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Students protest blood drive UMass rises in Students say ban on national rankings gay blood is dated By: aViVa luttrell Collegian Staff

U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts junior Tyler Pereira wants you to donate blood because he cannot.

On Sept. 12, Pereira and several other students stood outside the UMass Police Department’s annual 9/11 memorial blood drive in the Campus Center basement holding signs protesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s policy of “deferring” gay men from donating blood.The policy, which has been in place since 1983, states that any male who has had sexual contact with another male, even once, since 1977, is ineligible to donate.

Armed with fact sheets, the demonstrators hoped to educate and inform curious

passersby of the implications they say this policy carries.

“Right now, 38 percent of people are eligible to donate,” said Pereira. He added that less than 10 percent actually do. Pereira argued that banning donations from the gay population is not only detrimental, but also discriminatory.

“I think [the ban] is saying that gay men are second-class citizens. We’re healthy, but we can’t help our fellow man,” said Pereira.

Todd Ellis, a UMass junior who was among the protesters, said the ban is a civil rights issue. “What if black people weren’t allowed to donate blood?” he asked. “It’s all about equality.”

America’s Blood Centers and the American Red Cross believe it’s time for a change.

In 2006, they presented a joint statement to the FDA’s Blood Products Advisory Committee stating their belief that “the

current lifetime deferral for men who have had sex with other men is medically and scientifically unwarranted” and recommending that the eligibility criteria “be modified and made comparable with criteria for other groups at increased risk for sexual transmission of transfusiontransmitted infections.”

The AABB, American Red Cross and America’s Blood Centers (ABC) have appealed to the FDA for a change in policy to alter the indefinite deferral for a male that has sex with another male to a 12-month deferral period.

The FDA, however, states on its website that “current scientific data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that, as a group, men who have sex with other men are at a higher risk for transmitting infectious diseases or HIV than are individuals in other risk categories,” and that the deferral

policy “is based on the documented increased risk of certain transfusion transmissible infections, such as HIV, associated with male-to-male sex and is not based on any judgment concerning the donor’s sexual orientation.”

In the past, there was no reliable way to test for HIV in blood. Today, however, all donated blood must go through rigorous testing before it can be used in a hospital. The blood is subject to an immunoassay, which tests for HIV-related antibodies that appear 15 to 25 days after infection, as well an RNA test, which can detect HIV almost immediately after infection. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has also been pushing for change. In August, she sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services asking the agency to reevaluate their see

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Listed as 40th best public university B y Veronica StracqualurSi

Collegian Correspondent

“We’re glad to be number 40, but [the rankings] don’t change our policy or focus,” said Fitzgibbons.

“We continue to focus on and provide the best education possible.”Fitzgibbons added that UMass’s rankings increase people’s interest in applying and enrolling at UMass.

Since 2004, according to OIR data, the Commonwealth Honors College and first-year enrollments have been on the rise, with only a slight dip in 2011.

According to the U.S. News website, the university ranking system works by first categorizing schools based on their mission and location. They then “gather data from and about each school in up to 16 areas related to academic excellence.”

The requirements for the U.S. News & World Report rankings changes each year.

This year, the U.S. News ranked universities on criteria like peer assessments, g raduation and freshman retention rates and the newly enrolled students’ high school class standing and SAT and ACT scores.

Schools are given an extensive questionnaire they fill out and then send back to U.S. News.

The changes in how schools report their data is the key reason why some schools move in the rankings.

According to the digital magazine’s website, the “rankings are designed to help students and parents make an informed decision.”

“A lot of school seniors use this guide and others to decide. But it’s not the be all and end all,” said Fitzgibbons.

“Students really need to go out and visit schools.”

Up two spots from last year, the University of Massachusetts has tied with two other universities as the 40th best public national university, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the best colleges.

UMass Amherst also ranked no. 91, along with five other universities in the best national universities category, an improvement from their no. 97 ranking last year.

Though universities often brag about these high rankings, John Tierney of “The Atlantic” argues that the U.S. News’s rankings help push college costs higher.

“The formula they use in calculating their rankings rewards schools that spend more money, so colleges and universities do precisely that, and then inevitably have to raise their tuition to cover growing costs,” Tierney said.

Data collected from the UMass Office of Institutional Research (OIR) shows that the instate undergraduate fees for 2013 are nearly seven times the cost of tuition.

Out-of-state and graduate students have seen similar hikes in tuition and required fees.

Cailie Trombley, a junior at UMass, did not see the value of being ranked higher if it meant rising tuition.“It would be a big thing if we were number 1. But we’re number 40, so it doesn’t seem worth it to make us pay more,” she said.

Daniel J. Fitzgibbons, associate director of the News and Media Relations, said that the rankings do not change how UMass is Veronica Stracqualursi can be run. reached at vstracqu@umass.edu.

Second annual block party Students will bike to celebrates, unites Amherst Boston for homeless Singer from ‘The Voice’ meets fans

By KriStin laFratta Collegian Correspondent

Despite the gloomy weather, the second annual Amherst block party transformed North Pleasant Street into a festive celebration, inviting thousands of residents and students to come together and enjoy all that Amherst has to offer.

Restaurant booths, live music and circus acrobats flooded the streets of downtown Amherst on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 12. The purpose of the block party, sponsored

by the Amherst Business Improvement District, is to unite the town’s varied demographics and show off the character of downtown..

“We are celebrating what is exciting and unique about our downtown. The restaurants, the shops – that we have a vibrant community,” said BID Interim Operations Director Sarah LaCour.

U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts political science professor Rebecca Woodland and her children, Emma Gajda, 10, and Gabe Gajda,14, refused to let the rain put a damper on their day.

“We love the block party.

It is so great to shut down the streets and let every-

one walk around,” said Woodland. She added that she felt that the merging of the different age groups helped combat the bad reputation of the area’s college students.

“Something has to be done to repair the image,” said Woodland.

LaCour explained the uniting effect of the block party, saying, “We are embracing all of the different spectrums of our community - the college students, the families, the elder people; everybody can come and participate in this event.”

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Students hope to boost morale

By Brian BeVilacqua Collegian Staff

Motivated by their interactions with homeless individuals in Amherst and Northampton, University of Massachusetts students Reed Fox and Mike McGrath are planning on riding their bikes over 100 miles into Boston.

Fox and McGrath have taken on this challenge in order to raise funds and support for the Northampton Exercise Club, which offers therapeutic support to homeless

individuals through sports.

The two riders will depart from Veterans Park in Northampton at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 20 and bike to Hopkinton, the starting point for the Boston Marathon, where they will spend the night. The next day, they will bike the length of the marathon route into Boston.

The students’ involvement with the Northampton Exercise Club began last fall when Fox was approached

by Professor Todd Crosset, who wanted to connect concerned students to people who understood social work through sports. Fox was immediately interested and recruited McGrath and Paul Merriman, a senior at UMass.

The trio began raising money through startsomegood.com, collecting more than $1,200 for sports equipment, sneakers, clothes and snacks for the homeless men and women that the Northampton Exercise Club works with. With this new funding, they were able to play different sports with the homeless every Friday morning, but the group was compelled to do more.

“We needed more funding and we did not want to do some cookie cutter fundraising or a little walk, we wanted to do something difficult. So one day I tweeted at Reed and said ‘Let’s bike to Boston,’ see

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Tyler Pereira (left) and Todd Ellis (right) protest the ban on gay blood donations.

