Eliza Calvin Connector Contributor Environmental awareness has expanded beyond the classroom, into the college community and the city of Lowell. The Student Environmental Alliance, or SEA, is a UMass Lowell club dedicated to promoting awareness and innovating ideas on campus and in the city of Lowell. The SEA’s president, Alicia Melvin, said she is committed…
Saving the music scene
Alexander Gentile UML Student Have you ever wondered where your favorite musical artists came from? Assuredly they one day picked up an instrument or decided to start singing in the shower, and thought to themselves, “I’m ready to give something to the world.” They spent years practicing, met other musicians that helped to develop a…
Goals are your GPS to success
Jim Graves Connector Contributor For those of you who don’t remember those “good old days” your teachers might refer to, it was a time when telephones had cords and rotary dials, and the car glove compartment was filled with stacks of folded road maps. The quantity of maps served as a testament to the many…
Parent-Students’ Problems Proclaimed
Hannah Tello Connector Contributor An increasingly significant yet consistently invisible student population has recently emerged. Parenting-students have doubled their enrollment in four-year universities over the last 20 years. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that 50 percent of nontraditional undergraduates (which themselves make up 56 percent of the entire population of college students) are…
From Russia, with love?
Cole Fitzgerald Connector Contributor The Winter Olympics are a time to show off. Nations around the world send their best athletes in an effort to win medals and what results is one of the biggest sporting events on earth. Stadiums must be built for all of the indoor events and mountainsides need to be maintained…
Commuter students struggle despite comforts of home
Sarah Pacht Connector Contributor Living in a dorm is a big part of the college experience for some students. For most people, going to college is the first time away from home, away from your pestering parents. No one can tell you what to do. You are on your own now, proving that you can…
Arctic Monkeys heat up Boston
Maxwell Shultz Connector Contributor On Sept 6, the British pop-punk band, the Arctic Monkey’s fifth album, “AM” was released in the United States after a few year’s wait. Prior to release, the album had a few singles, such as “R U Mine?” and “Do I Wanna Know?” Upcoming, a fifth single will be released from…
LEGO to the movies
Zachary Najarian-Najafi Connector Contributor Described by Susan Wloszczyna as “’Toy Story’ … spoofed by Mel Brooks after he ate magic mushrooms while reading George Orwell’s 1984,” The LEGO Movie is also equal parts Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, modern-day Monty Python outing, avant-garde animated feature and fun family movie (albeit a family movie most of…
