By Owen Lee, Staff Writer On Friday, October 13 at 3:00 p.m., internationally acclaimed author Madeleine O’Dea arrived at UMass Darmouth to provide insight into her seminal book, The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China, published last year. Our school is the second stop on her United States tour, which includes stops like the China Institute of New York, and the … Continue reading Author of The Phoenix Years comes to UMassD
By Michaella Lesieur, Staff Writer The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) STAR Center’s main priority is the students. The CAS STAR Center offers assistance in changing a major, building class schedules, adding or dropping classes, or transferring schools. The Director, Shari Evans, the office’s advisors Monica Faria and Romayne Grace, and the peer mentors work hard each day to make students success at the … Continue reading Nothing but success for the CAS STAR Center
By Zack Downing, Staff Writer The Women’s and Gender Studies program is one of the most active groups on campus in terms of community events, bringing us spectacular activities like the annual Drag Show. On Thursday, October 19, the WGS program will be hosting a trip to Providence, Rhode Island, for a showing of the play Eclipsed in the Barker Playhouse. Written by Patricia Burke … Continue reading Women’s and Gender Studies brings group to play Eclipsed
By Brian Harris, Staff Writer What do Kate Beckinsale, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd all have in common? They’re all actresses, they’re all incredibly talented, and they’ve all accused film industry giant Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment. Of course, they are only a few of the potential victims accusing Weinstein; Newsweek is currently reporting the number at a daunting twenty-eight women. Twenty-eight women … Continue reading Let’s talk about Harvey Weinstein
By Benjamin Solomon, Staff Writer The UMass Dartmouth campus garden has apparently run out of funding. This statement may bring a few questions to your mind such as, we have a campus garden? Where is it? Why does it matter? This article aims to answer these questions and more with the help of several faculty members who are involved. To start, The Torch inquired about … Continue reading The state of our campus garden
By Jonathan Perreira, Staff Writer This is the first of an article series focused on showing UMass Dartmouth students who runs the departments that are running the campus. Not every student is aware of the energy and logistics involved in keeping a college alive, including me, and so this series is to not only to provide you with insight on who’s doing it, but how … Continue reading Who’s running UMass? A spotlight
By Michaela Gates, Staff Writer Within the past week, the name Harvey Weinstein has been everywhere. Weinstein, the co-founder of The Weinstein Company has been an executive producer of famous movies such as Good Will Hunting, Silver Linings Playbook, and of The Lord of the Rings. Despite his successes, he was fired from The Weinstein Company due to allegations of sexual assault. A slew of … Continue reading Hollywood, we have a problem
By Owen Lee, Staff Writer Schools in the U.S, including UMass Dartmouth, are set to federal regulations so that they can accommodate a wide range of students, including those that are physically disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent. In my personal experience, capitalist institutions such as colleges are quick to exploit customers and cut corners to save money, so these regulations are pretty important! It’s an … Continue reading The importance of accommodation
By Samantha Wahl, Contributing Writer Last week, that phrase started cropping up in Hollywood. You could see it on city benches and posters. It was everywhere. Why? Well, on October 4, Kimmel addressed the Las Vegas shooting on his show and ended up shedding a few tears. Kimmel’s sensitive moment spurred street artist Sabo to create the “estrogen hour” posters. He’s gotten emotional on television … Continue reading This one’s for the boys
By Zack Downing, Staff Writer With Christmas right around the corner, it’s time to —wait a second, it’s not that close at all, it’s two months away. Then why have Christmas decorations been up in stores for weeks? The early installations of Christmas decorations have confused and frustrated people for decades, and recently it seems that stores are stretching even further back into the fall … Continue reading Are Christmas displays up too early?
