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Hadley begins solar project Part of an effort to reduce energy costs

By Marleigh Felsenstein Collegian Correspondent

In an effort to reduce the high cost of energy in Hadley, the town is beginning a solar development project to generate electricity that is expected to benefit taxpayers for the next 20 years.

Through a partnership with Nexamp, an independent solar power producer, the town is installing solar grids, which will help produce electricity and reduce the cost of energy.

According to David Nixon,

Hadley town administrator, the town itself is not putting forth any money for the project.

“Nexamp is raising private dollars for installment,” Nixon said.

To help alleviate the problem of expensive energy in Hadley, Nexamp has created “coupons” to help reduce electric bills. Hadley, with cooperation from Nexamp, can use these coupons for a 21 percent discount on electric bills. This will provide the town with at least $300,000 in savings, which could increase to as much as $600,000 in the future, according to Nixon.

The solar panels, located on Mill Valley Road at Allard

Farm, will begin operating in Jan. 2014. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported that the solar panels will generate up to 3 megawatts of power. “(Hadley is a) small town with big town issues,” Nixon said. Many more people than just its 5,000 residents travel through the town on any given day because of its central location between the Amherst and Northampton commuter route.

Nixon also said that the town has many “energy hogs,” which include a wastewater treatment plant and the two Hadley schools— Hopkins Academy and Hadley Elementary School.

Parts of the University of

Massachusetts campus are also located in Hadley, including the Mullins Center. These places use a lot of energy and water, Nixon said, which is what contributes to the high cost of energy.

The new solar panels are not the town’s only environmentally conscious feature.

Hadley also has anaerobic digesters, which convert organic waste, such as livestock manure, into energy.

Nixon said that cutting back on emissions is important in preventing environmental damage, and added that he would like to see more solar panels on Hadley see

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Construction switches up paths to class Site fence lines won’t be changing

By Katrina BoroFsKi Collegian Staff

For students at the University of Massachusetts this fall, the struggle of trudging to class across the large campus goes beyond the cold temperatures and fierce wind chill, as students also face the inconvenience of major construction sites obstructing many routes to class.

Current construction projects include the Central Campus Infrastructure Project, the New Academic Classroom Building and the Champions Center.

The Central Campus Infrastructure Project began Jan. 2013 and is projected to continue through this month. According to UMass Amherst Design and Construction Management, the project’s purpose is to “improve existing capacity and install new utilities in the area while supporting the planned development of new buildings.”

Construction for the project begins at the Commonwealth Honors Colle ge Residential Complex and extends through the center of campus all the way to the location of the new academic building.

As a result of this construction, the pathway from the W.E.B. Du Bois Library to the Student Union has been narrowed by fences on both sides. For many students, this poses a challenge for travelling across campus, as the project cuts into one of the busiest parts of campus.

Project Manager Jason Venditti said that the project is estimated to end after

November. If the scheduling goes as planned, this means that students will only have to walk through the congested pathway for the remainder of the month.

The New Academic Classroom Building is another construction site located at the center of campus that, despite temporarily blocking pathways across campus, will benefit UMass in the near future. UMass Design and Construction Management reported that the four-story, 173,000-square-foot structure will offer 2,000 seats in more than 60 new rooms.

The building will also include case study rooms and an auditorium.

“Few campuses boast a large pond as their iconic center and this modern new building at its edge will reflect the spirit of sustainability and natural environment that are part of the planning and engineering design,” said UMass Design and Construction Management on its website.

With big hopes for this new facility, there is still much to do. Project Manager Jeff Quackenbush estimated that the project will be completed in spring 2014.

For the time being, however, construction will still interfere the regular flow of traffic on campus. Through November, some of the biggest interruptions will take place on North Pleasant Street, where the construction will shift access for cars. Construction fence lines will remain the same for the remainder of the month.

The Champions Center is one of the other major construction sites on campus, see

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Security questioned on Sperm capacitation HealthCare.gov website researched at UMass Official tries to reassure senators

By tony Pugh McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A top Obama administration official on Tuesday tried to assure anxious senators that Americans’ personal information was secure on the troubled HealthCare.gov web site, which erroneously provided a South Carolina man’s personal information to a man in North Carolina last week.

In testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Medicare Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said she became aware of the mistake on Monday and told the committee a “software fix” had

remedied the problem.

After a bruising round of testimony in the Republicanled House of Representatives last week, Tavenner again faced a pointed, but this time more cordial, line of questioning from the Senate committee chaired by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The more relaxed atmosphere was evident before the proceeding as committee members from both parties warmly greeted the beleaguered Obama administration health care official.

The incident involving the personal information occurred last week when Justin Hadley of North Carolina opened his personal account on HealthCare.gov and saw a letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services addressed to Tom Dougall of Elgin, S.C.

The letter, on department stationary, included information about Dougall’s eligibility for federal subsidies.

According to a blog on the web site of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy think tank in Washington, Hadley used the information to contact Dougall by phone. He left a message, which caught Dougall by surprise.

“Initially I was concerned because I didn’t know if this was some guy who was scamming me or if in fact this was a guy who really had my personal information,” Dougall told the Heritage blog.

Dougall eventually contacted Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., a member of the Senate health committee, who chided Tavenner about see

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Biologists part of international team

Reproductive biologists at the University of Massachusetts are working with an international team to better understand the basic processes of how sperm fertilizes an egg, which may one day lead to a better success rate of in vitro fertilization.

Pablo Visconti, a professor of veterinary and animal sciences at UMass, was the lead author of two recent papers on the subject published in “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” and the “Journal of Biological Chemistry.”

JBS named the study its “Paper of the Week.”

Visconti said in a press

release that a male version of the birth control pill is still some ways off, but knowing how sperm fertilizes an egg and giving scientists the ability to enhance or block the process is a major step forward.

“Our laboratory is mainly interested in the basic science of how sperm acquire fertilizing capacity, but one interesting idea here is that this shortcut offers some translational possibilities for calcium ionophore use in IVF,” said Visconti in the press release. “This shortcut may address many of the difficult situations we encounter in IVF, in many species.”

The release stated that “Sperm are not fertile until they spend time in the specialized environment of the female reproductive tract,

moving through a series of biochemically delicate stages known as capacitation.” Studies conducted over the past 50 years have shown scientists that this “signal transduction cascade” is a multi-stage process, and also that each mammalian species has distinct requirements for prosperity. Species-specific requirements must be discovered on a case-by-case basis, according to the press release.

Visconti and his team at UMass worked with Weill Cornell Medical College, University of Hawaii Medical School, Asahikawa Medical University Japan, Universidad Nacional de Rosario and Facultad de Medicina Argentina and

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Bangladesh sentences former soldiers to death NEW DELHI — In a trial dubbed one of the world’s largest, a special court in Bangladesh handed down the death penalty Tuesday to 152 ex-paramilitary soldiers for the killing of dozens of people during a 2009 mutiny.

“They will be hanged by neck until they are dead,” Judge Mohammed Akhtaruzzaman told those packed into specially constructed court chambers in the capital, Dhaka. “The atrocities were so heinous that even the dead bodies were not given their rights.”

Of the 846 accused of killing 74 people during the February 2009 mutiny, 161 were handed life sentences, over 250 received prison terms of up to 10 years and over 270 were acquitted.

Several of the accused also received fines for looting, trespassing, hiding bodies and unlawful assembly.

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UN: More than 9 million Syrians in dire need BEIRUT — The humanitarian crisis inside Syria is escalating rapidly with more than 9 million people – about 40 percent of the population – in dire need as winter approaches, and agencies find it increasingly difficult to deliver aid inside the warravaged nation, the United Nations warns.

After more than 2 years of brutal conflict, Syria is facing a kind of humanitarian breakdown, aid workers say, with shortages of essential medicines, power, shelter, clean water and even food.

Some have expressed alarm about growing reports of malnutrition in a nation long largely self-sufficient in foodstuffs.

The World Health Organization has confirmed 10 cases of polio among babies and toddlers in eastern Syria. Immunization rates have plummeted since the war began, the organization says.