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policy on blood donations from gay men. She said she was motivated to take action after receiving a letter from a man who was turned away from donating blood after the Boston Marathon bombing because of his sexual orientation.

UMass senior Dylan Tomalin, who was in line to donate blood, said that she wasn’t aware of the ban until today, but was not surprised that it exists.

“I think it implies that all gay men are HIV positive, which is obviously not true,” she said. “I can understand where the policy was coming from 30 years ago, but I think it’s really outdated. It implies that men having sex

with men is a worse offense compared to having sex with prostitutes or using drugs with dirty needles.”

Freshman Jon Raber was among the passersby who took a fact sheet from the demonstrators. He said he knew about the ban and used to think it was justifiable because of concerns about HIV, but said his opinion changed after reading the information.

“It seems archaic and prejudicial,” he said.

Pereira organized the demonstration through a Facebook event, which he posted on the Facebook pages of the UMass Pride Alliance and the Stonewall Center to encourage others to join. He

said he was expecting about 10 others to show up throughout the day.

Despite the protests, Pereira also encouraged others to come to the drive and donate blood.

“I’ve been advocating to all my heterosexual friends and I’ve been saying, ‘you have to come, bring as many friends and possible, please donate because I can’t’,” he said.

“It really makes me feel like I’m not a part of campus life, and society in general.

It’s hard, but that’s why I’m here and that’s why I’m fighting for it.”

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu

Obama says Syria deal may help with war US threats created diplomatic situation

By ShaShank Bengali Tribune Washington Bureau WA S H I N G T O N – President Barack Obama defended his handling of the biggest international crisis of his second term so far, saying that a diplomatic deal to seize Syria’s chemical arsenal without U.S. military intervention ultimately could help resolve that country’s bitter civil war.

Obama said his threats to use missile strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government had created conditions for diplomacy to work.

“We now have a situation in which Syria has acknowledged it has chemical weapons, has said it’s willing to join the convention on chemical weapons, and Russia, its primary sponsor, has said that it will pressure Syria to reach that agreement,” Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.”

The interview was taped Friday, a day before Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov negotiated a broad agreement in Geneva aimed at removing or destroying Assad’s chemical weapons by mid-2014.

“If that goal is achieved, then it sounds to me like we did something right,” Obama said.

Obama also dismissed criticism of his zigzagging decisions over the last three weeks _ first to brush off an alleged Syrian chemical attack, then to threaten to launch missile strikes in response, then to hold back the military and ask for a vote in Congress, then to cancel the vote and seek a

diplomatic deal in Geneva.

“I’m less concerned about style points,” Obama said. “I’m much more concerned about getting the policy right.”

Getting Assad to surrender his toxic weapons could lay “a foundation to begin what has to be an international process” to reach a political settlement to end the bloodshed in Syria, Obama said. The fighting has claimed more than 100,000 lives since early 2011 and displaced more than 6 million people.

The deal announced Saturday calls for Assad to submit a full inventory of his poison gases, precursor chemicals, munitions and relevant sites within a week. Assad also must agree to allow international inspectors into Syria no later than November, and provide them security and unfettered access to do their work.

The disarmament timetable is the fastest by far since the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty that bans production, storage and use of chemical weapons, went into force in 1997.

Assad only agreed to sign the treaty last week under pressure from Russia.

Until last week, Obama was considering unilateral missile strikes to punish Assad, who the U.S. says fired rockets filled with nerve gas into rebel-held civilian enclaves near Damascus on Aug. 21. But Congress offered little support for military action, and Obama shelved the strikes in favor of diplomacy.

During a visit to Israel on Sunday, Kerry said a U.S. military strike against Syrian targets remains an option if Assad fails to implement the deal, however. “We’ve taken no option off the table,” Kerry said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,

after meeting Kerry in Jerusalem, said he supports the effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapons.

“The world needs to ensure that radical regimes don’t have weapons of mass destruction, because as we’ve learned once again in Syria, if rogue regimes have weapons of mass destruction, they will use them,” Netanyahu said.

“The determination the international community shows regarding Syria will have a direct impact on the Syrian regime’s patron, Iran.”

Kerry said Saturday that if Assad fails to comply, the United Nations Security Council would consider a resolution to enforce the terms of the deal. Russia, which has veto power on the council, has said it would oppose any armed intervention.

In the interview, Obama confirmed publicly for the first time that he had exchanged private letters with Iran’s newly inaugurated president, Hassan Rouhani, a relatively moderate cleric who has signaled a desire for a fresh start with the United States after years of growing isolation.

The Obama administration and its allies have levied harsh economic sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, but Rouhani has said he would offer greater transparency. Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

“My suspicion is that the Iranians recognize they shouldn’t draw a lesson that we haven’t struck (Syria) to think we won’t strike Iran,” Obama said.

“On the other hand, what they should draw from this lesson is that there is the potential of resolving these issues diplomatically.”

Donaghey of the Boulder Office of Emergency Management.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Larimer County authoriColo. – Widespread flood ties said 482 people were recovery efforts contin- unaccounted for, up from ued Sunday in Colorado 350 on Saturday. as hundreds of residents Donaghey stressed that remained unaccounted for not everyone on the list and the death toll - as well is missing. She said she as the number of missing is hoping the number - continued to rise. will become firmer later Officials said there were Sunday as authorities try at least 700 Coloradans to remove duplications of still listed as missing in Boulder and Larimer names. counties after the disas- Donaghey said it has been ter, which has washed out difficult to get accurate bridges and roads and numbers of the missing isolated several central because communications have been spotty or nonColorado communities.

Gov. John Hickenlooper, existent in some of the appearing on CNN hardest-hit areas. on Sunday morning, Phone service was expressed hope that many restored to some areas of the missing are simply so authorities are hopeout of reach of communiful they can reach more cations, and have “already people. gotten out or (are) staySchulz, ing with o f friends.”

Larimer “But,” he C o u n t y, added, attrib“we’re uted the s t i l l bracing. growth I mean, in the Justin Smith, Larimer County there are numbers Sheriff m a n y, of missm a n y ing to homes that have been growing concern from destroyed.” relatives and friends.

The tentative death toll from the flooding rose to People assume they will six as Larimer County law hear from loved ones but enforcement officials said become increasingly franan 80-year-old woman had tic when days pass and they still have not, he said. probably been killed.

John Schulz, the public The National Guard has information officer for rescued 1,700 people from Larimer County, said the isolated areas. But heavy woman was injured and rains have sometimes not able to get out of her grounded helicopters, house as floodwaters which have been key to began engulfing it. When reaching people where neighbors returned to get roads are impassable. her out, the house was gone. The woman is miss- Still, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith, said ing and presumed dead.

It’s common in disasters things were starting to to have large numbers of look up. missing people who have “I can tell you, while I felt simply been displaced hopeless on Friday, I felt a and briefly cut off from lot of hope, a lot of energy contact, but the numbers yesterday,” Smith said. usually peak early and He became emotional then decline as people as he described how he are located. In Colorado’s thought the communities slow-motion disaster, would come back from the however, the number of disaster “inch by inch, missing has continued to mile, by mile, community rise.

As of Sunday morn- by community.” ing there are 234 peo- “They’re doing it,” Smith ple unaccounted for in said, his voice breaking.

Boulder County, up from “People are getting those 218 on Saturday, said Liz things done out there.”

