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Students take a stand in a recent flashmob in response to the University’s cancellation of upcoming EDM shows.

Disability Services hosts open house for 40th anniversary Disability Services celebrates equality By rose GottLieB Collegian Correspondent On Friday, Oct. 4 Disability Services at UMass Amherst celebrated its 40th anniversary with an open house, which was the first of many celebratory events planned for the year.

According to Aquila McCants, a learning specialist for Disability Services, many students, staff, faculty members and alumni who have been assisted by Disability Services attended the open house, which was open to all of campus. Representatives of many other support services and departments on campus attended as well.

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Smartpens, which are pens that record sound, software that converts a speaker’s words into text and document conversion software were just a few of the technologies demonstrated.

Disability Services Madeline Peters said that meeting with so many people from other departments gave them the chance to brainstorm about collaborative programs and opportunities. The goal of these collaborations is to ensure accessibility for all members of the community.

Debora Ferreira, executive director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, was one of many people that attended the open house.

Ferreira emphasized the importance of the work Disability Services does on campus. She explained that, as part of the Office of Equal Opportunity, Disability Services not only assists people with disabilities, but it also ensures that they are provided with equal experiences here on campus.

“Access is not just for people with disabilities, but it’s for all members of our community,” said Peters. “If we

all work towards making our world accessible to all diverse groups, that would open up our society to be a more welcoming and inviting society.”

“For Disability Services to be here for forty years shows that it is integral,” Ferreira added.

According to Peters and McCants, the open house provided an opportunity to raise awareness about Disability Services. The open house featured speakers and presentations who educated guests on some of the many types of assistance Disability Services provides, so people who attended were able to learn more about what the organization does and how it provides help to many members of the community.

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WASHINGTON — Neither side in the standoff over the federal budget showed signs of movement Sunday as the shutdown of government agencies moved toward its second week, although both hinted at some aspects of what a potential deal eventually could look like.

Re p u bl i c a n s and Democrats have deadlocked over two related issues - funds to keep government agencies running and the need by Oct. 17 to raise the limit on the government’s ability to borrow money.

The shutdown of government agencies, which began Oct. 1, has so far had limited impact on the economy, but economists have warned that the damage will mount as the closures drag on. This week, the shutdown is expected to begin hitting mortgage markets, for example.

Real estate industry officials have said that home buyers could start seeing delays or loan cancellations because the IRS and other government agencies cannot respond to requests for documentation and other paperwork needed to close on loans.

Whatever the impact, however, the shutdown seems unlikely to end for at least several more days - and quite likely another week - as Congress and the White House try to resolve the separate standoff over the government’s borrowing limit. That deadline has far more severe consequences. If Congress does not vote to increase the debt ceiling, the government could quickly be unable to pay its debts.

Most economists and busi-

ness leaders say such a default could trigger another financial crisis.

In interviews on the Sunday morning talk shows, both sides stuck to talking points that they have carefully honed over the past several days: Republicans said they tried to entice President Barack Obama into negotiations, similar to those that took place in 2011, over what he would give them in exchange for ending the shutdown and raising the debt ceiling.

Democrats insisted that the GOP tactic, which they liken to hostage taking, is illegitimate and that the House must allow government agencies to reopen and pass a debt ceiling increase before serious negotiations can begin.

Currently, “the path we’re on” leads to a default on the government’s debts, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We’re not going to pass a clean debt-limit increase,” Boehner said, referring to an increase without conditions, which Obama and Senate Democrats have insisted on. “I told the president, there’s no way we’re going to pass one. The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit. And the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us.”

Although some conservative Republicans have downplayed the impact of a default, Boehner told interviewer George Stephanopoulos that he agreed a default could cause an economic crisis worse than that of 2008.

Boehner sought to lay the blame for the deadlock on Obama. “The American people expect in Washington, when we see

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Families rejoined during annual family weekend Many admire the dining at UMass

By Kari Peer Collegian Correspondent This weekend, families were reunited as the University of Massachusetts kicked off its annual Family Weekend on Friday Oct. 4.

Students brought their families to Berkshire and Hampshire dining commons to socialize and fuel up for the events that filled the weekend.

Willie Degel, host of the Food Network show “Restaurant Stakeout,” joined by his wife Cindy, daughter Elissa and son Dylan, visited his eldest daughter, sophomore Alexis Degel.

The family of five all enjoyedabout the changing campus.

“The highlight of family weekend was seeing where our daughter lives, studies, works and attends classes. Overall we really love UMass.”

Dawn Botton, mother of sophmore Megan Botton “The foliage is beautiful this time of year,” said Cindy Degel.

The food-loving family was also impressed by the dining halls and was excited that recipe books were given out as gifts.

Willie Degel commented on the apartment-style living of the five Southwest towers, stating that it isn’t his taste to live in that way, but was happy that his daughter, Alexis, did not get stuck in a corner room like her freshman year. He also commented on the town center, saying that it “Needs more

action, more whimsical shops.”

The University had multiple activities planned for this year’s Family Weekend. These included Hadley farm tours, hay rides, trolley rides to downtown Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College community tours, a women’s hockey game and ballroom dance demonstrations and lessons.

For sophomore Megan Botton the title “family weekend” was taken quite literally as her four aunts, seven cousins, see

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The Botton family poses for a group picture during the annual UMass family weekend.

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In 1971, the Faculty Senate approved a liquor license for the Blue Wall Cafeteria, allowing Blue Wall to begin serving alcohol to its customers.

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Death toll up to 44 in Egyptian day of violence CAIRO - A day set aside to celebrate the Egyptian military turned into scenes of bloody violence Sunday as Egyptian security forces opened fire on demonstrators sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood in a sign of how the once-powerful group has become the target of official repression.

The Health Ministry announced that at least 44 people were dead, but the toll had changed throughout the night and was expected to go higher.

At least 32 of the deaths took place in Cairo and the adjoining city of Giza, where 246 people were injured. Deaths were also announced in the cities of Beni Suef and Minya.

The ministry did not say where eight of the deaths had occurred.

The Ministry of the Interior, which oversees the police and security forces, said that 423 people had been arrested in Cairo and Giza and it blamed the violence on Brotherhood supporters attempting to crash promilitary rallies called to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of Egypt’s last war with Israel. The military-backed government had warned in a statement from Ahmed El-Mosalamani, the presidential spokesman, that anyone protesting against the military on Sunday would be considered an “agent” conspiring against the state.

But it was an open question whether the Brotherhood demonstrators had done anything to provoke the attacks.

Earlier on Sunday, two McClatchy reporters witnessed police openly beating Brotherhood demonstrators, without provocation, not far from the main pro-military rally in Tahrir Square in central Cairo.

The two reporters, who had left the pro-military demonstration to cover the Brotherhood protest, were pounced on by security officers, who struck one on the neck with a night stick, stole both reporters’ cell phones and camera, and threatened to haul one away.

The abuse ended only after the reporters proved they’d been at the pro-military rally by producing a poster of Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, the military head who engineered the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in July.

The gunfire took place elsewhere, apparently as Brotherhood protesters assembled to march toward Tahrir Square from Cairo’s Garden City district and Giza’s Dokki district.

Police reportedly fired tear gas to disperse the marchers, then opened up with live ammunition. An Associated Press photographer reported that he had seen at least nine bodies on the floor of a clinic in Dokki. All had been shot in the head.

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NSF funds anthro students fieldwork Five students will particpate each year B y D aviD B arnstone Collegian Staff

The anthropolog y department at the University of Massachusetts recently received $249,861 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support 15 students conducting field research throughout Europe over the next three years.

This is the second round of federal funding for the Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS) program at UMass, which began in 2010. A partnership with the University of Barcelona in Spain allows both undergraduate and graduate students to pursue independent research projects with the support of experts in European anthropology.

UMass students have been doing fieldwork in Europe since the 1970s.