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Found paintings are works looted

by Nazis LONDON — A massive cache of art discovered in the Munich apartment of an elderly recluse contains hitherto-unknown works by famous artists as well as pieces believed confiscated by the Nazis in their persecution of Jews or their campaign against “degenerate art,” German prosecutors said Tuesday.

Some of the 1,400 items are known masterpieces believed destroyed during World War II; others are new to art historians, such as a self-portrait by painter Otto Dix. The hoard boasts works by giants of the 20th century – Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Max Liebermann – but also some older pieces, including a painting from the 16th century.

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the incident at Tuesday’s hearing. Scott, who called the HealthCare.gov debut “one of the greatest web site disasters in history,” said that Dougall wanted his personal information removed from the site but that HHS staffers could not help him.

“Of course, now (neither) Mr. Dougall nor Mr. Hadley will use the web site to purchase insurance,” Scott said.

He added that when his staff questioned HHS customer service representatives about deleting Mr. Dougall’s information from the web site, “The response was silence,” Scott told Tavenner. “Not a ‘yes.’ Not a ‘no.’ Not a ‘maybe.’ Not ‘Let me check with my supervisor.’ They just simply refused to have an audible word in response to our questioning.”

Scott also said Dougall’s calls to HHS weren’t returned, but Tavenner said her agency has “reached out to Mr. Dougall.”

Julie Bataille, a spokeswoman for HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the problem was caused by a piece of software code that needed to be fixed. She said the fix was made, tested and the

system is working properly.

Bataille said it was the only such incident reported to HHS, but she would not speculate about whether other, similar incidents have occurred.

It was Tavenner, in the weeks before the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment on HealthCare.gov, who decided not to allow web site users to browse and compare health plans without first registering through a personal account. That extra hurdle contributed to the bottleneck of users that helped disable the system shortly after midnight on Oct. 1 as only 2,000 users tried to access the system nationwide.

Problems with the federal marketplace that serves 36 states have continued ever since.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said the problems have created a “crisis of confidence” that could keep millions of people, including young adults, from signing up for coverage.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said only three people in Alaska had been able to sign up for coverage on the federal health care website as of Oct. 29.

But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said

Republican outrage over the flawed web site was disingenuous, since many GOP-led states decided not to set up their own state marketplaces.

“If you didn’t want to take the trouble or bother to set one up yourself, it’s a little nervy to be complaining the federal government didn’t do it for you well enough, when you perfectly well could have by yourself,” Whitehouse told the committee.

A team of government and private industry information technology experts has been working to fix the web site, and the improvements have been noticeable, with speedier page loads and fewer error messages. But congressional Republicans say the safety of Americans’ personal financial information could be at risk because only individual components of the federal exchange have been security tested.

The fully integrated system hasn’t undergone end-to-end testing and, as a result, operates on a shortterm security authorization.

“We knew we were going to be making software enhancements” as repairs continued, Tavenner said.

During the repairs and software upgrades, she said, the site is security tested regularly by an outside contractor and monitored continuously for breaches.

Despite her assurances about the safety of users’ information, not all Senate members were convinced.

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., wasn’t pleased when Tavenner said she didn’t know that an HHS inspector general’s report from June found that Quality Software Services Inc., a key marketplace contractor and the project manager for the HealthCare.gov repair work, didn’t follow proper security measures when testing Medicare records that were unrelated to the web site.

According to the report, Quality Software’s lack of security controls risked “exposure of personally identifiable information for over 6 million Medicare beneficiaries.”

“This information security is extremely important,” Isakson told Tavenner. “I would ask that you follow the IG’s report and make sure QSSI is in compliance. And if they aren’t, (that) they get in compliance.”

Tavenner deflected

criticism from committee Republicans who continued their attacks on President Barack Obama’s promise that people who liked their coverage could keep it. The president’s misleading statement has come under heavy political fire as hundreds of thousands of Americans with individual coverage are being required to get new policies with beefed-up benefits and consumer protections now mandated by the Affordable Care Act. In a meeting Tuesday with CEOs of large health insurers, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough stressed the need to “ramp up communication and education efforts” to these consumers, said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

Tavenner said she opposed a proposed bill that would allow people to keep their current plans if they like. Carney wouldn’t comment about the proposals but said that allowing insurers to continue offering substandard coverage would “undermine the fundamental promise of the Affordable Care Act, which is that everyone in America should have access to affordable quality health coverage.”

Tea party in danger in Va., N.J. Star candidate is headed for a loss

By DaviD Lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The tea party Tuesday appeared poised to retreat to a regional power, its national appeal limited as its star candidate appeared headed for a loss in Virginia while Gov. Chris Christie, a scourge of the movement, seemed headed for a landslide win in New Jersey.

Virginia had loomed as an important swing state test for the grassroots conservatives.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli was a model of what they had eagerly sought, a feisty, unapologetic believer with a sterling resume. Name the issue, and he was leading their crusade: limits on abortion clinics, the first state attorney general to file suit against the hated Affordable Care Act, challenging a researcher over climate change work.

And yet Cuccinelli struggled from start to finish in a race Republicans should have won easily, up against a flawed Democratic candidate in a state with a steady history of voting against the party in the White House,

in this case Democratic President Barack Obama.

Christie, on the other hand, was cruising toward a big victory in New Jersey, a state that gave Obama 58 percent of its votes last year and last month elected Democratic Sen. Cory Booker in a special election race that was never close. Christie was expected to show broad appeal, as polls suggested he would do well Tuesday among independents, women, racial minorities and others who Republicans have had trouble attracting.

Tea party loyalists tend to loathe Christie. He embraced Obama last year after Superstorm Sandy ravaged New Jersey, and he has downplayed his conservative stands on social issues.

Facing a loss in one swing state and never a factor in another, tea party loyalists looked to the Deep South for victory Tuesday, as one of their own - real estate developer Dean Young - battled former state Sen. Bradley Byrne for an Alabama Republican congressional nomination.

In Virginia, the tea party looked to reclaim the state that had been reliably Republican for decades, but which started to embrace Democrats in recent elec-

tions.

Virginia has long had a strong social conservative wing, and the tea party appeared to thrive in certain pockets of the state.

Virginia’s gubernatorial campaigns often preview what’s to come around the country. And its voters often send messages: Until this year, the party in the White House had lost the race nine straight times.

This year’s race unfolded as Obama became vulnerable. First came reports the Internal Revenue Service was targeting conservative groups and news about National Security Agency eavesdropping. The summer brought Obama’s decision, and then indecision, on military action against Syria. The fall featured the botched launch of the Obamacare website.

Cuccinelli had another advantage: Democrat Terry McAuliffe, dogged by controversial business deals, was hardly a favorite in his own party. Still, Cuccinelli was badly outspent and could gain no traction.

The 16-day government shutdown last month, which had a large impact on the state, stole the spotlight from Cuccinelli’s bid to make opposition to the Affordable Care Act a major issue, and incumbent

Gov. Bob McDonnell’s ethical troubles took the oncepopular Republican governor out of the campaign.

More impor tant, Cuccinelli could never shed that tea party label.

The roughly 4-yearold movement has never been able to duplicate its 2010 success, when it was at least partly responsible for electing 87 Republican freshmen to the House of Representatives, enough to give the party a majority it still holds.

Since then, the tea party has stumbled. Its Senate candidates proved too extreme to win general elections in swing states.

Its House bloc, while influential, has been unable to affect real policy change.

Its reputation in so-called blue, or Democratic-leaning states, and swing states, has been toxic, and polls find support for the tea party is weak.

Cuccinelli never inched away from his political roots, insisting to the end that his campaign should be read as a referendum on Obama, big government, cronyism and the health care law.

That fighting-man strategy had worked so well for so long, it was hard for him to stop.

And he knew how to play politics. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, who by Virginia tradition should have been the next in line for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, probably

would have won a primary and would have started a general election race as a solid favorite. But the tea party pushed for a nominating convention, a tactic that favors activists - and Cuccinelli.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who has launched an ambitious effort to change the party’s image in search of votes, spent Tuesday night in New Jersey. Christie was expected not only to win big, but to have good showings in every important demographic group.

In fact, said RutgersEagleton Poll Director David Redlawsk, “Christie’s efforts to court black and Hispanic voters seem to be paying off much better than might have been expected.”

Regardless of the results, don’t look to the tea party to embrace candidates such as Christie in search of victory.

