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Man charged with ‘He just wanted to help people’ UMass junior Eric Sinacori was a fan of music, ice hockey and meditation aggravated rape Alleged attack was on campus A Longmeadow man faces charges of aggravated rape after an alleged attack outside of the University of Massachusetts Campus Center in early September.

According to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, Patrick Durocher, 18, allegedly raped the female victim while forcibly holding her against her will in the early hours of

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sive and the man on top of her was naked from the waist down.

The alleged victim told UMPD in a statement on Sept. 3 that she had attended a party on North Pleasant St. on Sept. 1 and then left the party alone around 11:45 p.m., the Gazette reported.

The woman said that she was walking past a bus stop near the Campus Center when Durocher called out to her. She had never met Durocher before.

According to court

The woman said that she was walking past a bus stop near the Campus Center when Durocher called out to her.

Sept. 2. Both the victim and Durocher were UMass students at the time.

Durocher pleaded not guilty during his arraignment hearing on Oct. 4. The judge ordered Durocher to be held on $10,000 cash bail. His release conditions are that he must submit to GPS monitoring, keep a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, report to a probation officer once a week, stay in Massachusetts and reside with his parents, have no contact with the alleged victim, stay away from the UMass campus, refuse to take drugs and alcohol and submit to random screenings and tests.

According to court records, the UMass Police Department responded to an emergency call at about 1:15 a.m. on the north side of the Campus Center involving a man standing over a woman on the ground, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.

Witnesses told police that the woman appeared to be unconscious and unrespon-

records, Durocher then approached the alleged victim, grabbed her and assaulted her. The woman suffered injuries according to court files, the Gazette reported.

She told police that Durocher forced her to the ground and raped her outside of the Campus Center.

This is the first reported rape allegation on campus leading to criminal charges of this school year and the third in the past 12 months.

Four men allegedly raped a female UMass student in her dorm in October 2012 and have all pleaded not guilty to the multiple counts of aggravated rape that they face.

UMass student Weiling Wang has also pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and indecent assault and battery after allegedly raping a woman who he had signed into his room in the North Apartments.

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U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy signed the “Real Food Challenge” at a public event on Wednesday evening, committing the campus to serve 20 percent local, sustainable or fairtrade food by 2020.

UMass is now the largest institution to sign onto the Real Food Challenge, a nationwide campaign to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and towards local and humane food sources.

“Our commitment to sustainability, originating in our agricultural heritage, is a long-standing pri-

Eric Sinacori was passionate about electronic dance music, particularly ‘glitch hop,’ a form of electronic hip-hop.

“He’d be mad if I didn’t specify,” said his girlfriend, Brianne Oliveira, a senior at the University of Massachusetts.

Sinacori’s favorite DJ was Bassnectar, and he also enjoyed music by other DJs like Lotus and Griz. He frequently attended concerts and music festivals, often with a group of friends in tow.

Sinacori’s love for music was a big part of his life. It’s something that his friends and family will remember about him since he passed away on Oct. 4 in his Puffton Village apartment. He was 20. The cause of his death is still

under investigation.

Sinacori is survived by his mother, Francesca Sinacori, his father, John Sinacori, his stepmother, Barbara Sinacori, his halfsister, Valerie Sinacori and his stepbrother, Cody Fis. Francesca Sinacori said that losing her only son was her biggest nightmare.

She remembered him when he was little.

“Since he could walk, he would just go up to everybody and give them a hug, not because he had to, but because he wanted to,” she said.

And he never stopped hugging. According to his father, Sinacori gave big hugs to anyone that he cared about. If he liked you, he hugged you.

“He was a great hugger,” his father said.

“That’s one of the things I’m going to miss the most.”

Eric Sinacori grew up in Whitehouse Station, N.J. He attended Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington N.J. where he played ice hockey on the varsity team.

According to Andy Gojdycz, his coach at the time, Sinacori had a quiet demeanor.

“He was not one to vent frustrations,” Gojdycz said, adding that he was very respectful and a loyal team player.

“He never questioned his teammates,” Gojdycz said. “He was definitely there for his team.”

Sinacori didn’t play ice hockey at UMass, but he still enjoyed watching the sport with his friends Alex Merithew, 21, and Chris Mulrey, 20. They all lived on the same floor of John Adams their freshman year.

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Eric Sinacori’s high school portrait. together was a constant battle, as Sinacori was a Rangers fan and Merithew and Mulrey rooted for the Bruins.

“He argued a lot,” Mulrey said about watching the games together.

Sinacori also enjoyed watching baseball and see

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ority at UMass Amherst, putting us at the forefront of the green campus movement,” Subbaswamy said in a speech before the signing.

The signing was held in the Student Union Ballroom and was the last of a series of events celebrating the University’s third annual Campus Sustainability Day. The day kicked off in the Earthfoods Café with a panel featuring UMass alumni now working in the green jobs industry. A student sustainability fair and “real food” tasting followed in the Student Union Ballroom, which featured interactive table displays by student organizations and a sampling of local food. The University’s oldest acapella group, “Vocal Suspects,” also performed at the event.

Subbaswamy praised the campus for its continued see

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Cheerleaders gathered with Sam the Minuteman and Fox 25 News anchor Eizabeth Hopkins during the Fox 25 News College Tour stop at UMass Thursday.

Gay couple to marry with help from Native American tribe Legal, despite state’s gay marriage ban

By HaiLey Branson-Potts Los Angeles Times

CONCHO, Okla.

— Darren Black Bear and Jason Pickel hadn’t even planned to send invitations to their upcoming wedding.

They’re small-town people, they said, and planned an intimate, no-frills celebration of their love.

“I intended to tell people, ‘Hey, we’re getting married.

Come on down and have dinner,’“ Pickel said, laugh-

ing. Then, during an interview in his Oklahoma City apartment, his cellphone vibrated: yet another media request. And then came another.

Since word about their upcoming nuptials spread, Pickel and Black Bear have been thrust into the spotlight over one of the most hot-button issues in this state. Gay marriage is banned in Oklahoma, but the men will marry legally under Native American tribal jurisdiction.

Black Bear is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, based in

rural Concho. The joint tribe does not specify gender in its laws regarding marriage, referring to those involved only as “Indians.”

Because the tribe is a federally recognized sovereign nation, the state’s ban does not apply.

Black Bear and Pickel, who is not a tribal member, will be eligible for federal benefits made available to married same-sex couples after the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act. Under state law, however, “tribal same-sex weddings are treated the same way

as out-of-state same-sex weddings,” Alex Weintz, a spokesman for Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, said in an e-mail. “They are not recognized by the state of Oklahoma.”

In 2004, Oklahomans voted overwhelmingly - 75 percent to 25 percent - to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman and making it a misdemeanor to issue a marriage license to a samesex couple.

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Big rally in Spain protests release of separatists MADRID — Tens of thousands of people protested Sunday in Madrid against a European Court of Human Rights ruling that frees dozens of imprisoned members of the Basque separatist group ETA. The Spanish Association of Terrorism Victims, the organizer of the demonstration on central Madrid’s Plaza Colon, said about 200,000 people took part.

Two ETA prisoners, Ines del Rio and Jose Manuel Piriz, have been released from prison in recent days after the Strasbourg court ruled Monday that a Basque separatist sentenced to more than 3,800 years in prison for involvement in 24 killings and imprisoned since the late 1980s had been jailed too long.

At the time of del Rio’s conviction, prisoners could serve no longer than 30 years. The 55-year-old also had her sentence reduced, meaning that under one interpretation of the law, she should have been released in 2008.

But a Spanish policy said reductions in prison terms must be deducted from the full length of the term, which would mean she would remain in prison until 2017.

She took the policy, called the Parot doctrine, to the European Court of Human Rights, which said it violated the European Convention of Human Rights.

