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Ferreira overcomes brain tumor for strong rookie season

After a night of celebrating his last days living in Brampton, Ontario, Matt Ferreira woke up feeling uneasy.

Blackout!

Power was finally restored to UMass Lowell’s South Campus late Friday night. At that point the campus had been without power for almost an entire day. Both the North and East campuses lost power, but were switched over to alternate power sources in short order.

Morrison’s latest, A Mercy, a triumph

Toni Morrison’s latest novel, A mercy, brings the reader back to the 1680s, when America was still a vast frontier but its people filled with secrets and dark pasts.

Midsummer’s modern art dreams

The Off-Broadway Player’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was an experience, if nothing else. The performance opened up Thursday night to a good size crowd. The stage, crafted to look like a modern art museum was simple and stationary throughout the entire play. The abstractions were bright, colorful, and certainly reminiscent of the 1960s art scene.

Four Christmases, Disappointing at best

‘Tis the season for Christmas movies, the films that make an audience feel good about the holidays and all its meanings of goodwill and peace on earth. From A Christmas Story to The Nightmare before Christmas, holidays movies have managed to try new things all while keeping the meaning intact. This holiday movie season has received its first Christmas movie in Seth Gordon’s romantic-comedy Four Christmases, and we are searching for the receipt.

72 presented with pink slips for Christmas

In an effort to comply with Gov. Deval Patrick’s mandated state budget cuts totaling $4 million for UML, 52 full-time and 20 part-time employees of the university were laid off last week.

Dining hall theft: Aramark strikes back

Some students are confusing Aramark for a free grocery store.

The number of students stealing food from Aramark has significantly increased this year, said Aramark director Chris Monti. Aramark implemented a policy two weeks ago cracking down on the food thieves.

Drinking out of Cups

Former English major offers career advice for hard economic times

On Friday, English Professor Julie Nash invited graduate Morgan Hough to speak to her Critical Methods for Literary Study class. She was the first of two guest speakers appearing in the class to speak about career possibilities for English majors, the second being Vera Ossen, speaking on Monday about UML’s fast track to teaching program.