Christie polls in the teens nationally when Republicans are asked their preferences for the 2016 presidential nomination, not an impressive showing in a field where everyone else is more conservative.

And the intraparty split was hardly resolved Tuesday. “There’s going to have to be a knock-down, drag-out fight at some point to settle this,” said Brad Coker, managing director at Mason-Dixon Polling & Research in Florida.

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Change proposed for New pilot training becomes official military investigations rule Change to address Bill would protect victims of assault

By Michael Doyle

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California on Tuesday enlisted in the fight over military sexual assault with a sweeping proposal to change how the military prosecutes all major crimes.

Citing alleged problems in separate rape investigations involving the U.S. Naval Academy and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in Southern California, Boxer introduced a bill that would limit the scope of certain precourt-martial proceedings.

She and her allies, who include some influential conservatives, say the changes will protect accusers from abusive questioning by defense attorneys.

“The current system is a disaster,” Boxer said Tuesday, “and the reason it’s a disaster is because there’s no protection for the victim in that room at all.”

Co-sponsored by 11 other lawmakers, including Sens.

Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John McCain, R-Ariz., Boxer’s bill would exempt accusers from having to testify at what are known as Article 32 hearings, which occur before trial.

The bill also would confine the hearings to determining whether there’s probable cause to charge suspects, and so forestall certain inquiries into the accusers.

“It’s catastrophic for the victims right now,” Boxer said, asserting that “it turns into a rampage against the victim.”

As evidence, she summarized news accounts about an eight-day Article 32 hearing that concerned the alleged rape of a female Naval Academy

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of about 1.5 percent of activeduty members of the U.S. military. The survey asked whether the service member had experienced “unwanted sexual contact,” which could range from “unwanted sexual touching” to intercourse.

The current version of the Senate defense-authorization bill requires that special counsel be assigned to sexual assault accusers and it restricts commanders’ ability to change court-martial results, among other changes.

Still ahead is a highly anticipated vote over an amendment authored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and backed

by Boxer that would remove sexual assault cases from the usual chain of command.

The Pentagon opposes the proposal, as do key lawmakers, including Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who, like Gillibrand, is a member of the Armed Services Committee.

McCaskill and Gillibrand, though, support Boxer’s bill to change Article 32 proceedings.

“Everyone who’s looked at the Article 32 process agreed that it’s unnecessarily harsh for survivors,” McCaskill said.

Military law experts and practitioners have raised cautionary flags about Congress making too many revisions in a complicated system.

“Dramatic changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice ... without careful study (and) consideration of impact, increase the likelihood of unintended consequences,” Brig. Gen. Richard Gross, legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned a Pentagon panel in September.

But one well-known military law expert, Eugene Fidell of Yale Law School, advised the panel that Article 32 proceedings impose “exorbitant” costs on defendants and taxpayers and need “reform,” a hearing transcript shows.

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located just south of the Mullins Center. According to the UMass Design and Construction Management website, “It will be designed to be a compatible and respectful neighbor to the Mullins Center and Student Recreation Center while making the

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midshipman. According to reports, defense attorneys for three former Naval Academy football players aggressively questioned the woman over some 30 hours.

The Article 32 officer issued a 170-plus page report in September in which he recommended against prosecution and reportedly cast doubt on the woman’s credibility.

Nonetheless, the superintendent of the Naval Academy decided to proceed with criminal charges against two of the former football players.

“The political pressure concerning sexual assaults in the military is relentless,” attorney Jason H. Ehrenberg, who represents one of the accused midshipmen, wrote in an Oct. 15 legal brief. “Any senior military official who is required to have Senate approval for advancement, such as the superintendent here ... necessarily finds themselves in a political bind.”

Boxer’s proposal to restrain the Article 32 hearings goes beyond sexual assault to cover any significant case for which a general court-martial could be convened. The military holds several thousand such hearings each year, which sometimes have been likened to a grand jury proceeding.

It’s sexual assault, though, that’s motivating lawmakers to try rewriting military law in some very significant ways and with some potential consequences that may not yet be foreseeable.

As early as next week, the Senate will start considering a $625 billion defense-authorization bill that includes some changes to military law in response to widespread sexual assault allegations.

“The fact is, there are 26,000 sexual assaults a year,” Boxer said.

The commonly cited figure of 26,000 represents an extrapolation from a survey last year

most of its exquisite site and incredible views.”

The construction of the Champions Center has less of an effect on students’ daily lives, because its location on the fields next to the Mullins Center does not serve as a barrier for students travelling on cam-

pus.

The University expects this project to be completed by late summer 2014 and occupation of the facility to begin in fall 2014.

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

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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México to conduct their experiments with mice sperm in vitro.

In the study published in PNAS, the teams “experimented with increasing intracellular calcium,” the release said, adding that, “Calcium is known to play a role late in the sperm capacitation process” involving other proteins and enzymes.

If too much calcium is used, though, it can overwhelm and immobilize the sperm. Visconti said in the press release that they managed to avoid this problem by simply washing the excess away.

Visconti’s co-authors

Hiroyuki Tateno in Japan and Ryuzo Yanagimachi in Hawaii are credited with the idea of washing away the excess calcium ionophore.

“Until they conceived it, no one had thought of this trick. They did the first experiments,” Visconti said in the press release. “Later, our experiments demonstrated that by treating the sperm with calcium ionophore, we were activating these cells far downstream of the normal biological process. When the ionophore is washed away, the sperm retain just the calcium they need. They self-regulate the optimal calcium concentration and are ready to go on.”

According to the release, ionophore-treated sperm fertilized 80 percent of the eggs that developed into normal offspring in the study.

The data shows that “ionophore-treated mouse sperm can fertilize ova” even when a “signaling pathway is inhibited,” the release said.

The Akiyama Science Foundation, the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cientifica y Tecnológica of Argentina, CONACyTMexico, the University of Hawaii Foundation and the U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored the research.

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deadly midair stalls By curtis tate McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Announcing steps to correct what it called “the greatest known risk in pilot training,” the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday finalized a new rule to address the midair stalls thought to have contributed to multiple fatal crashes in recent years.

The change originated from the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo, N.Y., in February 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one person on the ground. National Transportation Safety Board investigators found that the flight crew members weren’t adequately trained to handle the circumstances they found themselves in.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Tuesday that one of his first meetings after he took over as the head of the department this year was with the families of the crash victims, who’ve lobbied for the changes for nearly five years.

“With their help,” Foxx said, “the FAA has now

added improved pilot training to its many other efforts to strengthen aviation safety.”

The rule helps meet a mandate by Congress in a 2010 law reauthorizing the FAA. Congress required the agency to take steps to prevent pilot fatigue, and it raised the qualification standards for first officers, or co-pilots, on passenger and cargo aircraft. The FAA had already issued final rules for those safety improvements.

FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the agency had kept its promise to get the rule done this year.

Some lawmakers have criticized the agency as moving too slowly on the new rule, and the nation’s air carriers will have five years to implement it.

By then, nearly a decade will have passed since the Buffalo crash.

When an Asiana Airlines flight crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport in July after an apparent midair stall, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., called for the FAA to speed up its implementation of the rule.

In a letter co-signed with Rep. Brian Higgins, D-N.Y., Schumer also urged the FAA to press the international governing body on aviation

solar panels residences. The federal and state governments provide incentives, including tax breaks and refunds, to residents who put solar

to adopt similar standards, which would force foreignbased carriers operating in the U.S. to comply.

“While we believe these rules can make the U.S. a world leader in aviation safety in the areas of pilot fatigue, pilot certification and crew member training, we think that international carriers should also be pushed to adopt a more seamless set of standards,” they wrote Huerta in July.

Mary Schiavo, a former Department of Transportation inspector general under President Bill Clinton and an aviation attorney, called the new rule an improvement.

She credited the families of the Buffalo crash victims with “storming the halls of Congress” as they faced airline opposition and bureaucratic red tape.

“They certainly accomplished something others couldn’t,” she said.

The FAA estimates that the new rule, which includes improvements to flight simulation technology, will cost the airline industry as much as $350 million. Schiavo said the loss of one wide-body aircraft would cost an airline $500 million to $1 billion, not counting the potential loss of life.

