UPDATE: UMass abroad students safe after Japan earthquake
MCT An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. local time, and caused a tsunami to rip apart the islands. Reports from Japan suggest there have been over 100 deaths. As of 3...
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Japanese Tsunami Relief Fundraising from Daily Collegian on Vimeo. Emily Felder has video coverage of student fundraising for Japan tsunami relief outside of the Student Union.
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Springfield murder investigations turn over to Massachusetts State Police As of midnight Friday, Massachusetts State Police troopers will be take the lead role in any new murder investigations in...
View ArticleChina and Japan begin to thaw once cold relations
This week, the current leaders of the second and third largest economies in the world met face to face for the first time ever. Due to the conflict over the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu in China), China and...
View ArticleHow to occupy a country (if you must)
(Mike Mozart/Flickr) United States police actions have a cyclical quality to them. Policymakers feel threatened by foreign unrest, begin trickling United States troops into the area to topple the...
View ArticleSick of Snapchat? Here’s your solution
Courtesy of Snow official Facebook account “Let’s take a Snow!” “What is your favorite Snow filter?” I heard girls saying to each other in excitement while I waited for my friends to arrive in front of...
View ArticleA post-roach review of The Lone Wolf
Phil Denton/Flickr I was talking with someone who used to work at High Horse about a woman who has held down the Friday evening shift at Stackers for the last seven years. She’s long since graduated,...
View Article‘Girls’ characters mature with their style
(Girls Official Facebook Page) I remember pausing my television numerous times throughout last winter’s season of “Girls” when Shoshanna Shapiro, living in Japan at the time, incorporated...
View ArticleNorth Korea in the tense spotlight
(Abayomi Azikiwe/Flickr) International relations scholar Robert Jervis recently told the Atlantic, “The basic thing about the security dilemma [is that] when it comes to their security, even normal...
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