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Safety in focus as students settle in dorms Safety comes to the forefront

By Marie Maccune Collegian Correspondent

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UMass Juggling Club members Hannah French, Tom Nilsson of UMass Amherst and Joseph Goldin of Hampshire College practice their juggling skills outside the Student Union.

UMass alum searches for kidney donor Starts campaign to find match B y K ate L eddy Collegian Correspondent David Shakespeare, a U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts alumnus, is reaching out to citizens in a nationwide campaign distinctively titled: “Shakespeare Needs a Kidney”.

Throughout adulthood, Shakespeare has been living with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), a genetic illness that claimed the lives of both his mother and brother. Now living in Melrose, the 54 year old recently launched a website, shakespeareneedsakidney.com, in search of a living donor who could save his life.

Shakespeare graduated from UMass in 1954 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science,. It was during his studies at UMass that Shakespeare was first diagnosed with PKD. “I remember going to the Health Center for some basic ailment when I was 21,” he said. “They gave me a blood test and discovered I had very high blood pres-

PKD affects roughly 600,000 people in the United States, and results in kidney failure for about 50 percent of patients. “Polycystic,” meaning multiple cysts, refers to the growths that develop on the kidneys that cause them to become enlarged. This leads to a disruption of the kidney’s functioning abilities as well those of other surrounding organs, which become crowded from the enlargement. sure and linked it to my family’s history with this disease.”

PKD affects roughly 600,000 people in the United States, and results in kidney failure for about 50 percent of patients.

“Polycystic,” meaning multiple cysts, refers to the growths that develop on the kidneys that cause them to become enlarged.

This leads to a disruption of the kidney’s functioning abilities as well those of other surrounding organs, which become crowded from the enlargement.

Patients with PKD rarely experience any symptoms in the beginning of this five-stage disease, but as the cysts progress they may begin to experience pain and discomfort

due to the increased size and weight of the kidneys.

While there is currently no medical cure for the disease, nephrologists may put patients on medications to regulate blood pressure and perform periodic tests to monitor the state of the kidneys as they attempt to slow the disease’s progression.

With his kidney function now at about 17 percent, Shakespeare is in the fourth stage of PKD and could be in the fifth in a matter of months.

“I’m often tired and I’ve been feeling nauseous a lot,” he said.

If his kidney function continues to decrease Shakespeare may have to begin dialysis, a risky clinical procedure that is like-

ly to complicate a future transplant.

The current waiting list for a deceased kidney donor in New England is about five years long, and the kidney would last half as long as one from a living donor.

Shakespeare strives to make the procedure as clear and convenient as possible for anyone who wishes to volunteer; a visitor on his website can find the number for the Massachusetts General Hospital Donor Coordinator for information on being evaluated to see if he or she is a suitable match. Anyone between 18-65 years of age can be a donor. The date of surgery may be scheduled at the volunteer’s convenience, and Shakespeare’s insurance will cover all medical costs. He and his team are also currently fundraising for any extra expenses such as transportation and utility bills. Anyone who would like to donate to this fund can find the link on his website.

The people of Melrose have been adamant to help the cause of their fellow citizen, who has made significant efforts to improve see

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tion,” Archbald said. He is hoping that presentations given during residence hall talks will prove successful as preventative measures.

“The biggest challenge facing UMass safety is that people feel anonymous,” MacKimmie said.

UMPD, along with the Office of Residential Life, encourages students to take an active role in their safety on campus.

Students are encouraged to report suspicious behavior, and if they feel unsafe, they may use the Walking Escort Service or the HELP Phones located across campus in emergency situations.

“We have a really good infrastructure (for safety), but our system is only as good as the users make it,” MacKimmie said.

“Community is a really important part of this. If everyone speaks up when something’s not right, we’ll all be better off.”

Archbald recognized that students want to have fun, but is hoping that through education and awareness they can do it in a smart and safe manner.

Becca Brossoit, an RA and junior studying psychology, expressed similar concerns, finding drug and alcohol use to be some of the biggest safety concerns to students here on campus.

“Never feel pressure to drink,” Brossoit said.

“But, for those students who choose to, always keep track of consumption, always have a sober driver, and always be with people who you know and trust,” The UMPD urges students to make a plan before going out, to let friends know where they are going and to keep track of any consumption.

“Be smart, and you can be safe.” Archbald said.,“Take care of yourselves, and the ones you care about.”

As students get settled into their dorms and apartments throughout the University of Massachusetts and its surrounding communities and the fall semester gets into full swing, safety throughout campus is a concern for many.

The Clery Center for Security on Campus has even deemed September “Campus Safety Month.”

Campus safety is not simply a once-a-year concern, though it is stressed especially during the early weeks of the semester to refresh the minds of students. The Office of Residential Life works all year with the UMass Police Department in order to ensure that UMass is a safe environment for everyone on campus.

According to Jean MacKimmie, director of Residential Education, all residence directors and assistants go through extensive training programs with UMPD and residential security before the rest of the University moves in.

Last spring, a new program was introduced in the residential halls where a UMPD officer is assigned to each hall and is meant to work with those students throughout the year.

“The hope is that they build a relationship with the residential faculty and students, hosting programs to address issues specific to that hall and acting as a reference for any security questions or problems for those living there,” MacKimmie said.

UMPD Deputy Chief Patrick Archbald says he will be focusing on education and community outreach as part of the program.

“Our primary reports of crime are larcenies Marie MacCune can be reached at and malicious destruc- mmaccune@umass.edu.

Three assailants killed following mall attack in Kenya Death toll rises to 62 as a result By nichoLas soi and roByn dixon Los Angeles Times

NAIROBI, Kenya Kenyan security forces killed three assailants from an al-Qaida-linked Somalia militia after unleashing a major assault to end the standoff at a shopping mall here, defense officials said Monday.

With the crisis at the

Westgate shopping center in its third day, officials said 10 suspects had been arrested for questioning, including two at the Nairobi airport.

The big unanswered questions concerned the number of people held by the gunmen, and their welfare, after al-Shabab militants threatened to kill hostages if there was an assault.

Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said only that efforts to release the hostages were “very, very successful” and those being

held were “very few.”

Police officials said some hostages were released Monday, but there was no word on how many, or where they were taken.

Lenku told reporters that the number of dead stood at 62, and that 50 of the 175 injured were still being treated in hospitals.

A Defense Ministry spokesman said 10 bodies had been recovered from the mall in the previous 24 hours. It was not clear whether they were all included in Lenku’s toll.

The Kenya Red Cross previously had reported that 69 people were killed, but later revised the toll to 62, saying some bodies had been double-counted.

The assault by security forces began with weapons fire ringing out at dawn Monday. After sporadic shooting, the attack reached a crescendo in the early afternoon, with a volley of explosions and heavy arms fire. Black smoke poured out of the building as a fire raged for several hours.

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chief Gen. Julius Karangi told reporters that the fire was started by the assailants as a diversion, in a bid to flee the building. Officials said the building was surrounded and that there would be no escape for the terrorists.

Kenyan officials earlier said that 10 to 15 gunmen were involved in the attack.

Karangi said the militants came from different countries. Al-Shabab, the group that has claimed responsibility for the attack, is known to have recruit-

ed foreigners, including Americans and Europeans, to fight in Somalia. It also has recruited Kenyans.

“We have an idea who these people are, and they’re clearly a multinational collection from all over the world,” Karangi said.

He also said that security forces were in control of all floors at the mall and were searching the building to ensure no gunmen were hiding. The gunfire continued after he spoke. see

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Lebanese army takes over at Beruit checkpoints BEIRUT – Lebanese security forces replaced Hezbollah fighters Monday at checkpoints in Beirut’s southern suburbs in response to criticism that the group’s recently enacted security measures proved that it maintains its own mini-state in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah set up dozens of checkpoints this summer to control access to an area known as Dahiya after a series of bombings and other incidents targeted the militant group’s followers in apparent retaliation for its open support for the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The checkpoints, however, served as a daily reminder that Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, which maintains tens of thousands of well-trained fighters, is Lebanon’s most powerful political and military force, and they sparked repeated complaints from Sunni Muslim and Christian politicians that Hezbollah once again had bypassed the Lebanese state.

Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister, Marwan Charbel, urged residents to assist with the transition as regular Lebanese forces took over at the checkpoints.