The new grant allows the department to cover the living and working expenses of students working in the field and provide them with a variety of supportive resources.

“The CHESS grant has been a way for us to bring it into [the] 21st century by creating stronger, ongoing, international, collaborative partnerships with European universities and to use the new instructional and communication technologies to support students through the loneliness and the challenges of independent field research,” said Dr. Krista Harper, associate professor of cultural anthropology and director of the European Field Studies Program.

Five students are selected each year to participate in the program.

Upon acceptance of their research proposal, students enroll in a methodological course in which they design their research projects and develop a formal grant proposal as if they were applying for NSF funding. In the spring, they spend their semester at their chosen field site collecting data. The following fall, they come back to UMass to take a third course in which they write up their results and prepare them for publication.

“You get experience with a lot of support because there are other people doing fieldwork at the same time.,” said Justin Helepololei, a 2011-2012 CHESS participant who is finishing his master’s thesis now and will continue his doctoral training at UMass. “You’ve got a prep course before to help you plan it and then a course afterwards to help you process.”

Helepololei spent his

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UMass students have been doing fieldwork in Europe since the 1970s. The new grant allows the department to cover the living and working expensives of students working in the field and provide them with a variety of supportive resources. semester abroad studying social protests and occupations, known as “squatting” in Spain. By going to events and talking to the people involved in demonstrations, he discovered that these “neighborhoodbased mobilizations” have been going on for years.

“So what was kind of portrayed by the media as a new thing that disgruntled young people are doing actually had a much longer history,” he said.

While Helepololei was studying squatting movements in Spain, Christa Burdick was doing her fieldwork in Strasbourg, a city in eastern France near the German border.

Burdick, who is training to be a linguistic anthropologist, researched how marketers are using a particular dialect in that region to make their advertisements more attractive to tourists. The data she collected became the basis for her master’s thesis, which she completed in May. Burdick knew she wanted to do fieldwork in Europe when she graduated from a small liberal arts college in Iowa. She said the CHESS program was part of the reason she applied to UMass for her graduate studies.

“I was able to go and do research before my dissertation, which will hopefully make my dissertation proposal more attractive to funders,” Burdick said.

This summer, Jenny Folsom returned to UMass after a 7-month stay at the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Belgium.

Her research focused on how the museum represents Belgium’s history of African colonialism.

Folsom poured over the museum’s collection of letters written by former colonists and interviewed a group of colonists, now in their 80s and 90s, that still meet at the museum.

Folsom came to the CHESS program from the sociology department after taking a research methods course in the anthropology department with Harper.

She is using the research she conducted at her field site to prepare her doctoral dissertation. The experience also allowed her to enhance her French language skills.

“I had never before experienced immersion,” she said. “I did interviews in French, focus groups.

I actually worked a bit as a translator for the museum.”

The three graduate students said that having this field research experience early in their careers is a rare and valuable opportunity. They also said the CHESS program helped them connect with researchers in Barcelona and their field sites.

“While I was in Belgium, I made a ton of contacts with different organizations and individuals who could host me during my next stint of research in that region,” Folsom said.

Helepololei added that his master’s fieldwork gave him an idea of what would be feasible for his future dissertation.

The program is encouraging any undergraduates interested in fieldwork to apply in April for the 2014-2015 research stream. Harper said that past undergraduates have used their field research through the CHESS program as a basis for their senior theses.

Each year of the program, students conduct research that relates to an overarching theme. In 2010-2013, the research streams were based on the work already being done by UMass students and faculty. In the next three years, Harper said the streams will be more closely related to the work being done by their colleagues at the University of Barcelona.

This year’s theme is “Crisis, Culture and Heritage.” The 2014-2015 theme will be “Sustainable Heritage, Communities and Economies” and the 20152016 theme will be “Social Justice and Changing Forms of Value.”

“Those themes allows us to create a common mission even as people are doing research in five different countries and coming together in Spain to have this shared experience,” Harper said.

This year, students will be conducting field research in the United Kingdom, Iceland, Russia, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Italy. In addition to their individual research projects, they will participate in workshops at the University of Barcelona.

“Everybody who goes to Barcelona falls in love with the city,” said Harper. “We couldn’t be luckier to have partners at a university that is right in the center of one of the most vibrant cities in Europe.”

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have a crisis like this, that the leaders will sit down and have a conversation,” he said. “I told my members the other day, there may be a back room somewhere, but there’s nobody in it.”

On the Democratic side, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, appearing on several shows, repeated the administration’s position that the precedent set in 2011, of one side being willing to risk a government default to win a policy argument, was “a very dangerous turn in the political debate” that the White House is determined not to repeat.

“Congress needs to do its job. They need to open the government; they need to make us so we can pay our bills. And then we need to negotiate,” Lew said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The Republican position is “dangerous” and “reckless,” Lew said.

For now, each side is testing the other’s resolve and also trying to gauge public reaction. In addition, Boehner has the difficult task of finding a solution that doesn’t widen an already-deep split within Republican ranks between the Tea Party-driven faction that pushed the party into the current standoff and less fervent members who fear the consequences.

In the ABC interview, Boehner hinted at one step that some other Republicans have said is likely - an end, for now, to the party’s demands for changes in Obama’s healthcare law. Boehner conceded on the program that he had not wanted to make Obamacare the focus of the spending debate, but had been dragged into the fight

by the party’s tea party wing.

“I’m not going to raise the debt limit without a serious conversation about dealing with problems that are driving the debt up. It would be irresponsible of me to do this,” he said. In detailing those problems, he skipped any mention of the health law, focusing, instead, on Medicare and Social Security, the programs that he had sought to cut back on during previous, unsuccessful “grand bargain” negotiations with Obama.

“Let’s look at what’s driving the problem 10,000 baby-boomers like me retiring, every single day. 70,000 this week. 3.5 million this year. And it’s not like there’s money in Social Security or Medicare,” he said. “We know these programs are important to tens of millions of Americans. But if we don’t address the underlying problems, they are not sustainable.”

In the budget he offered to Congress this year, Obama suggested trims in both programs that he would accept, but only in exchange for ending some tax preferences for upperincome Americans that the White House calls loopholes. Republicans have refused to accept any new tax increases.

Whether that set of issues provides an easier path for compromise remains unclear.

Previous negotiations on those issues have gone nowhere. But, as Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, noted on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” although neither side has moved so far, once talks start, “things can move quickly.”

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Chipper, a service dog, relaxes during the open house.

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uncle and mother all made the trip to UMass this weekend.

Two of her cousins are high school juniors and are considering applying to UMass one day.

The Botton family said they enjoyed many of the activities that were offered this weekend.

“We love the school, and went to similar schools when we were in college. The campus was beautiful and the activities offered during family weekend were great, especially for my three year old niece. We really enjoyed painting pumpkins, dipping apples and the campus

[Activities] included Hadley farm tours, hay rides, trolley rides to downtown Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College community tours, a women’s hockey game and ballroom dance demonstrations and lessons. hay ride,” said Megan Botton’s mother, Dawn Botton, who made the four hour trip from Farmingdale, N.Y. to attend family weekend, said. “The highlight of family weekend

was seeing where our daughter lives, studies, works and attends classes. Overall we really love UMass.”

Kari Peer can be reached at kpeer@ umass.edu.

efit students with disabilities.

Smartpens, which are pens that record sound, software that converts a speaker’s words into text and document conversion software were just a few of the technologies demonstrated.

The presentations were an “opportunity for people to see what kinds of assistive technology are used,” said McCants. These technologies can “bring us closer together,” she added.

The meaning of Disability Service’s logo was explained to guests at the open house. According to Peters, the logo, which is a threesided box, represents many things.

It could “represent a wheelchair or anything in life that holds you back,” said Peters.

But it has many other meanings as well.

“The three sides represent family, education and society. The fourth side is open and it represents all of us as individuals… [who] grow and develop,” Peters added.

