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UMass tobacco ban in effect State funding Focus on education over enforcement

By Soren HougH Collegian Staff

On July 1, the University of Massachusetts went completely tobacco-free, officially banning traditional and e-cigarettes, hookahs and chew.

Tobacco-free policies are supported by the Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College Health Association.

The University hopes that the initiative will improve health standards for students and

employees alike.

The town of Amherst has already implemented a ban on the sale of cigarettes from “any stores with health care institutions inside them,” according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The regulations affect chains like CVS that offer in-house pharmacies.

UMass students and faculty worked together on a health council to debate and write the new campus-wide rules. One of the foremost supporters of a tobacco-free campus is assistant professor of microbiology Wilmore Webley.

In August, Webley addressed the University’s residential life faculty about

the plan. He opened his presentation by drawing the link between tobacco and lung cancer, the No. 1 deadliest cancer in the United States, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

“One in five deaths in the United States is related to tobacco,” Webley said, speaking to resident assistants and peer mentors. “If anything else was killing 20 percent of our population, we’d be outraged.”

Added Webley: “What use is it if you get a fantastic education from a top (Research I) university, but you can’t do what you set out to do because of the effects of smoke or secondhand smoke?”

The tobacco-free policy

comes in the wake of landmark reports from the Surgeon General in both 2006 and 2010 placing emphasis on the idea that “no riskfree level of exposure to secondhand smoke” had been found. Secondhand smoke, also called “passive smoke,” is the unfiltered, carcinogenic byproduct of burning tobacco.

“So how can you protect everyone who doesn’t want to smoke?” Webley said. “This policy is an answer to that question.”

Webley assured students that the intention of the ban isn’t to hurt tobacco users.

“While we do have a tobacco-free policy, we have to be see

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also now see a moment when finances are improving for virtually all the states across the country, Massachusetts included.”

Supporters of the move say the investment in higher education will pay itself back in the form of students who are prepared for the 21st century workforce.

“There has been a growing recognition of the fact that Massachusetts has a knowledge-based economy,” Abel said. “We have the greatest need of any state for a high-skilled workforce.”

According to Abel, 70 percent of all jobs in Massachusetts are going to require at least some postsecondary education by 2018.

“This is a down-payment on our future,” she said. “There has to be a mutual understanding that the investment has to occur over time.”

Abel also pointed to the rising cost of higher education as a factor in the state’s decision to increase appropriations. An increasing number of students are opting for more affordable public universities over costly private schools. According to Abel, in 1967, 30 percent of all undergrads in Massachusetts attended a public college or university. Today, that number has risen to 52 percent.

UMass officials have high hopes that the state’s financial commitment to public higher education will continue next year. According to Connolly, the budget contains specific language calling for another significant appropriation of funds a year from now.

“While that’s not binding, it’s certainly notable to see this expression of intent built right into the current state budget,” he said. “The state is really evidencing a new commitment to UMass and to the rest of public education.”

Tuition and fees at the University of Massachusetts will remain flat this academic year following a push by higher education officials to ease the financial burden on students.

Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law the fiscal year 2014 state budget, which will provide $479 million in funding for the UMass five-campus system, a $39 million increase from last year.

“We have one of the greatest increases in state appropriation for higher education of any state in the country right now,” said Katy Abel, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.

“Campuses have been waiting for this moment for a long time,” she said. According to Abel, the freeze will be in effect at all of the state’s 29 public colleges and universities.

The freeze in tuition and mandatory fees for in-state undergraduate students is part of a plan proposed last year by UMass President Robert Caret to have the state share an equal cost burden with students. Currently, students pay 57 percent of the cost of attending UMass, while the state covers 43 percent. Five years ago, these figures were reversed. The total budget of the five-campus UMass system is $1.3 billion, according to a UMass press release.

“I think the Governor and the legislature have been aware of the fact that the University’s [state] funding has been flat for a number of years,” said spokesperson for the UMass president’s office Robert Connolly, and pointed to the 2008 recession as a contributing factor. “I think that when President Caret pointed to the imbalance in terms of the funding of academic programs… I think that had Aviva Luttrell can be reached at an effect, and also I think we aluttrel@umass.edu.

Dr. George Corey appointed executive director of UHS Brings over 27 years of exprience

By JAcLyn BrySon Collegian Staff

Dr. George Corey, most recently the assistant medical director at University Health Services, has been appointed the new executive director of UHS following the retirement of Dr. Alan Calhoun last June, according to a University of Massachusetts press release.

Corey received his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine and has more than 27 years of clinical experience, including recent work as a hospitalist at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, according to the UHS website.

“Honestly, I love being a doctor,” Corey, who has been with UHS since 2010, said. “It’s stimulating, there’s always a challenge. There’s one puzzle

per patient, or more, that you get to solve.”

Along with his years in clinical settings, Corey added that his time already spent on the UHS staff has prepared him for the role of executive director, a role that will have Corey acting as medical director and will supervise all organization of the Health Services, according to the release.

“In being here for the past three years, what I have done is learned the needs of the institution,” Corey said, adding that he is anticipating his work as executive director with the hope of making UHS a more valued campus resource.

“I’m looking forward to stabilizing and growing the health services,” he said. “My hope here is that we can really solidify the belief across campus that we need to be here, that we can produce a good product for the students and improve what we are giv-

ing you.”

Before being appointed to his new position, Corey said that he predominately worked in the walk-in clinic at UHS, where students can show up without an appointment and wait to receive medical treatment.

“I’ve seen what students need in the way of health care,” he added, referencing the firsthand experiences he has had with students visiting the clinic.

One of his goals as director, Corey said, is to maintain the services already provided to students who may need them.

These include on-site optometry, laboratories, X-Rays and extended service hours.

“Those are services we feel that students really want and need. Part of my job is to justify and maintain those services, which I am intending to do,” he said.

In the past, Corey also mentioned that there has been concern that UHS may

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Corey hopes to help UHS run more smoothly and effeciently, with shorter wait times at the walk-in clinic. be in danger of losing some currently offered services.

These times of uncertainty, he said, have prepared him for his new role.

“I’m aware of the political vulnerability that we have here and I’m hoping to translate that into a victory for us where we are able to continue

to offer the services that you need,” he said.