“I can tell you, while I felt hopeless on Friday, I felt a lot of hope, a lot of energy yesterday.”

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan– A two-star major general with the Pakistani army and two subordinate officers were killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in the volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the border with Afghanistan, officials said.

Maj. Gen. Sanaullah Niazi and the other officers were reportedly returning from an inspection of Pakistan border posts when their vehicle hit the mine in the Shahi Kot area of the Upper Dir district. The major general and his two colleagues died on the spot, officials said, reportedly the first time such a senior officer was killed by militants in the area. At least two other soldiers reportedly were injured.

The attack came after major political parties agreed last week to pursue peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, which is loosely affiliated with its counterpart in Afghanistan. It also came a day after the provincial government announced that troops would withdraw from the troubled Malakand region, of which Upper Dir is a part. Niazi commanded forces in Malakand, where the army was deployed in 2007 and 2009 in an attempt to crush the insurgency and restore government authority.

Naizi’s killing - along with some reports that the Taliban is calling for the release of jailed militants and the withdrawal of troops from all tribal areas as part of any negotiations - could make it more difficult to proceed with peace talks.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack, according to an individual close to the group, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

In particular, it’s believed that insurgents loyal to Mullah Fazlullah, a Taliban militant who was expelled from the Swat Valley before reportedly escaping to Afghanistan, carried out the attack. Many Fazlullah loyalists take periodic sanctuary in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, using the area as a base from which to launch attacks on Upper Dir district just across the border in Pakistan.

Officials in Islamabad reportedly have attempted through various diplomatic channels to persuade Afghanistan to crack down on Fazlullah, with limited success.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned Sunday’s attack. “Such cowardly acts by terrorists cannot deter the morale of our armed forces,” he said in a statement.

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dents turned out for the event, including senior Abby Needleman, who works at the Simple Gifts Farm in Amherst and likes to stay active in the community.

“It’s fun to have things like this. It brings the college community together with the town community,” she said.

More than 20 restaurants, as well as a wide range of community businesses such as banks and spas, participated in the block party. The sound stage set up by the River radio station in Kendrick Park hosted live bands such as Kid’s Choice, Who’da Funk It, Shokazoba and the Snaz.

Monte Belmont, morning host and brand manager of the River describes them all as “great bands,” comparing the young members of the Snaz to a future Beatles. Radio station Hits 94.3’s DJ Construc performed on a Peter Pan

Futurliner stage at the opposite end of the street.

Amherst native Michelle Chamuel, runner-up on NBC’s latest season of “The Voice,” held a meet-and-greet. The Hits 94.3 station provided her with a tent to sign autographs and take photos with fans.

“It’s great to come back to Amherst because it’s my home,” she said. She added that she doesn’t feel like much of a celebrity, but “having a lot of people pay attention to you for something you’ve done is a really interesting feeling.

It’s really great to have the support of the community, and I’m just honored to be here.” Amherst resident Rich Cain felt that overall, the party was a success.

“The block party is the most fun event all year long,” he said. “I’m glad they do it.”

Kristin LaFratta can be reached at klafratt@umass.edu.

Green turtles resurgent on the Southeast United States coast By curtis Morgan The Miami Herald

MIAMI – When Archie Carr, a pioneering University of Florida ecologist, began documenting the decline of sea turtles in the 1960s, the future looked grim - particularly for the green turtle.

The green turtle had long been a Florida seafood menu staple, usually served up in the famous soup. But with the population largely eaten out of existence in state waters, most meat had to be imported.

To make matters worse, eggs were routinely poached from beach nests. And hatchlings, attracted the lights of growing coastal communities, crawled inland rather than out to sea, dying in the hot sun or under car tires.

At the low point, Carr, who died in 1987, estimated there were no more than 40 green turtle nests along the entire Florida coast, its primary nursery ground.

Now, greens are in the midst of a nesting boom from South Florida to South Carolina.

With a month left in nesting season, Florida wildlife managers say preliminary numbers show green turtle nesting has more than doubled statewide. Biologists have already tallied a record 11,500 nests in one 20-mile stretch alone - in the national refuge south of Melbourne Beach that bears Carr’s name - doubling a high set only two years ago.

Green turtles, which average 350 pounds when fullgrown, have even crawled ashore in not-so-inviting areas like rocky oceanside Elliott Key, giving Biscayne National Park its first documented green turtle nest.

“It’s just a miracle,” said Llewellyn Ehrhart, a University of Central Florida

zoologist who has monitored nesting in the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge for decades. “This is one of the greatest positive stories in the history of wildlife conservation in America, mostly because they were decimated so badly.”

Ehrhart and state and federal wildlife managers credit a host of save-the-sea-turtle measures enacted over the past few decades for the resurgence of nesting in the southeastern United States. Two other species that most commonly nest in Florida, the loggerhead and leatherback, also have been on a general upward trend, but not one nearly as dramatic as the green turtle.

“It’s very positive, and 20-plus years of conservation efforts are really starting to pay off,” said Ann Marie Lauritsen, acting national sea turtle coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Those efforts include seasonal lighting ordinances adopted by an increasing number of coastal communities to reduce street and building lights that confuse nesting turtles and development restrictions that have preserved crucial nesting sites like the Carr refuge, which Congress created in 1991. Its beach, which straddles Brevard and Indian River counties, typically produces about half the state’s turtle nests.

A ban on gillnets that Florida enacted in 1994 to protect dwindling stocks of redfish, mullet and other shallowwater species probably had a healthy ripple effect on green turtles, which are vegetarians often found foraging in the same sea-grass meadows.

Turtle extruder devices fitted to shrimp trawlers that allow turtles to escape nets and death as “by-catch” may have helped as well - but more for

deep-water species such as the loggerhead and leatherback.

Ehrhart and Blair Witherington, a scientist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, believe the rebound really began in 1978, when the green turtle was added to the federal list of endangered species. The declaration banned the harvest of eggs, turtle fishing and any sale of sea turtle meat, domestic or imported.

All five of the species that nest in Florida remain on the list today, with the green, leatherback, hawksbill and - rarest of all - Kemp’s Ridley all considered at the highest risk. The loggerhead, the most common turtle, is listed as threatened.

“When we stopped eating them, that was a pretty big effect,” said Witherington. “Lo and behold, you stop hitting them on the head and killing them, and they come back.”

Still, it took quite a while for sea turtles, which can live 60 or more years and do not typically reach breeding maturity for 20 to 30 years, to respond.

When Ehrhart started his beach surveys in 1982, he found fewer than 50 nests in the Archie Carr. By the early 1990s, the numbers began to bump into the hundreds. Over the past decade, it bounced in and out of the thousands, hitting 5,500 in 2011. This year, he was shocked and thrilled to see nesting numbers leap above 10,000. Overall, he said, it represents a growth rate that, he believes, may be unprecedented in wildlife-conservation efforts.

Nesting is up across the green turtle’s range, said Lauritsen, with increases in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia as well.

South Florida, which doesn’t get nearly as many nests as Central Florida, has still seen

its numbers jump.

“Overall in the last 33 years, I think 11 is the most we’ve had,” said Bill Ahern, MiamiDade County’s longtime sea turtle conservationist. “We’re looking at 32 green nests so far (this year). It’s been amazing.”

Despite the encouraging increases, wildlife managers are not ready to pronounce sea turtles out of danger.

