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Christians preach religion outside Campus Center Evangelists come to UMass to speak

two weeks and, according to Smith, officially have no name. When embarking on his tours, he typically invites along a few of his friends who share in his beliefs to aid him in spreading his message, and this tour is no different. On Monday, Smith was joined

by Don Karns, a renowned apologist from Virgina, Sye Ten Bruggencate of Ontario, Canada, Mike Stockwell, a former U.S. Marine from Long Island, N.Y., and Andy Noble from Sydney, Australia. An apologist is a person who has been taught and trained in skills necessary to defend his or her faith.

Smith says that when picking friends to join him on the tour, he chooses mature men who like college students and who won’t be spooked by heckling.

“Each of us has had a powerful confrontation with God,” Smith said.

Armed with signs and conviction in their belief, Smith and his fellow Christians speak to students about any qualms they have about the Christian faith, while also attempting to have a discussion with them about Christianity and the Bible.

Smith is part of the Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship, a devout Christian group that preaches the Bible throughout the United States. PEF does not directly sponsor Smith and his Ivy League tour.

Smith said while his tour often draws large crowds on college campuses, he is not fazed by the hecklers. Those who come over to poke fun at his mission tend to bring along the target audience who, for Smith, are “people with a sin problem.”

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Presbyterian evangelist and former U.S. Marine Mike Stockwell spreads the word of his belief outisde the Campus Center on Monday.

D.C. Navy Yard shooting leaves 13 dead Civilian contractor suspected gunman

down six hours after the first reports of the violence came in at 8:20 a.m. The U.S. Senate was placed on a preventive lockdown early Monday afterBy Kevin G. Hall and Marisa noon, with votes postponed.

The lockdown was later Taylor McClatchy Washington Bureau partly lifted. The Washington WASHINGTON – A mass Nationals, whose stadium is shooting Monday morning at just blocks from the crime the Washington Navy Yard scene, postponed their game left at least 13 people, includ- Monday night against the Atlanta Braves. ing a suspected gunman, “We have no indication dead, three others wounded of any motive at this time,” and authorities desperately searching for a middle-age man in a military-style uniform.

District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier said police have identified the gunman as a civilian naval contractor, Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, who was identified by fingerprints. He was a full-time Navy reservist until 2011, last serving with a logistics support squadron in Fort Worth. He reportedly used a friend’s identification to get into a building at the Washington Navy Yard and engaged in multiple shootouts with police before being fatally shot.

Police remained engaged in a manhunt for another man believed connected to Alexis.

Three victims, including a police officer, were brought to MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In a news conference, Dr. Janis Orlowski, the center’s chief medical officer, said the chances of their survival were good. She confirmed that all three victims were alert and speaking.

The police officer was shot in both of his legs. The other two victims are both female civilians. One suffered injuries to her shoulder, the other to both her head and hand.

All three are confirmed to have been wounded inside the Lanier said at her second Navy Yard. news conference of the day, Orlowski said the hospi- adding that “there are very tal’s main concern was get- few questions we can answer ting them “healed and back on at this point.” their feet right now.”

The FBI was taking the The neighborhood near the reins of the investigation, the naval facility remained sealed police chief said. Lanier credoff, with residents locked out ited D.C. police and the U.S. and nearby schools locked Park Police for preventing

white and one black, between 40 and 50, were sought for questioning. The white male was said to have been dressed in a tan military-style uniform with a beret-like hat, the black male wearing an olive-colored military-style uniform.

“These are people that we believe are involved in some way and we are trying to locate,” Lanier said, citing “multiple pieces of information that we have least two other individuals seen with firearms.”

Later in the afternoon, police confirmed that the man in the tan outfit had contacted authorities and was cleared.

The area around the Navy Yard, not far from Capitol Hill, had been sealed off by layers of law enforcement personnel from local and federal agencies. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer issued a statement midafternoon announcing that no one would be allowed in or out of Senate offices.

“In light of the uncertainty surrounding the shooting at the Navy Yard this morning and particularly the possibility of suspects remaining at large, we have decided to lock down the Senate complex,” according to the statement. “You may move about the building; however, for the next two hours you may not leave nor can anyone enter the building. This will be in effect until we deem the situation safe in the neighboring community. We do not have any information to suggest the Senate, its members or staff are in any danger, but out of an abundance of caution, we feel this is the best course of action to keep everyone safe.”

The shooting began there was no evidence one inside the Naval Sea Systems Headquarters way or another on terrorism, Command and he confirmed there was building, a workplace for 3,000 uncertainty about reports of people, according to a press release from Naval District additional gunmen.

“We don’t know for certain Washington.

Contractor Sean Carroll if there were other shooters,” described to McClatchy a chathe mayor said.

At an earlier news conference, Lanier said two men, one see SHOOTING on page 3 even more bloodshed in the morning rampage.

“I think the actions by the police officers, without question, helped to reduce the numbers of lives lost,” Lanier said, calling the actions of first responders “nothing short of heroic.”

Because the attack happened at a military facility in the capital, there were immediate fears that terrorism might be involved. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray told reporters

Scott Smith did not always believe in God. He admits that while he was being raised Catholic, he “thought it was all baloney.”

About 34 years ago, however, he came to a personal realization about his faith.

“I realized that if God exists, I’m up the creek,” Smith said. He also said that he realized that he qualified as a lawbreaker under the Bible and so he “called out” to Jesus to guide him.

After this, Smith began to read the Bible more and decided that it was his job to educate young people about the Bible.

About twenty years before beginning his tours, Smith opened a school in Florida, called Smith Preparatory Academy, where students are given “a Christcentered and skills-driven academic experience.” Two campuses are still open, one in Longwood and the other in Orlando.

However, about two years ago Smith sold the Christian preparatory school that he started, and decided to instead go to college campuses, to talk to students in order to “appeal to their intellect.”

Smith tours the Ivy League colleges twice a year, but includes the University of Massachusetts on his tours because he finds the campus beautiful and rich with students. His fall tour brought him to UMass on Monday, creating a moderate sized cluster of people between the Campus Center and the Student Union for most of the day.

Patrick Hoff can be reached at Each of his tours last pphoff@umass.edu.

SGA vice president looks to new year She’s more than just a politician This article is one in a series on top SGA officials.

B y eleanor H arTe Collegian Correspondent Emily Hajjar has big plans for this year.

A senior political science major, she is also a student athlete and vice president of the Student Government Association.

She has a lot on her plate.

But that isn’t stopping her from trying to make this year her best one yet.

Hajjar grew up in Quincy and when she came to the University of Massachusetts in 2010, she joined as a walk-on to the rowing team and has not looked back since.

Now a varsity coxswain, she practices at 6:45 a.m. six days a week, and most weekends she has a race.

“We’re competing every weekend in October, and then from spring break until after finals is our

championship season, and our busiest,” Hajjar said.

Along with the rowing team, Hajjar also won the election for SGA vice president in April alongside current SGA president Zac Broughton.

Hajjar’s favorite part of being vice president of the SGA is the people she meets.

“I like meeting people when they come in the office,” she said. “I like getting to know them on a more personal level and answering people’s questions.”

As vice president, Hajjar describes her role as being in charge of the internal functions of the SGA. “The cabinet is my responsibility, as well as area governments and also agencies,” she explained.

Hajjar and Broughton went into the election in April with a list of goals that they want to accomplish during their tenure, and with student trustee see

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UMass tight end Rob Blanchflower returned to practice on Monday, though he had “limited” participation.

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In 1984, students who had brought computers to school struggled to log on because the new phones that UMass had installed were not compatible with computer modems.

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Israeli ruling lets Palestinians reclaim former Jewish settlement JERUSALEM – A ruling

by Israel’s attorney general allows Palestinians access to West Bank lands decades after they were seized, Israeli media are reporting.

In 1978, Israel seized about 170 acres of the Palestinian village of Burka, citing security needs. But a small military camp set up on the hilltop was quickly replaced with civilians, and the site became the Jewish settlement of Homesh.

Homesh was among four West Bank settlements Israel removed under the terms of a 2005 disengagement plan, when it removed all Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip.

Although the settlement was destroyed, the military seizure of the lands remained valid.

In 2011, Palestinian village leaders and land owners filed a petition through the nonprofit rights group Yesh Din, seeking to regain their lands.