The decision applies not only to del Rio, but also 60 other ETA members, seven members of the violent farleft group GRAPO and 14 common criminals.

High-ranking members of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government were among those taking part in Sunday’s protest.

“We want only justice, not revenge, but we are being made fun of,” the association’s president, Angeles Pedraza, said in a speech. “Our cries of complaint must be heard all the way to Strasbourg.”

She accused the court of seeking to silence ETA victims.

Rajoy himself criticized the court ruling as “wrong” and “unjust.”

The ETA’s campaign for a sovereign Basque state began in 1968 and left about 850 people dead. It renounced violence in 2011, but the government refuses to negotiate with it, insisting it must dissolve first.

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Eric and his girlfriend, Brianne Oliveira pose for a photo together. football. He liked the New York Mets, and his father was a season ticket holder for the New York Jets.

“A lot of what we did revolved around sports,” his dad said.

Sinacori received scholarships at UMass, where he studied kinesiology. His parents said that he wanted to do something in the medical field, like physical therapy. His mom, dad and girlfriend believed that his biggest desire was aiding others.

“He just wanted to help people,” they all said.

His friends believe he also would have succeeded in the music industry.

Mulrey thought he would have been a good music promoter.

“If he found a good song he would make sure everyone heard it,” Mulrey said.

Merithew believes he would have been good at making his own music because he had such a passion for it.

Sinacori’s mother remembered his love for

MARRIAGE Pickel, 36, had originally planned to travel to Iowa this fall to get married.

They have been a couple for nearly nine years and have “been through all the trials” and “have always stuck together,” Black Bear said.

Planning a trip to Iowa, however, proved difficult with their busy schedules.

Black Bear works as a floral supervisor in Oklahoma City, and Pickel is working on an undergraduate degree in mortuary science while doing a funeral home apprenticeship.

Pickel decided to call his tribe about a marriage license, even though he expected to be turned down.

A clerk told them all they needed was $20 and a few forms of identification. They got their license in Concho on Oct. 18, said Pickel, who will change his last name to Black Bear.

They hadn’t planned to publicize their engagement. They mentioned it on Facebook, and word spread further when tribal and mainstream newspapers wrote about the couple.

Last week they were still unpacking boxes in their new Oklahoma City apartment a few weeks after their old apartment building burned in a fire. Pickel said their new neighbors are probably wondering why news trucks have been parked outside.

The upcoming marriage has focused attention on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, which has about 12,000 members. The

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music too, and how he had eclectic tastes.

“It was a mixture of jazz, rock, techno, old music…it was never one style,” she said.

At the Electric Forest music festival in Michigan, Sinacori worked a 15-hour shift directing cars in the parking lot in exchange for a free ticket. This August, he helped organize a music festival in New Jersey called FarmFest.

He worked with artists and vendors, and helped with ticket sales.

Sinacori’s love for music eventually led him to his next love, his girlfriend. He met Brianne Oliveira at a Conspirator concert last fall, and the two kept coincidentally seeing each other at parties and concerts.

“He just kept popping up,” Oliveira said.

They grew closer over the school year and finally became exclusive on July 4 when Oliveira drove four and a half hours to New Jersey to

stay for a week. They continued to visit each other a few more times throughout the summer, maintaining a long-distance relationship between Massachusetts and New Jersey.

“He was my first real love,” she said.

Oliveira will always remember him as a good boyfriend.

“He never judged me. I didn’t have to feel pretty or skinny,” she said. “He respected who I was.”

During a visit to his house on a 90-degree summer day, the pool was closed, so the two of them sat outside and stargazed for a while. They rested quietly as they watched the clear night sky.

Oliveira appreciated “being able to just sit with somebody and absorb the energy.” She said that she usually keeps herself busy, and she enjoyed this new practice of stillness.

She said that Sinacori would meditate for 10 minutes every day. He was also into astrology and numerology: life paths. She said that he was cosmic, that he loved the stars.

Sinacori’s mom remembered his fascination with the natural world when he was a child.

“He saw the beauty in things. He would look up at the sky at the clouds forming,” she said. “He would look beyond the surface.”

Merithew remembered Sinacori as a genuine person who liked to live in the moment.

“What you see is what you get,” he said of Sinacori.

“He saw the beauty in things. He would look up at the sky at the clouds forming. He would look beyond the surface.”

Francesca Sinacori, Eric Sinacori’s mother Merithew and Mulrey said he was very friendly and funny.

Mulrey, his roommate freshman year, said that he was outgoing “from the second you met him.”

“He’d be the one that was making everyone laugh,” Merithew said. He recalled a time at a party on Sunset Avenue where everyone was dancing and having a good time. Sinacori got up on the couch and then jumped onto a tiny stool, maintaining his balance above the crowd. Everyone laughed.

They all partied together, and Oliveira said that as soon as she and Sinacori

“Hating someone because they have a different sexual preference is like hating someone because they have brown eyes or because they have brown skin. That’s something they can’t help.”

Frances Wise tribe has quietly married two other gay couples since December, said spokeswoman Lisa Liebl.

Not all tribes allow gay marriage. Some, such as the Osage Nation and the Cherokee Nation, have laws banning same-sex marriage.

On Friday, about three dozen tribal members attended a hastily called meeting in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Administration Center in Concho.

Ida Hoffman, the tribe’s chief of staff, called the meeting to make a personal statement against the marriages. Pickel sat in the front row, wearing a small rainbow-colored ribbon on his chest.

“These men are receiving their 15 minutes of fame to the detriment of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes as a sovereign nation,” Hoffman said.

The tribe should get the chance to vote on the issue, Hoffman said, adding, “My plan is to make sure it is prohibited in the future.”

In an impassioned and sometimes tearful response to Hoffman’s statements,

Frances Wise, 28, said she was a proud member of the gay community. Native people have long accepted gay people, who were called “two-spirited people,” she said. That respect shouldn’t change because they wanted their relationships validated by marriage, Wise said.

“Hating someone because they have a different sexual preference is like hating someone because they have brown eyes or because they have brown skin,” she said. “That’s something they can’t help.”

Pickel said he and Black Bear did not intend to “bring any negative light to the tribe” and that they had received love and support from tribal members.

Ramona Tall Bear, a legislative clerk for the tribe, said she thought the issue of marriage should go to a vote by tribal members because it dealt with a legal code. But the tribe has always been accepting of gay people, she said.

“My mother always said to treat them with more respect because their lives are so hard,” Tall Bear said.

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Eric and his mother, Francesca Sinacori, celebrate Christmas together.

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were in the room it really got going. They used to battle it out at the sound system.

“I’m going to play a song,” he’d say in protest as Oliveira reminded him that they were at her house, and that she should be able to pick the music.

Luckily they had similar tastes.

A scholarship fund is being raised in Sinacori’s name. Donations may be sent to the Eric Sinacori Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 268, Whitehouse Station, N.J., 08888.

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Last spring, a two-credit internship with the Real Food Challenge was established at the University. Over the course of a semester, students learn to run the “Real Food Calculator.” This involves going through UMass Dining invoices and researching companies to determine what percentage of “real food” the University is purchasing. efforts and success in sustainability, on both an institutional and academic level.

The University now offers some 300 academic courses related to sustainability, he said.

“Sustainability is a core value of this institution,” he said. “Our exemplary leadership in sustainability provides a model for universities across the country.”

Last spring, a two-credit internship with the Real Food Challenge was established at the University.

Over the course of a semester, students learn to run the “Real Food Calculator.”

This involves going through UMass Dining invoices and researching companies to determine what percentage of “real food” the University is purchasing.

“The best thing about this campaign is that it’s something everyone can connect to,” said senior Joanna Benoit, one of 10 Real Food Interns this semester.