“The residents should support the security forces, and they should not doubt their competency and capabilities,” he said on local television. “I urge the residents of Dahiya to cooperate with the security forces, who are deployed to ensure their safety.”

He shouldered the blame for Hezbollah’s having to assign its own fighters to protect the neighborhood after a massive suicide blast last month killed dozens of people just a hundred yards from key Hezbollah facilities.

“The problem in Dahiya and the phenomenon of autonomous security emerged because of our shortcomings,” he said.

One resident said she viewed the development with a mixture of relief and concern, noting the army’s reputation for being more low-key than the Hezbollah fighters.

“It’s one hour I have been here,” Um Nabil said as she waited to get to her home, which was just 200 yards away. “Every day we sit for one hour, but it will be better with the army because now we can curse them.”

Noting that Hezbollah has a reputation for discipline and efficiency that the army doesn’t share, she worried that the regular forces won’t be as effective in maintaining the neighborhood’s safety.

“The problem is that we know the Jews and Americans have people inside our army,” Um Nabil said. “Now we worry they will let terrorists in to slaughter us.”

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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

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Police Log: Friday, Sept. 20 to Monday, Sept. 23 Wish tree vandal highlights break

connecting the cable guardrail and stopping just short of a utility pole. There were no tire marks indicating an attempt to stop and

By Mary reines the vehicle sustained heavy Collegian Staff damage to the front end and Totals: passenger side. The driver refused to speak with police, Liquor license violation choosing instead to leave her arrests: 9 car and get some sleep. Her car was towed and she must Liquor license violation Saturday, Sept. 21 1:52 a.m. A person was speak with police in order to summons: 8 allegedly found throwing retrieve her vehicle.

12:03 a.m. Police received a traffic cone into the air Noise complaints: 22 7:01 p.m. A break-in was a noise complaint for 740 at 155 Lincoln Ave. apt. A. Riverglade Dr. apt. M. Caller He agreed to restore it to its reported at 26 Salem Pl. and Vehicle crashes: 8 reported a loud party with proper location and police electronics and jewelry were people yelling and urinat- advised him against that allegedly stolen. No suspect Vehicle stops: 23 was found. ing in the bushes. About 50 behavior in the future. people were cleared out and Friday, Sept. 20 11:29 p.m. At 4 Main St., 6:40 a.m. A vehicle travpolice issued a warning to eling northbound around a Subway, a person attempted residents.

4:13 p.m. An ignited firecurve by 366 East Leverett to steal a police officer’s jackwork was allegedly placed 12:11 a.m. Police arrived Rd. left the roadway, crash- et from his vehicle. Attempt in the mailbox at 555 Market at 263 Sunset Ave. to assist ing into four cement posts was unsuccessful.

Hill Rd. and caused minor residents in clearing out damage. The paint on the top about 100 houseguests from of the mailbox melted. No a party. suspects were found.

1:24 a.m. A break-in was 11:07 p.m. An 18-year- reported at 133 Belchertown old female was allegedly Rd. apt. 31. Jewelry was found tearing down multiple reportedly stolen and the wishes from the wish tree at rooms were trashed. Police Kendrick Park. She received suspect entrance through the balcony window. a summons for vandalism.

11:29 p.m. A man was found carrying a traffic cone over his shoulder at 85 Fearing St. and returned the cone to the corner of Fearing St.

Sunday, Sept. 22 10:19 a.m. A laptop was allegedly stolen from 560 Riverglade Dr. apt. A. No suspects were found.

8:25 p.m. A man wearing all black and a ski mask was found in the garage of 171 Pine St. The man had allegedly intended to steal an iPhone charger but dropped it upon being discovered.

The suspect fled and remains unidentified.

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

Manganaro family Kerry to meet Iran’s foreign gives major gift to minister first time since 1979 Meeting at UN first UMass football in over 30 years

Family of alum gives back to team

By Conor snell

Collegian Correspondent

The University of Massachusetts Athletics Department has received a major gift on behalf of the Manganaro Family, committed by UMass alumnus and former Minuteman Paul Manganaro and his brother David.

The gift will support the UMass football program as well as its new Football Performance Center, scheduled for completion in time for the 2014-2015 academic year.

In recognition of the family’s donation, UMass Athletics has pledged to name the new coaches offices in the Football Perfor mance Center under the title Manganaro

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“After receiving an outstanding education at UMass, it is now time for me to return the sincere and honest commitment given to me by the University and its fine football program.”

Paul Manganaro

Family Football Office Suite.

Paul Manganaro, who played for the Minutemen from 1982-86, was a part of two Yankee Conference championship teams (1982, 1986), was an AllYankee Conference linebacker during his junior see

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Kenyan officials posted upbeat updates on Twitter throughout the day.

“Spread some love, hug a friend, hug a stranger, we’re Kenya,” ran one tweet from the Interior Ministry.

“We’re increasingly gaining advantage of the attackers,” Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo said Monday. “Thumbs up to our multi-agency team, we have just managed to rescue some hostages.”

He later tweeted, “Taken control of all the floors. We’re not here to feed the attackers with pastries but to finish and punish them.”

Around lunchtime, as the operation suddenly intensified, armed personnel carriers and soldiers moved in. Ambulances were on the scene, and fire trucks also moved in as the smoke thickened.

There was a lull, but another intense barrage of fighting broke out inside the building in the late afternoon. Journalists outside the mall were asked to lie down and take cover.

Police used tear gas to disperse crowds who had gathered not far from the Westgate facility on Monday.

Lenku discounted reports that U.S., Israeli and British forces were involved in the operation, assisting Kenyan forces.

“The operation is our national security opera-

tion. We have received a lot of goodwill support from our friends, various countries, but so far we are carrying out the operation ourselves,” he said.

Lenku also said that all the attackers were men, but claimed that some had entered the mall dressed as women.

He said he expected the operation to clear the mall to be over soon.

“The process is getting a little long because we want to make sure our people, both security forces and hostages if there are any in the building, are safely protected.

“Let us remain calm.

Our forces are in full control of the situation.”

Officials urged foreigners planning travel to Kenya not to cancel their trips, saying security was not problematic and that the country was not at war.

Meanwhile, Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto headed home from The Hague, where he is on trial at the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity relating to post-election violence in 2007 and 2008.

The court excused him from the trial for a week.

His lawyer, Karim Kahn, compared the mall attack to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, and said Ruto needed to attend important security meetings.

By HannaH allaM McClatchy Washington Bureau UNITED NATIONS Secretary of State of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet here Thursday for talks that analysts say could pave the way for warmer U.S.-Iranian relations after a decades-long freeze.

The White House announced Monday that Kerry and Zarif would both attend the P5-plus-1 international talks over the future of Iran’s nuclear program on the sidelines of this week’s U.N. General Assembly meeting.

Thursday’s encounter between Kerry, who was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Zarif, a U.S.educated former envoy to the U.N., will be the highest-level meeting since the countries severed diplomatic ties after Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979.

In 2001, Colin Powell, then the secretary of state, met his Iranian counterpart at the U.N., but only for a handshake; Condoleezza Rice and then Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki managed to avoid any serious conversation during a 2007 international conference on Iraq.

Thursday’s meeting, however, will be about Iran, and analysts who specialize in U.S.-Iranian relations say the time could be right for steps toward a detente: The U.S. and Iran are on opposite sides of the Syria conflict but both are looking for a solution to the bloodshed, and Iran is feeling the burn from sanctions on its petroleum exports.

Thursday’s talks also will be the first since Iranians elected President Hassan Rouhani, who’s been called a reformer and a pragmatist, in stark contrast to his polarizing predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was known for broadsides against Israel and whose angry U.N. speeches sometimes sparked other world leaders to walk out.

“The fundamental driving force behind the change is the decision by Iranian citizens to elect a president who has been in favor of resolving the nuclear issue through diplomacy since its inception and made a point to make improved relations with the West a campaign promise because this is what he believes is best for Iran’s national interest,” Farideh Farhi, an Iran scholar at the University of Hawaii, wrote

from Tehran in response to emailed questions.

Rouhani, who will address the U.N. on Tuesday, went on a charm offensive before his trip to New York, granting an interview to Ann Curry of NBC, writing an op-ed for The Washington Post, and releasing high-profile political prisoners.

Not everyone approves.