In May, the state informed the high court that the original land-seizure order would be nullified. The ruling was heralded by Yesh Din lawyers as “an historic precedent” but Palestinians were not yet allowed on the site, as another closure order remained in place.

Now, a recent decision

by Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has canceled the ban on Palestinian access to the site and permits Palestinian farmers access to their lands _ although implementation may face further challenges.

Jewish groups have maintained a semi-permanent presence at the ruins of Homesh, including annual events attended by thousands as well as government representatives calling for the resettlement of the site.

Weinstein’s decision states the area will remain closed to Israelis.

Conservative lawmaker Tzipi Hotovely was critical of the decision, which has diplomatic implications for ceding lands to the Palestinians.

Hotovely told reporters that the decision to permit Palestinians to enter the site but not Jews was “outrageous discrimination.”

But Shlomy Zachary from Yesh Din welcomed the attorney general’s decision, which he said came 3 decades after the land was “usurped from its lawful owners.”

In a statement from the group, he expressed concern about unlawful Israeli presence in the area and hoped the law would be upheld.

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“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

William Shakespeare

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Police log: Trapped goat, Colorado flood flags stolen over weekend rescue efforts by Drunken assaults air, land continue also a growing issue sive daytime gathering at Townehouse Apartments.

The perpetrators were not found.

Friday, Sept. 13

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6:08 p.m. An ice cream truck was allegedly parked Amherst P o l i c e in front of caller’s apartDepartment Log: Friday, ment at 497 East Pleasant Sept. 13 to Monday, Sept. Street for over 20 minutes, still running and play16 ing music. Caller believed that the truck’s operator Totals Liquor license violation was in another apartment visiting friends. Operator arrests: 16 Liquor license violation said that his friend resides in Village Park and that summons: 9 he has a permit to sell Noise complaints: 33 there. He showed his perVehicle crashes: 6 mit. There was no illegal Vehicle stops: 18 activity.

On Saturday at 12:25 a.m., an officer was struck Saturday, Sept. 14 in the back of the neck 2:27 a.m. Caller reportwith a full beer can by an inebriated youth while ed a group of people arresting an uncoopera- across the street from the tive woman for a liquor law Harp on 163 Sunderland violation at 35 Butterfield Road allegedly attempting Terrace. The youth was to get a goat’s head free part of a crowd surround- from a wire fence. Caller ing the woman who was was concerned that the under arrest. The youth group would be struck by was not approached by a car and for the goat’s police and remained anon- safety. Police freed the goat’s head by cutting the ymous.

According to Amherst wire. There was no illegal Police Detective David activity.

2:51 a.m. Five males Foster, these drunken assaults on police officers allegedly threw a brick are a growing problem, through the back winas one also occurred last dow of a car parked by weekend during the mas- 465 North Pleasant Street.

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1:37 a.m. A male was found on 1 Main Street with American flags stuffed up his sleeves. He claimed that he wanted them because he was from France. He was asked to relinquish the flags and received no charges.

4:18 a.m. A laptop was allegedly stolen from apartment 3 at 630 Main Street.

11:28 a.m. A laptop was allegedly stolen from apartment 2 at 630 Main Street. Forced entry suspected through a front window that was unlocked.

1:35 p.m. A laptop was allegedly stolen from 374 North Pleasant Street.

Residents left a window open. No forced entry suspected.

3:38 p.m. A woman called about her son who was struck in the face by an unknown person. Her son’s jaw was broken in two places and he did not know where he was when he was assaulted.

He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Mary Reines can be reached at mreines@umass.edu.

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Megan Kingston, that list has grown.

“We want to be more visible and approachable to the students,” Hajjar said. “We also want to help with construction issues and we’re expanding the bike share program this fall too.”

She wants more open communication with the students about construction, and to further automate the bike share program.

“We already got the funding for it, and we’re going to purchase a couple more bikes and make it easier to use,” she said.

This summer she acted as interim president while Broughton was away, and part of her role was to help design the Spot, a flexible lounge and meeting area currently being built in the Student Union.

“The furniture is going to be really cool,” Hajjar said. “It’s going to be a flexible space so the students can use it however they want to. I’m excited about it.”

She also wants to hear more from students about what changes they want to see.

“We’re going to do a campaign to get student feedback, we want to hear more from the students,” said Hajjar. “Outreach and visibility are my top issues. I also try to go to a lot of student events. I just went to the Easton Corbin concert the other night that was put on by the University Programming Council.”

Along with being a political science major with an environmental science minor, Hajjar is

President, and because of this experience, she she wants to work in environmental policy after graduation.

“I really loved interning there,” she said. “I’d like to go back down to DC for a couple years after I graduate, and then maybe move back up here. Some of my favorite classes at UMass have been about the environment. I took organic farming, and I really liked energy poli-

[Hajjar] wants more open communication with the students about construction, and to further automate the bike share program. also enrolled in an accelerated master’s program in the political science department, where she’s studying public policy.

This means she’ll graduate from the undergraduate program in spring 2014 and receive her master’s degree in public policy in spring 2015.

Last fall, she worked as an intern in Washington, DC. at the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the

tics. I also took world politics with Vinnie Ferraro and that was one of my favorites too.”

She is really interested in sustainability issues, and she hopes to carry that into her future work.

In her free time, Hajjar likes to go to yoga and dance classes, which she also did in high school.

Eleanor Harte can be reached at eharte@umass.edu

Helicopters to reach isolated areas

By Michael Muskal and Jenny deaM Los Angeles Times

BOULDER, Colo.

– Helicopters returned to the skies over Colorado on Monday as officials took advantage of a break in the weather to step up rescue efforts reminiscent of those in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

It was drizzling across much of the state Monday.

That was a relief from the record-setting torrents that racked Colorado last week, turning tame brooks into raging walls of water that destroyed roads, brought down bridges and overflowed dams. The death toll stood at six confirmed deaths, but several people were missing and presumed dead.

More than 1,200 people remained unaccounted for across the state. Officials said they believed the overwhelming majority were people who were out of touch because of lost cellphones or electrical power.

However, no one knows for sure.

“Some areas of Larimer County experienced a hundred-year flood, some a thousand-year flood,” said Jennifer Hillman, a spokeswoman for the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department. “When you’re talking about rivers cresting 10 feet over their banks, no one can prepare for that.

Blizzards and wildfires those are things we do prepare for. A flood is a whole different beast.”

Even though the weather is improving, the scope of the ongoing rescue efforts remained large, and the toll of flood devastation takes in about 4,500 square miles - about the size of Connecticut. Helicopters remained the best way to reach the thousands still isolated in mountain areas, cut off with no power or food and surrounded by undrinkable water.

The air rescue operations “are believed to be the largest airlift rescue since Hurricane Katrina” said 1st Lt. Skye Robinson, spokesman for the Colorado National Guard. “You just never thought it would happen here.”

Whole towns, including Lyons, Jamestown, Estes Park and Glenhaven, remained isolated Monday.

Even when the waters recede, officials expect it

will be many months before refugees can return.

“In Glenhaven, people hiked to the top of a mountain to get cell service and let people know where they were,” Hillman said. She said many first responders and neighbors who pulled together during last year’s High Park fire have been using those connections to respond to the current disaster.

“We’ve been through a fire and now a flood,” Hillman said, adding that she and other locals are bracing for an even worse scenario as they race to evacuate those still trapped by floodwaters. “It can snow in September, so we want to get these people out,” she said.

At daylight Monday, helicopters took off from the Boulder airport and speedily returned. Each helicopter brought a fresh batch of evacuees from places such as Big Elk Meadow and Jamestown. When the helicopters touched down, evacuees were brought out, many with dogs on leashes and holding children wearing backpacks. They went into a hangar to be examined by medical personnel, then were loaded into school buses and taken to shelters in Boulder.

By the afternoon, fog began rolling into Boulder and officials worried that the helicopters would be grounded. “There is a window for us,” Robinson said.

“We’re going to fly until it is not safe anymore.”

A similar air operation was underway in Larimer County.

Numbers were estimates, but officials said about 11,700 people had been evacuated by air and truck. Almost 2,000 people remained in the 26 shelters established around the state. About 17,500 residential structures were damaged and at least 1,500 were destroyed.