As well as maintaining the services UHS already provides, Corey said there are a variety of programs he hopes to make available for UMass students at the clinic in the near future.

“What I’m going to try

to accomplish at UHS is to help the clinic to run more smoothly and, hopefully, more efficiently,” he said.

One of the ways he hopes to do that is to hire more doctors and nurse practitioners so more students can get see

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Latest NSA revelations may mar US Brazil ties MEXICO CITY — Revelations of a U.S. spy program that allegedly allows digital surveillance of the presidents of Brazil and Mexico have drawn cries of indignation and anger in both nations, but the fallout may be strongest for U.S.-Brazil relations.

At stake is whether Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will cancel a planned state visit to Washington in October, the first offered by President Barack Obama this year, or will take action on digital security that may affect U.S. companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo.

Brazil’s O Globo television network reported Sunday night that the National Security Agency had spied on the emails, telephone calls and text messages of Rousseff and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico. The report was based on documents obtained by journalist Glenn Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro, from Edward Snowden, a fugitive former NSA contractor who’s living in Moscow.

O Globo’s “Fantastico” program displayed an NSA document dated June 2012 that contained email sent by Pena Nieto, who was a presidential candidate at the time, discussing whom he might name to his Cabinet once elected. The network displayed a separate document that revealed communication patterns between Rousseff and her top advisers.

The revelations drew expressions of indignation in Brazil and Mexico.

Rousseff held an emergency Cabinet meeting Monday, and her foreign minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, summoned U.S. Ambassador Thomas Shannon for the second time since early July.

At a joint news conference Monday in Brasilia with Minister of Justice Jose Eduardo Cardozo, Figueiredo called the actions “an inadmissible and unacceptable violation of Brazilian sovereignty” and said Brazil expected a written explanation from the White House by the end of the week.

For its part, Mexico’s Foreign Secretariat said it “rejects and categorically condemns any act of espionage against Mexican citizens in violation of international law.” Mexico also summoned the U.S. ambassador, Anthony Wayne, but no meeting has yet taken place, as Wayne was out of the country.

Outrage seemed deeper and more widespread in Brazil than in Mexico.

One former Mexican ambassador, Andres Rozental, said he expected little fallout: “I don’t think this is a major event for Mexico and Mexico-U.S. relations.”

“Mexico has very little to gain out of going into a big hissy over this,” added Vanda Felbab-Brown, a security and intelligence expert at the Brookings Institution, a Washington research center.

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DIRECTOR increased medical attention without having to wait for unnecessarily long periods of time.

Corey also added that he would like to invent more ways for students to meet personally with doctors.

According to Corey, students can see a physician by arranging an appointment for the future, making a same-day appointment or taking advantage of the walk-in clinic. Corey said he wants to improve the latter two.

“We need to have more same-day appointments and

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we need to have more ability to see students as they walk in, in a way that’s more timely,” he said. “So one of my jobs is to make that happen — to hire the right people, to organize the situation, so that we get better results that way.”

Corey also said that hopes a woman’s clinic will be added to UHS by the spring.

“There seems to be a demand and interest in that, so we are making plans for that and hiring people,” he said.

But the overall goal he wishes to accomplish, he said, was to make sure stu-

dents get exactly what they need when it comes to the health services provided at UMass.

“What we need to do is translate your health fee into extra value so you are really getting your money’s worth from us,” he said. “Really, my job is to make that happen.”

Florida pediatrician Dr. Bruce Kraut was originally appointed director, but he could not assume the position due to “personal reasons,” the release said.

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sensitive,” Webley said. “We value those students and the diversity they bring to campus.”

Instead, Webley said that the policy is meant to protect students, faculty and workers from unwanted risk.

“If all that (tobacco) did was kill the people who used it, we couldn’t ban it – people have control over their bodies,” Webley said. “But 50,000 people die every year in this country without ever putting a cigarette to their mouths.”

One of the biggest concerns students have raised about going tobacco-free is the lack of penalties for noncompliance. As of now, no fines or security teams have been put in place.

“A lot of people (on the council) focused on enforcement, enforcement, enforcement,” Webley recalled.

“But I’m concerned with education.”

He believes that the policy now reflects that sentiment.

UMass is now one of more than 1,000 different schools across the country to adopt a tobacco-free campus. While a few schools have hired security officers to levy fines from offenders, Webley said that the majority of those campuses have been successful without taking that extra step.

He stated that “having a tobacco-free campus is a change in social norms,” and that the change would require “a community effort.”

As with any policy violation, there will be disciplinary action for repeatedly ignoring school rules.

Nevertheless, Webley hopes the policy will “engender conversation, not confrontation.”

In a letter to The Massachusetts Daily Collegian in 2011, student Nathan Lamb stated that “students should fume over (the) smoking ban.” He went further to decry the ban on smokeless tobacco products

like electronic cigarettes, which contain no tobacco at all.

In his presentation, Webley addressed these qualms. He said that electronic cigarettes, which contain equal if not increased amounts of nicotine over traditional cigarettes, carry with them the risk of congestive heart failure, seizures and loss of vision.

And though e-cigarettes are smokeless, John Kelly of the Washington Post recently warned that the secondhand vapor produced by the devices is understudied.

Citing research from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, Kelly said that both nicotine and propylene glycol had already been found in secondhand vapor. Propylene glycol is an organic compound that has been linked to allergic development in children.

Users of the banned products are now being asked to leave the UMass campus if they need to use tobacco but they are not being required to quit.

“The policy doesn’t say you can’t smoke – it just says you can’t smoke here,” Webley said.

Nevertheless, there are facilities in place to help smokers with voluntary tobacco cessation.

University Health Services is now equipped with nicotine replacements, including patches and gum, as well as free one-on-one counseling.

The school is also offering vouchers to help alleviate the cost of nicotine replacement therapies for addicted students.

Despite the risks to nonsmokers, some students have continued to protest a tobacco-free campus.

In response, Webley said, “You’re always going to find a faction of people who oppose this. But does that mean the rest of us should continue dying?”

Soren Hough can be reached at shhough@umass.edu.

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AMHERST POLICE LOG

Long weekend sees multiple arrests

Alcohol is main source of offenses

By Mary reines Collegian Staff

Over the long weekend, the Amherst Police Department made 15 arrests and issued 18 summones to court.

