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UMass’ Old Chapel scheduled to reopen next year Building currently under renovation

By Colby Sears Collegian Staff

The Old Chapel has long stood as a historic landmark at the heart of the University of Massachusetts campus.

Come 2016, however, the iconic building will enter a new era, complete with a new interior.

Currently in the midst of a $21 million renovation, the building, which has been around for 129 years, is scheduled to reopen next October for students, faculty and alumni to utilize as a venue for receptions, formal dinners, weddings and gallery displays, among other potential uses.

“We’re trying to make

multifunctional, multipurpose spaces for student use,” said UMass Project Manager Jeff Quackenbush of the renovations. “There will be space for lounging and meetings during the day, and space for scheduled events for the evenings.”

The first floor will house a general, double height entry lobby leading into a larger multipurpose space.

Movable furniture and partition walls in this room will allow for different events like art exhibits or musical performances. Plans also include a conference room available for student bookings.

According to Quackenbush, who was mainly responsible for overseeing the design phase of the project and is now

monitoring the construction process, the main area will also feature an interactive display wall with nine touch screens.

These displays will allow visitors to learn about and engage with both the history of the campus and the chapel, which has been closed now for 19 years.

“The project is a total gut job of the interior of the building, except for leaving the original structure,” said Quackenbush of the renovations, which are funded through the University of Massachusetts Building Authority.

He says the second floor, from which visitors will be able to see the original exposed timber framed ceiling – albeit in a refurbished state – will be used as a

space for larger events.

“It can be set up either with tables and chairs and served meals for special events… or we can have guest speakers come in, or the chancellor can come in for a presentation,” he said of the room, which can seat over 100 people when set up with just chairs, whereas he said the first floor can seat about 50.

According to the website for UMass Rising, a University-led fundraising campaign that is providing $2.5 million to the renovation, Kumble Subbaswamy assessed that a renovation of the chapel should be a campus priority in 2013, as the University celebrated its 150th anniversary.

Current work on the chapel will have little impact on

Shredding up the Activities Expo

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The Old Chapel is expected to open in October 2016. students when they return for the fall semester, according to Quackenbush, with construction taking place behind established fences.

The main pedestrian walkway running through the

By Isaac Burke Collegian Correspondent

Students wander the green on the Haigis Mall Tuesday evening at the Activities Expo, where clubs and other activities hoped to gain new recruits.

UMass Rising campaign zooming ahead despite allocation questions

By Isaac Burke Collegian Correspondent

The University of Massachusetts’ UMass Rising Campaign, a fundraising effort the university began in April 2013, reached its target amount this summer, almost a year ahead of schedule.

The campaign, which had a goal of raising $300 million

by June 30, 2016, hit $310 million at the beginning of the summer. As of June 30 of this year, the campaign raised $317,181,981. Funding for the campaign has been carried out as a supplement to regular soliciting from alumni for the university’s Annual Fund.

“In this campaign, the idea was to raise money for academic research, for buildings and infrastructure, for scholarships, for faculty endowments, and also to restore the

Old Chapel,” said University spokesperson Daniel Fitzgibbons.

The planning for the campaign began years ago, said Fitzgibbons, but was only announced in 2013. By then, about a third of the donations had already been lined up or promised by donors. Since then, money from alumni and corporations in all fields has flowed in en masse.

Some of the largest donations were to support new buildings for athletics. Among them were an $11 million donation, which helped to pay for the basketball team’s new Champion’s Center, and $2.5 million that went to building the press box at McGuirk Stadium.

On the campaign’s website, the goals for each fundraising area are listed: $97 million

for research programs, $55 million for scholarships, $54 million each for faculty and infrastructure, and $40 million to support the Annual Fund.

“Money is still coming in,” said Fitzgibbons. “We’re still hoping to raise more money for scholarships, faculty and

the Old Chapel.”

However, the project has received some criticism for not making student scholarships a larger priority and failing to reach out to the student body to see where more funding was needed. see

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the time students arrive.

Though the chapel will pre-

serve the same four walls it has see

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Four on-campus eateries to accept Dining Dollars Change to improve business at UMass

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area will be unobstructed by

Four student businesses on the University of Massachusetts campus will be allowed to accept Dining Dollars starting this fall under a new agreement with UMass Auxiliary Enterprises.

When students return from summer break, patrons of Earthfoods Café, Greeno Sub Shop, Sweets ‘N More and Sylvan Snack Bar will be able to pay using Dining Dollars, in addition to YCMP swipes, cash and credit.

The agreement was the result of lengthy negotiations between members of the student businesses and representatives of Auxiliary Enterprises. It is a one-year agreement, but Garrett DiStefano, director of residential dining, said both parties would like to sign a longterm agreement.

Student businesses are entirely staffed and run by students, overseen by the Center for Student Businesses, and, under a Memorandum of Understanding signed by representatives from student businesses, Auxiliary Enterprises and UMass administration, submit financial reports to Auxiliary Enterprises at

the end of each semester.

All of the businesses are operated separately under a non-profit co-op model, using any extra money to maintain their equipment and update their offerings.

According to Ashley Griggs, one of the comanagers at Sweets ‘N More, being able to accept Dining Dollars should boost business in the coming years.

“I think it will be a great thing for business,” she said.

Griggs also expressed a desire to see People’s Market, a student-run convenience store located in the Student Union, included in the agreement in the future.

Both the managers of the businesses and administrators at Dining Services expect the increase in revenue to stem largely from underclassmen, whose meal plans generally include Dining Dollars.

Underclassmen are less likely to have a YCMP plan because they are often required to have unlimited swipes for the four dining halls, and YCMP plans are only available to juniors and seniors.

Dining Dollars, which are exchanged dollarfor-dollar, provide more flexibility for students, as compared to YCMPs, which have a fixed cash see

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Bulgaria SOFIA — Bulgaria denied Russian militarytransport planes permission to cross its airspace on their way to Syria on suspicion they weren’t carrying humanitarian aid as claimed as tensions grew over reports that Russia is stepping up its intervention in the Middle Eastern country.

Russia asked to use Bulgaria’s airspace from Sept. 1 to Sept. 24 several days ago to carry assistance to Syria, Betina Zhoteva, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry in Sofia, said by phone on Tuesday.

“We have enough information to express doubts that what Russia says these planes are transporting, humanitarian aid, may not correspond to the truth,” Zhoteva said.