The tally includes Larimer County, where officials reported 398 people unaccounted for, and 4,500 homes and 500 businesses damaged or destroyed.

The flooding has devastated much of the populous eastern portion of the state, a swath of about 200 miles from the north to the south.

Parts of at least 15 counties have been hit.

An estimated 35 bridges and more than 100 miles of road will need repair just in Boulder County. That could take $100 million to $150 million and months, if not years, to accomplish.

UN provides details of Syrian chemical attack

Paints more detailed picture of attack

By Matthew schofield McClatchy Foreign Bureau

BERLIN – By midday Aug. 20, the temperature in Damascus had warmed to an uncomfortable 96 degrees, so as the night rapidly cooled – to 78 before midnight, 74 by 2 a.m. and headed toward a pre–dawn 70 – it could have seemed like a blessing.

But the cooling trend had a horrifying effect for residents of the Ghouta area east of the Syrian capital. As the air cooled and became denser, it pushed toward the earth in the early hours of Aug. 21. So when rockets loaded with toxic chemicals started landing, each spilling about 15 gallons of deadly sarin, that downward

pressure kept the heavy gas on the ground, allowing it to creep through open windows and pushing it into basements.

That’s only one detail in the 38–page report on the Aug. 21 chemical attack that the United Nations released Monday, but combined with many other details, it helps to paint a far more detailed picture of what happened that night than any of the cursory summaries that have dominated discussion in Congress, the White House and the halls of the British, French and Russian parliaments.

Far from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s claim Aug. 30 that “the U.N. can’t tell us anything that we ... don’t already know,” the report provides an intricately detailed account of what

happened and how it happened, and a scientific look at why it became the tragedy it did.

The report doesn’t assess blame – the technicians from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the World Health Organization weren’t asked to – and it provides no new information on how many people died, a figure that’s ranged widely from France’s estimate of at least 281 to the United States’ unexplained claim of 1,429.

But it does provide what U.N. Secretary–General Ban Ki–moon called “clear and convincing evidence” that chemical weapons were used against a civilian population – a war crime. And it refuted the initial U.S. position that the five–day delay would render the U.N. inves-

tigation incapable of finding meaningful evidence.

Among its findings: – Even five and seven days after the rockets landed in the Damascus suburbs, inspectors identified at least 80 people who were exhibiting signs of chemical poisoning. Those symptoms included constricted pupils, vomiting, dizziness and loss of consciousness.

From those 80, the team selected 36 to study further, taking hair, blood and urine samples. Thirty–nine percent of those were still confused or disoriented when the U.N. team examined them. The blood and urine specimens for “almost all of the survivors assessed by the mission” tested positive for “exposure to sarin.”

– The team hadn’t yet completed its final analysis

of what it called “detailed interviews” with survivors.

But they all told the same story of “a military attack with shelling, followed by the onset of a common range of symptoms, including shortness of breath, disorientation, rhinorrhea (runny nose), eye irritation, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, general weakness and eventual loss of consciousness.”

“Those who went to assist described seeing a large number of individuals lying on the ground, many of whom were deceased or unconscious.” Two brothers from Zamalka, one of the affected towns, “reported that of the 40 family members who lived in the same building, they were the only see

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SHOOTING otic scene on the second floor once the shooting started near a cafeteria atrium in the building.

“People didn’t realize what you were supposed to do,” he said. “Just heard the sounds. It was really loud.

You could hear the gunshots.

That’s a surreal thing. You’re not really thinking. But it wasn’t like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ You know with the world we live in. You know, ‘Oh my God. This is Fort Hood.’”

Fort Hood in Texas was the scene in 2009 of a shooting that left 12 dead.

Carroll said the shooting did not sound like an automatic weapon used by military personnel.

“I heard the shots,” he said. “I heard people scream. ... It sounded like ‘pop, pop, pop.’ I could not characterize how staccato it was. It was not rapid fire. It was not automatic weapons. It was seven or eight shots in a couple of groups. This was over several minutes. The first shots seemed like a minute. Then when I ran I heard another couple of, not bursts, but ‘pop, pop, pop.”“ Patricia Ward, a logistics management specialist, told gathered reporters that she was near the cafeteria area when she heard some shots,

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followed by a break and then more shots. She and others fled the building. Someone pulled a fire alarm to alert colleagues of a problem.

Witnesses described one gunman dressed in dark clothing with what appeared to be a double-barrel shotgun, perched on a mezzanine and firing at a cafeteria atrium below. They said he appeared to be targeting who he was shooting at, rather than firing randomly.

The gunman was described by witnesses as carrying an AR-15 assault rifle, a double-barrel shotgun and a handgun.

An elite team from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was dispatched to the scene Monday, part of the same ATF Special Response Team Canine Program that helped capture the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Employees at the Navy Yard complex, a former shipyard and ordnance plant turned naval administrative center, consist of civilians, service members and contract support personnel.

They are responsible for engineering, building, purchasing and maintaining Navy ships, submarines and combat systems. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the

“I heard the shots... I heard people scream...

It sounded like ‘pop, pop,pop.’ I could not characterize how staccato it was. It was not rapid fire. It was not automatic weapons.

It was seven or eight shots in a couple of groups. This was over in several minutes” Sean Carrol, contractor and witness largest of the Navy’s five systems commands.

This is not the first shooting at a military installation in recent years. In 2009 at Fort Hood, an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39 at the time, killed 12 and wounded 31 service members. Another, less wellknown incident occurred on June 10, 2013, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where a soldier shot and wounded a fellow service member.

As word spread of a shooting at the Navy Yard, the end of the D.C. morning rush hour began to look like the crush of peak hour. At least two bridges into the nation’s capital were closed to traffic and commuters were forced to inch along side roads to get in or turn back and work from home.

Subway service was briefly interrupted, but no additional police presence was

apparent. That argued in favor of a localized incident that didn’t spark fears of a wider terror plot. Security was also stepped up around the U.S. Capitol grounds and the Senate and House office buildings.

For tourists visiting the nation’s capital, a steppedup police presence was noticeable in front of the Washington Monument and other attractions.

With a lockdown in the area around the Navy Yard lasting well into the afternoon, there were concerns about safety at the Washington Nationals scheduled evening game. Star outfielder Bryce Harper took to Twitter to voice concern about the deadly shootings.

“Thoughts & prayers go out to the victims and responders at the Navy Yard!

It is absolute sickening that people do this!” Harper tweeted.

Israel invalidates law that allows asylum seekers to be jailed

By Edmund SandErS Los Angeles Times

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a controversial law that allowed police to jail refugees and undocumented migrants for up to three years without trial, a key part of the government’s recent crackdown against mostly African asylum seekers who had been flooding into the country.

A panel of nine High Court judges ruled unanimously that the Law for Prevention of Infiltration – which took effect in 2012 – violated human rights.

An estimated 2,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea and other African nations, are believed to be in Israeli detention facilities.

The court told the government that it would have to review each case indi-

vidually over the next three months.

Critics had long complained that the automatic imprisonment of asylum seekers as they crossed the border was a violation of Israeli and international law.

But proponents of the law said it helped dramatically reduce the number of refugees and migrants streaming into Israel via the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. The

Navy Yard security was poor History of weak security at site

By JamES roSEn McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – The Washington Navy Yard, a former shipyard where Monday’s fatal shootings occurred, has a history of weak security, with past reports citing poor entrance controls, video dead spots, inadequate lighting, malfunctioning alarms and other problems.

Building 197, which houses the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters on the 65-acre campus along the Anacostia River, was the main site of the gunfire in which 13 people died, including the killer identified by police as Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas.

James Atkinson, a former military intelligence officer who heads Granite Island Group in Gloucester, Mass., said the Navy hired his surveillance security firm in 2009 to test newly installed electronic security gates and other access controls inside Building 197.

The “controlled penetration” test revealed that a tamper sensor wasn’t working because of a design defect and that hardwarestore-variety screws had been used to secure the main access-control panel instead of more expensive screws that could be loosened only with a specific screwdriver, Atkinson said.

“We found not only had people opened it up, but there were traces that somebody had placed a device

inside that was recording data, so somebody could hoax the unit and claim to be a person they were not,” Atkinson said.