Director of Auxiliary Enterprises Ken Toong, said during a speech at the signing, that the University is setting an example for New England campuses to follow.

The more that sign on, the more accessible “real food” will be for everyone, he said.

“We have a very ambitious and clear goal—to purchase 20 percent real food well before 2020,” said Toong.

Other speakers included Drew Love, northeast assistant regional coordinator

for the Real Food Challenge, Victoria Rosen, communications manager for sustainability at UMass, and three students who have played a key role in bringing the Real Food Challenge to the University - Sara Hopps, Molly Bajgot and Lila Grallert. Each talked about their own experience being unhappy with the status quo, and how they were able to make a change and get the campaign off the ground.

“All of us chose to reject the idea that our voices couldn’t result in change,” said Grallert. She added that the University’s support means more than just a commitment to 20 percent real food. “It represents this University’s commitment to listening to its students,” she said. “Now all we have left to do is grow.”

Subbaswamy said one pet peeve he still has is the amount of paper that’s wasted every day in the school’s administrative building, and urged students and faculty to go paperless. He said that Campus Sustainability Day is not only about celebrating the University’s successes, but also about exploring the opportunity to do more.

“The actions we take today and tomorrow will have an effect for generations to come,” he said.

Aviva Luttrell can be reached at aluttrel@umass.edu.

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Syria meets deadline Health insurance gets for weapons declaration pricier with Obamacare Removal of toxic agents lies ahead

By Patrick J. Mcdonnell Los Angeles Times

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — The Syrian government has met an international deadline to submit a detailed declaration of its chemical weapons facilities and a plan to destroy the nation’s toxic arsenal, the group overseeing the disarmament process said Sunday.

Syria had until Sunday to present its declaration and the related proposal for destruction to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Hague-based organization supervising the elimination of Syria’s chemical stockpiles. Syria had already provided an initial inventory of its chemical sites, but the new filing is considered more comprehensive and detailed.

In a news release, the OPCW said Sunday that Syria had submitted the required documentation on Thursday.

The statement did not come as a surprise. OPCW officials have repeatedly praised Syria for its cooperation and had predicted that the Oct. 27 deadline would be met.

No details of the Syrian government’s submission were made public.

In general, the OPCW said, such declarations “provide the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destruction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities.”

Syria’s plan for destruction will now go before the OPCW’s executive council for consideration, the agency said.

International inspectors have been in Syria since Oct. 1 in the start of a United Nations-backed mission to

of equipment - including unarmed missile warheads, bombs and mixing and filling machinery - has already been destroyed, mostly using low-tech equipment such as sledgehammers, chain saws and bulldozers, the OPCW has

The OPCW said Sunday that Syria had submitted the required documentation on Thursday. The statement did not come as a surprise. OPCW officials have repeatedly praised Syria for its cooperation and had predicted that the Oct. 27 deadline would be met. destroy Syria’s chemical stockpiles by mid-2014.

The OPCW faces a Friday deadline to end Syria’s ability to produce chemical weapons.

Inspectors have been working to render inoperable all equipment needed to mix and fill chemical agents into munitions. Officials say they have made considerable progress and expect to meet Friday’s deadline.

Inspectors in Syria have already visited 19 of the 23 chemical weapons sites initially identified by Syrian authorities, the international agency says. Several sites are reported to be near conflict zones and may require limited cease-fires to enable access for technical personnel, according to the OPCW, which was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize for its disarmament work.

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The more complex task the destruction of actual toxic agents - lies ahead. Authorities are considering a number of options, including incineration. Whether the material will be all be destroyed in Syria or will be transported outside the country for elimination remains unclear.

The disarmament proposal emerged from a U.S.-Russia plan that helped avert threatened U.S. airstrikes on Syria in retaliation for the government’s alleged use of poison gas in a series of attacks on Aug. 21 targeting rebel-held suburbs of Damascus. Syrian authorities denied the gassing but agreed to the elimination of the nation’s chemical stockpiles, estimated at some 1,000 metric tons, including mustard gas, a blistering agent; and sarin, a nerve agent.

Costs for some increase 30 percent By chad terhune Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them - and many don’t like what they see.

These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the health care market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years.

Although recent criticism of the health-care law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama’s signature legislation.

“This is when the actual sticker shock comes into play for people,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research. “There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act.” Fullerton resident Jennifer Harris thought she had a great deal, paying $98 a month for an individual plan through Health Net Inc. She got a rude surprise this month when the company said it would cancel her policy at the end of this year. Her current plan does not conform with the new federal rules, which require more generous levels of coverage.

Now Harris, a selfemployed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance.

The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don’t qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined.

“It doesn’t seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else,” said Harris, who is three months pregnant.

“This increase is simply not affordable.”

On balance, many Americans will benefit from the health care expansion.

They are guaranteed coverage regardless of their medical history. And lowerincome families will gain access to comprehensive coverage at little or no cost.

The federal government picks up much of the tab through an expansion of Medicaid and subsidies to people earning up to four times the federal poverty level. That’s up to $46,000 for an individual or $94,000 for a family of four.

But middle-income consumers face an estimated 30 percent rate increase, on average, in California due to several factors tied to the health care law.

Some may elect to go without coverage if they feel prices are too high. Penalties for opting out are very small initially. Defections could cause rates to skyrocket if a diverse mix of people don’t sign up for health insurance.

Pam Kehaly, president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, said she received a recent letter from a young woman complaining about a 50 percent rate hike related to the health care law.

“She said, ‘I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,’“ Kehaly said.

Nearly 2 million Californians have individual insurance, and several hun-

dred thousand of them are losing their health plans in a matter of weeks.

Blue Shield of California sent termination letters to 119,000 customers last month whose plans don’t meet the new federal requirements.

About two-thirds of those people will experience a rate increase from switching to a new health plan, according to the company.

HMO giant Kaiser Permanente is canceling coverage for about half of its individual customers, or 160,000 people, and offering to automatically enroll them in the most comparable health plan available.

The 16 million Californians who get health insurance through their employers aren’t affected.

Neither are individuals who have “grandfathered” policies bought before March 2010, when the health care law was enacted. It’s estimated that about half of policyholders in the individual market have those older plans.

All these cancellations were prompted by a requirement from Covered California, the state’s new insurance exchange. The state didn’t want to give insurance companies the opportunity to hold on to the healthiest patients for up to a year, keeping them out of the larger risk pool that will influence future rates.

Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, said the state and insurers agreed that clearing the decks by Jan. 1 was best for consumers in the long run despite the initial disruption. Lee has heard the complaints - even from his sister-in-law, who recently groused about her 50 percent rate increase.

“People could have kept their cheaper, bad coverage, and those people wouldn’t have been part of the common risk pool,” Lee said.

“We are better off all being in this together. We are transforming the individual market and making it better.”

Lee said consumers need to consider all their options.

They don’t have to stick with their current company, and higher premiums are only part of the cost equation.

Lee said some of these rate hikes will be partially offset by smaller deductibles and lower limits on out-of-pocket medical expenses in the new plans.

Still, many are frustrated at being forced to give up the plans they have now.

They frequently cite assurances given by Obama that Americans could hold on to their health insurance despite the massive overhaul.

“All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it,” said Deborah Cavallaro, a real estate agent in Westchester. “I’m infuriated because I was lied to.”

Supporters of the healthcare law say Obama was referring to people who are insured through their employers or through government programs such as Medicare. Still, they acknowledge the confusion and anger from individual policyholders who are being forced to change.

Cavallaro received her cancellation notice from Anthem Blue Cross this month. The company said a comparable Bronze plan would cost her 65% more, or $484 a month. She doubts she’ll qualify for much in premium subsidies, if any.

