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Section leaders stay lively Pipes burst Band is enthusiastic despite extra work

sure that we’re not taking things too seriously,” said senior Sarah Lenau, leader of the 21-person tenor saxophone section. “We still want This article is part seven to make sure we are having fun because that’s what the in a series as the UMass band is about.”

Minuteman Marching Band Section leaders of the prepares for the Macy’s UMMB are in charge of a Thanksgiving Day Parade. variety of duties, ranging from preparing and delegatBy Jaclyn Bryson Marching Band put into orga- ing parts of practice, orgaCollegian Staff nizing and running their sec- nizing warm-ups, supervisDespite the added hours tions, there is one thing they ing the band members and and extra work that lead- always strive to do: Make it just maintaining a good vibe ers of the University of fun. throughout rehearsal.

“As the season goes along, Massachusetts Minutemen “We really try to make

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people just get more tired and they have a lot more schoolwork to do. Finals are coming up and they get really worried,” said senior Andrew deMelo, leader of the 45-member clarinet section. “So most of what I try to do is keep the energy up.”

In order to maintain this positive energy, band leaders also make sure that all their section members bond, both during and outside of practice.

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laboratories formally opeN

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University of Massachusetts officials officially open the Life Science Laboratories Building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

in new Maple honors dorm Leaks linked to heating system

By Kristin laFratta Collegian Staff

Residents of Maple Hall, a new building in the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community, recently experienced extensive water leaks from pipes linked to the building’s faulty heating system.

Around mid-afternoon on Sept. 22, students on several floors of the fivestory building found damages to their suites and apartments, ranging from cracked walls and ceilings to fully flooded floors and hallways.

Second-floor Maple resident Allie Capprini said that the heavy leak flooded her whole suite, the hallway and two apartments down the hall. UMass paid to house Capprini and her suitemates for four nights in the UMass Hotel, and afterward offered to relocate them to an off-campus hotel, at which point they chose to stay with friends instead.

“They were pretty unorganized about it and did not have a plan immediately, so it was inconvenient for us to have to sit around and wait while they figured out somewhere for us to stay for the week,” Capprini said. “UMass did not tell us why the pipe burst or

how it happened. They just explained to us that there was nothing dangerous in the water,” she said.

Several items were damaged in their suite, and they were required to fill out a file stating each damaged item and its worth.

Capprini said that UMass told them they will “hopefully be reimbursed by the end of the semester.”

On the fourth floor, Maple resident Nelson Tull came back to his suite that Sunday evening to find maintenance workers in his room. The next morning, he woke up to different men coming into his room to paint and plaster the waterdamaged walls.

“The maintenance crew didn’t know much more than I did. I was surprised because I did not expect them to be coming in all the next day,” Tull said. “I only heard a few details from my suitemates, and nothing from any administrators.”

The next morning on the first floor, Maple residents Taylor Doherty and Alaina Reinhardt noticed a crack along their ceiling and wall.

“We took turns staying in the room and calling emergency maintenance,” Doherty said. “Luckily they came pretty quickly.”

The maintenance workers moved the furniture, exposing puddles behind their wardrobes.

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UMass receives sexual Blue Wall to serve up assault prevention grant Thanksgiving dinner $270,000 will help develop new course

By Marie Maccune Collegian Correspondent The University of Massachusetts recently received a three-year, $270,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice to develop a course aimed at educating students on sexual violence.

The funding comes as part of the Campus Grant Program from U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Violence Against Women.

According to their website, the OVW’s goal is to “provide federal leadership in developing the nation’s capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.”

UMass’ Center for Women & Community was the lead applicant for the grant. It

works to provide education, advocacy and support services to address the causes and impacts of sexism.

Rebecca Lockwood, associate director of Counseling and Rape Crisis Services at the CWC, said that UMass was one of only 28 applicants that received funding this year. Over 135 colleges applied. According to Lockwood, the CWC has received this federal funding in the past, most recently in 2007.

Other partners on the application include the UMass Police Department, the Dean of Students Office and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, according to Lockwood.

Lockwood said that UMass was a standout candidate for the grant because its application focused on creating sustainable programs that will continue even without federal funding.

“For example, creating online educational programs for students and staff that will be easier to update

and maintain,” she said.

According to a UMass press release, upon the program’s completion, all incoming students will be required to take the course. “(The course will be) reflective of the diverse UMass community, and uses a bystander intervention model,” Lockwood said.

Lockwood said that the funds will also be used for other initiatives, which include developing innovative campaigns and outreach strategies to reach all students who live on campus.

According to the release, the grant will also “support the establishment of a Title IX subcommittee that will review best practices, evaluate campus policies and protocols and recommend any needed changes to the university’s Title IX Coordination Team.”

The American Civil Liberties Union explains on its website that Title IX is federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis see

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Café will hold its 2nd annual buffet

By Kate leddy Collegian Correspondent Students at the University of Massachusetts who are unable to return home for Thanksgiving break won’t have to sacrifice that warm turkey dinner. Though dining halls will be closed on Nov. 28, Blue Wall Café will be serving up special meals all day at its second-annual Blue Wall Thanksgiving Buffet.

From 8 to 10:45 a.m., the cafe will be serving a breakfast buffet open to anyone on campus for the price of $8 per person. From 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., a Thanksgiving dinner buffet will be served for $10.25 per person. Blue Wall will also be serving its usual light fare choices such as deli sandwiches, pizzas and soups at their normal prices. Students may use a residential or YCMP swipe

for the buffet or light fare.

Cash, credit and UCard debit will also be accepted.

UMass Dining will continue to uphold its dedication to healthy and sustainable ingredients for this holiday event. The breakfast menu will include an assortment of bakeshop pastries and muffins, allnatural, nitrate-free bacon, low sodium breakfast sausage, French toast with local maple syrup, cheese and vegetable frittatas, hash browns, local cage-free scrambled eggs, fresh fruit, juice and coffee.

The Thanksgiving dinner buffet will be serving apple and sage cornbread stuffing, wild mushroom and green bean casserole, honey-glazed local sweet potatoes, roasted Brussels sprouts, quinoa and dried cranberry stuffed acorn squash, freshly baked pie and, of course, roasted turkey with gravy.

Van Sullivan, assistant retail dining manager and

one of the main directors of the event, is particularly excited about the locally sourced free-range turkey that will be served on Thanksgiving day, which he was chided for calling “badass” last year.

“But really, this turkey is pretty badass,” he said with a grin.

Sullivan will be cooking this year’s Thanksgiving dinner alongside Matthia Accurso, UMass executive sous chef. Sullivan expressed his excitement about the event’s second year.

“Last Thanksgiving, we anticipated perhaps 30 people to show up, but there were at least 150,” he said, remembering one particular student from Queens who brought her whole family to Blue Wall for dinner.

“Dining halls are a huge production and we serve about 3,000 people a day here at Blue Wall, so it makes see

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Floods kills 18 in Sardinia; cyclone moves to southern Italy ROME — The heaviest rains in hundreds of years have killed 18 people on Sardinia, Italian authorities said Tuesday, a day after Cyclone Cleopatra passed over the large Mediterranean island.

Environment Minister Andrea Orlando told Parliament that nearly 18 inches of water fell in a span of a few hours, compared with normal average rainfalls of 39 inches over an entire year.

Earlier, Sardinian President Ugo Cappellacci said the affected areas had been hit by “once in a millennium floods,” while Prime Minister Enrico Letta spoke of a “national drama of unimaginable proportion.” dpa

Islamist attack on Somali police leaves 17 dead MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 17 people died Tuesday in an attack on a police station in Beledweyne, a town in central Somalia, officials and resident said.

The attack was carried out by a suicide bomber and several men with guns, all believed to be members of the Islamist al-Shabab militia.

A car laden with explosives first rammed into the police station. Several armed men then opened fire, randomly killing people.

Among the dead were four attackers and several police officers. dpa

‘Selfie’ chosen as Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionary LONDON — In what was described as an unusually unanimous decision, “selfie” has been chosen as Word of the Year by the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, beating out “twerk” and a host of other Internet and social media-related terms, such as “bitcoin,” that have exploded onto the verbal scene in recent years.

“It seems like everyone who is anyone has posted a selfie somewhere on the Internet,” Oxford Dictionaries said on its blog.

Use of “selfie,” to mean a self-portrait typically snapped with a smartphone and shared over social networks, has risen 17,000 percent in frequency over the past 12 months, Oxford Dictionaries said.

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Correction A graphic included in yesterday’s story “Rookies find a home in Marching Band” misidentified two of the band members. Mike Nicholson was the band member wearing the UMass sweatshirt and Matt Harnois was the band member wearing the black shirt.

