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Deadlock threatens government shutdown Political showdown nears its deadline

By AnitA KumAR, WilliAm DouGlAs AnD lesley ClARK McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON – A deeply divided Congress remained deadlocked late Monday over the federal budget, setting up a showdown that will likely lead to a partial shutdown of the government for the first time in nearly two decades.

The two sides of Congress engaged in a high-stakes political showdown well into the night as the government neared the end of the fiscal year at midnight with no law in place to finance parts of the new fiscal year.

Without a deal, a shutdown could delay Social Security payments, passport and visa applications, shutter national parks and museums and furlough hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

T h e Republicanc o n t r o l l e d House of Re presentatives voted 228-201 late Monday to fund the government for two months while delaying the new federal health care law’s mandate that Americans be required to have insurance and canceling health care subsidies for members of Congress.

The Democratic-led Senate voted 54-46 to reject the proposal, just as it did earlier in the day to a similar measure that would have postponed the entire health care law.

As the clock ticked toward deadline, the House readied a new tactic, looking to set up direct negotiations with the Senate by appointing a team of budget negotiators called “conferees” to work with Senate counterparts to hash out a compromise in the coming days. The

last-minute pitch was not expected to stop a shutdown.

President Barack Obama said earlier Monday in a televised address to the nation that he held out hope Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill could find a solution, but he insisted again that he would not negotiate over on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare, or on a coming clash over whether Congress should raise the debt ceiling and avoid a first-of-its kind default on its debts.

“One faction, of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to re-fight the results of an election,” Obama said. “You don’t get to extract a ransom for doing your job, for doing what you’re supposed to be

doing anyway, where just because there’s a law there that you don’t like.”

Obama on Monday evening placed separate calls to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Senate Majority Leader Harry

Reid, D-Nev.; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. He told them anew that he would not negotiate on health care as part of the budget bill.

Boehner told the president in a 10-minute call that the health care law is “costing jobs and that American families are being denied basic fairness when big businesses are getting exemptions that they are not,” said Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck.

During the contentious floor debate in the House on Monday, Democrats and Republicans stuck firm to their beliefs.

Boehner mimicked Obama during his phone call earlier.

“I talked to the president earlier tonight - ‘I’m not going to negotiate, I’m not going to negotiate, we’re not going to do this,’ “ Boehner said of his talk with the president.

“Well I would say to the president, this is not about me, and it’s not about Republicans in the Congress.

It’s about fairness for the American people.”

H o u s e Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., grew angry on the floor during the debate.

“What a shameful day this is in the House of Representatives,” Hoyer told his colleagues. “Tonight is about the continuing destructive obsession our Republicans friends have.”

B o t h chambers have passed legislation that assures military personnel would be paid in the event of a shutdown. Obama signed that bill late Monday.

“Albert Einstein defined insanity as, ‘Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,’ “ Reid said on the Senate floor. “Tonight, we have more proof that House Republicans have see

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Disability Services at 40-year anniversary Celebrations are planned all year

By Rose GottlieB Collegian Correspondent Since it was founded at the University of Massachusetts, Disability Services has provided accommodations and support for numerous students, staff and faculty who require extra assistance.

This year, it is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Disability Services provides aid to people who have physical, psychological, learning or medical disabilities so that they may fully take advantage of the UMass academic and social experience.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Disability Services will be hosting a number of events throughout the year.

The celebration will begin with an open house on Friday, Oct. 4, from 3 to 6 p.m. in rooms 233 and 161 of the Whitmore Administration Building. The event is open to all who wish to attend.

According to Aquila McCants, a learning specialist at Disability Services, the open house will include presentations of new technology that can help students with disabilities and presentations on sign language, along with opportunities to ask questions and learn more about Disability Services and the work that they do.

The celebration will continue in early November with a Luminaria ceremony. In this ceremony, bags holding candles will be placed around the campus pond at night, lighting up the

Disability Services has expanded to help a wider variety of people, including those with attention deficit disorder, psychological disabilities, brain injuries, learning disabilities and medical disabilities. area.

According to McCants this ceremony represents “having the key to open the door so that you see the light.”

During the year, a series of films will be shown highlighting some of the issues faced by people with disabilities.

McCants said that these films allow audiences to think about aspects of disabilities that most people would not consider, including relationships, friendships and overcoming seemingly hopeless situations.

The final event of the 40th anniversary celebration will be on the first Friday in May. A dinner will be hosted in the campus center featuring music groups and interpreters.

According to Dr. Madeline Peters, director, the main purpose of Disability Services is to ensure that “all students, staff, and community members [have] access to all programs, services, and activities on campus”.

Students who register with Disability Services are provided with a consumer manager who helps sort out their individual needs. This allows everyone who needs the services to receive personalized help so that they can make the most out of their college experience.

Peters said that Disability Services became a part of the UMass campus with the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This act ensured that

any institution receiving federal funding provided equal opportunities for persons with disabilities.

Peters began working for Disability Services 22 years ago. When she first arrived, there were only three staff members. Services were only provided for people with physical disabilities such as those with blindness, deafness and mobility impairments. Since then, Disability Services has expanded to help a wider variety of people, including those with attention deficit disorder, psychological disabilities, brain injuries, learning disabilities and medical disabilities.

Over time, the Office of Learning Disability Support Services and the Office of Psychological Disability Services joined with the Office of Disability Services.

And now, there are over 20 staff positions at Disability Services.McCants says that she hopes to see Disability Services grow even larger and help even more people in the years to come. She hopes that those who do not have disabilities develop a greater understanding of those who do.

She also said that she hopes that people will, “advocate for themselves, to accept themselves, and … realize that they have the potential do lots of things”.

Rose Gottlieb can be reached at rgottlieb@umass.edu.

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S&P: Budget, debt fights unlikely to hurt US credit Financial pains

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In 1999, UMass prepared to take down the chain link fence surrounding the W.E.B. Du Bois Library in order to replace it with a more aesthetically appealing protective fence.

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Yemen officials taken hostage SANAA, Yemen – In the latest audacious strike by suspected al-Qaida militants in Yemen, attackers on Monday stormed a military headquarters in the country’s southeast, killing at least five soldiers and army officers and taking dozens more hostage, security officials said.

The Yemeni government sent in special forces to seal off the area, and reportedly opened talks with the hostage-holders. About 70 military personnel, including the base’s commander, were believed held captive.

The overrunning of the military compound in the port city of Mukla, in Hadhramout province, comes amid a drumbeat of attacks inspired or carried out by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemen group is known. On Sept. 20, suspected al-Qaida militants killed more than 50 government soldiers in a series of bombings in a nearby southern province.

In a token of how seriously al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is taken as a threat, the United States in August temporarily closed about two dozen diplomatic missions and put out a rare worldwide travel alert after intercepting communications about what was believed to be an imminent attack. None materialized.

The organization claimed responsibility for a failed Christmas 2009 attempt to down a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb concealed in the attacker’s underwear, and a foiled plan the following year to plant explosivesladen packages aboard air freight flights.

Jumping into a power vacuum left when Yemen’s longtime autocrat, Ali Abdullah Saleh, was ousted in 2012 amid a wave of popular uprisings across the Arab world, al-Qaida’s Yemen affiliate swiftly moved to establish a sphere of influence in the south.

Yemen is impoverished and largely lawless, but it is considered strategic due to its proximity to major oil shipping routes.