On the Iranian side, the powerful and ultraconservative Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement over the weekend warning against trusting the White House. Key U.S. allies are just as dubious - Israel’s been spoiling for pre-emptive strikes against archenemy Iran, and the last thing the Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia wants to see is a cozier relationship between its American friends and Iran’s Shiite theocracy.

The Obama administration needs Israeli and Saudi support for separate diplomatic initiatives - reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and negotiating a political solution to the Syrian civil war - so officials will have to consider how far to walk through this opening.

Anthony Cordesman, a former senior defense official who’s now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, wrote in a commentary Monday that the United States should explore the opportunity but bear in mind that such a move could “weaken the trust” of Arab allies, Israel, Turkey and European states, especially amid criticism of the U.S. handling of Egypt and “serious weakness and indecision” on Syria and Iraq.

“These reservations already range from popular conspiracy theories that the United States intends to betray the Arab world for Iran, to serious distrust by every friendly Arab government,” Cordesman wrote.

Some of the most vocal criticism of any move toward rapprochement comes from Congress. Sens. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., on Monday released a letter they sent to President Barack Obama advising him to proceed with caution on Iran, whose nuclear program has raised concern that it is seeking to build a nuclear weapon.

The letter said Iran had quintupled its stockpile of low enriched uranium since 2009 and was racing toward completion of the Fordow enrichment facility by more than doubling the number of centrifuges there since July 2012.

The senators said the evidence signals that “Iran is very much in hot pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability,” and they urged Obama to stop it. The message they’d

like to see delivered in any U.S.-Iran talks is that the nuclear program “will not be tolerated.”

“That’s the rub. Can Obama, even if he wants to, lift the sanctions the Iranians care about?” said Geneive Abdo, a former journalist who lived in Iran and is now an Iran specialist at the Stimson Center research institute in Washington.

Abdo said Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader and ultimate authority in the country, has indicated for months that he’d like to see some sanctions lifted, in particular European Union blocks on petroleum exports that severely cut Iran’s sales and deprived it of hard currency. Abdo said Iran, now forced to barter for goods with other countries, isn’t interested in a deal that doesn’t include major changes in trade restrictions.

“If they say, ‘Oh, we’ll have academic exchanges and allow you to sell your carpets and pistachios,’ that’s not going to work,” Abdo said.

Abdo added that it’s unclear how far the Iranians would be willing to go in their own concessions. One theory is that they might bargain away support for Syrian President Bashar Assad in return for Western powers dropping their insistence that Iran stop enriching uranium or close down a nuclear facility.

“Iran might come to the table and say, ‘OK, Assad will leave power in 2014, and that’s our sacrifice,’“ Abdo said.

Talks on Iran’s nuclear program have stalled for years, with Iran flouting U.N. orders for it to halt uranium enrichment while trying to persuade the world that its program is for peaceful purposes, such as electricity generation, and not construction of weapons.

Obama administration officials have handled news of the Kerry-Zarif meeting gingerly, working to reassure skeptics at home and abroad.

U.S. officials stress that, for now, there are no plans for a U.N. encounter between Obama and Rouhani.

“Secretary Kerry will be meeting with his P5-plus-1 counterparts as well as the Iranian foreign minister, so that’s an opportunity for us to reaffirm, together with our P5-plus-1 partners, the importance of Iran coming in line with international obligations,” said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.

Rhodes added: “But we have no meeting scheduled with President Rouhani, though, as you’ve heard us say repeatedly, we don’t rule out that type of engagement.”

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year and served as a team captain during his senior year.

“After receiving an outstanding education at UMass, it is now time for me to return the sincere and honest commitment given to me by the University and its fine football program,” said Managanaro in a UMass press release.

David Manganaro, a graduate of Providence College, agreed with his brother’s sentiments, but felt another responsibility as a Massachusetts business leader to support the flagship university of the Commonwealth.

“The impact that the game of football has made on my family cannot be understated and as a Massachusetts business leader I strongly believe that supporting our flagship university and its football program is something that will benefit us all in so many ways,” David Manganaro said in the release.

UMass coach Charley Molnar also expressed his gratitude toward the Manganaro family’s gift, which he sees as another example of alumni support for the team’s elevation into the Football Bowl Subdivision.

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“I am pleased that Paul continues to be a leader for UMass football long after his time on the field has ended,” Molnar said in the release. “It will be an honor to walk into the Manganaro Family Football Office Suite while we are working on building a program that is nationally recognized for excellence on and off the field. His generous gift demonstrates his gratitude for what this great institution has done for him and his philanthropy sets the bar for other Minutemen to follow … his gift will help provide the next generation of Minutemen the resources to succeed.”

Aside from coaches offices, the new Football Performance Center is also slated to be the new home for UMass football, with offices, locker rooms, meeting rooms, a new strength and conditioning space, athletic training space and the new Martin and Richard Jacobson Press & Skybox Complex. The 55,000 square foot facility is scheduled for completion in time for the return of several home games to McGuirk Stadium in the 2014 season.

Conor Snell can be reached at csnell@umass.edu.

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the community over the years. In 1981, he founded an organization for nuclear disarmament called the UMass Peacemakers. One year later he was invited to testify before the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee in favor of a nuclear freeze between the United States and the Soviet Union. Shakespeare is also a co-founder of the Melrose Energy Commission, a volunteer based organization established in 2005 that has helped the city reduce utility bills by saving energy and promoting renewable resources.

With so much recent publicity, Shakespeare is optimistic that he will soon be able to return to the active life he loves.

He wishes to continue his work with the community as well as to promote

“‘Like’ our page on Facebook, tweet about it, or talk to your friends. The key thing is to get the word out.”

David Shakespeare awareness and fundraising for diseases like PKD. In only a few months, thousands have heard his story; it is just a matter of getting the message to that one compatible volunteer in the mix. “’Like’ our page on Facebook, tweet about it, or talk to your friends,” Shakespeare said. “The key thing is just to get the word out.”

Kate Leddy can be reached at kleddy@umass.edu.

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Global warming talks put on ‘hiatus’ Scientists now put on the spot

By Monte Morin Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES - It’s a climate puzzle that has vexed scientists for more than a decade and added fuel to the arguments of those who insist manmade global warming is a myth.

Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earth’s average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite soaring levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and years of dire warnings from environmental advocates.

Now, as scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gather in Sweden this week to approve portions of the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, they are finding themselves pressured to explain this glaring discrepancy.

The panel, a United Nations creation that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, hopes to brief world leaders on the current state of climate science in a clear, unified voice. However, experts inside and outside the process say members probably will engage in heated debate over the causes and significance of the so-called global warming hiatus.

“It’s contentious,” said IPCC panelist ShangPing Xie, a professor of climate science at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. “The stakes have been raised by various people, especially the skeptics.”

Though scientists don’t have any firm answers, they do have multiple theories. Xie has argued that the hiatus is the result of heat absorption by the Pacific Ocean - a little-understood, naturally occurring process that repeats itself every few decades. Xie and his colleagues presented the idea in a study published last month in the prestigious journal Nature.

The theory, which is gaining adherents,

For the general public, the existence of the hiatus has been difficult to reconcile with reports of record-breaking summer heat and precedent-setting Arctic ice melts. remains unproved by actual observation. Surface temperature records date back to the late 1800s, but measurements of deep water temperature began only in the 1960s, so there just isn’t enough data to chart the long-term patterns, Xie said.

Scientists have also offered other explanations for the hiatus: lack of sunspot activity, low concentrations of atmospheric water vapor and other marine-related effects.

These too remain theories.

For the general public, the existence of the hiatus has been difficult to reconcile with reports of record-breaking summer heat and precedent-setting Arctic ice melts.

At the same time, those who deny the tenets of climate change science - that the burning of fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and warms it - have seized on the hiatus, calling it proof that global warming isn’t real.

Climate scientists, meanwhile, have had a different response. Although most view the pause as a temporary interruption in a long-term warming trend, some disagree and say it has revealed serious flaws in the deliberative processes of the IPCC. One of the most prominent of these critics is Judith Curry, a climatologist who heads the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

She was involved in the third IPCC assessment, which was published in 2001. But now she accuses the organization of intellectual arrogance and bias.

“All other things being equal, adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will have a warming effect on the planet,” Curry said. “However, all things are never equal, and what we are seeing is natural climate variability dominating over human

impact.”