Russia, still under U.S. and European sanctions over the standoff in Ukraine, has been at the center of a burst of diplomatic activity aimed at brokering a deal to resolve the more than four-year Syrian conflict. The U.S. asked Greece to revoke special permission for Russian overflights after expressing concern about reports that Moscow is engaged in a military build-up in Syria. Russia has denied any direct military intervention.

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Tuition, fee freezes end after three years

UMass students fight trustees’ vote

By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts students paying their bills for the fall semester had a lot to talk about over the summer break.

Mainly, tuition and fees rose for UMass students for the first time in three years.

The summer of 2015 began with the proposal of a $250 Information Technology fee intended to support a growing campus network. Many found the current state of the campus network to be problematic last year, as more than 3,000 students filed complaints about it in the fall 2014 semester alone.

The IT fee was opposed by many students, but was ultimately approved to begin this fall by the Board of Trustees, in addition to a handful of other mandatory student fees for athletics, health services and student activities.

The board also passed a motion to increase tuition for UMass students. State legislators and Governor Charlie Baker then sparred over how much money to allocate to UMass and, subsequently, the size of tuition and fee hikes. The legislature eventually won out, allocating nearly $532 million to the five-campus university system.

For in-state undergraduates on the Amherst campus, the total cost of tuition and mandatory fees rose from $13,258 last year to $14,171 this year, a 6.9 percent increase.

Yet, there is still a chance that student costs for the academic year won’t go up at all, as the state legislature is expected to act on a supplemental budget bill this month. In a statement in August, UMass asked Senate President Stanley Rosenberg and Baker to back additional funding, in the hopes of being able to offer a rebate to students.

Tuition and fees The Information Technology fee became a hot topic at the end of May and beginning of June as UMass students petitioned the Board of Trustees not to approve the fee. Over 1,400 students signed a formal petition through Change.org, and many more took part in a lobbying effort called the “UMass IT Fee Challenge” that encouraged students to call individual trustees.

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This all took place in the two weeks leading up to a board subcommittee meeting on June 10 with the IT fee on the agenda.

The proposal for the fee initially emerged in the winter and early spring as a way to help support campus network modernization efforts.

A $252 residential technology fee already existed to pay for some dated types of infrastructure and pay off the school’s infrastructure debt. That fee is only paid by undergraduate students who live on campus.

The new fee, to be paid by all undergraduate students, aims to update and upgrade a campus network tasked with handling, on average, three devices per student, according to the UMass IT help page. “(The fee) provides students additional access and speed,” UMass spokesperson Edward Blaguszewski told The Daily Collegian in June. “Security is also really important here. Any IT administrator at any university will tell you that university networks, as well as any place else, are really under relentless cyber attacks. You really need to invest in your infrastructure to keep up with that.”

In total, the campus network modernization project will cost the University $85 million. Students will contribute $5.1 million to the project via the IT fee. The rest of the funding will come from $30 million in capital funds that Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has pledged, as well as private gifts.

Many students, however, saw the fee as a burden and acted to protest it.

“Students are starting to recognize that this is coming down on their backs,” senior Charlotte Kelly said.

Despite efforts by the newly for med Student Administration Accountability Coalition and others to protest the IT fee, efforts that included Kelly and junior Jeremy Tibbetts twice speaking at Board of Trustees meetings, the fee was approved without much administrative resistance.

The state budget Once the board approved tuitions and fee hikes, eyes turned toward the state house and the latter stages of the state budget process.

From the get-go, it looked unlikely that UMass would receive the full $578 million it initially requested back in January. In their budget proposals, the House and

Senate earmarked $519 and $538 million, respectively, for UMass. The chambers reconciled their differences in early July and offered a final proposal to the governor just shy of $532 million.

Kelly said that UMass students tracked the process and lobbied legislators, trustees and UMass leaders to push for the Senate’s initial $538 million figure – the highest amount UMass could hope to receive at that point.

Within two weeks, recently elected Governor Charlie Baker, in his budget review, cut $5.25 million from the proposed UMass budget in order to bring the university system’s budget in line with the one he had initially submitted to the House in March, according to his official explanation.

Another two weeks passed and, just before finalizing the budget, legislators overrode Baker’s cuts to UMass, restoring the $5.25 million he had slashed out of the budget. The override, which required a two-thirds majority in each house, passed 139-16 in the House, and 38-0 in the Senate.

At first glance, UMass’ final budget of $531,807,373 appears to be part of a positive trend. In absolute terms, the University’s funding jumped up 2.5 percent from 2015 and has gone up by over 25 percent since 2012.

And, although tuition and fees were basically guaranteed to go up due to the $40 million gap between the legislature’s highest proposal and UMass’ request, the fact that the actual funding UMass received falls closer to the Senate’s $538 million proposal means costs didn’t rise as drastically as they could have.

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Charlotte Kelly, communication and outreach director for the Center for Education Policy and Advocacy, said that the money allocated directly to students is “absolutely not enough” given the tuition and fee increases being applied in the coming year.

In particular, she critiqued the campaign for its expensive renovation of the Old Chapel.

“I would love to know how many students actually care about the Chapel,” said Kelly, who has also spoken on behalf of the Student Administration Accountability Coalition.

Jeremy Tibbetts, a Student Government Association senator, noted in an email that, “The Old Chapel renovations cost over $22 million – that money alone could pay for over two-thirds of the projected fee increases for this coming year for all students.”

UMass Rising lists the cost of the Old Chapel restoration at $21 million, $2.5 million of which is slated to come from campaign funds.

“I wonder how much sense there is in getting an

investment from a donor who puts their money into a University without consulting the students for what we need,” Tibbetts said. “We (at the SGA) are not part of any decisions regarding how the money from the campaign is used, and to my knowledge have never been consulted about it. I certainly was never asked.”

Although Fitzgibbons said that student groups were likely consulted about the allocation of funds, it is unclear if that is the case.

The issue of allocating the money is hugely complex due to the variety of donations the campaign has accepted. Some are direct contributions, where a donor writes a check for a certain amount of money and it goes directly into university funds; some donations are structured over several installments; and some are simply commitments in a donor’s will – known as bequests – which may not make their way into the hands of the University

for many years.

Furthermore, the majority of the donations are earmarked for a specific purpose from the very beginning, like the donations to the athletic department. According to Fitzgibbons, most of the alumni who give larger amounts of money want it to go to a certain program or area of interest related to what they did during their time at UMass.

Often, those donations go toward athletics or research, rather than student scholarships.