Disability Services will continue celebrating its 40th anniversary with a luminaria ceremony where candles inside paper bags will be placed around the pond in November.

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

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Standstill on U.S. withdrawl from Afghanistan 52,000 troops still serving over seas By david S. CLoud Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Closeddoor negotiations to determine the American military mission in Afghanistan after 2014 have stalled over U.S. demands to conduct lethal counter-terrorism operations and Afghan insistence that Washington guarantee support in event of crossborder attacks.

President Hamid Karzai is balking at Obama administration demands that U.S. special operations troops and the CIA be allowed to capture or even kill suspected terrorists after most U.S. troops close out America’s longest war at the end of next year, according to officials familiar with the negotiations.

The U.S. team, in turn, is refusing to include written promises to come to Afghanistan’s aid if it is attacked by militants from

neighboring Pakistan or elsewhere after the withdrawal. A formal U.S. defense commitment could require Congress to vote on the agreement, a course the White House is determined to avoid given the bitter partisan climate in Washington.

With both sides still at odds after months of haggling, Obama administration officials are increasingly skeptical they can complete a deal this month, as the White House had wanted.

Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi told reporters last week in Kabul, the Afghan capital, that the disputes over independent U.S. operations and security guarantees have become potential “deal breakers.”

“We find it to be something that will definitely undermine our sovereignty if we allow U.S. forces to have the right to conduct unilateral military operations,” Faizi said.

Officials said President Barack Obama hopes to use his State of the Union speech early next year to announce how many U.S. troops will

stay behind and for what mission. Without a signed security pact, the United States and its allies will maintain little, if any, military presence in Afghanistan after 2014. Pentagon plans to train Afghan soldiers and police to withstand the still potent Taliban-led insurgency may be abandoned or dramatically downsized, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks.

The Obama administration withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011 after similar talks with the government in Baghdad collapsed over Iraq’s refusal to grant legal immunity to U.S. troops. The country has recently suffered a resurgence of suicide bombings and other lethal violence.

U.S. officials in Afghanistan are more hopeful than their colleagues in Washington that a deal is still possible. But they fear that the longer the standoff drags on, the more likely the talks will collapse, as in Iraq.

About 52,000 U.S. troops still serve in Afghanistan,

about half the total of two years ago. The force is expected to shrink to 34,000 by spring and to decrease sharply after that. Afghan forces have assumed a much larger role in combat operations, and the number of bases staffed by U.S. and foreign troops has fallen to 90 from more than 800.

Security remains tenuous across much of the country, although Afghan troops in most cases have managed to hold up against insurgent attacks. U.S. military commanders say the Afghans will need additional training and equipment after 2014, however.

Marine Gen. Joe Dunford, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has privately backed deploying more than 13,000 U.S. troops. The White House is believed to be in favor of about 7,000 troops, along with several thousand special operations troops to conduct counter-terrorism raids, an official said.

If a deal is reached, Pentagon planners are considering a “Kabul-centric strategy” that would limit

U.S. troops to training and assisting Afghan security forces only in the capital and surrounding provinces.

Securing Kabul and its periphery would ensure survival for Karzai’s government. But it could allow parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan, where U.S. troops fought and died for years, to slip back into insurgent control. Partly for that reason, the Kabul option is not Dunford’s preferred choice.

Planners also are looking at a regional option under which the Pentagon would deploy troops in the east and south to help Afghan security forces, and would conduct limited combat operations on their own. But it is unclear whether the White House would agree to supply more troops and money after the withdrawal.

Afghan officials are pushing for an agreement that commits the U.S. military to come to their aid if the country is invaded or suffers “aggression” from foreign-based militant groups or insurgents. U.S. negotia-

tors are resisting that kind of treaty-like guarantee because it might require congressional approval.

American officials say they need latitude to conduct raids against suspected terrorists without getting Afghan permission, though they insist such raids would be rare and only against targets that pose a threat to the U.S. or its interests.

Karzai “is worried that if we want to pick up somebody and it’s not coordinated properly” there could be firefights with Afghan security forces and complaints from tribal elders about American raids on their homes, a U.S. official said.

The CIA flies missilefiring drone aircraft from Afghan territory into Pakistan to strike suspected terrorists and militants, a practice that Washington would like to continue, one of the officials said. U.S. officials also want to hold Afghan suspects that U.S. forces pick up for questioning, another area of friction with Karzai’s government.

Consumer inquiries Seeking clues into impact health law Capitol shooting People seeking info about Obamacare

By Noam N. Levey aNd Chad TerhuNe Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Kentucky health officials thought they might get a handful of serious shoppers when they flipped the switch Tuesday on Kynect, the new online insurance marketplace the state created under President Barack Obama’s health care law.

“We weren’t even hopeful that a couple hundred people would apply,” said Carrie Banahan, Kynect’s executive director.

By the end of the week, more than 16,000 Kentucky individuals and families had begun online applications to get health coverage next year.

It has been a similar story across the country.

Since the new marketplaces opened Tuesday, millions of Americans have flooded web sites, call centers and insurance offices seeking information about health coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

More than 8.5 million people visited the federal www.healthcare.gov site last week, according to officials at the Department of Health and Human Services. For residents of 36 states that are not running their own online markets, the web site is the main portal to get health coverage provided by the new law next year.

Additionally, the federal call center received 406,000 calls.

Very few of those potential customers have been able to complete the process of applying for coverage.

Legions have been thwarted by technical problems that repeatedly shut down many of the online marketplaces, including the federal site.

And although officials probably have several weeks to fix the glitches - particularly with public attention focused on the federal government shutdown - lingering problems still threaten to make the debut a disaster.

But if the enrollment process smooths out, the unexpected initial surge of consumers may end up being the most important story to emerge from the first days of

Obamacare’s signature new markets.

“Clearly there is a lot of interest in getting health insurance out there,” said Joel Ario, a former state insurance commissioner and Obama administration official who, like many, was surprised by the outpouring.

Before enrollment began last week, public opinion polls consistently showed that Americans remained deeply skeptical of the 2010 law and unfamiliar with many of its core provisions.

Fewer than 4 in 10 adults in a recent nationwide Gallup survey said they were familiar with the new marketplaces. Lack of knowledge was even more pronounced among the uninsured, with three-quarters saying they were unfamiliar with the marketplaces.

Obama administration officials and many state leaders have worried they would be unable to get enough consumers, threatening the viability of the markets, which depend on strong enrollment by young, healthy customers. Officials hope to enroll 7 million people next year.

The online marketplaces, one for each state, are designed to allow Americans who don’t get coverage through employers to shop for health plans. Insurers selling on the markets must for the first time meet new basic standards and are prohibited from turning away consumers with pre-existing medical conditions.

Millions of low- and moderate-income Americans who make less than four times the federal poverty level - or about $46,000 for individuals and up to about $94,000 for a family of four will qualify for government subsidies to help with their premiums.

The open enrollment period lasts until March 31, though consumers who want coverage to start Jan. 1 will have to select health plans

by Dec. 15. Many experts believe the real crush of consumers will come ahead of the December deadline.

In coming weeks, the marketplaces will face several critical tests.

One will be whether potential customers continue to visit them once the initial surge of interest wanes.

Another will be whether the administration can fix the numerous technical

glitches that have frustrated consumers. The problems with the healthcare. gov site were so severe last week that in many states, only a small fraction of consumers appear to have been able to successfully apply for health coverage. Obama administration officials have declined to say how many people have enrolled so far.

In Louisiana, which has more than 900,000 uninsured residents, just seven people had applied for a plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana through the first two days of the federal marketplace.

Kentucky, which minimized disruptions on its web site by using a simpler design than the one on the federal site, enrolled 4,739 individuals and families by Friday.

Obama administration officials said they were taking additional steps to expand online capacity and planned to take the site down for maintenance over the weekend during off-peak hours.

