By Staff Writer Samantha Wahl. This past Saturday was UMD’s annual Fall Family Festival. In past years, the Festival has been hosted outside the Marketplace, with inflatables, student organization tables, and merchants lined up on the grass. This year, though, was different: the forecast for the day featured rain, and so the Festival prepared itself to be somewhat amphibious. For this reason, the inside of … Continue reading Fall, family, and fun at UMassD

By Staff Writer Samantha Wahl. The UMass Dartmouth Pride Alliance, Mitch Berube tells The Torch, was once a vibrant organization. Berube works for the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at UMass Dartmouth and speaks with a soft sense of regret as she explains the Alliance’s disappearance from campus. Characterized by advocacy and a sense of camaraderie between the LGBT community and their allies, Pride … Continue reading UMassD Pride Alliance in need of new leadership

By Staff Writer Samantha Wahl. This past Thursday, UMass Dartmouth students gathered together in the Unity House to discuss a controversial and timely question: “Should white people stop wearing Black hairstyles?” The event was jointly hosted by two on-campus organizations: Curly in College and the House of Deliberations. Curly in College encourages young African-Americans to love themselves and their natural hair. On the Curly in … Continue reading Students discuss if white people should wear Black hairstyles