As much as students and university officials might want money for their own purposes, he said, they take what they can get.

Fitzgibbons said he hopes to see more money for student scholarships and faculty endowments come in as the campaign continues.

The campaign will continue to raise money until its end date of June 30, 2016.

Isaac Burke can be reached at iburke@umass.edu.

underlying trend of underfunding higher education in Massachusetts that poses a problem. According to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, the state has cut higher education spending, in real terms, by 25 percent over the last 14 years.

Former UMass President Robert Caret wrote in a Boston Globe piece that UMass state funding per student is $9,025, a figure that is low when compared to similar states such as Maryland and North Carolina.

“We’re not funded anywhere near the level that poorer states are funding their public universities,” Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy told the Collegian in June.

Kelly called the nearly $532 million UMass budget enough for “just scraping by.”

She added that the increased tuition and fees is part of a trend toward privatizing the University.

“Whenever I look at students being charged to attend UMass I look at that as a privatization of higher education. (Privatization) is when you start making students pay a dime for what should be public. The fact that tuition and fees are being raised shows a move towards a privatization of a public good.”

What’s next?

Now that fall semester bills have been paid, student activists are focusing their attention on securing more money for UMass through the supplemental funding process.

Supplemental budgets can be passed within a fiscal year of the passing of the General Appropriations Act, the act that puts the budget into law. The process supplemental budgets must go through is the

same, although condensed, and supplemental funding is typically used to address “unforeseen g rowth, decline in state revenues, additional expenses or savings,” according to the state’s website.

The state legislature is expected to act on a supplemental budget bill in September.

Last month, Rosenberg and Baker urged the board of trustees to reconsider the tuition and fee increases approved earlier in the summer. UMass responded by asking them to support its supplemental funding bid.

According to State House News Service, Rosenberg pledged to “make it a priority to address the University’s continuing funding needs.”

Kelly added that whether or not UMass receives extra money would depend on how students organize this fall and how the legislature views their efforts.

After students’ efforts over the spring and summer, she is optimistic that students will be motivated to push for supplemental funding.

“The thing that was really impressive was that students were so engaged with this campaign during the time that we were away on break. I’m really impressed with the students’ ability to act and act quickly with this issue.

“Moving forward, the most empowering part of this process for me is that we have students coming from every single part of campus. These are students who are equal and who all equally deserve to have accessible, affordable and quality education.”

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

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Clinton assistant encouraged to accept immunity

Aide would be allowed to testify

By Greg Gordon McClatchy Washington Bureau

Two Senate committee chairmen are pressing the aide who set up former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server to consider accepting limited immunity so he can testify to Congress despite his recent decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Clinton’s decision to use a private email account to conduct official business during her tenure at the State Department took on more

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gravity over the weekend with the disclosure that an intelligence review had confirmed two of the emails sent to Clinton contained highly classified information.

Investigators consider computer technology specialist Bryan Pagliano a potential key source of information about whether Clinton mishandled classified information, including the degree to which the private server was secured and backed up.

Pagliano was paid by a Clinton political committee to serve as her director of information technology through early 2009, when her first presidential run ended, campaign finance records show. News reports have said that he was

paid by the State Department as an information technology specialist while continuing to maintain her private server.

In a Sept. 4 letter released on Tuesday, Republican Sens.

Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked Pagliano to dispatch his lawyer to meet with Senate aides and confidentially share what he knows so they can decide the best course.

But they also made clear that their committees have the power to compel Pagliano to testify about the decision that has caught the Democratic presidential front-runner in a firestorm.

“The committees have the authority to obtain an immunity order, to acquire

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value of $9.50.

“The idea is that if a student wants to use a dollar-for-dollar exchange for something, they can do that,” DiStefano said.

“The value of them being able to buy a small purchase is that … they don’t necessarily have to

find the nine dollars and 50 cents and fill that swipe and not feel like they’ve been gypped.”

Both DiStefano and Griggs expect that this new agreement will be a boon for the student businesses and help them continue to prosper in years to

come.

“It’s part of the fabric of UMass,” said DiStefano “It’s not something that’s going to go away, nor should it ever.”

Isaac Burke can be reached at iburke@umass.edu.

Bathroom policy to provide comfortable, safe location Facilities devoted to transgender students

By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

Editor’s Note: This story originally ran on July 16, 2015.

A University of Massachusetts policy instituted last semester aims to enable transgender and non-gender conforming students to use bathrooms they feel safest and most comfortable using.

The policy states that, “students, staff, faculty, and campus guests should use the bathroom facilities that correspond to their sex or gender identity, or utilize bathrooms that are designated genderneutral or gender-inclusive.”

The change was accepted by the Campus Leadership Council last fall and went into effect at the beginning of the spring semester, according to University spokesperson Patrick Callahan.

“The policy was approved because it’s another way to protect our students,” Callahan said, adding that the new policy brings University policy into alignment with Title IX regulations.

Although the policy was implemented at the beginning of the spring semester, it was not widely publicized because, according to Genny Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center, the University does not publish new policies online until the beginning of a new fiscal year.

Beemyn said, while there was no written policy before,

the unofficial policy was that students should use the bathroom that corresponded with their biological sex.

The University has included gender identity under its nondiscrimination policy since 2009, although Beemyn said protecting gender identity alone was not a sufficiently nuanced approach.

As of last year, Title IX added transgender students to its list of protected students.

In the spring of 2014, Beemyn said that Residential Life instituted a similar bathroom policy to the one the University adopted in the fall.

According to the Stonewall Center’s website, there are 37 known genderinclusive bathroom locations in campus academic buildings. Most residential buildings also have genderinclusive bathrooms, without showers, located on the first floor. Prince Hall, in Southwest, is equipped with two gender-inclusive bathrooms with showers.

The center’s website states that Massachusetts plumbing codes require specific numbers of bathrooms per men and women, which limits the University’s ability to convert genderspecific bathrooms into gender-inclusive ones on campus. Beemyn said there is a statewide push to reinterpret the codes so that single-user bathrooms are not required to be genderspecific.

All renovations and additions to the campus since 2010 are required to have “a single-user accessible bath-

the information they need, while also protecting your right against self-incrimination,” wrote Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Johnson, who chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

They asked that Pagliano make his attorneys available for a meeting to help the committees “assess whether it would be appropriate for either committee to consider obtaining an immunity order in these circumstances.”

Clinton says she never sent or received emails that were marked as classified. A murkier line is whether she should have known, as a condition of her security clearance, wheth-

room facility that is gender inclusive,” according to the center’s website.