Populations of some species remain precariously low.

Kemp’s Ridley turtles, which mainly nest on the Mexican Gulf Coast but sporadically are found in Florida, are thought to number fewer than a thousand nesting females.

The hawksbill is also rare.

Nests of the leatherback can sometimes number in the dozens in Florida.

Nesting also runs in cycles, with turtles traveling hundreds or thousands of miles to return to build nests in the same areas where they were hatched. The output can yo-yo from year to year for reasons that are not always clear.

Loggerheads, the most common turtle, began to decline starting in the late 1990s, but nesting has more recently gone up and down.

Green turtles still face a host of threats, many shared by other species. Because they frequent coastal waters, boat strikes kill or injure many turtles. They are also exposed to toxic algae blooms like red tide, as well as potentially fatal freezes. Pollution and development can degrade and damage their habitats.

And while many countries have also begun to ban the harvest of eggs and meat, turtles still wind up legally and illegally in plates and bowls in some countries. There is also the question of climate change and whether rising sea levels will swamp beaches and nesting areas.

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A street performer attracts attention at Thursday’s Amherst block party.

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The band, Kid’s Choice, performs at the block party.

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and now we’re doing it,” explained McGrath.

With Merriman tasked with finding sponsors and donations for the fundraiser, more than $1,800 was raised for the bike ride. Valley Bike and Ski Werks donated two new bikes for McGrath and Reed to train on.

However, the students say their primary goal is not to raise money but to raise morale for the homeless men and women they consider themselves fortunate to know.

“We want to do whatever we can to help get these men and women motivated and get their lives on track, because they can. They just did not have anyone to lean on when they needed help like the rest of us do,” said

Gas leak temporarily shuts down libray, Student Union

By Patrick Hoff Collegian Staff

A mistake with construction equipment caused a brief gas leak at the University of Massachusetts on Thursday, during which the Student Union and W.E.B. Du Bois Library were off limits to all but emergency personnel.

The leak was reported around 3 p.m. when a contractor working on underground infrastructure in the middle of campus near the library caused a rupture in the gas line. Police and firefighters were quick to respond to the scene, and text and email alerts

were sent to students and faculty on campus to warn them of the danger.

UMass spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said that Berkshire Gas Company showed up at the scene just before 3:30 p.m. to shut off the gas and secure the area.

The area remained closed until just after 3:40 p.m. in order to ensure campus safety.

During the emergency, students were directed to go around South College instead of walking past the library towards Thompson Hall, a walkway used frequently since the closure of the

stairs near the library leading to the Student Union. Students were also not permitted to leave the Student Union during the emergency.

Blaguszewski said that the campus is safe and “in good shape” now and that it was simply an accident.

“We’re updating electricity, steam and power throughout campus for existing and future buildings,” he said. “Some equipment hit the gas line.”

Patrick Hoff can be reached at pphoff@ umass.edu.

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Reed. “They are just like us, and when you are playing sports the stigma of being different is removed.”

The group also hopes to build more respect and trust among the men and women they work with.

Many do not stay in one place for long and are weary of receiving help.

“We want them to realize we are not giving them anything other than an outlet to vent,” said Merriman. “We are not trying to make them to go to rehab or church, we don’t want anything from them at all other than to feel better. That just leads to a happier outlook.”

Brian Bevilacqua can be reached at bbevilac@umass.edu.

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Misunderstanding and milkshakes: a summer story

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Summer is widely regarded as a magical time of adventure and nostalgia.

Over the course of those three sweaty months, many try to explore new places

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Michaela Hughes and have deep moments of self-discovery, usually while taking excessively filtered pictures of beaches and iced coffees. Those summers only exist in the overly manicured world of the internet or in a Zac Brown Band song. Real summers never go according to plan.

This past summer, I moved back in with my family in Boston for an unpaid internship, but soon found that I was in serious need of money to cover even the barest essentials. When I received a call from the Shake Shack with a request for an interview, I quickly accepted.

As a pseudo-hippie vegetarian from Western Massachusetts, I had never heard of the Shake Shack.

Upon entering, I immediately discovered that it was in fact a fast food restaurant.

Think Five Guys meets McDonalds. As I nearly did a 180 degree turn to the exit, visions of empty wallets and overdraft fees danced in my head. I followed through and was hired on the spot.

On my first day, I was instructed to wear all black along with my new Shake Shack T-shirt and baseball cap. I thought, “I can work with this; it could be worse,” but spoke too soon. When I arrived, I was also told to adorn a black, full-length apron, bright blue plastic gloves, and…a hairnet.

Let me repeat that for effect: hairnet.

Orientation mostly involved the manager telling me the dos and don’ts of the place: do everything you’re told and don’t take anything for free.

I was first assigned to work the Custard Station; my duties included pouring milkshakes into cups and putting lids on them.

The kitchen was run like an assembly line; each station

had three attendants who had one small task and then passed it along to the next person.

It was fairly typical labor for a part-time job. However, it was not the labor that bothered me, but the institution itself.

Driving home after my first shift, I prepared the story of outrage and offense I would share with my family to expose just how problematic I found the fast food industry in my naïve, liberal

Just before I had ended my three-month stint to return to school, it all hit me. I had spent the past three years of my college education studying class systems, racial divides, feminist rhetoric and economic injustice. I had picked apart our society to such an extreme, that I had begun to feel separate from it all.

What made me so different from the Shake Shack?

Because it did not follow the same environmental and economic ethics I had learned in class? Why had my education disabled me from functioning in the very society I had been studying?

It’s the liberal bias I have been inundated with that has subconsciously promoted intellectual division from the very systems that operate within our society. How could I have spent the past several years of my life passing judgment on these institutions which I had known nothing about?

For all the bad I found in this large fast food corporation, it actually does a lot of good for its community, from donating to charity to providing employee benefits.

Even though, on the surface, an establishment may not live up to the ideal of a perfect liberal society, you shouldn’t necessarily look down on it. It’s easy to criticize something when it’s not your life and it’s even easier to hate something if you disagree with it. The most important lessons of tolerance and open-mindedness cannot always be found in a classroom, but rather in spaces outside of our comfort zone and worlds different from our own.

As corny as it sounds, maybe I did have one of those self-reflective, lifechanging summers. It did not happen how I planned it or how I wanted it, but I guess that’s just one of those things we each discover in our own way, hopefully without a hairnet.

Kishi Bashi performs discordant show

By SaBrina amiri Collegian Staff

Even though, on the surface, an establishment may not live up to the ideal of a perfect liberal society, you shouldn’t necessarily look down on it.

opinion. But as I explained to my family the gloves and the scooping and the monotony and the hairnets, they seemed less than amused.

My sister belittled my complaints while my dad laid it out plain and simple: “Do you think you’re better than this place?”

That’s when it hit me: I was the one with the problem, not the establishment.

My judgment and privilege was out of control. I have worked several jobs in my life, but my Shake Shack career differed from the more socially respectable positions I’ve occupied.

The other jobs granted me personal freedom in addition to meeting the morals I live by. At the Shake Shack, I was out of my personal comfort zone, as I was just a number assigned to a simple task. The minute I put on that hairnet and slipped on those gloves, I no longer felt like myself.

My vegetarian reflex no longer shuddered at the pools of bacon grease and my sustainability-oriented mind stopped combusting every time I was reminded that the kitchen did not recycle. I eventually grew used to the utter disrespect I felt from customer.