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23 killed in blasts at Iranian Embassy Bombing took place in Lebanon

the investigation. tion of anonymity because “The United States he was not authorized to knows too well the cost of speak publicly.

The Lebanese Health terrorism directed at our own diplomats around the Ministry said at least 23 bodBy Mitchell Prothero world, and our hearts go out ies had been recovered and McClatchy Foreign Staff to the Iranian people after that a search for additional BEIRUT —A double this violent and unjustifi- victims continued. Local media said that at least 200 suicide bombing of Iran’s able attack,” he said. embassy in Lebanon that killed at least 23 people and wounded hundreds of others sent shockwaves of fear across this capital city Tuesday that Syria’s civil war would trigger violence not seen since this country’s own civil war two decades ago.

A mysterious local franchise of al-Qaida took responsibility for the attack and said similar attacks would continue until Iran and its Lebanese Shiite ally, Hezbollah, withdraw their fighters from Syria, where MCT they have played a crucial Bombs outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut killed dozens on Nov. 19. role in turning the tide of battle in favor of President Bashar Assad.

Many in Beirut feared Both witnesses and the people were wounded in the Shiite militant group Lebanese army described blast. Initial reports that would retaliate and push the attack as following what Iran’s cultural attache Lebanon into further sec- has become a familiar one- had been killed were later two punch for terrorists: retracted as the Iranian tarian violence.

A senior Hezbollah offi- the first attacker, riding a ambassador to Lebanon, Roknabadi, cial at the scene described motorcycle packed with a Ghazanfar the bombings as a “message small explosive charge, tar- announced that Sheikh of blood and death” from geted the embassy’s heavy Ibrahim al-Ansari had sufal-Qaida-styled militants external security, followed fered severe head wounds fighting to topple Assad. a few moments later by a but had survived.

At least two Iranian and Mahmoud Komati said the much larger bomb carried several Hezbollah security by a car that targeted the attack was a response to the personnel died in Tuesday’s attacks, according to local security officials.

The explosion reinforced a widespread belief among Lebanon’s strongly proHezbollah Shiite population that it would remain a target of jihadist groups that have flooded Syria to take part in the anti-Assad insurgency.

“They are not Muslims; they are animals,” Miriam, a local resident who declined to give her last name because of security MCT concerns, said as she went to find her children at a Emergency workers arrive at the scene of the bombing. nearby school. “They will never stop attacking us.”

The Abdullah Azzam “successive defeats suffered building itself.

“There was an explosion Brigades have claimed credby (jihadists) in Syria.”

With pro-Assad forc- then after a bit, another it for previous rocket attacks es racking up victories much larger explosion,” in Israel as well as a roadthroughout Syria in recent said Mahmoud Abbas, who side bombing that appeared months, the group that sells coffee from a pushcart to target a Hezbollah convoy earlier this summer, but claimed responsibility for near the embassy.

Although the area its involvement in any of the blast, the al-Qaidaaffiliated Abdullah Azzam around the embassy is these incidents cannot be Brigades, promised more seen as broadly supportive confirmed.

Hezbollah officials said attacks until Hezbollah’s of Hezbollah, the buildand Iran’s forces leave ing is not located in one of an investigation was ongoHezbollah’s special “secu- ing and that leaders of the Syria.

In a statement, the Azzam rity zone” neighborhoods, group had convened to disspokesman, Sirajuddin which have been under cuss the group’s response.

“There will not be a lot Zurayqat, called the per- massive security precaupetrators of the suicide tions since several rocket of sleep tonight,” said one attacks “Lebanese Sunni and car bomb attacks ear- official who asked not to be heroes” and said “opera- lier in the summer. But identified because he was tions in Lebanon will con- the kind of tight security not authorized to speak tinue” until Hezbollah units precautions that prevail in publicly. “We are going to have left Syria and Azzam those security zones, where be looking for answers.”

Retaliation seemed likeprisoners are released by nearly every car is searched and traffic is frequently ly.

Lebanese authorities.

“We tell those who carIn Washington, Secretary banned, were not in place in of State John Kerry con- the affluent area where the ried out the attack, you will not be able to break us,” demned the attack, calling it embassy is located.

“Embassies have to be Hezbollah lawmaker Ali “senseless and despicable.”

He pledged that the United open; they’re very hard Maqdad told Al-Mayadeen States would continue its to protect,” said a harried TV. “We got the message support to the Lebanese Hezbollah security official and we know who sent it government and urged all in a brief phone call after and we know how to retaliparties to cooperate with the blast, speaking on condi- ate.”

THANKSGIVING these little events really fun to have,” he added.

Breakfast and light fare meals will be served by a small number of people from the UMass dining staff as well as student employees who are remaining in the area during the holiday. Sullivan said that he

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sees all of this participation as an opportunity for service, and that he “wouldn’t miss it for the world.” He plans to return home for a Thanksgiving meal with his own family after he finishes serving families at UMass.

Sullivan said that he looks forward to helping

others during this holiday season, even if it’s just one person.

“In food service, it’s our job to do this for people, especially on Thanksgiving,” he said.

Kate Leddy can be reached at kleddy@umass.edu.

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NSA repeatedly violated court orders, rules New documents disclose problems

By Jonathan S. landay and ali WatkinS

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency repeatedly violated its own rules and secret federal court orders regulating its immense collection of private Americans’ telephone and Internet data and broke pledges to adhere to strict controls, newly declassified documents show.

The disclosures raise serious questions about repeated assurances given by senior U.S. intelligence officials to Congress that NSA collection programs never “willfully violated” the laws and rules that regulate them and that any compliance issues have been due only to unintentional human or technological errors.

For example, in a 2009 ruling denying a request by the agency to “access and use” communications data it wasn’t authorized to have, a secret federal court judge criticized the NSA for “longstanding and pervasive violations” of earlier orders restricting the collections.

“Barring any use of the information would provide a strong incentive for the exercise of greater care in this massive collection by the executive branch officials responsible for ensuring compliance with the court’s orders and other applicable requirements,” wrote Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge John D. Bates in his 117page opinion.

In another ruling, the date of which was blacked out, Judge Reggie B. Walton, also on the surveillance court, castigated the NSA after the government disclosed that the agency had made available to intelligence and law enforcement agencies email addresses and other information on Americans without a mandatory review to ensure it was terrorism-related.

Walton strongly suggested that some of the information included the kind of personal data that senior U.S. intelligence officials repeatedly have insisted wasn’t collected.

“NSA has generally failed to adhere to special dissemination restrictions originally proposed by the government, repeatedly relied upon by the court ... and incorporated into the court’s orders (redacted) as binding on NSA,” wrote Walton, who added that he was “gravely concerned.”

Despite the findings, however, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowed the NSA to restart the Internet and telephone data collection programs after they were suspended, albeit with restrictions. The collections began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and were aimed at uncovering terrorist plots involving Americans.

In a statement, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the Internet data collection program was terminated in 2011 after “an examination revealed that the program was no longer meeting the operational expectations that NSA had for it.”

Clapper’s office released the nearly three dozen doc-

uments, totaling almost 2,000 pages, after 8 p.m.

Monday.

The materials were heavily redacted, with thick black lines obscuring numerous dates, names and entire paragraphs critical to understanding them. Among the items deleted was what kind of data was being collected and dates that would have shown how long privacy violations persisted.

Clapper asserted that he released the materials at President Barack Obama’s behest as part of an ongoing effort to “make public as much information as possible” about top-secret intelligence programs disclosed in leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. In fact, however, a court had ordered the government release the documents as part of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a rights group.

“It’s amazing that multiple federal judges have excoriated the agency for widespread mismanagement that has led to the violation of untold numbers of Americans’ privacy and yet no one has been held accountable,” said Trevor Timm, an Electronic Frontier Foundation policy analyst.

Robert Litt, the intelligence community’s top lawyer, on Tuesday blamed the violations on “complicated technology systems” that “frequently don’t work” as expected.

Speaking at Georgetown University, Litt compared the problems created by the massive amounts of information the NSA sweeps up and processes to the snafus with the administration’s health care website.

“Using the word ‘abuse’ in the context of the operation of the surveillance program is a little bit like saying that the Department of Health and Human Services is abusing people because of the fact that the Obamacare websites don’t work properly,” said Litt, the general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

“They are complicated.”

Among the documents released on Monday were orders and opinions issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret federal judicial panel set up to ensure that the NSA’s communications collection programs don’t violate the rights of Americans. The materials also included a key NSA policy directive, training materials and internal guidance, and reports to Congress.