Moving forward, Beemyn said there is a need to create more gender-inclusive bathrooms, especially for students who do not identify as male or female. At the same time, he acknowledged that it is not practical to make a large number of these typically single-user bathrooms. Instead, he stressed that it is important to treat transgender students as they see themselves and to not question their choice of gendered bathroom.

While the center’s website says UMass is one of the only universities to have a formal policy concerning the rights of bathroom usage for transgender people, local colleges have similar options. Hampshire College, Smith College and Amherst College all have gender-inclusive or genderneutral bathroom options, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Signs for communal bathrooms at Hampshire also use non-binary reliant phrases “with urinals” and “without urinals,” the Gazette said.

At least 11 businesses located in Amherst and Northampton offer genderinclusive bathroom facilities according to the Stonewall Center’s website.

Anthony Rentsch can be reached at arentsch@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

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The University has added 37 gender-neutral bathrooms in hopes of of helping transgender students feel more comfortable.

er any classified information was included.

She disclosed in March, a month before launching her campaign, that she had turned over 30,490 official emails to the State Department, while deleting more than 31,000 others that were personal. She says the emails were screened so scrupulously that the State Department later returned 1,200 emails it deemed as personal.

On Aug. 11, the inspector general for the Intelligence Community notified several senior members of Congress that, after a review by representatives of intelligence agencies of a sample of 40 emails sent or received by Clinton, one had been classified as Top Secret/

Secure Compartmentalized Information, and a second as Top Secret. Both classifications are reserved for highly sensitive information.

State Department officials challenged the classifications, and a new review was conducted. But The New York Times reported Tuesday that the findings had been upheld.

The review showed that “specific information in the two emails could only have been derived from classified intelligence programs,” said Andrea Williams, a spokeswoman for Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III of the Intelligence Committee.

“Therefore the overall classification of those two emails remains unchanged.”

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occupied since it was built in the late 19th century, the renovations will also bring a new plaza on the south side of the building facing nearby Memorial Hall.

This outdoor terrace will create a new entrance to the chapel featuring ramps and sloped walkways, opposed to the existing east and west entrances currently in place.

Design plans also show a new glass pavilion that will be integrated into the existing structure.

Other modern additions to the building include a new interior elevator in the lobby and a full catering kitchen, storage area and restrooms in the basement.

Originally designed by Worcester architect Stephen C. Earle when UMass was still known as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the

granite and brownstone building was first planned to feature a library, a reading room, a natural history collection, and a chapel for religious services and academic lectures.

It was renovated in 1936, creating learning spaces in place of the first floor library and operating as a classroom building. In 1996, it closed due to deterioration of the tower.

In May, the chapel was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, a national list of places worthy of preservation, as well as historic and architectural appreciation.

“This well-deserved national recognition affirms our commitment to preserving the rich historical past of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,” said Subbaswamy in a news

release. “The restoration of Old Chapel will revive this beloved UMass emblem and place it once again at the center of campus life.”

With the support of the University, private advocacy group Preserve UMass began the application process, which was completed by the Massachusetts Historical Commission, according to the release. It was then submitted to the National Park Service, which manages the list.

The application cited the chapel as a reminder of the school’s history, recognizing its architectural value and its ability to provide memories to many generations on campus.

Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @colbysears.

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“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”-T.S. Eliot

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

The problem with social media I’ve had it with social media. It was a good run. I’ll always have fond memories of subtly liking my crush’s statuses on Facebook, tweet-

Steve Gillard ing thinly-veiled cries for help, and sending a dozen Snapchats to all my friends every time I did something that could be considered fun. But I think it’s been beaten to death this summer.

My main beef is with Snapchat.

While sharing your life in brief snapshots is admittedly cool, it’s been abused time and time again by people who, for some reason, feel the need to document every single moment of their lives. Friday night comes along and Snapchat comes alive: the app is bombarded with pictures of spirits and shooters and shots, videos of a crowded dance floor with thumping music and flashing lights. It’s supposed to show that you’re a fun person, that you like to have a good time, that you live in the moment. But if you were really living in the moment, you wouldn’t be concerned with letting your friends know that you were.

Instagram, while a cool site for sharing pictures, has transformed into a vehicle for narcissism.

mers ago following a breakup with a high school girlfriend. It was a dark, dark time in my life, and I could do nothing but lie in bed and shoot pieces of my tortured soul onto Twitter.

One minute, I was lamenting about the torment of irreparable heartbreak, the next I was describing my latest trip to the gym in an effort to show that I was, against all odds, fighting back against my cruel fate.

Then I woke up one morning and realized nobody cared. The people who cared were the people I was already talking to through texts and on the phone – people who didn’t need to scroll through Twitter to know how I was feeling.

And that’s what I’m trying to say here: nobody cares. I can appreciate a beautiful picture of a sunset, or a Snapchat of your cat and even the long-winded sentimental post about your loving significant other or your late grandparent. That’s genuine stuff. What I can’t appreciate is transparent, shallow content designed to highlight that you like to let loose, you have nice blue eyes, or that you go to the gym daily. No matter how well you think an image or tweet or post embodies who you

“One minute, I was lamenting about the torment of irreparable heartbreak, the next I was describing my latest trip to the gym in an effort to show that I was, against all odds, fighting back against my cruel fate.”

Girls sitting by the pool need to take a picture of their tan legs and mixed drinks just to let the world know they live a carefree life and own a pool. Guys who just hit the gym need to take a mirror pic of their bulging bicep to let everyone know they work out. Why can’t you just enjoy the sun or the satisfaction of improving your body? Why must the world know where you are and what you’re doing? A precisely angled, perfectly lit, flawlessly filtered Instagram photo has become the twisted, twenty-first century form of self-acceptance.

Take another common example: you wake up in the morning and look good. You whip out your phone, put on your best smile (or seductive gaze) and post a selfie online with a nice quote about loving yourself.

But it’s all just a facade: if you were really doing so well, you wouldn’t need to broadcast it to the world. You wouldn’t need the gratification that comes with every “like.” Yes, you do look good in that selfie, but here’s the kicker: you don’t look like that in real life, and you actually have pretty debilitating self-esteem issues despite the Marilyn Monroe quote captioning the photo. Pretending to be something doesn’t transform you.

At the end of the day, regardless of how your peers perceive you, you’re still who you are.

