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We've been talking with Charlie and Mike about their time in the military, their guns, and their transition back to college life since early February. Today we're excited to bring you 'Outside the Wire', an interactive web story about a pair of engaged Marines that go to UMass.
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Check out this amazing short film from recent Middlebury grad Bianca Giaever: The Scared is Scared. She asked a 6-year-old what her movie should be about and he told her this beautiful story, and incidentally made a few profound statements about growing up.
Switchboard Presents: We spent a day with the guys from UMass Waste Management to try and see what's involved in cleaning up after 30,000 people. There's lots of leg work, and lots of trips to the incinerator.
Check it out here
While most Five College students were sleeping or celebrating with their families, Switchboard's Cat Guzman spent Easter morning wandering around and taking photographs at the annual Hampshire College Easter Keg hunt.
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UPDATE - Mt. Holyoke did not withdraw from 5 Colleges, it is April Fools' Day. Sorry.
Read the details here.
We re-scheduled our planned story for today because we woke up to an unbelievable local news story. In a press conference early this morning Mt. Holyoke president Lynn Pasqerella announced that her school would be withdrawing from the 5 college consortium.
Details here
Switchboard Presents: Last fall a pair of UMass students founded the Northampton Exercise Club for the Homeless, a group that spends one day a week exercising with people from the local homeless community. We spent a month shadowing the group and quickly realized that this is about so much more than calisthenics.
Read the story here
"He constantly tells my son what his mother is doing is wrong and that I am going to hell, and that if he supports me, then so is he! So basically he’s telling him that if he loves his mother, he’s going to hell?”
-Ty Power is transgender and a practicing Muslim. Read his story here, in the final installment of Noor Anwar's profile of Muslims in Pioneer Valley.
We've got a special treat to jump start the first day back from Spring Break. Here's part two of our profile of Valley band Who'da Funk It? - a special video performance, just for you.
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We had lots of Spring Break ideas, but ultimately all knew what was best.
We'll see you guys in a week!
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“But look at what’s happening in our own country, man. If there can be no integration on a national level in an Islamic state like Pakistan, how can we integrate in a place like the freakin’ Pioneer Valley?"
Read part two of Noor Anwar's profile of the Pioneer Valley Muslim Community. This week she talks with young 5 College muslims and the president of the Hampshire Mosque, Dr. Ali Hazratjee.
Read it here.
Did you wear a mustache this weekend? You did? Did you know that you're contributing to one of the most serious challenges facing our generation?
"I find myself asking the same old question: will I wear a mustache this year? Should I even go? What does it mean to celebrate mustaches? Why the hell is it held in the Greenhouse Mod?"
Read about The Mustache Industrial Complex here
PVTA 38 Driver: "There have been times even when I'm not driving and I’ve seen someone just get on the bus and puke. If that happens early enough in the afternoon, I'll bring the bus back in and switch. If I'm within three hours of heading back to the garage, it just stays there."
We spent last Friday night going back and forth from Mt. Holyoke to UMass on the 38 bus, and these are the people we met.
Read and see here.
We're so, so, so excited about today's story. This is the first installment of a multipart series that aims to journalistically profile the Muslim community in the Pioneer Valley.
Special contributor Noor Anwar will bring you new segments on Wednesdays throughout March. Today, she'd like to tell you about her first experience at the Hampshire Mosque in Amherst.
Read her story on Switchboard
Switchboard's Brian Canova spent last week shadowing the leaders of UMass' 'Week of Action Against Rape Culture'. Here's a beautiful photo essay of the the things he saw throughout that time.
We're excited to debut this piece on our newly designed photo gallery, all thanks to our brilliant web developer Keenan. Check out the essay and the new site
We tracked down some of the lovely ladies and gentleman of the Pioneer Valley Rock, Funk, Afrobeat band Who'da Funk It? for a Q&A.
Their music and energy is tremendous. So read what they've got to say, give 'em a listen, and go see them tonight at 7pm the Flywheel Arts Collective in Easthampton.
Check out our conversation and their music here.
Switchboard has been live for a month and to celebrate we've written an open-letter to you, our fans and critics, about the state of the magazine. We would love for you to read it, share it, and chime in. "To be a true culture magazine for this community we would need to capture so much vibrance and intellect and curiosity and diversity. We would need to represent a thousand subcultures that exist within this valley, and we would need to give equal voice to people from all five colleges. We know that we haven’t done that yet, but we want you to know that we’re trying. We’ve heard lots of criticism in the last month. Some of it helpful, some of it insulting, some of it disheartening, and all of it appreciated."
READ THE LETTER HERE