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The money that is donated would go toward rent while the store is closed and transitioning to a smaller space. It would also pay for necessary reconstruction materials, new books and go toward keeping debt payments at bay while there is no income during the closing.

While there have been financial problems for the past three years, Johnston said, “This summer, we saw potential for this campaign.”

The store offers events for the public; however the events in November could have made more money.

While there are not any December events planned yet, there are ideas that are bouncing back and forth.

Johnston goes on to say that competing with the bigger names, like Chegg and Amazon is difficult today, especially because of the easy online order choices.

“I loved going to a bookstore when I was in college.

It was very satisfying,” Johnston said.

One of their efforts in trying to be more appealing with students is filling orders online by walking across the street to the post office, and mailing textbooks to students less than a mile away.

Decency is also a factor which Johnston said is an important part of owning a business.

“We have been clear and honest about our store. If we don’t have a book in the store, we won’t advertise for it,” she said.

The store needs $5,000 by the end of November, and the rest by the end of December. Food for Thought’s indie go go account link can be found on the store’s website.

Food for Thought, a local bookstore located in the center of Amherst, has recently written a newsletter informing customers that due to insufficient funds, it will be closing by the end of 2013 after 37 years unless there is a drastic change in circumstance.

The newsletter explains the main problem, which is the “financial debt incurred by the massive drop in textbook sales over the past couple of years.” Fewer books sit on the shelves because of a lack of money to invest in new stock.

It states that there is still a chance for the store to remain open past the end of this year, but in order for that to happen, changes must be made.

Grace Johnston, an owner of the store, said if they raise enough money in sales or donations, Food for Thought will stay open, but only at half its current size.

They are looking to raise $38,000 and have received $8,821 in donations through an indiegogo account so far.

The account launched on Nov. 16, 2013 and accepts $5, $25 and $50 donations.

When someone chooses a $50 dollar donation, two former volunteers will match the contribution.

The description box says these two former volunteers are willing to match the next $5,000 in donations $50 and above.

The store has been advertising its events and donations through emails, which are seen by about 2,000 people through a mailing list, press releases, flyers Catherine Ferris can be reached at around town and Facebook. caferris@umass.edu.

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The Wicked Pitch a capella concert on Saturday had a great turnout and included new hits such as “Wrecking Ball” and “I Don’t Care.”

PVTA organizes ‘Stuff the Bus’ Collection supports two local charities By shelBy ashline Collegian Staff

The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority’s annual “Stuff the Bus” food drive began this year on Nov. 18 and will continue through Monday.

All PTVA buses contain donation bins for non-perishable food items, which will be given to help “food insecure community members,” according to a press release.

All food collected on buses operating out of the PVTA’s garage at the University of Massachusetts will be donated to the

Amherst Survival Center.

Food collected on buses from the Northampton and Springfield garages will be donated to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.

The food drive was originally planned four years ago because the PVTA wanted “to do something to serve the community,” said PVTA Administrator Mary MacInnes.

“The other part of it too is many of our riders are lowincome themselves, so it’s conceivable that our own riders will benefit from this program,” she added.

Last year the PVTA collected around 2,000 pounds of food during the campaign and MacInnes hopes to top that number this year.

“[The campaign has] been very successful in the past,” said MacInnes. “And [the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts] where we deliver the goods for the southern area and the Amherst Survival Center up north are always very appreciative of the donation.”

The area within which the PVTA operates includes 44 bus routes within 24 communities. This includes anywhere between Sunderland in the north and the Connecticut border in the south, as well as between Westfield in the west and Ware in the east. Food donations come from within these 24 communities.

Donations are also accepted at the PVTA terminals

in Springfield and Holyoke, as well as at the customer service office and the administration office, both located in Springfield.

According to MacInnes, the PVTA has conducted other drives in the past aside from the “Stuff the Bus” campaign, such as a winter coat drive, though they are not necessarily held annually.

“We also work with the United Way at the beginning of the school year for donating school supplies,” she added.