Although driven from many of their southern strongholds, al-Qaidaaffiliated militants have proved adept at pinpointing weaknesses on the part of Yemen’s security forces.

Over the past year and a half, they have assassinated a number of senior military officials with bombs and in ambushes.

Officials cited by The Associated Press said the base that was hit in Monday’s attack was supposed to have been guarded by a series of checkpoints, but that they did not appear to have been manned when the assailants struck.

Security officials said the attack had the hallmarks of an inside job. According to some reports, the squad of militants disguised themselves as security personnel, using confusion to buy enough time to quickly overpower defenders.

Witnesses said the attack was launched with explosives followed by a firefight.

not yet fatal

By Jim Puzzanghera Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON – Standard & Poor’s said Monday that the current impasse over funding the federal government and raising the debt limit probably would not lead to another downgrade of the U.S. credit rating - as long as the stalemate didn’t last long.

But a failure to raise the nation’s borrowing ceiling

in time to avoid a first-ever federal government default would cause S&P to reassess its AA+ rating for the U.S., the company said in a report.

The Treasury Department has said the debt limit must be raised by Oct. 17 or the nation risks not having enough money to pay its bills on any given day.

S&P, one of the three leading credit-rating firms, downgraded the U.S. credit rating in 2011 after a last-minute deal ended a bitter stalemate over raising the debt limit.

The company warned that

Washington politicians were repeating their same mistakes.

“This sort of political brinkmanship is the dominant reason the rating is no longer AAA,” S&P said Monday.

Government defaults historically have led to low ratings once they have ended, ranging from B to CCC+, the company said.

But the U.S. situation would be unique because it would involve “political brinkmanship among branches of government,” and a postdefault rating would require

an analysis of “the changes in the political and economic landscape,” S&P said.

S&P said it expected the debt limit to be raised. The effect of a government shutdown, which could begin Tuesday, would be assessed when the parameters of a closure were clear, the report said.

Still, the fiscal fighting “creates an atmosphere of uncertainty that could affect confidence, investment and hiring in the U.S,” S&P said.

In June, S&P upgraded its outlook for the U.S. rating to

stable from negative because of more optimism about the nation’s economic outlook, including the falling budget deficit and a deal last winter to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”

The change in the outlook meant there was less than a 33 percent chance the U.S credit rating would be downgraded in the next two years.

S&P said Monday there was a potential for more political compromise, but that the continued political fighting on the budget and debt ceiling is one of the factors constraining the U.S. credit rating.

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‘Halfway to Blarney Blowout’ Pope John Paul II to be takes up most of APD’s time proclaimed saint in April Friday Sept. 27 to Monday, Sept. 30

McClellan St. after receiving a noise complaint. Loud Irish music could be heard coming from the house.

By Mary reines

11:00 a.m. Suspecting a large attendance, police stopped

by McMurphy’s on North Friday, Sept. 27 Pleasant Street to warn 7:36 p.m. A woman at 22 employees and verify that Lessey St. called about dam- the staff was prepared for age to her car. She believed such a turnout, offering that she knew who did it, but assistance. didn’t want to discuss it with the dispatcher. She referred 1:45 p.m. Police respondto this person as “Billy the ed to a disturbance at the Kid.” All damage appeared Townehouse Apartments to be caused by the elements. at 50 Meadow St. Officers pushed out about 400 par11:34 p.m. Caller at 22 Lessey tiers from the west quad St. reported some people and 200 from the east quad. allegedly attempting to push Officers informed residents over the Emily Dickinson of the town bylaws. No resiStatue. Suspects were gone dents received charges at this time. by the time police arrived.

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A crowd moved behind Saturday, Sept. 28.

21 Hobart Ln. and no one 1:35 a.m. Amanda Beth answered the door to police.

Lamb, 43, was stopped in About 150 people came out her vehicle at Cumberland when officers moved back to Farms on Montague Road. the street.

She was arrested on charges of alleged speeding, a second 2:25 p.m. A caller from offense OUI and possession the Toy Box on 201 North of numerous prescription Pleasant St. was displeased pills that weren’t prescribed with the Pre-Blarney festivities, expressing anger about to her. the riotous behavior exhib10:18 a.m. A small sapling ited by students in the town tree was snapped in half at center. Police referred her to the Amherst Select Board to 259 Lincoln Ave. voice her concerns.

10:40 a.m. Many students took to the streets 2:54 p.m. At Crestview on North for a “Halfway to Blarney Apartments Blowout” celebration. Police Pleasant Street, a caller issued a warning at 25 allegedly reported about 300

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lost their minds. Instead of allowing all 435 members of the House of Representatives to vote on the Senate’s bill to keep the government open for business, Speaker Boehner is once again pushing a government shutdown.”

As the day wore on, there were some signs that Republicans in both chambers were starting to differ over how to proceed.

Some House members initially thought of killing the latest proposal because it didn’t go far enough, while some senators floated a proposal that would extend for one week the government’s current spending levels, which would prevent workers from being furloughed and keep government agencies and services open as lawmakers continued to haggle over larger issues.

“Despite the Democrats’ refusal to work with the House to solve the problem, Republicans are working to protect the troops, prevent a shutdown and find solutions to the difficulties caused by Senate Democrats’ delay,” said Don Stewart, a spokesman for McConnell.

But Senate Democrats were cool to the idea, and it remained unclear whether the House and White House would accept the plan.

“You cannot negotiate when you take hostages and extort,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said.

“We’re happy to negotiate.

There’s a budget. They can talk about spending for (Obamacare) in the budget.

You don’t do it this way.”

If a shutdown occurred, about 800,000 of the more than 2 million federal employees would stay home. But more than a million active duty military would remain on the job. After the government reopens, lawmakers must decide whether employees both those who worked and those who didn’t - should get paid.

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would not.

Mail delivery would continue but loan programs to small businesses, farmers and homeowners would cease. Inspectors still would regulate food and drugs but research programs would be halted.

Taxes would be collected but judges would have to go home when the courts run out of funds. Prisoners still would be held in federal custody but money for recovery efforts following Superstorm Sandy would be reduced.

The health care law that is the focus of the dispute between Republicans and Democrats would continue to be implemented, because much of its funding comes from other sources, including new taxes and fees and cuts to other programs.

“Let me be clear about this. ... The Affordable Care Act is moving forward,” Obama said. “That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down.”

The president and his political appointees would still report to work.

Lawmakers would do the same but would decide who on their staffs was essential.

Some lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced Monday that they would forego their salaries during a shutdown and contribute the money to charity.

“Elected leaders should not be treated better than the American people, which is precisely why hardworking Americans deserve the same Obamacare exception that President Obama has already granted members of Congress,” he said.

Congress has failed to meet the deadline for approving spending bills 17 times since the 1970s, resulting in partial shutdowns lasting from one day to three weeks. The last time was for a 21-day stretch in December 1995 and January 1996 when some - but not all - spending bills had been signed into law.

loud, drunken kids behind his apartment. Police helped moved the crowd to the street.

3:17

p.m. Back at the Townehouses, police made an arrest for a liquor law violation.

About an hour later, police responded to a noise complaint at 816 North Pleasant St. and issued a summons for unlawful noise to a 20-yearold male resident and arrested a 20-year-old female for a liquor law violation. The female tried to resist arrest by fleeing into the woods, but she was eventually apprehended.