More broadly, in two dozen investigations over previous years, Atkinson’s firm found major security lapses throughout the facility, such as doors jammed open with pieces of cardboard, “crisscrossed” video cameras pointed at one another, too few cameras and bad lighting at night.

“The security there is extraordinarily poor,” Atkinson said. “They need more cameras, better door security, better lighting. The access controls were appalling. The Washington Navy Yard has security that is below the level of security you see at Harvard or MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) or Boston University or any other major campus.”

Mo Schumann, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to discuss security at the Washington Navy Yard, but he said there have been broader security upgrades at military facilities.

“Since the shootings at Fort Hood, the Department of Defense has taken a number of steps to harden our facilities and establish new systems to prevent and respond to active shooter threats,” Schumann said, referring to a 2009 shooting at an Army base in Texas in which 12 people were killed and 31 were wounded.

A midlevel civilian employee who hbas worked at the Navy Yard for more than a decade said security

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upgrades are long overdue.

“They’ll check your badge and they’ll check your car to make sure it has a Naval District of Washington current sticker, but you can drive through the base with a bazooka in your trunk and they wouldn’t know,” said the employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly.

“They don’t check inside the car,” he said. “You can drive in with a ham sandwich, a banana and a pistol in your lunch bag, and they don’t check. It’s pretty bad.”

The Navy Yard is part of the Washington’s Waterfront region, a neighborhood in transition with Nationals Stadium, home of the Washington Nationals baseball team, on its edge; condo buildings going up; and new restaurants and bars opening.

Even though the Navy Yard is a military facility, security is tighter at some nonmilitary campuses in the Washington region.

At the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., for example, every visiting car is stopped, its underside is examined with mirrors, and guards sweep the trunk and cabin interior.

After its founding in 1799, the Navy Yard was the nation’s biggest shipyard, making military ships and munitions that served in major conflicts through World War II. It is now one of the Navy’s procurement hubs, buying parts and materials to build and maintain the nation’s fleet of ships and submarines.

number of Africans crossing the border in the first six months of 2013 was just 34, compared with 9,570 in 2012.

The government this year began deporting Eritrean refugees from Israeli jails back to their homeland.

Officials characterized the deportations as voluntary, but refugee activists insist that the asylum–seekers were pressured and denied legal representation.

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survivors.”

– Most of the nine nurses and seven physicians the team interviewed were at home when the attack occurred. When these clinicians responded to the attack, they found “a large number of ill or deceased persons lying in the street without external signs of injury.”

– The team made painstaking efforts to document its work. All the interviews were taped, and all the samples were sealed and guarded from the moment of collection to their delivery to the four laboratories in Europe where tests were conducted to determine whether toxic substances were present.

The report provided a detailed listing of the samples, including the date and time each was taken, as well as from where: in one case, a “soil sample taken from one impact point in one house in Moadamiyah”; in another, “a methanol wipe sample taken from the sole of a slipper.”

“Each transfer of material is accompanied by a handover receipt,” the report notes.

– The inspectors also were able to explain how the sarin gas arrived in Ghouta that cool night.

In Moadamiyah, “The team began the investigation of an alleged impact site which was initially located in the backyard terrace of an apartment building.”

There, the team found an impact crater in the stone tiles of the terrace. Near the crater, they found a rocket engine marked with Cyrillic letters. Despite the fact that such lettering could implicate Russia as the supplier, the report makes no such assumptions. Instead, it notes the projectile’s light gray color, and documents the exact size – 630 mm long and 140 mm wide (24.8 by 5.5 inches) – and type, an M14 artillery shell, a non– precision surface to surface rocket.

“The engine had 10 jet nozzles ordered in a circle at the end of the rocket with a metal electrical contact plate in the middle,” the report said.

At one impact site, the team found that a rocket had pierced an awning before hitting the ground. By studying the line that would connect the hole in the awning with the impact crater, the investigators determined the rocket’s bearing – 35 degrees – and its angle of flight. A second impact crater 65 meters away – about 213 feet – had an angle that was 1 degree different from the first, a discovery “fully congruent,” the report said, “with the dispersion pattern commonly associated with rockets launched from a single, multi–barrel, launcher.”

In the case of another shell, a 330 mm rocket, they calculated that it flew east– southeast before landing in the Damascus suburb.

To study the area, the inspection team’s members – who dodged a sniper’s bullets on their first day – had to rely on the protection of both the Syrian government and a Syrian rebel leader.

They said they had only a short time to study the sites, because of security concerns.

Still, Secretary–General Ban said the evidence the team had collected provided proof of “the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them in Halabja in 1988. The international community has pledged to prevent any such horror from recurring, yet it has happened again.”

But the closest the report comes to emotion is the final line before the appendices: “This result leaves us with the deepest concern.”

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Apple appeals to the elite It is a universally publicized truth that Apple Inc. sells a lot of products. Far from the humble days of its

Johnny McCabe modest birth in a garage in Silicon Valley, the company formerly known as Apple Computer has transitioned from selling “home computer kits” hobbled together from spare computer parts to becoming one of the largest technology retailers in the world. Apple CEO Tim Cook declared at the company’s keynote last Tuesday that projections indicate the 700 millionth iOS device will enter consumer hands before the end of this month.

Apple hopes alongside that lofty amount will be a sizable number of its two newest devices, also announced at last week’s keynote: the iPhones 5s and 5c. The former is a state of the art, bleeding edge “premium handset,” containing a drastically improved onboard camera, new M7 processor, and built-in fingerprint scanner, while the latter is a plastic-bodied budget device which compromises some of the state of the art features of its fancier sibling for the sake of affordability.

Apart from these specifications and the noteworthy distinction that this is the first time Apple has specifically designed a “lowerend” phone, one of the most interesting aspects to take away from Apple’s keynote is deceptively simple, and in the minds of the company’s critics, long overdue: color.

In the recent history of its products and devices following the company’s millennial resurgence, Apple has retained a relatively homogenous, even conformist, approach to design. The signature design of Apple products – sleek, gentle curves and glossy black and matte aluminum surfaces – give them an essence that initially served to set them apart, but now have arguably grown tired and hackneyed. Even the Macbook Air, once a pinnacle of innovation that pioneered

the class of hyper portable laptop computers known as “ultrabooks,” has spawned a class of silver tapered ultralight imitators. Where an iPhone once stood out as one of the first truly “smart” devices amidst a sea of chunky flip phones, rounded black rectangles are now the order of the day.

Priding itself as a consistent innovator and revolutionary apart from its competitors, Apple’s questionable solution to this potential wave of stagnation was to make a gold one.

Standard black and new “space-grey” are available as less obnoxious color options, but the sheer fact that one can purchase a champagne-colored iPhone speaks volumes about the average consumer, as well

Technology must be extricated from its current position as an indicator of status or class.

sumer, and we must remember that we are also partly responsible, because no corporation is going to design a gold iPhone if people won’t buy one.

Indeed, those in the market for a more subdued handset may be in luck with the iPhone 5c, described by Apple Senior Vice President of Design and general style guru Jony Ive as “beautifully, unapologetically plastic.” Red, blue, yellow, white and green are available at launch, with no indication of whether any more colors will be released in the future.

Apple critics and fans alike will draw comparisons with Google and its newly acquired subsidiary, Motorola’s Moto X, whose two defining features are that the phones are “assembled in America” and are available in nearly limitless color combinations. Not to be outdone, Cook also made a point of emphasizing Apple’s recently renovated store in Stanford, Calif. But with Motorola’s assembly plant in Texas catching media attention for the company’s stalwart resolution to lead a revival in American manufacturing jobs, Cook’s emphasis on a single retail location seems paltry by comparison.

With mobile competitors such as Samsung and Sony catching increasing amounts of flak over poor build quality or downright shoddy design choices, now is most certainly the time for Apple to step up its game, so to speak, to retain the standards of excellence and premium quality it took so much time to cultivate and have so fervently maintained.

But in the face of challengers like Motorola, the elitist and classist direction being taken with the new generation of iPhones is not only tacky, but downright embarrassing to the American consumer. After all, all that glitters is not gold.

as the role of technology in our society as a whole. What does it say about us that we feel a need for such gleaming ostentatious devices?