Regardless, she resents losing the ability to pick and choose the benefits she wants to pay for.

“I just won’t have health insurance because I can’t pay this increase,” she said.

Most Americans are required to have health coverage starting next year or pay a fine of $95 per adult or 1 percent of their income, whichever is greater. The fines increase over time.

A number of factors are driving up rates. In a report this year, consultants hired by the state said the influx of sicker patients as a result of guaranteed coverage was the biggest single reason for higher premiums. Bob Cosway, a principal and consulting actuary at Milliman Inc. in San Diego, estimated that the average individual premium in 2014 will rise 27 percent because of that difference alone.

Individual policies must also cover a higher percentage of overall medical costs and include 10 “essential health benefits,” such as prescription drugs and mental health services. The aim is to fill gaps in coverage and provide consumers more peace of mind. But those expanded benefits have to be paid for with higher premiums.

The federal law also adjusts how rates are set by age, a change that gives older consumers a break and shifts more costs to younger people. Rates by age can vary by only 3 to 1 starting next year as opposed to 6 to 1 in some cases now in California.

People in their 20s just starting their careers may earn so little they qualify for subsidies. But that might not be the case for consumers who are slightly older and earning more.

“It has the effect of benefiting people in their 50s and 60s and shifting costs to people in their 20s and 30s,” said Patrick Johnston, president of the California Association of Health Plans. “Benefits are being increased for all, but it’s not government subsidies for all. Some will pay more.”

Rates would be going up regardless of changes from the health care expansion.

The average individual premium will climb 9 percent next year because of rising health care costs and increases in medical provider reimbursement, according to Milliman’s estimates.

Some consumer groups have questioned whether insurers are inflating their rates under the guise of the health care law changes.

“We believe the prices are higher than they should be,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica advocacy group. “This is giving a bad name to the Affordable Care Act.” State regulators checked the insurance companies’ math and underlying cost projections for next year, but they don’t have the authority to deny increases. Under federal rules, insurers can be ordered to issue rebates if they don’t spend a minimum amount of every premium dollar on customers’ medical care.

“The rates aren’t going up because insurance companies are pocketing more money,” Lee said. “That is what it takes to pay the claims and deliver the health care.”

Javier Lopez, 38 and a selfemployed aerospace engineer in Huntington Beach, pays about $750 a month for an Anthem Blue Cross plan for his family of four. His premiums may rise nearly 20 percent next year for a new policy because his current plan is being phased out.

Lopez says he’s willing to absorb that one-year jump if it means the government can rein in future rate hikes.

“I’m hoping with this reform,” Lopez said, “we won’t see big increases year after year.”

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Violence is a plague Psychologists, including those at the University of Massachusetts, have long debated whether violence

Brian Bevilacqua is a part of human nature, or if there is hope for people to learn to resolve their problems without spreading destruction. A society without violence is possible, but the presence of violence is cyclical, buried beneath a lifetime of American culture.

Thanks to decades of acceptance and indifference to war and bloodshed, the idea that violence is inevitable has moved from our foreign policy and now permeates daily interaction. Americans are furious at violence among civilians, but nothing will change unless the government and parents challenge the acceptance of violence.

People are not even fazed anymore when they read that hundreds of young people are murdered in cities throughout America or when another kid brings a gun into school. We accept the false idea that violence is inevitable, but examples from around the world can discredit the notion.

Australia enacted firearm laws and saw an elimination of gun massacres, a reduction of gun homicides and the creation of a less violent society. Many European nations have lower gun homicide rates than the United States, despite having access to firearms. Mass gun violence is mostly an American problem.

“Violence is like the greatest infectious diseases of all time,” says Gary Slutkin, founder of Cure Violence (formerly known as CeaseFire), which seeks to end Chicago street vio-

lence by treating violence like a plague. According to Cure Violence members in a Frontline documentary called “The Interrupters,” the group aims to prevent the transmission of the idea that grievances must be solved through expressions of strength instead of finding brotherhood.

Cure Violence’s work has been emulated in cities throughout America.

Similar groups explain to those involved in street wars

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If nothing else, “like” “So, like, you wanna hear something crazy? I was like has added an element of texting and walking to class, drama and expression and I like bumped into this to our conversations, for instance, when the speaker Suyash Tibrawalla uses it to stress on something important that she wants to convey. “He was huge tree, like head first.”

Clearly, “like” has like, 10 feet tall” emphasizes become one of the most, that the speaker probably if not the most, frequently saw Bigfoot. The use also used words in the youth’s recreates the feelings of a vocabulary, and it has been moment: “My roommate for a while. Its pervasive- was like, ‘Keep your smelly ness is evident in the con- shoes outside the room!’ and versations of teenagers, I’m like, ‘Yeah right! Look college students and even who’s talking.’” adults into their 30s.

So why the word “like” and not any other word like – wait, I guess that’s why: because of its versatility.

The word “like” is usually used as a verb or to denote similarities between things.

According to Jessica Love, a cognitive psychologist from Northwestern University, the uses of “like” have increased to include function as a hedge (“He was like, ten feet tall”), as a filler word (“He ate like, five However, excessive use cheeseburgers today”) and can create unnecessary as a way of introducing problems. What if you canspeech (“My friend was like, not stop using it and it slips ‘Did you just eat five cheese- out during a presentation or burgers?’”). a formal interview with a Now is this good or bad? prospective employer? You It’s certainly not bad if lin- probably didn’t blow your guists argue that it does chance to get the job if you not violate any grammati- otherwise impressed the cal rules. Many say that interviewer, but you’re still language is constantly expected to use professional changing, and one word language while you talk to can assume multiple roles. this person. Your profesWhether it is being used as sionalism and proficient a verb or simile, “like” has command over language become a vital “function could be the factors that disword,” one that is “gram- tinguish you from the other aticalizing” language. The candidates. grammaticalized version of Some dissidents feel the sentence “I am going to that kids should converse buy a book,” for instance, in technically correct and would be, “I’m gonna buy a well-polished language all book.” the time, but that is human-

ests groups would love to have the American people believe. Our disease of violence comes from the proliferation of guns and the neglect of larger problems by the people who influence America.

Gun control must be the first step in curing the epidemic of violence. If our society cannot hold firearms without killing each other at record numbers, then we need to use background checks and bans on certain weapons to limit our murdering ability. While the founding fathers were right to make sure Americans could bear arms to defend themselves, our constitution predates technology that allows weapons to have incredible killing capabilities.

Congress cannot pass gun control, despite overwhelming public demand, because it’s more obedient to special interests. Politicians want us to accept gun violence as a reality of life instead of a fixable problem so they will not be forced to stand up and act. Congress will act when Americans force an ideological change that rejects the notion of a country plagued by violence. This ideal is possible, as Slutkin’s group reveals in “The Interrupters,” which reveals how parents and people can still convince our nation’s kids to put down the guns.

We still have a long way to go; we just need to understand that the NRA does not know what life is like in the cities and abandon their idea that video games are to blame. We must instead take individual care of the people society pushes to the brink of shooting.

The use of “like” is so deeply embedded in our informal vocabularies that, regardless of attacks by dissidents, the word is impossible to eradicate.

Our disease of violence comes from the proliferation of guns and the neglect of larger problems by the people who influence America.

that the “death before dishonor” mentality is a part of these city communities because no one has stopped it from being passed down through each generation.

The roughest of American neighborhoods deteriorated as we used prisons as a replacement for college and rehab. We now face a population that only understands life gripped by the disease of violence.

The notion that only certain people are susceptible to violent behavior, whether they are of a certain race, community or are fans of certain kinds of art, is proven false when we see the change Cure Violence brings about. Although youth gun violence is often seen as a socioeconomic problem, recent school shootings lead to the belief that it’s also a failure of parenting in our society.