“The cost of this regulation is cheap,” she said.

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panels on their homes.

With the upcoming changes in Hadley, Nixon said that Massachusetts should continue to rise in

the ranks of solar development.

Marleigh Felsenstein can be reached at mfelsenstein@umass.edu.

Experts analyze menus from 18 fast-food chains New report shows healthy offerings B y K aren K aplan Los Angeles Times

It’s not often that the so-called food cops have kind words for the fastfood industry, but there are a few of them in a new report on the offerings from restaurants such as McDonald’s, KFC and Taco Bell - and how they are marketed to kids.

Analysts from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity - a leading proponent of efforts to remove sugary drinks from schools and impose a tax on sodas, among other initiatives analyzed the menu offerings from 18 fast-food chains. They considered all the possible combinations of main dishes, sides and drinks - for a total of 5,427 possible meals.

Eleven out of 12 of the restaurants with kids’ meals had at least one option for a side dish that the Rudd Center considered “healthy,” such as sliced apples, bananas, fruit cups, applesauce, green beans, corn or salads. In addition, more than three-quarters of the restaurants offered a healthy drink choice, usually unflavored milk, 100 percent juice or bottled water.

The study praised McDonald’s for changing its Happy Meal menu to include only a half-serving of French fries and adding sliced apples. And Subway, Burger King, Taco Bell, Arby’s and Jack in the Box

were commended for having main dish items that didn’t go overboard on calories, saturated fat or sodium.

Fast-food restaurants cut back on commercials aimed at younger children between the ages of 6 and 11, but boosted the number of ads aimed at teens. These ads, however, increasingly featured healthful food items. The Yale team documented a 16 percent decline in the average calories per commercial, along with reductions in sugar and saturated fat.

That’s about where the praise ended. Among the 5,427 possible meals that could be served to children, only 33, or less than 1 percent, met the recommended nutrition guidelines set by the Institute of Medicine.

The top-rated meal was Kraft macaroni and cheese, apples and water, served at Arby’s.

The restaurant and food industries have come up with their own standards of “healthier” foods that should be marketed and served to kids. These include the National Restaurant Association’s Kids LiveWell Program and the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, two voluntary programs that set limits on calories, fat, sodium and sugar (among other criteria) in products aimed at younger eaters. When the Rudd Center analysts measured the 5,427 possible meals against these standards, only 3 percent measured up, according to the report, Fast Food FACTS 2013. FACTS

is an acronym for Food Advertising to Children and Teens Score.

Report authors noted that since the last Fast Food FACTS came out in 2010, menu offerings have greatly expanded. As a result, the number of possible kids’ meal combinations has grown by 54 percent. But the proportion of meals that qualify as healthful remained in the low single-digits.

Things look somewhat better for teens, who normally order off the regular menu. The proportion of options considered healthful for them was closer to 25 percent, according to the report.

Why focus so much on fast food? The report notes that one-third of children and 41 percent of teens eat fast food every day, according to a 2012 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. And on days that do include a fast-food meal, the daily caloric intake rises by 126 for children and by 310 for teens, some of the same researchers reported this year in JAMA Pediatrics.

The complete list of fast-food chains included Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Cici’s Pizza, Dairy Queen, Domino’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Jack in the Box, KFC, Little Caesars, McDonald’s, Panera Bread, Pizza Hut, Sonic, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bell and Wendy’s.

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Fixing a broken Congress takes three steps Congress is broken. electorate that demanded Polling by RealClearPolitics, ideological purity and forced which averages polls like many moderate Republicans into primary challenges, Zac Bears which they subsequently lost to the more conservative Gallup, CNN and Fox, puts candidate. This polarized the Congressional approval at debate between Republicans just 8.9 percent. Congress and Democrats.

While the economy conhas not been so disliked by its electorate since the early tinued to flounder, Congress 1990s. Since 2007, Congress chose to focus on deficit has been mired under 20 reduction in 2011 instead of percent approval (with the passing a jobs bill or stimulus exception of a short time in package to bring the economy 2009). Most of the disdain back to full employment. In revolves around the inabil- 2011, Republicans refused to ity of Congress to pass bills raise the debt ceiling for three into law. Due to Republican months, and voted to do so obstructionism in both the only hours before the United House of Representatives States would have defaulted and the Senate, the 112th on debt for the first time in Congress was the least pro- history. This happened again ductive Congress since 1980. in Oct. 2013.

Instead of bolstering confiIt was less productive than the “do-nothing” 80th Congress, dence in the economy, the lack against which Harry Truman of progress toward raising the debt ceiling actually reduced campaigned.

Congressional scholars gross domestic product and Thomas Mann and Norman job growth. During the George Ornstein said, “We have been W. Bush presidency, Congress studying Washington poli- raised the debt ceiling five tics and Congress for more times when Democrats conthan 40 years, and never have trolled Congress. The 2011 we seen them this dysfunctional.” Ornstein, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, says that Republican obstructionism is detrimental. When conservative think tanks are no longer confident in the conservative wing of the conservative party, something is wrong with Congress.

The 113th Congress is debt ceiling debacle demolunlikely to reverse this trend. ished job growth. In the three Since taking office in January, months leading up to the debt the House has failed to pass ceiling dilemma, the economy the farm bill reauthoriza- created over 200,000 jobs per tion, the Senate’s immigra- month. From May to August, tion reform plan and the bill the U.S. economy created expanding employee discrim- under 100,000 jobs per month. ination protection to sexual In September, after the debate orientation and gender iden- had passed, the economy cretity. The United States needs a ated over 200,000 jobs.

Congressional Republicans Congress that works.

Senators and representa- need to moderate their positives must stop using the rules tions and ditch ideological of Congress to hold the coun- purity. Democrats are willtry hostage to their interests. ing to compromise on taxes, The Republican House major- spending and earned benities in the 112th and 113th efits like Social Security, and Congress constantly rebuke Republicans must be willing compromise and moderation. to do the same.

Beyond crossing the aisle Tea Party members, many elected in the 2010 midterm to reach compromise on the elections, faced a staunch House floor, independent

commissions, not partisan legislatures must perform Congressional redistricting— the process of defining new congressional districts after each decennial U.S. Census.

Districts like the Illinois Fourth and the newly drawn Maryland Third slice across counties, cities and even neighborhoods to acquire the most favorable votes.

The Maryland Third stretches from Baltimore down to Washington D.C. suburbs in the south. Democrats drew an unusual district to oust longtime Republican congressman Roscoe Bartlett from his seat, and they were successful.

The Illinois Fourth from 2002 to 2010 consisted of both Hispanic areas of Chicago, even though they are in opposite parts of the city. To connect them, the district runs along Interstate 294. A 2002 Economist article refers to the Illinois Fourth as lying on “either side of a black part of the city like the bread of a sandwich.”

In the 2012 election, redis-

“The United States needs a responsive legislature that is beholden to the American people and not party organizations or ideologies, and that can only occur through significant reform.”

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Riot or celebration?

race that Democrats won, they won more than 60 percent of the vote.

There is a simple solution to partisan redistricting: take the parties out of the process.

Non-partisan, independent commissions present a reasonable solution to a distortion in American democracy.

Another reform that must be made to Congress is to the Senate’s filibuster. The traditional filibuster involves a senator or group of senators continuing debate on an issue by refusing to stop speaking.

This has been usurped by the parliamentary rule, which allows any senator to stop progress on a law unless 60 percent of senators vote to end debate. Republicans used it a combined 363 times from Jan. 2007 to Jan. 2013, while Democrats used it a combined 201 times from 2001 to 2007. One suggested reform is to bring back the speaking requirement for filibusters.

Crafted by Sens. Tom Udall and Jeff Merkley, the new rules would allow a filibuster to continue as long as the objecting senator remained on the floor and speaking to continue debate.

Members of Congress and senators must bury the hatchet of polarization and ideological purity, and this cannot be done by laws or rules, but by the representatives themselves. In order to remove partisanship from the process, independent commissions must perform Congressional redistricting.