MacInnes said the PVTA will definitely continue to hold the “Stuff the Bus” campaign in future years.

Shelby Ashline can be reached at sashline@umass.edu.

Honors students express mixed views on Roots Café Many want to use regular meal swipes This article is part three in a series addressing student reactions to the Commonwealth Honors Complex.

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he newly built Roots Café located in the center of the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community (CHCRC) has attracted students with the promise of fresh salads, brick-oven baked pizzas and hot sandwiches. “[I eat there] probably at least once a week,” said freshman Tyler Russell. “I like the convenience that Roots provides. It’s a lot easier than walking over

to Hampshire or anywhere else.”

While some students are fond of the café, there are others who think it’s not entirely convenient. One inconvenience is the fact that aside from grab and go offered for breakfast, regular meal swipes are not accepted at Roots Café.

“That’s the problem. I don’t want to spend money so I’m kind of forced into using most of my meal swipes at Berk and Hampshire,” said Russell, who has used all of his YCMPs this semester at Roots Café already.

“It would be nice if they took regular swipes, because we only have so many YCMPs,” added freshman Julia Amodeo.

Some students add that the café doesn’t have enough space or resources to serve students for lunch and dinner with regular meal

swipes.

“If they did that it might be too busy,” added Russell.

“I don’t know if they are built for that capacity really.”

“I’m not severely bothered because I know it’s not a dining hall, it’s not built that way. But it would kind of be nice if maybe on the weekends they took meal swipes,” said freshman Katie Hill. “It’s understandable but it’s kind of inconvenient.”

Many students added that despite having the centrally located café nearby, the traffic to Berkshire Dining Commons and Hampshire Dining Commons is usually unmanageable, since they serve students in both the Southwest dorms and CHCRC. “We try to go early, so that it’s not crowded,” said freshsee

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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s body was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery three days after he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

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Italy’s president rules out pardon for Berlusconi ROME — Italian President Giorgio Napolitano will not grant Silvio Berlusconi a pardon, the office of the head of state said Sunday, three days before a Senate vote on the former prime minister’s expulsion.

Italy’s upper chamber is expected to kick out Berlusconi, because of a law that excludes convicted members from Parliament. The conservative leader has been found guilty of tax fraud and is due to serve one year of community service.

Napolitano’s press office told the ANSA news agency that “conditions have not arisen” to grant Berlusconi a pardon. It also criticized the scandalprone politician’s inflammatory remarks from a day earlier.

Berlusconi’s statements and actions were described as “extremely serious, outrageous in tone and content.” He was urged to keep his protests “within the bounds of institutional respect and normal and dutiful legality.”

Speaking at a party rally on Saturday, Berlusconi compared his conviction and looming Senate expulsion to a “coup d’etat” and “political homicide.” He charged that it would be “ridiculous and unacceptable” for him to do community service.

He indicated that he had no intention to apply for a presidential pardon, because it would offend his “dignity,” but nevertheless urged Napolitano to grant him one “without a moment’s hesitation.”

His party also announced a street protest on the day of the Senate vote.

In August, days after Berlusconi was convicted, Napolitano said he would examine “objectively and rigorously” any pardon request, implying that he would not act unless Berlusconi specifically applied for clemency.

There has never been any suggestion that Berlusconi, 77, would go to jail over his tax fraud conviction, because of lenient sentencing rules for people age 70 or older.

Authorities, however, have stripped him of his passport.

Deprived of parliamentary immunity, he could face arrest if accused of new crimes. Prosecutors in Milan plan to investigate allegations that he bribed witnesses in another trial, in which he was found guilty of soliciting sex from a minor, and of abuse of power.

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Local retailers prepare for Black Friday sales Stores must be ready for crowds

By Kristin LaFratta Collegian staff

It is almost that time of year again – a time when retail stores everywhere brace themselves for an army of savvy, skilled shoppers ready to attack discounted products. Black Friday, the day following Thanksgiving when commercial retailers offer extended hours for promotional deals and discounts, is quickly approaching. While stores are meticulously preparing for a barrage of shoppers, UMass students appear to have a less strategic approach.