Many blame the entertainment industry, and it is easy to blame hip-hop, heavy metal, MTV or violent movies for kids bringing guns into schools. But this is too Brian Bevilacqua is a Collegian convenient an excuse that contributor and can be reached at politicians and special inter- bbevilac@umass.edu.

ly impossible to achieve unless everyone could stop and think before speaking, which would defeat the point of informal exchanges.

Informal conversations are informal and not like essays or speeches because people do not tend to stop to clearly organize their thoughts before expressing them. It would be strange to speak to someone who stopped and technically assessed their language every time before they spoke. Such conversations could go on indefinitely.

The trick to prevent “like” from becoming a disadvantage in formal situations is to abstain from its atypical uses for as long as possible. To do this considerably improves a speaker’s control over the word’s use and helps them develop a more flexible vocabulary. The goal is to be able to omit “like” from any kind of formal conversation while not completely dismissing it. All that the speaker needs is a bit of conscientiousness because using the word informally is a given.

That being said I still do not discourage its use. The use of “like” is so deeply embedded in our informal vocabularies that, regardless of attacks by dissidents, the word is impossible to eradicate. Moreover, if Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language advocate for the non-typical uses of “like,” then I would just close the debate there.

Suyash Tibrawalla is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at stibrawa@umass.edu.

Lack of political interest due to poor education are directing their students’ attention too much toward the past, when they really should be using their time to teach government and Stefan Herlitz politics. While most students can’t vote, they should at current American education least begin to form a basic system focuses on math, science and technology, while social studies lag behind, especially in the political sphere. Teachers focus on geography and history, while ignoring the importance of civics. This absence of political thinking is not only in our schools, but also in our comprehension of not only homes. Parents are reluctant the political structure, but to wish public office upon also how the government their children and instead relates to the life of the averguide them to a different, age citizen.

While it’s nice to presperhaps less important, occupation. ent the “three branches of Social studies teachers government” and how a Politics, a subject essential to the continuance of a civil society, is being left behind in education. The

bill “becomes a law,” educators should elaborate on state and local governments, which have a larger influence on people’s lives.

To provide this education would allow students, when they grow up, to make better

When [today’s] sons and daughters become adults, they won’t appreciate their rights and how much power they actually have over the government as much as they should. decisions based on wiser and more thoughtful opinions.

School is not the only source of education; in fact, parents teach their children basic life skills, one of which is the ability to analyze and evaluate current events.

Besides telling their children what they believe, parents also need to teach their children how to learn and help them make rational judgments for themselves. While watching a news report of an election or governmental issue, parents should encourage their children to pay close attention instead of just dismissing the problem and telling them what to believe.

A Gallup poll shows that 64 percent of American parents don’t want their children to pursue a political career which explains why they neglect to give their children an adequate understanding of politics. If parents don’t shake this habit, when their sons and daugh-

ters become adults, they won’t appreciate their rights and how much power they actually have over the government as much as they should.

Other than school and family, there is one more educating force: the media.

Political commercials and endorsements can be very misleading to children. The ad creators view their campaigns as fights in a competition. Well, it is a competition, but it’s not to see who can do more damage to his or her opponent; it’s a fight to see who will best repair and heal society. So political apathy is not only the schools’ fault, but the media’s as well. The media’s problem isn’t what they show, but how they

present it.

The lack of political interest results from a lack of education in civics, the negative way in which families react to the government and the media’s poor representation of political events. Schools have to incorporate the importance of politics into their lessons, families need to teach their kids to analyze what politicians have to say (instead of judging them by appearance or their party) and the media has to actually compare the candidates and their positions, instead of just saying “this person is winning” and “this person is losing.”

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

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Umphrey’s McGee lights up the Calvin Theater Creative rockers please the crowd

By Ryan Kaplan Collegian Correspondent Last Friday Umphrey’s McGee shook the Calvin Theatre for over three hours with their signature brand of jammy, progressive rock.

Surprisingly, the venue was almost empty at 8 p.m., when the show began. Opener The London Souls took the stage regardless of the vacant theater and blasted through an intense, 45 minute set. Their bluesy, riff-heavy, energized take on the classic rock power trio was impressive, and a small but appreciative crowd gathered around the stage with their heads bobbing and hips shaking.

The band was able to maintain a looseness and infectiousness within their highly technical songs.

During the instrumental breaks the rhythm section held down tight, funky grooves while the guitarist let loose some fiery guitar solos. The London Souls certainly live up to their name, rocking their hearts out and giving an emotional, passionate performance.

When Umphrey’s McGee took the stage just after 9 p.m., the finally-full Calvin Theatre erupted. Umphrey’s brought the heat, screaming through an eclectic, fastpaced first set. As promised, there was insane variety; heavy metal breakdowns,

spacey, Pink Floyd-inspired sequences, jungle drum grooves, reggae and whiteboy funk, all combined to flow seamlessly into each other. The jazzy shuffle of “Example 1” highlighted just how tightly Umphrey’s can set a groove, while the broad, atmospheric “Great American” showcased the experimental capabilities of the band.

The second set only got weirder; the guitar riffs solos branched deeper out into space, the grooves got deeper and darker and the overall mood was much more intense than the lighthearted first set. This was most noticeable on the 20 minute long song “Ringo,” a cerebral journey through catapulting guitar licks, wild synths and powerful drumming.

The set was highlighted by two covers, The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” and Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ In the Years.” Thunderous applause brought them back on for an encore, which featured the slow-building, electro-peppered “Den” and a reprise of “Nothing Too Fancy.”

The only aspects of the show which were slightly disappointing were the jam sections. Sometimes the group really rocked, showcased unpredictability and traveled to interesting places musically. Other times they fell flat into simple noodling and trading solos on different instruments.

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Jam band Umphrey’s McGee and guitarist Jake Cinninger are known for their unique style of improvised progressive rock. combined their powers for some fantastic harmonized guitar licks that kept the band afloat whenever they started to wander off.

Umphrey’s highly coordinated light show is a large part of their live experience.

Spastic, swiftly-changing and wildly colorful, the lights are half the fun of seeing the band live. They would turn mellow greens

technical, thought-out instrumental sections were vastly more interesting and offered more variety than their improvisations.

The heroes of the night were the guitarists, Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss. Cinniger and Bayliss were in fine shredding form, energizing Umphrey’s performance whenever they took a solo. Both guitarists

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and blues when the band entered a slower, more methodic section of music and would shoot all over the place with bright reds, yellows and pinks when the band was at a highlyinvolved section.

Regardless of what happened on stage, the crowd always went nuts. Everyone was shoved up to the front of the house, dancing and

grooving to the music and tossing balloons in the air.

It was an extremely happy, ecstatic atmosphere that any fan of the genre could appreciate.

Exhilarating music and great fans combine for a unique musical experience that can’t be found anywhere else.

Ryan Kaplan can be reached at rtkaplan@umass.edu.

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Tera Melos ready to math–rock out Hi-Ya! Kung Fu West coast band prepares to stop plays wild shows

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This Tuesday night, Sacramento-based punk veterans Tera Melos will stop by the Pearl Street Nightclub as part of their month-long American tour.

Noted pioneers of the mathrock genre, the band combines the eccentric time signatures of progressive rock, the experimentation and musicianship of jazz, ambient electronics and the aggression of punk into a single overwhelming attack.

Coming off of a triumphant tour with fellow math-rockers and Sargent House label-mates TTNG, Tera Melos is hitting the road again in support of their fourth album, “X’ed Out,” released in April.

Although they have been making music since 2004, “X’ed Out” is their most critically and commercially successful album to date, garnering positive reviews from outlets such as Pitchfork Media.

