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Hadley fire destroys Survivors raise awareness 11 businesses, 2 residential units Route 9 shutdown The strip mall contained until 4 p.m. Monday for two residential and 11 clean-up, investigation commercial units. Many CoLLegian news staff Several Hadley businesses now lay in ruins after a fast-moving blaze destroyed a strip mall and injured one firefighter on Route 9 Sunday night.

The fire at the 206 Russell St. property was reported at 7:41 p.m., a Hadley fire department spokesman said. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, it took multiple departments and over 60 firefighters into early Morning morning to fight the heavy fire. The Pioneer Valley Red Cross was on site providing services to firefighters and bystanders, WWLP reported.

The firefighter who received a non-life-threatening injury was treated at a nearby hospital, the Gazette reported, and no other injuries were noted.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The strip mall contained two residential and 11 commercial units, according to the Gazette. Among those businesses totally demolished by the fire are Mohawk’s Revenge tattoo parlor, Banh Mi Saigon restaurant, Gregory’s Pastry Shop, Casablanca Halal Market, College Pro Computer, Mi Tierra restaurant and the International Food Market.

The Gazette reported that many affected business owners returned to the scene of their

affected business owners returned to the scene of their charred businesses Monday morning to see what could be salvaged, if anything, from the wreckage. Many owners lost everything but the shell of their businesses.

charred businesses Monday morning to see what could be salvaged, if anything, from the wreckage. Many owners lost everything but the shell of their businesses, the Gazette reported.

The section of Route 9 from Spruce Hill Road to East Street was closed to general traffic until late Monday afternoon, spawning detours for traffic and PVTA buses and causing delays, according to an email sent to the University of Massachusetts community by UMass University Relations on Monday morning. The email advised those accustomed to traveling to and from campus via Route 9 to “seek alternative routes ... if possible.”

The Hadley fire department could not be reached after multiple attempts for additional comment.

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From left to right, a UMPD officer, Angie Epifano, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark at the seminar on Friday.

Sexual assault takes center stage at seminar By eriC BosCo Collegian Staff

Angie Epifano’s 2012 article, “An Account of Sexual Assault at Amherst College,” read by over 1 million people, has sparked a wave of sexual assault awareness, leading Epifano on a nationwide tour to share her experience.

She made a stop at the University of Massachusetts Friday, speaking at the sexual assault seminar “Breaking Barriers: Connecting Victims with Authorities,” hosted in the Campus Center by the Law Offices of Dunn and Phillips, Alpha Chi Omega and Students for Reproductive Justice (VOX UMass).

The panel, which consisted of Epifano and two sexual assault victims from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, addressed the need

for victims to report their experiences, informed students of the resources available to them in the wake of a sexual assault and raised concerns about the process of reporting a rape on campus.

Both Epifano and Pino emphasized that coming forward after a sexual assault is an incredibly painful and difficult process. Pino said, “It took me six months to call it rape,” and Epifano waited, “about six to eight months” before she went to the Amherst College administration.

Epifano said that even after she had told the Amherst administration in October 2012, the process of coming forward was painful, saying that she was, “basically dismissed and mistreated from February until July, when the environment at Amherst College became so toxic that I eventually had to withdraw.”

Upon withdrawing, Epifano realized that her, “experience at Amherst College was not an anomaly,” but a problem that many students at the colleges in the Pioneer Valley

were suffering from. According to statistics from the Jeanne Clery Act, between the years 2010 and 2012, there have been 48 reported rapes on the Amherst College campus, 40 cases reported at UMass Amherst, 32 at Hampshire College, 12 at Smith College and 5 at Mount Holyoke College.

In her time away from college, Epifano has launched a national movement of activism along with former students like Clark and Pino, who serve as valuable resources to students who need help reporting a sexual assault.

Clark created a blind reporting system for students at the University of North Carolina and through using the system, Pino realized that fellow victims failed to report because they had no one supporting them.

To raise awareness about the laws protecting students, they created the Know Your Nine Campaign (knowyourix.org), which references Title see

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Alleged U.S. spying upsets Hampshire dorm fire international community displaces 44 students Obama calls for more regulated intelligence

By LesLey CLark, HannaH aLLam and JonatHan s. Landay

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure from new revelations that the United States collected the telephone data of tens of millions of Europeans, the Obama administration on Monday said that there is a need for new constraints on U.S. intelligence-gathering operations and a top senator announced that the spying on U.S. allies would stop.

In an interview aired late Monday by a new cable television outlet, Fusion, President Barack Obama declined to discuss the communications monitoring operations of the National Security Agency, including whether the NSA tapped the telephones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 34 other world leaders.

The storm battering Obama over the revelations of U.S. datagathering and communications monitoring in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Brazil showed no sign of abat-

ing. Outlined in top-secret documents leaked to news media by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the disclosures are bruising ties with some of the closest U.S. allies, adding to the domestic outcry over the NSA’s collection of data from millions of Americans’ communications as part of an effort to unearth terrorist plots.

“Obama must feel very uneasy and embarrassed right now,” said Hans Christian Stroebel, the longest serving member of the German Parliament’s intelligence committee.

Administration officials, however, continued fending off questions about details of the operations, including when they began and - in the case of the tapping of the phones of Merkel and the other world leaders - how high up the command chain they were authorized.

There were complaints that the administration has been keeping the U.S. intelligence community’s congressional overseers in the dark as well. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, announced that the panel would conduct “a major review into all intelligence collection programs.”

“It is my understanding that President Obama was not aware

Chancellor Merkel’s communications were being collected since 2002. That is a big problem,” she added in a statement.

“The White House has informed me that collection on our allies will not continue, which I support. But as far as I’m concerned, Congress needs to know exactly what our intelligence community is doing.”

“It is clear to me that certain surveillance activities have been in effect for more than a decade and that the Senate Intelligence Committee was not satisfactorily informed,” Feinstein said.

“Therefore our oversight needs to be strengthened and increased.

“With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies ... let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed,” she said.

The White House denied that it hasn’t discussed the issue with Feinstein.

“We consult regularly with Chairman Feinstein,” said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council. “I’m not going to go into the details of those private discussions, nor am I going to comment on assertions made in the senator’s statement today about U.S. foreign intellisee

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Greenwich House to be reopened by Wed.

By PatriCk Hoff Collegian Staff

MassLive previously reported that some students would be sent to a hotel, but Thomas said that measure turned out to be unnecessary.

Greenwich is made up of a number of suites. All but five students living in one suite will be allowed to return to their dorm in the coming days. The one exception is due to water damage in the room caused by sprinklers that went off during the fire.

The AFD reported that fire damage was confined to the area of origin and smoke damaged only a few other suites.

“We’re very appreciative to the Amherst Fire Department,” said Thomas, adding, “The most important thing was that everyone was safe.”

In addition to the on-duty firefighters, the press release said that the student volunteer engine company also responded, along with two off-duty Chief Officers, five off-duty career firefighters, six Call Firefighters and the department’s Chaplin, who responded to the scene from his home.

The Gazette reported that classes resumed as usual on Monday morning.

A fire at Hampshire College’s Greenwich House dormitory on Sunday afternoon forced 44 students out of their housing for the next few days.

“All indications are that it was an accidental fire,” said Elaine Thomas, Hampshire College spokeswoman.

The fire began between 4:15 and 4:30 p.m. on a porch attached to Greenwich and then spread up the building, Thomas said.

According to a press release from the Amherst Fire Department, fire investigators determined that the cause of the fire was due to some smoldering materials that were left on the porch which then ignited some boxes and other materials.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that campus police officer David Arroyo was briefly hospitalized for smoke inhalation at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. No one else was harmed in the fire.

All 44 of the students who live in Greenwich were temporarily relocated to other dorms or locations around campus, or are stay- Patrick Hoff can be reached at ing with friends, said Thomas. pphoff@umass.edu.

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In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United States, killing almost 300 people, causing major power outages and leaving nearly $70 billion in damages.

AROUND THE WORLD

Israel approves release of Palestinians Israeli officials have approved a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be released later this week as part of the peace talks that were renewed this past summer, according to a government statement Sunday evening.