Friday, Aug. 30 10:24 p.m. Brian P. Irish, 19, of Winchester, was arrested on Fearing Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol, possession of an open container of alcohol and possession of a fake ID. 11:19 p.m. Connor P. Lemire, 20, of Shrewsbury, was arrested on Fearing Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol.

11:31 p.m. Two 18-year-old males each received a summons on Nutting Avenue for a liquor law violation.

Saturday, Aug. 31 12:18 a.m. Andrew J. McGill, 19, of West Falmouth, was arrested on Nutting Avenue on charges of underage possession of alcohol.

12:33 a.m. Two males, 18 and 21, each received a summons for a liquor law violation on Phillips Street. The former was charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol. The latter was charged with possession of an open container of alcohol.

Residents were cooperative when removing guests.

12:57 a.m. Nitin R. Kumar, 19, of Quincy was arrested on Allen Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol, possession of an open container of alcohol and less than an ounce possession of marijuana.

1:19 a.m. One male, 22, of Hauppauge, N.Y., received a summons on North Pleasant Street. He was charged with possession of an open container of alcohol.

1:27 a.m. Michael D. Moran, 23, of Holyoke, was arrested on North Pleasant Street in front of Antonio’s Pizza on charges of disorderly conduct after striking an individual in the middle of a fight.

1:34 a.m. One female, 20, of Pennington, N.J., received a summons for a liquor law violation on Hobart Lane.

She was charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol.

2:29 a.m. Two 18-year-old Foxborough males received a summons for suspicious activity on North Pleasant Street. They were charged with underage possession of alcohol.

12:30 p.m. Breaking and entering into a motor vehicle was reported at Puffers Pond. A rear window of the car was smashed and an iPhone and two wallets were reported missing.

1:06 p.m. One male, 37, of Erving, received a sum-

mons for suspicious activity at Cozy Corner Laundry on Montague Road for alleged indecent exposure..

5:35 p.m. An individual received a summons for a motor vehicle crash off the road into a ravine on Montague Road. The individual’s license was revoked.

9:56 p.m. One female, 18, of Milford, received a summons for a liquor law violation on Sunset Avenue. She was charged with underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol.

10:05 p.m. Benjamin C. Jette, 19, of Chicopee, was arrested on Phillips Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol.

10:08 p.m. David U. Sullivan, 20, of Belmont, and Jon Yip, 20, of West Hartford Conn., were arrested on Phillips Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol and possession of an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

11:20 p.m. One female, 18, of Barnstable received a summons for a liquor law violation on Sunset Avenue. She was charged with underage possession of alcohol.

11:33 p.m. One female, 18, of Braintree, received a summons for a liquor law violation on Fearing Street. She was charged with underage possession of alcohol.

11:35 p.m.

Wiktor M. Karpinski, 19, of Wilbraham, was arrested

11:42 p.m. Colleen M. Riley, 19, of Mansfield, and Rachel M. Dinehart, 19, of Holliston, were arrested on Phillips Street on charges of underage possession of alcohol.

Sunday, Sept. 1 12:00 a.m. One male, 20, of Nyack, N.Y., received a summons for a liquor law violation on Fearing Street.

1:18 a.m. Michael J. Defazio, of Lunenburg, was arrested on Main Street on charges of operating under the influence.

He was found banging on his horn in front of a large amount of people.

11:25 a.m. Breaking and entering into a motor vehicle was reported on East Pleasant Street. The vehicle was reported as having been parked and locked from Saturday to Sunday.

An iPhone charger was reported missing from the glove compartment. No evidence of forced entry was found.

5:55 p.m. A white canvas bag was reported stolen out of a vehicle parked in the lot of CVS Pharmacy. One of the vehicle’s windows had been left open, it was reported.

11:14 p.m. One male, 19, of Wayne, N.J., received a summons on Sunset Avenue for a liquor law violation. He was charged with underage possession of alcohol.

2:14 a.m. An individual was arrested on Henry Street on charges of operating under the influence. The individual had allegedly driven off the road, striking small trees.

2:43 a.m. Two individuals received a summons on Sunset Avenue. They were charged with larceny for allegedly stealing lawn furniture and signs from a house.

11:56 a.m. An incident was reported at 24 Kellogg Ave. Apt. C. in which alcohol and clothing had reportedly been removed from the apartment.

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11:11 p.m. Meaghan E. Bowen, 18, of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested on Sunset Avenue on charges of underage possession of alcohol.

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Opinion Editorial THE MASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” - Tom Stoppard

Raise the minimum wage

When President Barack In Massachusetts, it would Obama gave his State of the be 114 hours per week.

Union address on Feb. 12, he Additionally, in 2012, six percent of women who were Jillian Correira paid hourly wages were making at or below the fedmade it explicitly clear that, eral minimum wage, as com“in the wealthiest nation on pared with three percent of earth, no one who works men. This is an important full-time should have to live statistic to keep in mind, as in poverty.” He then went more and more women are on to propose an increase of becoming the primary (or the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour.

An increase in the minimum wage is long overdue. A recent report by the Associated Press shows that four out of five American adults struggle with nearpoverty and joblessness at some point in their lives due to “an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the sole) source of income in widening gap between rich their households.

The threat of living in and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing poverty is very real, but jobs.” An increase in mini- could be at least partially mum wage would help fight combated if corporations poverty and effectively raise were required to pay their the income of more than employers a wage that sup28 million American work- ports the cost of living. ers, placing spending power Seems like very simple logic, but McDonald’s claims to back in their hands.

As of 2009, the federal have a better idea. Recently, minimum wage is $7.25 per McDonald’s teamed up with hour. This means that if a Visa to outline a financial person making minimum budget for their low-wage wage is the sole source of workers.

Right off the bat, the income for a family of four, his or her annual salary is plan is absurdly misguidonly 65 percent of the nec- ed in that it assumes that essary amount to meet the its employees have a secfamily’s very basic needs. In ond job. Among some of the other words, that family is other ridiculous assumpliving in poverty. And this tions are a $27-a-day budget scenario is for a household for gas and groceries, and a that’s lucky enough to have $20 health insurance plan. a working family member in Who would have thought that a $91 billion dollar a struggling economy.

In 2012, 3.6 million hour- company could be so out of ly workers were paid at or touch with their minimum below the federal minimum wage workers?