Curry isn’t the only one to suggest flaws in established climate models. IPCC Vice Chair Francis Zwiers, director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria in Canada, co-wrote a paper published in this month’s Nature Climate Change that said climate models had “significantly” overestimated global warming over the last 20 years and especially for the last 15 years, which coincides with the onset of the hiatus.

The models had predicted that the average global surface temperature would increase by 0.21 of a degree Celsius over this period, but they turned out to be off by a factor of four, Zwiers and his colleagues wrote. In reality, the average temperature has edged up only 0.05 of a degree Celsius over that time - which in a statistical sense is not significantly different from zero.

Of course, people don’t actually spend their entire lives subjected to the global average temperature, which is currently about 15 degrees Celsius, or 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Those who fixate on that single measurement lose sight of significant regional trends, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, climate scientists say.

Xie and Yu Kosaka, an assistant project scientist at Scripps, used computer models to simulate the Pacific decadal oscillation, a phenomenon related to the El Nino and La Nina ocean temperature cycles that lasts for 20 to 30 years.

The model suggested that the northern mid-latitudes - an area that includes the United States and most of Europe and China - were “insulated” from the oscillation’s cooling effect during the summer months, as was the Arctic region.

“In the summer you’ve basically removed the Pacific cooling, so we’re still baked by greenhouse

gases,” Xie said.

As a consequence, 2012 marked two climate milestones, he said. The U.S. experienced its hottest year on record, while ice cover in the North Pole shrank to the lowest level ever observed by satellite.

Other climatologists, such as Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., say sea level rise is “unequivocal proof ” that greenhouse gases are continuing to heat the planet, and that much of this added heat is being absorbed by the oceans.

As ocean water warms, it expands and drives sea levels higher, Patzert said.

Currently, oceans are rising at an average of more than 3 millimeters, or 0.12 of an inch, per year. This pace is significantly faster than the average rate over the last several thousand years, scientists say.

“There’s no doubt that in terms of global temperatures, we’ve hit a little flat spot in the road here,” Patzert said. “But there’s been no slowdown whatsoever in sea level rise, so global warming is alive and well.”

Whether that message is communicated successfully by the IPCC this week remains to be seen.

In the days leading up to the meeting, the organization has found itself on the defensive.

A draft summary that was leaked to the media reported that scientists were “95 percent confident” that human activity was responsible for more than half of the increase in average global surface temperature between 1951 and 2010. But critics openly scoff, considering the IPCC’s poor record for predicting short-term temperature increases.

“This unpredicted hiatus just reflects the fact that we don’t understand things as well as we thought,” said Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder and vocal critic of the climate change establishment. “Now the IPCC finds itself in a position that a science group never wants to be in. It’s in spin management mode.”

Blue whale’s earwax can tell the story of its life Life history tracked in wax

By AMinA KhAn Los Angeles Times

Scientists probing a giant plug of earwax pulled from a dead blue whale have discovered in its hardened layers a detailed biography of the wild animal’s life, from birth to death, in 6-month chapters.

Their new technique, described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, arms researchers with a tool to understand a whale’s hormonal and chemical biography - and a window into how pollutants, some long discontinued, still pervade the environment today.

Whales are often called marine sentinels because they can reveal a lot about the waters they pass through, said study co-author Sascha Usenko, an analytical environmental chemist at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

“These types of marine mammals that are long-lived have a great ability to accumulate contaminants, and so they’re often perceived as being sentinels of their ecosystem,” Usenko said.

Researchers often study tissue and even whale blow - the stuff they exhale from their blowholes - for chemical clues. But for the most part, blubber, or fat tissue, reveals just the whales’ total accumulation, said Gina Ylitalo, a Seattle-based research chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who was not involved in the study. It doesn’t really give scientists a play-by-play account of the animal’s chemical exposure or hormonal production over time.

But Usenko realized that earwax is rich in lipids, just as fat is. So the same lipidloving hormones and chemicals found in a whale’s insulating blubber would also end up in its ear canal.

He also knew that as the wax is deposited in the ear over time, it forms a plug whose layers can be counted like tree rings to determine its age.

But he wondered if scientists could do more than just count the waxy layers. What if they could read each one, too?

“If I could section out each one of those layers and perform an analysis of each, then I could understand not only what they were exposed

“The lifelong archive of contaminants ansd hormones is unprecedented.”

Randall Davis, comparative physiologist to today, but go back in time,” said Usenko, who was used to studying ice and sediment core layers to understand an area’s environment over time.

To test this theory, the team took a very fine-toothed band saw to a 10-inch earplug pulled out of a nearly 70-foot-long male blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), that died after a 2007 collision with a ship off the Santa Barbara coast.

“It’s naturally pretty heavy and strong and resilient,” Usenko said of the wax, which is mostly made up of keratin (the stuff in hair and nails) and lipids.

“It doesn’t necessarily smell great. ... When we were pulling it out, some of the crew actually just left.”

The plug’s 24 layers are laid down in light and dark stripes, Usenko said. The lighter bands are more rich in lipids and thought to result from periods of abundant food, while the darker parts may be a sign of leaner times.

They found that the

whale’s testosterone levels spiked 400-fold around 10 years old - a mark that it had reached sexual maturity, refining researchers’ estimates of when males come of age.

Levels of the stress hormone cortisol spiked 800 percent shortly after the whale’s testosterone shot up - a sign that the stress hormone’s rise could be due to competition for mates.

The average concentrations of cortisol also doubled over the animal’s lifetime, which could be due to any number of factors, including food availability, changes in social status, contaminant exposure or environmental noise, the authors wrote.

While the hormones in the ear wax gave scientists a look at the whale’s personal biography, the chemical contaminants found - from flame retardants, pesticides and other pollutants - also opened a porthole onto humans’ long-term effects on the ocean.

The researchers found several persistent organic

pollutants in the whales’ bodies, particularly DDT, the insecticide largely banned in the U.S. in 1972 in part for its suspected cancer-causing properties. But this whale had been born after the chemical’s use was discontinued.

In fact, a full 96 percent of the total burden of organic pollutants in its wax came from four historic-use pesticides (and their metabolites) and a PCB, a type of chemical used in coolants and insulating fluids.

Many of the pollutants in the whale’s ear plug, particularly the discontinued chemicals, were probably passed through its mother’s milk, Usenko said. Persistent pollutants spiked in the baby whale’s first 6 months, a period that accounted for 20 percent of the total persistent pollutants in the whale’s 12-year lifespan.

The researchers saw peaks in mercury too, one when the whale was about 5 to 6 years of age and again when it was about 10 years old. Because the whale seemed to travel up and down the California coast, perhaps it was swimming through regions with increased mercury contami-

nation, the authors wrote.

“I thought it was a novel idea, to be looking at contaminants at those different time points,” Ylitalo said.

“It’s a neat little way to get that information.”

One of the great challenges of studying large whales is collecting samples from them in the field, said Randall Davis, a comparative physiologist at Texas A&M University who was not involved in the study.

This new method would allow them to pull a rich array of information from earwax samples already sitting in museum collections.

“The lifelong archive of contaminants and hormones,” Davis said in an email, “is unprecedented and has great potential for providing new information on the endocrinology and toxicology of these animals.

I know of no other method to obtain this type of information.”

Usenko said he planned to study more whales’ earwax, and perhaps examine the earwax of other species of whales, too.

“It gives us a lot more opportunities and a new way of asking questions and getting answers,” Usenko said.

“That’s really exciting.”

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“When bright, young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.” - Arthur Ashe

Consumers should pratice better behavior while shopping in retail After 19 years of mooch- learning such admirable ing off of my parents, this skills and attributes as summer I finally sucked it humility, cooperation and basic human understandElise Martorano ing.

First, the customer is up and decided to be “self- not always right. In fact, sufficient.” I got a summer the customer is often job. pushy, rude, ungrateful I’m not exactly sure what and closed-minded. Sure, I was expecting – probably you have to let them think something easy and boring, they’re right, or else you’ll a job I could cruise through lose their business (and without exerting any effort possibly your job). But or forming any kind of this age-old adage soon commitment. I think that becomes a slippery slope. years of watching work- The American retail culplace comedies such as ture, based on sales teams “The Office” on television schmoozing to the customprobably created an ideal- ers, has created a superized expectation for me. consumer who is, to put it In case you’re unfamiliar frankly, a self-entitled brat. with these shows, the main I lost count of the amount characters are employed at of times this summer that an extremely boring, dead- a customer angrily told end job. Their boss is ter- me how to do my own job rible and their colleagues or tried to persuade me to are a mash up of “normal break my store’s rules. people” and “wackos.”