It is the second group of prisoners being released in keeping with an Israeli decision in July to gradually free 104 long-serving Palestinian prisoners.

The prisoners slated for release have been serving sentences in connection with the killings of 30 Israelis in attacks that took place prior to the 1993 Oslo peace accords.

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China struck by terrorist attack It could hardly have been a more audacious attack or one that was aimed more directly at the bull’s-eye that is the spiritual heart of China.

At 12:05 p.m. Monday, a white sport utility vehicle entered a sidewalk and drove nearly 500 yards, plowing through tourists and police, until it stopped near the iconic portrait of Mao Tse-tung that hangs over the main gate in front of Tiananmen Square.

The Chinese state news reported that five people were killed and 38 injured. The dead included the three occupants of the car and two tourists, one a Filipina woman and the other a Chinese man.

There were some suggestions that police were looking at suspects from the Uighur community, Muslims from the northwest of China.

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Deadly storm batters northern Europe A powerful Atlantic storm packing hurricane-force winds claimed several lives in northern Europe on Monday and caused widespread power and public transport disruptions.

The storm devastated parts of Britain, where officials reported gusts of up to 105 miles per hour. Fallen trees caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and blocked roads and railways.

Some 130 flights were cancelled at London’s Heathrow airport, Europe’s busiest.

Two people died west of London following a gas explosion that was likely the result of a tree falling on their house.

Two others died when trees fell on their vehicles.

Falling trees also killed two in the Netherlands. A roof tile fell on a man in Denmark, killing him.

Across Germany, four people died after trees hit their car. On Sunday, a man died on a lake near Cologne after his boat capsized in the severe weather, while large swells likely also caused a fisherman in western Germany to drown.

A French woman in her 50s was believed to have drowned on the island of Belle-Ile, off the coast of Brittany.

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IX, a law that protects equal access to education. Equal access can be denied when pervasive sexual harassment or assault creates a hostile educational environment and forces students to deviate from their normal lives, said Pino.

Both UNC survivors urged students to explore the options of filing a federal complaint under Title IV or the Clery Act in the face of what Clark referred to as “deliberate indifference” on behalf of university administrations inclined to keep reports of rape under wraps.

When Clark reported to the University of North Carolina that she had been sexually assaulted, she was told, “rape was like a football game” and was asked as the “quarterback,” or the one “in charge,” what she would have done differently.

Pino was working in residential life at UNC at the time of her sexual assault and was told she was “just being lazy” and that she had simply experienced a “bad hookup.”

The panel emphasized the need to avoid victim blaming and debunk myths about what sexual assault really is before the process of victims connecting with authorities can be made smoother.

“Nine out of 10 sexual assault crimes are committed by somebody you know,” said Clark. “(But) we’re kind of taught, Law and Order SVU-style that it’s going to be a stranger in the bushes, very violent, which actually does happen, but at the same time it could be somebody sitting in your biology class, it could be your partner, it could be a really good friend. That’s something that’s so hard for us to conceptualize because you don’t want to think of a friend or a classmate or anyone who goes to your dream school as a rapist.”

Pino and Clark filed a federal complaint under Title IX and the Clery Act against the University of North Carolina, resulting in an ongoing Department of Education investigation into sexual assault and reporting on the Chapel Hill campus.

The university deemed the allegations “false,” but Pino stressed the necessity to “share our stories and continue sharing our stories even though it was scary, even though it took a lot of time, even though it was hard

to see your face in Google searches and in the news. It was hard, but we learned that by doing it and by becoming agents of change, we could motivate other people to do it.”

She said that the collective effort of survivors like Epifano, Clark and herself is, “about empowerment and the only way we can stop rape on campus or anywhere is by coming forward and letting people know that they’re not alone.”

Clark said that a very common misconception among administrators at universities is that if rape statistics read zero across the board, it means that the school is a safe place. Clark believes that universities should be up front with their statistics, “and say ‘this is what we’re doing about it.’ I would much rather see a proactive approach than covering things up.”

The panel repeatedly emphasized the need for victims to feel validated when they come forward with their experiences.

Epifano referenced the 2012 suicide of former Amherst College student and rape victim Tre Malone, who wrote in his suicide letter that one of the reasons he took his own life was that he felt misunderstood and that his experience with sexual assault was not validated when he came forward to school administrators.

“I still can’t really talk about it without getting choked up because it rings so true with what I experienced at Amherst and what many other men and women from schools across the country experience,” Epifano said.

She added, “If someone comes to you and says they were assaulted, affirm that.

Say you believe them. Say I support you and it’s not your fault. Don’t interrogate them.

Validate that experience.”

The UMass Police Department also spoke at the seminar, informing students of the process the department follows in responding to a sexual assault. They stressed the need for a firsthand account from victims and the preservation of evidence as the essential first steps in investigating rape.

Eric Bosco can be reached at ebosco@umass.edu.

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Environment issues discussed by Senate Divestment repeal motion not passed

By Katrina BorofsKi Collegian Staff

This week’s Student Government Association meeting proceeded as usual, with some of the most pressing issues discussed including fossil fuel divestment as well as a number of other significant topics.

The Bottle Bill Campaign at the University of Massachusetts has made significant progress in the past few weeks. Previously, this campaign had a goal of collecting 100,000 signatures to petition the current status of the Bottle Bill, which only recycles a certain type of bottles and containers. Revisions to the campaign aim to allow recycling of other types of bottles to promote a greater environmentally friendly impact.

Fortunately, the Bottle Bill Campaign has attained well over 100,000 petition signatures, which means this issue will show up on the 2014 ballot.

President Zac Broughton briefly discussed an update on the SGA’s efforts towards shared governance. The SGA and the Graduate Student Senate are currently in discussion with the Chancellor in an effort to promote shared governance at the University.

A number of other issues were discussed briefly.

The Secretary of Registry noted an update on the construction of the Blue Wall and Burgers 101, which is intended to take place entirely during the spring semester. According to the Secretary, this will cause an issue for all registered student organizations that table in the Campus Center.

A Faculty Student Representative also noted the progress made during a meeting discussing General Education requirements.

Currently, the Social and Cultural Diversity curriculum requirement has two required courses. One course must be a Global

Diversity course (GS) while the other must be a United States Diversity course (US). The current differentiation between these two course types is somewhat unclear, and faculty student representatives are looking to improve that.

A Composting Committee has been working towards helping improve the environment atmosphere here at the University. Meetings have begun to work towards making composting more accessible to students on campus.

Continued discussions took place regarding the status of elevator safety at the University. A motion was passed stating that the “Administration direct the Physical Plant to take the necessary steps to ensure that all elevators are properly inspected and have conspicuous postings of their up to date inspection placards.”

A motion was passed allocating an $840 budget request to the UMass Running Club. The budget was requested by this RSO in order to help them cover registration fees for the races they participate in throughout the year.

The club did not receive the same amount of funding they received in previous years, which is why they made this significant request.

Fossil fuel divestment was a major issue that took center stage at Monday’s meeting. Last semester, the Student Senate passed an enactment in which a formal recommendation to the UMass Foundation Investment Committee suggesting they immediately freeze any and all endowment in fossil fuel companies and to divest from direct ownership of commingled funds that include fossil fuel bonds.

The motion to repeal this recommendation, replacing it with a recommendation to the Investment Committee to invest in environmentally friendly companies, bonds and ventures was discussed at Monday’s meeting.

Proponents of repealing

and replacing this motion argued that the current recommendation of divestment is unrealistic because it is too large of a goal.

Instead, proponents of repealing this recommendation argue to take the issue of climate change in smaller steps rather than choosing to divest immediately.

“What we previously recommended is an extreme measure,” Senator Herlitz said. “Instead, investments in environmentally-conscious companies will help resolve this issue in a realistic manner.”

Those that argued against passing this motion emphasized the importance of divestment as a means of helping the environment.

These Senators provided a number of shocking statistics that emphasized the need to start implementing environmentally friendly policies.