All the while, I just wanted to scream that this was not me, that I do not believe in fast food, that I’m a person of value. I felt like a Michaela Hughes is a Collegian small, helpless speck in a contributor and can be reached at atmmhughes@umass.edu. very large institution.

We are the problem Political discourse in the United States has become increasingly partisan over the last decade, to the point where the current 113th Congress has a dismal 14 percent approval rating.

It has only passed 22 bills since January, making it the least productive Congress on record.

Modern politics has become a war of words, a public battlefield that leaves

ball with him.

The current gridlock is not the fault of individual politicians. After all, we were the ones who told them they’d be good at their job when we voted for them.

If a mailroom performs poorly because the workers can’t speak or read the language, should the blame fall on the workers? Of course not: they try the best they can given their limited knowledge of the language. The Stefan Herlitz blame should fall instead on those who hired the wrong nothing untouched. As people for the job. expected, this deplorable As a society, we overinsituation has been blasted vest in the oversimplified, by the media, politicians and perpetually conflicting politcitizenry alike.

Every day there is another special about partisan gridlock and how it is hurting the country.

M a n y Americans recognize the situation, but rarely discuss the true cause: us. While American citizens have ical system we have created given today’s Congress its for ourselves. Nowhere in rock-bottom approval rat- the Constitution is it written ing, they tend to think more that politics must be a battle highly of their own repre- of red versus blue with less sentatives. Voters are more complexity than a simple likely to approve of their game of football.

The Democratic and own representatives than disapprove and frequently Republican parties themreelect incumbent politi- selves are meaningless.

They don’t stand for anycians.

This highlights the issue: thing except for the fact we, the voters, elect officials that they oppose the other whom we like or agree with, party. Neither has a unifynot those best equipped to do ing set of beliefs or principles: their values can and the job.

Being a senator or rep- do change. Yes, Democrats resentative is not about tend to be more liberal and being an ideological paragon Republicans more conseruncompromising in your vative, but no issue exists beliefs – it’s about leading. in which all Democrats Leadership requires reason, hold one position and all debate and compromise, not Republicans hold another.

Just like football fans, unwavering adherence to a Republicans and Democrats specific set of principles.

The legislative branch root for their respective primarily serves to address teams at each election. Both and fix the problems of the celebrate when their teams day; what current legislators win, and both call losses do is much more akin to the flukes, all the while knowbehavior of a petulant child ing that there will always be going home and taking his another election. The game

never ends.

The media devote incessant coverage as to which side is winning the game of politics, but they never acknowledge the fact that it doesn’t matter which side wins. As long as the competition is what we care about, everyone loses.

While our society looks down on politicians who make backroom deals, barter and compromise, we must acknowledge that this is the only kind of politician who can actually do the job.

Hyper-partisan grandstanding and conflict is not a characteristic of a world power; it is the hallmark of a failed state.

After the revolution that successfully ousted President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians elected the Muslim Brotherhood into power under Mohamed Morsi.

However, none of the parties were willing to work together, which caused tensions to rise between rival factions, resulting in a military coup of Morsi and his followers.

Egypt’s example, bolstered by those of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and other such states, demonstrates that good politics is not about beating the other side and holding power for as long as possible. Good politics instead involve working together to better the nation as a whole.

So every time you hear someone say, “Republicans this” or “Democrats that,” remember that the “fundamental differences” they describe are a ridiculous fantasy. Our nation can only succeed through thoughtful debate and reasonable compromise.

The media devote incessant coverage as to which side is winning the game of politics, but they never acknowledge the fact that it doesn’t matter which side wins. As long as the competition is what we care about, everyone loses.

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

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Last Tuesday, concertgoers at the Pearl Street Clubroom in downtown Northampton were treated to a smorgasbord of indiealternative music from local band The Sun Parade, Brooklyn-based Elizabeth & the Catapult and finally, the headliner, Kishi Bashi.

Starting off the night, Northampton locals Chris Jennings and Jefferson Lewis took the stage as the core members of the indiefolk group The Sun Parade, a band which has been known to appear as a four-piece band in its entirety. Despite lacking a drummer and a bassist, the duo had no trouble filling the Clubroom with sound while Jennings played the guitar and Lewis the mandolin. The group played a number of songs off their latest album, “Yossis.”

After an all too brief 30 minute set, Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth & the Catapult took the stage alone and began to play a beautiful and swelling piano melody, highlighting her classical training and stopping only to crack some jokes about a moment of feedback from audio equipment being a message from the heavens.

She then transitioned into “Thank You for Nothing,” a somber piano ballad, and was joined by the rest of her band, a group of talented multi-

instrumentalists, including drummer David Heilman.

The five-piece band had great chemistry on stage that complemented Ziman’s sultry vocals and very downto-earth lyrics as seen in songs such as “Happy Pop,” in which Ziman’s sardonic lyrics channel a lot of malcontent towards a formal record label in an audibly pleasing way. Elizabeth & the Catapult rounded off their vibrant set with a cover of the song “When My Time Comes” by Dawes, which was a departure from their typical twangy indie-pop sound.

Shortly before 10 p.m.

Kishi Bashi took the stage in a somewhat uncharacteristic manner: with a full band.

Kishi Bashi is well known for being a one-man symphony, utilizing loop effects in his performance. On this tour, Kishi Bashi is accompanied by a backing band, including Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees, an exceedingly talented banjo player also known for looping and layering riffs live. In addition to Savino, Heilman reappeared onstage to take up the drums yet again, as well as bassist Daniel Brunerd.

As soon as the band could take the stage, Kishi Bashi said “Hello again,” to the crowd, and looped it through an octave changer. The set started off with “Evalyn, Summer Has Arrived,” which was written by Kishi Bashi and Kevin Barnes, a longtime friend and former band mate of the avant-garde band, of Montreal. The sound of the song reflects the collabora-

tion, starting with a smooth indie-alternative feel that moves effortlessly into an experimental groove punctuated by a dramatic violin with a faster tempo.

The band quickly galvanized the crowd with a few songs off of Kishi Bashi’s 2012 album, “151a”, before debuting a number of new songs.

The first of the new tunes was a sweet and poppy song, regarding which Kishi Bashi jokingly told the crowd, “This might go on our new album, so I hope you like it, but even if you don’t we’ll probably put it on the album.”

The second new song was titled “Carry On, Phenomenon,” and Kishi Bashi told the crowd to “stretch [their] musicianship to the widest level.” The song differed from Kishi Bashi’s usual sound, lacking the usual loops and heavy layering. It seemed as though the song was a test of the band’s musicianship, and while foraying into new musical territory, the quintessential Kishi Bashi sound was diluted by Heilman’s strong rhythmic drumming and the fuller band. They pulled it back together for “Chester’s Burst Over the Hamptons,” a song which Kishi Bashi often states is one of the most difficult to play live.

Soon after, Heilman and Brunerd vacated the stage, leaving Kishi Bashi to riff with Savino together before moving into “Conversations at the End of the World,” a doleful melody which the violinist played with a sad smile on his face.

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Unique violinist Kishi Bashi wails his vocals on stage at the Pearl Street Clubroom.

A few songs later, Savino left Kishi Bashi alone on stage to readjust his bowtie and dive into a solo performance of “I Am the Antichrist to You.” Without any other musicians to rely on, Kishi Bashi’s performance gravitated more towards his personal style, as he showcased his technical musicianship beautifully in the last several songs of the performance.