The Obama administration has been under pressure from some lawmakers and civil liberties and human rights groups to disclose more information about the NSA’s collection of the “metadata” of tens of millions of Americans’ daily telephone and Internet communications.

Metadata comprises information such telephone numbers called, call locations and email recipients, but not individual identities or the content of the communications.

The government repeatedly has insisted that the metadata collection programs adhere to the law and are crucial to unearthing threats against the United States by al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.

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Enrollment in health care plan increases Thousands sign up for insurance plans

By Noam N. Levey Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Despite the disastrous rollout of the federal government’s health care website, enrollment is surging in many states as tens of thousands of consumers sign up for insurance plans made available by President Barack Obama’s health law.

A number of states that use their own systems, including California, are on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 because of a sharp increase in November, according to state officials.

“What we are seeing is incredible momentum,” said Peter Lee, director of Covered California, the nation’s largest state insurance marketplace, which accounted for a third of all enrollments nationally in October. California - which enrolled about 31,000 people in health plans last month - nearly doubled that in the first two weeks of this month.

Several other states, including Connecticut and Kentucky, are outpacing their enrollment estimates, even as states that depend on the federal website lag far behind. In Minnesota, enrollment in the second half of October ran at triple the rate of the first half, officials said.

Washington state is also on track to easily exceed its October enrollment figure, officials said.

The growing enrollment in those states is a rare bit of good news for backers of the Affordable Care Act and suggests that the serious problems with the law’s rollout may not be fatal, despite critics’ renewed calls for repeal.

But the trend also emphasizes how widely experience with the new law varies by location.

Fourteen states and the District of Columbia, covering about one-third of the nation’s population, are operating their own Obamacare marketplaces and have their own enrollment websites.

The others, including most states with Republican-led governments, have declined to do so, making their residents dependent on the malfunctioning federal site.

In addition to betterfunctioning websites, many states that are running their own marketplaces also have significantly more resources to help consumers sign up

for coverage.

Many of the states that have declined to run their own websites have also refused to expand the joint federal-state Medicaid program, as the new law allows.

Overall enrollment totals in states using the federal site were dismal in October, according to figures released last week by the federal Health and Human Services Department.

For example, just 2,991 people successfully enrolled in health plans in Texas in October. That was fewer enrollees than in Kentucky, which has a sixth as many residents.

Altogether, only 106,000 people enrolled in health coverage nationwide last month, a figure far below administration projections.

Nearly half of those who enrolled in October were in California or New York.

Both states have continued to show growth in their numbers. In New York, enrollment has continued at roughly October’s rate and stands at 24,509, according to state officials.

Even with the growing consumer interest in health insurance in many states, the new marketplaces created by the health law need millions more enrollees. The Obama administration aims to get 7 million consumers into health insurance plans in 2014 to ensure that the marketplaces have enough people to be sustainable.

With fixes still being made to the federal website, it is unclear whether enrollment will catch up everywhere.

White House officials repeatedly have said they hope to have the healthcare. gov website working for the “vast majority” of users by the end of this month. But spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that the administration also is working with insurance companies to allow consumers to bypass the troubled site and enroll directly with insurers.

In California, Lee said Monday that the federal troubles have made enrollment more difficult even for states that use their own sites. State officials believe enrollment through Covered California has been depressed by media reports of problems with the federal site, Lee told reporters during a call organized by the consumer group Families USA. Covered California has had to change its marketing strategy to remind Californians that the state

website is different from healthcare.gov.

But while politicians in Washington, D.C., have been fixated on the website problems, many state officials are feeling considerably more optimistic about the law’s long-term prospects.

“We’re going to ride all this stuff out,” said Kevin Counihan, chief executive of Access Health CT, Connecticut’s marketplace.

Counihan, who worked for the marketplace that Massachusetts created after its trailblazing 2006 reforms, said he had been expecting even lower enrollment.

Connecticut saw growing enrollment in November: 3,201 people signed up for health plans in the first two weeks of this month, nearing the 4,371 total for all of October.

Enrollment has been even stronger in many Medicaid programs.

Roughly half the states have agreed to expand their Medicaid programs to most low-income residents in 2014. Under the law, the federal government picks up nearly the entire cost of that expansion for the first several years.

Nationwide, nearly 400,000 new people qualified for Medicaid coverage in October, according to federal data. In Oregon, whose marketplace has been one of the few trouble-plagued state sites, the state reported that it has already signed up 70,000 new people up for Medicaid.

Officials nationwide cautioned that drawing firm conclusions about enrollment patterns is difficult at this early stage.

“It’s hard to know what normal looks like yet,” said Bethany Frey, a spokeswoman for Washington state’s marketplace, known as Washington Healthplanfinder.

Many state officials say they think the biggest enrollment surge will take place after Thanksgiving.

Consumers face a Dec. 15 deadline to sign up if coverage is to be effective Jan. 1.

The open enrollment period under the law lasts until March 31, giving consumers an additional three months to select health plans in 2014.

Experts also expect more people to sign up for coverage through 2014 as people lose health plans for various reasons, such as job change or divorce.

“We are in the beginning of the first inning of a nineinning game,” Lee cautioned.

Deal to avoid shutdown is struggling in Senate

By Lisa mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON— The congressional committee that is trying to negotiate a deal to prevent the next government shutdown has run into a roadblock: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell, the GOP minority leader, made the trek across the Capitol on Tuesday to tell a private session of House Republicans that his preference is not to give in when it comes to easing up on the mandatory budget cuts that are set to take effect Jan. 15.

“I wish them well,” McConnell said about the bipartisan House-Senate committee trying to craft a deal. “I hope they’ll comply with the law.”

McConnell’s foray into the budget talks come as the Kentucky senator is heading toward a tough re-election

battle in the Bluegrass State where he faces not only a Democratic candidate, but a tea party-styled Republican challenging him from the right.

Congress is facing another shutdown threat when money to fund the government runs out Jan. 15. At that time, the next round of so-called sequester cuts are set to slice across government departments, imposed by Congress as part of an earlier failed attempt to force a budget compromise.

Finding bipartisan agreement this time has been as tough as ever. Lawmakers from both parties increasingly view those sequester cuts as a bad idea, but the divisions inside the GOP have deepened.

Fiscal conservatives want to preserve the sequester cuts as their biggest trophy from the last several years of politically bruising fights with Democrats and the White

House. But the party’s defense hawks, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., want to undo the Pentagon reductions, saying the cuts would decimate the Defense Department.

McConnell’s suggestion for keeping the top-line spending on par with the sequester cuts is not a recipe for compromise with Democrats. His proposal would essentially require shifting the reductions away from the Pentagon and onto other government programs, something Democrats have resisted.

“That’s not where the American people are,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who is leading the bipartisan budget committee with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. “They want us to solve the sequester issue.

They don’t want the government to shut down again.”

Top leaders face a Dec. 13 deadline to cut a deal.

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days, cutting out wall panels and working on pipes, though the sanding and repainting took over a week, Doherty said. She added that the process was an inconvenience.

“They would come when we were sleeping or not in the room, and the fans were pretty loud,” she said, though she added that the maintenance workers were helpful. The workers told the girls that they were lucky to catch it early, and that the problem could have been worse.

UMass spokesman Patrick Callahan compared the opening of the new complex to a “shakedown cruise.”

“You put on the heat, and you put on the air conditioning. You find out what works and what doesn’t,” Callahan said. “And the stuff that doesn’t work,

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they fix it.” He said the subcontractors who set up the heating system are held responsible for fixing the problem, which they did.

“But that’s the way it is with all new construction,” Callahan added.

CHCRC is the only living area that uses a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Unlike the hot water and steam heating systems of older residential areas, the HVAC system automatically detects whether rooms need to be heated or cooled.

Students’ reactions to the leaks varied from confused and nervous to annoyed and angry.

Reinhardt said that she felt uneasy once her room had been affected by the leaks.

“I heard a sound like rain in the pipes above me,” she said. “I was afraid to

fall asleep in case the pipe in the ceiling burst.”

Tull said administrators handled the situation poorly.

“It is one of the many inconveniences of these new buildings,” he said.

A CHCRC residential assistant, who wished to remain anonymous to avoid jeopardizing her job, said she was advised to purchase renter’s insurance.

She was quick to criticize the malfunctioning of the complex.

“It’s really frustrating that this is a new complex, and it should have been able to be built perfect, with all the resources and all the money they put into it,” she said.

Kristin LaFratta can be reached at klafratt@umass.edu.

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about this band is how it’s so student-run,” said senior Ian Wudyka, leader of the 35-member drum line. “So it’s pretty much impossible not to talk and meet all of your section.”