Students supporting divestment argued that agreeing to stop all investment in companies contributing to fossil fuels would help in the deteriorating environment status.

The motion passed last year recommending divestment was also adapted in other UMass branches.

Those that argued against the repealing of this motion noted that repealing a motion that was adapted by other schools would reflect poorly on the University.

“It’s a bad idea to take back what we put forth before,” said Broughton, who believes that the motion to repeal the divestment recommendation should not be passed.

Another Senator shared the same logic, saying, “I think it’s a bad precedent if we take back what we put out before and put out something easier.”

After a heated debate, the motion to repeal the recommendation to Investment Committee for divestment failed. Therefore, fossil fuel divestment is still an implemented request by the Student Senate.

Katrina Borofski can be reached at kborofski@umass.edu.

Jackson doctor Conrad Routine weekend Murray released from jail for Amherst police

By Jill Cowan Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Conrad Murray, the doctor convicted in the death of pop star Michael Jackson, was released from Men’s Central Jail at 12:01 a.m. Monday, authorities confirmed.

Upon his release, Murray, who served two years behind bars for the 2011 involuntarymanslaughter conviction, eluded a waiting scrum of TV cameras and die-hard Jackson fans.

The 60-year-old was sentenced to the maximum four-year term for his role in Jackson’s death on June 25, 2009, from an overdose of the anesthetic propofol, which the doctor had administered Under state sentencing rules, Murray was eligible for parole well in advance of the end of his sentences, but he has nonetheless has endured a long ordeal since Jackson’s death, said his attorney Valerie Wass.

“They didn’t release him one minute early,” she said, speaking outside the jail early Monday. “I’m just happy he’s finally out.”

Wass implored members of the media to respect Murray’s privacy as he reacclimates to his life. His first priority was

seeing his family, she said.

She added that she believes Murray will one day practice medicine again.

He has challenged his conviction, and that effort will continue in the state Court of Appeal, Wass said. He is seeking to have the verdict overturned because of insufficient evidence. Wass also appealed to undo the conviction on other grounds.

A Los Angeles jury this month found that concert promoter AEG Live was not liable in Jackson’s death, capping a marathon civil trial that laid bare the troubled singer’s health problems, struggles with drugs and fateful attempt at a comeback tour. The issues in court included who was responsible for hiring Murray and overseeing his treatment of Jackson.

Wass’ claim that Murray has a contingent of “loyal” patients garnered heckling from a cluster of fans who had hoped to give Murray a piece of their minds as he walked free.

Wass turned to face the pop star’s supporters.

“Do you guys mind?” she asked, her voice rising. “This group of fans isn’t respecting (Jackson’s) legacy.”

Los Angeles County

Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore, who briefly addressed reporters early Monday, offered few details about Murray’s exit, except to say that he was released to “representatives,” and that such releases are allowed on a “case-bycase” basis to ensure certain inmates’ safety and security.

He would not confirm whether Murray was driven away in a Sheriff’s Department vehicle.

The covert release riled Jackson supporters who said Murray received undue “special treatment.”

Laura Sherwood, 27, said she moved from Phoenix to follow Murray’s trial. She said she had hoped that Murray would show remorse.

“I just want to know why he won’t admit and take responsibility for what he did,” she said.

Julia Thomas said she wanted to tell Murray that “he’s going to be taunted as long as he walks this earth.”

Karlene Taylor, who wore a T-shirt that read “Thriller Killer” in red lettering, jumped in.

“If you go to any corner of the world,” she said, “they know Michael Jackson and Jesus.”

By Mary reines

Lincoln Ave. reported a stolen backpack, wallet and cell phone that went missFriday, Oct. 25 ing at a party.

3:01 p.m. A check was report- 11:58 p.m. Miguel T. Ellis, 20, ed stolen from a car parked of Norton, was found drivby 298 Belchertown Rd. ing on the wrong side of the road at 205 Triangle St. Saturday, Oct. 26 He was arrested on charges of operating under the 1:07 a.m. Paris J. Amado, 23, influence, a marked lanes was arrested on charges of violation and operating to speeding and failing to stop endanger. for police. He was discovered driving between 60 and Sunday Oct. 27 70 mph from the intersection of Triangle Street and East Pleasant Street to 820 1:13 a.m. David Jacob Kahn, 20, of Brookline, was arrestMain Street.

2:13 a.m. A taxi was stopped ed on charges of operating

by Judies Restaurant on 51 under the influence, operaNorth Pleasant St for speed- tion to endanger and negliing and an overload of pas- gence turning after turning sengers. The operator lacked right on red in the left lane a taxi permit and log, and at 318 College Street. Three the vehicle violated safety minors who were also in the and equipment regulations. car each received a sumThe driver received a sum- mons on charges of undermons and was charged with age possession of alcohol. operating an unlicensed taxi. The owner of the taxi company received two cita- Liquor law violation arrests: tions for six separate safety 3 Liquor law summons: 11 violations.

9:06 p.m. A resident at 34 Noise complaints: 15 Hobart Ln. reported a break- Vehicle stops: 29 in and a missing phone and Vehicle crashes: 10 purse. The method of entry remains unknown.

Mary Reines can be reached at 11:07 p.m. Caller at 328 mreines@umass.edu.

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of the very specific things with regards to intelligence-gathering, including matters that deal with heads of state and other governments,” Carney said. “When it comes to the relationship that we have with various allies, this is obviously something that has been of concern, and we are working to address those concerns diplomatically.”

He noted that a European parliamentary delegation now visiting Washington would be discussing the issue with officials from the U.S. intelligence community and the departments of State, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.

The delegation is looking to secure strong protections for communications data as part of a landmark U.S.-European Union trade deal now being negotiated.

Its leader, Elmar Brok, a member of Merkel’s party, said that a failure to secure those protections could threaten the talks.

“We are fighting for the rights of our citizens,” Brok, the chairman of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill, where the delegation discussed the NSA scandal with lawmakers.

At the State Department, spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the administration wasn’t oblivious to the “challenges” the disclosures have created.

U.S. officials, she said, are explaining to angry foreign counterparts the NSA operations and the internal review.

The diplomatic moves, however, appeared to be doing little to patch up the rifts over the disclosures that have sparked a media outcry in Europe.

One meme that went viral on social media was a

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gence activities.”

In the latest revelations, two Spanish newspapers reported that a document leaked by Snowden showed that the NSA collected data - locations and phone numbers - but not the content of 60 million telephone calls made in Spain between December 2012 and early January.

U.S. Ambassador to Spain James Costas was summoned by Spanish officials to discuss the revelations. He later issued a statement in which he acknowledged, “Ultimately, the United States needs to balance the important role that these programs play in protecting our national security and protecting the security of our allies with legitimate privacy concerns.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney sounded a similar theme, telling reporters that a review of U.S. intelligence-gathering operations that Obama ordered this summer is aimed at ensuring that “we are properly accounting for both the security of our citizens and our allies and the privacy concerns shared by Americans and citizens around the world.”

With new technology available for intelligencegathering, he said, the administration recognizes that “there needs to be additional constraints on how we gather and use intelligence.”

“Just because we’ve made these extraordinary technological advances that give us greater capacities, we need to make sure that we’re collecting intelligence in a way that advances our security needs and that we don’t just do it because we can,” he said.

The review “will look at, among other issues, some

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26 men claimed to have been abused

By Mike Dawson Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)

doctored photo showing Obama peeping through a window at Merkel as she tries to cover herself with a bath towel after a shower.

“The disclosures seem to be designed tactically to maximize their impact and the resulting awkwardness for the U.S. government,” said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists.

U.S. officials “are going to have to evaluate how important these programs are to near-term national security and, if they’re essential, then they need to make that argument to

foreign governments: ‘It’s not voyeurism, it’s international security.’“ The Spanish newspaper reports followed a revelation by the French newspaper Le Monde that the NSA collected the data of more than 70 million phone calls made in France between December 2012 and January.

In Italy, digital library host Cryptome reported that the NSA monitored 46 million phone calls in Italy during the same time period.