Sunday, Sept. 29

9:01 p.m. Oswaldo Alejandro

Henriquez-Castro, 18, was arrested for allegedly breaking and entering in the night time to commit a felony at 34 Kellogg Avenue. He was seen in the home by the occupants and became frightened, leaving the house. Then, he tried to get back in again. Police apprehended him.

Totals: Liquor license violation arrests: 18 Liquor license violation summons: 4 Noise complaints: 31 Vehicle crashes: 8 Vehicle stops: 14

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

Canonization set just before Easter dpa WARSAW, Poland – Poland erupted with excitement Monday at news from the Vatican that the late Polish-born Pope John Paul II is to formally be named a saint in 2014.

The upcoming sanctification of Karol Wojtyla was a “great day for Poland,” said Jozef Klock, spokesman of the Catholic bishops conference in Poland.

“The best way to prepare is to turn the words (of John Paul II) into action,” he said during a press conference in Warsaw.

The former pope, who died in office in 2005, is to be proclaimed a saint alongside another 20th century pope, John XXIII, on April 27, Pope Francis announced at the Vatican.

The chosen date marks the first Sunday after Easter 2014. That Sunday is also marked by Catholics as Divine Mercy Sunday, a commemoration introduced by John Paul II. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced he would like to travel to Rome to attend the ceremony in the Vatican.

“I’m very reticent when it comes to state delegations at events of religious ceremonies,” he said. “But, as a Pole, I would very

much like to be in Rome that day.”

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow and longtime private secretary of John Paul II, told the Polish news agency PAP that he expects “hundreds of thousands” of Polish pilgrims to travel to Rome when Wojtyla is proclaimed a saint.

Francis already had taken the decision to canonize the Polish pope after recognizing that he had performed a second miracle following his death.

However, he had decided to waive the second-miracle requirement - which is usually required on the path to sainthood - for John XXIII, Italian born Angelo Roncalli.

“We all know the virtue and personality of this pope,” said Vatican spokesman Federico Lmbardi, noting a “special case” for John XXIII. Wojtyla, whose papacy under the name of John Paul II lasted from 1978 to 2005, is best remembered for his charisma and his role in helping to bring down Communist rule in Eastern Europe, starting with his home country.

John Paul II’s second certified miracle was the curing of a brain aneurysm of a Costa Rican woman, the man in charge of steering the canonization process, Monsignor Slawomir Oder, told Vatican Radio.

That added to a nun’s healing from Parkinson’s disease two months after the pontiff’s death.

John Paul II’s rise to sainthood has been one of the fastest in modern times. Crowds chanted “santo subito” (saint now) at his funeral, and his successor Benedict XVI immediately started the process, waiving the normal fiveyear wait after a candidate’s death.

Earlier this year, Vatican officials had even suggested the canonization could still take place in 2013.

However, some have criticized the move, pointing to Wojtyla’s failure to address sexual abuse and financial scandals within the Church hierarchy, which in recent years have blown over and tarnished its reputation.

Roncalli served from 1958 to 1963 and led the Catholic Church toward major reforms by opening the Second Vatican Council in 1962, which concluded three years later under his successor, Paul VI. John XXIII - who is known in Italy as the “papa buono” (the good pope) - is a less controversial figure.

He was beatified by John Paul II in 2000, after he was credited with the 1966 curing of an Italian nun from serious stomach bleeding and infection.

Obama: U.S. to pursue Iranian opening U.S. negotiating

despite Israeli fears

By Jonathan s. Landay McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States must test “in good faith” Iran’s readiness to negotiate a settlement to the feud over its nuclear program, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged that tough sanctions - and the threat of military force - be maintained against Tehran and intensified if necessary.

After talks at the White House, Obama and Netanyahu both reiterated that Iran can’t be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, but the bulk of their comments illustrated the gap in how they view an unprecedented outreach to the West

by Iran’s new government that was capped on Friday by a historic telephone call between Obama and the new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani.

Speaking to reporters as he sat beside Netanyahu, Obama emphasized that Rouhani’s government must be given a chance to prove that it is prepared to hold serious talks on its nuclear program after years of stalemate. The Israeli leader - who has derided the Iranian diplomatic offensive as “sweet talk and a blitz of smiles” - conveyed a conviction of total mistrust.

“We have to test diplomacy,” Obama said. “We have to see if, in fact, they (Iran) are serious about their willingness to abide by international norms and international law, and international requirements and resolutions. And we in good faith will approach them, indicating that it is our preference to resolve these issues diplomatically.”

Obama stressed, however, that Iran will have to take concrete actions to assure the world that it

is not developing nuclear weapons before it can receive relief from a raft of tough sanctions that are choking its economy. “We enter into these negotiations very clear-eyed. They will not be easy,” he said.

Obama credited the sanctions for pushing Iran to seek a reopening of negotiations on its nuclear program with world powers, which stalled in April while Rouhani’s obstreperous predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was still in power.

In contrast, Netanyahu said that sanctions and U.S. and Israeli threats to use military force must remain in place until the talks conclude successfully.

That approach would rule out a phased removal of the measures that most experts consider the most promising avenue to an accord.

“I believe that it’s the combination of a credible military threat and the pressure of those sanctions that have brought Iran to the negotiating table,” Netanyahu said. “I also believe that for diplomacy to work, those pressures must be kept in place. And I think they should not be lessened until there is verifiable success.”

“In fact, it is Israel’s firm belief that if Iran continues to advance its nuclear program during negotiations, the sanctions should be strengthened.”

Netanyahu has long predicted that Iran would soon have a nuclear weapon, but the dates of those predictions have slipped repeatedly. There currently is no proof that Iran is building a nuclear warhead. U.S. intelligence officials contend that Iran halted its bomb program in late 2003 but is working to have the infrastructure in place to quickly reactivate one if a decision is ever made to do so.

Iran has defied multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions demanding that it halt the enrichment of uranium, the process that

Obama emphasized that [Iranian president Hassan]Rouhani’s government must be given a chance to prove that it is prepared to hold serious talks on its nuclear program after years of stalemate. produces fuel for power generation and nuclear warheads, and it has continued to develop and install advanced centrifuges, the high-speed spinning machines in which uranium is enriched. Iran also has for several years refused to answer questions about evidence that it researched a nuclear warhead for delivery by ballistic missile.

Tehran insists that its program - which it hid from international inspectors for 18 years - is strictly for peaceful purposes and contends that it has the right to continue enrichment as a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the cornerstone of the global system to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

Last week, Obama acknowledged that Iran does have the right to a peaceful nuclear program.

White House spokesman Jay Carney indicated after the Obama-Netanyahu talks that the United States was not going to follow the Israeli leader’s recommendation on sanctions.

“We have steadily over the past five years strengthened and intensified with our partners around the world the sanctions regime against Iran,” said Carney.

“I think right now we’re exploring the possibility that Iran is serious about resolving this challenge, and we want to do that.”

Obama and Netanyahu met just three days after the 15-minute telephone conversation between Obama and Rouhani. It was the first direct conversation between American and Iranian leaders since diplomatic relations were severed in 1980 and came one day after Iran agreed with

the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany to resume negotiations on its nuclear program in Geneva on Oct. 15-16.

Netanyahu, who on Tuesday is to be the last world leader to address the weeklong opening session of the U.N. General Assembly, appears to be facing an uphill fight to convince the world that what he has called Rouhani’s “smile campaign” really is aimed at buying time for Iran to amass enough enriched uranium to produce a warhead.

