UMass Senior/Journalist Eric Bosco

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Monte

A UMass Senior, Eric Bosco, and his UMass alumnae co-hort, Kayla Marchetti, broke the story on the front page of the Boston Globe that UMass cops were flipping students into informants. One of those informants ended up dead of a heroin overdose. Umass has now suspended its policy thanks to their investigative reportage.

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