With hot topics like race relations and the university’s urban mission burning up campus, now students, faculty, and staff have a place to go to read, vent, and discuss.

The Mass Media website (www.the-mass-media.com) is opening online forums for discussion in the greater UMass Boston community.

For news and odds and ends, check out the new Mass Media Blog.

(Our blog is located at: themassmedia.blogspot.com).