A CNN/ORC International poll published Monday found that 87 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans support negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program.

The survey of 803 adults was conducted over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday, meanwhile, a former Israeli Defense Force intelligence chief published an open memo in which he urged Netanyahu to recognize that an imperfect deal was better for Israel’s security than the status quo.

“It is important to define an agreement that even if containing a certain risk that Iran could break out to military nuclear capability either under or in violation of the deal, still represents a significantly smaller threat than the dangers inherent in the status quo, which is likely leading to an Iranian bomb or to a military move to forestall it,” retired Air Force Gen. Amos Yadlin wrote in the memo published by the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israeli policy institute affiliated with Tel Aviv University.

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EDM event cancellations ‘unfair’ Recent revelation disappoints fans Daniel Franc of ‘Horse_ebooks’

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On Sept. 11, the University factor in the current panic. of Massachusetts administra- The timing of those recent tion announced the cancella- deaths may have exerted disproportionate influence on public opinion despite the relatively low risk. tion of the highly anticipated I’ll assume for the sake of Return to Fantazia electronic argument, however, that the dance music (EDM) concert, administration’s fears are citing recent deadly overdoses even justified to the extent of MDMA at such events. This that they ought to take some was followed on Sept. 26 by the sort of action, that the new cancelation of two more on- danger posed by MDMA is campus EDM events, Above & so exceptional Beyond and Pretty Lights, for that it warrants the same reason. extreme meaThough I respect the noble sures. But those intention behind them, these deaths could be decisions are uninformed and due to a “bad illogical. The potential harms batch” of Molly, of MDMA are incontrovert- as has been conible, but also grossly exagger- jectured, or the ated. Moreover, cancellation unsafe combinaof events that are merely tion of MDMA popularly associated with the with other drugs. drug is a ham-handed method Two apparently for educating and protecting unrelated incidents in Boston students. and New York do not justify MDMA is a dangerous sub- the cancellation of any event stance, and irresponsible use where MDMA merely might can cause severe injury and be used. death. However, due to media This gets to the crux of my bias and skewed drug laws, contention with the adminthese risks have long been istration’s decision, which is profoundly overinflated in the rooted in speculation and fearpublic consciousness. A 2011 mongering. It is based on the study found that in the entire association of MDMA with UK there were only five deaths EDM events, and unless the caused solely by MDMA but threat posed by such events 98 by paracetamol, a popular is explicit, cancelling them pain reliever. In the U.S., the altogether due to likely exagapproximately 60 Americans gerated fears of Molly overwho died while using the drug doses is patently absurd and in 2000, for example, made condemns our students as up roughly 0.00002 percent of untrustworthy. Horseback users. By comparison, 50 in riding leads to severe harm in 100,000 users of alcohol died roughly one in 350 instances – that year. a much higher rate than that There are other mitigating of ecstasy use – yet I see no call factors to the statistics about to prohibit equestrian clubs MDMA, such as its tendency on campus. Drinking is assoto be mixed with more danger- ciated with college weekends ous drugs, but clearly MDMA and causes far more harm has a history of being sensa- than the use of MDMA – more tionalized. I suspect this is a than 1,825 American college

students die in alcohol-related tragedies annually. Shall the university declare UMass a dry campus, shut down the UPub, and prohibit any congregation of students on weekends?

Following this logic, why, UMass may as well shut down for good. This would eliminate the risk of students winding up in the emergency room or morgue as the result of alco-

To its credit, the administration acknowledges the importance of information and education in combating the risk posed by illegal drugs.

The most damning aspect of the decision to cancel Fantazia and the other upcoming EDM events, ultimately, is that it is counterproductive to those aims, as this action torpedoes the possibility for balanced, rational debate on the use and hazards of drugs.

Having shut down EDM concerts once, and now twice and three times, the administration has clearly signaled that they will not endorse such events until they see proof that the (vastly overhyped) danger posed

by MDMA is significantly reduced. But unless the overall, media-driven panic is publicly reversed, I anticipate it will be a long time, if ever, before the university allows any of these events to occur again, regardless of their true threat.

Thus, it is extremely important that we scrutinize and challenge this course of action now, before it becomes the norm. Affected by the controversy surrounding the drug, and without anticipating the negative effects of the choice, the university has chosen a hasty and uninformed course of action in deciding to cancel all on-campus EDM events. It is unfair to our students, contributes to panic and blind fear of MDMA, and is counterproductive in the quest to safeguard our community. They may call it necessary prudence, but I call it unnecessary folly.

If college students are so desperate to indulge in illicit drugs and attend EDM concerts as this decision seems to imply, it is foolish to believe that the shutdown of ... such events will end the practice

hol poisoning, drunk driving or the hazards of equine experimentation.

Perhaps more to the point, it would ensure such events did not occur under the university administration’s watch.

If college students are so desperate to indulge in illicit drugs and attend EDM concerts as this decision seems to imply, it is foolish to believe that the shutdown of Fantazia and other such events will end the practice. Are the cancelations wholly about protecting our students, as claimed, or is it also aimed at protecting this institution? Though perhaps unintentionally, through these decisions the university has covered itself, ensuring that if any of our students do suffer harm from the use of Molly, it will occur elsewhere, though likely in a more dangerous situation, and without our exten- Danien Franc is a Collegian contribusive resources for safety and tor and can be reached at dfranc@ support. umass.edu.

No compensation for college athletes Over the past couple of years the argument over paying college athletes has

Daniel Topakov become a more prevalent conversation behind the closed doors of the National Colle giate Athletic Association (NCAA) as well as within sports networks such as ESPN, ABC Sports and the like. There are many individuals who believe athletes should receive some kind of compensation when it comes to playing for a university.

However, the big bad NCAA insists on upholding its no-nonsense reputation by keeping a non-budging stance on the situation.

When asked about paying athletes, NCAA President Mark Emmert stated, “No it will not happen – not while I’m president of the NCAA.” I personally disagree with the “pay-for-play” ideas brought up by the public and sports analysts.

From being on a college campus for almost three years and having friends who play college sports for big Division I schools, I can tell they do not need

compensation. Depending on what sport an athlete plays, they will receive shoes, clothes, headphones, free meal plans and certain other contributions from the university, so it is not the case that the university is not taking care of them.

I feel as though the NCAA is not ready to pay their athletes because they want to make sure that money will not be used for unlawful extra-curricular activities.

Instead they provide them with food and clothing while playing for the university, which I believe is very justifiable.

However, I do have a problem with some of the laws of the NCAA when regarding athletes and money. As seen this summer with the allegation against college football superstar Johnny Manziel and his signing of autographs, the NCAA is highly against athletes profiting from selling their memorabilia or autographs. This is where my stance diverges from the NCAA’s. I believe

that when athletes take time out of their day to sign autographs, jerseys or sell their memorabilia, and agree to a contract with a broker in order to get paid, there should be nothing wrong with it. The athletes are the ones who made names for themselves because of their athletic

tively poor backgrounds, leading their athletes to want to make money for their families. This gives an even bigger argument against the NCAA to let athletes sell their names which they made off of their performances and hard work.

