The circle of lawn in front of the Campus Center held a tightly packed mass of 3,500 screaming music fans for over five hours, resulting in the biggest event at UMass Boston in recent memory.
On Sunday, May 4, the MTVu Campus Invasion Music Festival made its last of three stops here at UMB's Harbor Campus.
You'd think it would be hard to miss the giant dome protruding from the top of Healey Library, but many people at UMass Boston don't know there's an observatory on campus. It's actually not too surprising that it goes unnoticed and unheard of, because the Arthur Martin Observatory has been closed and out of service for a number of years, unused by students or faculty.
For some, barbecue is just a way to unwind on a nice summer day, kick back with some friends, eat some meat and drink some beer. For others, however, barbecue is no joke and less work than art. The Kansas City Barbecue Society, one of the biggest sanctioning bodies in competitive barbecue, hosts upwards of sixty competitions a year all over the country.
In sports, teams don't become great overnight. It's not as easy as watching countless instructional videos and reading how-to manuals. It's more about watching countless game films, learning from tough losses and, most importantly, patience.
The UMass Boston Beacons tennis coach, Eric Berg, knows this well.
OK. You readers, the UMB community, my loving and trusted cameradoes and cameradas, any of whom I would fight Satan himself to the infernal depths for without blinking, were served a bit of a raw deal last week. I excoriated you for your apathy, and so did my boss, Mike Hogan.