Freshman Mariah Girouard has had some Black Friday experience, though she does not believe in planning.

“Just go wherever the crowds go, that’s where the deals are,” she said. “I’m just going to go with the flow…I’m little, I’m very good at maneuvering through crowds.”

Girouard added that last year she fell asleep at a Kohl’s waiting for friends after she had spent all her money. “You do things you wouldn’t normally do,” she said.

The success or failure of Black Friday is often an indicator to stores as to what their holiday season sales will look like. Many stores plan well in advance for the day in the hope of selling as much merchandise as possible.

“We’ve had to stay after we’ve closed in order to fill the store and restock everything out on the floor and under-stock tables so we have everything out for Black Friday,” said American

Eagle Outfitters employee and Stylist Associate Melissa Pennicka. With over 900 locations, the popular young adult clothing chain has added extra shifts in the few weeks leading up to Black Friday for preparations.

Employees at both GameStop and Bath and Body Works say that overstaffing is the main way their stores deal with Black Friday shoppers.

Bath and Body Works employee Catherine Kingsbury said the fragrance store has a “zone” system for top customer service.

“We have a ton of associates working so that we can like answer questions, help with coupons, sell things,” Kingsbury said. “But we don’t have crowd control, really.”

Pennicka said American Eagle employers have a similar system. “The company sends us a map of where you should have employees,” she said, adding that cashiers and greeters are essential, as well as managers “floating” around the store.

Overstaffing and floor guiding tape, such as the Bath and Body Works system of evenly-spaced red dots that customers are asked to stand on, are implemented in order to prevent confusion and overcrowding of customers.

However, some of these preemptive measures may seem unnecessary to some.

“Usually you just go in a store and see what you like,” said freshman Katelyn Richards.

Richards added that she went to Kohl’s and Wal-Mart on Black Friday last year.

“The Wal-Mart was insane. People were lining up hours before like you see in the news,” she said.

Managers at commercial

stores such as Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Best Buy were unwilling to speak about their stores’ preparations for Black Friday.

Senior student India Mankes said she does not participate in Black Friday or support any commercial corporations during the holiday season.

“When I do Christmas shopping, I do it from independent boutiques like Etsy and eBay because they’re like independent sellers, instead of like giving money to corporations that clearly don’t need our money this time of the year,” Mankes said.

She added she would shop on Cyber Monday – Black Friday’s online equivalent – but only from independent stores.

Target employee Danielle Smith said she feels the day “is a little ridiculous.”

She is happy that it is illegal for retailers to operate on Thanksgiving in Massachusetts, unlike the neighboring states such of Connecticut and New York, where stores may open as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. “It’s this weird mob mentality,” Smith said, referring to customers on Black Friday.

“People are very demanding and very rude, and they kind of forget what common courtesy is sometimes.”

American Eagle Outfitters Shift Leader Manager Mia Goshia looks forward to the ordeal.

“It’s my favorite day,” she said. “There’s just so much going on, so much craziness, I love it.”

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

Pakistani doctor who helped find bin Laden is unlikely to go free May spend rest of life in jail on manslaughter charges By tom Hussain McClatchy Foreign Staff ISLAMABAD—The Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency find Osama bin Laden is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, regardless of whether charges of manslaughter filed against him last week stick, security officials and analysts say.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, 51, has been imprisoned by Pakistani authorities since May 2011 for his role in a fictitious polio immunization program that the CIA hoped would provide proof that bin Laden was hiding with his family in a high-walled compound in the town of Abbotabad, 60 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.

The ruse failed to collect the evidence the CIA was hoping for, but Afridi was imprisoned anyway.

Repeated U.S. entreaties that he be released - most recently in October, when Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited the White House have been rejected.