McClatchy special correspondent Claudia Himmelreich contributed from Berlin.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State has paid $59.7 million in out-of-court settlements to 26 men claiming they were abused by former football coach and convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky, the university reported Monday.

Penn State reviewed claims brought by 32 men, and 23 of those have been signed, the university said.

There remain three settlements in principle and the documentation will be finalized over the next few weeks, the university said.

The other six claims were rejected because they were found to be “without merit,” the university said.

“We hope this is another step forward in the healing process for those hurt by Mr. Sandusky, and another step forward for Penn State,” President Rodney Erickson said in a statement. “We cannot undo what has been done, but we can and must do everything possible to learn from this and ensure it never happens again at Penn State.”

The announcement on Monday was the first and apparently last official word the university has given about the specific details in the Sandusky settlement process, which was authorized in July during the board of trustees meeting.

University officials have said they would only release the amount of the combined settlements once they were finalized, though trustee Ted Brown later said $60 million was the amount approved for all settlements combined.

Penn State said liability insurance policies are expected to cover the settlement amounts and the legal defense against the claims brought against the university, employees and trustees. The university said any expenses that are not covered by the insurance will be paid from interest on loans the university made to other

units on campus.

The terms of the settlements are confidential, and the university said they contain a release of all claims against the university and other parties.

It has not been reported how much the individual claimants received. Lawyers for the claimants have said the settlements contain a non-disclosure agreement forbidding them from releasing how much they were paid.

The nearly $60 million in settlements will be reflected in the university’s audited financial statements for 2013-14. The board of trustees’ audit and risk committee will meet Friday to review 2012-13 audited financial statements, according to a legal notice.

Among the men whose claims have been signed and settled is Victim 2, the young man at the center of a 2001 incident in a campus locker room that ultimately cost head coach Joe Paterno his job. Matt Sandusky, an adopted son of Jerry Sandusky who said his adoptive father molested him, also settled, lawyer Andrew Shubin said.

One of the claimants, Victim 6 from the grand jury presentment against Sandusky, is suing Penn State in federal court. Penn State asked the judge for a stay until criminal prosecutions against three Penn State administrators have been resolved, but the young man’s lawyers are fighting the university’s attempt to put a hold on the case.

A spokeswoman for the legal team representing Victim 6 declined to comment.

The $59.7 million spent on settlements combined with the millions Penn State has paid in legal and consultant fees, plus the first $12 million toward the $60 million NCAA fine, pushes the cost of the Sandusky scandal to $110 million.

When factoring in the remaining $48 million Penn State has to pay as part of the NCAA fine, the cost balloons to $158 million.

Healthcare law still in trouble Montreal police

Eliminating mandate could cause problems

By Tony Pugh McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Extending the Affordable Care Act’s March 31 open enrollment deadline has become a familiar plea from congressional Democrats frustrated with the poor performance of the federal insurance marketplace.

Republicans on Capitol Hill want to go even further and waive the health-care law’s “individual mandate,” which requires most Americans to have coverage in 2014 or face a fine.

While both consumerfriendly fixes make for good politics, neither proposal is as simple or as smart as it sounds, according to experts.

The law’s open enrollment deadline and individual mandate are designed to help entice young, healthy people and those who are older and sicker into purchasing newly mandated coverage. The Obama administration and insurers are counting on that diversity of enrollees to help keep monthly premiums in check for individual plans sold on the state and federal

marketplaces.

But waiving the mandate would be likely to cause premiums to rise because healthy people would avoid coverage, while sicker people would be more likely to take advantage of guaranteed access to coverage, regardless of current or past health problems. The law also bans premium variations based on gender, occupation or medical claims history. and outlaws annual and lifetime benefit spending limits.

Delaying the mandate would also hurt the law’s goal of reducing the number of people without health coverage. The number of uninsured Americans would increase by 11 million in 2014 without the mandate, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.

The 11 million uninsured would include 5 million fewer people who would otherwise receive coverage through Medicaid or the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program, 4 million who would otherwise have jobbased coverage and about 2 million who would otherwise have individual coverage, according to the CBO. Waiving the mandate

The law’s open enrollment deadline and individual mandate are designed to help entice young, healthy people and those who are older and sicker into purchasing newly mandated coverage. would also undermine the work of 16 states that have expanded Medicaid coverage and set up their own marketplaces, said Joel Ario, managing director at Manatt Health Solutions in New York. Those states did so with the understanding that the mandate would be enforced.

“You could imagine what those 16 states would say,” said Ario, who once coordinated development of health insurance exchanges at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ‘We’ve done everything we’re supposed to do. We have the right to move forward. The mandate should function like it’s supposed to. The federal government is obligated to back it up.’ “ Ario said that “either you’re going to undercut states that have done everything they should have under this law, or you put yourself in a position where you pretty much have to stay the course.”

Some say insurers would be in a similar position as the 16 states if the enrollment deadline is altered.

“The defined open enrollment period is critical to prevent people from simply being able to buy coverage on the way to the hospital,” said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance industry trade association.

Health insurers set their 2014 rates and based their plan offerings, in part, on the idea that they could expect a certain number of new enrollees by March 31. Expanding the time limit to purchase coverage could scuttle those estimates.

In addition, Zirkelbach said insurers are already studying rates for 2015 coverage, which will be based in large part on the mix of people who get insurance in 2014. That analysis can’t be done until after the 2014 open enrollment period concludes.

detain man with potential bomb

By Carol J. williaMs Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — A 71-yearold man was being interrogated by Montreal police on Monday after attempting to board a Los Angeles-bound flight with components in his carry-on luggage that could be assembled to make a bomb, Canadian media reported.

Montreal police said all that was missing from the suspicious contents was an explosive compound, which prompted them to order a fresh search of the other Los Angeles-bound passengers to determine if an accomplice was carrying the last key element, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper reported.

The discovery at 5:45 a.m.

EDT Sunday during routine screening of the man’s hand luggage at Pierre Trudeau International Airport also spurred police to cordon off the detained man’s duplex in a western Montreal suburb on Sunday night. About 20 residents of the La Salle suburb were evacuated during the search, which turned up some documents but “nothing obvi-

ous,” police said, according to the Toronto Star.

Authorities also deployed a SWAT team and an explosivesdetecting robot to the U.S. departure area of the airport, Canadian media reported.

At least 16 U.S.-bound flights were delayed several hours.

CBC News reported from the airport that the suspect taken into custody, who has not been identified, is someone “known to police.”

Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreniere declined to disclose details about the items in the man’s suitcase but said everything necessary to make a bomb except for an explosive compound was in his possession, the Globe and Mail reported.

“It was concealed. Once you put it together, it could be used to make a bomb,” the newspaper quoted Lafreniere as saying. “We’re not crazy.

If you have an alarm clock in your luggage, we assume that’s normal. But if you hide it in your bag and, I can’t tell you all he had, but no one would travel that way.”

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Recent astroturfing scandal In baseball, umpires’ implicates tech giants abilities trump technology BlackBerry Limited has seemingly joined the long list of businesses caught red-handed in the act of

Johnny McCabe distributing fake reviews of its own products, if last week’s launch of the BlackBerry Messenger app on the Google Play store was any indication.

The ailing tech company, once an industry giant, seemed to finally be on the upswing with the release of the BBM app on multiple platforms, especially after some disappointing sales on its last few phone models.

As the app skyrocketed through millions of downloads in the first day, thousands upon thousands of reviews were published on Google Play containing nearly identical or exact same text: “Thank you so much blackberry team. I was waiting this app.

It’s really great, user friendly and smooth.”

Though the story is still developing and BlackBerry denies any involvement in the supposed scam, the end result is clear: their reputation has taken an unaffordable nosedive and they join the black list of name brands that have been tied to the recent phenomenon known as “astroturfing.”

BlackBerry’s own situation, ruinous though it may be for the floundering company, is far from the worst or most blatant exhibition of astroturfing, which, in the tech world, can best be described as the practice of either soliciting a third party to post misleadingly positive commentary about one’s own products to forums or the websites of digital distributors such as Apple and Google, or to bash and criticize a competitor’s product using the same methods across the same mediums.

