Here's my UMASS story. Did my grad work and worked there from '90-93......This happened during the Gulf War.
I remember walking into class one day and my buddy saying "Where the heck have you been...I've been arguing with the lesbian coalition about why we should be over there." I told him: "Jimmy my boy you should have known better than argue without back-up." His response: "Yeah, I know but they were so annoying and ignorant."; )
Amherst is also the place where some dude lit himself on fire in protest of the war. I pretty much thought it was a good idea since he removed himself from contributing to the gene pool.....yeah, that statement didn't go over too well either.
btw, his website does include his e-mail addresses.
rene@student.umass.edu or
renegonzalez7@hotmail.com