The Senate requires filibuster reform to bring back majority rule. Through these reforms, Congress will be both fairer and faster. The United States needs a responsive legislature that is beholden to the American people and not party organizations or ideologies, and that can only occur through significant reform.

tricting played a key role in maintaining Republican control of the House. Republicans, due to their extensive redistricting in 2010, had an advantage in 241 congressional districts, 23 more than is necessary for a majority.

In many places, however, Democrats outpolled Republicans in terms of total votes cast for House seats. For example, in Pennsylvania, President Obama won 52 percent of votes and Democratic senator Bob Casey won 53 percent of votes, but Democrats only won five of the state’s 18 House races. Republicans in control of state government redistricted historically Democratic strongholds into Zac Bears is a Collegian columnist. He five districts, and in every can be reached at ibears@umass.edu.

Think back to last Wednesday evening — another big sports game, another “riot.” The gathering came as no surprise to faculty, administration or

Karen Podorefsky

students. At that point, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Both faculty and students got so worked up anticipating it that I believe there was no way for the “riot” to not occur. Police were prepared to contain and break up anything crazy happening post-World Series, whether the Red Sox won or lost. Fifteen students

rare occurrence: A World Series win. No matter what the situation, we win together, we lose together, we celebrate together and we show disappointment together.

There have been other gatherings in the past at UMass due to sporting events. During a 2003 riot, students were videotaped jumping off of Berkshire Dining Commons, and two cars were flipped over.

According to an estimate by the Boston Globe, there was around $20,000 worth of damages.

Such student behavior seen in past disturbances were violent and drastic, but now, students prove to

“Traditions must live on. As students, we feel the need to fulfill them, one of which is upholding the expectation of ‘rioting’ when something drastically good or bad happens.” were arrested at the “riot,” which was really more of a celebration. According to Dictionary.com, a riot is defined as “a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.” The only part that last week’s occurrence fits into this definition is that it was a noisy crowd.

But what do you expect from Southwest, a densely populated residential area housing 5,500 students, plus the additional students who went over there to experience the gathering?

Students all received an email warning them to take precautions — in a way, it tried to prevent the “riot” from occurring, something the administration expected to happen. If students know that the administration doesn’t want people to gather in Southwest, many will proceed to gather anyway to prove their power over authority, simply because they can. The police were there and ready to act depending on student misbehavior. This year, inflatable games and a giant screen were set up in the area, which encouraged even more students to congregate there. To me, this sends a mixed message.

We are at the flagship Massachusetts state university, which means that a majority of students are instate residents and Red Sox fans. We come together to celebrate a magnificent and

be better at handling themselves in these types of situations. Nothing as bad as past documented riots happened during last week’s gathering. If this was considered a riot, I don’t even want to think about how bad a real riot could be, because this was pretty tame.

These gatherings show the sense of community at UMass, a community that stems from the communities of Boston and Massachusetts, especially from the pride that Bostonians have over sports.

Boston pride is different from that of other cities. It brings together people who don’t even know each other to scream and hug each other over a common bond.

The celebrations that occurred in the streets of Boston after the World Series win were not considered riots, and yet they are similar to what happened at UMass. They only differ in setting and participants.

Here, they were college students. There, they were fans of all ages.

UMass students carry on the tradition of the University. Academics and standards are improving every year. Traditions must live on. As students, we feel the need to fulfill them, one of which is upholding the expectation of “rioting” when something drastically good or bad happens.

Karen Podorefsky is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at kpodoref@umass.edu.

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Arcade Fire has a blast on ‘Reflektor’

New set a return to form for the band

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

When they first came to the public’s attention ten years ago, Arcade Fire was the most exciting band in the world. The songs “Funeral” and “Neon Bible,” highlights from their first two records, could rip the soul right out of the body. Songs like “Wake Up” and “No Cars Go” were so absurdly grandiose, optimistic, jubilant or tragic that the listener could feel raw emotion being dumped on them like the pig’s blood dumped on Carrie at the prom. Not since Radiohead had a band attracted such acclaim and dangerously high expectations so quickly. Arcade Fire seemed bulletproof, a band that could do no wrong.

“The Suburbs,” the band’s third album, was a bit of a double-edged sword.

It was a brilliant concept album about suburban deterioration and youth, but for the first time, the

band seemed a bit distant.

Rather than crafting his lyrics around pure, unbridled emotion, singer Win Butler seemed more like a narrator. Most songs were sung in the first person, but the stories he told seemed somehow more improbable than before. The band seemed to be taking itself and its music as seriously as its listeners did. For all of its greatness, “The Suburbs” had a sense of self-importance—it knew just how good it really was.

With all of this acclaim, Arcade Fire could have easily drowned in a sense of grandiosity on “Reflektor,” released on Oct. 29 – and at first, with all the cagey PR that led up to the album, it seemed like they had.

Instead, the two-disc set seems to be the expression of a new, more lighthearted Arcade Fire. The band has been performing small shows as “The Reflektors,” demanding that its entire audience come in either costume or formal wear.

“Reflektor” runs like Mardi Gras. It is messy, wild, bombastic and often a bit selfindulgent. But it is an abso-

lute blast.

Produced by LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy, “Reflektor” focuses much more of the band’s sound on rhythm.

Inspired by the music of co-lead singer Régine Chassagne’s native Haiti, the songs here are more rhythmically diverse than anything the band has previously released. More than anything, “Reflektor” is absolutely and totally fearless. Arcade Fire takes a lot of chances over the album’s 85-minute running length, executed with mixed success, but the band members take them all. They look everywhere to set down their anchor but never panic if they can’t find solid ground.

The title track and album opener is one of the disc’s finest moments. Perfectly combining Butler’s fantastical lyricism with the band’s new dance-indebted sensibility, Arcade Fire crafts a seven-and-a-half minute epic.

Just when the song starts getting repetitive, David Bowie throws in a few words, fueling the song enough to reach its conclusion. “We

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Exist” and “Flashbulb Eyes” are hazy, solid rockers that find Butler flirting with his usual philosophical questions. “Here Comes the Night Time” is another treat.

After opening with frenzied percussive rhythms, it settles effortlessly into a Caribbean-type groove. The band appropriates Haitian music and actually does it justice. Rather than sounding like a rock band clumsily attempting a beachy vibe, “Here Comes the Night Time” is authentically loose, messy and fun.

Things get a bit bogged down by the second half of the album’s first disc. The verses of “Normal Person” aren’t all that special, and the chorus is a mess of hard rock that fails to convince.

“You Already Know” opens and closes with former BBC talk show host Jonathan Ross introducing the band and announcing their departure from the “stage.” It may be cheeky, but in context it’s a little self-serving and ridiculous, as the song doesn’t deserve the fanfare. “Joan of Arc” is also overblown and unmemorable, provid-

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Arcade Fire takes risks on its fourth studio album, released on Oct. 28. ing a sub-par conclusion to the first disc.

Things pick up in the second disc, however. After a reprise to “Here Comes the Night Time” comes “Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice).” Although the song’s first half is a bit slow, Butler and Chassagne deliver some beautiful hooks once it picks up. “It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)” is an upbeat song that again shows off the band’s knack for pulling off a Haitian influence. Although the tense electro groove of “Porno” falters, the wonderfully up-tempo “Afterlife” and the gorgeously understated “Supersymmetry” close the album on its peak.

On “Reflektor,” Arcade

Fire has no idea which road to take, but we benefit from the band losing the map.

It’s clearly in the process of reinventing itself, and no one can know what it will become in the end. But for now, “Reflektor” is the best indicator. While it may not have a stirring, fists-in-theair anthem like their earlier records, “Reflektor” is still a great listen. It doesn’t compromise, it displays no fear or inhibition and it shows that Arcade Fire is inviting listeners to live in the moment and enjoy themselves while they’re at it.

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

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Keep your toes toasty Review: iStudiez Pro is a must-have with socks and tights app helps students manage classwork By elise Martorano Collegian Staff

Most students in college are in desperate need of a dependable, all-encompassing way to organize their lives. While there are many productivity and planner apps available for laptops and smartphones, iStudiez Pro is by far the best. Although sarah reid/flickr it isn’t free, running at just $9.99 for laptops and $2.99 Throw out your planner and get iStudiez Pro on your phone now. for smart phones in the App Store, it gives comparable grading information entered information about an assignapps a run for their money. ment on their phone, and in the planner.