Are we so far gone into our obsession with material wealth that we need to derive self-worth from such tawdry trinkets? Do we really care so much about appearing wealthy that we would choose a thin veneer of fool’s gold?

Technology must be extricated from its current position as an indicator of status or class. A gold iPhone actively inhibits this progress, ingraining associations of wealth and elitism that already surround Apple’s consumer culture.

Detractors might criticize or demonize Apple for creating such a monument to human opulence, but they are a corporation, after all.

Underneath all the heartwarming ads and product descriptions, they have a single goal: to make money. Johnny McCabe is a Collegian columSuch logic also shifts the nist and can be reached at rjmccabe@ burden away from the con- umass.edu

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“Ecotainer,” student voices could lessen landfill clutter In the case of the typical University of Massachusetts student, it is not uncommon to bear

Samantha Murphy witness to the plague of solo cups and beer cans that line fraternity row early Sunday mornings.

Of course, most students are respectable enough to clean up after their weekend endeavors; it is a generally accepted fact that red cups do not make the best lawn ornaments.

As ugly as the solo cup plague may be, it could be considered a bearable sight compared with the gruesome spectacle that is a landfill. In the United States, around 58 billion disposable coffee cups are thrown away each year.

To the relief of many environmentalist soft drink lovers, a number of dining facilities at UMass use biodegradable “Ecotainer” cups provided

by Coca-Cola. Instead of petroleum-based plastic, these cups are coated on the inside with a compostable bioplastic called Ingeo, made by NatureWorks.

The Ecotainer was born in 2006. The next year, a group of eco-conscious students at the University of Washington demanded their campus make an effort to drastically reduce the amount of waste it produced. The students were pleased to see that the food services management team responded by supporting the cause and implementing a ban on plastic and foam containers.

Their motto soon became, “striving for zerowaste through composting,” and it wasn’t long before the University was working closely with ecofriendly suppliers and a local composting facility

to divert as much trash from the landfill as possible. Everything from takeout containers to spoons could be placed into designated composting bins set up in the dining facilities.

The only issue was that the takeout cups, provided

by Coca-Cola, could not be composted because of the petroleum-based plastic they are lined with.

Michael Meyering, the head of the UW food services department, approached Coke and challenged them to provide a biodegradable soft drink

den? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Ingeo bioplastic is designed to break down in industrial composting facilities, where temperature and moisture levels are optimal for the rapid breakdown of organic material. Institutions must work with industrial composting facilities to properly manage compostable material that is being diverted from the landfill.

Another misconception seems to be that biodegradable packaging will decompose in landfills. The truth is that close to nothing that enters a landfill will return in a useful manner to the environment.

The toxic and tightly packed conditions are not suitable for the typical microorganisms that break down organic matter.

So biodegradable packaging is a very small and imperfect step in the right direction, but this isn’t a story about how a cup saved the world. This isn’t even a story about the cup itself. The Ecotainer embodies something much bigger than a cup.

The Ecotainer represents the power of consumer demand and, more importantly, the power of the student voice. In the first year of its waste diversion program, the University of Washington was successful in diverting 540 tons of waste from the landfill. All of this was the result of a group of students who asked their university and a multinational corporation to be more mindful of what they put into the trash. And they listened.

The ultimate goal to achieve zero-waste should be to cut down drastically on consumption, while also working with the current system as it adjusts to a more sustainable path.

cup that could be composted along with the rest of the University’s waste.

Coke accepted the challenge and worked with International Paper to create the Ecotainer, which made its first appearance in UW Cafeterias in 2008.

The cup was a success on campus and its introduction was accompanied by a 15 percent increase in fountain drink sales. The product was later made available nationwide and it proved to be a hit among other universities, vendors and even sports venues looking to adopt more eco-friendly waste management policies.

Of course, the invention of the Ecotainer does not make a real impact on the overwhelming amount of solid waste that enters landfills each day. The ultimate goal to achieve zero-waste should be to cut down drastically on consumption, while also working with the current system as it adjusts to a more sustainable path.

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What would you do if a child erroneously accused you of abuse?

Nobody should have to answer a question like this. Unfortunately Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), the kindhearted protagonist Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Hunt,” finds himself in this very situation. Following a direct accusation from a young girl named Klara (Annika Wedderkopp) in his kindergarten class, Lucas is immediately embroiled in a heated battle with the people he once called friends.

Using Mikkelsen as his vehicle, “The Hunt” is Vinterberg’s paralyzing examination of how one community deals with the issue of an alleged sexual predator. Vinterberg cleverly takes advantage of Mikkelsen’s real-world persona as an actor who has been typecast as a villain to sow uncertainty with the audience. Although we are fairly certain that Lucas is innocent, many of us are familiar with Mikkelsen’s past roles as Le Chiffre and Hannibal. On a subconscious level, this makes the community’s steadfast insistence that he is guilty far more believable.

And Mikkelsen sells every moment. While many know him for his more nefarious characters in film and television, here he is immediately sympathetic and relatable. He plays an everyman whose life is just beginning to make a turn for the better.

His love for his students is genuine and benign, making the events that follow that much harder to watch.

While Mikkelsen steals the show, the supporting cast makes every effort to keep up. Thomas Bo Larsen as Klara’s booming-voiced father Theo is a fantastic foil for Mikkelsen. Annika

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A beaten-down Mads Mikkelsen struggles to maintain his innocence in “The Hunt.”

Wedderkopp makes Klara feel like a real young girl; her lines are simple, but she delivers them with earnest sincerity. Alexandra Rapaport as Nadja (Lucas’s girlfriend) and Lasse Fogelstrøm as Marcus (Lucas’s son) also offer strong supporting roles.

A warning to those with a weak stomach: “The Hunt” hits hard. There are no gory

Manipulating the audience’s emotions, Vinterberg offers a brilliant slice of dramatic entertainment and social commentary that raises important social questions. For example, how does the legal system treat child abuse? How many people have gone to jail because investigators asked leading questions of their child wit-

There are no gory or sexually explicit scenes to speak of, but in some ways, those would be preferable to the horrifice events that happen to and around Lucas. or sexually explicit scenes to speak of, but in some ways, those would be preferable to the horrific events that happen to and around Lucas.

At one point, I was so upset that I considered walking out of the theater. Think of the downward spiral in the second half of “Requiem for a Dream,” and then dial it down a notch or two; that will give you a pretty good idea of what it’s like to watch “The Hunt.”

stigma. Conversely, what happens when an innocent person is accused?

Indeed, “The Hunt” may have a broader impact than Vinterberg realizes. As a prospective male educator, I wondered if the film might discourage other young men from entering the field for fear of situations like this. Similarly, I wondered if adults watching the film might trust children less after seeing how Klara’s lie escalated so quickly. It is a tricky line for a director to walk, and doing so may have actual societal consequences.

Taken as a movie, however, “The Hunt” is simply fantastic. It is cinematographically beautiful and impeccably acted. Most importantly, it is a film that it is impossible to walk away from without having an intense emotional reaction to its story. There are films that will shake your core, and “The Hunt” is one of those films.

nesses? How many felons have walked free because the defense managed to convince the victims that nothing bad had happened?

CDC studies on the subject have suggested that the impact of abuse early in life can lead to a multitude of health problems. They state that victims are more susceptible to diseases, social disorders and even early death. Moreover, many cases Søren Hough can be reached at go unreported due to social shhough@umass.edu

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“How I Met Your Mother” finally ends Audience waits for Ted to meet wife By natHalie SczuBlewSki Collegian Correspondent

Eight years ago, the world was introduced to five friends: Ted Mosby, Marshall Eriksen, Lily Aldrin, Barney Stinson and Robin Scherbatsky on a show called “How I Met Your Mother.” The show has told an epic tale filled with both laughs and tears. Later this month, the hit comedy will enter its ninth and final season. Viewers will bid farewell to the five friends and finally learn how Ted Mosby met his wife.

“How I Met Your Mother” initially takes place in 2030 when Ted Mosby (voiced-over

by Bob Saget), tells his son and daughter the story of how he met his wife. Flashback to the year 2005, where a younger Ted (Josh Radnor), is driven on the idea of marriage after seeing his best friends from college, lawyer Marshall Eriksen and kindergarten teacher Lily Aldrin (played

by Jason Segal and Alyson Hannigan), become engaged after nine years of dating.