Overall I feel like colle g e athletes should have a bit more freedom to work with when it comes to their finances. I understand why the NCAA does not pay them for their performances because they are already given food, clothing, a place to stay and a game that performances and there- they love to play. However, fore they are selling their when it comes to an athown names. The NCAA lete’s own name and their did not have anything to own initiative to go out do with their hard work, sign autographs and hand determination and suc- out memorabilia then that cess, so if an athlete wants should be left up to them, to go out of his or her way their families and people to make some money dur- who they contact for help. ing their free time, then why not? Another aspect which I believe the NCAA Dennis Topakov is a Collegian columforgets is that a lot of their nist and can be reached at dtopakov@ athletes come from rela- umass.edu.

Depending on what sport an athlete plays, they will receive shoes, clothes, headphones, free meal plans and certain other contributions from the university, so it is not the case that the university is not taking care of them

In the modern age of ing, spanning from t-shirts information domination, to coffee mugs to bumper spambots and their ilk are stickers and even fan-fiction.

Pronunciation Book’s viral Johnny McCabe “77 Days” countdown attracted amateur theorists from no strange sight. Advertising all across the Internet, ponhas flooded from the televi- dering an imagined climax sion and the radio waves onto that actually culminated last the nascent playground of Tuesday, with the announcethe Internet, a veritable land- ment that both accounts scape of possibilities for the would be closed to prepare for enterprising entrepreneur. “Bear Stearns Bravo.” One Much of the day-to-day work need only inspect the comof history’s salesman is long ments section of any website gone, taken over by automat- covering the phenomenon to ed scripts and bits of coding, ascertain that the response flooding email inboxes and was less than positive. social networking sites with On average, the prevail“spammy” and shallow sales ing emotion is anger, followed pitches. closely by disappointment.

These virtual snake oil After several years of emovendors work all hours of tional investment, a beloved the day and night, knowviral social media presence is ing neither rest nor respite. capped off with a halfhearted The Twitter account “@ horse_ebooks” was one such plug for another piece? All spambot, thought by its cult that buildup, all that anticipafan following to be nothing tion, for nothing? One cannot more than a glitchy yet oddly help but think the frustrating prophetic random text gen- system of advertisement has erator. Horse_ebooks was a come full circle. As soon as spambot, but with a shocking the spammiest of spambots becomes a source of genusecret: it was actually alive.

This past Tuesday, in New ine entertainment in its own York City’s Lower East Side, right, the curtain is yanked a man named Jacob Bakkila away and some form of a revealed to the world that he soulless marketing campaign had been the person behind is revealed to have been afoot the Twitter handle “@horse_ all along.

Or is there something ebooks” since September 2011, when he clandestinely deeper, some element on a acquired the account from more subconscious level its creator, Russian hacker that upsets us about Horse_ Alexei Kouzetsnov. ebooks? Are we upset with Bakkila, a former creative having come to look fondly director for viral content upon or even empathize aggregate Buzzfeed, chose with a quirky little robot, a to team up with Thomas mechanical eccentricity, a so Bender, former vice president called “ghost in the machine,” of product development for only to learn we have been the educational site Howcast beguiled all along? After all, and owner of the equally following the media exposure mysterious Youtube account of Alexei Kouzetsnov, the “Pronunciation Book,” generally-accepted theory by for what the duo termed a Horse_ebooks fans was that it piece of “conceptual perfor- continued trundling along on mance art.” The pair used its own, an automated curiosthe mutual abstract fragmen- ity with a quizzical taste for tary voices of Horse_ebooks resonant snippets. and Pronunciation Book as Is it possible that the root a viral marketing campaign of our anger stems from the for their next piece, “Bear fact that Horse_ebooks is Stearns Bravo,” an interachuman? Could we, a la “Blade tive “choose your own advenRunner,” be so unnerved ture” experience. by the blurring of the line The revelations of the true between human and robot, nature of Horse_ebooks and between the biological and the shorter lived yet equally the artificial, the natural and perplexing Pronunciation Book have thus far sent rip- the synthetic that a sudden ples of incredulity into the and unexpected inversion of Internet community. Most our expectations causes us people thought that the true to recoil in shock and revulmastermind behind Horse_ sion?

While it’s clear that viral ebooks had been revealed in journalist Adrian Chen’s ad campaigns like Horse_ investigative report for ebooks and Pronunciation Gawker. Chen, however, suc- Book are evidence of a drasceeded only in publicizing the tic shift in the makeup of account’s aforementioned our consumerist society, as drastic as the shift away from creator.

The publicization of traveling salesman and into Bakkila’s hidden role in the media, the nature of the reacproject and the implications tion to these phenomena is of the secret association even more fascinating. The between Horse_ebooks and future is a big, scary, unbound Pronunciation Book have not place, and who knows: maybe been taken well by fans of we’ll be shocked that the next either account. In the time big Twitter phenomenon is since its inception in 2010, the not actually human. specialized brand of poetic nonsense unique to Horse_ Johnny McCabe is a Collegian ebooks has aggregated a columnist and can be reached at wildly-devoted cult follow- rjmccabe@umass.edu..

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The symbiotic interplay of film and theater ‘The World’s End’ Plays have long strikes right notes inspired cinema Wright mixes comedy with sci-fi

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Theater and film are separate but intimately related forms of art. Theater is a type of live performance that has existed in one form or another for thousands of years across many different cultures. Film, the recorded performance, has taken the world by storm since the first motion picture cameras were developed in the late 1800s. Their histories, however, do not exist separately from one another, especially not in the century-plus that the two forms have coexisted.

Film has been inspired by theater since its beginning. Searching for material to shoot, filmmakers and studios turned to adapting plays. They brought with them not only the stories but the knowledge of longtime theatrical professionals and many stars of the stage.

Names like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Mary Pickford acted in plays, in music halls and in vaudeville long before their transition to film. With the advent of motion pictures with recorded sound, film experienced an even greater boom; Hollywood mined theater more heavily now that dialogue could be heard and not read on the famous “intertitles” interspersed in silent film.

Al Jolson’s “The Jazz Singer,” the very first feature-length film with sound, was itself an adaptation of Samson Raphaelson’s play “The Day of Atonement.”

Famous comic groups like the Marx Brothers and the Three Stooges found their way in vaudeville and stage comedies first, before film studios came calling to immortalize them on film.

Howard Hawks’ 1940 Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell comedy “His Girl Friday” made a splash with critics because of its snappy, overlapping dialogue. That film owed much of its unique style to its source material, Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht’s play, “The Front Page.” Modern cinema still adapts from the theater, with musicals like “Les Misérables” and

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Anne Hathaway gives a solo performance in “Les Miserables.”

“Hairspray” coming to the big screen in recent years.

Some playwrights actually have a hand in the adaptation of their work, as David Mamet did for the 1991 film version of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” or Patrick Marber with the 2004 film, “Closer.”

And the works of William Shakespeare have been a resource for the big screen since the beginning, both in

stage action does not require cinematic shifts of location and viewpoint.”

Erdman goes on to note, however, that recent plays like “War Horse” or “Frankenstein,” the new theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, have experimented with this relationship. Performances like these use both innovative applications of old theatrical

“The general way of thinking of this is that a stage play needs to be ‘broken out’ to make a movie.”

Professor Harley Erdman the form of direct adaptation and as inspiration.

Theater and film, of course, have different constraints and advantages.

Professor Harley Erdman, a professor of dramaturgy (dramatic analysis) in the UMass Department of Theater and holder of a PhD in theater history, talked about adapting between the forms.