One of the most frequently insinuated is tech jugger naut Samsung,

which has thus far successfully dodged flak in the United States surrounding alleged astroturfing against its largest rival, Apple. Just last week, however, Samsung’s Taiwanese branch accepted a $340,000 fine after getting caught paying individuals to bash HTC phones on a Taiwanese forum While Samsung is massive enough to take a hit of that magnitude on the chin without even flinching, companies like BlackBerry need every bit of notoriety it can get, and getting caught astroturfing doesn’t help. Not only does it erode consumer confidence in the product or company, it undermines the validity of any real, positive criticism, and in certain cases such as Samsung’s defamation of HTC, astroturfing casts

ed in 19 businesses specializing in “reputation management” paying over $350,000 in fines and penalties. The businesses in question had been found to have used “advanced IP spoofing techniques to hide their identities,” and posted numerous fake reviews extolling the values and wonders of prospective clients, sometimes numbering in the hundreds.

This practice, evident by the perpetrator’s care in masking their IP addresses, is flagrantly illegal in both the text and spirit of consumer protection laws and is almost unilaterally despised by both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and entities like Apple and Yelp.

As is the case with BlackBerry, the Yelp scandal has resulted in nothing but humiliation for everyone involved.

The names of the 19 perpetrators appear on the Attorney General’s official website, a digital scarlet letter earmarking the embarrassment of having to pay for good PR. The BBM allegations have only confirmed BlackBerry’s irrelevance in a society of iPhones and Androids and add yet another nail to the small, sad coffin of the once illustrious company.

Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s report cites that “by 2014, between 10 percent and 15 percent of social media reviews will be fake.” Despite its overwhelmingly negative consequences, astroturfing is being used with even more frequency as time goes on.

If business owners and corporations don’t make an effort to clean up their act and advertise more truthfully and equitably, soon it won’t be a question of which side of the grass is greener, but which side isn’t fake.

… The corrupting tendrils of astroturfing stretch far beyond household names like BlackBerry and Samsung, and blur the lines between harmless goofy salesmanship and genuine preconceived deceit

the competitor as the victim, producing a contrasting effect adverse to the original goal of making a competitor look bad. Plus, as in the case of the copypasted BBM app reviews, which have spawned a number of derivations to quite a humorous extent, it just looks plain silly.

Internet shenanigans aside, the corrupting tendrils of astroturfing stretch far beyond household names like BlackBerry and Samsung, and blur the lines between harmless goofy salesmanship and genuine preconceived deceit. Just last month, the consumer review site Yelp was the target of an extensive sting by the New York Attorney General’s office, appro- Johnny McCabe is a Collegian columpriately titled “Operation nist and can be reached at ejmccabe@ Clean Turf,” which result- umass.edu.

As many of you may know our beloved Red Sox have made it to the World Series yet again. During

Dennis Topakov the third game of the series at Busch Stadium, home of the opposing St. Louis Cardinals, Boston third baseman Will Middlebrooks found himself in the middle, pun intended, of a controversial call.

He fell to the ground diving for a baseball while the runner on third base was attempting to advance on the hit for the game-winning run.

Middlebrooks did not get up, resulting in the runner tripping over his body. The umpire, Jim Joyce, ruled Cardinals baserunner Allen Craig safe, calling Middlebrooks for “obstruction.”

Such a call had never been made in a World Series, let alone ended a game. This left the public questioning whether the right call had been made and whether or not Jim Joyce was in the correct positioning to make such a call in the first place. Such an argument yields the questions of whether or not managers should have the chance to challenge calls

within the game, similar to the NFL, or whether all calls should just be made with a computer in order the attain the correct outcome.

Adding technology into the baseball world, which has survived so many years on pure individual judgment, is very tricky. If we cross the line into adding technology now, then when will we draw the line to stop? One can argue that just like in the job market, as workers lost jobs due to technological advances in factories, umpires will

throughout games. It is a routine for me to familiarize myself with each umpire and their nuances when it comes to calls on the base paths, strictness and strike zone. I relish in the fact that our game can potentially vary based on my relationship with said umpires. However, if machines are brought in to judge and review every play, this humane aspect of a “relationship” gets thrown out of the window.

We are left expecting the perfect outcome which, I believe, makes us spoiled.

The game of baseball is not only a national pastime, but it is also a unique game in that everything is totally controlled by the judgment of people. Those same people should be allowed to make occasional mistakes. After all, the game itself is built upon failure. On average, a great hitter only succeeds a third of the time. Therefore I believe instant replay and technology should be left out of baseball. As fans we need to accept it and enjoy the game for its purity and human aspects of failure and risk.

Jim Joyce may have made a controversial call, but right or wrong, it is the players’ jobs to put their heads down and live with the outcome.

lose jobs to instant replay and the implementation of other new technology.

Jim Joyce may have made a controversial call, but, right or wrong, it is the players’ jobs to put their heads down and live with the outcome. Instead various MLB managers and players cry and whine to the media about how the umpires made a bad call.

Being a catcher on the Dennis Topakov is a Collegian club baseball team, I deal columnist and can be reached at with umpires very closely dtopakov@umass.edu.

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“Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are useless.” - Ron Swanson from “Parks and Rec”

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By Ryan Kaplan Collegian Correspondent NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” is going on hiatus as the hit show continues consistently suffers from low ratings.

Now in its sixth season, “Parks and Rec” has been halted until 2014, except for a few new episodes in November. Reports suggest that NBC wants to push its new comedy “Sean Saves the World,” starring Sean Hayes of “Will & Grace” fame, in the Thursday night time slot. It’s easy to blame this on television viewership being down on the whole due to people preferring streaming their shows on their computers, and it’d make sense that a show that runs for six seasons is bound to lose steam.

But “Parks and Recreation” is an anomaly; even though it has never had fantastic ratings, it has always been highly-lauded by critics. The show has earned multiple Emmy nominations, as has Amy Poehler for her performance as protagonist Leslie Knope. The show finally won the TCA (Television Critics Association) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy in 2013 after being nominated for four consecutive years prior. It was named Time’s No. 1 show of 2012. It has achieved a cult status among fans of the show. So why do its ratings continue to dwindle?

“Parks and Rec” is intrinsically set up to fail because it is inaccessible.

It is difficult to get into the show without watching it from the very beginning. This makes it great to binge watch on Netflix, but nearly impossible to jump into when a new viewer catches it on television.

“Parks and Rec” is a surprisingly sub-plot driven show; every character has personal, long term stories and relationships.

It’s impossible to

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Amy Poehler stars as parks department employee Leslie Knope. truly appreciate Tom Haverford’s ultimate success with Rent-A-Swag, for example, if you never saw him continually fail in all his previous business endeavors. You won’t feel the overwhelming joy at Ben and Leslie’s marriage unless you’ve witnessed her horrendous dating track record and watched their tumultuous relationship come to fruition. You can’t fully comprehend Ron Swanson becoming a father unless you’ve seen his hard exterior turn soft and gushy for his girlfriend’s kids.

Furthermore, the show has an incredible amount of running gags that span the entire show’s entire run. The importance (and hilarity) of Ron wearing a red shirt, Ben freaking out on live TV, or Galentine’s Day will be lost on viewers who are not devout followers of the series. This problem extends to recurring characters like Tom’s business partner Jean-Ralphio, local news reporter Shauna Malwae-Tweep and news anchor Perd Hapley.

The humor in ‘Parks and Recreation’ is another difficult point of entry for casual comedy fans. It’s all character driven and the characters are extremely offbeat and quirky. Aubrey

Plaza’s April Ludgate’s evil awkwardness can be off-putting, and people may find Chris Traeger’s relentless positivity annoying. The irony of a hardcore libertarian like Ron Swanson working in government can be missed by less politically-inclined viewers.