Besides helping fight povwage. Notably, minimum wage varies from state to erty, raising the minimum state, and according to a wage puts more money in 2012 National Low Income people’s pockets. Since minHousing Coalition report, imum wage has not kept up in no state can a minimum with inflation, the United wage worker working 40 States’ population has far hours per week afford a less purchasing power than two-bedroom housing unit. it used to. By raising miniIn Hawaii, a person would mum wage, working people have to work a staggering will have more money to (and literally impossible) put back into the economy, 175 hours per week to afford instead of the ultra-rich a unit with two bedrooms. keeping money out of the

economy by pouring it into financial investments.

Essentially, raising the minimum wage is good for minimum wage workers and stimulates the economy, which benefits everyone in the end.

Opponents of a hike in the federal minimum wage usually use the argument that it would lead to massive

If a person making minimum wage is the sole source of income for a family of four, his or her annual salary is only 65 percent of the necessary amount to meet the family’s basic needs. job loss. In fact, studies have shown this is not the case.

In a March 2011 report, the Center for Economic Policy Research concluded that raising the federal minimum wage would actually result in more jobs.

As for the small businesses that are supposedly bound to be crushed by an increase in federal minimum wage, multiple studies have shown that small businesses in states with a higher minimum wage have had consistently better economic performance than those in states with lower minimum wages.

It would be naive to think that raising the minimum wage is the ultimate problem solver for America’s economy, but it’s a simple, yet huge, step in the right direction. Millions of lives— and livelihoods— would be greatly improved if we had a federal minimum wage that kept up with the cost of living. Millions of hard-working, full-time American employees are living on paychecks that barely cover their basic needs. A $2 raise in the minimum wage is the least we could do.

Jillian Correira is a Collegian columnist.

She can be reached at jcorreir@umass. edu.

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Law and race shouldn’t mix As the fight for equal- order, not outdated social ity rages on, legal protec- distinctions. tion is constantly being That is not to say that we should drop the issue Stefan Herlitz of discrimination— far from it, in fact. While extended to groups that race may not be “real,” have historically been discriminatory acts and discriminated against, practices are, and it is including women, ethnic entirely possible to preminorities, and those of vent and punish discriminon-traditional gender nation without a need for or sexual orientation. We legal recognition of race. have passed anti-discrimi- It ought to be illegal to nation and hate crime leg- discriminate in employislation; we have fought ment based on anything court battles; we have that does not affect the sought to change society. applicant’s ability to perIn our most valiant efforts to stamp out discrimination, however, we have inadvertently perpetuated the concept of difference based on race by codifying it in law.

“Race” is not real. form the duties of the job; There is no objective this includes race as well method that can delineate as gender, social class and the difference between sexual orientation, with“races.” Based on the out institutionalizing it, current definition used which is causing the probby the National Center lem.

Following this trend, for Education Statistics, as well as the Common hate crime laws should not Application, I, the son exist. The entire purpose of a Swedish immigrant, of hate crime legislation is am of the same “race” as to add additional penalties Iranian President Hassan when a crime has already Rouhani. We have abso- been committed, based lutely nothing in common solely on the perpetrator’s but a racial label. We speak motive. Severity of pundifferent languages, have ishment ought to reflect differing religious beliefs, the actual harm inflicted look nothing alike, are on the victim, not the reamembers of drastically son why the perpetrator contrasting cultures, come did what they did. It seems from different economic like hate crime laws only backgrounds and were exist so that politicians born several decades and can claim to be tough on thousands of miles apart. crime and supportive of Yet somehow, according to minority groups.

A similar issue is that race theory, we are similar because we are both of college admissions.

Politicians continuously “white.”

Race only exists because fight to keep Affirmative of centuries of misconcep- Action policies in effect tion; it has absolutely no when in reality, race has grounds in genetics, biol- very little to do with cology or any of the hard sci- lege admissions. Many of ences. The study of race is the racial minorities who a social science, not a nat- attend college are those ural one. As such, I believe who come from a finanthat our laws should not cially stable, middle-class recognize it. Law ought to background: the reason be about truth, justice and that minority groups

are so underrepresented in college admissions is that members of minority groups are more likely to be living at or below the poverty line than nonminorities as a result of historical discrimination.

Children whose family incomes are among the top 25 percent are five times more likely to graduate from college than children whose family incomes are in the bottom 25 percent. Compare this to the fact that 43.3 percent of white versus 38.4 percent of black 18- to 24-year-olds are enrolled in college, and it quickly becomes apparent that college enrollment has much more to do with socioeconomic class than race.

Instead of wasting time fighting over a solution to a race-discrimination problem in college admissions, which quite frankly does not seem to actually exist anymore, the government ought to focus on making college more affordable for those of lesser means, a policy that could actually help close the education gap.

The government should not legally recognize anything that cannot be objectively defined, because such things have no basis in fact, and their social definitions are in constant fluctuation. The law ought to be solid, resolute and firmly based in observable reality, and it is for this reason that race ought not to be included anywhere in the legal code. While it will always be necessary for the law to protect victims of various forms of discrimination, it does not need to legitimize the beliefs of the discriminators in order to do so.

The study of race is a social science, not a natural one. As such, I believe that our laws should not recognize it.

Stefan Herlitz is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sherlitz@umass.edu.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

When I mentioned taking a French class at Amherst College during my first semester, I often heard University of Massachusetts peers dismiss the school. A near-ancient Collegian opinion piece states that Amherst College students “have a better chance (than UMass students) to succeed in the world because their parents bought them … their place.” When one considers Amherst’s 50 percent legacy admissions rate or its sizeable pool of private high school students, its students do seem to have a leg up in the admissions game. The author fails to acknowledge, however, that such practices are commonplace at top private schools.

It’s unfair to compare a state university, which was founded with the goal of promoting agriculture and the mechanic arts, to a small liberal arts college with historic ties to Williams College and Phillips Andover Academy. The schools aren’t from the same league in the first place.

Popular descriptions of Amherst College students include “elitist,” “rich,” “preppy” and “waspy.” A few students easily fit those stereotypes, but I’d like to examine the majority of students who do not. The college does have one of the largest endowments among its cohort of other elite universities and can indeed trace its roots to wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs); however, the college’s current racial and socioeconomic diversity, encouraged by its 18th president, distinguishes its student body from those of its private college peers.