I went through a phase a few sum-

are, I promise you are still selling yourself short. Human beings are so much more than how they look in swimsuits and what they do on Friday nights; no matter how advanced technology becomes, a person’s essence will never be captured by a photo or Facebook post.

One of my goals for this year is to put down my phone. If I’m at the bar, I’m not going to send a Snapchat of my beer just to let my friends know that I do, in fact, party. Instead, I’m going to keep my phone in my pocket and enjoy spending time with the people I’m with, or maybe even talk to a girl. If I’m at the library until 4 a.m., I’m not going to Instagram a picture of a thick book next to a cup of coffee; I’m going to continue working hard and let the results speak for themselves.

Sharing bits and pieces of your life to social media is fine. It’s the posing and the posturing that isn’t.

If you have to point out that you’re fit or bookish or happy then the chances are you’re still inadequate in all of those things. Become who you want to be, and then people will notice – no social media necessary.

Steve Gillard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sgillard@umass.edu.

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Post-tournament player shuffling reveals the dark side of professional eSports During the first week of August 2014, fans, commentators, game developers and players convened in Seattle for the

losers’ bracket when they lost 2-1 to the Russian team Virtus.

Pro. Following the loss, Arteezy, never known for his patience in defeat, immediately took to Twitter, posting a series of (now deleted tweets) casting blame on his teammates and highlighting the level of communicative dysfunction that lead them to make critical mistakes under pressure during their matches.

Further interviews and transcripts of livestreams, as well as statements from his other teammates, showed that while Arteezy’s anger was unprofessional and melodramatic, it was rooted in fundamental concerns about the way the team failed to communicate or cooperate.

By all expectations, Team Secret had all the makings of a dynasty – each of its players was among the best in the entire competitive scene for their specialized roles, and the combined result should have made for an unstoppable juggernaut.

However, in building a team out of members that could not stand being around each other enough to practice for the tournament, Team Secret could only ever be destined to fail. What was once a budding franchise with a great deal of fan support is an exploded shell, with new members shuffled around from other teams looking to

Johnny McCabe largest professional video game tournament in human history.

The fifth annual International Dota 2 championship tournament for Valve Corporation’s popular competitive online strategy game brought teams from all over the world, competing for a share of the world record breaking $18 million prize pool.

Over the course of six days, 20 teams of five players each battled against one another through elimination-style bracket matches, until one team, Team Evil Geniuses of North America took the $6.6 million championship victory over Team CDEC of China. However, in the wake of this triumphant victory, many teams announced breakups, roster changes, and even the outright kicking of some of their players, amidst a storm of feuds and controversy across the Internet and social media. This jarring backlash of hostility and negativity is nothing new in the world of eSports, and unfortunately stands as one of the biggest barriers holding back competitive gaming from achieving a much larger fanbase.

In some cases, it seems that this continual upheaval is almost built into the very fabric of the culture of professional Dota – Team Secret being an excellent example. Formed in the wake of the previous International in 2014, Team Secret was a fan favorite to take the entire championship this year, owing to the sheer star power of each of its members.

With a lineup featuring the bombastic, playmaking, yet mercurial Artour “Arteezy” Babaev, high school age prodigy Ludwig “zai” Wahlberg, as well as players from other extremely wellknown franchises like Alliance and Natus Vincere, Team Secret was a literal all-star lineup of the most effective members of several enormously successful teams. During The International 2015, however, it all fell apart.

Once the main event was underway, and Team Secret had lost the first two matches to the Chinese EHOME, prospects looked dour for the previous popular favorite. Team Secret’s fate was sealed in the

years. A notable new addition for 2015 was Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling, a refugee from another North American team, Cloud9.

Throughout The International 2015, EG had a meteoric rise, winning every match up and into the semifinals, where they were booted to the loser’s bracket after losing 0-2 to CDEC. They rallied back, however, hurdling semifinalist LGD Gaming to defeat CDEC 3-1 and seize the $6.6 million prize in a spectacular finale. A mere few days following the victory, however, Aui_2000 tweeted confirmation of rumors that he had been kicked from the team he helped carry to the finish line. In a lengthy blog post, EG captain Peter “ppd” Dager enumerated his reasoning for kicking Aui, describing him as “not an effective communicator” and “creating a stressful environment,” providing an example in which Aui would question gameplay strategies even as they sat down to play their final matches. Meanwhile, Aui continued to tweet about the opacity and lack of communication from his team surrounding his kick, attracting a large amount of sympathy across Twitter and Dota communities all across the internet.

Aui’s kick, independent of any rational explanation from ppd, illustrates that eSports still have a long journey towards achieving the level of legitimacy enjoyed by traditional sports.

The type of backdoor player trading and kicking that has become customary after each international tournament can only ever lead to increased negativity and animosity between a sedentary pool of professional players.

Furthermore, roster shuffling stymies any attempt to build a professional, enduring franchise, which sports like football, basketball, and even professional wrestling have shown are the key to growing and retaining a fanbase.

If eSports in general are to be taken seriously in any degree, teams and players must move towards the professional and regulated elements of traditional sports, not those of pettiness and controversy. If they fail to do so, they will never rise above the stereotype of socially inept geeks getting upset over computer games.

“The type of backdoor player trading and kicking that has become customary after each international tournament can only ever lead to increased negativity and animosity between a sedentary pool of professional players.”

refine their strategies and dump weak links in the wake of The International.

Arteezy himself ended up returning to his previous team, the victorious Evil Geniuses, the story of which is by far the most tragic example of the damage caused by post-tournament roster shuffling. Before the tournament, EG was one of the longest running competitive gaming franchises, fielding teams in games from Starcraft to Halo.

EG’s Dota 2 squad is one of the most well known teams currently still active, and the main North American presence in the competitive scene. EG’s lineup for the tournament ran the gamut of players from Clinton “Fear” Loomis, one of the oldest active Dota 2 professionals to Sumail “Suma1l” Hassan, the youngest player ever to win The International at 15 years Johnny McCabe is a Collegian old, and has remained relative- columnist and can be reached at ly consistent over the past few rjmccabe@umass.edu.

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From comebacks to come-ups, this summer brought a fresh new batch of artists to the spotlight, while reviving the careers of fading ones.

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From comebacks to come-ups, this summer brought a fresh new batch of artists to the spotlight, while reviving the careers of fading ones.

Former Disney stars Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato both had their own summer hits. Gomez’s “Good For You” and Lovato’s “Cool for the Summer” were both bubbly and infectious tracks, rewarding fans who had been anxious for new material from the singers.