Alone on stage, the emotional impact of Kishi Bashi’s music was much more palpable. On his own the performer was affable enough to charm the crowd. He also took time to thank his openers, although he managed to forget the name of The Sun Parade each time he brought up his accompanying musi-

cians.

The set ended with “Manchester,” and after leaving the stage for only a few minutes, the band came back on as Kishi Bashi jogged back on to an adoring crowd to debut another new song, titled “Mister Steak,” which was its debut live-performance. With the full band, Kishi Bashi’s violin and vocals were drowned out, although the song managed to be salvaged during the chorus.

To close the night, Kishi Bashi attempted a rousing performance of “Bright Whites,” featuring heavyhanded loops and beat boxing over occasional Japanese lyrics in a whirlwind of a performance. While the night could have ended then and there,

the band churned out a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” Kishi Bashi’s bassist emulated Robert Plant’s vocals exceedingly well as Kishi Bashi shredded his violin center-stage.

While the final song was a success, the jarring and abrupt change in musical styling highlighted a glaring issue that occasionally reared its head throughout the show.

The classical contemporary and the experimental fusion that comprises Kishi Bashi’s work simply clashed with the alternative-rock addition of a full band, leading to a disappointing show for fans of the music.

Sabrina Amiri can be reached at samiri@umass.edu.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Volcano Choir releases new City and Colour plays grandiose indie-rock LP cozy show in Northampton Long awaited new material delivered

By JackSon maxwell Collegian Correspondent

When Volcano Choir started as a semi-formal collaboration in 2005, it was doubtful that any of its members could foresee their later success. Released on Sept. 2, “Repave” is the second studio album from the band, a collaboration between Justin Vernon, the man behind Bon Iver, and his friends from the Wisconsin post-rock group Collections of Colonies of Bees.

Vernon didn’t contribute any instrumental tracks to the album, focusing entirely on lyrics and vocals. The band began to develop these tracks in 2010, tearing them down, reshaping and adding to them for two and a half years.

What they produced is a grandiose, sweeping, and often brilliant album.

Although Vernon’s vocals inevitably draw comparisons to Bon Iver, Volcano Choir’s music is a different beast entirely.

The group is much less personal than Bon Iver, as Vernon is merely a member of a large collaborative ensemble, rather than the director of the band.

Although not quite as masterful as Vernon’s two Bon Iver records, “Repave” is an epic, widescreen-type album that bursts at the

seams with innovation and ideas.

The opening track, “Tiderays,” takes a couple minutes to pick up, but as soon as the chorus kicks in around halfway through, Vernon’s vocals and the sprinkling of guitars echo around the ears for a rewarding experience. The following song, “Acetate,” is more of a rock song, one that showcases Vernon’s baritone vocals, as opposed to his usual falsetto. Catchy and anthemic, it rocks while maintaining a fascinating diversity of sounds and textures.

Next on the album, “Comrade” meshes looped instrumentation with more organic sounding keys and guitars. It is this mixture of electronic layers with great physical performance that makes so many of these songs so engaging.

But “Byegone,” the fourth track, is the showstopper on “Repave.” A massive, catchy opening riff gets the song in gear immediately. Vernon’s vocals are perfectly timed and controlled throughout the verses and bridges as they build the anticipation for a truly magnificent chorus.

The huge riff in the intro is reprised with the full band as a whole chorus of Justin Vernon’s harmonized vocals cry “Set sail, set sail,” over and over again.

The chorus of “Byegone” washes over the listener’s entire body with its warm, resounding embrace, being

one of the better songs Vernon has ever written.

“Alaskans“ is a far more intimate, acoustic song.

Although it sounds a bit fragile at times, it is for the most part gorgeous.

“Dancepack” is another beautifully grand song on the album that never stretches itself too thin.

“Keel” may be the weakest track on the record, but that is not really saying much for an album as strong as “Repave.” The densely-layered acoustic guitars that dominate the track on the song are quite pretty, but they seem to weigh the song down after a few minutes. The closer, “Almanac,” is Lord of the Rings-sized in its scope.

The track itself is not hugely special, but it gets quite beautiful in its last couple minutes, as countless looped Vernon vocals envelop the last, triumphant, repeated guitar riff in a beautiful cacophony: a fitting end to a great work.

For those expecting a sound just like Bon Iver, this album may be surprising. But once one gets over the association with Bon Iver, “Repave” will inevitably please. The great singing and lyrics as always from Vernon, combined with the truly fantastic band Collections of Colonies of Bees, produce a fascinating and immersive record.

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

Dallas Green starts tour in Mass.

By DeirDre ceDrone Collegian Correspondent Dallas Green and his band City and Colour delivered a warm and comfortable show to the crowd at the Calvin Theatre on Friday, Sept. 13.

The Calvin Theatre in Northampton,played host to songwriter and front man Dallas Green’s band City and Colour on Friday, Sept. 13.

The Calvin Theatre is one of the gems of Northampton, and has allowed countless musical acts to come through its doors and perform in its cozy yet spacious concert hall. The homey and grand theater has a helpful, positive staff, as well as beer on tap, creating the perfect atmosphere for bands like City and Colour to perform in.

The group has always chosen smaller and cozier venues, including the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, which was the home of their show last Saturday night. To no surprise, Friday’s show was intimate; the Calvin Theatre was small enough for everyone to stand close to the band, while the high structured ceilings allowed for a great natural resounding sound.

Concert-goers enjoyed Green’s acoustic abilities, the surreal, hauntingly beautiful and alive sounds of which could be heard fluidly throughout the hall. City and Colour delivered a show lively enough to shake the crowd

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City and Colour performing at Pearl Street Ballroom in 2011. with its captivating musical performance.

The group played a number of songs from their various albums, including tracks from their new LP, “The Hurry and the Harm,” which debuted at number 16 on the U.S. “Billboard 200” chart upon its release in June. A few of the songs that were played off of the album include “Harder than Stone,” “Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Paradise”.

Despite the intimacy of the show, Green had very little to say to the audience.

The few things he said were either witty jokes or the stories behind certain songs.

One track he spoke about was “Paradise,” which he described as a song about a time in life when everything is seemingly perfect, but one cannot find it within themselves to be happy.

Other songs the band went on to play included “Northern Wind,” “Fragile

Bird,” “The Girl,” and “Body in a Box,” which are all songs from earlier records.

Before playing “Body in a Box,” a track from the band’s 2008 LP “Bring Me Your Love,” Green asked a favor of the audience, one he claimed to make at all his shorts: He asked concert-goers to forget about their cell phones for the duration of the song.

The crowd became beautifully dark as the bright lights of the stage lit up the theatre.

The song speaks of living life to its fullest potential and of letting go.

Throughout his music, Green captures the most intense of emotions. He is able to captivate audiences with his natural ability to use music as a connection to emotion. The crowd was mesmerized by Green as he took control of the stage and delivered more than any audience could hope for.

Deirdre Cedrone can be reached at dcedrone@umass.edu.

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UMass splits weekend series in College Station UM tops Lamar in double overtime

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After losing a tough game to Texas A&M on Friday, the Massachusetts women’s soccer team ended the road trip on a positive note, earning a 2-1 win in double overtime over Lamar (2-4-1).

Freshman forward Sarah Pandolfi netted her first collegiate goal in the 104th minute of double overtime, placing it over the goalkeeper off an assist from Jackie Bruno to lift the Minutewomen (2-41) to the win.