“Parks and Rec” completely deviates from common sitcom character tropes; the cool one (Jesse Katsopolis, Charlie Harper, Shawn Hunter, Barney Stinson), the funny one (Joey Gladstone, Jack McFarland, Screech, Eric Matthews), the relatable, every-man (Ted Mosby, Ray Barone, Cory Matthews, Leonard Hofstadter) are nowhere to be found. These characters work on other shows because they are familiar to mainstream television audiences and they are easy to understand. They tell the same, tired jokes and rely on canned laugh tracks. Meanwhile, “Parks and Rec” deals with real issues of local government, Leslie’s ongoing conflict with Jon Glaser’s Councilman Jamm, a bribe-accepting flip-flopper, is a direct parody of what is going on right now on the federal level. The constant social commen-

tary adds layers of indirect humor which are not always addressed in modern TV comedies.

“Parks and Recreation” is suffering from the same issues as its spiritual predecessor, “Arrested Development.” Its complex characters and weird sense of humor aren’t as marketable as a generic sitcom and its cultish fan base are not the type of people to sit down and watch TV the oldfashioned way. The modern TV viewer seems content streaming their shows in bulk online. It’s this type of TV viewer that is watching critically acclaimed shows like “Parks and Rec.” It is for this reason that fans are not actually watching it on TV. As a result, the show is being pushed aside to accommodate another trite “out-of-touch dad” sitcom. It’s a vicious cycle, one Netflix has begun to break by creating their own shows and reviving “Arrested Development.”

Unfortunately, fans of “Parks and Rec” have to understand that the show was set up to fail from the get-go. It’s a surprise and a blessing that the show has even made it to six seasons. Count your blessings, Pawneeans.

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

as the host of the show for lead writer Michael J. Nelson.

Nelson’s character took over until the show’s final episode, but Hodgson was never forgotten by fans.

In December of 2007, Hodgson, Beaulieu, Weinstein and other faces from the MST3K gang, such as Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl, took to talking to the screen again as they began touring with their new project, Cinematic Titanic. This new show follows the same structure as MST3K, but takes place in front of a live audience instead of being limited to a television screen.

The characters, who this time around essentially play themselves, are forced to watch terrible movies by a shady and controlling organization.

Instead of sitting in front of the movie, the performers now line up around the screen and relentlessly pick at the flaws of laughably cheesy films.

The Cinematic Titanic group has been touring over five years now. Earlier this year, the group announced in an email to its mailing list that this will be the team’s last year performing. The email, signed by “The CT Crew,” stated, “We feel that with any project there is a time to move on and as five people living in five different cities with different lives and projects, it has become increasingly difficult to coordinate our schedules.”

The team added that, “The last five plus years have been an amazing opportunity for us all to reconnect creatively with one another and to connect with the fans of MST3K and new fans of Cinematic Titanic… We will be performing as many dates as is feasible this year and we hope you’ll come and see us one last time.”

So, as Hodgson’s latest cult favorite comes to an indefinite close, now may be the last chance to see him and the gang all together for one last hurrah. According to the Cinematic Titanic website, the group will be riffing on the 1976 sci-fi film “The Astral Factor.” Tickets are being song for $25 or $35.

In the not too distant future, a man and his buddies confront the big screen once again.

This Saturday, Joel Hodgson and the original cast of the cult television show “Mystery Science Theater 3000” will stop in Northampton for the latest tour of their project, Cinematic Titanic. “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” known to fans as MST3K, began as a show in 1988 on the KTMA network, which served the Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn,. area. Later that year, the show was pitched to Comedy Central and became one of the first two programs that the network picked up.

MST3K was a featurelength movie riffing television show that went through many different phases in its long history. The original crew consisted of Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein. The overarching plot of the program followed the story of Joel Robinson, played by Hodgson, and his self-made robot companions as they spend their endless days trapped on The Satellite of Love, forced to watch the worst movies known to mankind.

The premise of the show is that the character Joel was sent into space because his evil bosses Dr. Clayton Forrester (Beaulieu) and Dr. Larry Erhardt (Weinstein) didn’t like him very much.

Because of this, they decided to try an experiment to see how many bad movies it takes to turn a man insane. Joel creates wisecracking robot buddies Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, voiced by Beaulieu and Weinstein, respectively, along with several other creations, to maintain his sanity on this never-ending endeavor.

Tom, Crow and Joel sat and watched one full-length movie per episode, mocking it in realtime, as their silhouetted figures sat aligned towards the bottom right of the screen. In Tommy Verdone can be reached at 1993, Hodgson stepped down tverdone@umass.edu.

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‘American Horror Story’ an ever-changing adventure

A uniquely varied take on horror By elise maRToRano Collegian Staff

Popular FX television series “American Horror Story” has returned to the air for its third season just in time for Halloween. This season, entitled “Coven,” focuses on a boarding school for young witches with different powers and abilities in modern day New Orleans.

The series shows no signs of slowing; as of a few weeks ago, “Coven” boasted the biggest premier viewership ever.

In case you’re not familiar with the structure of the show, here’s an overview: every season introduces a new storyline. The cast remains mostly consistent, but the characters that they portray change from season to season. “American Horror Story” staples include Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy and the formidable and indispensable Jessica Lange. Other

actors that have graced show include Zachary Quinto, Dylan McDermott, Taissa Farmiga, Jamie Brewer and Denis O’Hare.

This season, the show inducts Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Emma Roberts and Gabourey Sidibe into the powerful and talented cast.

The strategy of writing a semi-long-form narrative while keeping the main players consistent is a fantastic way to keep and increase viewership. Viewers who loved the first season will continue to watch for the high production value and fantastic acting. Viewers who didn’t find themselves completely onboard for the story in the first or second go-round may return for new seasons in hopes of a fresh start. And new viewers can tune in at any point without any prior knowledge of the show.

The first season, subtitled “Murder House,” was a dark and daring introduction to the show. Watchable on Netflix, the first season followed the story of the Harmon family,

who had recently moved into a spooky, obviously haunted, house. The story, which might sound formulaic, kept itself fresh by introducing intriguing characters.

Frances Conroy and Alexandra Breckenridge alternately portray Moira O’Hara, the house’s resident maid, who is mysteriously able to switch between matronly house-cleaner and sexy temptress. Tate Langdon (Evan Peters) is a troubled youth who may or may not have committed homicide and is accompanied his mother Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange). Constance seems fiercely protective, almost aggressively so, of the Harmon house. This highly stylized introductory season gained quick viewer loyalty with its show-stopping acting, infuriating sense of mystery and unique content.

The second season, subtitled “Asylum,” stepped the show up a notch. Following the story of the creepy and abusive Briarcliff Mental Institution of the mid-1960s, run by Sister Jude (Jessica

Lange) and Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell) and overlooked by Monsignor Howard (Joseph Fiennes), this season is gorier, more disturbing and more than the first. In this season, characters fight for survival and the preservation of their humanity. By introducing story lines that feature characters fighting desperately to rise above their circumstances, “Asylum” grabs viewers by the shoulders and doesn’t let them go until the final shot of the finale.

Season 3, which premiered on Oct. 9, promises to be controversial with such characters as the coke-addled “supreme witch,” Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange), and a resurrected slave owner played by Kathy Bates.

The trouble with the season-to-season structure of “American Horror Story” is that viewers often get attached to the characters and story of one season, and are not ready to move on to the next. Each season must therefore fight to win the alliance of its watchers, meaning

that the showrunners must make sharp distinctions between characters played by the same actors.

This is where “Coven” must prove itself. Jessica Lange in particular, who plays the imposing, morally-ambiguous and tough-loving “head bitch in charge” in every season, seems to be struggling to differentiate Fiona Goode from her previous roles as Constance Langdon and Sister Jude. Sarah Paulson, who hit her stride in Season 2 in her intense and demanding role as Lana Winters, a reporter unfairly incarcerated in Briarcliff, will also need to prove her versatility as she takes on another lead as the headmistress in Season 3.

Although “Coven” will need to prove itself a completely separate and original entity from its forerunning seasons, there are many not-so-hidden gems that promise to vitalize the story.

Jamie Brewer, whose stint in “Murder House” was regrettably short-lived, returns to play a mysterious and heretofore quiet role. However, his

character is one that has been promised indefinite power as the show develops.

