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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.