“It kind of amazes me how well my section gets along.

We have dinner pretty much every night, hang out all the time,” added deMelo. “And it’s rarely me who plans this stuff. It’s mostly the kids in the section, because they’re so close with everyone else in the section.”

But being a leader is not without its challenges.

“I think one of the challenges is that you have to deal with so many personalities,” said Lenau. “Trying to get 21 people on the same page— at the same time, when it’s cold, when it’s windy, when they don’t want to be there, when they’re tired—is really hard.”

“It’s tough to motivate people to make band (a part of) their life for the whole semester, even when they have tests to take, studying, class, trying to find a job,” added Wudyka. “As a leader, we’re kind of in the mindset that band is the afternoon activity every single day. It’s tough to motivate everyone to be on that same page.”

And as the day that the band will head to New York

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City to participate in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade approaches, the section leaders are tasked with preparing students for their televised performance.

“The Macy’s drill has been really difficult. It’s really hard when you confine 400 people to such a small space,” said Lenau. “Trying to keep people engaged is the hard part for us.”

“Usually at this point in the season, we are done. Our brains are shut off; we are focused on finals,” added junior Julia Cardillo, who leads the 29-member color guard section.

Despite their experience and positions of authority in the band, the section leaders admitted that some of them are nervous for their televised appearance.

“We’ve been (practicing) on the field. … Who knows what sorts of things are going to be in our way,” Wudyka said.

“With color guard, there are so many unknown factors that could affect your performance,” Cardillo added. “What if I’m in the front row and I drop my flag?”

But despite all the nerves and extra work required for their performance at Macy’s, section leaders also hope that band members take this

time to unwind and enjoy New York City before the parade.

“Everything we do is so structured all the time,” Cardillo said. “So it’s really nice to get away with everyone.”

“I’m just going to encourage my section to enjoy their time,” Lenau said. “We have free time, which we never have. We’re staying in a hotel, which we never do. So they should definitely take advantage and hang out with as many people as they can and go experience as many things as they possibly can.”

And as the leaders march alongside their fellow band members on Thanksgiving, they all hope that the people lining the streets of New York City and those watching from home will have a new appreciation for those who devote their time and effort to being a part of the band.

“I came from a high school where being in band wasn’t exactly the coolest thing to do. But here, when you tell people you’re in the band, they’re like, ‘That’s so awesome,’” Lenau said. “I hope that’s what people take away: That being in band is awesome.”

Jaclyn Bryson can be reached at jbryson@umass.edu.

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of sex, including sexual assault and harassment.

Any college or university such as UMass that receives federal funding can be held legally responsible for ignoring sexual assault and harassment on its campus and in its programs.

According to the UMass website, the University’s Title IX Coordination Team “meets weekly to look at specific incidences of sexual harassment and sexual violence and to assure resources and responses are holistically coordinated across the University.”

Members of this coordination team include the CWC, the Department of Athletics, Residential Life, the Dean of Students Office and the UMPD. Sexual violence is a problem that many universities across the country face.

According to an article on sexual assault by ABC news, the U.S. Department of Justice predicts that one in four women will experience some form of sexual violence or assault while in college.

“Sexual violence continues to be the most underreported crime in the country. Research shows that most survivors never tell a staff person or report the

violence to police, but they will tell a friend. Based on that, I worry about the survivors on campus who aren’t receiving any additional support and aren’t sure what all their options are,” Lockwood said.

“There is no comprehensive sexual violence prevention plan and the corresponding resources to implement it on campus,” she said. According to Lockwood, this has been one of the biggest obstacles in dealing with sexual violence at UMass.

“With such a large campus like UMass, it is challenging to effectively educate everyone and get information about support resources to the entire campus community,” she said.

However, Lockwood said that she feels very positive about the direction that the University is heading in.

“In my opinion, the University has improved dramatically in terms of responding to disclosures of sexual violence. There is a consistent and coordinated effort among Residence Life, other student affairs staff, Athletics, UMPD and the Dean’s Office to support survivors and meet their needs,” she said.

The fight against sexual violence is not just the

administration’s responsibility, but also the responsibility of everyone on campus. Lockwood said there are lots of ways to help.

“Start small: don’t laugh at rape jokes or media that demeans rape victims and diminishes the impact of sexual violence,” she said.

“Talk with friends about what a healthy relationship is. If you are worried about how a friend is treating their boyfriend or girlfriend, don’t ignore it. Start a conversation.”

It is also important to remember that sexual violence is not just a women’s issue.

Lockwood encouraged students to talk about how anyone should have the right to say “no” to a sexual encounter, and how anyone have the right to say “yes” without ruining their reputation.

For students looking to do even more, Lockwood suggested they join an organization or student group that addresses sexual violence, like the Coalition to End Rape Culture.

“The CWC also has lots of volunteer opportunities for people of all gender identities,” she said, and added that people can visit their website for more information.

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States reject federalism Grasping in attempt to nullify ACA new forms President Obama modi- in the first two weeks of fied the Affordable Care Act November. The delay in enrollment is mostly due to Zac Bears IT problems, which professionals have smoothed out in last week, allowing insurers most state-run marketplaces. to offer non-compliant indiThe state-run exchanges vidual health plans through are helping small businesses 2014. This was the latest in too. Brad Camp, a business a series of compromises, owner from Washington, from the religious exemption visited the state exchange to the removal of the public after receiving a cancellation option, made by the Obama notice. He found a new plan administration on its signa- with better coverage and will ture achievement both before receive tax credits to cover and after the law was passed. the costs. In Kentucky, busiPundits scream in unison ness owner Howard Stovall that this latest compromise pays half the cost of his and the delayed rollout of employees’ plans. With his HealthCare.gov, the federal new plan from Kynect, the individual insurance market- state’s exchange, his employplace, spell doom for both the ees are saving between five ACA and Obama. and 40 percent for new plans Under the framework of with better benefits. The the ACA, individual market- business saves over 50 perplaces were to run on the cent as well. principle of federalism — If more states had set up that the states would run and run their own exchangtheir own programs under federal guidelines. However, 36 states opted not to run their own marketplaces, leaving that responsibility to the federal government, and es, the IT problems faced by thus we have HealthCare.gov. Healthcare.gov in the Oct. 1 This amounts to a modern rollout of the online marketnullification of federal law by places would not have been the states, which Merriam- debilitating.

While the ACA is a major Webster defines as, “the action of a state impeding reform, health care spendor attempting to prevent the ing accounts for 17.9 percent operation and enforcement of the U.S. economy, accordwithin its territory of a law ing to the World Health Organization. The private of the United States.”

The non-compliant indi- individual insurance market vidual plan exemption lasts is small in comparison. Most for one year, and many states people will never have to are not exempting insur- use HealthCare.gov because ers from the ACA quality most health care is employerrequirements because they sponsored, with over 59.5 perhave already implemented cent of insured Americans the federal rules in state laws receiving insurance from their job in 2013, according and regulation.

While HealthCare.gov to the Robert Wood Johnson is improving, hundreds of Foundation. The only major thousands of uninsured change to employer-sponcitizens have enrolled in sored plans is the ban on plans through the 14 state- rejecting patients based on run individual marketplac- preexisting conditions and es. In Connecticut, Anne allowing dependents to stay Masterson reduced her on their parent’s insurance monthly premiums from $965 plan until age 26. to $313, with an annual preIn addition, 34 percent mium savings of $8,000. That of the insured population marketplace has 96.5 percent had public insurance in consumer satisfaction.

2010. Fourteen percent had Peter Lee, director of Medicare, 15.9 percent had state marketplace Covered Medicaid and 4.2 percent had California, says, “What military health insurance, we are seeing is incredible according to data from the momentum.” Over 31,000 peo- 2010 census. Less than 10 perple enrolled in October, and cent of the insured populanearly double that enrolled tion purchases insurance on

the individual market.

With the knowledge that states run by ideologically anti-government politicians may reject an expansion of Medicaid, the ACA originally mandated that states expand Medicaid or lose all funding for their current Medicaid program. By challenging this in the courts and appealing to the conservative-majority Supreme Court, which found that mandate coercive, 25 states, many of them with the largest uninsured populations, have opted not to expand Medicaid, leaving 5,161,820 uninsured people in a coverage gap.

Meanwhile, Washington opted to expand Medicaid because it will save the state $300 million over the first 18 months and create 10,000 jobs. Kentucky did the same, with the expectation that the expansion could create 17,000

this mission, then Congress should reform them. The fundamental structure of the law will help reduce costs.