This season will also explore hard-hitting distinctions between good, evil and revenge. Already in “Coven,” we have seen victims of sexual violence murder their rapists and slaves torture their owners. Although “American Horror Story” has always sported themes of comeuppance, this season will truly delve into the relationship between oppressors and oppressed in more detail.

“American Horror Story” is coming into its own. Fully establishing the show as a diverse and woman-heavy series, it has truly embraced the theme that it hinted at in the first season, gave shape to in the second and will actualize in the third: smashing the patriarchy. If “Coven” can distinguish itself from “Murder House” and “Asylum,” it will be a powerhouse of drama, entertainment and, of course, horror.

Elise Martorano can be reached at emartora@umass.edu.

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KRISCENSKI Heading into her freshman season, Kriscenki’s impressive play through the summer and portions of the preseason camp caught the eyes of Matz and her teammates.

Senior defender and cocaptain Lauren Skesavage thought Kriscenski “really stood out” in practice her first year when she was competing for the starting goalie job with seniors Emily Cota and Stephanie Gordon.

Unfortunately for Kriscenski, a wrist injury kept her out of some valuable preseason action.

Feeling that she had suffered too deep of a setback with her time missed, Matz decided to redshirt Kriscenski, officially making her ineligible for the 2012 season.

What looked to be a promising beginning to her career turned into a disappointing, yet educational year for Kriscenski.

“It was tough, she had never sat on the bench, ever,” Dana Kriscenski said.

“She was disappointed. But we just told her to learn and pick up what you can.”

Understanding the scenario Kriscenski went through, Matz was impressed with the way she went about her business.

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“It was a tough situation because she’d come to practice every day, and you know you’re not going to play when you redshirt,” he said. “It’s all preparation and mental attitude, and you know you’re not going to be able to travel because of the Division I rule, but I was just impressed in how she handled herself.”

While sitting out an entire season didn’t bode too well for Kriscenski’s competitive nature, the opportunity to practice and notch a year’s worth of experience helped ease the tough transition that rookie collegiate athletes endure.

Off the field, Kriscenski got accustomed to balancing soccer time and school time.

She learned the true meaning of becoming a studentathlete.

In practice, the redshirt freshman had the privilege of watching veterans Cota and Gordon take the field, taking mental notes on their “communication to the defense” and “their strong presence in goal.”

“Looking back at it, her injury wasn’t such a bad thing,” her mother said.

“She got a feel for what was to be expected. She was able to ease into it.”

Becoming a leader In her first eligible year of play this season, Kriscenski came in looking to prove herself. With the two senior goalkeepers graduated, the starting spot and the responsibilities of anchoring a defense fell into her gloves.

“Coming in this year, I knew that I was going to play, I wanted to be strong and show my teammates I was going to be the goalkeeper that I am,” Kriscenski said.

“You have to make decisions for your team, and be a leader and presence on the field.”

Kriscenski has been that strong presence behind the net this season for the Minutewomen, providing a strong last-resort option on a defense that has anchored the team all season long.

Skesavage has noticed the difference in her goalkeeper’s play between this season and last, pointing to confidence as a huge factor in her growth as a player both on and off the field.

“She’s definitely grown and stepped out of her shell this year. She’s playing and has gained all that confidence,” the senior said.

“Whenever our defense gets out of whack or too emotion-

ally involved in a game, she’s there to calm us down, and get us back into position. I love having her behind me” Matz also recognized the gradual steps that his young defensive leader is making towards becoming an overall team-player.

“I think she’s becoming, in small increments, more of a leader, and that’s difficult for a freshman, but that’s something that a goalkeeper has to do,” the fourth-year coach said.

“One thing that impresses me is her ability to be comfortable in speaking with all of her teammates, and hanging out with all of them,” Matz added. “Whether it’s a freshman, sophomore, junior, or whatever, she’s just comfortable with being part of the team in any aspect, which is great.”

The Minutewomen went through a tough transition period this year after losing their top offensive player from a season ago in Moa Mattson, while trying to incorporate 14 new young faces into a system that expects strong results year in and year out.

Kriscenski’s leadership role on the defensive end will only become greater when Skesavage hangs up

(10 starts) entering the game, was Matt Holliday’s homer in the fourth that tied the score at 1.

Now the Cardinals, who will throw rookie phenom Michael Wacha in Game 6 against Boston’s John Lackey, will have to win two at Fenway.

“I think it starts with a mentality that it’s a great challenge,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to

go in and prove the kind of team we are as far as how tough we are mentally, and I think that’s where it begins.

After that, it comes down to execution. We’ve got to have Michael come out and throw a big game.”

Lester retired 12 straight after Holliday’s homer before David Freese broke the streak with a one-out double in the eighth. After Pete Kozma flied out to left, Matheny sent up Matt Adams to pinch hit.

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Despite being just a redshirt freshman, Kriscenski is excelling as a leader. her cleats at the end of the season, handing over the reins of a fairly young roster to the redshirt freshman.

However, Kriscenski isn’t afraid of that responsibility.

In fact, she embraces it.

“With Lauren (Skesavage) leaving, that will be a big spot that were missing,” she said. “I think that I need to become more of that leader on the field, and I will definitely be able to deal with that weight.”

Having already won the Atlantic-10 Rookie of the Week honors back in September, Kriscenski has team goals that would define

a season far greater than any individual accolade could. She wants to win the A-10 Championship, a feat UMass hasn’t accomplished since 1997.

“That’s my biggest goal coming here,” Kriscenski said.

Her biggest goal 19 years ago was to stop her older sister from scoring.

While those goals have changed over time, one main objective remains the same: not letting any of them get behind her.

Joey Saade can be reached at jsaade@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @JSaade1225.

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third straight game at first base with no designated hitter in the NL park, entered the game 8-for-11 in the World Series. He then improved upon that, going 3-for-4 to lift his average to .733 (11-for-15).

He has a .750 on-base percentage.

“What planet is that guy from?” Ross said admiringly, later adding: “That’s why we call him Cooperstown.”

Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright, who allowed

SHOOTOUT “I was just kind of in the moment, not really paying attention to how many had been scored. So I had lost my stick in the shuffle with the goalie and looked up and all my teammates were running at me, so that was awesome, really exciting.”

UMass coach Carla Tagliente spoke highly of Carlino’s performance in net during the shootout as well.

“Sam did really great,” she said. “The shootout, it really suits her. She’s fast, she breaks down her feet

three runs and eight hits with 10 strikeouts in seven innings and dropped to 0-2 in the Series, couldn’t do much to stop Ortiz, either.

Ortiz followed Dustin Pedroia’s one-out double in the first with one of his own to make it 1-0. Ross’ RBI double off Wainwright in the seventh snapped a 1-1 tie and Jacoby Ellsbury’s single made it 3-1.

The only blemish for Lester, 5-4 with a 2.22 ERA in 12 postseason appearances

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well and she moves and she closes space. I thought she did really great.”

Kelly Quinn took the Spiders’ first attempt against Carlino in the shootout. Quinn finished what appeared to be a goal, but the play was called back because the ball bounced off Quinn’s foot before she took the shot.

“I knew it hit her foot, so if the refs didn’t give me that, I probably would’ve freaked out,” Carlino said.

Carlino proceeded to stop Samantha Ostoich’s attempt

before allowing a goal to Chelsea Davies. On her final attempt, Carlino shut downLindsay Stevens, setting the stage for Prince’s game winner. The sophomore goalkeeper said she didn’t feeling any added pressure taking on her opponents in a shootout.

“I live for this, so it’s not really any pressure,” Carlino said. “I just go and play.”

Jesse Mayfield-Sheehan can be reached at jmayfiel@umass.edu and can be followed on Twitter @jgms88.

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Koji Uehara and Mike Napoli celebrate after Monday’s 3-1 victory.

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the game to round out the scoring for UMass.

The Minutemen were faster and more physical throughout the night, and it showed as they won puck battles and were the more active team in the corners. The defense smothered the Keene State attack with an aggressive forecheck that saw forwards attacking defensemen far up the ice.

This disrupted the Owls breakout, as they were rarely clean out of their own zone.