“The general way of thinking of this is that a stage play needs to be ‘broken out’ to make a movie,” Harley said.

“That the scope of the settings, shots, structure, etc., needs to be exploded from something tightly confined in space (e.g., a room) to something more cinematic.

Conversely, a movie needs to be focused more in space, closed in, intensified, so the

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form the entirety of their show in one go, whereas a film actor must remain fresh for multiple takes of one scene even in the face of a grueling production schedule. Erdman remarks that these stem from the same acting principles. In both situations, the performers must remain simultaneously faithful to their characters and in connection with the rest of the cast.

Lastly, Erdman observes that there are benefits to each medium. He says a film director’s use of camera angles and editing gives them much greater influence on an audience’s attention than a stage director has on a theatrical audience. At the same time, the seating of each member of a theatrical audience means that they will experience the play from a unique emotional perspective, even when attending the same performance.

Looking to the future, it does not appear that the interplay between theater and film will cease any time soon. Beyond adapting plays for cinema and vice versa, the two forms inspire each other with a constant exchange of ideas. With countless different concepts about art, performance and the human experience contained within both formats, there remains an inexhaustible flow from which storytellers can draw.

techniques and new technology to tell stories in an epic, almost cinematic form.

The challenges faced differ between formats, too.

In theater, the story is a continuous flow that cannot be edited or reshot in transition between the performance and its reception by the audience. Moreover, the only angle from which it can be received by the audience is the seat they occupy, rather than from multiple cameras. The storytellers of film, meanwhile, frequently shoot scenes out of chronological order, requiring them maintain the guiding thread of their characters even in confused temporal circumstances.

A kind of stamina is required for acting in both Griffin Lyons can be reached at forms; stage actors must per- glyons@umass.edu.

to carry the film, “The World’s End” creates and develops relatable relationships between the protagonists set against a sci-fi backdrop that delivers a deeper experience for the audience. Wright and Pegg are once again successful in setting up jokes early on and calling back to them at the most opportune moments.

They also keep certain characters and their pasts vague enough to keep us interested in learning more about them.

The film moves along at a healthy pace, never missing a beat, comedic or otherwise.

Wright’s signature swift camera pans and lightning fast cuts to capture character reactions, along with a seemingly endless flow of jokes, keeps the movie from getting bogged-down and uninteresting. It’s clear that the core cast truly enjoys making these films with one another, and each actor seems fully committed to making every scene worth its allotted screen time.

Pegg and Freeman do an especially wonderful job this time around, as they are given the most to work with characterwise.

The overarching sci-fi plot of the film pairs nicely with the tale of five friends’ reconvening and keeps it from feeling familiar. And although the ultimate reveal of the secret behind Newton Haven may seem lazy, the writers are actually paying homage to sci-fi films of the past. Surprisingly enough, the film also finds the time to work in very entertaining and well-choreographed action sequences that simultaneously manage to keep you laughing and on the edge of your seat the entire time.

Going into “The World’s End,” I was expecting a comedy about a group of friends struggling against a backdrop of yet another apocalypse story. Instead, what I experienced was an ambitious film that placed just as much importance upon its characters and plot as it did on generating laughs. “The World’s End” is a perfectly paced sci-fi comedy with satisfying visuals and action sequences that will leave you with a sudden urge to gather up your best mates, grab a pint and maybe punch a few robots along the way.

This year, we have seen a high quantity of films prophesizing the inevitable destruction of the world as we know it. So it would seem an almost impossible task for a similarly-themed film to stand out amongst this doom-obsessed crowd. “The World’s End,” however, accomplishes just that by delivering a high tempo, character driven apocalyptic comedy blended with a satisfying, if not familiar, sci-fi story.

“The World’s End” is yet another collaboration between longtime friends Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

The film, co-written by Pegg and Wright, is the third entry in the “Cornetto Trilogy,” which includes “Shaun of the Dead,” and “Hot Fuzz,” and is so named because each film features a different flavor of Cornetto ice cream. In keeping with the traditions of the trilogy, this one stars both Pegg and Frost, with Wright directing.

The film begins with Pegg’s character, Gary King, lamenting over the perfect night he had with his high school friends back in his prime. He (the self-proclaimed leader of the group), Frost’s Andy Knightley (the best friend), Martin Freeman’s Oliver Chamberlain, Paddy Considine’s Steven Prince and Eddy Marsan’s Peter Page had set out on an epic quest to conquer the Golden Mile. This quest requires King and his friends to drink a pint at each of the 12 pubs in their small hometown of Newton Haven, culminating at The World’s End. The group was never able to complete their task all those years ago, and King, now 40 and going nowhere, is looking to reunite with his childhood mates and attempt the pub-crawl once again in a misguided attempt to regain his former glory.

What ensues is a master class in comedic script writing that truly sets this film apart from the others. While other films such as “This Is The End” relied mostly on Cory Willey can be reached at cjwiltheir cast and vulgar humor ley@umass.edu.

TELEVISION REVIEW

‘Dexter’ finale a resounding failure, matches series Abner rojAs Collegian Correspondent Last Sunday, after eight seasons of stalking, vetting and killing, our journey with Ameri-ca’s favorite serial killer Dexter finally came to an end. Sadly, looking back, all I can think about is what could have been. This season started with Deb on a downward spiral of destruction, hat-ing herself for killing LaGuerta and hating Dexter for putting her in that position. Would she confess at last, revealing him to the world? Would we see a cross-country manhunt result? Nope. By episode four, Debra came out of the lake water reborn, now ready to accept her brother for his serial killing ways. This effectively killed any tension between the two siblings. Dexter couldn’t live without Deb in his life at the beginning of the season, but once Hannah was back on the scene, it was off to

Argentina.

The one thing Dexter has always been consistent in is that it has not followed through with its story lines.

As a result, Dexter’s character was never truly challenged.

No matter what harrowing situations the writers put him in, you could bet he’d get away with it, never reaping what he sowed because everything happened on his terms. Dexter fans have been waiting years for him to be exposed to the world for what he really is. So it’s disappointing to say the least when he’s caught killing on camera in the final episode, and it’s OK because he acted in self-defense and everyone hated Saxon for shooting Deb anyway. Quinn is forgetful as ever about his suspicions of Dexter, and Angel just shrugs knowing that his ex-wife was murdered shortly after accusing Dex of being the Bay harbor Butcher last season.

This constant stream

of illogical plot points ran throughout the whole series.

Consider the arc with Doakes in season two. Dexter was in a position where he had to break the rules of the Code or be caught. This was a chance for meaningful character development, offering Dexter the opportunity to prove that he was better than the killers he hunted. In major misstep for the series, however, Lila took the choice away from him by blowing Doakes up. In season seven, the writers did a great job with Deb and Dexter’s relationship as the love for her serial killer brother con-flicted with her police instincts. But even that eventually dissipated this season swept under the rug along with LaGuerta’s murder. To cap it off, Dr. Vogel was the supposed psychopath expert who never managed figure out their own son was the Brain Surgeon.

Pointless story lines plagued the final season; the

writers just seemed to throw whatever they felt like up on screen. Why should we care about Quinn running for Sergeant when his rival in the race completely disappears from the show? Why have Quinn date Jamie only to pine over Debra the entire season? Did Masuka having an estranged daughter contribute to anything other than to give the former more screen time?