We have a law and the structure outlined by private market. Parts of the law may be flawed, but it will not be nearly as bad as insurers throwing individuals off of plans, the already sick unable to get any coverage and the only “affordable” plans offering little or no meaningful coverage.

If all 50 states had faithfully executed the core insurance-expanding provisions of the Affordable Care Act by creating a state individual marketplace and expanding Medicaid, health care cost reduction would increase faster than its present rate.

But by nullifying these provisions, states have impeded the rightful authority of the federal government to regulate the health insurance marketplace. While the spirit of federalism may be that states make their own decisions, federalism in the 21st century functions as a state-federal partnership. State and federal governments must work closely to best represent the needs of states as well as use the federal public debt to finance public investment.

State and federal governments must act in good faith toward each other for our federalist system to function. The “failure” of the Affordable Care Act will be moot in a few years when compliant states see further reductions in health care costs as more states that are non-compliant begin to accept reform, reducing costs even more.

That does not forgive the embarrassing nullification of the ACA by many states since 2010. When the voting base of the “party of markets” makes it impossible for that party to accept market-based policy solutions, the party clearly has a major political problem — they just need to stop taking their troubles out on American citizens.

“If all 50 states had faithfully executed the core insuranceexpanding provisions of the Affordable Care Act by creating a state individual marketplace and expanding Medicaid, health care cost reduction would increase faster than its present rate.”

jobs.

The ACA is not a complicated piece of legislation simply because it happens to be technical and verbose. The legislation is complicated because of the complex realities of our economy. Trying to regulate a private market to achieve better health outcomes is complicated because the free market does not inherently maximize positive health outcomes — it maximizes profits.

When talking about a policy, the most important question to ask is: What outcome do we want to achieve?

For health care, it has to be keeping people healthy and making sure that sick people get healthy in safe and cost-effective ways. If it’s maximizing firm profits by providing coverage to as many healthy people as possible, fighting tooth-and-nail on most claims and offering plans with bare-bones coverage, the system will not function well for many consumers.

The ACA attempts to make insurers, hospitals and some consumers pay externalized costs in order to provide better health care for more people at a lower price. If parts Zac Bears is a Collegian columnist. He of the law do not complete can be reached at ibears@umass.edu.

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We as a society are tak- would be clear. This form ing in more news every day of fan-based news may be than ever before. It may biased, but it is an update Karen Podorefsky nonetheless. If it weren’t for the Internet, those not be from the New York Times, but we’re learn- who didn’t attend the ing about current events game would need to wait from those around us, and to find out what happened increasingly through the in the newspaper—the day use of social media. after. Now, we can find out “Access to a world of within seconds. infinite information has Because of smartchanged how we comphones, we truly have municate, process informore access to news than mation, and think. …

Innovation, creativity, ever before. Social media and independent thinking is not a traditional form are increasingly crucial of news, yet it is inforto the global economy,” mative and progressive. states Wired Magazine’s We are constantly getting Joshua Davis. updates about our friends Many people from instead of famous figures. past generations think This is still news, as it is that we are a society that doesn’t care enough to be informing us of what is informed and follow news going on in the lives of the way they did. Young those who we care enough people especially are por- about to follow on a form trayed as lacking a work- of social media.

“Newspapers can still confirm and expand on information relevant to a larger population, but being able to localize and personalize our own news is an achievement in and of itself.” ing knowledge of current events. Newspapers are supposedly dying out, but the Internet lives on to deliver news to anyone at anytime and any place.

What is news to some may not be news to others. Experts agree that there are eight elements of a good news story: immediacy, proximity, prominence, oddity, conflict, suspense, emotion and consequence. Most of these elements apply to information that social media provides. If I were to post the status: “UMass hockey won!” immediately after a game, it is only relevant to UMass fans and fans of the opposing team. Considering the fact that a large amount of my Facebook friends go to UMass, this is information they care about. It is nearby, so it is relevant.

Even with only a handful of words, this abridged form of news delivers information that can be further investigated if desired.

News is local and global. Thanks to the Internet, anything can be found out with a click of a button. Twitter is especially useful for news updates because if, for example, I wasn’t at the hockey game, I could go on my Twitter feed to see live updates that my friends posted when each goal was scored. The excitement in these updates

This change in culture is due to media messages portrayed through online mediums, which have evolved over time with the progression of technology. James Carey, author of “Communication as Culture,” defines communication as “the transmission of signals or messages over distance for the purpose of control(,) … the desire to increase the speed and effect of messages as they travel in space … (and) a process whereby messages are transmitted and distributed in space for the control of distance and people.”

Social media fits this definition because it is constantly available, allowing us more access than traditional forms of news in finding out what is going on in our community.

News is meant to communicate information from one party to the next, with the goal of informing the public. Newspapers can still confirm and expand on information relevant to a larger population, but being able to localize and personalize our own news is an achievement in and of itself.

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

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Pokémon moves forward with ‘X’ and ‘Y’ New features stun but storyline lacks

By Stephen Margelonylajoie Collegian Staff

The Pokémon series arrived on the video game scene in 1996, bringing with it the simple yet entertaining idea of catching and raising “pocket monsters” to the Japanese role-playing game genre. The game has been phenomenally successful and fascinated people of all ages for years, raking in millions and millions of sales with each sequel. However, after more than ten iterations and rereleases of the JRPG, Pokémon’s once-successful formula has grown tired and overused. The recently released Pokémon “X” and “Y” have taken the old formula and, well, evolved it.

The biggest update to the game is its breathtaking graphics overhaul.

Financially, the creators of

Pokémon didn’t really have any choice other than move their attention to the 3DS, Nintendo’s latest flagship handheld device. The most logical move was to let go of the series’ ancient spritebased look and static battle art. In “X” and “Y,” characters and environments come to life, looking cartoonier than before (but not as ridiculous as the Pokémon anime series). Movement in the game still feels similar to its classic sprite-based days, with most areas relying on a grid-like mode of travel via foot, roller skates, bicycle and sometimes Pokémon. The classic movement looks much more fluid thanks to flush, beautiful, celshaded characters, cities and castles inspired by Parisian culture.

Since players spend the most time battling with their ferocious pets, the game’s creators have ensured that battles look and feel much more dynamic than in previous games. The movement of Pokemon finally features

actual movement this time around, and every Pokémon’s moves have been given a 3D touch that impresses players. The big issue with the battle graphics is the lack of creativity in scenery. Unless you’re fighting a gym leader or a member of the Elite Four, you’ll see the same environments repeatedly. However, this might have been an issue of system capability, as there is some obvious lag during most of the fights throughout the game. As amazing as the Pokémon and their move animations are in this game, they would have served better on a different, more capable gaming system.

The new battle mechanics themselves, however, are greatly welcomed. In order to add more diversity to battle strategies, a new Fairy type of Pokémon has been introduced. In addition to being the Dragon type’s worse enemy, the Fairy type also brings into the mix new weaknesses and resistances, but it’s still a majorly cute

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Six alternative ways for sporting a scarf Switching up your signature accessory By lauren toM

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Surviving this year’s chilly weather will be easy with a scarf, one of winter’s most basic essentials.

Scarves are a go-to accessory that will leave you feeling warm, cozy and chic. Thanks to the different ways that you can wear a scarf, your fashion will never be boring this season. Transforming one scarf into six different looks can be easy and fun, and will keep your winter look from going stale.

Braided knot This scarf look may sound complicated, but it is fairly easy to create, and it looks effortlessly chic. To get the braided-knot look, first wrap the scarf around your neck twice, doubling the material.

This gives the scarf a layered look with added volume.

Next, take one end of the scarf and thread it through the loop around your neck, and then rotate the loop and thread it through to the other end of the scarf.

Bow tie If you want a girlier look, the bow tie scarf is the perfect dose of feminine charm.

To create this dainty look, you’ll need a long, lengthy scarf—the added material will help you craft the bow.

First, wrap the scarf around your neck. It’s important to have both ends of the scarf together in front of you, such that both sides hang at relatively the same length.

After you’ve evened out the ends of the scarf, tie the cloth material into a bow tie, just like tying a bow with your shoelaces. Creating the bow is the easiest part, so have fun adjusting it to how you want it to appear around your neck. It can range from

a droopy, Bohemian-looking bow to a voluminous, fluffier knot.