Anthony W. Marx sat in front of an interview committee and plainly stated: “I’m not interested in being a custodian over

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a privileged place.” He then explained his opinions on social mobility, thanked the interviewer, and left the room. The committee would later invite Marx to serve as the 18th president of Amherst College.

Marx tied connections between American philosopher John

It’s unfair to compare a state university, which was founded with a goal of promoting agriculture and the mechanic arts, to a small liberal arts college with historic ties to Williams College and Phillips Andover Academy.

Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” theory, ancient financial meltdowns and the state of public education. His passion to combat systemic socioeconomic inequality within higher education is demonstrated both by his speeches and his actions. Marx initiated campaigns to diversify Amherst’s community. He recruited more high-performing students from low-income households and raised additional funds to support these newcomers. The former president even invited students to his intimate “fireside chats” about class differences within the school.

Marx’s efforts succeeded. In a 2010 email to the entire school, he proudly declared a more than doubling of low-income enrollment, which then hovered at a whopping 25 percent. In com-

parison, Harvard University lags behind at 10 percent, and only three percent of students in the nation’s top 146 colleges come from the lowest quartile. Amherst’s population of students of color, which hovers around 43 percent, greatly outnumbers the populations of its “Little Three” siblings, Williams and Wesleyan.

Marx un-snobbed Amherst’s student body, but he left room for improvement. Rhonda Cobham-Sander, the 2007 special assistant to the president for diversity, recalls “tensions” within the community, “casual sexism,” systematic exclusion of staff of color as well as colleague generalities of people of color.” The issues she noted would subside if the school were to diversity its staff in addition to its student body. CobhamSander adds that of all staff divisions within Amherst, only the Office of Admission “can be said to have fully embraced (the school’s aimed) level of commitment to diversity, both in its internal organization and its external recruitment goals.”

In my Amherst College French class, I did encounter stereotypical snobby behaviors, such as talks of frequent European vacations and luxurious brand name exhibitions in a 9 a.m. Monday class. But as I attempted to master the art of ordering my first Parisian Kir, I encountered a collaborative, varied, genuinely friendly and highly intelligent group of students. They’re not all snobs. Consider taking a Five College Consortium course to see for yourself.

Brandon Sides is a Collegian columnist. He can be reached at bsides@umass.edu.

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Two new iPhones expected to fall from the Apple tree iPhone 5C and 5S to come Sept. 10

By Kevin HollerBacH Collegian Correspondent

If you are stuck in a lovehate relationship with your current phone, the end is in sight. Apple is expected to announce one (or more) new iPhone models as well as other products and software during a special Sept.

10 media event. The new iPhones are expected to be released later this month.

While Apple’s complete plans remain a mystery, the online rumor mill has been anything but quiet. Here are some new releases to keep an eye out for:

iOS 7 One Apple specialty that is rumored to be released this month is the latest edition of its mobile operating system, iOS 7. Previewed

by Apple at the World Wide Developers Conference in June, it will be available as a free software update for iPhone models ranging from the iPhone 4 to the newest, yet-to-be-released models, as well as the iPad 2 and later iPad models.

IOS 7 boasts a completely overhauled user interface – a result of a new head software designer at Apple headquarters. The update will have a significantly simpler, cleaner look than previous versions.

The screen’s background moves slightly based on the angle at which the user holds the phone, giving the home screen the perception of depth. It also includes new features such as “Control Center,” which allows users to access commonly used settings – such as Wi-Fi, brightness and Bluetooth— easily from any application. A new feature called “Airdrop” is packaged with iOS 7 as well, which allows users to share files between iPhones and Macs easily without having to send a text or email.

Though the registered developers who have been able to beta test iOS 7 have been overwhelmingly pleased with all of the changes, the public will be the deciding factor in the success of iOS 7.

iPhone Apple’s product-naming system is fairly easy to predict by now. First, Apple releases a phone with a product number, such as 3G, 4 and 5. It then later revitalizes that model’s shell with a better processor, camera and battery life, earning the addition of an “S” to the name.

This year looks to be no different. The subsequent iPhone model will most likely be named the iPhone 5S, rather than the iPhone 6.

Appearing in videos on TLDToday’s YouTube channel, the iPhone 5S will come with dual LED flashes on the backside to help the camera perform better in low-

light settings. Most sources, including 9to5Mac.com’s Mingchi Kuo, say that the sensor in the 5S will remain at 8-megapixels, but that other improvements to the camera will make up for the stagnant resolution. 9to5Mac suggests that there might be a high-speed video function as well, allowing users to make stunning slow-motion videos.

There is no official word of an upgraded battery life or processor, but a new dual-core A7 chip is probable and would boost the phone’s processing power by about 31 percent, according to TechCrunch. What’s more, rumors have suggested that gold might be added as a third color option for the 5S, and some have stated that this color could replace the black/slate color option available for the iPhone 5.

As for a few less conclusive predictions, some developers beta testing the new iPhone discovered the ability to unlock the phone via a fingerprint scan within the code of the iOS 7 beta software. Kuo believes that the home button will be a concave sapphire crystal button that will also function as the fingerprint scanner. Many users also await the ability to perform simple tasks with Siri, Apple’s voice-activated phone navigation application, when an internet connection isn’t available.

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5C, (with the “C” standing for “color”) will be released this month. This model is presumed to have the same specs as the iPhone 5, but with a colored plastic back available in black, white, red, yellow, blue and green. For a lower price, this phone will be missing some features that the iPhone 5 and 5S are packaged with. iPhone 5S is expected to begin at $199 with a contract, the same price point as the iPhone 5 upon its release.

The slightly less complex iPhone 5C will probably be placed within the same price bracket as the iPhone 4: free with a contract. Some speculate that Apple plotted

the cheaper alternative to gain an edge in competitive smartphone markets overseas, where cheaper phones hold a stronger share of sales.

to its younger relative, the iPad mini. The iPad mini may be updated as well, and new features are likely to include a retina display like the standard iPad. In addition to its flagship devices, Apple is also workiPad ing behind the scenes on A new iPad or iPad mini a full-sized Smart TV — a is expected to arrive this television with Internet feamonth, but whether it will tures — and an iWatch. It is be announced at the Sept. possible, but unlikely, that 10 media event on is yet to either of these devices make be seen. When the update an appearance on scheduled does arrive, the new, larg- media event day. But until er iPad will have a design that day comes, no one can refresh with a black back be certain what will fall from and thinner bezel, according Apple’s tech tree. to leaked pictures on CNET. The update will make the Kevin Hollerbach can be reached at tablet’s appearance similar khollerb@umass.edu.