“We expect that Monday ... there will be significant improvements in the online consumer experience,” the Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Friday.

Several information technology experts predicted there would be even more technical problems as online systems confront premium payments, changes in eligibility and other complex tasks.

“Is this just the tip of the iceberg?” asked Harold Tuck, former chief information officer for San Diego County. “There ought to have been better beta testing of the systems, and these errors wouldn’t have come up.”

Bill Curtis, chief scientific officer at CAST, a New Yorkbased company that analyzes information technology systems, said the heavy traffic probably explained many of the problems. “When you have this kind of volume, it exposes all kinds of weaknesses,” he said.

California’s marketplace, Covered California, had 514,000 unique visitors to its web site the first day of enrollment. Nevada’s marketplace, Nevada Health Link, had 60,000 unique visitors on its first day, spokesman C.J. Bawden said.

Not much known Cooper said that, according to some authoriof Miriam Carey ties, drugs for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder By aLaNa SemueLS aNd TiNa SuSmaN Los Angeles Times

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — She was a big mystery - a seemingly caring mother who died after ramming her car in a highly secure area of the nation’s capital.

And because so little was known about Miriam Carey, reporters from across the country headed to New York and Connecticut, seeking clues to explain the dental hygienist’s odd behavior.

When she was finally shot Thursday after leading authorities on a wild chase from the White House to Capitol Hill, her 1-year-old daughter was with her.

Miriam’s mother, Idella Carey, 68, had told ABC News on Thursday night that her daughter suffered from postpartum depression, and so reporters descended on Idella Carey’s apartment building in the Louis Pink housing project, a cluster of more than a dozen squat brick buildings set around courtyards in East New York, Brooklyn.

On Friday, as news of Miriam Carey’s death spread, neighbors clustered around the courtyard talking and watching the three policemen who stood at the door of that apartment building to keep reporters out.

But there were few clues about Miriam Carey’s behavior at her mother’s home. Many people in the neighborhood said that the elder Carey, like many others in the project, which has seen its share of crime in recent years, kept to herself. They mentioned seeing Miriam and her two sisters visiting at times, but most neighbors were tight-lipped about the family.

“I’ve known her a long time,” James Rainey said of Idella. Rainey, who has lived in a building across the courtyard for 47 years, said when he last spoke to Idella Carey a week ago, nothing seemed abnormal, and she hadn’t mentioned her daughter.

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and depression were found at Miriam Carey’s house.

er women in the project expressed their sympathies for Miriam Carey as they pushed baby carriages across the bumpy concrete paths that lead through the project, tsk-ing at the growing crowd of reporters and camera crews.

Police, the FBI and other law enforcement had searched Miriam Carey’s ground-floor apartment building in Stamford, Conn., on Thursday night.

By Friday morning, the apartment, in a sprawling beige building surrounding a common grassy area with a gazebo in the middle, was quiet again and devoid of police.

A condo maintenance worker who did not want to give his name said he knew Carey by sight and had seen her and her baby many times, usually about 8 a.m. when she would leave for work.

“The lady seemed OK,” he said. Few other neighbors shed any light on Carey.

“It’s very private around here,” one neighbor said.

News trucks still hovered around the apartment of Carey’s sister Valarie, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where children rode bicycles and scooters up and down the street staring at the news crews.

Valarie Carey’s neighbors told the New York Daily News that Miriam frequently visited her sister wearing hospital scrubs, sometimes with a man in a Porsche Cayenne SUV. The neighbor said Miriam Carey had a breakdown when visiting her sister three months ago.

Miriam’s other sister, Amy Carey-Jones, lives in an apartment building on a street of brownstones in a rapidly gentrifying area of Brooklyn on the border of the Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy neighborhoods.

The street is diverse, with white, tattooed young professionals walking dogs and African American families sitting on stoops; fancy bicycles and tomato

plants adorn some of the balconies.

Amy and Valarie appeared on CNN to talk about their sister; as part of their contract with anchor Anderson Cooper, they have decided not to talk to other media. In the interview they seemed unsure of what had happened.

“We’re still trying to put the pieces together. It’s very sudden,” Amy CareyJones said. “It still doesn’t seem real. And we’re just waiting for the real story as to exactly what happened to come out.”

Cooper said that, according to some authorities, drugs for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression were found at Miriam Carey’s house.

After Valarie Carey said her sister was “not a bipolar, schizophrenic individual,” Cooper followed up with other questions on the topic, according to a transcript of the show.

COOPER: “So as far as you know, she wasn’t bipolar, she wasn’t schizophrenic, you believe it was postpartum depression.”

CAREY-JONES: “It was postpartum depression with psychosis. That’s what her diagnosis was. And she worked very closely with her doctor to taper off the medication and just get the counseling she needed to deal with that diagnosis.”

COOPER: “How was that manifested in her life? Was that something you saw in her life?”

CAREY-JONES: “No, we - it wasn’t something that was displayed. It was a momentary breakdown where she had to go and have emergency care. Once she understood what the diagnosis was, she knew how to move forward. She had her challenges as a new parent, and I always spoke closely with her.

“I am a parent. I have two children. So, you know, just like anyone else she had questions and we dealt with that as a family, but there was nothing out of the ordinary.”

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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Søren Kierkegaard

Constructing a new paradigm for economics Economics used to be a group behavior because they social science, but this is no believe that interactions and longer so. relationships between people drive those people to act in Makai McClintock a manner inconsistent with those of isolated, self-centered Today, the field has largely individuals. Influences such as become a study of individual power and wealth drive group agents acting outside of soci- dynamics in a different direcety, as if societal influences do tion. As isolated individuals, not affect individuals. The field people would have economic has come to center upon isolat- activities that revolved around ed individuals, focused primar- basic survival needs such as ily on how these individuals food, shelter and safety. Their can maximize their personal desires would focus on materi“utility” (in other words, ben- al items that satisfy exclusively efit or profit) while interacting practical purposes. only through the exchange of Participation in a commucommodities. nity fundamentally changes Approached in this manner, these tastes and desires, economic analysis becomes however, raising concerns in significantly more simplistic, regards to the appropriate way which partly accounts for the to live and proper resource management, so that the community can collectively reach economic goals.

Most college students have considered the social ramifications of going to class in historical paradigm shift from their pajamas or neglecting to treating economics as a social clean their room before their science, as it once was, to the parents visit. Any college stumodern paradigm of econom- dent, then, is familiar with ics focused on methodological the effects that social factors individualism. The modern have on our determinations of approach makes economics personal utility. The fact that significantly more tractable modern economics relies on and straightforward, allowing analyses that ignore these faceconomists to explain all eco- tors should be (and is) deeply nomic problems through three troubling.

When we treat it as a social circumstances: technology, individual preferences and science, economics serves to utility and the distribution of address phenomena beyond the scope of methodologitalents and wealth.

However, this paradigm of cal individualism: the effects methodological individualism of socialization on tastes, the fails to account for a variety economic and social effects of of external factors that influ- hierarchy and power and the ence economic variables and institutional and social conphenomena.

Approaching straints on economic life.

The triumph of methodeconomics as a study of isolated individuals results in an ological individualism as the understanding of the field that forefront paradigm in economis fundamentally ignorant of ics has effectively removed the the effects that social factors economics profession from can have on individual util- its historical role as a source ity, as well as the effects that of creative and constructive individuals can have on other ideas for social reform. The individuals’ decisions and util- paradigm limits the scope of the field to largely theoity.

