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TexasTowelie

(116,501 posts)
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 09:47 PM Mar 2021

UMass Amherst students blasted for massive party after coronavirus lockdown

UMass Amherst students who attended a massive party over the weekend are staring at a suspension, as the university cracks down on “these haughty few” students following a campuswide coronavirus lockdown last month.

The off-campus party with 200 students occurred Saturday in what is traditionally the so-called “Blarney-Blowout” weekend in early March ahead of St. Patrick’s Day.

The students who hosted and attended the party were shredded by a university official on Monday.

“Sadly, it has happened again — a group of students flagrantly flouted the rules over the weekend,” Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Campus Life, wrote to the campus community.

Read more: https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/03/08/umass-amherst-students-blasted-for-attending-massive-party-after-coronavirus-lockdown/

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UMass Amherst students blasted for massive party after coronavirus lockdown (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
Assholes. sheshe2 Mar 2021 #1

sheshe2

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1. Assholes.
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 09:53 PM
Mar 2021

We have had a mask mandate here for a year!

UMASS is a high institute for learning. They can't learn, kick them all out.

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