LYMAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday, November 26, 2003 -- Brace yourselves. It's going to be Thanksgiving for the next six months. Now that the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has ruled that same-sex couples have a right to civil matrimony, the phrase 'land of the God-fearing Pilgrims' will be frequently linked to the phrase 'liberal judicial activism run amok.' This is a historic moment in the commonwealth, and the national spotlight - now upon us - won't be fading. Representatives of traditional-values groups, like the Family Research Council and Christian Coalition, will likely be traveling to Massachusetts...

NATIONAL Home-field advantage EDUCATION: Should homeschool kids be able to participate in public-school activities? The issue divides even homeschoolers By Lynn Vincent DANIEL RODRIGUEZ USED TO wrestle and play basketball. Now his friends play for Solanco High School while Daniel, an 11th-grader, watches from the sidelines. Daniel isn't injured. He's homeschooled. And the Pennsylvania public-school district where he lives bars homeschoolers from its sports programs. Pennsylvania ninth-grader Ryan Crider is also homeschooled. But he made the Penn Manor Junior High football team in seventh grade after that district opened sports to homeschoolers. Now Ryan plans to try out for the...

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Violent Reactions to Pro-Life Exhibit at UMass/Amherst By Izzy Lyman April 18, 2003 The "tolerant" types at UMass/Amherst have protested a pro-life exhibit this week by taking crosses off dead babies in a mythical graveyard, throwing them in a pond and breaking them in half. One UMass/Amherst undergraduate was assaulted while manning the exhibit that was displayed next to the Student Union. > Taking a stand: Kiera Manikoff, a UMass Junior, is proud of her pro-life and pro-child views. Kiera Manikoff, a political science major and a junior, scuffled with a female who verbally harassed her and held a hammer...

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...