Ted’s quest to find his ideal bride is a disappointment to his womanizing friend, Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris). During Marshall and Lily’s engagement, Ted thinks he has found the love of his life when he meets broadcast journalist, Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). Ted and Robin have remained an onagain-off-again item throughout the series, but at this point, it is clear that Robin is not the mother of Ted’s children.

Viewers are taken on a comical ride as the five friends deal with past relationships, love triangles and interventions. The gang tackles every subject from Robin’s Canadian origins to a daring goat rescue. As Ted tells his children the story of how he met their mother, Marshall, Lily, Robin and Barney are always in the picture. Fans can therefore make the assumption that Ted’s friends must be involved in how Ted meets his kids’ mother.

Last season began when Ted visits Robin on her wedding day. This causes him to remember how he had reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Victoria, after she left her fiancée at the altar. Future

Ted explains to his children about the “the autumn of break-ups” as he and Victoria call it quits over his friendship with Robin, Barney and his fiancée Quinn break up due to trust issues and Robin breaks up with her boyfriend Nick when she realizes how stupid he is.

Marshall and Lily still continue to figure out how to be parents and drift away from the gang as their baby Marvin needs more and more care.

Lily achieves her dream job working in the art industry while Marshall applies to become a judge. Robin realizes her true feelings for Barney, but becomes upset when Barney “dates” her hated coworker, Patrice. However, she soon realizes that his so-called “relationship” was a scheme to help her understand how much she loves Barney. This results in Barney proposing to Robin.

As Barney and Robin’s wedding creeps around the corner, Ted and Lily argue over hiring a DJ or a band for the wedding. Ted surrenders his battle with Lily, but unbeknownst to him, his decision to let Lily hire a band will be life-changing. The season concludes with the gang

headed to Farhampton for the wedding. The last episode revealed the mother (Cristin Milioti) carrying a guitar case for her bass and the infamous yellow umbrella, as she buys a ticket to Farhampton.

The final season will focus entirely on Barney and Robin’s wedding. According to the Huffington Post, there are a few surprises lined up, including something to do with the wedding cake, Marshall’s eventful journey to the event, a Facebook photo, one of the friends meeting the mother, the Stinson Curse and the return of Wayne Brady.

Viewers will also want to look out for an entirely different version of the “Bang Bang” song. Other questions arise: out of the gang, who will meet the mother before Ted? Who is returning for the wedding?

Kids, you’ll just have to watch the one-hour season premiere of “How I Met Your Mother” on Monday, Sept.

23, at 9 p.m. on CBS. Fans of the comedy show will finally learn the conclusion to Ted’s story of how he met his wife.

Don’t miss out because it will be legen…wait for it …dary.

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films lacked. In his landmark video critique of “Star Wars: Episode I,” Mike Stoklasa compares the simplistic (but iconic) fight between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi in “Episode IV” to the highly choreographed (but less effective) sequence at the end of “Episode III.” He points out that simply pitting two powerful entities against one another isn’t compelling. Instead, he suggests that fleshedout character development gives conflict meaning. This is what makes the former so memorable and the latter so banal. But while Lucas may have forgotten this idea in the 28 years between “Episode IV” and “Episode III,” Cowperthwaite retains total control of the audience throughout “Blackfish.” I know that my butt scooted right to the edge of my seat in the first five minutes and didn’t leave until the end credits.

“Blackfish” also manages to deliver an incredible amount of information to its audience. The wealth of evidence presented in the film exposes what public relations teams have covered up for decades. Cowperthwaite cleverly juxtaposes the darker side of SeaWorld and its affiliates with official propaganda from the parks.

I remember going to SeaWorld with my mother and sister a few years ago, taking in the marketing rap as if it were gospel. Knowing now not only that SeaWorld mistreats its animals, but also exactly how it is impacting both the orcas and the trainers, means I will probably never make a second trip to the theme park. Many other potential tourists will likely feel the same way.

“Blackfish” is one of the most compelling special interest documentaries I have ever seen. I had little investment in the subject matter prior to entering the theater, but I was instantly enraptured. Rest assured that this tale of the orca is a gripping, perfectly-paced film that prods at every emotional bone in your body. At once thrilling, melancholic, and industry-shaking, “Blackfish” is a must-see.

Filmmakers have long understood that animals garner more sympathy than humans. In a strange phenomenon of mass desensitization, the injury or death of a fellow Homo sapien just doesn’t have as much of an impact on moviegoers. Bucking that trend, “Blackfish” invests emotional collateral in both its human and animal subjects.

In doing so, it becomes a devastating indictment of aquatic theme parks and their mistreatment of wildlife.

Writer/director Gabriela Cowperthwaite and cowriter Eli Despres focus on their energy on the iconic “killer whales” of SeaWorld.

Avoiding the typical pitfall of animal-centric films, humans receive ample screen time throughout the movie. Interviews with survivors, friends and families of victims, along with former SeaWorld professionals, give poignant insight into the underbelly of SeaWorld.

Employee testimony lends to Cowperthwaite’s central thesis weight, and tearful anecdotes of both trainer deaths and mishandling of the orcas appeals to the audience’s humanity.

The story of “Blackfish” is tasteful, following a complete and snappy story arc that neither deifies nor demonizes its subject matter. Using this tactic, Cowperthwaite never tries to manipulate the audience.

For example, she withholds the inevitable archive footage of orca attacks until just the right moment for maximum effect. Cowperthwaite bides her time with colleagues of the victims and survivors, as well as with the orcas themselves. This helps give dimensionality to her subjects before we see them encounter one another as predator and prey.

It may seem like a stretch, but George Lucas could learn a thing or two from Cowperthwaite. The attention paid to both the trainers and the orcas is exactly what Søren Hough can be reached at Lucas’s “Star Wars” prequel shhough@umass.edu

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Michigan barely held off Akron in a 28-24 victory on Saturday following its 41-30 win against Notre Dame last week, Heading into Saturday’s game, the Wolverines (3-0) were 16-0 at home under Michigan coach Brady Hoke, but the 17th win proved to be more of a challenge than anticipated.

With just 2:49 remaining in the game, Zips (1-2) quarterback Kyle Phol marched Akron down the field, calling timeout at the Michigan 4-yard line with just four seconds remaining. Phol’s ensuing pass sailed just high off the hands of Zach D’Orazlo in the back of the end zone as time expired, leaving an Akron comeback bid just short.

Wolverine quarterback Devin Gardner opened up the game with a perfect 5-for-5 drive, hitting wide receiver Devin Funches for a 48-yard touchdown reception capping off a tone-setting 77-yard drive But Zips kicker Robert Stein drilled a 45-yard field goal towards the end of the first quarter to cut the Michigan lead to 7-3, a surprisingly close score that would hold until halftime.

Both teams traded touchdown drives to open the second half before Gardner produced consecutive touchdown scoring drives, lengthening the Wolverine lead to 21-10.

The momentum swung

to Akron in the fourth when Justin March intercepted Gardner’s pass, taking it 27-yards for the score. The Zips regained the lead just a few possessions later when Phol found Tyrell Goodman in the end zone from just a yard out.

Once again Gardner was the man of the hour, completing a 35-yard and 20-yard pass on back-to-back plays to march Michigan right down the field. A pass interference penalty set up Fitzgerald Toussaint for a 2-yard touchdown run, putting the Wolverines back on top with the eventual final score, 28-24.

the offensive surge from the Vandals and found themselves down 28-21 going into the locker room.

Northern Illinois’ offense was clicking in the second half, as Lynch threw for two touchdowns and busted open a big 61-yard touchdown run midway through the third quarter.

Huskies kicker Matthew Sims lengthened the lead in the fourth, drilling a 51-yard field goal.

Northern Illinois will look to stay unbeaten next week as it hosts undefeated in-state rival Eastern Illinois.

Northern Illinois avoided a major upset against Idaho, storming back in the second half to win 45-35.

The Huskies (2-0) outscored the Vandals (0-3) 24-7 in the final two quarters, avoiding a scare for the reigning Mid-American Conference champions. Much of the Northern Illinois comeback was aided by the help of Heisman Trophy-candidate quarterback Jordan Lynch.

Lynch did it all for the Huskies, throwing for 152 yards and running for another 159 in a five touchdown performance.