UMass also killed 6-of7 penalties, an area of progress the team continues to work on each week.

“A couple of weeks ago our penalty kill fell apart, so for the last couple of games we’ve been concentrating on that,” Magarian said. He also cited communication, discipline, and on-ice positioning as reasons for the shorthanded success.

The PK unit even pitched in offensively after a spectacular indi-

vidual effort from defenseman Brian Collins setup Stone point blank for a shorthanded goal.

The victory capped off an undefeated weekend for the Minutemen, as they took to the road Friday night and beat Bryant University by a score of 2-1. Drew McLeman was the winning goaltender in the low-scoring affair as he improved his season record to 3-1.

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

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WORLD SERIES

Lester spins gem, Sox take 3-2 series lead down to what could be their last game.

Newsday Turning in a brilliant 7 2/3 innings for the second time ST. LOUIS – Jon Lester was in this World Series, Lester stumped. brought the Red Sox to the “I don’t know what it is,” brink of their third he said Sunday title in 10 seasons when asked to Red Sox 3 with a 3-1 victory explain his success over the Cardinals in the postseason.

Cardinals 1 in front of a frus“I like this stage. I trated crowd of like knowing that 47,436 at Busch I’ve got to go out there and Stadium. give everything I’ve got for my The Red Sox lead the series teammates because tomorrow 3-2, with Game 6 scheduled for might be our last game.”

Wednesday night at Fenway On Monday night, Lester Park, where they haven’t made sure the Cardinals are clinched a championship

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since 1918. “It’s a pretty special time,” Lester said of possibly clinching at Fenway.

Said Boston manager John Farrell: “The fact is we’re going home. Going back to a place that our guys love to play in, in front of our fans. We’re excited about going home in the position we are.”

In two World Series starts this year, Lester has allowed one run, nine hits and one walk in 151/3 innings, striking out 15. He allowed one run, four hits and no walks Monday night, striking out seven. Lester is 4-1 with a 1.56 ERA in five starts this postsea-

son, including 7 2/3 shutout innings in Game 1.

Catcher David Ross, who snapped a 1-1 tie with a oneout RBI double off Adam Wainwright in the seventh inning, said he knew in the bullpen before the game that Lester “had a chance to do something special tonight,” mentioning the pitcher’s cutter in particular.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

BORN READY

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Jon Lester allowed just one run over 7 2/3 innings to earn the victory.

FIELD HOCKEY

UMass shines in first ever shootout Prince’s goal puts away Richmond

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Danielle Kriscenski (1) makes a save against the University of Rhode Island. Kriscenski has started all 17 games in her first season as UMass goalkeeper.

Kriscenski evolves as a leader, keeper

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t 10 months old, most people don’t know what they want to do growing up.

Apparently, Danielle Kriscenski did.

Posted up in the middle of a soccer net as her sister, Heather, shot at her, the Bristol, Conn., native got her first taste of action as a goalie as soon as she learned to walk.

Nineteen years later, Kriscenski finds herself in that same position: in between two goal posts.

This time around, she’s not just a toddler acting as an obstacle at the expense of her older sister. Instead, she’s the starting goalkeeper of the Massachusetts women’s soccer team.

Early start Despite getting some extra reps at 10 months old, Kriscenski got her real start as a 4-year-old playing recreational soccer. As she grew older, not only did the love for the sport grow, but so did her talent.

“I always wanted to be around a soccer ball,” Kriscenski said. “I’ve been playing soccer since I could walk, and it just stuck with me.”

Her parents, Rick and Dana, decided to place their daughter in a premier club

soccer league when she entered the sixth grade.

Up to that point in her soccer career, she had always played the field positions, never specifically focusing on her time behind the net.

That changed, however, when Kriscenski played for Tony Pacheco’s team.

Pacheco – a former semiprofessional soccer player and current assistant coach of the Women’s Pro-Am Ottawa Fury – came up to Dana and Rick one day with a message that changed the way their 11-year-old would approach the game.

“He said to us, ‘Danielle has a natural talent, she really needs to get into goalkeeping’,” Dana Kriscenski said. “When he said that, it was like, ‘oh, okay.’ You have a world cup coach telling us we need to put her into her natural ability.”

Danielle Kriscenski, who began to develop asthma at the time, wasn’t opposed to the idea either.

“I started to realize it was my position to play,” she said. “I love playing goal. You are the last person (on defense) and you have to know that you’re good enough to play.”

Her success on both sides of the field – in goal and out – continued to impress her club team coaches. Heading into high school, it wasn’t a secret that Kriscenski had the potential to take her tal-

After two regulation periods and two overtime periods, the score between the No. 12 Massachusetts field hockey team and Richmond was still tied at 1-1 on Friday. The teams had to settle the contest with a shootout, the first one for the Minutewomen since a change in format.

Up until this season, if a game wasn’t settled after two overtimes, the teams would settle it with what was known as a stroke-off, where the ball would be set at a point seven yards from the net where the players would simply set up and shoot.

This year, the NCAA switched the format, placing the ball at a point 25 yards away from the net and allowing the players eight seconds to dribble the ball up and put it past the goalkeeper.

In its first shootout under

the new format, UMass stepped up and scored on three out of four offensive attempts, while goalkeeper Sam Carlino stopped three out of the Spiders’ four attempts to earn the win.

“It’s still pretty new for a lot of people. I don’t think there’s been that many in the NCAA this year,” senior co-captain Hannah Prince said. “It’s definitely a learning experience for every team that’s had to do one this year, but I think we’ve got some very talented players, like (Charlotte Verelst) and (Alexa Sikalis) both scored theirs, so it was really good to see us be able to execute those.”

After Verelst and Sikalis converted on their attempts, Izzie Delario failed to score on hers. But Prince delivered the winning goal for the Minutewomen on the team’s final attempt, shooting the ball past diving Richmond goalkeeper Anna Zarkoski.

“When it came to my turn, I actually wasn’t sure if mine was going to be the deciding one,” Prince said. see

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CLUB HOCKEY

UM crushes Keene State Offensive attack guides Minutemen B y r oss G iEniEczko Collegian Staff

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Danielle Kriscenski learned to play soccer at a young age. ents even further.

Her club coaches knew it, and before her freshman soccer season started, her father was assured of it.

“I asked her if she wanted to be a Division I soccer player in college, and she said ‘yeah that’s what I want to be’,” he said. “That’s the point when I knew she was going to dedicate herself to becoming the best goalkeeper she could be, and she has.”

First-year setback UMass coach Ed Matz

saw “a lot of potential” in Kriscenski when first recruiting the 5-foot, 9-inch goalkeeper.

The athleticism, size and versatility she possessed after playing field positions the majority of her pre-college career all added up to a player Matz believed would fit right in with his team’s style of play.

“We knew she would be very good with her feet,” he said. “With all the skills she has, we knew she could succeed at this level.” see

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The Massachusetts men’s club hockey team won in dominating fashion Saturday night at Mullins Center with a 7-2 rout of Kent State.

The Minutemen (5-4) controlled the pace of play from the puck drop to the final buzzer. Freshman defenseman Brett Mason led the way with two goals and an assist, but it was an overall team effort that led UMass to the dominating win, according to coach Jamie Magarian.

“We’re trying to run four forward lines as evenly as we can.” Magarian said. “Throughout the game, people started coming around and we got everybody contributing, which was positive for the team.”

Goaltender Luke Lepine

was a spectator for much of the night, but made some timely saves to keep momentum going as he picked up his second win of the year.

The Minutemen came out firing and spent the first period camped out in the Keene State zone.

Freshman forward Casey Litwack opened the scoring 10 minutes, four seconds into the first period off a feed from Mason.

Just 2:33 later, it was Litwack feeding Mason as UMass took a 2-0 lead.

In the second period, goals by Mark Filder, Harris Stone and Scott Campbell increased the Minutemen’s lead to 5-0 and chased Keene State starting goaltender Dylan Strogen from the game.

Michael Defazio opened the scoring in the third, using a tic-tac breakout play to put him in front of the net all alone. Later in the period, Mason added his second goal of see

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