That’s likely to continue, analysts here say, because the country’s powerful army has made it clear that it views Afridi as a traitor for working for the CIA, even though bin Laden had ordered terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Pakistani troops and civilians. The army was hugely

embarrassed by the May 2011 U.S. Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden less than a mile from the country’s top military academy.

Afridi was charged Wednesday by authorities administering Pakistan’s northwest tribal areas bordering Afghanistan with being responsible for the 2006 death of an 8-year-old boy whom he had operated on for appendicitis, said his lawyer, Samiullah Afridi.

The manslaughter charges, filed seven years ago by the boy’s mother, allege that Afridi was not qualified or authorized to carry out the surgery at his clinic in the Khyber tribal area, the lawyer said.

The charges come as Afridi awaits a hearing of charges accusing him of “conspiring against the state” with Mangal Bagh Afridi, the Pakistan Taliban insurgent commander for the Khyber trial area. A lower court in the tribal areas convicted Afridi in May 2012 and sentenced him to 33 years in prison.

The Khyber tribal area includes to the Khyber Pass, which connects Kabul and northern areas of landlocked Afghanistan to Pakistan’s ports on the Indian Ocean.

It is the major overland supply route for supplies to U.S.led NATO forces based in Afghanistan.

Afridi’s conviction was struck down in August 2012 by a higher tribal court, which ruled the the convicting magistrate had exceeded his legal authority in passing an excessive sentence against Afridi, and ordered a retrial.

But a month later, the director general of the military’s Inter Services Intelligence directorate told Pakistani analysts and journalists that Afridi would not be allowed to go free.

“The Americans should forget about Afridi,” the ISI chief, Gen. Zaheerul Islam, said in remarks made on the sidelines of an army celebration of Pakistan’s annual defense day in Rawalpindi, a city of 5 million people adjacent to Islamabad that houses the army’s headquarters.

Nothing has changed since, a ranking ISI operative said Saturday, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to go on record.

“Afridi will spend the rest of his natural life in prison,” he said.

The 7-year-old manslaughter charge had not been acted upon by Pakistani administrators in the tribal areas until last week. However, the retrial, as well as the new manslaughter charge, would also be heard by administrators in the tribal areas, who in practice take their orders from the army, which has deployed 150,000 troops there to fight the insurgent militants.

Pakistani analysts said the army’s uncompromising stance on Afridi reflected the red lines of its security cooperation with the United States.

“Simply, the Pakistani security establishment is saying it has zero tolerance for third-country covert intelligence operations on its soil,” said Mohammed Imran, a security analyst based in Islamabad.

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man Emma Reichard of the times she has eaten at Berkshire and Hampshire.

“But sometimes it doesn’t matter what time we go because it’s just ridiculous anyway.”

“I haven’t been to Berk in like two months, just because it’s not worth it,” said sophomore Dana Brown. “It’s so crowded all the time.”

Sophomore Alexa Pfeiffer added that Roots Café is simply too small to deter students from going to other dining commons and make them less crowded.

“I feel like it’s not big enough to make any difference in the dining halls,” she said.

Roots Café is also open 24/7, which some students find helpful during nights when they are up late doing homework or want to meet up with friends for a midnight snack. Sophomore Adam Haidari said that on Thursday night, he and his friends met at Roots Café at 2 a.m. after a long night of studying.

“Once we were all done studying independently, it was easy to go there because we all have access to it,” he said.

“I like having it open 24/7,” added freshman Matthew Lydigsen. “There are long nights where you’re up doing stuff during the weekends so it’s nice to say, ‘Hey, let’s go to Roots. Let’s get something to eat.’”

Craig Fasser, who has been working at the Café since it opened, says that the crowds during a late night at Roots Café vary.

“The slowest time depends on the day of the week,” he said. “Sometimes the overnight [shift] is the slowest but on Friday and Saturday nights we will still be doing some business from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. even.”

However, there are some students who think keeping the café open all hours may be a waste.