STUDENT LIFE

Online dating: virtual window shopping for romance One man’s foray into digital love

By Justin surgent Collegian Staff

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So I started online dating.

Usually when someone mentions online dating, the first thing that comes to mind is some lonely person past their prime, or one of those cookie-cutter couples seen in Match.com and Christian Mingle commercials. Following those images tend to be stories of serial killers luring unsuspecting singles into certain danger. I, however, like many other seemingly “normal” young people, decided to give it a try (mainly for the purpose of writing this article), despite the dangers involved. And after a summer of online romantic dalliance I am (still) here to share my thoughts.

When you break it down, online dating is not much different from wellknown social platforms like Facebook or Twitter. High school and college students spend hours online every day communication to friends and strangers alike.

We email. We text. We Skype.

Social interaction is becoming increasingly less social and more media-based. It only makes sense that the most nerve-wracking aspect of youth follows suit, and as a result, online dating is born.

Some college campuses are even creating their own versions of online dating.

Sites like datemyschool. com, founded at Columbia University, only allow people with .edu email addresses

to join, keeping the scene college-friendly. At the University of Massachusetts, there’s UMass Flirts.

Though officially unaffiliated with the University, the Facebook page allows anonymous “flirts” to be sent in and posted to its wall for all to see. Fear not: not only can you meet and flirt from your own house, but now you can do it wearing yesterday’s dirty clothes and eating a bowl of ice cream while hiding behind the veil of the Internet.

As I mentioned earlier, the first thing many people tend to think of when the term “online dating” pops up is lonely, older people with three to four kids and twice as many cats.

And while I’m sure there are, in fact, plenty of that type of folk online, there is also a decent amount of unsuspicious collegeaged kids showing off their pearly whites on your computer screen. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of people within my 19- 22 age range that visibly lacked the external qualities of a suspected lonely cat lover or bloodthirsty killer.

Now, as with any growing technological trend, options free-of-charge are popping up all over the online dating world. Online dating is no longer limited to the monthly bills of eHarmony, Match. com and the like. There are numerous different sites to try, all with a different flavor. Sites like OkCupid will attempt to match you by visible percentage with other living, breathing human beings, while sites like Plenty of Fish (POF.com) tend to simply show you some pictures and a tagline

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A student talks to his long distance girlfriend ... or is he being “catfished”? to snag your interest. There are other sites, like howaboutwe.com where you post date ideas and see if anyone is interested. Whatever your desire, the Internet can satisfy it — even in the dating world.

With so many different sites, you might start to wonder how so many people populate them. Most people have multiple online dating profiles, their presence spanning across numerous sites.

In fact, if you sign up for more than one site, chances are strong that you’ll get matched with the same people across multiple sites.

Whether you take that as a

small-world coincidence or a romantic “so-and-so is the one” sign is completely up to you.

Naturally, filling out the information requested on these profiles gets pretty personal. Sites like OkCupid offer you space to fill in personal details in a pre-set format, but also have a seemingly unlimited amount of questions to gain better insight into the core essence of your desired love interest. These questions range from basic political and social interests to sex, and to even more indepth, provocative questions such as, “Would you date a partner who has spent con-

siderable time in prison?” or, “In a certain light, wouldn’t being homeless be exciting?”

Profiles are sorted by matching qualities and distance. Most sites have a filter so you can look for matches near or far. More advanced filters find additional specific qualities such as body type, where listings include options such as “thin,” “athletic,” “curvy” and “used up.”

Pictures are also an important aspect of the online dating world. If the eyes are the window to the soul, then profile pictures are the half-closed venetian blind into the virtual heart of online romance.

Most sites actually offer you advice on how to post the best pictures to get you matches. Tips such as “your face must be in the shot” and “no nudes” help to clear up confusion for those who have trouble with those kinds of things. Other tips, such as including yourself doing something you love, can actually help your profile look more attractive.

Most people tend to stick with a standard headshot.

One thing to remember is that, even though these sites offer you plenty of ways to share information, chat and get to know one another, the veil of the Internet still lies between you and your suitor.

There is no guarantee that the beautiful young blonde you have been talking to for several weeks isn’t actually a chubby 40-something-yearold hoping to fulfill some kind of carnal desire reminiscent of many an episode of “Catfish.” So naturally, if you’re going to meet someone in person, be safe about it. Go out somewhere in pub-

lic, like a coffee shop or public park — a place where people can hear you scream if your date ends up being the next “Craigslist killer.”

Throughout my threemonth stint on the online dating scene, I went out with a few nice girls and made a few pen pals as well. One match I went out with is still a friend of mine, and we talk frequently. I still keep in contact with some of the other like-minded individuals whom I met virtually but never personally. There were some misses – very forward females who were solely looking for a bath buddy, intimate acquaintance or once, a partner for Insanity (the workout) – but generally, most didn’t strike out too badly. The truth is, for all the messages that I sent, I received responses to roughly 25 percent. So in the end, true love did not sweep me away, and just because a girl may have been calculated as a 96 percent match didn’t mean we would actually hit it off. I had more luck just going out with friends and meeting new people than going at it the online way.

In the future, I plan to keep my actual eyes open for potential matches, preferably those without direct percentages attached. Mainly, I plan to move away from the online scene because, “so I see on our profiles that we both like dogs, I actually have one, his name is...” across a digital platform doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Can I buy you a burrito sometime?” does in person. I mean, who could resist that?

Justin Surgent can be reached at jsurgent@umass.edu.

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Carlino, Prince play for US Under-21 team Pair traveled to Germany

“All I could think about was how awesome it would be to represent the United States and what a great opportunity this would be.”

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Sam Carlino, the starting goalkeeper for the Massachusetts field hockey team, was sitting in her dorm room one night when she heard a knock on her door.

When she opened it, fellow Minutewoman Hannah Prince came in screaming.

“We made it, we made it!” Prince shouted.