“It was a good shot,” UMass coach Ed Matz said about the game-winning goal.

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out with a win.”

Pandolfi wasn’t the only freshman to make her mark in this game, as fellow freshman Daniela Alvarez tied the game on her first collegiate goal, assisted

by Pandolfi and senior cocaptain Lauren Skesavage.

The goal was unanswered by either team, and therefore essentially sent the game into overtime.

After allowing a quick goal to the Cardinals (3-4-0) in just the seventh minute, the UMass defense took over, keeping Lamar scoreless for the rest of the game. The Minutewomen succeeded in limiting the Lamar offense in opportunities as well, holding the Cardinals to just one shot attempt throughout both overtime periods.

While UMass has been held to just two or less goals in all but one game so far

this season, the defensive presence of this squad has kept them within reach to win games. By keeping opponents to two goals or less in five of their seven games, Matz has recognized the Minutewomen defense to be an anchor to success.

“The defense is a strength in our team,” Matz said. “Our defense, along with our goal keeper, gives us the opportunity to win every game.”

UMass falls to No. 20 A&M The Minutewomen lost for the first time in three games on Friday, falling to No. 20 Texas A&M 3-1 in the first of two road matches in Texas.

The Aggies (4-2-1) were clinging to a one-goal lead entering the 79th minute until Shea Groom expanded that lead with a goal from the top of the six-yard box

to secure the win. The goal marked Groom’s third of the contest. She also had a teamhigh nine total shots.

After sur rendering two early goals, the Minutewomen made the game close in the first half when Brittany Moore scored on a chip shot from 15 yards out. The UMass defense then held off the Aggies’ offense until the game-clinching goal by Groom, fending off 18 total shots in the second half.

“I thought we played well,” Matz said. “We gave up two quick goals for them but then we settled in. We came out the first 10, 15 minutes of the second half and played extremely well, but as the game went on A&M was able to get that last goal.”

Despite what Matz’s analysis, the box score tells another tale. The UMass defense

Doyle. “He doesn’t always do that in practice but [Saturday] was sharp. And his decision-making was pretty good – there was one or two [plays] that he definitely missed and we’ll work on those things and make sure we don’t miss them again – but I felt very confident with him out there [Saturday].”

Doyle’s night didn’t get off to the start he probably wanted, however, as his second pass of the game was intercepted by Kip Daily and returned 38 yards for a touchdown to give Kansas State the 6-0 lead early in the first quarter.

But Doyle shook it off and put together a pair of strong drives. The Minutemen drove the ball 77 yards on 16 plays in their second offensive possession, but Blake Lucas’ 23-yard chip shot to cut the deficit in half was blocked the Travis Britz.

It was a promising drive for UMass nonetheless.

Doyle went 5-for-5 for 39 yards, while Stacey Bedell ran for 39 yards on eight carries. Both Tajae Sharpe (nine catches, 98 yards) and Derek Beck (five catches, 35 yards) made a pair of catches to extend the drive as well.

Next time around, the Minutemen weren’t denied.

An Antoine Tharpe interception of Waters’

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Jackie Bruno (above) recorded an assist in UMass’ win over Lamar on Sunday. gave up 32 total shots and struggled against the Texas A&M offense. Matz, however, doesn’t think sees the statistics as flawed.

“They didn’t really get off 32 shots,” Matz said. “That’s

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2-1 in their first game of the Syracuse Invitational.

UMass got off to a slow start, giving up a goal just 3:20 into the game to Orange junior Lauren Brooks. The Minutewomen responded with a goal of their own five minutes later when senior Molly MacDonnell scored her second goal of the season, which was assisted by senior Lindsay Bowman.

The half ended 1-1, but Syracuse quickly jumped back out to a 2-1 lead when senior Leonie Geyer scored the game winning goal just about 10 minutes into the second half. The Minutewomen averaged 3.6 goals in its first five games of the season, and Friday marked the first game in which UMass failed to score more than one goal.

“Our offensive production was not what it has been the past few games and [we] just didn’t take advantage of our opportunities,” Tagliente said.

“Statistically, the offensive production wasn’t there.”

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The UMass field hockey team bounced back from its first loss of the season on Friday with a win on Sunday.

Tagliente believes that the stats – UMass was outshot 7-4 – weren’t really telling of the game. She thought that her team played some of the best hockey it has all season.

“I thought we controlled and dominated the game in

the middle of the field and really held possession and responded really well after giving up that early goal, but we just didn’t finish our opportunities in the attacking end,” Tagliente said.

The Minutewomen look to move to 7-1 on

the year when they finish off a brief three-game road trip in Storrs, Conn. on Wednesday to take on Connecticut in a non-conference battle.

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

what it says in the score sheet but some of the shots were 15 or 20 yards above the goal or to the side of the goal. Most schools don’t count those.”

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UMass did not lack opportunity Sunday, attempting five corner kicks. The Minutemen have attempted 20 corners on the season but have failed to convert on any.

“At times we look really good and at times we don’t, it’s one of those things where you have to keep working at it until we get it down,” Koch said. “We’re certainly, I think, a lot better at it and we’re scoring a lot more on our set pieces in training.”

Still, UMass’ offensive output has been minimal.

The team’s scored two goals this season, both coming against Vermont in a 3-2 loss. Five times the Minutemen have been shutout, a disappointing figure for the young team. “[The team] isn’t happy, I don’t think anybody’s happy when you work as hard as you do and you don’t get [results],” Koch said. “We’re frustrated; we’ve got our heads down a little bit. We talked about it after the game, the only tragedy in this loss is if we don’t learn from it and

“Is it frustrating?

There’s no question about that. Are we slowly but surely getting better? There’s no question they are.”

UMass coach Sam Koch become a better team.”

Koch hopes Sunday’s performance against Adelabu can be treated as a learning tool as the team prepares to faces similar types of players in Atlantic-10 action.

“When we go against players like that, we have to make sure we track them better because when we go against the St. Louis’ and the VCU’s and the George Mason’s, they’re gonna have players like that and we have to be able to handle those kinds of players.”

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

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“Our team does wear down on defense.

We don’t have a lot of depth at the linebacker spots, we don’t have a lot of depth at the secondary right now and it starts to show in the second half.”

UMass coach Charley Molnar pass gave UMass the ball at the Kansas State 46-yard line, and Bedell capped off the five play drive with his first career touchdown from two yards out to give UMass a 7-6 lead after Lucas converted the extra point.

Bedell had a career game of his own. The redshirt freshman ran for 81 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries and had his share of long runs, including one for 14 yards in the first quarter and another for 18 yards in the fourth quarter, his longest run of the season.

That was the end of the UMass highlight reel, though. The Wildcats responded with 30 unanswered points thanks to a strong running attack led

by Sams to give them the lead for good.

Sams completed runs of 15 yards and 37 yards out of the Wildcat formation on consecutive plays to give Kansas State first and goal at the 4-yard line. The sophomore finished the drive five plays later on fourth and goal

at the 1-yard line and Jack Cantele hit the extra point to give the Wildcats a 13-7 advantage midway through the second quarter.

The running game led Kansas State into the end zone once again. The Wildcats ran six plays for 81 yards and Robert Rose scored on a 26-yard scamper to make it 20-7. The next Kansas State possession resulted in a backbreaking, 43-yard touchdown pass from Waters to Hubert in the final minute of the half to give the Wildcats a 27-7 halftime lead.