“We’ve never really taken advantage of it really late at night, at an extreme hour,” said freshman Amy Wardner.

“I can’t imagine they actually turn a profit,” added freshman Zoey Sloate. “How many people are actually getting pizza on a Wednesday, during a non-finals week, at 3:00 in the morning? The labor costs must be ridiculous.”

While many said they enjoy the food and convenient location of Roots Café, there are still some who wish it were changed or improvements were made.

“There was so much money put into this and we pay a lot to live here,” said Wardner. “It would have been nicer if we had a dining common here.”

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

Nuclear deal met with silence in Arab Gulf nations Some view the deal as horrific move

By HugH tomLinson McClatchy Foreign Staff

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Arab states in the Persian Gulf on Sunday greeted the interim nuclear deal struck between Iran and the West in Geneva with sullen silence.

Despite their muted response, however, the Gulf states have watched the growing signs of reconciliation between the United States and Iran with undisguised horror. As the Geneva talks rolled into Saturday night and a deal edged closer, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah summoned the emirs of Kuwait and Qatar to Riyadh for talks on how to respond.

The world’s largest oil producer and a staunch American ally for decades, Saudi Arabia has led the Arab world’s diplomatic push for the U.S to crush the Iranian nuclear program.

In a U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks in 2010, Abdullah was quoted as urging Washington to “cut off the head of the snake,” in reference to Iran.

To the Gulf Arabs, a deal between Iran and the West threatens the balance of power in the region. If Iran is welcomed back into the international fold, the Iran’s potential as a hub for business, trade and tourism, buoyed by its huge untapped reserves of oil and gas, is enormous.

In the end, the three Gulf monarchs gathered in Riyadh said nothing. Saudi officials said they could not publicly criticize the Geneva deal but that deep concerns remained about Iran’s wider ambitions in the region, particularly in Syria, where Iran has sent troops to support Syrian President Bashar Assad

while Saudi Arabia and Qatar have funneled weapons and cash to the rebels.

“The concern is that by agreeing to curb its nuclear program Iran will get a free pass elsewhere in the region, particularly in Syria,” said one Saudi official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.

Most troubling for the Gulf states is the sense that their influence in Washington is waning. A former Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, was installed as the kingdom’s intelligence chief last year to capitalize on the influence he wielded during the two Bush presidencies. But he has found the Obama administration very different and more cautious, than its Republican predecessors.

“There is real fear that America is shedding all its responsibilities in the region, that our diplomacy has failed. We need to seek new alliances elsewhere,” said the Saudi official.

While hawks around the region talk of breaking ties with Washington, however, most are more realistic. The United States remains the dominant military power in the region and its support is essential to Arab security.

Despite misgivings, the United Arab Emirates welcomed the Iranian nuclear deal as “a positive step.”

“This deal has a narrow focus in the sea of problems we have with Iran. Syria remains a huge concern,” said Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent UAE political commentator whose positions often reflect those of the government. “But overall the deal is a relief.

Anything that reduces tensions between the U.S. and Iran is positive for the region.”

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Pastor suspended over Afghan council expects officiating gay marriage deal to be signed soon Married son against Methodist church

By Tina SuSman Los Angeles Times

LEBANON, Pa. — It had been six years since the Rev. Frank Schaefer had officiated at the wedding of his son, Tim, to another man, long enough that he rarely thought about the ceremony anymore.

Long enough that he didn’t expect it to become an issue for parishioners at his church in this quiet, rural area in eastern Pennsylvania, especially since he’d made a point of not telling them about it.

But Schaefer’s United Methodist Church does not tolerate same-sex marriage, and Schaefer has become the latest poster child in the fight between reformists and traditionalists, who after learning of the wedding, took Schaefer to a church court this month and won. After an emotionally charged trial, a jury of fellow pastors convicted Schaefer of breaking church law and suspended him for 30 days for performing the April 2007 marriage of his son in Massachusetts.

Now, he faces a choice: loyalty to church doctrine, or loyalty to his son and to other gay men and women who might ask him to perform marriages in the future.