Both Northern Illinois and Idaho exchanged punches in the first half, as each team scored in bunches.

Vandals quarterback Chad Chalich scored both of his touchdowns in the first half in a 240-yard performance.

The Huskies couldn’t stop

dimensional on offense, Ohio topped Marshall 34-31 in the annual Battle for the Bell rivalry game.

Although the Bobcats (2-1) put up 275 yards through the air, only 60 yards were picked up on the ground amongst five different ball carriers. The Thundering Herd (2-1) put up 116 yards on the ground. However, not one player gained more than 35 yards.

Marshall still had chances to tie it late despite a four-turnover performance, but an Ohio interception by cornerback Devin Bass halted any Thundering Herd momentum in the second half.

Ohio will host Austin Peay next weekend in their final non-conference game of the season.

Ohio edges Marshall Big second half lifts NIU Despite being virtually one

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In a battle between Heisman Trophy-caliber quarterbacks, Johnny Manziel and the No. 6 Texas A&M football team failed to upset AJ McCarron and top-ranked Alabama, falling 49-42 in a high-scoring affair.

Manziel was attempting to lead the Aggies to a second straight upset of the nation’s top team, but two interceptions impeded his efforts.

The Aggies (2-1, 0-1 Southeastern Conference) already had a 14-point lead within the first 10 minutes of the game on touchdowns scored by tight end Cameron Clear and running back Ben Malena.

However, the Crimson Tide (2-0, 1-0 SEC) took a 28-14 lead into halftime after McCarron erupted for three touchdowns and running back T.J. Yeldon ran for a score as well.

Almost immediately after the second half began, Alabama safety Vinnie Sunsieri added some extra insurance to the Crimson Tide’s 14-point lead by intercepting a Manziel pass and returning it 73 yards to the end zone.

Although Manziel threw for five touchdowns and posted a career high 464 yards, the Aggies couldn’t muster a comeback, despite scoring four touchdowns in the second half.

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Johnny Manziel (above) could not upset Alabam for a second straight year.

UMass and Tennessee Tech by a combined score of 93-0, the Badgers (2-1) were looking to wreck even more havoc upon the Sun Devils, but were done in by a controversial ending.

The Sun Devils used their momentum to build a 32-30 lead, which they maintained until the final whistle.

However, the Badgers had the ball and a chance to win the game in the final minute, but with under 15 seconds left, Wisconsin quarterback Joel Stave ran the ball to the left to give the field goal kicker a good line, but ran into one of the Badger lineman, dropped the ball and then picked it up. However, the officials ruled the ball dead and the clock expired as the Badgers were unable to kick what would be the winning field goal.

Wisconsin may have never been in this position ASU wins wild one to begin with had it not been On Saturday, 20th-ranked shut out in the first quarter.

Wisconsin took on Arizona With 4:08 left in the first State in what turned out to quarter, Arizona State (2-0) be a wild contest, in which struck first with a 34-yard the Sun Devils upset the field goal to take a 3-0 lead.

However, within the first Badgers, 32-30.

After crushing both four minutes of the second

quarter, Wisconsin scored a touchdown and recovered a fumble in its own end zone for a 14-3 advantage.

But Arizona State mounted a comeback and finished the second quarter down by only one point before pulling ahead in the second half.

Ducks dominate Vols For the second week in a row, Oregon posted 59 points as they thrashed Tennessee in a 59-14 victory.

At the onset of the game, it seemed that the Volunteers (2-1) were going to put up a fight as they scored the game’s first touchdown. However, the Volunteers only scored once more, which occurred in the second half of the fourth quarter when the game was already in hand for the Ducks (3-0).

Oregon sophomore quarterback Marcus Mariota threw for a career-high 456 yards and added four passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown to his stat line.

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first pick, anyway.

“Not both of those were on A.J. though,” Molnar said. “Things happen on the field that were beyond his control. Obviously at the end of the day, the interceptions go against him, but there were other people involved in those.”

It was something new for the Minutemen. Neither of Mike Wegzyn’s two starts this season were anything to feel good about, especially in UMass’ loss to Football Championship Subdivision MARIA UMINSKI/COLLEGIAN foe Maine at home in Week 2.

Wegzyn has completed A.J Doyle’s (above) emergence as the starter could jumpstart the Minutemen. less than half of his passes this season and most of mediocre the rest of the way. Minutemen’s receivers, parthe time the offense looked Seven points per game won’t ticularly Tajae Sharpe. inept. Wegzyn would get be acceptable anymore, or Since Doyle started the rattled under pressure and else UMass will go winless. second half against the seemed helpless when his The jury is still out on Black Bears, Sharpe has first option wasn’t open, Doyle. One solid game made 13 catches for 116 making it difficult to sustain shouldn’t be enough to con- yards and a touchdown – he drives under those circum- vince people that he’s the had a career-high 98 receivstances. team’s long-term solution. ing yards on nine catches on Doyle, on the other hand, Right now, he’s still the Saturday. was poised. Found the open product of some exceptionIt’s still too early to deem man. Could escape the pock- ally poor play from the quar- Doyle the savior of the et and run if he ran out of terback before him.

UMass offense. However, options. The type of qualiDon’t forget, he only positive steps were made on ties a young offense needs completed 12 of his 24 pass Saturday. from its leader. attempts for 101 yards and If we see an even better Based on the results, the just one score in three quar- Doyle by next week, or even starting job is now Doyle’s ters of play in UMass’ first three weeks from now (by to lose for the remainder of two games. He’s still near the way, better means multhe season. But I want to the bottom among quarter- tiple touchdown passes and see more. Those two inter- backs in the MAC. His accu- maybe a shot at some wins), ceptions, most notably the racy could still be better, too. then the Minutemen might one that was returned for a But there’s still hope. have their answer. touchdown, still happened. Doyle has already looked If not, then it might be And they can’t happen. like a significant upgrade someone else’s turn.

Consistency is a must, over Wegzyn in the last too. Doyle was stellar for the six quarters. Most impor- Nick Canelas can be reached at second half of the first quar- tantly, he seems to have a ncanelas@umass.edu and followed on ter, but his numbers were good connection with the Twitter @NickCanelas.

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formed the Rams in shots (28-3), shots on goal (7-2) and corner kicks (7-1).

VCU senior goalkeeper Andrew Wells had a strong By roBBie ACer performance with seven Collegian Correspondent saves in the shutout.

The Rams look ahead The No.19 Virginia to matches with Coastal Commonwealth men’s socCarolina and Wake Forest in cer team defeated No. 7 the upcoming week.

Akron 1-0 Friday night in front of a crowd of 3,319.

Dayton earns MSU title The Zips (4-2) came out After defeating Western firing at the University Illinois handily last Friday, of Akron Tournament, Dayton proved victoribut failed to capitalize on ous once again, this time numerous opportunities. defeating Detroit 1-0 for the The struggle continued Missouri State Tournament throughout the game as title. senior Eric Stevenson and After a scoreless struggle freshman Adam Nejem each for most of the game, freshtook five shots, combining man James Haupt finally for more shots than VCU’s broke through in the 75th entire squad. minute off an assist from Rams (3-1-1) sophomore junior Greg Enstone.

Dennis Castillo scored The Flyers (5-0) entered the match’s only goal on a Sunday’s match at the header in the 75th minute Plaster Sports Complex with off a pass from junior Juan a powerful offense, averagMonge Solano. Although ing over two goals and 15 VCU was victorious, Akron shots per game, but neither possessed the ball a major- team scored in the first half. ity of the match and outper- Both Dayton and Detroit

played it safe and kept their defensive lines far back.

The Flyers move on to play Ohio State at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

Patriots atop the A-10 George Mason shut out previously undefeated Seton Hall in a 1-0 victory at George Mason Stadium.

The Patriots (5-1-1) victory can be credited to their defense, which allowed just one shot on goal through the match. The Pirates were outshot 10-4.

In the 60th minute, senior Julio Arjona found the back of the net off a header from senior Hugh Roberts during a corner kick.

Seton Hall brought aggressive pressure in the second half, but the Patriots defense held strong and George Mason clinched the victory.

The Patriots take the pitch again Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Virginia.