Despite the glaring deficit at the break, Molnar was happy with his team’s attitude in the locker room.

“It took some air out of us, but even in the locker room the guys were still in a good place,” Molnar said. “Even running out on the field all the coaches on the phone were saying, ‘man, we’ve never had this feeling at halftime when we were behind like we did [Saturday].’”

Kansas State running back John Hubert led the Wildcats with 118 rushing yards in their 37-7 win over UMass.

Kansas State pushed its lead to 34-7 on its first possession of the second half when Waters hit Glenn Gronkowski for a 50-yard touchdown strike.

Doyle put together another solid, 14-play drive in the third quarter that brought the Minutemen

back into Wildcats territory, but the possession was stalled by another Daily interception.

Cantele hit a 42-yard field goal to extend the Kansas State lead to 37-7.

Ed Saint-Vil led the UMass defense with 12 tackles. Joe Colton had an

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active game as well with nine stops.

The Minutemen seek their first win of the season when they host Vanderbilt at Gillette Stadium on Saturday at noon.

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

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FOOTBALL

K-State downs Minutemen Doyle makes first start of the season

By Nick caNelas Collegian Staff

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Kip Daily (7) celebrates an interception that he returned for a touchdown in Kansas State’s 37-7 win over the UMass football team on Saturday night.

FIELD HOCKEY

The Massachusetts football team may have had a new starter at quarterback on Saturday night, but the result was still the same.

Sophomore A.J. Doyle was strong in his first start of the season. Strong enough, in fact, to lead the Minutemen to a 7-6 advantage over Kansas State after the first quarter. But the UMass defense was done in by the running game yet again as it allowed the Wildcats to rush for 329 yards with five different players in a 37-7 win over the Minutemen at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

UMass (0-3) gave up an average of 320 rushing yards to its opponents in its first two games, and exceeded that output Saturday night. Kansas State (2-1) running back John Hubert led the way with 118 yards on 18 attempts, while dual quarterbacks Jake Waters and Daniel Sams ran for a combined 151 yards and a touchdown.

On top of that, the UMass defense allowed Waters to complete 5-of-10 passes for 115 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

“I think we’re good tackles,” UMass coach Charley Molnar said in his postgame press conference.

“Some of it boils down to one-on-ones with a lot of air, and it’s tough to make those plays. Why there’s so much air, that’s something

that we’re working on to make sure it’s more compressed when we’re tackling in smaller spaces.

“Our team does wear down on defense,” Molnar continued. “We don’t have a lot of depth at the linebacker spots, we don’t have a lot of depth at the secondary right now and it starts to show in the second half.”

S at u rd ay m a rke d Doyle’s first start since last year’s season finale against Central Michigan, but with three quarters of play in relief of Mike Wegzyn under his belt already, the quarterback made a solid impression.

Doyle completed 21-of-31 passes for 186 yards and threw a pair of interceptions as the lone blemishes in the Minutemen’s best offensive showing of the season, even without the services of tight end Rob Blanchflower, who has yet to play this season with a pair of undisclosed injuries. The UMass offense amassed a season-high 309 yards with 17 first downs, including seven third down conversions.

Doyle was named the Minutemen’s star ter for Saturday’s game on Wednesday after a threeday competition in practice with Wegzyn, who started UMass’ first two games.

But with Doyle’s efficiency in a full four quarters of play on Saturday and Wegzyn’s struggles in the first two games, the competition may finally be settled for the time being.

“He was on the money [Saturday],” Molnar said of see

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MEN’S SOCCER

Sabia leads UM to UMass shut out by Big Green nets two bounce-back win Adelabu for Dartmouth UMass records third shutout

By JasoN kates Collegian Staff

An early second half goal by sophomore Brooke Sabia gave the No. 7 Massachusetts field hockey team a 1-0 victory over Ohio State Saturday afternoon in the Syracuse Invitational.

After a scoreless first half, Sabia scored her eighth goal of the season off a penalty corner assisted by senior Alexa Sikalis and freshman Charlotte Verelst about nine minutes into the second half to give UMass (6-1) a lead it would not surrender.

Just one day after losing a hard fought battle to No. 6 Syracuse, UMass coach Carla Tagliente was happy with the way her team bounced back against the Buckeyes (2-3).

“It was very important for us to get back out there after playing a great game against a great team like Syracuse,” Tagliente said. “Ohio State doesn’t have the record that Syracuse has, but I still rate them very highly, and we were very surprised at how strong they were.”

Not only did the Minutewomen pick up the victory, but also collected their third shutout of

“It was very important for us to get back out there after playing a great game against a great team like Syracuse.”

UMass coach Carla Tagliente the season. Tagliente has attributed UMass’ standout defense to the experience of the group, including reigning A-10 Defensive Player of the Year junior Lauren Allymohamed.

“They’ve done a really good job, especially our backs and defensive midfielders,” Tagliente said.

“To have a lot of experience back there is always helpful because it helps set up the attack and create more offensive opportunities.”

UMass outshot the Buckeyes 10-8, but both teams only had five penalty corners each. Sophomore goalkeeper Sam Carlino was credited with the shutout after having to make only four saves in the game.

UMass suffers first loss The Minutewomen suffered their first loss of the season Friday afternoon when they fell to Syracuse see

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By Mark chiarelli Collegian Staff

Sometimes only a single mistake or play can change the complexity of a game.

For the Massachusetts men’s soccer team, 2013 has been an ongoing struggle to find its way onto the correct side of those outcomes.

UMass (0-5-1) fell to Dartmouth 2-0 on Sunday afternoon, allowing two goals to junior phenom Alex Adelabu in a 14-minute span. Adelabu, who was named first-team AllIvy League a season ago, commanded constant attention throughout the game.

He currently leads the Big Green (2-0-2) with five points this season.

Adelabu’s first goal came in the 43rd minute of the game when he beat Minutemen goalkeeper Nick Ruiz to his right side after receiving a throughball from Collin Heffron.

Adelabu then followed it up in the 57th minute, cleaning up a loose header in the box from teammate Stefan Defregger. “[Adelabu’s] a good player,” UMass coach Sam Koch said. “You gotta stay on him tight and not let him turn; he’s a man among boys. He’s a good, solid player and we let him get free. When you do that, he’s

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Nick Ruiz (above) allowed two goals to Dartmouth’s Alex Adelabu in UMass men’s soccer’s 2-0 loss Sunday. gonna hurt you.”

Koch noted the difference in the game came down to two defensive lapses, something that has plagued the Minutemen so far this season, and especially can’t happen against a player that he believes can play at the next level.

“It’s very tough on the players, they know they pretty much have to play perfectly in order to get a shutout and that’s tough to

do,” Koch said.

“Because we’re not scoring goals, I think that puts more of a pressure on them,” Koch continued. “Is it frustrating? There’s no question it’s frustrating.

Are we slowly but surely getting better? There’s no question they are.”

Offensively, UMass yet again made strides, creating 10 shots against a team that garnered national attention heading into the

season. Josh Schwartz led the Minutemen with three shots while Peter Alvarenga managed two on net.

“I thought in the first half we could’ve been up 2-0 and we had a goal called back in the second-half,” Koch said. “We showed at times we’re getting better, unfortunately we didn’t finish our chances and we gotta finish them.” see

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