Here are some of the features The only feature that the upon returning home to start that iStudiez Pro offers: Assignment section lacks is homework, the information the ability to mark an assign- will have synched to their Planner ment as being “in progress,” laptop. but users can always keep iStudiez Pro lets you store track of how far they’ve gotFor those still skeptilong-term information about ten in the notes section. cal, the App Store provides classes and activities by orgaoverviews of the features nizing your life by semesters. included in the program, as Within a semester, users add Day and week overview well as the features added in the courses that they are new versions. Perusing user iStudiez Pro provides day taking, which can then be reviews should convince specialized to include lec- and week overviews that are potential users to invest in tures, discussion sections, simple and easy to view. In the program as well. In addilabs, exams and any other the day overview, the pro- tion, the program’s website commitments. In this sec- gram displays all of your provides an in-depth explation, users can also add their classes and commitments nation of all of its features instructors’ contact informa- for the day – those that have and how to use them, as well tion and office hours, as well been completed, those that as an FAQ page that answers as additional information are in progress and those tricky questions and helps like meeting times, building that are still ahead. The day with troubleshooting. and room numbers and grad- view also displays assigniStudiez Pro is easy to ments due that day. ing information. use simply because of the The week overview is simamount of resources it makes ilar to the iCal program in available to students in need.

Assignments Mac OS X. It displays comIt’s an incredible app that is mitments in time blocks, colguaranteed to alleviate the The best part of iStudiez or-coded by course. Doublestress that managing several Pro is that it has a completely clicking on an occupied block classes – and a life outside of comprehensive way of logallows you to view the inforclass – can generate. In addiging assignments. Users can mation about the committion, if you’re in desperate add details about course, due ment entered in the planner. date and priority, and then need of a productivity app organize the assignments by but don’t want to dish out the Syncing this information. Users can money for the complete veralso add important notes sion, the company also offers If a user purchases multi- iStudiez Lite – a free program about assignments. When an assignment is complet- ple versions of the app to use with many, but not all, of the ed, users can enter a grade on different devices, informa- same features. received for it, which is then tion can be synched between automatically calculated into them. For instance, if a stu- Elise Martorano can be reached at their average based on the dent is in class, they can add emartora@umass.edu.

Trendy stockings for colder weather

By Maria Martin ShopAtHome.com

These days, we look for things like soft, Merino wool that will ensure our feet don’t itch, or stockings with the magical ability to trim down our trouble spots.

But the first socks were purely practical. Made of animal skins, they were without doubt a sorry looking wardrobe essential. Ancient Greeks and Romans wrapped their feet in leather and fabrics, and the trend moved to Europe.

However, as with all European fashion, socks, before long, had become something to admire – a bit of a fashion statement, in fact. But make no mistake – then and now – the primary purpose of these wonders is to keep our toes warm.

When the ankle sock doesn’t do the job, we reach for the knee sock.

And when our thighs are still feeling the chill – or we’re wearing a dress, only tights will do. And that’s where the fashionistas can really have fun.

Bridgette Raes sees a flashback in foot and legwear trends.

The president of the Bridgette Raes Style Group and author of “Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want” says fashion savvy women need only look back to the ‘90s to recall the importance of tights.

“Women are embracing opaque tights for work, even with suited looks, and are wearing them with booties,” Raes says. “And they’re venturing beyond just neutrals in their color choices.”

Replacing your black tights with something in a rich color or with a great pattern can add a little interest to your wardrobe, she says.

“Color is definitely popular and a great way to ‘funk up’ a look,” she says.

“The most popular colors are still rich, like burgundy, deep green and navy.”

Opaque tights are a natural these days, she says, and a solid choice if you’re heading into the office, where patterned tights might be a bit inappropriate.

Raes offers a couple of tips to help women avoid a fashion faux pas with tights.

First, never wear them with open-toed shoes. And consider carefully before you match those tights with your outfit.

“Recently, I saw a woman wearing black opaque tights and red shoes,” she says. “While it wasn’t a horrible combination, I couldn’t help but think of Minnie Mouse.

Generally speaking, your shoes should match your tights or at least be in a similar color family.”

If it’s warmth you’re after, Raes is a fan of Uniqlo’s Heattech tights (uniqlo.com). If you’re just intent on keeping your feet and ankles warm, we’re fans of SmartWool (smartwool.com) and Wigwam socks (Wigwam.com). Both offer socks made of warm, soft wool. And while many are designed with athletes in mind, our eye caught a few colorful, snazzy styles.

Following are a few other picks of socks and stockings we liked that are sure to keep your toes toasty: - SONOMA life + crew argyle design ($6, kohls. com). Argyle and socks go hand in hand – or at least feet in feet – this winter.

- Apt. 9 Floral Net-to-Waist

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Funk out your style with tights.

Tights ($12, kohls.com).

An intricate, open-work design offers a feminine touch when you’re looking for warmth.

- SONOMA life + style crew socks ($6, kohls.com).

These stylish socks, with contrasting toe and heel, feature a dotted design for those days when you’re feeling a bit silly.

- Hue Tights, Vintage Lace ($18, macys.com). We love all of Hue’s designed tights, but these really stood out. Wear them when you want to show off those fantastic legs.

- Star Power by Spanx Tights ($28, macys.com).

The word Spanx says it all.

The open-weave, double diamond striped tights are guaranteed to tuck in those trouble spots.

- Apt. 9 Zigzag Heart Netto-Waist Tights ($12, kohls. com). A heart design offers a sweet touch to these dark red tights.

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Fallout from allegations against Dolphins continues INCOGNITO DEFENDED

By AdAm H. BeAsley And ArmAndo sAlguero The Miami Herald

is biracial, a “half-n - - - - - -.” In CBSSports.com’s report, Incognito is said to have threatened to track DAVIE, Fla. – Embattled down Martin’s family.

Miami Dolphins coach Joe DIATRIBE ON VIDEO Philbin said Monday he will fully cooperate with Late in the day, TMZ.com the NFL’s inquiry into the posted a video clip of a shirthazing allegations by team less Incognito screaming the member Jonathan Martin, N-word during a barroom and indicated that he would diatribe, with teammate accept its findings.

Mike Pouncey, who is black, Even if it costs him his laughing to the side. job, which is a possibility.

Also Monday, word Meanwhile, Richie emerged of a series of Incognito – the veteran inflammatory messageoffensive lineman accused board posts on a fan forum

by Martin of extreme mental by a person believed to be abuse – has already lost his Incognito’s father, Richard. job. He will never again play The elder Incognito made for the Dolphins, a source some incendiary comments told The Miami Herald. about the Dolphins’ leaderOn a day when the ship and portrayed Martin Dolphins were the talk of as unstable. pro football, both Martin and Efforts to reach both Incognito were away from Richie and Richard Incognito the team – but for very differ- for comment were unsucent reasons. cessful.

Martin is with his famHowever, the younger ily in California, where he Incognito can expect to hear is likely to spend the coming from the NFL soon. weeks undergoing therapy The league’s indepenfor emotional issues. dent investigation into the Incognito, meanwhile, Dolphins will be led by served the first day of an Adolpho Birch, the NFL’s indefinite suspension that senior vice president of will ultimately end with his labor policy. Birch oversees removal from the franchise. the administration of the The team hastily suspended league’s personal-conduct Incognito late Sunday after policy.

Martin turned in a series “We have been in contact of harassing texts and voice with the team on this matter mails, many of which were since last week and will conmade public Monday. duct a thorough review,” the Fox Sports and CBSSports. league said. com both reported Monday After practice, Philbin that Incognito sent Martin gave a detailed timeline of a series of racially charged the events that led to the and threatening messag- inquiry and Monday’s press es, including one in which briefing, which was attended Incognito called Martin, who by about 100 local, national

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Miami’s Richie Incognito is serving an indefinite suspension after accusation of the abuse of Jonathan Martin. and international reporters.

Philbin said he was first made aware of a situation after Martin left the team following a prank gone wrong on Oct. 28.

He said he was in touch with both Martin and his parents throughout the following week, but “in all my discussions with Jonathan and his family, at no time were there any accusations or allegations of misconduct by any members of this team or this organization.”