Take, for example, a fan at retical discussions with lima sports game. The utility that ited potential for driving social the fan derives from attend- change. Social movements, ing the game may be modeled such as those to end poverty by his or her individual utility or promote greater governfunction. However, it is rather ment transparency, require naive to assume that the fan the council of economists will derive the same degree whose theories can provide of utility if he or she were to theoretical and factual founattend the game alone versus dations for proposed reforms. immersing themselves in the Methodological individualism excitement of being surround- has effectively deprived these ed by thousands of fellow fans movements and organizacheering for their team. tions of this assistance and Methodological individual- has forced the leaders of these ism fails to capture this social movements to turn to other effect on individual utility, ren- fields for support. dering this approach to ecoThe time has come to nomics intrinsically flawed. embrace a new social paraThe solution to this digm in which we approach dilemma is simple: it’s time economics as a social scito approach economics as a ence. We must again provide social science again, thereby economists with the ability to reevaluating and altering the improve society and fuel social current paradigms to incorpo- and political reform. rate the variety of social variables and factors that influ- Makai McClintock is a Collegian ence economic phenomena. columnist and can be reached at Social scientists study mmcclint@umass.edu.

It’s time to approach economics as a social science again.

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In defense of free speech A Christian group recently came to the University of Massachusetts, sparking a debate around campus that

Brian Belivacqua deeply concerned me. I heard several students say that the preachers should not be allowed to voice their opinions, and that students should not be subjugated to opinions they strongly disagree with in their public space. As a journalist and believer in the power of words, I find this stance shocking. It flies in the face of everything America was founded on. If we are to remain free, then there can be no limits on speech.

In the early 1700s, the average colonist in what would become the United States didn’t dare to speak out against the British government, let alone declare independence from it Because most colonists were compliant with their government, their rights were slowly infringed upon with greater frequency. When this infringement happened, colonists took to the streets to express their outrage.

Famous revolutionaries like Thomas Paine risked backlash and spoke out.

His “Common Sense” ideas encouraged civil disobedience and stunned many of Paine’s fellow colonists, but his pamphlet eventu-

university or institution must also. University policy has fallen in line with this stance.

In 2001, it adopted very open rules that allow for campus protest and expression, something other schools have not done. The UMass population, both conservative and liberal, should be happy this is the case and accept what speech comes along with the policy.

Individuals collected in a thoughtful group can make intelligent choices. Although we may fear the power of one man, in reality it is groups of motivated and expressive people who change the world.

Americans should not fear the ideas they disagree with; they can always ignore these ideas or counter-protest them.

To pass a law that prevents hateful, homophobic or racist ideas is a good idea, but speak out today. It would be rights of its opponents, even could lead into a dark terrihypocritical and harmful to if that attempt entails limit- tory where people are afraid limit speech to certain set- ing the right to protest. to discuss and embrace new tings or to limit speech conNeither the government ideas. As you go deeper into sidered offensive or harmful nor any institution should this world of limited speech to the public. enact any laws that limit the you will someday find that Today, an unchecked gov- ability for citizens to protest the government you disagree ernment attacks our rights or otherwise express them- with is considering your proas Americans. With today’s selves. This is not an issue tests to incite violence or be limitless technology and that requires a historical or treasonous. And if you are expansive government, it has legal background to under- the one whose rights are become increasingly difficult stand the dangers involved. being challenged and people to keep the government in Even the most basic of limi- are afraid to speak up, you check, let alone trust it. With tations on expression limit may feel differently on the the government continuing our growth as a society. This issue. to support measures like the means UMass students have Patriot Act, which critics say to accept protests and speech Brian Belivacqua is a Collegian violate our constitutional they may strongly disagree contributor and can be reached at rights, why anyone would with, just as any other public bbevilac@umass.edu. ally gained popularity and changed the world. It was the expression of shocking ideas that helped spark the revolution and create the nation we see today.

When there is oppression or wrongdoing in society the only solution is to speak up, and speak loud. If we are going to abandon this straightforward and simple concept, then we can no longer consider ourselves free.

If it were not for the many writers, printers and speakers breaking the law over the years to spread their controversial ideas, then we would not have that freedom to

embrace further government restrictions on freedoms is beyond my comprehension.

In recent months the public has begun to take a different view of the government’s role in our lives. Both citizens and politicians are critical of the federal government’s use of power. From the NSA leaks on email surveillance to the revelation that the government has access to millions of Verizon phone records, people now see that government interference sidesteps and supersedes political party disputes. The ugly reality is that, in our flawed society, power tries to restrict the

Neither the government, nor any institution, should enact any laws that limit one’s ability to protest or express themselves.

to Letters the edItor Dear Daily Collegian, We now enter a government shut down for the first time since 1995.

It’s important that people understand why. The Re p u bl i c a n - c o n t ro l l e d House of Representatives refused to continue to fund the federal government unless the Democratcontrolled Senate repealed the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. Because the Senate failed to void the act before the fiscal year’s end, the government has shut down.

As a future nurse, I feel

that these politicians do not pay mind to how unethical voiding the act would be.

If they void the act, then they will ultimately allow insurance companies to once again deny coverage to clients with pre-existing conditions, one issue the Affordable Care Act seeks to correct.

As a student nurse, I witness patients suffer every day from conditions outside of their control.

They suffer from diseases such as cancer, HIV, cerebral vascular accidents (strokes) and myocardial infractions (heart attacks).

Insurance companies can

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deny coverage to these patients who need care the most. Without coverage, these patients cannot acquire the rehabilitation they require in order to become functioning members of society again. They suffer from symptoms such as aphasia, hemiplegia and dysphasia, all of which require significant rehabilitation to make the patient become independent again and all of which require insurance coverage to treat.

It is true that the act will cost the American population a significant amount of money, mostly in the

form of increased taxes.

But, as a human being, I don’t see how we can deny another human being the right to medical treatment. Not only is it morally wrong to do so, but it also allows for a loophole in which insurance companies can increase their profits.

We have taken one step forward with the creation of the Affordable Care Act, but if we allow the same politicians to bully us into submission then we will be taking two steps back.

Respectfully, Joe Nguyen

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MUSIC FEATURE

Gaga mixes the worlds of ‘art’ and ‘pop’ A Warholian blend of new styles

By Jake Reed Collegian Staff

Lady Gaga is back. With the release of her newest album (and associated app) “ARTPOP,” Gaga will likely reach the top of the charts for the first time since the release of her last studio set, “Born This Way,” in 2011. Earlier this year, a hip injury forced her to cancel the remaining dates on her “Born This Way Ball” world tour.

By the time her last album was released, fatigue had set in amongst listeners. Her outrageous outfits and hairstyles were no longer enough to conjure regular front-page headlines, and her streak of Top 10 Billboard singles ended with the release of the album’s final single, “Marry the Night.”

So far, the “ARTPOP” era has been a shaky one.

Upon its release, lead single “Applause” was well-received by fans, but sold a measly 218,000 copies in comparison to the 557,000 digital downloads Katy Perry sold of her new song “Roar” in its debut frame the same week.

However, the single has had steady sales and grown in radio airplay since its release.

While her VMA performance helped win back some fans, a Twitter feud between Gaga and gossip blogger (and former friend) Perez Hilton gained her another round of negative attention.

Prior to the release of “Applause,” Gaga fans got their first taste of “ARTPOP” when the song “Aura” leaked in early August. Produced by Zedd (whose song “Clarity” is a Billboard Top 10 hit), the song stirred controversy for cultural appropriation heard in lyrics like, “Do you want to see the girl who lives behind

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Lady Gaga poses from her “The Fame” era in the music video “Poker Face,” before her more recent “ARTPOP” sound and image. … the burqa?”

Despite the backlash, the lyrics remained when Gaga premiered the song live at an iTunes Festival performance on Sept. 1 – even including a dance in which her hands mimicked a burqa covering her face. The song throws guitars, synths and distorted vocals at listeners before rewarding them with one of her catchiest choruses yet.

“MANiCURE” is another song that stands out from her iTunes Festival set. Critics of “Born This Way” often

cited the fact that the simple catchiness that made “Poker Face” a class was absent from anything on the album. The simple “I’m going to be manicured/he want to be manicured/ma ma ma manicure/ she wants to be manicured” hook reclaims this simple catchiness over a more rockinfluenced and in-your-face beat.