Carlino immediately knew what she was talking about. They had been selected to compete for the Under21 United States national team in the Junior World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany, this summer.

“All I could think about was how awesome it would be to represent the United States and what a great opportunity this would be,” Carlino said.

Carlino was one of just two goalies in the nation to be selected despite having just one year of collegiate experience under her belt.

She made the most of that one year, however, starting 23 out of 24 games as a freshman for the Minutewomen last season and sporting a 14-9 record with a 1.65 goals against average and a .725 save percentage.

She earned second team All-Conference honors and led UMass to the Atlantic 10 championship.

No moment stood out to Carlino more in her time in Germany than to hear the national anthem play before the first game.

“Besides being with Hannah, the first time I heard our national anthem being played was probably one of my favorite moments while I was there,” Carlino said. “That’s when it made me realize how awesome it was to represent the USA at a major competition like this one.”

The only part that could possibly compare was being able to share this once-in-a-lifetime experience with two of her teammates – incoming freshman Charlotte Verelst competed for the Belgian national team. Carlino couldn’t have been more grateful.

“To share this with Hannah was just an unbelievable experience,” Carlino said. “We became really good friends this past year since I played goalie and she played defense, so being able to spend time with her while representing our home country was something I’ll never forget.”

Despite seeing action in just two games and the USA finishing seventh in the tournament overall, Carlino feels she has gained

something that no other goalie in the A-10 will have: experience against the top competition in the world..

“I definitely gained very valuable experience on the international level,” Carlino said. “The game is just so much faster and more competitive, and everyone there is incredibly talented. Just to learn from my coaches and other teammates about the game as a whole will definitely help me in the future and hopefully elevate my game to the next level.”

Now that this tournament is in the books, Carlino now turns her attention back to her team in Amherst, with her eyes set on a repeat as A-10 champs.

“I cannot wait for this season to finally begin,” Carlino said. “I think everyone is very anxious to get started, and we are all working very hard right now during the preseason. We are trying to come together as a team and we’re ready to get back out there and try and make another run at the A-10 title.”

Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

UMass not short on leadership By tom mulherin Collegian Staff

Entering the 2013 season, the Massachusetts women’s soccer team has very little experience with a roster of just six juniors and seniors combined. Leading a team already has its challenges, and for these six players, it might be overwhelming.

But UMass coach Ed Matz doesn’t see leadership as an issue.

“I’m not concerned about the leadership of our team,” Matz said. “In fact I think that the leadership on the team has been really great.”

Part of his confidence can be linked back to before the team started its summer training, as the young squad received a little boost in leadership knowledge from an outside source.

“We came in a day and a half early, and had an outside group came in called ‘The Program,’” Matz explained. “They put our team in leadership training, and it couldn’t have been a better time for our program. It was great, and I think that it not only helped the six juniors and seniors become better leaders, but it also helped everyone become better teammates.”

Matz feels that the younger players can practice being better teammates through the knowledge they gained from “The Program.”

“One of the things that going through ‘The Program’ taught the players is how to be a good teammate,” Matz said. “Being a good teammate means motivating your teammates, being not afraid to speak up and helping your teammates make

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Midfielder Grace Coombs was named UMass co-captain for this season. the right choices. All of that I think gave our players more confidence and they became more willing to step up and be a leader.”

While everyone has improved on being better teammates and leaders, a few players still stand out from the crowd, especially senior co-captains Lauren Skesavage and Grace Coombs. With Skesavage returning after being a junior co-captain last year, Matz expects her leadership skills to be more developed for this upcoming season.

“As a junior captain, [Skesavage] sometimes was overshadowed by the senior captains,” Matz said. “She learned a lot last year from last year’s captains, got to see what being a captain was like, and used some of her experience from last year to become a better leader.”

The senior defender has fully taken on the role as a co-captain and plans to take what she learned from last year and “The Program” into this season.

“One thing that I was able to learn while being here at UMass is having a positive attitude,” Skesavage said.

“In the program we did, they came up to me and basically said that you can’t have a bad day because your attitude can affect everyone on the team.

So if they see you down and not really trying they’ll probably think it’s OK, and last year I kind of got away with that because of the other captains that were seniors.

“This year I have to focus on not doing that because I am so honored by this role and I want people to look up to me.”

As for the younger players, Skesavage explained that the outside group had a big impact on them as well. “’The Program’ really made the younger players step out of their comfort zone, and showed them it’s OK to step up and speak out as a leader even though they are a freshman or sophomore,” she said.

Tom Mulherin can be reached at tmulheri@umass.edu.

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UMass midfielder Brooke Sabia scored two goals in the Minutewomen’s 6-0 win over UMass Lowell on Tuesday.

Minutewomen dominate inaugural Kennedy Cup

By Jason Kates Collegian Staff

Fresh off an upset victory over No. 9 Michigan, the Massachusetts field hockey team dominated UMass 6 in its home UML 0 opener on Tuesday, defeating in-state rival UMass Lowell, 6-0, and claiming the inaugural Kennedy Cup. Paced by sophomore Brooke Sabia’s second straight two-goal game, the 14th-ranked Minutewomen (3-0) didn’t take long to open up the scoring.

Sabia scored her first goal of the game seven minutes and 38 seconds into the first half on a rebound over the goalkeeper after her initial shot was saved. Just under 15 minutes later, she tallied her second goal of the game on a penalty corner,

set up by Alexa Sikalis and Charlotte Verelst.

Before Tuesday’s game, UMass coach Carla Tagliente reiterated to her team that they should be sure not to take any opponent lightly.

“We talked a lot before the game about just playing our game and focusing on what we needed to work on, so I just think it’s really important for our team to continue to grow and continue to see how deep our team is,” Tagliente said.

UMass dominated the stats, tallying 28 shots, 19 of which came in the second half, while not allowing the River Hawk offense to get off a single shot the entire game. The Minutewomen also held a 12-1 advantage in penalty corners.

With many of the leading scorers from last season graduated, Sabia hopes to gain a leadership role on the offensive side.

“I would like to gain a (leadership) role like that,

but at the same time I think there is always going to be incoming players that fill other people’s roles and I feel that this year it is my turn and some of my other teammates’ turn to take these roles,” Sabia said.

Tagliente said that the team got off to a slow start in the first half, and they weren’t happy with the way that they were playing, but she was pleased to see them turn it around in the second half.