It appears that the news media were ahead of the team on the issue. News first broke Thursday night that Martin may have been the victim of bullying.

And so, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross over

the weekend called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and asked for help in the form of an independent inquiry.

OWNER’S REQUEST “Our owner Steve Ross, who had been involved throughout the entire process, contacted the commissioner, Roger Goodell, and requested the NFL become involved and conduct a review of the workplace,” Philbin said.

Ross is prepared to use the review to make career decisions on various people within the organization if the review finds fault with their actions.

Philbin didn’t need a review to part ways with

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Incognito, however. The batch of messages provided to the team was enough to make up his mind.

“He’s done,” a ranking club source said Monday.

“There are procedures in place, and everyone wants to be fair. The NFL is involved.

But from a club perspective, he’ll never play another game here.”

Inside the locker room, meanwhile, Dolphins players publicly supported both Incognito and Martin. None of the team’s first-year players who spoke Monday said they had ever encountered instances of extreme hazing.

Martin was not in his first year, but he was a young player.

Many Dolphins players had only good things to say about Incognito.

“I love Richie, man,” receiver Mike Wallace said.

“I personally think he’s a great guy.”

A source within the extended Miami Dolphins family told the Miami Herald that, by and large, the team is more in Incognito’s corner than Martin’s.

Not long after Martin stormed out of the team’s training complex Oct. 28, the source continued, he reached out to all of the Dolphins’ linemen via text message. The gist of the message was that Martin would be away for a while, but would come back better.

When Martin formally took his concerns to team management, the players felt he broke an unwritten rule, the source said.

And players were far more understanding of Incognito’s vile string of messages than was the outside world, the source continued.

Many of the players don’t see it as a bullying issue, the source said.

Either way, now it’s a matter for the NFL – one that could engulf the rest of the Dolphins’ season.

“If the review shows that this is not a safe atmosphere, I will take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that it is,” Philbin said. “I have that obligation to the players that I coach on a daily basis, and I will do that.”

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NFL experts predict Incognito’s future Toledo crushes

By BriAn BiggAne The Palm Beach Post

DAVIE, Fla. – If a sampling of league experts questioned Monday proves correct, Dolphins guard Richie Incognito has played his last game in the NFL. “He’s done,” NFL Network analyst Jamie Dukes said.

“Nobody’s bringing that element into their locker room.

They’re just not.

“If it was Adrian Peterson, he might have a shot. But with his baggage and limited abilities, no way.”

Offensive tackle Jonathan Martin left the team last Monday, upset over his treatment by fellow players. Multiple media outlets have since reported that Incognito has been harassing and intimidating Martin, often using racial epithets.

Former New York Giants coach Jim Fassel said he could see circumstances under which Martin could return, but not Incognito.

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have plenty of leaders who could police the locker room, though several of those he mentioned are, like quarterback Ryan Tannehill, new to the team or very young.

“You’ve got a bunch of leaders,” Grimes said. “It’s just situations. I look at myself as a leader. Reshad (Jones) can be a leader at times. Dannell (Ellerbe) can be as a middle linebacker.

The quarterback, of course.

It’s not just one person. We have a good locker room, and I’ve been in other locker rooms.”

Coaches sometimes have less knowledge of what goes on in the locker room than outsiders might think.

“It’s always been a players domain,” Wilcots said.

“Coaches do not even go through there. They send someone in to get a player before they’ll go there. So they don’t know any intimate details of what goes on.”

Players-only meetings are one place where grievances

can be aired. Fassel said that when he was with the Giants, he leaned on leaders such as Michael Strahan, Keith Hamilton and Tiki Barber to be his eyes and ears. And if, as has been reported about the Dolphins, veterans were pressuring young players to frequently pick up big restaurant or bar tabs, he wanted to know about it.

“You go to dinner, the rookies pay, I’m OK with that,” he said. “You order $500 bottles of wine, I’m not.

It happens once or twice, I’m OK. It happens every week, I’m not.”

Dukes, a former NFL offensive lineman, said he expects such hazing, which has been taken for granted for decades, to soon become a thing of the past. “(Commissioner) Roger Goodell might come along and impose the same kind of rules as they have in the private sector,” Dukes said.

“When people can’t control themselves, they’ll put in rules to make sure they do.”

“The sophomores conduct themselves in practice like upperclassmen. They’re really chomping at the bit to be the leaders. They want to be the ones that other players look up to.”

have this maturity about them where they don’t look like sophomores when they take the floor.”

She added, “We have great leaders on our team; they just happen to be in younger classes.”As the Minutewomen prepare for their season opener against Western Michigan on Friday, Bomben and her teammates are ready to start a new season—one that they hope finishes better than last season.

“We’re eager to get started. It’s definitely a different atmosphere and energy from last year,” she said. “Everyone on the team brings something.”

And Fassel said other players who embarrassed Martin also should be disciplined.

“He’s gone,” Fassel said of Incognito. “And the hammer comes down on the rest of those guys. Then I want to see a true, true apology.

“If the whole thing is handled right, it could bring those guys together as a team going forward.”

CBS analyst Solomon Wilcots said Incognito’s strong personality makes it unlikely an owner or team would gamble on him.

“He’s flamed out on his second team. So what team is going to say, ‘We’ve got a rookie tackle we want you to mentor?’

“But in this league, there aren’t a whole lot of linemen out there, and some team might say it’s got a strong locker room with a lot of leadership, and might take the chance. So I would never say it definitely won’t happen.”

Cornerback Brent Grimes insisted that the Dolphins

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team’s success.

Having the most experience on this team, Bomben understands that her responsibilities on and off the court will be taken to another level.

“I feel like I have a lot of responsibility out there and have to show a lot of leadership for the younger girls,” she said. “I want to be a role model out there and I just want to bring a lot of energy to the table.

I think they look up to me for experience, and even off the court I could be there for them.”

For this team, however, leadership doesn’t just stem from Bomben, but also from the underclassmen.

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Sharon Dawley, UMass coach Minutewomen’s probable starters are sophomores, who registered valuable minutes in last season’s campaign.

Rashida Timbilla, expected to start at forward, is very confident in her younger teammates’ abilities to translate valuable experience from last season into this year.

“With our sophomores, you may look at us as young, but we all have game experience and we’re

all ready to go,” she said.

Her coach thinks the same, adding that the second-year players could be mistaken for veterans based on the ways that they handle themselves on and off the court.

“The sophomores conduct themselves in practice like upperclassmen.

They’re really chomping at the bit to be the leaders,” Dawley said. “They want to be the ones that other players look up to. They

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

Eastern Michigan By eugene KucinsKi Collegian Correspondent

Solid defense leads Akron over Kent State

Toledo crushed Eastern Michigan 55-16 in a MidAmerican Conference matchup on Saturday.

Senior quarterback Terrance Owens led the Rockets (6-3, 4-1 MAC) with 375 yards and three touchdowns.

Toledo played without running back David Fluellen, who was sidelined with an injury.

Kareem Hunt stepped in as his replacement and scored two touchdowns while rushing for 168 yards on 20 carries.

Justin Olack was Owens’ favorite target, as he finished with 110 receiving yards and a touchdown.

The Eagles (1-8, 0-5 Mac) remained in the cellar of the MAC with the loss. Quarterback Brogan Roback completed 11 of 22 passes for 209 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. Ryan Brumfield led the ground game, rushing for 67 yards on 17 attempts.

The Rockets dominated from the beginning, taking a 38-10 lead into halftime.

Toledo spread the wealth on offense as Hunt, Damion Jones-Moore, Marc Remy and Ricky Pringle all rushed for over 50 yards, while nine different players recorded a catch, three of them scoring touchdowns.

Eastern Michigan will strive for its first MAC win on Saturday when it faces Western Michigan, and Toledo returns to action on Nov. 12 for a matchup with Buffalo.

The Akron defense led the way for the Zips on Saturday as they defeated Kent State 16-7 behind five forced turnovers while holding the Golden Flashes to just 304 total yards.

Akron (3-7, 2-4 MAC) was led on defense by Johnny Robinson, who recovered a fumble and an interception.

Jatavis Brown was also a key contributor, making 16 tackles and forcing a fumble.