Second, as a These characters are retail worker, typically too smart, funny you will be the or level-headed to allow butt of all angry this senseless job to have protests of your any effect on them. They store’s policies. do their work sufficiently Customers need but half-heartedly, and are to realize that so steeped in apathy and so whatever policy incredulous of their eccen- they think is tric co-workers that their unjust has not job almost seems alluring been written by to those of us in the audi- the employee, but it is the ence. This was probably employee’s job to uphold it. what I was expecting when The store where I worked I stepped into my first job. over the summer had a What I soon realized is pretty objectionable return boring jobs are just that – policy that I had to say to boring. The customers are every customer who purabrasive, your co-workers chased an item. Roughly are nice (but unremarkably three times a day, I experiamusing) and apathetical- enced a customer who was ly cruising through your so irate about this policy shift is never as painless as that they berated me for you would think. I learned its strictness as though I some valuable things this had created it. Bad news summer while I was slaving shoppers: you can’t yell at away folding jeans, remov- an hourly employee for a ing censors and clearing policy that an internationout dressing rooms. These al company instated and things I learned have also expect your issues to be convinced me that every rectified. person should have to work Stefan Sahagian, a in retail at least once in junior at the University their lives, for the sake of of Massachusetts says,

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of employment depends almost exclusively on what stores are hiring and when.

Fourth, the fact that retail employees are paid to put away peoples’ clothes seems to mean to many customers that it’s okay to go out of their way to make a mess. Seriously, how hard is it to put a sweater back on the hanger rightside out? A tip for anyone trying to be more conscientious of the way you shop: it makes a huge difference to be neat and courteous in the store.

Fifth, nobody takes retail workers seriously until they are one.

Working in retail over the summer truly opened my eyes to the consumer attitude in our country. I realized the way I’d been shopping for my entire life has been lacking the perspective of the hourly employees whose day-to-day working experience is affected by the way I behave in their place of work.

Hourly workers made up roughly 23.94 percent (nearly one quarter) of the U.S. workforce in 2012. This is a massive with cheap products, cus- chunk of our population, tomers will assume that and they all deal with the they’re smarter than you. issues I experienced over A worker in JC Penny the summer on a much is treated with a lot less more frequent basis than I respect than a worker in do.

Limited simply because of It’s time that we recogthe products they sell, and nize the daily sacrifices the stigma attached. Selling that hourly wage earners inexpensive or lower qual- face in the process of proity products seems to imply viding services for the rest to ignorant shoppers that of the consumer populayou (as the employee) are tion. I encourage you to responsible for the qual- pick up a summer job doing ity, or that you yourself just that – it will truly proshop at the store where you vide you with a new perwork (and furthermore, spective on the way that that your inferred prefer- our country interacts. ence for cheap clothes is an indication of your worth as Elise Martorano is a Collegian columa person). An hourly job is nist and can be reached at emartora@ an hourly job – your place umass.edu “PSA to all consumers: Threatening minimum wage employees with taking your business elsewhere is like threatening a squirrel that you’re going to go to a different forest.”

I too am guilty of this.

I often find myself irritated when time after time I walk into certain stores and am instantly barraged by a sales associate aggressively pitching me more and more items when I only came in for one. What I, and every other retail consumer, needs to realize is hourly employees are not responsible for the way the company handles business. If one such employee changes the method or breaks a policy, they can be fired without a second thought. The company is simply doing their job.

Third, when you work

I realized the way I’d been shopping for my entire life has been lacking the perspective of the hourly employees whose day-to-day working experience is affected by the way I behave in their place of work

A quick Google search win the presidency for two can take you to pages of consecutive terms? How the “best college majors,” a did Martin Luther King Jr. lead one of the most sucSteven Gillard cessful civil rights movements of all time? Through field largely dominated by rhetoric. By standing up on the sciences nowadays. At the stage with a microphone the opposite end of the spec- and inspiring the American trum, listed under “worst public with carefully crafted majors,” you will usually words and masterful delivfind fields such as history, ery.

The fields of science and the arts, and English lanmathematics are no doubt guage and literature.

I’m an English major, and important, and it is impossithis type of prejudice against ble to say that one subject is my major is all too com- more important than another. But every mon. The question significant is always the same: social event “What will you do in history— if you don’t end up every protest, teaching?” Nursing every war, students say that every activist they will help peomovement— ple. Engineering was started by majors say that an individual they are going to who had an construct a better world. And the scientists idea and expressed this idea are going to rescue us all by through speech.

All of the technology in fighting against pollution, the world is useless if we lose world hunger and cancer.

I would argue that the the ability to connect effecEnglish major— teaching tively on a personal level. the mastery of our lan- Forbes may list English as one of the worst majors, and guage— is equally as impormany people say that there tant as any of the hard sciis not much you can do with ences; though perhaps suban English degree. But when tler than its science counterI look at the world and see parts, the study of English how much of our lives are has an equally significant touched by words, I wonrole in our daily lives. der: What can’t I do with an Our favorite music, movEnglish degree? Every social ies and TV shows are all interaction in life boils down connected with words, for to rhetoric, the ability to example. History books and convince, negotiate, symfine literature all tangibly pathize and inspire. To me, began with a single word on the knowledge of language a piece of paper. Dig further is the most powerful weapon into American history books in the world. and you will find that our So next time you talk own independence was first to somebody majoring in asserted in the Declaration English, stop and think. of Independence, an iconic Maybe they aren’t crazy. document written over 200 Maybe they aren’t bent years ago that changed on becoming the next J.K. American history as well as Rowling. Maybe they just affected the course of the view the world a little differworld’s history. ently.

The people who change the world do so with a Steven Gillard is a Collegian mighty weapon: words. columnist and can be reached at How did President Obama sgillard@umass.edu.

The people who change the world do so with a mighty weapon: words.

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Digging through Netflix for hidden gems ‘Legend of Breaking through Korra’ returns a fog of content Spirituality in store for Avatar Korra

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Netflix has quickly become the go-to place to watch anything from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive.” The streaming service has grown in popularity and with it so have the options. While there are dozens of below-average movies available (see: horror genre), there are also a great deal of watchable movies.

Browsing on Netflix has become more efficient, making it easier to search for the perfect movie to watch. Broken up by genres, a selection of movies and shows are featured on the home page. In addition to ‘New Releases’ and ‘Top Picks,’ users can also choose from more esoteric categories like ‘Romantic Comedies Featuring Strong Female Leads.” This can get overwhelming for Netflix members, despite the company’s introduction of movie-choosing aids like Max. It’s always worth it to check through the newly added items; Netflix has really upped its ante in acquiring the rights to stream movies that aren’t sold only at yard sales. For example, some of the movies added just this week include “The Emperor’s New Groove,” “Requiem for a Dream” and “The Kids are All Right.” So Netflix actually isn’t doing too badly.

If you spend a few minutes browsing through what Netflix has to offer – and really, half the fun of the service is looking through the entire available selection – it’s easy to get distracted and pick a movie that is less than desirable.

In an effort to avoid potentially terrible choices, here are a few hidden gems buried in the enormous Netflix catalogue.

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The cast of “Wet Hot American Summer” sits together patiently.

David Wain’s “Wet Hot American Summer” is packed with a star-studded cast to rival the very best camp-related movies. It takes place on the last day of Camp Firewood in 1981 and all the counselors are looking to make it the best last day ever, be it by falling in love or by making the

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Now for something completely different. There is no purer gem than “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.” Teetering on the edge of the ridiculous and the surreal, Monty Python walks the viewer through all the stages of life while trying to bring light to the purpose of human existence. Poking fun at the

off in Seahaven. Truman is discouraged from traveling and is consistently thwarted when he tries to push the boundaries of his tiny world. However, this makes him more wary and feeds his desire to escape his island utopia.