Jake Reed rocks the half bow tie.

position of these knots until you find a look that works for you. Whether you go higher or lower, make sure both ends of the scarf are still even and match in the length, between the knot and Slipknot the ends. Allowing the scarf During the cold weather, to hang loosely around your it’s a challenge to look cute neck creates a very relaxed when wrapped up in lay- look, and the knots will give ers and layers of clothing. your outfit a bolder, eyeHowever, when done right, catching appearance. the bundled up look can lend itself to stylish street fashKnotted loop ion. The slipknot scarf is a bold statement that creates a This trendy, knotted loop chic and cozy look. scarf is very similar in conTo create this variation, cept to the infinity scarf. tie a normal slipknot with Creating this style works best the scarf, form a loop with with skinny scarves. the scarf, then place one end First, take the two ends of of the scarf under the loop the scarf and tie them togethand then up through it. This er. Tying them together crecreates another loop. Pull out ates one big loop, allowing this new loop until the first the accessory to function as loop is tightened. an infinity scarf.

Next, tuck one end of Then, put the scarf loop the scarf around and then around your neck. Depending back into the loop, creating a on how long the scarf is, you defined knot. can either leave it as one loop

Double knot Another different way of wearing a scarf is the doubleknot style. It’s a great example of a less-is-more look, and it’s very easy to create.

First, rest the scarf around your neck and even out both ends so they hang together in front of you. Then, tie a knot on each end of the scarf.

You can play around a lot with this look. Adjust the

around your neck or double it up and wrap it around twice. This will give the scarf a fuller, layered look.

Remember: Scarves are essential in the wintertime, and with these six different looks, you’ll not only need to wear them to stay warm—you’ll want to be seen wearing them too.

Lauren Tom can be reached at lktom@umass.edu.

Nintendo released a special edition 3DS along with Pokémon ‘X’ and ‘Y.’ The new generation’s weakest moments lie within its story. Now, it’s no secret that the storylines of past Pokémon games have never been the series’ strong suit, but Pokémon Black and White took the story to epic proportions that questioned the structures of morality and ethics in the Pokémon universe. “X” and “Y,” on the other hand, feature little more than a bland, albeit fashionable, villain seeking the world’s destruction with very little motive. This is unfortunate because the series finally

accomplished a groundbreaking achievement in storytelling with Black and White, but the creators forewent repeating this success to focus on improving all other aspects of the game regarding graphics and gameplay.

“X” and “Y” will be fresh and exciting for longtime lovers of the series, but the game will never reach perfection until its creators can finally mesh their storytelling talents with graphical evolution.

Stephen Margelony-Lajoie can be reached at smargelo@umass.edu.

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Half bow tie The half bow tie scarf creates a cool, avant-garde look. This innovative style is a little complicated, but it’s worth the stylish appearance. To assemble this look, loop the scarf around and let it rest around your neck.

Next, tie it like a bow-tie, creating a loop with just one side of the scarf rather than both. Wrap the longer section of the scarf in front and then behind the entire scarf, right next to your neck.

The final step is to arrange the loop to your liking. Pat and fluff it out until you are satisfied with your look.

addition to Pokémon warfare.

Another prominent update to the game’s mechanics is Mega Evolution, a temporary in-battle evolution that requires a Pokémonspecific Mega Stone and a special device that interacts with the Mega Stone. Mega Evolution, although suspiciously similar Digimon’s famous Digievolution, was executed brilliantly. Instead of giving Pokémon an extra evolution that makes them more powerful overall, Mega Evolution only changes strengths, weaknesses and aesthetic appearance. For instance, a Fire type (usually weak to Ground) may inherit the abilities of a Ground type temporarily. This makes the Pokemon more impervious to Ground type moves, but makes Ice a major weakness.

Other than this, the next best thing about Mega Evolution is really its incredible aesthetic value. For instance, a black Charizard? Few other things in the game get cooler than that.

When I first met my current boyfriend of nearly two years, I told him that I would never be in a long-distance relationship. End of discussion. At this point, he had just enlisted in the United States Army which, to me, meant we would never date.

Looking back, I believe my reluctance was based on the common assumption that long-distance relationships ultimately fail. I have had countless people tell me, point blank: “Long distance doesn’t work.”

We are hard-wired to believe two things about dating: First, that in order to maintain a happy relationship, you have to spend every waking second together; and second, that if your relationship is based on long distance and fails, the distance is undoubtedly the cause of its downfall.

Neither is true.

Though physical intimacy is a key part of any healthy relationship, couples can manage to be faithful and happy, even if they spend extended periods of time apart.

So how do you make a long distance relationship work?

Don’t let the distance define you.

When long-distance couples have problems, everyone blames the distance first.

But most likely, this isn’t the cause of your struggle. Treat your relationship like any other: Focus on what you love about that person, what you like to do together and where you see the two of you in the future. However…

Do accept the distance.

It shouldn’t become a monster you refuse to talk about.

If you start thinking of your significant other in the con-

text of the struggle against distance, instead of seeing him or her as the person you like to sit up drinking beers with until three in the morning, listening to weird indie music while your upstairs neighbors pound on the floor telling you to be quiet, you are in trouble.

Do define your relationship.

You cannot have a successful relationship if one person is insecure about where you stand. Before one member leaves for a new locale, decide what you are. Are you monogamous? Are you just having fun? How serious are you?

These are all very important things to know, because if you don’t define a relationship, your expectations are likely going to be very different from your significant other’s. One of you is going to do something that hurts the other without meaning to, and without technically doing anything wrong, because neither of you ever declared where the “line” was.

Don’t convince yourself that you’re missing out.

Ever heard the phrase, “The grass is always greener?” People who are single tend to wish that they were in a relationship. People in relationships, who often have doubts or fears regarding them, always fall back on how great it was to be single and unattached. But think really hard. Was it so great? Was it better than being in a loving, open, honest relationship with someone you care deeply for? If the answer is yes, well, maybe monogamy isn’t for you, and that’s fine. But if the answer is no, you’re just overthinking things and need to calm down. Are you really going to let a few nights alone keep you from spending your life with someone who makes you truly happy?

Do save money.

You don’t want to reach a

point where you are forced to choose between paying rent and seeing your beau for the holidays.

Don’t cheat.

Just don’t do it. If you want to be with someone else so badly that you can’t wait for the person you love, maybe you shouldn’t be in a relationship at all.

Do make time for them.

Make Skype or FaceTime dates. Text them. Call when you can. Set times and dates for video chat. Agree on when you’ll see each other again.

You are less likely to feel insecure or forgotten if you keep all lines of communication open.

Do make time for your friends.

When your significant other is away, don’t spend every single night talking to them. Don’t text them the entire time you are out with your friends. It’s not emotionally healthy for you to dwell on their absence and alienate your best support system.

Do be creative.

Write letters. Share photos. Send each other videos or leave voicemails. Google other cute ideas to surprise one another. There’s a lot more information out there to help make long distance easier. And last but not least…

Do remember that no one knows your relationship as well as you do.

People have their opinions, but the only opinions that really matter are those of yourself and your significant other. If you are truly right for each other, then the distance will not destroy you.

Steffi Porter can be reached at steffi@umass.edu.

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Six UMass recruits sign National Letters of Intent Recruiting in focus early in the season

By Nick caNelas Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s hockey team had a rare weekend off after their series with Boston College ended on Friday. While the players used it as an opportunity to get some muchneeded rest, UMass coach John Micheletto hit the recruiting trail.

Micheletto had little time to digest the Minutemen’s hard-fought, 2-2 tie with the Eagles on Friday night.

As soon as the team bus returned to Amherst, the second-year coach had his mind set on a 7 a.m. flight out of Hartford, Conn. on Saturday morning.

With practices all week and multiple games during the weekend, it’s not often that Micheletto has the chance to do some inseason recruiting. But as a former director of recruiting at Vermont, the experience was certainly nothing new for him.

“It’s what you do,” Micheletto said. “We gotta take advantage of those weekends. When you’re a head coach, you don’t get out as much as you used to. So when you’re off Saturday and Sunday and you have an opportunity to get somewhere, you gotta take advantage of it.”

On Tuesday, fans got a chance to see the results of Micheletto’s efforts, as the team announced that six players signed a National Letter of Intent to join

UMass next season as part of the class of 2018.

The group includes Brandon Egli, a 5-foot-10inch, 185-pound defenseman from the Victoria Grizzlies of the British Columbia Junior Hockey League; Dennis Kravchenko, a 5-foot-9-inch, 176-pound forward from the Sioux Falls Stampede of the United States Hockey League; Patrick Lee, a 5-foot-9-inch, 154-pound forward from the Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior Hockey League; Maddison Smiley, a 6-foot, 181-pound defenseman who is a teammate of Lee’s on the Bandits; Brandon Montour, a 6-foot, 174-pound defenseman of the USHL’s Waterloo Black Hawks and 5-foot-11-inch, 170-pound forward Dominic Trento from the New Jersey Hitmen of the United States Premier Hockey League.