The Zips stuck early when quarterback Kyle Pohl lateraled the ball to Zach D’Orazio, who threw a 33-yard touchdown to L.T. Smith.

Pohl finished the game completing 8 of 19 passes for 98 yards. Meanwhile, running back Jawon Chisholm rushed for 151 yards.

Highlighting the offensive woes for Kent State (2-8, 1-5 MAC) were three interceptions by quarterback Colin Reardon.

The only light on the horizon for the Golden Flashes was running back Trayion Durham, who ran for 82 yards and scored the team’s only touchdown.

Zips kicker Robert Stein connected on all three field goal attempts.

Kent State returns to action on Nov. 13 when it faces Miami (Ohio), and Akron has some time off before the team travels to Foxboro on Nov. 16 for a matchup with Massachusetts.

Eugene Kucinski can be reached at ekucinsk@umass.edu.

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Young UM hopes for improvement By andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

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Redshirt sophomore Derrick Gordon scored 15 points and dished out six assists in his debut with the Minutemen on Tuesday night against AIC.

Experienced players lead Minutemen

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

If the Massachusetts men’s basketball team plans to be a national contender, it will need production from a stable of veterans.

Tuesday’s performance from Sampson Carter, Derrick Gordon and Cady Lalanne offered the first step — albeit a small step — in that direction.

The three starters combined for 51 points in UMass’ 89-76 victory over American International, steadying an offense that found its groove in the second half. Carter led the team with 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting while adding seven rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals in only 20 minutes.

“I just told myself before the game I was going to focus as far on offense,” Carter said. “I was gonna focus on defense and rebounding and everything to bring energy.”

Carter’s role varied throughout the night. He worked the baseline early, but was asked to step out and become the focal point of the offense in the second half while Chaz Williams

“At times I thought we looked like the team that I’d like to be and I thought at other times we looked like a team that never saw a fade screen before.”

Derek Kellogg, UMass coach and Lalanne dealt with foul trouble. His steal with 7:51 remaining in the game led to a Trey Davis 3-pointer, which pushed the Minutemen’s lead to 14.

Gordon, who was playing in his first game since transferring from Western Kentucky over a year ago, finished with 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting, displaying a knack for getting to the rim and a pension for getting other teammates involved, leading the team with six assists.

“I’m a slasher, so I felt that I could get to the rim at any time,” he said. “Once the big man stepped up, I got a lot of assists from Cady just dropping them off and things like that. My goal is to get my teammates involved as much as I could.”

Gordon initiated contact at the rim several times and seemed to find his rhythm as

over the last seven minutes of the first half and provided a boost of energy.

Curiously, Williams battled bouts of inconsistency, sitting with four fouls in the second half. He finished with just seven points in 28 minutes, adding five assists, five rebounds and four turnovers.

“I told these guys after the game, mainly Chaz, it’s time to step on the gas now,” Kellogg said. “If you go play at that level, we’re not gonna be where we need to be.

You’re a potential player of the year guy in the league, so play that way. And (he) gets it. I think he’s ready for Sunday and the rest of the year.”

Focus now turns to Boston College, who the Minutemen will face Sunday in their official season opener.

“It looked pretty good at times, and then other times it looked not so good,” Kellogg said. “But there was some definitely some flashes where we looked like a good team.”

the game wore on.

For UMass coach Derek Kellogg, the game provided a chance to get better while offering room to grow.

“At times I thought we looked like the team that I’d like to be, and I thought at other times we looked like a team that never saw a fade screen before,” he said.

“There’s still some work to do, but it’s a long season.”

Lalanne showed a solid command of the post area, chipping in 16 points and eight rebounds on 7-of-11 shooting. Kellogg noted that he would have liked to see his center play less minutes, but that he liked what he saw, especially in the first half.

Both Gordon and Lalanne were cogs in the Minutemen’s most consistent lineup of the night. Alongside Williams, Mark Chiarelli can be reached at Davis and Maxie Esho, that mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on lineup outscored AIC 21-7 Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

No team is more excited to start fresh this winter than the Massachusetts women’s basketball team.

The Minutewomen ended the 2012-13 season with 13 straight losses and an overall record of 3-26, which was UMass’ worst record since the 1990-91 season.

“Last year is over with and we can’t do anything about it,” said sophomore forward Rashida Timbilla.

“We are a new team this year and that’s how we are going to approach every situation. We want to bring a new attitude to this team.”

This year’s squad, which includes 12 underclassmen, has already brought a new identity to the women’s basketball team in just a few short weeks of practice.

“The attitude is all about UMass getting better,” said UMass coach Sharon Dawley. “No one’s looking back; no one’s looking at last year. We’ve got 13 kids that are only looking at the program—no one is looking at their stat line.”

Despite having such a young team, the Minutewomen return four starters from last year including Timbilla, who averaged a team-high 8.3 rebounds to go along with 8.6 points per game. Also returning to the starting lineup this year are guards Nola Henry, Emily Mital and Jasmine Harris.

Joining Timbilla in the frontcourt is junior Kim Pierre-Louis, who came off the bench in all of her appearances last year.

Pierre-Louis was one of the few Minutewomen that ended the season on a hot streak, averaging 7.3 points and 4.2 rebounds over her last six games of the season.

“It’s so nice to go into a game with as much depth as we do,” Dawley said. “We have three centers that are all going to rotate in and out. Nola will be starting at point guard on Friday, and we have Amber (Dillon) coming off the bench. … It gives you a lot of confidence having depth at both the top and the bottom, especially with a Friday/Sunday

“The attitude is all about UMass getting better. No one’s looking back, no one’s looking at last year.

We’ve got 13 kids that are only looking at the program — no one is looking at their stat line.”

Sharon Dawley, UMass coach home opener.”

With this young team, Dawley wants to take full advantage of the team’s ability to move up and down the floor.

“We want to run a motion that is really balanced,” she said. “We want to be a team that looks to attack, that can run a good break, that knows when to pull out and run some smooth sets to get clean shots off.”

While Timbilla looks like the preseason favorite to be the go-to player on offense, she was quick to point out how the depth of this team can hurt other teams in many different ways.

“We’ve got so many weapons on this year’s team,” she said. “When teams focus in on me, I can dish it to Kim inside or kick out to Emily and Jasmine for three to go along with a handful of girls that can come off the bench and get to the rim.”

Although this team might not scare many of their opponents on paper, Dawley does have high expectations for her young team.

“We want to be that team that people are worried about,” she said. “I want people to be talking about our depth, our leadership and our speed.”

The Minutewomen open up their regular season on Friday against Western Michigan at the Mullins Center. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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

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Minutewomen looking for leaders to emerge this season UMass coming off tough 3-26 season

By Joey Saade Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts women’s basketball team is ready to turn the page.

After a disappointing 3-26 finish to last season— their worst in 23 years—the Minutewomen are focused on flipping the switch and reversing their fortunes.

If they plan on doing so, they will have to get contributions from the younger players on their roster.

Entering the season, nine out of the 13 players on the roster are entering either their first or second year in collegiate athletics. Three of those players are freshmen Alyx

Stiff, Meredith Tarver and Kymber Hill. Another newcomer is redshirt sophomore Amber Dillon, who sat out last season after transferring from Maine.

UMass coach Sharon Dawley is looking forward to coaching these young players as the season gets underway.“Youth is funny, because with it you get inexperience, but the other side of the coin is you get enthusiasm,” she said.

“They don’t know what’s coming, it’s exciting, and every day is new to them.

I think that’s an energy that we really need coming off a rough year, so I’m not worried about the inexperience. I’m just taking advantage of the potential.”

Stiff, Tarver and Hill provide an added depth to

a team that lacked versatility last season, as the roster was guard-heavy. This season, Dawley can go deep in all of her skill positions.

“It’s much better balance (than last season),” she said. “I think overall we’re a lot quicker, and a lot deeper. We have three point guards we can rotate in that spot, as well at the center position, and that’s a huge luxury to have.”

With a young roster comes the search for leadership.Forward Kiara Bomben is the lone senior left on a team that also includes three juniors and six sophomores. Bomben enters the season as the projected sixth woman, an energetic position that Dawley finds crucial to her see

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UMass coach Sharon Dawley is looking forward to coaching her young squad.