It’s a fantastic movie that explores the consequences of God-like control over another human being. It’s a stunningly-shot film from beginning to end set to a beautiful score by Phillip Glass. Bittersweet and triumphant, “The Truman Show” is both a feel-good and a darkly thought-proridiculous violence of war, voking movie. class differences and the That goes for all of these inanities of middle age life, movies; it’s impossible to Monty Python is on top of miss with any one of them. their comedic game. “The It can be hard choosing Meaning of Life” is great amongst Netflix’s esoterito watch for quotable quips ca, but hopefully this list and for intelligent humor will help you wade through that you can be smug about when your less-cultured its more mediocre offerings. And if these don’t do friends don’t get it.

Starring Jim Carrey as it for you, don’t let Netflix Truman Burbank, “The obscure the diamonds in Truman Show” is about a the rough with its wordy man whose entire life has category names.

What is a “Cerebral been a televised reality show. Though he is unaware Mind-Bending Romantic of his fabricated universe, Thriller Comedy,” anyway? he slowly becomes suspicious and tries to figure out Araz Havan can be reached at ahawhy things seem a little van@umass.edu.

“The Meaning of Life” is great to watch for quotable quips and for intelligent humor that you can be smug about when your less-cultured friends don’t get it. talent show a huge success.

As a satire, “Wet Hot American Summer” does a fantastic job of lampooning the cheesiness of the hundreds of camp movies that exist. It condenses the initial struggles of first coming to camp, the transformation via video montage and eventual triumph of the protagonists perfectly in a 24-hour span. Ridiculous, funny and entirely sincere, this movie is re-watchable not only because of what may be Paul Rudd’s best performance, but because no camp has ever looked so awesome.

in Japan to animate Book 2.

Fans can rest easy, however, as Studio Mir will come back for a special two-part episode. However, those episodes will feature radically different artwork from past efforts in the “Avatar” universe.

According to a Nickelodeon representative, these episodes will be reminiscent of “traditional East Asian ink wash paintings and woodblock prints.”

What can fans expect out of Book 2? As an ongoing plot from Book 1, viewers will watch as Korra continues to try to master airbending. The only way she can do this is if she goes to the spirit world to get in touch with her spiritual side. At the same time, there is a storm raging between the spirit world and the physical world. Korra must restore the balance between both worlds even though she does not know how to. We also watch as a new villain develops during this process. No information has been released on who that villain will be.

Despite the potential scope and intricacies of the main plot, some fans are more concerned about Korra and her firebending boyfriend, Mako.

“Makorra” fans have waited to see their interactions develop throughout the first season.

Adding a little flavor to that romantic drama, audiences should still expect the same hilarious Bolin to offer his perspective on their relationship. A lot of theories have been made by fans during the break. Will we see Azula?

Zuko? Lin Beifong’s father?

These questions are still waiting for answers.

We have only received bits and pieces on “Spirits.”

The actors themselves have assured multiple times that they do not know anything.

After a hugely successful premiere at San Diego ComicCon, it is safe to assume that this season will live up to the hype. There is “Spirits” will be what every “Avatar” fan has been waiting for.

After the long hiatus following Book 1, “Legend of Korra” is finally back. Fans have been patiently waiting for Book 2, entitled “Spirits.” The release date has been pushed back many times, causing confusion all around. Now that it’s back, “Korra” promises to show the eponymous heroine as she learns to get in touch with her spiritual side.

“Legend of Korra” is a spin-off of the incredibly successful Nickelodeon show, “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

As a successor to that franchise, “Korra” has made quite an impression on fans both old and new. The first season, “Air,” told the story of the new Avatar while squeezing in references from the previous series to create a comfortable atmosphere for old fans. After building a solid foundation in the first season, show creators Bryan Konietzko and Mike DiMartino were given the goahead to produce three more seasons.

This season has undergone one major change from last season, however: the original animators at Studio Mir in South Korea have stepped away from the show.

Mir had been debating during the hiatus whether or not to work on “Legend of Korra” or “The Boondocks.” Due to concerns over the exhaustive nature of animating “Korra,” the Mir team decided to go with “The Boondocks.”

As the creators of “Korra” looked for a replacement, Mir executive director Jae Myung Yoo warned that Japanese animators couldn’t adapt to new styles of work and recommended the show continue working with Korean artists.

Yoo argued that Korean animators were more willing to compromise their artistic predisposition. Nevertheless, “Korra” show-runners have Rachel Arlin can be reached at rarlin@ decided to use Studio Pierrot umass.edu.

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“Austenland” is sort of the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” I say “sort of ” because it’s actually based on Shannon Hale’s novel “Austenland,” which was inspired by the 1995 film version of “Pride and Prejudice,” which was itself adapted from Austen’s actual novel. After being dragged through a book, a movie, another book and another movie, Austen’s story has lost a bit of its zip. All that’s left in “Austenland” (not the book, the movie… no, the second movie…) are a bunch of familiar plot devices and personalities wrapped in a poofy pink ball gown.

Instead of Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of “Pride and Prejudice,” we have Jane Hayes (Keri Russell).

Jane is not the witty, plucky Elizabeth of the original story, but she does want a Mr. Darcy. Specifically, Jane wants the Mr. Darcy from the 1995 miniseries.

Her obsession compels her to cover her apartment with “Pride and Prejudice” paraphernalia, including a cardboard cutout of Colin Firth in breeches standing guard over her living room and wooden letters spelling “DARCY WAS HERE” hanging over her bed. Desperate to live out her fantasy, Jane travels to England to an Austen theme park – think Colonial Williamsburg, but with more heaving bosoms – where she discovers that reality can be just as much fun as fiction.

“Austenland” is the directorial debut of Jerusha Hess (who also adapted the screenplay from Shannon Hale’s novel), and on paper, it seems like a natural choice. Hess is half of the husband-wife team behind “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Nacho Libre.” Most of Hess’ previous projects have been about tiny insulated communities populated by a motley crew of lovable weirdos, and “Austenland” fits that bill perfectly.

H oweve r, Hess’ “Austenland” is not a

gentle, quirky comedy, but an over-the-top burlesque – or at least, that’s what Hess wants it to be.

But she doesn’t deal with the change in style gracefully. The characters of “Austenland” are broad stereotypes, but they’re a little too inconsistent to make a lasting impression; motivations, behaviors and even accents change at the drop of a hat. Awkward slapstick and outrageous non-sequiturs in dialogue seem to be shoehorned into scenes that don’t have the pacing to accommodate them.

Hess’ clumsy execution is made even worse by the editing. She may have been able to squeeze more humor out of the weak source material by allowing the jokes to land. Instead, we’re hurried from scene to scene, almost apologetically. “Sorry you had to see that, moving on now,” the filmmaker seems to say. Hess wants the big laughs, but is a little too self-conscious to go whole hog.

Fortunately, her cast has no such reservations.

Though Hess shies away from broad comedy, the actors are completely unafraid to embrace it. Keri Russell makes the odd, lonely Jane a likable straight woman in the middle of a circus of crazy characters.

She holds her own among several overpowering screen presences, including Jane’s brassy fellow vacationer “Miss Charming,” (Jennifer Coolidge), who delivers some of the best lines in the movie. James Callis is fabulous as foppish closetcase Colonel Andrews, J.J. Field is alternately stormily brooding and sweetly awkward as the Darcy-esque Mr. Nobley, and Ricky Whittle does a fantastic turn as 18th century Old Spice Guy Captain East.

But the best surprise is definitely Scottish actress Georgia King as mean girl Lady Amelia Heartwright.

Though King is probably best known to American audiences as the star of NBC’s sadly short-lived sitcom “The New Normal,” she also has a long list of BBC costume dramas on her

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Keri Russell tries her hardest as Jane Hayes in “Austenland.” resume. She gleefully parodies the conventions of traditional Austen adaptations, pirouetting from room to room in the manner of a classic doe-eyed ingénue.

The wackiness culminates in a post-credits music video, in which the entire cast lip-syncs Nelly’s “Hot in Here.” It’s not particularly clever or surprising, but everyone seems to be having a great time. And their enthusiasm is infec-

tious; it’s hard not to crack a smile when Keri Russell, in full Regency dress, raps while several comely stable boys act as her backup dancers.

“Austenland” is not a great movie by any standard. But you won’t see good actors having this much fun with bad material in any other movie this year.

Yoshi Makishima can be reached at emakishi@smith.edu.

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Martin (right) knows that his chances of playing this season are slim, but hopes to make a change for future veterans.

“I think it’s a little absurd he can’t play. He missed out on the rule by just one year, but I think the rule should allow for exceptions when it comes to those who have served.