Gomez’s more sexualized tone on the track stands in stark contrast to the innocent, passive image she has cultivated in the past . Similarly, “Cool for the Summer” features Lovato discussing her fantasies with a newfound confidence. This rebirth in sound for these two artists was both a mark of newfound maturity, and a willingness to experiment.

After waiting over a decade and a half, Dr. Dre finally returned with his widely anticipated third studio album, “Compton”.

The massively popular and critically acclaimed album was an unofficial soundtrack of sorts to “Straight Outta Compton,” the biopic based on the career of Dre’s former hiphop group, N.W.A.

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Dr. Dre returned from a 16-year hiatus to release his critically acclaimed third solo album, “Compton.”

The soundtrack parallels the films’ discussions of race in the United States, while showing the importance of recognizing the history and struggles people of color have endured in America.

Andy Grammer and Walk the Moon returned with two of the summer’s most sunny hit tracks, “Honey I’m Good” and “Shut Up and Dance,” respectively.

These two infectious tracks were everywhere this summer. Mirroring the style

Grammer used on previous singles “Keep Your Head Up” and “Fine by Me,” “Honey I’m Good” was Grammer’s first top 10 hit.

S i m i l a rl y, wh i l e American pop band Walk the Moon had established its fan base with up-tempo singles like “Anna Sun,” they had never made it to Billboard’s Hot 100 until this summer, when their party-starting anthem, “Shut Up and Dance,” broke the top 5. These chart-breaking summer tracks are the sort that show two artists who

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are on the verge of becoming household names.

The Weeknd, the oneman R&B project of Canadian producer Abel Tesfaye, became a permanent fixture on pop radio, after years as an underground fixture. “Earned It,” his contribution to the “50 Shades of Grey” soundtrack, had reached number 3 on the Hot 100, but this summer is where Tesfeye nearly took over R&B radio waves with “The Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face.”

a decade in the music industry, Rachel Platten finally burst into the music world’s consciousness with her breakout single, “Fight Song.” The Massachusetts native instantly became a hit maker. Having covered the track live with Taylor Swift, and now touring with Colbie Caillat and Christina Perri, Platten finally seems ready for the success she has worked so hard for.

“The Voice” contestant Melanie Martinez released her debut album, “Cry Baby,’ on Aug. 14. With her twisted lullabies and dark, fantasy-styled tones, Martinez has crafted a sound unlike that of any other artist which attracted the attention of many fans.

With tracks like “Soap” and “Dollhouse,” Martinez makes statements on heavy topics like love, society, mental illness and alcoholism, while still maintaining her hushed voice.

While her vocals can be a bit dramatic at times, her literal writing style is deeply affecting. Without much radio play, Martinez remains an underground and understated artist, however, with the help of her constantly growing fanbase, Martinez could become one of the fall’s biggest hit makers.

Both singles made the top five, with “Can’t Feel My Face” being his first number one single. With critically acclaimed mixtapes and a commercially successful studio album, Tesfeye had already established his fan base, but with the success of these singles and his second studio album, “Beauty Behind the Madness” Tesfeye has become one of the biggest names in R&B. After the monster hit “Trap Queen,” Fetty Wap, whose real name is Willie Maxwell, followed up this summer with two of hip hop’s biggest summer tracks, “My Way” and “679.” With his peculiar yet addicting vocals, Maxwell has a sound like no other that the listeners seem to have fallen in love with.

Even without the release of a debut album, Maxwell has emerged as one of hip hop’s biggest voices of the year.

Troy Kowalchuk can be reached at Having spent more than tkowalchuk@umass.edu.

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Beach House’s forceful return Yo La Tengo explores pop Band’s fifth LP is history on stellar new album strong and explosive Indie legends show off their versatility

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

My friend once told me that you cannot truly experience the full power of the English shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine until you play its music as loud as you can physically stand it.

And while I have never quite gotten the urge to level my ears with My Bloody Valentine, whenever I hear, “Sparks,” the stunning lead single off of Beach House’s fifth album, “Depression Cherry,” that same urge is something I cannot overcome.

Everything about the song is completely allencompassing; Alex Scally’s jagged and heroic guitar lines, vocalist/keyboardist Victoria Legrand’s enchanting whispers, and the beautifully murky production, which coats the whole track in a perfect haze of dreaminess and infinite possibility. The louder the listener plays it, the more of a physical experience it becomes.

It numbs the listener to the realities that surround them, and opens up new realities throughout the five minutes the song takes to blaze its trail.

The only downside of “Sparks” is that it leaves the rest of “Depression Cherry,” released Aug. 28, nowhere to go but down. Opening track “Levitation,” with its sustained tension and giant chord progressions, sets its successor up masterfully, almost on a platter. Then “Sparks” completely blows “Levitation’s” carefully constructed roof off, redefining shoegaze, dream-pop or whatever sub-genre label that may get thrown onto it.

If anything, it proves that

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Beach House has always been the most entrancing when it has had more tangible power behind the fantasy worlds it concocts.

What would have “Wild,” a highlight from the band’s 2012 album, “Bloom,” been if not for the cosmic, spellbinding guitar riffs that dotted its outer reaches? What if “Norway,” from 2010’s “Teen Dream,” didn’t have the percussive charge that made it so hypnotic?

Perhaps all would not be lost. But, without that brute, unexpected physicality, the kind the duo brings so forcefully on “Sparks,” Beach House’s music sometimes tends to waft away.

The remaining seven tracks on “Depression Cherry” try to find the perfect balance between willowy dreaminess and breathtaking moments of impact. The songs with greater gravity, like the seemingly bottom-less ballad, “10:37,” the cavernous “Bluebird” and the soaring melody of “Beyond Love” feature the most of the latter.

They rest easily in Scally and Legrand’s comfort zone; with Scally’s skyscraping guitar leads interacting beautifully with Legrand’s

drone-heavy keyboards and ethereal vocals. Even in that familiarity, there is a renewed sense of intimacy that was hard to find in “Bloom,” a record that was so good, yet so much more distant than the duo had presented themselves before.

And though “PPP” and “Days of Candy” in particular fail to differentiate themselves from the wellestablished Beach House aesthetic, they blur into “Depression Cherry’s” more triumphant moments.

It is a wondrous song cycle, worth listening to just to hear “Sparks,” a titanic achievement in pop songwriting that may very well be a late contender for the coveted song of the summer crown.