“I thought our discipline was better in terms of our structure and what we were doing with the ball,” Tagliente said. “We went directly up the middle for a larger part of the first half and that is very uncharacteristic of us, but I thought our defensive structure was better, which enabled us to get more second chances and rebounds in the circle.”

After starting the season with two one-goal victories over Maine and the Wolverines, UMass reg-

istered its first shutout of the season, with sophomore goalie Sam Carlino not having to make one save the entire game.

“We started strong as a unit, with not just the three or five people we have in the back contributing to the defense, but a collective effort of all 11 players on the field,” Tagliente said. “I think our pressing has also gotten better, and everyone’s individual pressure on the ball has been really great.”

Tagliente added that her team will need to come ready to play the entire 70 minutes when it plays Harvard on Friday at 5 p.m. at Garber Field.

“I think we got away with a little bit in Maine, and this game was patchy, so everyone needs to be ready for the game and ready to execute what our game plan is, and we should be fine,” Tagliente said.

Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu.

After the Massachusetts field hockey team lost its top three goal scorers to graduation last year, there was much speculation about who would step up for the team on offense.

Three games into this season, the team seems to have found a player who can lead the attack.

Sophomore midfielder Brooke Sabia recorded her second straight multigoal game of the season on Tuesday against UMass Lowell, bringing her season total up to a team-leading four goals.

Coming off of a twogoal performance against Michigan, where she scored both the tying and winning goals, Sabia got the scoring started for the Minutewomen (3-0) against the River Hawks.

In the eighth minute of the first period, after her first shot was saved

by UMass Lowell goalie Melanie Hopkins, Sabia got the rebound and chipped a shot over Hopkins’ head and into the net to put UMass on the board.

Twenty-three minutes in, Sabia scored her second goal of the game when she flicked a penalty corner shot past Hopkins to give the Minutewomen a 2-0 lead, with Charlotte Verelst and Alexa Sikalis providing the assists. UMass would go on to defeat the River Hawks by a score of 6-0.

After posting just one goal and four assists in her freshman season, Sabia said she worked hard during the preseason to improve her offensive skills so that she could take on more of a leadership role.

“I feel as if there’s always going to be someone that’s going to be coming in and taking other people’s spots,” Sabia said. “I feel like … it’s my turn and also some of my other teammates’ turns to take in that (leadership) role, and when

“She’s shown glimpses of real brilliance on the field, and she’s put in more consistent performances.”

Carla Tagliente, UMass coach I leave, when they leave, it’s going to be the underclassmen’s turn as well.”

Coach Carla Tagliente said that Sabia has already started to show leadership qualities on the field through the first three games of the season.

“She’s shown glimpses of real brilliance on the field, and she’s put in more consistent performances,” Tagliente said. “You see her in flurries really produce in the offensive end, and you saw that (against UMass Lowell), and the key is just to get her to consistently do that over the span of the minutes that she plays.”

UM defense strong While the UMass offense was able to put up six goals against the River Hawks, the defense recorded its first shutout of the season, not surrendering a single shot.

After a 2012 season where the team gave up an average of 1.69 goals per game, making them No. 22 in the nation, the defense continues to look strong this year, averaging one goal allowed per game through their first three contests. “ W e ’ v e started strong as a unit. It’s not just the back three or the back five people, it’s a collective effort of all 11 on the field,” Tagliente said.

“I think our pressing’s gotten better with the strikers and midfield and the backs, and it really starts up at the front, but I think collectively, all together, everyone’s individual pressure on the ball has been really great.”

Jessie Mayfield-Sheehan can be reached at jmayfiel@umass.edu and can be followed on Twitter at @ jgms88.

FOOTBALL

Nesmith out against Maine with right arm injury Blanchflower’s status still unclear By nicK canelas Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts football team was held scoreless in its season opener at Wisconsin on Saturday.

Now it will have to take the field with one of its most promising young receivers.

UMass coach Charley Molnar said at practice on Tuesday that freshman wide receiver Shakur Nesmith won’t play on Saturday in the Minutemen’s home opener against Maine at 2 p.m.

Nesmith, who made two catches for 14 yards in UMass’ 45-0 loss to the Badgers, left the game early in the second half with a right arm injury and had it in a sling after the game and at practice this week.

Molnar said that either freshman E.J. Burston or sophomore Bernard Davis will take Nesmith’s spot in the

depth chart.

“Basically next man up, you know,” Molnar said. “We have E.J. Burston, Bernard Davis, these guys are hungry to play football, so one of those two will take that spot.”

Quarterback Mike Wegzyn feels for his fallen target, but he’s excited to see what the offense will bring with a fresh face in the lineup this week.

Wegzyn thinks Burston in particular will get significant playing time this week.

“It looks like we’re gonna move a couple people around,” Wegzyn said. “I think E.J. Burston’s gonna get a lot of play.

“I’m excited about him.

He’s got a lot of speed; good receiver; good height; good MARIA UMINSKI/COLLEGIAN FILE PHOTO hands. I’ve been working with him all summer so I’m really UMass tight end Rob Blanchflower’s status for Saturday’s home opener against Maine is still unknown. excited to have E.J. out there and the core receivers that we students who want to attend went in for a consultation on Molnar. have now.”

Tuesday, so he may have a Both players missed the this Saturday’s home openStill unsure er at Gillette Stadium: the clearer picture by Thursday. game against Wisconsin.

Minuteman Express or your Running back Jordan Molnar had no update on Student tickets own transportation.

Rob Blanchflower’s injury Broadnax’s status is “still The Minuteman Express status. He said the tight end up in the air,” according to There are two options for

is a coach bus service that picks students up at McGuirk Stadium and brings them directly to Gillette Stadium for the game starting two and a half hours prior to kickoff.

Registration is $10 payable via UCard or credit card and includes round-trip bus transportation, a game ticket and meal vouchers. The deadline is 11 a.m. on Thursdays before each home game and can be done at www.umass.edu/minutemanexpress.

Buses will head back to campus as they fill during the second half of the game.

Those driving to Gillette on their own can pick up a free ticket with your UCard at the Mullins Center Box Office on Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., or at the Gillette Stadium Box Office in Minutefan Park, located near Lot 4.

Nick Canelas can be reached at ncanelas@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @NickCanelas.