Zach Almond, UMass captain a video with pictures of Martin both in uniform for the Marines and UMass rugby.

The petition currently has almost 3,000 signatures and was featured on the website Barstool Sports last Thursday.

“I think it’s a little absurd that he can’t play,” said current rugby captain Zach Almond, who has already signed the petition and promoted it on his Facebook page. “He missed out on the rule by just one year, but I think the rule should allow for exceptions when it comes to those who have served.”

Ciccarelli said that UMass isn’t the first program to petition in favor of military veterans. Although he is unsure of the specific situation, he said that there was another player whose teammates also started

a petition that inspired UMass to start a petition of its own.

Martin didn’t know of the petition when it started, but was overjoyed when he saw it.

“I woke up in the morning and saw that he had put up a whole video together.

It was shocking,” Martin said. “I had already accepted the fact that it was the end of the road for me. I reached out to USA Rugby on my own, but to see my buddies created a petition, it just shows how important rugby is to me.

“These are my rugby friends that did it and it just shows that they respect me and we look out for each other. It was a great feeling knowing that someone went out of their way to do this for me.”

With that in mind, Martin is hesitant to get

Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year. His efforts also earned him a spot on the All-Conference Defensive Team and all-conference second team.

Gaffney also received national recognition, becoming only the sixth player in NCAA history to record over 100 blocked shots in a season. His 115 blocked shots in his senior season is good for third all-time in the NCAA single-season record books.

Kellogg was thrilled that Gaffney could become the eighth UMass player to make it to the NBA. “This is great for the program,” he said. “Kids from high school looking at our program can use Tony as

his hopes up that he may actually get to play again. If anything, he said he would like to at least help pave the way and inspire change for the good of future veterans.

“I don’t want to get any false hope,” Martin said.

“It’s kind of obvious that I don’t think it’s gonna happen. I hope it will make a change for future veterans if it can’t make it change for me for this season.

“Does it give me a sense of hope that I can play again? A little bit. I would love for this to make a change immediately. If I got a phone call tonight saying I could play in (the next game) that would be phenomenal. Hope for the best, plan for the worst is the easiest way to put it.”

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the drive, including a 4-yard touchdown pass to Sharpe, which knotted the game up early in the second quarter.

He also ran for 15 yards on the drive and was aided by solid running by Lorenzo Woodley and Stacey Bedell and a pass interference penalty by the Commodores.

If that Doyle shows up in Mid-American Conference play, and if he is helped by a more consistent running game, this offense could have some successful afternoons in October and November.

But perhaps the most encouraging thing for the Minutemen after Saturday was the play of the defense.

UMass held a Southeastern Conference team, which won nine games, including a win in the Music City Bowl, last season, to 239 total yards and 10 points through three quarters.

The most significant achievement for the defense was holding Vanderbilt to 166 total yards on the ground after allowing an NCAA worst 323 rushing yards per game through its first three contests. The defense also kept the Commodores’ leading receiver Jordan Matthews at bay for most of the game before he scored a highlight-reel touchdown after he caught the ball on one side of the field and proceeded to run across the entire field, making multiple defenders miss and leaping into the end zone.

By the time that Matthews scored, though, the defense was clearly gassed after trying to keep Vanderbilt at bay for so long. The defense was also not getting much help from the offense, which despite its clear improvements, only managed to give the defense seven points to work with.

The Minutemen had multiple opportunities to put more than seven points on the board, but in what has been a recurring theme with this team, they couldn’t turn them into scoring drives, putting more pressure on the defense. UMass made it inside the Commodores

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40-yard line three more times after the touchdown drive, but came up empty, including a missed field goal by Blake Lucas as time expired in the first half.

It would be unfair not to mention the multiple injuries that the Minutemen had to overcome. The most significant of those injuries came when Doyle limped off the field with an apparent leg injury after he was hit on one of his scrambles in the third quarter. He was replaced by Wegzyn, who played well in relief, but once Doyle returned, the offense never seemed to get back in sync like it was in the first half. The offense was also without Woodley and Bedell at times in the backfield, and the defense was without defensive back Joey Colton in the secondary due to injuries. It’s hard enough to beat an SEC team with all of your players on the field after all.

So the bottom line is that UMass played one heck of a football game on Saturday, especially for three quarters. They were effective on offense, especially on its longest scoring drive of the season. Doyle played well for a second straight game despite his injury, and he looks to have cemented his role as starting quarterback going forward. And the defense played well, especially against the run. If the Minutemen didn’t catch the injury bug, they might have even been able to make the game closer than it was in the end.

But the offense still needs to work on converting on its opportunities, which will not only put some more points on the board, but also help out the defense.

So UMass may have lost on Saturday, but the real losers are those who see the glass half empty. There’s nothing but optimism surrounding this game for the Minutemen.

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who everyone looked up to in the locker room,” Kellogg said. “His high energy and high character made him a better player.”

After transferring from Boston University following his sophomore season, Gaffney instantly made an impact for UMass. In 65 career games wearing the Maroon and White, Gaffney became one of Minutemen’s best performers. He averaged 7.0 points per game to go along with 7.6 rebounds over his career.

It was his senior season when Gaffney solidified himself amongst Minuteman great Averaging 10.2 rebounds, 3.8 blocks, and 2.8 steals per contest, Gaffney was awarded the

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I thought that as long as I was a college student here, I haven’t played any sports in college before, that I’m eligible. And when I found out I wasn’t because I was out of high school too long it was kind of upsetting. It’s not like I was sitting around doing nothing. I joined the Marine Corps and I went over to Afghanistan twice.”

The rule change came as a result of foreign-born players, who in some cases were long graduated from high school and in their mid-to-late 20s, coming to America to play in college and physically having a competitive advantage over college-aged students, according to Martin.

The circumstances also apply to American-born student-athletes as it creates parity for all teams at the college level.

Ciccarelli, however, said he would’ve liked to have seen USA Rugby take into account all potential situations, including one involving military veterans, such as was the case for Martin.

“I was surprised at their lack of instruction to kind of sort out all the issues that would come about,” he said. “I understand what their position is and what they’re trying to do but to overlook an entire subset of a rugby playing population (military veterans), to forget about that and only really be concerned about the foreign-born players coming over to the United States and playing in college, I think it’s kind of short-sighted.”

Martin’s teammates, both former and current, haven’t given up hope on him playing again.

Josh Haney, a graduate who was president of the UMass rugby club last season, started a petition on Change.org to USA Rugby CEO and President Nigel Melville, who could not be reached for comment, to change the rule “out of respect and honor for our beloved veterans,” the petition reads. It also included

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an example of where hard work and dedication can take you.”

Kellogg also had some advice to players taken later in the draft or to those who went undrafted.

“NBA teams are looking for guys that can help them win,” he said. “They love rebounders and players who specialize on a specific craft.

Every team has their superstars, but it’s these guys who can help make a difference coming off the bench.”

Gaffney will make his second attempt at an NBA career on Oct. 1 when he reports to Grizzlies training camp.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@ umass.edu and followed on Twitter @ Andrew_Cyr.

Ball State, Toledo win easily MAC conference play intensifies

By Ross Gienieczko Collegian Correspondent Keith Wenning threw for 317 yards and Jahwan Edwards ran for three touchdowns as the Ball State football team went on the road Saturday and blew out Eastern Michigan, 51-20.

Wenning, who threw for two scores, moved to second in the nation in passing yards after his performance Saturday, his fourth straight game passing for over 300 yards.

Not to be overlooked, the Ball State (3-1, 1-0 MidAmerican Conference) offensive line paved the way for six different rushers to gain 197 yards and five touchdowns.

Edwards led the Cardinals in rushing, carrying the ball 15 times for 81 yards in addition to his three scores.

Eastern Michigan (1-3, 0-1 MAC) opened the scoring when running back Darius Jackson ran in from seven

yards out with 11:27 to go in the first quarter, but it was all downhill from there.

The subsequent extra point was blocked and Ball State responded with 27 straight points before the quarter ended. It was a trying day for the Eagles, who turned the ball over four times and committed nine penalties for 81 yards.

Wenning was not the only Cardinal to move up in the national leaderboards, as wide receiver Willie Snead hauled in nine passes for 175 yards to move to third in the country in receiving.

Eastern Michigan is off next week, while Ball State returns to MAC action with a home contest against Toledo at 3 p.m.