Tera Melos have slightly toned down their more experimental and aggressive tendencies with this new album, but still are certainly not afraid to push boundaries. “X’ed Out” shows Tera Melos writing poppy songs that are smothered in noise, made crooked with odd time signatures and defined by a thrilling sense of unpredictability.

Formed by guitarist Nick Reinhart and bassist Nathan Latona in 2004, Tera Melos rehearsed for over a year before they made their live debut and their

Powerful super– group jams hard

By Ryan Kaplan Collegian Correspondent

Tera Melos performs at the tight venue Cafe Coda in California back in 2005. first, untitled album in 2005.

Completed with guitarist Jeff Worms and drummer Vince Rogers, the band’s untitled debut was an instrumental, highly experimental record. Filled to the brim with distorted guitars, wild rhythms and experiments like its half-hour, free-form, noise-meltdown closing track, “Melody 8,” it gained them a cult-like fan base around the United States.

After the 2007 EP, “Drugs to the Dear Youth”, and the departure of both Worms and Rogers, the band brought aboard drummer John Clardy, solidifying the power-trio lineup they retain today.

During this transitional period, Reinhart began contributing more and more vocals to Tera Melos’ previously instrumental sound.

By the time of their long-

awaited second album, 2010’s “Patagonian Rats,” Reinhart had become the trio’s vocalist. “Patagonian Rats” showed a much more accessible, tuneful side to the band that listeners had not seen before. Although the music was still unquestionably twisty and difficult, songs like “Frozen Zoo,” “The Skin Surf” and “In Citrus Heights” actually had conventional verses and choruses. The album played a huge role in expanding Tera Melos’ fan base beyond the band’s modest roots.

Touring with the likes of Maps & Atlases, Marnie Stern and Firehose, the band further increased their reputation as a fearsome live act. This constant touring also gave the band plenty of time to hone the material that would eventually become “X’ed Out.” While still hard to pin down,

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some of the tracks on “X’ed Out” almost come off as classic skate-punk tracks.

Perhaps as an homage to their California roots, “X’ed Out” tracks like “Tropic Lame” and “Sunburn” have sunny harmonies and light, playful guitar work from Reinhart. This new, more accessible sound gives even more variety to Tera Melos’ already diverse sound.

With each passing record, Tera Melos seem to be getting more varied and impressive. They will bring their sunny, complex, experimental and twisty math-rock to Pearl Street this Tuesday. The band will be joined by openers Fang Island and Zorch. Tickets are available for $12.50 in advance, or $15 at the door.

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

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Though they incorporate electronic influences into their music, Kung Fu relies on the idea that people will never stop getting tired of seeing musicians play real instruments in a live setting.

And this seems to have held true for them, as the band has been rapidly expanding its following with constant touring all over the country.

The band has made appearances at major music festivals such as Mountain Jam, Gathering of the Vibes and Camp Bisco.

As is typical of the genre, the band relies heavily on improvisation to take their shows to the next level. The band members all share an amazing chemistry with one another, and it is this chemistry that drives the band’s performances into unique, exciting territory. Fans of jam music have capitalized on the band’s improvisational methods, taping their shows and trading them online via the Live Music Archive at archive.org. No show is the same as the last, but every show is full of electric energy and funky, head-bobbing grooves.

Tickets are still available for the show on the Nov. 2.

They are $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door. The openers will be the funk and roll band Shantyman & The Speakeasies, as well as the funky, organ-heavy Alan Evans Trio. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

The band Kung Fu will perform at the Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton this Saturday. A New York Tri-State Area-based funkfusion super-group, Kung Fu is made up of musicians Tim Palmieri (guitar), Todd Stoops (keyboard), Adrian Tramontano (drums), Robert Somerville (tenor sax) and Chris DeAngelis (bass guitar). The members all come from the bands The Breakfast and Raq, both of which are native to the Tri-State Area.

The band attempts to blend 1970s fusion music, from acts like Herbie Hancock to Weather Report, with modern dance music.

Kung Fu aims to make listeners groove along to music many people would not have previously considered party material.

Kung Fu started as a result of jam sessions between band members working with fusion music back in 2009.

What started off as a laidback, unofficial side project eventually gained steam as the band realized how much fun both the fans and themselves had at their shows.

The band released their self-titled debut in 2011. Due to its success and their relentless touring, Kung Fu was able to open a mini-residency at the Brooklyn Bowl in New Ryan Kaplan can be reached at rtkaYork City during April of plan@umass.edu.

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By Patrick Strohecker Collegian Staff

With the Massachusetts men’s soccer team’s playoff hopes hanging in the balance, Matt Keys patiently waited for the right time to strike.

That moment came in the 86th minute when the junior connected with a volley from outside of the 18-yard box and served it through heavy traffic and into the top-right corner of the n e t , UMass 2 giving UMass GW 1 a 2-1 w i n over George Washington.

“Time was winding down and I saw the ball go into the box and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get a head on it first,” Keys said.

“So I kind of stayed outside of the 18 [yard box] and I told Josh [Schwartz], ‘Hey, if they head it out, leave it,’ and they headed it out right to me and it was in the air and I just shot it.”

The goal was his third of the season, but neither of his previous two had the impact that Sunday’s gamewinner had. After losing Friday night to Fordham, the Minutemen (3-12-1, 2-3 Atlantic 10) were in desperate need of a victory Sunday in order to keep their conference tournament hopes alive.

The game got off to a shaky start for UMass, as the Colonials (5-7-2, 2-1-2 A-10) scored just two minutes into the contest, instantly putting the Minutemen on their heels.

“You gotta check to see how everybody is,” UMass coach Sam Koch said. “It’s been a tough season and sometimes that’s all it takes to click somebody off. But everybody stayed focused.”

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Since being moved to forward, UMass men’s soccer junior Matt Keys has sparked the Minutemen’s offense and the team has gone 3-3 since.

The defense tightened up and allowed the rest of the team to get back in the game.

Just before the halftime break, Keys took a shot off a free kick that George Washington goalie Luke Farrell stopped, but the rebound went right to Connor DeVivo and he slotted it home to tie the game at 1-1 as the two teams went into halftime.

As the second half opened, UMass carried the majority of the play, but wasn’t rewarded. Both Matt Bolduc and Josh Jess had great opportunities to put the Minutemen ahead, but Farrell punched them aside.

Keys’ late goal was the final blow that UMass

“This was a game that we had to win ...

I’m real pleased that we kept our heads up and kept battling.”

UMass coach Sam Koch needed to put the Colonials away and cling to its playoff hopes.

“This was a game that we had to win,” Koch said. “[George Washington] was in third place I think going into this game and our guys came from a goal behind and did it again. I’m real pleased with the fact that we kept our heads up and kept battling.”

Aside from the late goal, the Minutemen’s defense was the real story as they held the Colonials to only

That was only the second time all night that Western Michigan took the lead. It also led 24-21 in the third quarter after another touchdown strike from Terrell to Davis.

But the Minutemen responded with a 37-yard field goal from Lucas to tie the game heading into the final quarter.

For most of the first half, though, UMass was the team in control. The Minutemen had a 21-17 lead at the half after touchdown strikes from Doyle (15-of 24 for 194 yards and one touchdown), who found tight end Rob Blanchflower (131 yards on seven receptions and a touchdown) for a 6-yard score, Jamal Wilson on a 3-yard run and Khary Bailey Smith, who returned the opening kickoff 90 yards to the end zone.

“I think we changed some things up, which is very good for us,” Doyle said. “Obviously it showed with the amount of points we were able to put on the board today.”

Despite the offensive success for UMass early, the Broncos stayed with its opponent thanks to two touch-

four shots the entire game.

“They really played lights out,” goalkeeper Nick Ruiz said. “They all did great. [Matt] Pease, when Jay Marchand came back, Cody Sitton did well, especially when Matt Keys got back. A lot of it was just fighting for the ball further up so we didn’t have to fight for it as much in the back.”