“Swine” is a song that rides the line between rock and EDM. During the festival performance, Gaga sat at a piano and occasionally turned to a

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drum set, hitting the crash cymbals as grungy synths filled the air. In the song, she calls out a “pig inside a human body,” rumored to be Hilton. “Jewels and Drugs,” another new song played during the set, finds the singer flirting with trap and hip-hop sounds, featuring rappers T.I., Twista and Too $hort.

The obvious standout (and immediate fan favorite) of the new songs premiered is “Sex Dreams,” which features typical Gaga shockers like, “Heard your boyfriend was

away this weekend/wanna meet at my place?” After asking fans via Twitter which new song they would like to see as her latest single, the mid-tempo, synth-driven song remains in the lead.

When “Born This Way” was released in the spring of 2011, Gaga squared off with pop star Britney Spears, whose “Femme Fatale” album was released just several months earlier. This year, she and Spears (who recently announced her eighth album for a Dec. 3 release) will face

even more competition from Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake.

The “ARTPOP” album and digital app are expected to be released on Nov. 11, with the album’s second single likely to be released sometime before then. While an associated tour has yet to be announced, you can bank on one not too long from now. After all, she does live for the applause.

Jake Reed can be reached at jaker@ umass.edu.

CONCERT PREVIEW

‘We Can’t Stop’ Miley Cyrus’ This Weeknd at the Orpheum forward rebellious new LP ‘Bangerz’ Looking to The Weeknd

Will Miley ever ‘#GETITRIGHT’

By Jake Reed Collegian Staff

“I’m a female rebel, can’t you tell?” Miley Cyrus beckons on “4x4,” a track from her latest album, “Bangerz.”

On the singer’s fourth studio album, Cyrus shreds the final remains of her former Hannah Montana alter ego.

Amidst several heartfelt ballads about her former engagement to Liam Hemsworth, the star raps and sings about taboo subjects from Molly to marijuana to sex toys. She’ll continue to receive flack for covering these topics, despite the fact that they’re a regular part of the vernacular of most college-aged Americans in 2013.

The album kicks off on a somber note with the ballad “Adore You,” a slow and weak start for an album that promises to be full of “bangers.”

After “We Can’t Stop,” which most people have surely heard by now, comes the album’s most hyped track: “SMS (Bangerz).” The song finds Britney Spears singing and rapping a verse (sans British accent) alongside Cyrus.

While the pop star collabora-

tion might make “SMS” an obvious radio single, its lack of a memorable hook could keep it from charting as highly as the album’s first two singles.

With harmonica, acoustic guitars and stomping drums, the Pharrell-produced “4x4” is the closest Cyrus comes to her Hannah Montana country-pop sound. “Now I got dirt all over my body,” she sings, epitomizing her country girlgone-bad image, aided by a fitting rap verse from Nelly.

“My Darlin,” the album’s second ballad, finds Cyrus paired with auto tune-enthusiast Future. Despite the odd match and the chorus’ clunky 3D movie metaphor, the song is still a beautiful retrospective on Cyrus’ engagement.

“Why don’t you stand by me?” the singer ponders.

Aside from the summery snoozer “#GETITRIGHT,” the album’s second half is a strong close. Cyrus borrows from the EDM and trap music crazes as she continues to explore the heartbroken and going-out-and-partying sides of her breakup. “Love Money Party” is a fun track featuring a verse from Big Sean, who talks about flying to foreign islands and partying with models. On “Drive,” Cyrus recreates the hypnotic

dubstep-influenced sound of the best tracks on “Rated R,” Rihanna’s post-Chris Brown comeback album.

The best moments on “Bangerz” are still its first two singles, two of the most successful releases of her career. For all the controversy its video and subsequent televised performances caused, “We Can’t Stop” is still the best party song on the album.

Likewise, “Wrecking Ball” is the best of the album’s ballads, with a video to match the barefaced emotion of the song. In an album that often showcases the power of Cyrus’ vocals, her pipes are the most impressive as she smashes into the song’s first chorus.

At this point in each of their respective careers, “Bangerz” is the best move either Cyrus or Mike WiLL Made It, the album’s main producer, could have made.

Their collaboration allowed the up-and-coming producer to show off the range of his musical skills while showcasing the versatility of Cyrus’ voice and personality. At the very least, it has certainly made them two of the biggest names in pop music this year.

Jake Reed can be reached at jaker@ umass.edu.

By ana Lopez Collegian Correspondent The Weeknd, the stage name for Abel Tesfaye, takes on Boston as one stop on his “The Fall” tour, aptly named after one of his popular songs.

Tesfaye will be taking the stage at the Orpheum Theater on both Oct. 10 and 11.

In early 2010, Tesfaye uploaded the tracks “The Morning,” “What You Need” and “Loft Music” to YouTube under the pseudonym The Weeknd. These tracks were the result of Tesfaye, who was 20 years old at the time, freestyling over producer Jeremy Rose’s instrumentals.

Ultimately, Rose scrapped the songs they had been working on and allowed Tesfaye to keep them as long as he was credited.

Eventually, buzz built up through word of mouth and quickly hyped The Weeknd up and caught the attention of fellow Canadian rapper, Drake.

Tesfaye was then invited to perform at small clubs in the Toronto area and was eventually featured on a song with Drake at the second annual October’s Very Own festival, in which he continued to generate a fan base.

Tesfaye refused to conduct

interviews and only communicated with the press via Twitter. By Dec. 011, The Weeknd had released a trilogy of free mixtapes on his website. The third of these, “Echoes of Silence,” was critically acclaimed and was nominated for the Canadian Polaris Music Prize. Tesfaye then entered the United States and made a name for himself at Coachella Music Festival in April 2012, receiving excellent reviews from Rolling Stone.

After a 2012 performance in the UK, what has come to be known as the “Balloons Trilogy” of his mixtapes had been downloaded a reported 8 million times. At this point, The Weeknd signed to Republic Records in cohesion with his own imprint label XO. His first release from the label was a remastered album consisting of his three mixtapes, “House of Balloons,” “Thursday” and “Echoes of Silence,” as well as three new songs. Since his 2011 debut, Tesfaye has been nominated for 12 awards, winning six, including the Juno Awards “Breakthrough Artist of the Year” and “R&B/Soul Recording Artist of the Year.”

At the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, he was nominated for “Artist to Watch” and “Best Visual Effects” for his radio-popularized hit “Wicked Games.”

Tesfaye’s remarkable

range and falsetto quickly grabbed the attention of listeners, who began to look for more of this melancholic tone.

His sound is unique, centering on slow tempos, trembling echoes and throbbing bass. He differs from other R&B artists in that the way he sings about partying as though it were an existential experience, and he questions himself in his decisions as he comes down from a mix of substances. Much of his lyrics express his vulnerability when he is on drugs and his quasi-pity for the women he ropes into sleeping with him because they are as drugged up as he is.

His style of singing exceptionally vulgar lyrics in a soft falsetto that sounds more haunting than harsh as it may for other R&B artists, taking note from R. Kelly. The Weeknd will be performing at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston at 8:30 p.m.

Ana Lopez can be reached at aelopez. umass.edu.

Correction

In last Thursday’s paper, we mistakenly referred to the members of Conspirator as the touring lineup, however Aron Magner, Marc Brownstein, and Chris Michetti are all band members. Likewise, KJ Sawka is not in the band, the new drummer is named Greg “Torch” Sgrulloni.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minutewomen can’t capitalize on chances UMass gets seven corners in loss

By Joey Saade Collegian Staff

One defensive slip-up was the difference in the Massachusetts women’s soccer team’s latest 1-0 doubleovertime loss to Virginia Commonwealth at home on Saturday.

Commodore’s forward Kailyn Slade cut through the Minutewomen’s center defense and beat goalkeeper Danielle Kriscenski in a oneon-one opportunity at the top of the box for the game winner in the 106th minute.