Why did Saxon try to frame Zack Hamilton for Cas-sie’s murder if he was going to kill Zack anyway?

Deb’s death was probably the worst part of the episode.

Instead of going out as the loud mouth badass she was supposed to be, we get some doctor telling us she’s a vegetable. And then Dexter pulls the plug and buries her at sea.

I’m sure no one else wanted to mourn her passing - Quinn and the rest of Miami Metro be damned. “You deserve to be happy,” she tells Dexter ear-

lier in the episode as she lies in the hospital bed, even though it’s his fault she’s there.

When Rita died it was obvious that Dexter couldn’t lead a happy life as a serial killer. The writers gave Dexter plenty of time to realize that; instead, he spent the next four seasons fall-ing for Lumen and Hannah having them both leave. Therefore, because Dexter never understands that he is the problem, Deb being Dexter’s final victim doesn’t carry the emotional weight that it should.

“I destroy everyone I love,” he tells himself before taking the boat into the storm. The timing of this revelation is frustrating. Rather than being confronted by the fact that he’s a cancer on his friends and family, we have to wait for eight seasons as he watches those around him suf-fer. And ultimately, I’m still unsure if he ever understood his role in what happened, considering he

left Harrison with Hannah (a known serial killer). Perhaps he thinks that it’s OK because Har-rison loves Hannah, even though he barely knows her.

But who knows?

The final scene is the last straw as the show fast forwards to Dexter leading a new life as a lumberjack. Huh? How did he survive the hurricane? And since the hurricane didn’t do him in, why did he go on living if he truly felt he had to pay for his sins?

“Remember the Monsters” was a huge disappointment.

Perhaps the worst part, though, is how perfectly it captures inadequacy of the series, interfering with meaningful character devel-opment and tying up plot lines as poorly as possible. That is all to say that this series has finally led us to the same spot as Lumber Jack Dexter: the middle of nowhere.

Abner Rojas can be reached at aarojas@umass.edu.

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practice and compete in an atmosphere that promotes not only mental and physical toughness, but also the positive values of civility and scholarship to which we aspire as a university.

Even though it appears as though no NCAA rules prevailing at the time were violated, I am asking the Compliance Subcommittee of our campus Faculty Senate Athletic Council (along with the Faculty Athletic Representative) to conduct a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the video to determine whether such exercises constituted either physical or mental abuse of our student athletes. While such exercises have apparently ceased as a result of change in NCAA rules, I want the Subcommittee to make recommendations for best principles and practices for the conduct of training exercises, and to propose a mechanism for monitoring them.

My administration and I take this matter very seriously. If Athletics is, indeed, the front porch of the university, what hap-

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UMass coach Charley Molnar discussed the recent reports surrounding the football program on Monday. pens on the front porch affects the entire campus.”

The report came out during the team’s bye week as it prepares for its first Mid-American Conference game of the season against Bowling Green on Saturday. Molnar said he was “glad” this didn’t occur during a game week since it could’ve been an added distraction.

UMass quarterback A.J. Doyle said that the team is focused on moving for-

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ward.

“Honestly, he was just letting us know what was gonna come out, what it was about,” Doyle said. “A lot of guys obviously they went through it and honestly nobody really paid attention to it because we can’t do anything about it. All we can do is focus on Bowling Green and get ready for that game.”

Molnar echoed similar sentiments.

“I think to young peo-

ple, they don’t let things like this distract them very much.” Molnar said. “So they just have moved on.

Very little scuttlebutt in the locker room, very little buzz about it. We just have moved on. Really our goal is to just go into MAC play and do the very best we can.”

Cameron McDonough can be reached at cameronm@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Cam_McDonough.

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said.

“We had to play with the right mindset and tenacity to win and we did just that.”

Motyl and Malik opened up the doubles portion of the event with an 8-4 No. 1 doubles victory.

Bokhari and Woosley took home the No. 2 doubles match with an 8-3 win.

Completing the sweep was No. 3 doubles Glasper and Podlofsky, who also won with an 8-3 score.

Despite opening up the season on a high note, Dixon still knows that there is a lot of improve-

ments to be made.

“First we need to improve on handling the pressure better,” Dixon said. “You can only be a competitor if you play well under pressure.

Secondly, we need to stay healthy. In our four weeks of practice we have not had one day where our entire team has been 100 percent healthy.”

UMass hosts Connecticut at the Mullins Center Courts on Oct. 9.

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

BULLDOGS eight catches for Brown on the day. Brown also totaled 85 yards and added two scores.

Wisconsin (3-2, 1-1 Big 10) played a frantic game of catch up in the fourth quarter, outscoring Ohio State 10-0 and cutting the lead to 31-24 with 2:05 left. The Badgers stopped the Buckeyes and got the ball back with a chance

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to tie the game, but were backed up in their own territory and turned the ball over on downs.

Ohio State travels to face Northwestern next Saturday, while Wisconsin is off next week and goes to Northwestern the week after.

Ross Gienieckzo can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu.

FOOTBALL

Saints capitalize on Tannehill’s mistakes in win at home New Orleans stays unbeaten with win

ble simply catching the ballwhen they weren’t running into each other.

But the biggest reason the Saints are still undefeated and

By AdAm H. BeAsley the Dolphins are not is this: Miami Herald Ryan Tannehill couldn’t bail NEW ORLEANS – The out his team this time.

Miami Dolphins’ defense Tannehill turned the ball made Darren Sproles look over four times-with two leadlike an MVP candidate. The ing directly to Saints touchDolphins’ receivers had trou- downs-and the Dolphins were

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skunked 38-17 by New Orleans in front of a nationally televised audience.

Oh, the Saints (4-0) ran away with the game in the second half, scoring touchdowns on four out of five possessionsincluding two on back-to-back offensive plays.

But before long before the wheels fell off, the Dolphins (3-1) actually had the ball with

a chance to go into the locker room with the lead.

That’s when Tannehill made the big mistake he’s largely avoided this season.

The second-year quarterback stared down Brian Hartline, allowing Jabari Greer to jump the route and make the pick.

The ill-timed turnoverwhich had offensive coordinator Mike Sherman literally

holding his head-was an absolute gift for the opportunistic Saints.

Drew Brees hooked up with Sproles on a 13-yard touchdown pass, and the game was effectively over before it reached the midway point.

Playing without Cameron Wake, who missed his first game as a pro because of injury, the Dolphins had no

answer for Brees.

He was masterful, tossing four touchdown passes and going over 400 yards passing on the night he eclipsed John Elway for fourth place on the NFL career completions list.

Jimmy Graham surpassed 100 yards and caught two touchdowns. Sproles ran wild, totaling 143 all-purpose yards in the first half alone.

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Jessica Podlofsky (above) won in straight sets against Providence Saturday. The Minutewomen cruised, winning every game of the season’s opening match.

UMass starts season with clean sweep By anDrew Cyr

Collegian Correspondent

The Massachusetts tennis team couldn’t have asked for a better start to the 2013 fall season, cleanly sweeping Providence 7-0 in its opener on Saturday.

UMass defeated Providence in every match it played, winning all three doubles matches and all seven singles matches to cap off its first of a perfect, sunny fall afternoon.

“It was important for us to get off to a good start,” UMass coach Judy Dixon said. “We had to get over our nerves, the first game of the season is always tough like that.”

Not only were the first-

game nerves running high, but there was also 20-year reunion in honor of Dixon’s service to the UMass tennis program.