Patrick Strohecker can be reached at pstrohec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @MDC_Strohecker.

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Long, the play was originally intended to go to someone else.

“The first option was to get the ball to Tajae (Sharpe),” Molnar said, “who came across fast to the strong flat.

He was matched and Elgin came over the top, Elgin Long, and he was at least from our perspective, he was open at least for a moment. I don’t know if the quarterback had somebody in between him and the receiver that he had to put too much air under the ball or it was just an overthrow.”

UMass was in the position of having to march down the field at the end of the game due to a quick 3-play, 53-yard touchdown drive for Western Michigan (1-8, 1-4 MAC), which ended on a 54-yard strike from quarterback Zach Terrell (23-of-36 for 275 yards and four touchdowns) to Corey Davis (154 yards on 10 receptions and two touchdowns). The Minutemen brought pressure on the play, leaving Davis in single coverage, and once he beat his initial man, he waltzed into the end zone, taking the lead for the Broncos for good.

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down throws from Terrell in the second quarter and a field goal from Andrew Haldeman in the first.

But the offensive success in the first half wasn’t enough, and the loss was tough, especially for Blanchflower, who as a senior ended his career winless on homecoming games.

“It hurts a lot,” he said. “I think when your fifth season, haven’t won a homecoming game yet. So I really wanted this one. If I was calling the plays, I would’ve went for two, too, because the amount of energy we had as an offense and the way we were moving the ball, it was in the cards for us.

“I didn’t have a doubt in my mind all day that we were gonna win the game. It just didn’t turn out that way.”

The Minutemen will have to bounce back against a very tough opponent in No. 18 Northern Illinois next Saturday at Gillette Stadium.

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

what proved to be the game winning score.

“Time was winding down and I saw the ball go into the box, and I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get a head on it first,” Keys said. “So I kind of stayed back outside the 18 and I told Josh [Schwartz], ‘If they head it out, leave it.’”

As planned, the ball was headed back out in Keys’ direction.

“It was in the air and I just shot it,” he said. “I just put it on frame, [to] maybe get a rebound. Lucky enough, it went in.”

The score marked Key’s third goal and eighth point of the season through fifteen games. All three goals that he has scored have come since moving up top.

“Ever since we put him up top, he’s just given us a whole new dimension,” Koch said. “I think he’s very hard for other teams to handle. They put a lot of people on him, they have to hold him, they have to really bump him to get him off his game, and I think he bounces off of it pretty well.”

Keys’ contributions have not gone overlooked by his teammates. Freshman goalkeeper Nick Ruiz said that although Keys is missed as a defender in the back, his 6-foot, 4-inch presence is a major advantage on the offensive side when trying to win headers.

“We don’t have enough height up top,” Ruiz said, “so he helps be a target, especially when we’re winning balls up there.”

With three games remaining on the regular season schedule, UMass’ hopes at reaching the Atlantic 10 playoffs are still alive thanks in large part to Keys now being a piece in a revived offensive attack.

Following yet another shutout loss on Sept. 25 to Syracuse, the Massachusetts men’s soccer coach Sam Koch decided to make a change.

Before the Minutemen’s next game against Siena on Sept. 28, Koch moved junior Matt Keys to forward despite spending the first nine games as a starting defenseman.

“We needed to do something,” Koch said. “You have to keep trying different things to keep [the team] focused, to keep them fighting.”

Upon hearing the news, Keys said that he was caught off guard by the decision, but was willing to make the change if Koch thought that it would benefit the team.

“I thought [Koch] was crazy to be honest,” Keys said. “I’ve never played up top before.”

The move to the offensive side of the ball immediately paid dividends. The Minutemen picked up their first victory of the season against the Saints in a game which the offense finally broke through with five goals, one of which Keys assisted on.

Since the position change, UMass has played significantly better on both sides of the earning a 3-3 record following the loss at Syracuse.

Keys has consistently been a part of the Minutemen’s success, as seen most recently in his performance on Sunday against George Washington, in UMass’s 2-1 win.

With the score tied at 1-1 in the 85th minute, the Minutemen controlled the ball near the Colonials’ net. As the ball popped out to an open Keys from around 20 yards out, he set up for a strike that beat Anthony Chiusano can be reached at diving George Washington achiusano@umass.edu and can be goalkeeper Luke Farrell for followed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

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into an overtime situation, we would get potentially into a kicking battle,” Molnar said.

“Obviously our kicking game isn’t the best at this moment in time, and we felt like we could put the ball in the hands of our best players, guys who have not only made plays for us (Saturday), but consistently through the season.”

Molnar said it was a decision that he and the coaching staff had discussed throughout the second half, and once Lucas had missed the 22-yard chip shot, there was no question the Minutemen were going for the win.

“I just felt, ‘Why put the ball on the foot of a guy who, the last time he was out there on the field, was unsuccessful?’” Molnar said. “I knew we could make the PAT. That wasn’t the issue. It’s just when you get into overtime a lot of times it comes down to field goals.”

Senior tight end and captain Rob Blanchflower

agreed with the decision to go for the win, saying, “If I was calling the plays I would’ve gone for two too.” However, he also would’ve trusted Lucas, if it came down to it in overtime, using the windy conditions as a potential factor in his struggles on Saturday.

“I don’t know what happened t h e r e, ” Blanchflower said. “He hits them all the time in practice. We love Blake.

We trust him. It was an extremely windy day going from right to left so you can’t put all the blame on a guy like that in these conditions.”

The wind can’t be an excuse for Lucas’ seasonlong struggles, though.

The sophomore has made just three of his 10 field goal attempts this season, with Saturday’s miss from 22 yards out in the fourth quarter being by far the most costly.

Given Lucas’ poor results and Molnar’s apparent lack of confidence in him, a kick-

ing competition may be opening between him and senior Brendon Levengood, who has been used primarily for kickoffs this season, in practice.

Levengood hasn’t attempted a field goal all season, and Molnar wouldn’t say whether or not he will be at any point this season.

When asked if Levengood would be his kicker next week, Molnar said, “It’d be easy for me to say that right now, emotionally, but we’ll go back and we’ll look at those guys again. We’ve had lots of competition over the last several weeks and at the end Blake keeps coming out ahead.”

Molnar may have had the right intentions. But the decision may be one that keeps him up at night, and could spark some changes to the UMass lineup in the near future.

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

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Anthoine and Ben Hutton, whose tally came on a 5-on-3 opportunity.

UMass cut the deficit in half by the end of the period when freshman Ray Pigozzi scored his first-career goal from the left wing at 16:46.

The Minutemen evened the score at 2-2 on Conor Sheary’s first goal of the season, which came on a power play 13:50 into the second period on a

wrist shot past Maine goaltender Martin Ouellette.

UMass’ best hockey came in the third period, when it outshot the Black Bears 13-7.

But the Minutemen still came away with nothing despite some quality chances.

“We showed up in the third,” Micheletto told UMass Athletics, “that’s about it.”

UMass was outshot 28-14 in the first two periods, but

was bailed out by the play of Mastalerz, who made a handful of key saves and finished with 34 for the game.

“I thought he was good enough for us to win (Friday),” Micheletto said. “If we had played hard enough in front of him for the first 40 minutes, we should have come away with the victory.

That doesn’t add up to much at this point.”

All of the Minutemen’s losses have come on the road this season. Fortunately for them, they’ll have a chance at redemption over the Black Bears at Mullins Center next weekend with more at stake as the teams play a pair of conference games.

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

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Lorenzo Woodley 2-yard run into the end zone.