But, extraordinary singles aside, “Depression Cherry” stamps Beach House’s authority as the heir to My Bloody Valentine’s legacy; a band that merges the blissful with the brutal in such a way that it isn’t long before the two become indistinguishable.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

When getting lost in the astounding discography of Hoboken, N.J.’s great Yo La Tengo, it can be easy to forget that the band – comprised of guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan, drummer/ vocalist Georgia Hubley and bassist James McNew – are first and foremost music historians.

On its 1997 album “I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One,” and its 2000 album “And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out” alone, it re-invented songs by The Beach Boys, pop singer Anita Bryant and disco legend George McCrae. This is to say nothing of 2006’s “Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics,” a 31 song, 76-minute for-charity album of nothing but on-the-spot, unrehearsed covers.

As well-developed as Yo La Tengo’s songwriting chops are, after thirty years and a remarkable run of records, it is a band that lives for jamming and re-interpretation. So, even though it might be easy to look at “Stuff Like That There,” which is comprised of 9 covers, 3 re-worked songs from the band’s massive back catalog and 2 new tracks, as a bit lazy, it is perfectly natural for the band.

Perhaps inevitably, there is nothing titanic on this record; nothing approaching career highlights such as “Night Falls On Hoboken” and “Big Day Coming.” But, “Stuff Like That There,” released on Aug. 28, is never a burden, and plays as pleasantly as a summer breeze.

Listening to it feels like returning for the umpteenth time to a childhood vacation spot. While there may not be much around that you haven’t already experienced or seen before, there is a warm familiarity to its surroundings that may take you into a different, less preoccupied state of mind.

As one would expect, with Yo La Tengo’s aforementioned encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, the covers range from virtual standards to impossibly obscure rarities. But they execute them all, regardless of popularity, with the same quiet mastery. With the amplifiers turned way down, Kaplan mainly cedes the spotlight to Hubley, who absolutely nails every bit of sorrow and despair in the Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” while capturing all of the simple playfulness of the Cure’s grandiose pop masterpiece “Friday I’m In Love.”

Even with Hubley’s fairly limited range as a singer, the ebullient hooks of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s definitively 60′s track, “Butchie’s Tune,” are no trouble for her, as she makes the song as doe-eyed as it was fifty years ago.

“I Can Feel the Ice Melting,” a track by George Clinton’s pre ParliamentFunkadelic doo-wop group the Parliaments, gets a treatment that is both loving and lovely, while “Naples,” a song by Kentucky indie band Antietam, receives a hypnotically gorgeous makeover that serves as another standout for Hubley.

But it’s the cover that hits closest to home for the band that stands out as the

best re-interpretation on “Stuff Like That There.”

“Automatic Doom,” a song

by James McNew’s pre-Yo La Tengo Hoboken band Special Pillow, is re-worked flawlessly. Breezy and absolutely effortless, Yo La Tengo’s version features one of the most pristine and touching duets Kaplan and Hubley have recorded in their many years as bandmates. Though their voices both show a little age, the little wavers in their harmonizing just gives the song more poignant humanity.

As for the new material, Kaplan’s “Rickety” is fairly nondescript. But, his “Awhileaway” is one of the album’s highlights. With delicate, jazzy chording and his always-soothing vocals, Kaplan crafts a beauty that you can, tongue away from cheek, throw into the “soft rock” genre.

Surprisingly enough though, the re-workings contain “Stuff Like That There”‘s greatest treasure.

It’s the band’s acoustic take on their 1997 masterpiece “Deeper Into Movies,” perhaps the most risky track on the record, that proves to be an absolute stunner. Over pulsating acoustics and Hubley’s ethereal vocals, Kaplan simply puts on a masterclass of spacey, but minimal guitar leads.

The deeply evocative notes Kaplan sprays all over the track are a powerful reminder of what makes Yo La Tengo such a special band, one that continues to pleasantly surprise, even when returning to certain formulae after thirty years.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu.

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Fortunately for UMass, these injuries don’t affect the defense too dearly, as the squad has allowed multiple goals in one of its first four games. Goalkeeper Cassidy Babin leads the way for the injury-riddled team with her stellar play in the net.

“Babin has been outstanding for us in goal,” Matz said. “She was just ranked in one college soccer tabloid as one of the top10 goalkeepers as a sophomore in the country. It’s a pretty good honor.”

Outside of the defense, Matz sees strengths in the team despite the obstacles presented in front of them. With key players out, the veteran coach cites his team for having a tremendous bond that he thinks will help them get set straight.

“The main strength of our team is how close we are,” he said. “When the team goes

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Natalie Perussault will miss the 2015 season with a torn ACL. through a lot of injuries, and then we have a couple of calls in very close games that influence the outcome of the game and don’t go our way, it could your team in (self-doubt). We

don’t doubt each other, we’re a very close team, and we’re determined to do what it takes.”

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Jackie Bruno out for remainder of season

Lyme disease sidelines senior for ‘15 campaign

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

There hasn’t been much good news coming from the Massachusetts women’s soccer team this season, but Tuesday’s news might be the worst it’s suffered yet.

Minutewomen coach Ed Matz told the Massachusetts Daily Collegian that senior forward Jackie Bruno has been ruled out for the remainder of the season with Lyme disease.

UMass (0-3-2) has faced many injuries to start the season, but the loss of Bruno is the biggest it has faced this year. The senior led the team in points (12), goals (six) and shots (40) as the Minutewomen’s top offensive threat in 2014.

According to Matz, the issue started shortly before the preseason.

“Jackie was diagnosed a week before the preseason and she sat out the first couple weeks,” Matz said. “We wanted to be careful because Lyme disease is a very serious disease.”

After a couple weeks, Bruno was cleared to play again and looked like her old self out on the field, according to Matz.

Bruno missed the first game of the season against Syracuse but appeared in the Minutewomen’s next game against New Hampshire.

In the matchup against the

Wildcats, Bruno played 20 minutes and recorded one shot on goal in a 0-0 tie.

But Bruno had a relapse after the game and cited tiredness among the symptoms felt, according to Matz.

After a trip back to the doctors, she was shut down for the season.

Matz said he’s confident UMass can step up in Bruno’s absence and he believes they have already through the first five games, but he realizes losing her is going to hurt the team.

“She is quite possibly the best shooter in our program right now, especially because she is a leftfoot kicker,” Matz said. “People who can score from anywhere on the field with her accuracy don’t come around too often so losing someone like that always hurts.”

