Trinh Tran (right) and Jean Emerson, maintainers with Housing Services, hose out trash containers near Kennedy Tower in Southwest. (Sarah Buchholz photo)

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Frustrated By Lack of Pay Hikes, Police Pass up Promotional Test

UMass Police officers this week boycotted a promotional exam to protest legislative inaction on a bill to fund pay raises included in a three-year contract that has already expired.

Slakey Named Interim Dean of Commonwealth College
Linda Slakey, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, has been appointed to a three-year term as interim dean of Commonwealth College, effective Sept. 1.

Distance Learning Proposal Generates Interest, Concerns
Faculty and administrators are sorting through recommendations in a recent report on the possible future of distance learning in the University system commissioned by the Board of Trustees.

Clark Preps for 275-Mile Charity Bike Ride
It's the opposite of a free ride, but that only encourages Alex Clark's enthusiasm. A farm worker II at the Horticultural Research Center in Belchertown, Clark hopes to raise more than the minimum $1,700 to be eligible to pedal his bicycle from Boston to New York, Sept. 15-17, as part of AIDSRide 6.

Campus Publications Win Gold,
Bronze Awards

Two viewbooks produced by the Publications Office won awards during the Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts' annual Creative Merit Awards ceremony on June 28.

Northampton OKs Memorial Plaque
for Jean Hosmer

The Northampton Department of Public Works has approved plans to place a bronze plaque at the site where UMass Extension employee Jean Hosmer was fatally shot by her estranged husband. The memorial received the go-ahead on June 28.

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