Then instead of sending out FOXBORO – For a moment, it kicker Blake Lucas, who had missed looked like the Massachusetts foottwo field goals on the night, includball team was a mere extra point away ing a 22-yard attempt that would’ve from tying up Western Michigan given UMass a 27-24 lead at the time, with only 22 seconds remaining in Molnar sent his offense back onto the the game. field. In the end, Molnar elected to But that’s when everything go for two due to the struggles in the changed. kicking game throughout the afterUMass coach Charley Molnar noon. elected to try a two-point conversion “That was obviously my deciinstead, which was unsuccessful sion,” he said. “It was something that when quarterback A.J. Doyle overwe were talking about literally from threw a ball intended for Elgin Long the beginning of the secin the back of the end zone. ond half, right down to And with that overthrown the final moments of the WMU 31 ball went the Minutemen’s game. chance to pick up a sec“We just felt like if UMass 30 ond win, eventually falling we went into an overtime 31-30 on its annual homesituation, we would get coming game to a previpotentially into a kicking battle and ously winless Broncos squad in front obviously our kicking game isn’t the of an announced crowd of 20,571 at best at this moment in time and felt Gillette Stadium. like we could put the ball in the hands The pivotal moment in the game of our best players, guys who have came after UMass (1-7, 1-3 Midmade plays for us not only today, but American Conference) moved the consistently through the season.” ball downfield on a 13-play, 68-yard While the pass was thrown toward touchdown drive in four minutes, 33 seconds, which culminated with a see DECISION on page 7 Collegian Staff

Struggles in kicking game leads to decision Blake Lucas misses 22-yard field goal By niCk Canelas Collegian Staff

FOXBORO – Call it gutsy.

Call it foolish. Either way, Massachusetts football coach Charley Molnar made the big decision.

With 22 seconds left to play and the Minutemen an extra point away from tying the game, Molnar called for a twopoint conversion to go for the win instead of the conservative approach to take the easy point and force overtime.

Quarterback A.J. Doyle took the snap out of the shotgun and rolled to the right. His first option was Tajae Sharpe going across to the flat, but he wasn’t open. The sophomore instead targeted Elgin Long in the back of the end zone, but he overthrew his receiver and Western Michigan walked off the Gillette Stadium turf 31-30 winners on

Saturday.

“It’s a play we’ve been practicing all year long,” Doyle said.

“We haven’t run it, but we (ran) it a lot in practice. They played it the way we expected to, I just threw a bad ball. I put that on me.”

The controversial decision to go for it certainly cost UMass the game, but it wasn’t something that Molnar regrets.

The second-year coach said in his postgame press conference that his decision to go for the two-point conversion came down to his lack of confidence in kicker Blake Lucas. Lucas had gone 1-for-3 for the game and his last attempt was a missed 22-yard field goal in the fourth quarter that would have given UMass a 27-24 lead at the time.

Molnar felt that if the game had gone into overtime, it may have come down to a battle between kickers, something he wasn’t ready to risk at that point in the game.

“We just felt like if we went see

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Minutemen swept by Maine in Orono

Alex Wakaluk allows six goals in debut

start for the Minutemen, but it would be short-lived. Wakaluk allowed six goals, all of which came in the second period, on 23 shots before being pulled in favor of Steve Mastalerz to By niCk Canelas start the third.

Collegian Staff Trailing 1-0, Maine’s Josh Henke beat Wakaluk with a shot from the The Massachusetts hockey team had some positive vibes following faceoff circle just one minute, 43 seconds into the second its sweep of Michigan State period. at home last weekend. But Maine 3 That was only the another two-day road-trip beginning of the marked another setback UMass 2 onslaught. for the Minutemen.

After Michael UMass was swept at Pereira scored the Alfond Arena this weekend Maine 8 Minutemen’s 10th

by Hockey East rival Maine power play of the seain non-conference action, UMass 4 son to give them the 2-1 capped off by an 8-4 drubadvantage, the Black bing on Saturday night.

Bears (3-2) answered Freshman goaltender Alex Wakaluk got his first career with five goals over the next 11 min-

the game, but Connor Leen’s power play goal 3:27 into overtime gave Maine the 3-2 win.

Just 30 seconds after Mike Busillo was called for hooking, Devin Shore and Ryan Lomberg set up Leen for the one-timer to beat goaltender Steve Mastalerz. It was the Black Bears’ second power play of the night.

“Reality was we shouldn’t have been in that situation to start with,” UMass coach John Micheletto told UMass Athletics after the game.

“That lazy play we wound up havUMass falls in OT ing to take a penalty. You cheat the UMass may have been involved in game it comes back to bit you in the rear end. That’s what happened a much closer game with the Black (Friday).”

Bears on Friday night, but the result The Minutemen fell behind 2-0 14:19 was still the same. into the first period on goals by The Minutemen came back from a 2-0 deficit in the first period to tie see MAINE on page 7 utes to take a 6-2 lead into the third period.

Troy Power and Pereira each added power play goals in the third period to cut the UMass deficit to 7-4 late. The Minutemen (2-4) are now 12-for-37 on the man-advantage this season, which puts them third in the nation at 32.4 percent.

However, it was much too little, much too late as Mark Anthoine scored an empty-net goal 18:37 into the final period. It was Anthoine’s fourth point of the night.

ST. LOUIS – Jonny Gomes proved to be the perfect cure for Boston’s post-traumatic obstruction syndrome.

Not in the starting lineup until Shane Victorino was scratched before game time with lower back soreness, Gomes made his first hit of the World Series a big one, ripping a threeRed Sox 4 run home run in the Cardinals 2 sixth inning Sunday night that propelled the Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over St. Louis in Game 4 at Busch Stadium.

Recovering from a stunning defeat the previous evening on an obstruction play that ended the game, the Red Sox drew even with the Cardinals instead of falling into a dangerous 3-1 hole. No matter what happens in Game 5 here, they were assured of taking the World Series back to Fenway Park, where one of the teams will win its third crown in the last 10 years.

“We’ve seen it many times,” Boston manager John Farrell said of his team’s resiliency. “This is not the first time. Granted the stage might be bigger, but this is consistent with the way we’ve responded to a tough night the night before.

“We came in today fully expecting a very good game to be put together. That’s just who these guys are. They have shown it many times over.”

Before striking the blow that got the Red Sox back in the Series, Gomes was 0 for 9 against the Cards and had two RBI in 33 atbats this postseason, both coming in Game 1 of the ALDS. His momentum-changing blast came off reliever Seth Maness, who had allowed only four homers in 62 innings this year.

“All I’ve wanted is the opportunity,” said the well-traveled Gomes, who learned during pre-game batting practice that he’d be playing.

“I got the opportunity tonight and you can guarantee I’m going to be swinging. What’s going on inside now is pretty special and magical.”

Before the Red Sox went up to bat in the top of the sixth, whitehot David Ortiz, batting .727 in a lineup that is struggling overall, called the players together in the dugout and delivered an inspirational message, basically telling his teammates to step it up or face early elimination.

“He got everyone’s attention pretty quick,” said Gomes. “It was like 24 kindergarten kids looking up into the face of our teacher.

We’ll keep to ourselves what he said, but the message was pretty powerful.

“He gave us the kick in the butt that we needed. It says a lot about the guys in that clubhouse to clean the slate from a tough loss.”

It didn’t look good for the Red Sox in the early going as St. Louis starter Lance Lynn mowed through them with ease, encountering few of the grind-it-out atbats for which the AL champs are known. In fact, over those first four frames, Lynn faced the minimum number of hitters while allowing one ball out of the infield.

The good news for Boston was that sore-shouldered starter Clay Buchholz did some bending but didn’t break over his four-inning stint, killing the Cardinals softly with fastballs in the 87-89 mph range. The NL champs put two on with one out in the second inning without denting the scoreboard.