The title of an article ("Professors Get Book Removed from Reading List", Campus News, Summer 2010, Vol. 13, No. 2) in the latest editon of U Mass Lowell Magazine caught my eye because it seemed to imply the UML professors were engaged in censorship. The book in question was Yoko Kawashima Watkins' award-winning 1986 young adult classic "So Far ( Read more... )

Lowell's  Coalition for a Better Acre (CBA) is holding its Board elections  at 4:00 p.m. on September 29, and the organization CBA Members for Justice (CBAMJ) is running a full slate of candidates for the Board, all committed to restoring the CBA to its original activist purposes and righting recent wrongs, including the firing of Darcie Boyer and ( Read more... )