The Staten Island, New York native has been an offensive leader on the team since she joined the Minutewomen for the 2012 season.

She’s scored 11 goals in her UMass career and has tallied three assists.

Until this season, Bruno remained fairly healthy and only missed two games in her first three years with the Minutewomen.

“Jackie has always seemed to play with grit, fire and toughness,” Matz said. “She is always going hard for balls on the field and I admire the effort she puts in.”

The impact Bruno has on UMass’ underclassmen cannot be understated as well, said Matz.

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Jackie Bruno led the Minutewomen with six goals in the 2014 season. The rest of the team combined finished with eight goals last season.

“Whenever the younger girls on the team see a senior who has accomplished what Jackie has going for balls like she does, it only pushes them to do the same.” Matz said. “There is so much senior leadership that comes from her and that will be hard to replace.

We will miss her in a lot of ways.”

The Minutewomen have strug-

gled mightily on offense early in the season and the loss of Bruno has impacted that greatly.

In the four games she has been out of the lineup, UMass has scored just one goal.

Despite the offensive struggles, Matz said he’s been impressed with how the Minutewomen have played in Bruno’s absence.

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“I could not be more proud of how everyone on this team has worked hard and really improved,” Matz said. “We have been in almost every game this season.

With a few different breaks, we could be looking at a very different record.”

Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu.

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Kreusch takes on more evolved role UMass off to slow start in 2015 with multiple injuries

By Tyler Fiedler Collegian Staff

It was a chilly day in October when Saint Francis University came to Amherst for a pivotal Atlantic 10 Conference match. The Red Flash entered the game undefeated at 8-0 while the Massachusetts field hockey team was an underachieving 4-7.

Saint Francis took a 1-0 lead early, however the Minutewomen tied the score, behind a penalty corner from freshman Melanie Kreusch.

Minutes later Kreusch scored her second of the game to take the 2-1 lead. In the 68th minute, with the score tied at two, the Minutewomen had a chance to take a late lead with a penalty corner.

There was no surprise that Kreusch was lined up to take the shot.

Cliodhna Loughlin fielded the corner and passed it to Kreusch who smoked a shot passed the Red Flash goaltender for her third goal of the game and second gamewinning goal of the season.

Kreusch had three gamewinning goals in 2014. She had the knack for adrenaline pumping goals. She finished the season with 10 goals, six of which came via the penalty corner.

Coming into the 2015 season, Kreusch will look to expand on her freshman year and help the Minutewomen get back to the top of the conference. However, with strong depth defensively, head coach Carla Tagliente does not want to put high expectations on the standout sophomore.

“I think for Melanie, she had a great season last year and a busy summer,” Tagliente said. “We hope she can pick up where she left out a year ago.

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Melanie Kreusch spent the offseason working with the United State Under-19 team and national team of the more quiet players on the team, her leadership is without question.

“With a year of experience, we expect her to take on more of a leadership role,” Tagliente said.

“I’m trying to (take a leadership role),” Kreusch said.

“I am more of a one-on-one leader. I see if someone is down and I try to push them up.”

There is a different type of leadership role Kreusch takes on. Her on-the-field play and work ethic is second-to-none for UMass. Her busy offseason consisted of participating in a fourmonth high performance training camp in Boston. She also played with the United States Under-19 team and national team.

Kreusch spoke highly of all of the experiences, especially with how much she has improved.

“Playing for the U19 and national team were really helpful,” Kreusch said. “It

was different but I liked it because I had different players to play with and we gave each other feedback.”

Kreusch has seen her confidence rise after a strong freshman campaign.

Working with the national teams has certainly given her more confidence as well as things to work on.

Tagliente feels the same way.

“Where she has grown is she has more experience and confidence,” Tagliente said. “The spring and summer have been super beneficial for her in terms of her growth.”

However, being from abroad could be hard on most players coming to the states for school. Kreusch, a Belgium native, has family support to keep her pushing forward. Her parents, Jean and Teresa, make a strong effort to catch a couple of her games a year. Her father Jean was there for her game against St. Francis.

“Having my parents

come means a lot and having their support is big for me,” Kreusch said. “I also have family in Michigan so the transition hasn’t been as hard for me.”

Kreusch knows that it can be difficult being so far away from your family, especially being from out of the country.

“I try to help the freshmen who are not from here,” Kreusch said. “I know it can be difficult so I try to always be there for them.” “(Kreusch has a) good head on her shoulders and is a great teammate,” Tagliente said.

Four games into the 2015 campaign Kreusch has scored three goals on eight shots. The Minutewomen are currently 2-2 on the season with their home-opener this Friday against UMass Lowell.

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at tfiedler@umass.edu.

Nearly 10 months removed from a disappointing first-round exit in the Atlantic-10 Conference Tournament last season, the winless start of the 2015 campaign hasn’t exactly been the turnaround that Massachusetts women’s soccer coach Ed Matz might have been looking for right out of the gate.

Then again, opening the season with four of five games on the road – with one of those road opponents being nationally ranked (No. 24 Rutgers) – is no easy task for any team. It also doesn’t help when major figures of the team are down from injury when you need them most, and especially when those players aren’t coming back.

Cue Matz’s Minutewomen (0-3-2).

“We’ve been hit very, very hard by injuries,” Matz said when reflecting on the team’s situation.

“People have been forced to play in different positions. People have been forced to play a lot of minutes. As we keep progressing, I hope we can get our strength together.”

Entering a five-game home stand where UMass looks to push momentum in its favor, the ailing squad has at least four major injuries that significantly affect the cur-

rent outlook of the team.

Jackie Bruno is done for the year from Lyme disease. Sophomore Natalie Perussault tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the preseason and will miss the remainder of the season. Jackie Miller and Danielle Farano are both coming back from previous ACL injuries, and only time will tell when they will be ready both mentally and physically.

While Matz believes his team is improving its play with each game without these players, it’s tough to deny the tremendous impact these injuries have on the team, especially on the offense. Through the five games played so far, the Minutewomen have managed to score just one time, being shut out in the other four.

“Four out of the five players (injured) are blows to our offense,” Matz said. “When you take that many regular players out of your offense, it puts a lot of pressure on other players. I think that’s what we’ve going through right now.”

“We have our leading scorer (Bruno) out for the year,” he continued.

“When you take your leading scorer off the field, someone you would rely on heavily, it’s bound to be a blow to your offense.

Natalie started the majority of the games last year, and we were hoping she would be a major contributor. She’s done for the year (too).” see

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