The officials at UMass really have some big cojones. First, the Amherst campus wants to rid themselves of any Amherst recognition and now the Lowell campus is sticking it to the man.

Last week, the Boston Globe was reporting that UMass Lowell had struck a deal with a private contractor to build more housing for the overpopulated university. Instead of going through the state’s bidding process, the balls of steel from UMass decided to skip the whole shebang and just hand it off to the first schlub they came across.

Academic Village, a contracting company that had its eye on the housing prize, contacted the attorney general’s office to snitch on the university’s slip-up. Brewing with more bitterness than a jealous ex-girlfriend, Academic Village is declaring a bitchy, bitchy war: 

"If the AG's office won't take action, we will," said, "How do you bring a project into compliance after the fact without bringing other proposals back into the fold?"

Ouch, sounds like they’ve been buuurrrnnned. The construction has already begun and will continue unless Academic Valley can provide naked photos of the contractors, sue the school or something like that.