“It’s a play that we let develop,” UMass coach Ed Matz said of his team’s lack of execution on the game-winner.” We allowed her to cut in, we allowed her to turn and face the field and our center of defenders let the ball slip in there.

“It shouldn’t have happened.It’s something we work on, and we let it develop.”

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While that single miscue eventually spelled the end of the Mintewomen in Saturday’s game, there were plenty of missed opportunities that played into the loss as well.

Despite being outshot 14-13 for the game, UMass held a 7-4 advantage on corner kicks, all of which came in the second half and overtime.

A major reason the Minutewomen couldn’t capitalize on their corners was the defensive presence of Commodore’s defender Casey Boyer. Boyer’s 6-foot height prevented UMass from getting in any type of offensive rhythm.

“She won a lot of those balls, and if she didn’t win them, their goalkeeper did a good job of coming in,” Matz said of Boyer’s impact. “Even if she didn’t win it (the corner kicks), she impacted it because our girls weren’t in a great possession to win the ball.

“That’s Division 1 soccer.

We had some opportunities

and we couldn’t capitalize.”

Even though the loss ended the Minutwomen’s threegame winning streak –their longest in the past two seasons – their play on the field was nothing to scoff at.

Before giving up the game winner, Krisecenski put forth one of her best games of the season. The redshirt freshman registered seven stops – five of them coming in a challenging first half – including multiple leaping and blocked saves that kept the Minutewomen in the game.

Matz acknowledged that he’s seen improved play from his goalkeeper as the season has progressed.

“I’m just so impressed with, a lot of things we did today, we would not have done in the first week of our games,” Matz said. “Danny coming out and winning 50/50 balls and colliding with a person. At the beginning of the year, she wouldn’t have done that.”

The fourth-year UMass coach also praised his team’s defensive performance,

“So it’s not always the things that you think about that can be disruptive to a kid, but Troy’s handled it very well and he’s obviously in fantastic physical condition and I thought he had a real influence on the ice so I’m excited for him.”

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Ben Gallacher joins UMass hockey after transferring from Ohio State. a stay-at-home kind of defenseman, Gallacher is more aggressive and offensiveminded like Hanley, which could make for a dynamic offensive pairing.

“I think we have similar styles, more offensive, so it’s nice to play with him and mesh with him early on,” Hanley said. “I feel like Gallacher is more offensive, takes some risks, so it’s nice to play with different guys like that.”

Phillips among those out Senior forward Adam Phillips and sophomore

FIELD HOCKEY out on top will definitely give us confidence for the upcoming conference games,” Suter said. “We try to chop the season up into different time periods, and we really wanted to win the games over Northeastern and BU so we are really happy we won.”

Despite the game being scoreless at half, Tagliente wanted to make sure her team was still focused and would continue to play tough going into the second half.

“We didn’t change much at halftime, so we just told them to be patient and continue to stick to the game

Becky Landers moves the ball up field in a game earlier this season. regardless of their mistake at the end of the game.

After being put to work through a challenging first half that saw two corner kicks and six shots by the Commodores, the Minutewomen defense controlled the pace of the game coming out of the intermission.

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When Conor Allen signed with the New York Rangers at the end of last season, the Minutemen lost arguably their best defenseman, and senior Joel Hanley lost his longtime linemate.

Hanley and Allen spent most of last season side by side on UMass’ top defensive unit. But with Allen gone, Hanley was paired with Ben Gallacher, a sophomore transfer from Ohio State, in Sunday’s scrimmage, something Micheletto could see being a regular combination.

“They have similar skill sets, they like to go and they’re gonna be real good in transition,” Micheletto said.

“It’s where we’re gonna start and we’ll kind of tinker with that if we feel we need to, but as of [Sunday] that’s a pairing that we like.”

While Allen was more of

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Evan Stack didn’t dress for Sunday’s scrimmage due to undisclosed injuries, but neither have been ruled out for Friday’s opener.

“I think both [Phillips] and Evan there’s still a chance,” Micheletto said. “It’s going to be an ongoing evaluation of where they are. Neither one of them is needing surgery or anything like that.”

Freshmen Brandon Wahlin and Ray Pigozzi were also missing for personal reasons.

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

Joey Saade can be reached at jsaade@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Jsaade1225.

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VCU For Tagliente, the past two games versus Northeastern and BU have been the most important ones so far, regardless of what the rankings say.

“These last two games have been huge for us, and can argue that they were more important to our season than some of our games versus higher ranked opponents,” Tagliente said.

“Northeastern and BU are pretty solid teams in our region, and we haven’t beaten them in quite some time, so it is a huge confidence booster for us going into the

ing.

“We did a great job of being aggressive and not allowing them to get the balls into their forwards and turning and facing us,” Matz said. “Our defense keeps developing and they keep playing well.”

in the second quarter.

First on a 51-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Matt Johnson to Ronnie Moore, then on a 1-yard touchdown run by William Houston.

Bowling Green (5-1, 3-0 MAC) struck twice more in the second quarter on a 23-yard pass from Johnson to Tyler Beck and on a 9-yard pass from Johnson to Heath Jackson.

Johnson finished with 166 yards and three touchMARIA UMINSKI/COLLEGIAN downs on 11-of-20 passing.

Leading the way on the Tajae Sharpe caught UMass’ lone touchdown in its loss to Bowling Green. ground for the Falcons was Travis Greene, who finished with 160 yards. kicking game,” he said. bumps and bruises right Bowling Green finished “Because we do lack qual- now are really taking with 448 total yards com- ity numbers right now, their toll on both sides pared to the Minutemen’s and we have to leave some of the ball,” Molnar said.

280. The large gap mostly guys in for an awful lot of “But, today, defensively, it came from the passing work and it catches up to really hurt.”

After the loss, the game where the Falcons us at the end of the game.”

Another issue for the Minutemen are still withoutgained UMass 216-96.

The Minutemen’s UMass defensive was its out a win in 2013. They inability to maintain injury problems. Both Ed will try to find win No. their early momentum Saint-Vil and Kevin Byrne, 1 against Miami (Ohio) was striking, but Molnar for non-football reasons, next Saturday at 3 p.m. at doesn’t believe that this is missed Saturdays’ game, Gillette Stadium. and their replacements, an issue of conditioning.

“It’s just because some Trey Seals and Tom Cameron McDonough can be of the guys have to play so Brandt each suffered inju- reached at cameronm@umass.edu many reps, be it on offense ries during the game. and followed on Twitter @Cam_Mcor defense along with the “Just the cumulative Donough.

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plan,” Tagliente said. “We did have a lot of attacking opportunities in the first half but we just didn’t do anything with the ball, so the second half was much better execution in the offensive end.”

Senior forward Molly MacDonnell scored her fourth goal of the season after adding an insurance goal for UMass in the last few seconds of the game to make it 3-1. Seniors Mel Sutherland and Alexa Sikalis each recorded an assist, as well as freshmen Izzie Delario and Charlotte Verelst.

UMass was four minutes shy of completing its third shutoutand keeping VCU scoreless for the first time in seven games before Slade’s game-winner.

However, allowing only one goal to a Commodore team that scored 10 goals in their three games prior to Saturday also came out as a silver lin-

conference games.

“Going into the [Atlantic 10 play] riding this high coming out of our non-conference play is really great.

I’m not sure when the last time was that we won 70 percent of our non-conference games, so moving forward we are in a great position.”

The Minutewomen will look to open up A-10 play with a win this Saturday when they travel to Missouri to take on Saint Louis.

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

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prevented two corner kicks from getting near the net.

On the second corner kick, Kriscenski made a strong save as she leapt above what looked like a mound of VCU players to secure the ball.

Matz saw that moment as an example of how Kriscenski, who finished with seven saves, has developed as a goalie throughout her freshman season alone.