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Rob Blanchflower (above) practiced Monday in a limited capacity after missing the last month. UMass’ leading pass catcher a year ago, Blanchflower has yet to step on the field in 2013.

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The Massachusetts football team got a bit of good news on the injury front on Monday.

Senior tight end Rob Blanchflower, who has been sidelined for over a month with a pair of undisclosed injuries, was back at practice and in full pads on Monday.

His contributions during practice were limited, though, and an announcement on his sta-

“We got our leader back, our captain back. He’s a presence that you have to pay attention to. There’s no way that Vanderbilt’s gonna be able to leave him open without us making them pay for it.””

UMass quarterback A.J Doyle tus for Saturday’s game against Vanderbilt will be made later on this week.

One teammate that is especially happy to have Blanchflower back in practice is quarterback A.J. Doyle. If Blanchflower plays on Saturday, he will provide Doyle with another weapon to

to leave him open without us making them pay for it.”

Two Minutemen who were still out of practice on Monday were junior running back Jordan Broadnax, who is dealing with a knee injury, and wide receiver Shakur Nesmith, who is out with a shoulder injury. However, senior defensive lineman Galen Clemons did return to practice after missing the Kansas State game, according to MassLive. com’s Daniel Malone.

target against the Commodore’s Southeastern Conference-style defense.

“I mean, it’s gonna be a great help,” Doyle said. “We got our leader back, our captain back.

He’s a presence that you have to Cameron McDonough can be reached at pay attention to. There’s no way cameronm@umass.edu and followed on Twitthat Vanderbilt’s gonna be able ter @Cam_McDonough.

C RO S S C O U N T RY

.J. Doyle’s first start at quarterback for the Massachusetts football team this season didn’t get off to the best of starts.

His second pass of the game was intercepted by Kansas State’s Kip Daily and returned 38 yards for a touchdown to give the Wildcats a 6-0 lead. His stat line read 0-for-2 with an interception.

But Doyle Nick regrouped.

Canelas He completed his next seven passes for 74 yards and led the Minutemen into the red zone in each of their next two possessions. The first quarter ended with UMass leading Kansas State on the road 7-6, and it may have been more had Blake Lucas’ 23-yard field goal attempt not been blocked earlier in the quarter.

That was the best Doyle had to offer all night as the Wildcats rallied for 30 unanswered points for a 37-7 win. But Doyle still completed 21 of his 31 pass attempts for 186 yards to go with 37 yards rushing.

Were they outstanding numbers?

No. But it was by far the best performance a UMass quarterback has had all season.

UMass coach Charley Molnar has said multiple times now that his offense needed a spark. Doyle was just that.

“I feel like we took a step forward at the quarterback position and, all in all, our team is going to be in a good place going forward,” Molnar said in his weekly Mid-American Conference Media Teleconference on Monday.

Even though Doyle threw another interception later in the game, he learned to move on from the first interception and put together a solid half of football, even though Molnar didn’t put Doyle completely at fault for the see

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HOCKEY

UMass XC fares well in opening Transfer ruled out weekend, young runners shine until HEA playoffs Rachel Hillard finishes 12th overall in opener

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up regarding the surge of energy coming from the inexperienced group that was ranked No. 8 in the Atlantic 10 in the preseason polls.

“It’s only the beginning of the season,” Hilliard said, “there’s still more training to do so we should only get better which is definitely exciting.”

Although UMass coach Julie LaFreniere is excited for her freshmen, she’s also excited to have back some of her top runners from last year after having one of the youngest rosters in the conference in2012.

The Minutewomen return Purdue-Smithe, who’s back from injury and finished with a time of 18 minutes, 16.38 seconds on Saturday.

UMass proved its potential on Saturday in its first taste of a tough start to their 2013 schedule. The Minutewomen have arguably their toughest meet of the year coming up on the Sept. 27 when they take on three teams ranked in the Top 10, including No. 1 Providence.

The team doesn’t seem fazed by the difficult road ahead..

“We put in a lot of extra miles to prepare for the tough schedule,” Hillard said. “We don’t want to be intimidated by a lot of these other schools because we know we have the caliber of people on our team to compete with them.”

roster consisting of underclassmen. On Saturday, it was those underclassmen that impressed.

UMass finished third overall in its season opener, and its top seven finishers were all freshmen and sophomores.

The Minutemen were led by freshman Blake Croteau, who finished seventh overall with a time of 19 minutes, 33.85 seconds.

UMass racked up 70 points, which was one behind Maine (69) and seven behind Uconn (63) on the new and improved 6,200-meter course.

Croteau was followed by five sophomores, including Daniel Shelton (19 minutes, 37.95 seconds) and Benjamin Thomas (19 minutes, 38.81 seconds), who finished 10th and 11th, respectively.

The UMass top five was rounded out by Miles Hodge with a 20th overall finish and time of 19 minutes, 54.92 seconds, and Quentin Stipp, who took the 22nd place at a time of 19 minutes, 59.36 seconds.

Though this team is loaded with underclassmen, it doesn’t mean the Minutemen have no experience. Antony Taylor looks to lead the team after a 2012 AllConference nod. The redshirt junior is one of the top runners returning for the squad.

Both teams will compete again on Sept. 27 in the Boston College Invite at 3 p.m.

On Saturday, the Massachusetts women’s cross country team finally got to show off a team it’s been excited about throughout the offseason, and did so against a heap of talented teams from the Northeast area.

The Minutewomen, compromised of a mixture of their talented returning upperclassmen and highly coveted freshmen, fared well against a group of teams that included No. 25 Boston College and Connecticut. UMass finished fourth out of the six teams and were led by junior Rachel Hilliard, who finished 12th overall and finished the course in 17 minutes, 56.50 seconds.

“Our team this year is a lot stronger than it’s been in any previous year coming into a season,” Hillard said. “I like our team a lot this year.”

Hilliard was followed by freshmen Natalie Mako and Christine Davis, who finished 14th and 16th, respectively, while Co-Captain Alexandra Perdue-Smithe and freshman Heather MacLean rounded out the UMass top five, finishing Young runners 18th and 23rd, respectively. shine for Minutemen With three freshmen finishThe Minutemen opened the 2013 Frank Corona can be reached at fcorona@ ing in the top five for the team, a lot of excitement has been built season with a majority of their umass.edu.

Prized recruit ineligible for regular season By niCk Canelas Collegian Staff

League last season and committed to UMass last October, officially enrolling at the University in January.

“Adding Frank Vatrano to the UMass family has been unbelievably beneficial up to this point,” UMass head coach John Micheletto said in a news release by the team. “Frank has positively impacted our team and culture with his work ethic and determination since joining us last January. We are looking forward to the day he pulls a UMass game jersey over his head for the first time; it will be a great day for Frank as well as for the program.”

“I am very excited to be here at Massachusetts and to be a part of the hockey program,” Vatrano said in the release. “Growing up just down the road from here makes this experience even more special. I am looking forward to the opportunity to contribute to this year’s team in any way possible.”

Vatrano, 19, was projected by many to be an immediate impact player for the Minutemen this season, so his presence will certainly be missed by UMass in the regular season.

The 5-foot-10, 215-pound forward had 13 goals and nine assists in 19 games played with the Boston Junior Bruins last season. Vatrano played with the United States National Development Team in 2011-12 and registered 35 points on 16 goals and 19 assists in 60 games played.

The Massachusetts hockey team announced on Monday that redshirt freshman Frank Vatrano won’t be eligible to play until the 2014 Hockey East Tournament.

Vatrano can practice with the Minutemen throughout the 2013-14 regular season, but can’t play as a “result of an admissions documentation discrepancy at his previous academic institution.” Vatrano is also eligible to compete in UMass’ Jan. 12 exhibition against the United States Under-18 Team.

The East Longmeadow native was originally enrolled at Boston College last fall and was considered one of the Eagles’ top incoming players for the 2012-13 season, but was dismissed from the team for academic issues just two weeks before the start of the season.

It was reported shortly after Vatrano’s dismissal that he failed to pass the NCAA Clearinghouse, which is a way of verifying the eligibility of a student-athlete by determining they meet certain requirements in educational performance and background, meaning he would’ve been ineligible had he remained at Boston College.

Vatrano withdrew from BC and Nick Canelas can be reached at ncanelas@ played in the Eastern Junior Hockey umass.edu