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		<title>Béla Fleck likes UMass Marimbas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An arrangement of “Big Country,” written by alumnus Olin Johannessen and performed by the Music and Dance Department’s Marimba Band, is being heard around the country after it caught the ear of well-known banjo player and jazz musician Béla Fleck.
The catchy tune written by Fleck appears on the album “Left of Cool” by Fleck and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/04/04/bela-fleck-likes-umass-marimbas/</link>
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		<title>UMass band returns to city streets for encore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the nation&#8217;s second-largest St. Patrick&#8217;s Parade in Holyoke Sunday,  the University of Massachusetts marching band brought its own parade to Conz  Street.
It was the first time the Minutemen marching band had performed in the  Holyoke parade in 25 years, and the first time they performed in Northampton in  27 years. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/03/31/umass-band-returns-to-city-streets-for-encore/</link>
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		<title>Alumna and friends &#8216;celebrated&#8217; on new UMass web site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As UMass Amherst refines its fund-raising message to alumni and friends of the university, a band alumna and a husband-wife team of band fans are featured.
Alumna Dotty Hayes ’72 ’76G says, “The band gave me a focal point; it became my little village. Everything I did at UMass emanated from that.”

See Dotty&#8217;s profile on &#8220;Giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/03/21/alumna-and-friends-celebrated-on-new-umass-web-site/</link>
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		<title>Founders Day at UMass Amherst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Founders Day will mark the 145th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On that day in 1863, Governor John A. Andrew signed Senate Bill No. 156, creating    “… a body corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the leading object of which shall be, without excluding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/02/11/founders-day-at-umass-amherst/</link>
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		<title>Stadium lights to be a fixture at McGuirk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After over a century of playing almost exclusively on Saturday afternoons, the University of Massachusetts football program is adding permanent lights to McGuirk Stadium for the 2008 season. 
UMass is expected to officially announce the addition of lights at the program&#8217;s annual banquet Feb. 29.
Athletic director John McCutcheon declined comment until the official announcement is made.
Lights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/01/29/stadium-lights-to-be-a-fixture-at-mcguirk/</link>
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		<title>2008 UMass football slate tough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The schedule for the University of Massachusetts football team includes four teams that reached the playoffs last year and a team that won a bowl game.
UMass, like many NCAA Football Championship Subdivision teams, will play a 12-game schedule this fall, beginning Aug. 30 against Albany at McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Amherst.
The Minutemen, who were 10-3 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2008/01/16/2008-umass-football-slate-tough/</link>
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		<title>Minutemen march on with Peavey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University of Massachusetts  musical arranger Michael Klesch needed a flexible audio solution that  could project every member of the school’s historic, 390-member Minutemen  Marching Band with clarity.
“Our previous sound system  wasn’t able to really represent what we’re doing with a 300-plus-piece  band,” said Klesch. “There was a power issue, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2007/12/17/minutemen-march-on-with-peavey/</link>
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		<title>Band member named Marshall Scholar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senior Katie Huston, a Journalism major from Royal Oak, Mich., is one of 40 students in the country to be awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which funds two or three years of graduate study at any British university.
 Huston, who is a member of Commonwealth College, is also minoring in Political Science and completing the Five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2007/12/03/band-member-named-marshall-scholar/</link>
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		<title>Sci-Tech band makes big sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The High School of Science and Technology&#8217;s Concert Band could hardly contain its enthusiasm while tuning up one recent Tuesday morning, and some members launched into a popular radio hit.The band waited eagerly for a cue from Director Gary R. Bernice, and then threw itself into an instrumental adaptation of &#8220;Stronger,&#8221; by rap artist Kanye [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2007/11/12/sci-tech-band-makes-big-sound/</link>
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		<title>More powerful than the Red Sox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by something way more powerful than the Red Sox this weekend, the power of a learning experience for my kids. On Sunday, the day of the great series win, I had a way better win for my future legacy.After the MICCA band competition, which included participation from more than 20 high schools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ummbalumni.org/news/2007/11/01/more-powerful-than-the-red-sox/</link>
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