“A lot of the things that we did today…would not have been done at the beginning of the season, such as [Kriscenski] coming out and winning balls that are 50/50 balls and colliding with a [VCU player],” Matz said.

Matz also noted growth amongst the rest of his team as “the backs were talking,” which improved “[the team’s] organization.”

Neither team dominated the first half of the game as the possession remained equal. However, both teams were incredibly aggressive as UMass amounted five fouls in the first 45 minutes of play.

Within the first few minutes of the second half, VCU had a close range opportunity to score on a shot by Conrad,

but Kriscenski charged out of net, took away Conrad’s shooting angle and saved what would have likely been the game-winning goal.

A few minutes later, VCU received a penalty kick and had another opportunity to score, but Kriscenski made another leaping save to halt the Rams’ momentum.

Like VCU, UMass had many opportunities to score as it took 13 shots with junior Alyssa D’Arcy leading the team with four.

The Minutewomen had seven corner kicks in the game, but six-foot tall Rams defender Casey Boyer’s made her presence felt in front of the net.

“We had the opportunities, but [Boyer] was six-feet tall in there and she won a lot of those balls and when she didn’t win them, their goalkeeper did a good job for them coming out and getting them,” Matz said.

The Minutewomen continue A-10 play on Friday when they travel to Dayton.

Matthew Zackman can be reached at mzackman@umass.edu.

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‘It’s really good to be back’

FOOTBALL

UM drops MAC play with loss By cameroN mcDoNough Collegian Staff

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Troy Power moves the puck up ice in his first chance at game action since suffering a season–ending knee injury last season.

Power returns from season–ending injury

By Nick caNelas Collegian Staff

Sunday’s Maroon & White scrimmage at the Mullins Center practice rink served as the unofficial starting point for the Massachusetts hockey team’s 2013-14 season as it prepares for its season opener Friday at Boston University.

For Troy Power, it was an even greater milestone.

The redshirt junior forward saw a form of game action on Sunday for the first time since he suffered a season-ending knee injury on Nov. 30 last year against Northeastern and, as expected, he was thrilled to finally be playing again.

“It’s been a while since I’ve played a game so it was a lot of fun to be back with the guys and wearing the UMass jersey again,” Power said.

“It’s been a while since I’ve played a game so it was a lot of fun to be back with the guys and wearing the UMass jersey again.”

UMass forward Troy Power “It’s something I’ve waited a long time for. I’ve put in a lot of work that can be annoying with rehab and stuff like that so being back and feeling good again makes everything worth it.”

Power played on the White team alongside Steven Guzzo and Frank Vatrano, who is ineligible to play until the Hockey East Tournament, and set his linemates up with good passing and even had a breakaway opportunity in the first half of the two-period session that was stopped

by Maroon freshman goaltender Alex Wakaluk in the White team’s

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minutewomen fall to

VCU in double OT Rams senior Courtney Conrad scores winner

her to turn and face the field, and our defender fell off a little bit and our center defenders allowed the ball to get slipped in there.”

Matz was pleased with the way By matthew ZackmaN his team played during regulation, Collegian Correspondent saying, “we did a great job of being After 106 minutes of scoreless aggressive, of not allowing them to soccer, the Virginia Commonwealth get the balls into their forwards and turning and facing us.” However, one women’s soccer team finalbad play came as a result ly capitalized. of a “couple mistakes” Rams senior forward VCU 1 that UMass (5-6-1, 1-1 Courtney Conrad sent Atlantic 10) didn’t make a through ball to sophUMass 0 in the first 106 minutes. omore striker Kailyn The Rams (6-4-1, 1-0 Slade, who put the ball past Massachusetts goalkeeper A10) controlled possession for the Danielle Kriscenski in double over- first 15 minutes of the game, but the time to give the Rams a 1-0 win over Minutewomen still managed to put the Minutewomen on Saturday at three shots on goal and remained Rudd Field in the first ever meeting aggressive throughout the first half between the two schools. to create some scoring opportunities.

UMass coach Ed Matz believed it VCU, on the other hand, put six was a play that shouldn’t have even shots on goal. However, VCU’s chanchappened. es were smothered by the UMass “We allowed the ball to come into defense, which in the 30th minute one of their forwards,” Matz said.

“We allowed her to cut in, we allowed see VCU on page 7

4-2 win.

It wasn’t just the individual performance that stood out to Power, however. The most important part was being 100 percent and playing again without any limitations.

“My knee feels great,” Power said.

“I have to give thanks to the whole athletic staff, especially (UMass trainer) Jeff Smith, who really got me back to where I needed to be. It feels great. I definitely feel 100 percent out there as far as my knee goes and it’s really good to be back.”

Because the injury occurred early last season, Power, who was

given a medical redshirt due to such significant time missed with the injury, said he’s had more time to shake off the rust from not playing for so long as opposed to returning from an injury suffered closer to the summer. He said there are some areas of his game that he’s still trying to adjust to, such as picking pucks off the wall, but feels like those elements are easy for a player to regain.

UMass coach John Micheletto was just happy to see him back on the ice again.

“He looks great. I’m really excited for him,” Micheletto said. “It’s obviously devastating when you get put in that situation. He’s part of this big senior class and now he’s not in that class, he’s in a different class of guys. see

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Saturday followed a familiar script for the Massachusetts football team.

The Minutemen hung around and went toe-to-toe with Bowling Green for the first q u a r t e r, but an BGSU 28 inability to put points UMass 7 on the board and a failure to give the defense a break proved costly in their Mid-American Conference opener.

The Falcons broke through with a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter and never looked back, winning 28-7 in front of 13,799 fans at Doyt Perry Stadium.

The offensive issues did not go unnoticed by UMass coach Charley Molnar in his postgame press conference.

“Offensively we had a number of situations where we had answers and we didn’t execute them to our very best,” he said. “That, obviously, left the defense on the field. They had 40 some-odd snaps in the first half, and I don’t know if they ever quite recovered in the second half. I think they came out with less gas in the tank than I would have liked to have seen.”

UMass (0-5, 0-1 MAC) quarterback A.J. Doyle took a step back on Saturday after a pair of positive performances against Kansas State and Vanderbilt.

He finished 4-for-17 with just 20 yards through the air, and was replaced by Mike Wegzyn during the second half. Wegzyn found some success, completing 7-of-8 passes for 76 yards and a late touchdown throw to Tajae Sharpe to prevent the shutout.

While the passing game struggled against Bowling Green’s defense, which is No. 1 in the MAC, the running game found some success behind redshirt sophomore Jamal Wilson.

He finished the day with a career-high 119 yards for his first ever 100-yard rushing performance.

And while UMass continued to struggle on offense, the Falcons’ got on the board twice see

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FIELD HOCKEY

UMass handles Terriers Renee Suter leads UM with a pair of goals By: JasoN kates Collegian Staff

The No. 13 Massachusetts field hockey team scored three unanswered goals in the second half to defeat in-state rival Boston University 3-1 on Sunday afternoon in the final nonUMass 3 conference game of the BU 1 season.

A twogoal performance from junior midfielder Renee Suter led the way for the Minutewomen (9-4), tallying her first collegiate multigoal game. UMass coach Carla Tagliente was proud of the way her midfielder stepped up and played a crucial part in the victory.

“Renee’s performance was really great today,” Tagliente said.

“She hadn’t hit penalty corners

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Alexa Sikalis and the UMass field hockey team have won two straight games. for us in quite a while, so for her to step in today and rip off two goals was really outstanding, and it made the difference for us.”

After a scoreless first half, the Terriers (7-4) took the lead just two minutes into the second half, but UMass responded 10 minutes later when Suter scored her first

goal of the game to tie it at 1-1.

It was only five minutes later when the Minutewomen took the lead. Suter scored her second goal of the day, both of which came off penalty corners.

“We knew that BU would be a tough game for us, so to come see

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