“There were many alumni in attendance representing both the men’s and women’s programs here at UMass, it was important for us to represent the program well,” Dixon said.

The Minutewomen did just that.

Leading the way for UMass was senior Sonia Bokhari, who defeated Providence senior Maria Clara-Bernardez 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 1 singles match.

Freshman Aarzoo Malik, No.2 singles, and Anna Woosley,,No. 5 singles, both made strong first impressions

“It was important for us to get off to a good start.

We had to get over our nerves, the first game of the season is always tough like that.”

UMass coach Judy Dixon in their college debut. Malik swept her match 6-4, 6-4 and Woosley also won in straight sets 6-5, 6-2.

“The two freshmen [Malik and Woosley] did amazing,” Dixon said. “They handled their nerves extremely well and proved that they can play against teams with high-caliber talent.”

Senior captain Yuliana Motyl fell 5-6 in the first set of the No. 3 singles match, but showed some resiliency by

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bouncing back to win the next two sets 6-2 and 11-9.

No. 4 single Jessica Podlofsky and No. 6 single Chanel Glasper each recorded straight set wins to cap off the singles sweep for the Minutewomen.

Dixon lauded the way her team played and was most impressed with the way they handled themselves.

“Providence was a feisty, mentally tough team,” Dixon see

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Last week, Massachusetts football coach Charley Molnar had a message for his players.

This particular message wasn’t about the Minutemen’s next opponent or a review of what happened the previous Saturday, though. The message, rather, regarded the report made by the Daily Hampshire Gazette last Thursday, which brought to light a petition created by a group of the football program’s alumni, who are calling for the UMass coaching staff, and particularly Molnar, “to stop the improper treatment of current players, improve the quality of the program.”

The petition, which has 154 signatures as of 8:15 p.m. Monday, includes a link to a controversial video made during the Minutemen’s 2012 winter conditioning workouts. The video shows players wrestling and boxing one another, which was legal by NCAA standards at the time, but the NCAA has since banned the use of what it calls “combatives,” according to the Gazette.

“I just told them that when the story comes out you read it,” Molnar said. “You be the judge yourself. Guys that were here, they know what went on. Players that weren’t here, hopefully guys that were pass it along, tell them what went on. From there we just moved on.”

Molnar did not address the situation further because of UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy’s statement that said the matter was being investigated, according to UMass associate director of media relations John Sinnett.

“A video depicting an off-season training exercise of our football players from the winter of 2012 has recently been brought to my attention,” Subbaswamy said in his statement. “The activities depicted in the video raise concerns about player safety and call into question the appropriateness of some of the exercises.

“The health and safety of our student athletes is of paramount concern to me.

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FOOTBALL

Minutewomen making Georgia downs LSU in final defensive adjustments minutes, Buckeyes survive Defensive progress leads to win streak

By Tom mulherin Collegian Staff

After a 2-1 victory over Saint Joseph’s Sunday, the Massachusetts women’s soccer team extended its winning streak to three games, marking its longest win streak this season.

The Minutewomen (5-51, 1-0 Atlantic 10) seemed to stabilize its season with this streak, reversing its three game losing streak to start the season. In its past five games, UMass has posted a 4-1-0 record.

While the team continues to search for a go-to scorer when the game is on the line, the Minutewomen have used various players play the role of the hero in each game. In its recent five games, UMass has outscored its opponents 8-5.

While the team has been winning with an impressive string of goals from the offense, the success of this team has shown to be

tied to the performance of the defense, which has allowed just two goals in the past three games.

Through its first six contests, the UMass defense had allowed 12 goals, but the offense only scored six goals in that time, leading to a 1-4-1 record. The defense made it an effort to correct multiple mistakes recently, especially defending set pieces.

“In the past couple of games we had some trouble with corner kicks,” said goalkeeper Danielle Kriscenski following UMass’ 1-0 win over Bryant on Thursday. “It’s not that big of a deal. We learn from our mistakes and then we come back even better.”

Despite opponents generating just a 7 percent success rate on corner kicks against the Minutewomen, set pieces have played a deciding role in three games.

After a game against Brown in which the defense lost 2-1 and allowed two corner kick goals, UMass coach Ed Matz agreed that

the defensive struggles against set pieces were a problem. He talked about how the defense lacked determination and sacrifice on such plays, and implied that it might be a defensive weakness.

“We are good from 18-to-18, but we lack a commitment to sacrifice and do whatever it takes to get the ball out.” Matz said.

The past few games have showed an extraordinary improvement on corner kicks however, as the defense have not allowed another set piece goal since the Brown loss. The defense, along with the coach’s attitude toward the set piece plays, has changed.

“I thought [the corner kick defense] was pretty good,” Matz said, following the 1-0 win over Bryant on Thursday. “We gave them a couple chances when the ball came across but we work on it a lot in practice. For the most part now, we’re doing [well].”

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

Murray shines in must-win matchup By ross gienieCzko Collegian Correspondent Aaron Murray and No .9 Georgia football team stayed alive in the national title hunt, defeating No. 6 Louisiana State 44-41 in a pivotal Southeastern Conference matchup on Saturday.

Murray led the Bulldogs (3-1, 2-0 SEC) with a dominant aerial attack, throwing for 298 yards and four touchdowns.

The Bulldogs offense, led by Murray and assisted by a potent ground game featuring Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall, accumulated 494 yards to keep Georgia’s hopes at a BCS National Championship game appearance.

The Tigers (4-1, 1-1 SEC) wasted a big day from quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns.

The Tigers held a 41-37 lead with 4:14 remaining in the game after leading

rusher Jordan Hill scored from eight yards out. But LSU could not hold on, as Murray led the Bulldogs back and connected with Justin Scott-Wesley to regain the lead with 1:47 remaining.

Georgia continues its difficult SEC schedule when it travels to Tennessee on Saturday. LSU will stay on the road when it takes on Mississippi State.

struggled to generate a ground attack, averaging only 1.8 yards per carry. It could not manage a single score despite an offense which averaged 38 points per game going into the game. The Rebels will try to rebound next week as they travel to Auburn.

Alabama will continue their push towards a national title when they face Georgia State next Saturday at home.

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Miller shines in return

Top-ranked Alabama alleviated any upset concerns Saturday by shutting out Ole Miss 25-0. The Crimson Tide (4-0, 2-0 SEC) smothered No. 21 Mississippi, allowing only 205 total yards of offense.

Offensively, Alabama’s workmanlike performance was led by quarterback A.J. McCarron, who went 25-32 passing for 180 yards. The Crimson Tide ran the ball 40 times for 254 yards, with T.J. Yeldon leading the ground attack. The combination of McCarron’s efficiency and Bama’s dominance on the ground allowed the Tide to nearly double Ole Miss in time of possession.

Ole Miss (3-1, 1-1 SEC)

Braxton Miller threw four touchdowns in his first game back from knee injury, leading No. 4 Ohio State to a 31-24 victory over No. 23 Wisconsin on Saturday night.

Miller had a full workload in his return to game action, completing 17-of-25 passes for 198 yards and four touchdowns and also carried the ball 22 times for 83 yards.

Ohio State (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) improved its unbeaten streak to 17 games and hasn’t lost since 2011. Wide receiver Philly Brown caught the eventual game winner late in the third quarter to put Ohio State up 31-14, one of see

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