well well well. good ol' amherst does it again. we had a saying there: "the world jolts, and anything loose flies to amherst." *chuckle*
the town of amherst itself is chock full of extreme left thinking folks. if you don't recycle, i think it's now grounds to be lynched in the commons -- so long as it doesn't interrupt the annual "let's make marijuana legal!" protest event and mass toke-up there.
believe it or not, UMASS (or ZOO-Mass as we used to call it) is FAR from a bastion of liberal thought. for the most part, it's a big party school. and (oh fun!) frat row is on town property. :P
the TRUE bastion of extreme leftism is "Hampster College" (Hampshire). at Hampster College, fire alarms were always going off -- too much marijuana smoke in the rooms. imagine that.
of the 3 schools in amherst proper, UMass is probably the most conservative. it is NOT, however, full of the brightest bulbs by a long shot.
by the way, the Scooby Doo characters are rumored to all based on the area five-campus system schools:
Scooby: UMass (party animal)
Shaggy: Hampshire College (hippie pothead)
Daphne: Mt. Holyoke College (rich girl)
Freddy: Amherst College (pretty boy preppy)
Thelma: Smith College (the dumpy lesbian)
NOTE: the battle rages on -- Daphne may be a smithy; Thelma may be a mt. holyoke lesbian, not a smith lesbian (both are prestigious all-women schools)
anyway. doesn't surprise me AT ALL that this piece of crap goes to ANY school in amherst.