All six players were brought in to fit Micheletto’s fast style of play that includes being aggressive on both ends of the ice. With nine players and 16 upperclassmen on the roster, the Minutemen could use all of the incoming reinforcements that they can get.

“We’re losing a lot of numbers and a lot of guys who have put up points here,” Micheletto said.

“We’re not eager to see those guys go, but at the same time, we’re excited about the guys we’ve been able to commit. They are a lot of guys forward-wise as well as from the blue line that have put up points, so I think they’ll continue to add to the offensive mindset while being able to play

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ment play that the Minutemen will face, an opportunity that will arise again in March for the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

UMass is slated to face Nebraska on Thursday, and they may also play No. 19 New Mexico depending on tournament results. “(The tournament) gets the young guys a taste of what conference play is like, what tournament ball is like,” Williams said. “It’s just like conference formation, so we just gotta go out there ready to play three games in four nights.”

The opportunity could be the first for freshmen, such as Demetrius Dyson and Seth Berger, to solidify their roles off the bench. A season ago, then-freshmen Trey Davis

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both sides of the puck.”

However, getting players to commit to a program requires much more than early-morning flights across the country (as well as Canada). It is the job of Micheletto and the entire coaching staff to sell the team as well as the school in general to the recruit.

According to Micheletto, one of the biggest sellingpoints of UMass is that a player doesn’t have to choose between getting a quality education and playing hockey at the highest level.

Micheletto also uses UMass’ location as a recruiting tool. He explains to recruits that they won’t have to deal with living in the middle of a busy city, but they will still get the experience of living in a lively town.

“For our guys that have come in, I think they’ve been surprised,” Micheletto said. “They either pictured us being Boston because we’re in Massachusetts, or they pictured us being out in the middle of nowhere.

“Either way, I think when they come here, they’ve been pleasantly surprised with what they have to offer. They don’t have as many negatives with being in the big city, along with the positives of still having things to do outside of sitting in your dormitory.”

The most important element, of course, is the product on the ice, and Micheletto can’t help but get excited when he sees the potential his future teams have with each commitment, let alone getting

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and Tyler Bergantino eventually became important players off the bench for UMass coach Derek Kellogg as well.

In his sixth season, Kellogg has built a program consisting of young, talented players who have easily assimilated into the culture. When talking about current recruits C.J. Anderson and Rashaan Holloway, Kellogg mentioned how his current group of “good kids” created a strong basketball culture.

“The kids that have come and visited actually feel like we have a good group of guys,” he said. “And I think that’s been kind of special for me as a head coach—to be able to bring in the type of kids we like to have here, and also have them play well.”

With the season still in its infancy, the upcoming trip to Charleston, S.C. offers the Minutemen an early chance to become closer as a group while making an impact on the national level outside the friendly confines of Amherst.

“We know it’s us 14 playing. We’re gonna go out there with our backs against the wall and try to prove the world something,” Williams said before taking a second to ponder. “Maybe not really prove the world anything, just play our basketball and show the world we’re a force to be reckoned with.”

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

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John Micheletto used a flexible schedule this past weekend hit the recruiting trail on both Saturday and Sunday. six players to sign at once.

“Recruiting is so yearround, and you get that little jolt of energy from guys when you get a verbal commitment, and you’re thinking about how you’re adding him to the mix and how the picture is rounding out for that class, what do you need next when you get that,” Micheletto said.

“It’s good, but it is one at a time at that point. Now you’re getting everybody to sign and you’re seeing it as a whole class, and it’s a lot easier to find your excitement for the future and seeing all those pieces and how they fit together.”

There have only been 12 games this season, but Micheletto’s first recruiting class has already made its presence felt. Steven Iacobellis (seven points)

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and Ray Pigozzi (six) are fifth and sixth in scoring for UMass and have mainstays on the Minutemen’s most productive line, alongside Troy Power, this season.

Add that to the impressive first two career starts from goaltender Mac Haight over the weekend, which earned him Hockey East Rookie of the Week honors, and the sky-high expectations surrounding the debut of Frank Vatrano, and UMass appears to have plenty to look forward to in the future.

But with the departure of numerous key players at the end of the season and plenty of spots to fill, there’s no shortage of playing time to be had.

And Micheletto is making that clear to his potential recruits.

“When you lose a (Conor) Sheary and a (Branden) Gracel and a (Michael) Pereira and a (Joel) Hanley and (Colin) Shea and guys that eat big, big minutes, now guys coming in—it’s not promised to them or guaranteed to them—but the opportunity to fill a role of guys that played in big situations and critical moments, that’s what they’re aspiring to,” Micheletto said. “That’s the hope from their standpoint.

It’s certainly things that we point to like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna need guys to come in and play right away.’”

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

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Dawley said that better boxing out can improve the rebounding, and that being outscored in the paint has mainly been due to poor transition defense.

She also stressed the importance of communication between players on defense.

“Talking on defense has to be better,” she said.

“We either over-help or don’t help enough. So, that’s a matter of getting freshmen and sophomores to get a better sense of what to do on the defensive end.”

The Minutewomen had a fairly strong performance on the boards on Sunday, outrebounding American 35-32, led by

the efforts of Bomben and Timbilla, who grabbed nine and six rebounds respectively.

For Timbilla, who also added 11 points in the game, it was a pleasant turnaround after being shut down against Western Michigan and held to five points and two rebounds against Central Michigan.

Dawley said that Timbilla had been playing with an injury, and now that she’s healthy, the team can expect strong performances from her.

“I think with Rashida feeling better, I think we can go with a bigger lineup. We’re particularly looking at Kymber (Hill).

She played tremendous defense over the weekend.

“So, we could go with a bigger lineup with just defense in mind. The offense might take a hit, but it’s not like the offense has clicked that well that that’s a worry I need to have. I think you’ve got to pick what end you’re going to fix first, and what end you think is most important, and what your identity’s going to be, and we want to be a defensive squad.”

really changed out of the box for her,” Tagliente said.

“She just is more of a visible leader now.”

Prince’s collegiate career came to an end when the Minutewomen fell to Duke in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, ending the team’s most successful season since 2000.

“It’s a sad thing for us to be done, and this group will never play as these 23 girls ever again,” Prince said. “But I’m so proud of how far we came in the last three years since Carla’s been here. We’ve grown so much.”

She said the thing she’ll miss the most as she moves on to the next stage in her life will be the game days at Garber Field.

“Putting on the uniform, being in the locker room with the team, getting pumped up, going out on the field,” she said. “Definitely playing at Garber, and just being with my team.”

lege won’t mean the end of field hockey for Prince. As a public health major with a minor in psychology, Prince wants to become a college field hockey coach. She currently coaches a club team in Greenfield, and teaches some field hockey clinics and gives personal lessons over the summer.

Prince will be working with Tagliente over the spring and getting some mentoring from her.

Tagliente said Prince has what it takes to be a great coach.

“You don’t see many players anymore fixating and articulating that that’s what they want to do. Usually, it’s, ‘I will if I don’t find something else,’” Tagliente said.

“But she’s really clear in her goals and what she wants to do, and because of her clarity and how focused she is on it, I think she’ll succeed in it.”

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adapted well, and obviously we’ve had a lot of success with her.”

When Tagliente saw Prince in her first season as a coach, she saw a lot of potential in her.

“She was a strong defender in a lot of ways, and a decent distributor out of the back too,” Tagliente said.

“We were pretty impressed with what her skill set was, but we knew she could grow in a lot of different areas.”

But over the course of the three seasons she’s coached, Tagliente has also discovered just how much passion Prince has for the game.

“There’s not really a day she takes a day off when she’s on the field,” she said.

“You never have to worry about her bringing it to practice, raising the level of practice, being prepared for practice. If anything, you’re pulling her back and trying to get her to take a breath and relax.”

And that passion isn’t just limited to the field of play.

“For her, it could be just some random daily thing, and she does it with the intensity that she steps on the field every day,” Tagliente said.

Prince has come a long way in her time at UMass.

After scoring her first offensive points in her junior year with two goals and five assists, Prince achieved career-highs in her final season with eight goals and 12 assists, and led the team in defensive saves with four, tying her career-high.

“This has been her most consistent season in terms of performance,” Tagliente said. “I think in the past, we definitely saw her performance ebbing and flowing and being a little bit of a roller coaster, and hitting a point in the season each of the years where she really hit kind of a stagnant point.

She hasn’t hit that this year.”

Leading the team Prince was named the team’s strength and conditioning captain in the spring of her sophomore year, and

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Hannah Prince (right) embraced her role as a leader this season. took on the role of organizing the team’s warm-up and workout sessions. She would also help organize the team’s preparations for road trips.