Toledo downs CMU

Toledo used two fourth quarter touchdowns to pull away from a scrappy Central Michigan squad, winning its MAC opener 38-17. Running back David Fluellen was the workhorse for the Rockets (2-2, 1-0), as he had 32 carries Ross Gienieczko can be reached at for 197 yards and two touch- rgieniec@umass.edu.

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“mildly optimistic” that the whole team would be near full strength for Tuesday’s practice, but she seemed confident in the Minutewomen’s ability to overcome their nagging injuries.

“Tennis is such a long season,” Dixon said. “It really starts in September and then it goes all the

downs.

The Chippewas (1-3, 0-1 MAC) remained competitive throughout, heading into the fourth quarter trailing just 24-17. But their four turnovers held them back as quarterback Cooper Rush threw two interceptions and was strip-sacked twice. Toledo turned those mistakes into 21 points, which turned out to be the margin of victory.

The Rockets went to the ground in the fourth quarter to put the game away, with Fluellen alone rushing for 79 yards. Toledo totaled 113 yards on the ground in the fourth and did not call a single passing play all quarter.

Next week, the Rockets travel to Ball State for an early season showdown of current MAC West leaders at 3 p.m.

Things don’t get any easier for Central Michigan, as they go on the road to face a North Carolina State team that limited the high-octane Clemson offense to only 26 points last Saturday.

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way through till April. We really have the depth to be able to sustain a solid team. I do believe that this is probably the deepest team (we’ve had). Then it causes a whole other situation which is, how do you keep everybody happy when everybody that’s in this starting eight has

the ability to step in and play?”

It’s a good problem for UMass to have and it will look to carry some momentum into its home debut against Providence on Saturday.

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FIGHTING for a CHANGE UMass senior Ryan Martin deemed too old to play rugby, ruled ineligible

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yan Martin isn’t your ordinary University of Massachusetts student.

After graduating high school in 2006 and spending three semesters at Bridgewater State University, Martin left school to join the Marine Corps, where he served two tours in Afghanistan over a four-year span. Martin returned home and enrolled at UMass in January 2012, and in that time, he picked up a new hobby: rugby.

Martin had never played rugby before joining the UMass

club rugby team, but immediately became passionate about it.

However, as quickly as he fell in love with playing, his career may be over just as fast.

Now a senior, the 25-year-old Martin was ruled ineligible to play by USA Rugby the night before the team’s Sept. 14 season opener against Middlebury due to a new eligibility requirement that states that every student-athlete has seven years immediately following high school graduation to compete for a maximum of five years.

According to UMass coach Phillip Ciccarelli, the previous

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Tony Gaffney is getting a second chance to live out his lifelong dream of playing in the NBA. Gaffney, who graduated from UMass in 2009, was invited to Memphis Grizzlies training camp last week.

“I always felt like he had NBA potential,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said of Gaffney. “His ability to rebound the basketball and his timing on blocking shots were just some of the few things NBA scouts noticed in Tony.”

Undrafted after graduating from UMass, Gaffney signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and participated with the team during that year’s Summer League.

Gaffney’s performance over the

summer landed him a spot in Lakers training camp prior to the 2009-10 season. However, Gaffney was the final player waived by the Lakers one day before the season started.

Later that season, the Boston Celtics signed Gaffney to a oneyear deal, including a non-guaranteed contract for the 2010-2011 season.

But the Celtics later released Gaffney in October 2011, narrowing his chances of ever making another NBA roster.

Gaffney wasn’t going to give up that easy though.

In the summer of 2011, Gaffney finally settled in with the Telekom Baskets Bonn, a professional team in the German Basketball League.

In his first season with the team, Gaffney became a league all-star as he averaged 13 points and six rebounds per game.

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Ryan Martin carries the ball for UMass as a junior. Martin is currently inelgible to play this season rule simply allowed five years of eligibility as an undergraduate student regardless of when they had graduated high school, and could petition for a sixth year.

Ciccarelli submitted a waiver to USA Rugby in order to confirm Martin’s eligibility before the season started. But between the time that email was sent and the team was given a response, the rule had changed.

Martin was stunned. He reached out to USA Rugby Eligibility and Sanctioning Coordinator James Wilbur that

night with hopes for some clarification and to ask if there were any exceptions for military veterans.

Wilbur, who declined to comment on the situation to the Collegian, responded the next day. There were no exceptions.

The bottom line was that Martin would be ineligible. His playing career was over.

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here are two ways to look at the Massachusetts football team’s 24-7 loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday; either glass half empty or glass half full.

The glass half empty pessimist will mention that the Minutemen are 0-4 this season, including blowout defeats against Kansas State and Wisconsin and a loss to Football Championship Subdivision member Maine. They will also mention Cameron how the team is McDonough now 0-9 at Gillette Stadium, and some might even say that they shouldn’t be playing football with the big boys in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

The glass half full optimist will admit that UMass is now 0-4 and winless in its history in Foxboro, but they also have the clear eyes to look beyond the scoreboard, which is imperative when dealing with a young and inexperienced team in only their second season in the FBS. They will also mention that the Minutemen played their best game of the season against the Commodores, albeit for only three quarters.

UMass did indeed look like a much-improved team against Vanderbilt on both offense and defense before the game got away from it in the fourth quarter.

A.J. Doyle looked comfortable in the pocket in his second straight game at starting quarterback after taking over for Mike Wegzyn. Doyle finished 20-of-28 throwing the ball with one touchdown and no interceptions. He did only amass 133 yards through the air, as he was primarily throwing short passes to Tajae Sharpe and Rob Blanchflower, who played in his first game since last season on Saturday.

His longest pass was only 10 yards, but he effectively saw what the Commodores’ defense was giving him and exploited it. He was also effective with his legs when he couldn’t find an open receiver.

Instead of spending too much time in the pocket, he led the Minutemen with 29 yards on the ground.

On UMass’ only touchdown drive of the day, he led the offense down the field for its longest scoring drive of the season on a 14-play, 75-yard drive, which lasted 6 minutes, 23 seconds. He went 6-of-7 for 33 yards on see

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The Massachusetts women’s tennis team kicked off its season over the weekend at the Brown Invitational in Providence, R.I., and, against some of the top teams in the Northeast in Binghamton, Boston College, Boston University, Buffalo, Providence and Rutgers, fared well.

Going up against some of the stiffest competition the team will face all year, the Minutewomen showed promise despite being hampered by injuries. Sophomore Arielle Griffin, who boasted a 15-3 singles record last year, and freshman Anna Woosley, a freshman from Sussex, England, did not make the trip due to lingering injuries. Aarzoo Malik, a freshman from New Delhi, India and junior Chanel Glasper did make the trip, but suffered injuries of their own during the first days of action.

Regardless, the Minutewomen powered through. Senior Yuliana Motyl led the team in singles play and won the consolation final in the Gold Singles bracket after losing a long first match. Glasper was forced to forfeit her first match because of cramps despite winning the first set, but stormed back by dominating her next match without dropping a single game against Karen Ramirez, a name the Minutewomen may see again when the Friars come to Amherst on Sept. 28.

Glasper and senior Jessica Podlofsky – who along with Motyl was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference Squad last year – paired up to win three doubles matches before falling in the consolation final match to Sarah Kandath and Ammu Mandalap of Brown, 8-5.

UMass coach Judy Dixon is looking to find a playing partner for Motyl following the graduation of Chantal Swiszcz, one half of UMass’ No. 1 doubles team from last season that was ranked sixth in the 2013 ITA Northeast Regional Final rankings.

Dixon, the winningest tennis coach in UMass history, is entering her 22nd year coaching tennis at UMass and seemed as confident as ever about her group heading into the tournament.

“We have a really talented team, probably one of the most talented teams I’ve had in all the 20 years I’ve been coaching,” Dixon said.

Malik shook off her early injury to team up with Motyl over the weekend to secure their first victory together against the host duo of Mariska Chamdani and Nikita Uberoi.

In a compelling pairing of a veteran and a new face, senior Sonia Bokhari and freshman Iris Raileanu from Stockholm, Sweden, took fourth place overall in the doubles after winning their first and third matches in convincing fashion before falling to Buffalo’s Margarita Kotok and Ana Maria Candanoza in the third place match.

When asked about the injuries, Dixon said, “It’s frustrating for sure,” and added that she was see

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