Romney calls for UMass breakup
Sweeping changes in the state's public higher education system, including the elimination of the University President's Office and Board of Trustees, were proposed this week by Gov. Mitt Romney as he outlined his Fiscal 2004 budget plan.

Students, staff being called up for military service
The military build-up in the Middle East is requiring some members of the campus community who are in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or Air Force reserves or the Army National Guard or Air National Guard to be called to active duty.

Report backs science library merger
The Biological Sciences and the Physical Sciences and Engineering libraries may be combined by the fall semester, if the recommendations of a Faculty Senate committee are implemented.

Malone, Goldstein receive distinguished professorships
Two leaders in the College of Engineering were honored by President William M. Bulger at the Feb. 12 meeting of the Board of Trustees at UMass Boston.