“I like things to be on time and organized, so I kind of just took on that,” Prince said.

She also took on small leadership roles on the field, trying to encourage her teammates and give them constructive criticism.

“She leads by example, but she’s a great locker room leader as well,” Tagliente said. “She is vocal and not afraid to communicate and organize and say what’s on her mind.”

So when Prince was named co-captain in her senior year, along with senior midfielder Alexa Sikalis and junior defender Lauren Allymohamed, it was almost a formality.

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Hannah Prince (above) celebrates in the Atlantic 10 Championship against Richmond. The senior had eight goals and 12 assists in her final campaign and totaled 37 points in her career.

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s a young first grader, Hannah Prince would get up on Saturday mornings and go out onto the wet, grassy high school fields in her hometown of Gorham, Maine to take part in field hockey clinics taught by local high school players.

“When I first started, it was more of like, ‘duck, duck, goose,’ and how to hold the stick and an occasional dribble,” Prince said.

“That was pretty much the extent of us actually playing, but every year it progressed more.”

Fifteen years later, Prince is a senior co-captain on the nationally-ranked Massachusetts field hockey team.

An ‘almost immediate’ love Greg Prince, Hannah’s father, said that his daughter’s love for

field hockey was “almost immediate.”

“At the end of our driveway there’s a little bit of a wall, and she would go out there for hours, just slapping the ball against the wall, and ask me to turn the light on when it got dark,” he said.

Prince was introduced to the game by her older sister, Jordan, but the high school students who taught her were her true inspiration.

“They were so much older, and they were very athletic and they set a good example for my class,” Prince said. “They made a big impact on us.”

Prince had come to idolize one high schooler in particular, Jennifer Durgin. Durgin’s older sister, Alicia Durgin, coached Prince in middle school, and took her to some of Jennifer’s games at Springfield College. Seeing

Jennifer play at the collegiate level was an important moment for Prince.

“That’s when I kind of decided that college field hockey was my next goal after high school,” Prince said.

Coming to UMass After playing four years at Gorham High School, where she played all-state three years in a row (2007-09) and won other honors such as Western Maine Player of the Year and Miss Maine Field Hockey (both in 2009), Prince looked to the collegiate scene and ultimately decided on UMass.

“I wanted a small town setting, and the UMass program has a great history and I loved the coaches,” she said.

Prince was recruited by former coach Justine Sowry.

Donning Jennifer Durgin’s jersey No. 11, Prince started in all 21

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games in her first year with the Minutewomen. When it was over, all she wanted to do was play more field hockey.

“As soon as (the last game) was over, her and I were talking,” Greg Prince said. “And she goes, ‘I can’t wait to play again.’ And I believe when she got back to UMass, she went out on the field the next day and hit the ball around.”

After that season, Sowry was hired to coach at Louisville, and current Minutewomen coach Carla Tagliente came to the team in January 2010.

Prince said she was sad to see Sowry go, and it wasn’t easy transitioning to a new coach, but now she’s glad to have Tagliente at the helm.

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It’s no secret that the Massachusetts men’s basketball team is a close-knit group.

On the video screen in the Mullins Center before games, various UMass mainstays such as Chaz Williams and Sampson Carter recite the meaning of the acronym “P.A.I.N.:” “Pressure,” “agitate,” “interrupt” and “neutralize” are all buzzwords that form the slogan after which the team models itself.

Various players often refer to this year’s team as a “brotherhood.” Aside from Derrick Gordon, all of the members of the starting lineup have played together within the same system for the better part of three seasons. The Minutemen are a focused, united group who are set on making a national impact this year.

Three games into 2013, and fans of UMass basketball are seeing the closeness on display.

Whether it be the smacking of the court on defense—an act Williams typically starts, which delights the crowd—or a verbal pick-me-up from a player like Cady Lalanne, the core group of Minutemen have remained on the same page en route to a 3-0 record.

Now, with their first road trip out of state borders to play in the upcoming Charleston Classic, the Minutemen have a chance to grow into an even tighter unit and acclimate some of the younger players into UMass basketball culture.

“We’re gonna depend on a lot of guys that’s not used to playing,” Williams said before Monday’s practice. “The starting five can’t play 40 minutes all three nights.

Some of the young guys are gonna have to step up and be ready to play, and I think they’re looking forward to it.”

The Charleston Classic offers the first real example of typical tournasee

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UMass ready to face legend Minutewomen look Vivian Stringer leads Rutgers into Mullins By andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

It’s not every day that you see a Hall of Fame coach standing on the sidelines at the Mullins Center.

This Wednesday, the Massachusetts women’s basketball team hosts Rutgers, led by Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer.

Stringer’s career achievements are spectacular. She became the first coach in both men’s and women’s college basketball to take three separate schools to the Final Four. She currently sits third on the all-time ranking of wins as a women’s college coach, with 901.

“She’s l e g e n d a r y, ” Minutewomen coach Sharon Dawley said when asked about Stringer. “It’s an honor to coach against her and it’s an honor to watch her teams play.”

However, UMass (0-3) isn’t getting caught up in the fanfare that Stringer brings to this game.

This young team is still hungry for their first win of the season, and they would love nothing more than to upset the Scarlet Knights at home in arguably the biggest game of the year.

Coming into this game, the

Minutewomen have had their fair share of problems. None have been more predominant than their struggles inside the paint on both the offensive and defensive ends.

UMass’ struggles rebounding the ball have been apparent, as the team averages only 37 rebounds per game to opponents’ 47 rebounds per game. Dawley has also had her hands full with her frontcourt, as she has been starting a different pair of forwards in all three games of the season.

“Rashida (Timbilla) hasn’t been healthy. She’s been playing hurt and it’s unfortunate she’s started off the season that way.

She’s much better than she was a week ago, and now that she’s healthy, I think we can go with a bigger, more defensive lineup,” Dawley said Dawley’s main focus at practice on Tuesday was her team’s ability to play transition defense.

The Minutewomen have allowed 84.5 points per game this season, many of which have come from failure to get back on defense after committing turnovers.

“We are looking to be a defensive squad,” Dawley said. “We are going to have to change the starting lineup in order to come out of the gate and not get behind early.”

Captain Emily Mital has emerged as an offensive leader on

the court for UMass, averaging 10 points per game to go along with her team-leading 41.7 percent, 3-point percentage. While Mital’s game relies heavily on her catchand-shoot game from the perimeter, both she and Dawley have made it a focal point to attack the basket and get to the free-throw line.

“I’ve been more aggressive ripping the ball and going to the basket, like coach wants me to,” Mital said on Tuesday. “(The referees) are obviously calling the game much more closely this year, and so I can get to the free-throw line and use that to my advantage.”

Saying that the refs are calling the games more closely is an understatement.

At the beginning of the season, refs were told by the NCAA to crack down on the amount of hand-check fouls and increase the number of reach-in fouls called away from the basket. UMass averages just over 27 attempts at the free-throw line per game this season, including a seasonhigh 34 attempts in their previous game against American.

Despite the slow start to the season, the Minutewomen are confident, energetic and eager to get their first win of the season at home against Rutgers on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass. edu.

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Dawley searching for “I’m looking for aggressive defensive consistency defense out of the gate.”

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A young team takes time to come together and find out what works best for them, and that’s just what the Massachusetts women’s basketball team is doing this season, as the team has sent out three different pairs of starting forwards through its first three games.

In the first game of the season against Western Michigan, Rashida Timbilla and Kim Pierre-Louis were the starting forwards. Against Central Michigan, it was Timbilla and Kiara Bomben.

And against American on Sunday, it was Bomben and Paula Tarnachowicz.

“I think we’re still evolving. I think you’ll see a different starting group tomorrow,” UMass coach Sharon Dawley said. “We have a lot of talent, (but) we haven’t gelled in terms of, ‘This is the best starting five, this is the best sixth and seventh man.’

That’s a process.”

Dawley added that one of the main reasons for changing the starting lineup is the team’s

struggles early in the game.

So far, the Minutewomen have been outscored 114-77 by their opponents in the first half, and fallen behind 9-0 within the first two minutes against Central Michigan while taking a 17-6 deficit within the first seven minutes against American.

“I’m looking for aggressive defense out of the gate,” Dawley said. “We’re looking at maybe going a little bit bigger and going with some defensive kids that their mindset is just to protect, hold their ground, and that’s what we’re not doing out of the gate. Every game, we’ve started in a hole.”

UMass has had particular struggles down low. The team has been outrebounded by its opponents in two of its three games, including a 62-33 rebound deficit against Central Michigan. The team has also been outscored in the paint in all three games. see

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