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OPINION: UMASS BOSTON COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY CLASS OF 2022 JFK AWARD WINNER

Written by MG XIONG Posted June 6, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

MG Xiong. Photo by Lee-Daniel Tran.

“We cannot capitalize off of our diversity while the individuals that make us diverse are fettered by debt.”

Welcome and nyob zoo*, fellow graduates of UMass Boston’s Class of 2022. Welcome and thank you, friends, family, faculty, staff, and community members for joining us today on this momentous occasion. As a first-generation ...  read more

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, commencement, graduation, higher education, JFK Award, Massachusetts, speech, student, UMASS-Boston

HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 22, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, Column, contractor, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, economy, employee, endowment, Harvard University, higher education, Homeless, Jason Pramas, L. Rafael Reif, labor, Larry Bacow, layoff, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, news analysis, pandemic, power, public, Shelter, slider, student, wealth, worker

UMASS BOSTON DISPATCH

Written by JOE RAMSEY Posted October 21, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Photo of Mayor Walsh speaking at UMass Boston by Joe Ramsey

 

The mayor, the music, and a mission under threat

 

At this year’s UMass Boston Convocation ceremony, special guest Mayor Marty Walsh was greeted by a multimedia musical performance that captured both what is so precious about UMB and what is now under threat.  

 

First came the music: The UMB Chamber ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: higher education, justice, mayor Marty Walsh, opinion, UMASS-Boston

EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON SEEKS ADS FROM COLLEGES & COMMUNITY BANKS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 3, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

 

Have a connection for us? Drop us a line.

 

Regular readers will recall that my DigBoston colleagues, Chris Faraone and John Loftus, and I love to pull back the curtain on our operations now and again to give our ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: advertising, co-operative bank, college, colleges, community bank, credit union, DigBoston, editorial, higher education, Jason Pramas, universities, university

STATE WIRE: MIT STUDENTS DEMAND CHANGES AFTER EPSTEIN’S CLOSE TIES TO UNIVERSITY REVEALED

Written by Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Somebody said at the protest, ‘Money has memory.’ And, we have to think about where our money comes from, because money is not given to MIT with no strings attached, right?"

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BethAnn McLaughlin, capitalism, Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, corporation, corruption, criminal, Democracy, DigBoston, Ethan Zuckerman, George Church, higher education, Jeffery Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Kate Darling, LinkedIn, Martin Nowak, Marvin Minsky, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Matias, Op-Ed, Reid Hoffman, resignation, scandal, Seth Lloyd, sex offender, Sherry Marts, Tarana Burke

THE EPSTEIN STENCH

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted September 8, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

We can’t just hold our noses and look away from academia’s dirty money

 

The 2018 Disobedience Award ceremony was a full MIT Media Lab spectacle. Carefully produced, lavishly ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: BethAnn McLaughlin, capitalism, Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, corporation, corruption, criminal, Democracy, DigBoston, Ethan Zuckerman, George Church, higher education, Jeffery Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Kate Darling, LinkedIn, Martin Nowak, Marvin Minsky, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Matias, Op-Ed, Reid Hoffman, resignation, scandal, Seth Lloyd, sex offender, Sherry Marts, Tarana Burke

MORE REASONS TO RESIGN FROM THE MIT MEDIA LAB

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 27, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

MIT Media Lab image by ckelly, CC BY 2.0. Modified by Jason Pramas.

 

The connection to Jeffrey Epstein is just one of many questionable relationships

 

Recently, two scholars announced their plans to cut ties with the MIT Media Lab over its longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, BINJ, BP, British Petroleum, capitalism, Center for Civic Media, Citigroup, Column, Comparative Media Studies, corporation, corruption, criminal, Deloitte, Democracy, DigBoston, Erik W. Conway, Ethan Zuckerman, ExxonMobil, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Ford Motor Company, GE, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, global warming, higher education, Honeywell SPS, Hyundai Motor Company, J. Nathan Matias, Jason Pramas, Jeffery Epstein, McKinsey & Company, Merchants of Doubt, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Naomi Oreskes, Novartis, resignation, Roche, scandal, sex offender, Takeda

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, Housing, Jason Pramas, news, Politics, pricing, private, Protest, public, Real Estate, student, tufts

STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

school parody image

 

Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs

 

Having just been handed an estimated $1 billion budget surplus for the 2018 fiscal year, Gov. Charlie Baker was quick to make a proposal last week to divide up the unexpected spoils.

 

According to  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, Democracy, economy, education, Gov Charlie Baker, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, news, Politics, public, safety net, supplemental budget, surplus, taxation, transportation, Trump, welfare

GRAND SCHEME

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 26, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

workers protesting

 

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

 

No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, bill, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, family and medical leave, Fight For 15, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, graduated, grand bargain, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

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