“I’m going to have to make a very, very hard decision,” a weary-looking Schaefer said Thursday, three days after his conviction.

As he wondered aloud about his next move, though, it sounded as if the decision had been made.

“I just have to speak for my children now, and for all of my LGBT brothers and sisters,” said Schaefer, 51, whose case is the latest to embroil the United Methodist Church in a debate that is likely to broaden as samesex marriage gains acceptance.

A day after Schaefer’s conviction, Illinois joined 15 states and the District of Columbia in legalizing same-sex marriage.

President Barack Obama last year announced his support for gay marriage, and Americans who accept same-sex marriage have increased from 35 percent in 2001 to about 50 percent now, according to the Pew Research Center.

Other Protestant denominations in the U.S. - including the Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church of America - have wrestled in recent years with the role gays should play in church life.

The 12-million-member United Methodist Church has punished clergy in the past for being openly gay or for performing same-sex marriages, including in 2005 when a Pennsylvania pastor, Beth Stroud, was defrocked for being a lesbian. In 2011, a church jury in Wisconsin suspended the Rev. Amy DeLong for having officiated at a gay wedding.

More cases are pending, including that of Thomas Ogletree, the retired dean of Yale Divinity School.

Like Schaefer, Ogletree performed the wedding ceremony for his gay son last year in New York.

“We recognize that there are divisive opinions within the church,” said Bishop Rosemarie Wenner, president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, the church’s executive branch.

“This issue requires honest and ongoing conversation, as well as prayers as we seek greater understanding.”

Wenner said there are signs “of hope in a challenging time” as those in the church engage in “prayerful conversation.”

There is no sign of imminent change, though. At the church’s last general conference in 2012, delegates upheld language that declares homosexuality “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

Reformists say the stance is hurting church U.S. membership, which has been declining since the 1980s.

But membership is growing overseas, particularly in Africa and Asia, which is helping steer the church’s

conservatism.

It’s a conservatism that Schaefer shared growing up in Germany in an evangelical home. But Schaefer, who still speaks with a hint of German accent, said his studies at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey opened his eyes to a different way of thinking. So did his discovery, when Tim was 16, that his son was gay. Two more of Schaefer’s four children are also gay.

“I evolved through my seminary education.

I changed, and now I can’t go back,” said Schaefer, who with his ruddy complexion and sandy blond hair looks more like a ski bum than an anguished clergyman.

“That’s not my job. My job is to serve people.”

Eleven years ago, Schaefer was assigned to the Zion United Methodist Church of Iona in Lebanon, a city of about 25,000 with a skyline dominated by church steeples. Its phone book lists at least 78 churches in the former steel-producing town, where colonial-era row houses downtown give way to rolling farmland and modern subdivisions on the outskirts.

The formal complaint against Schaefer that led to the trial followed months of murmuring among church members that the pastor had presided over his gay son’s wedding. The congregant who filed the complaint, Jon Boger, a lieutenant commander in the Navy, would not comment after the trial, but he testified during the case that, just as he had taken an oath to obey military law, Schaefer had taken an oath to follow church law.

Schaefer’s supporters said the timing of the complaint was suspicious. Boger filed it shortly after his mother left her job as the church choir director after a dispute with Schaefer.

Schaefer’s critics, though, say they had long had issues with the pastor’s liberal slant and had worried that under his leadership, parishioners were leaving and taking much-needed money with them.

Egypt restricts public protest and free–speech Law establishes protest–free zones By nancy a. youSSef anD amina iSmail McClatchy Foreign Staff

CAIRO - Egypt on Sunday enacted tough new restrictions on public demonstrations that free-speech advocates said will suppress protests against the current military-imposed government.

Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, imposed the law by decree, acting under powers he was given when the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi in July. Huge protest marches against Marsi preceded the coup. Earlier, public protest led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.

The new law seems designed to make sure that doesn’t happen again. It requires that groups apply to the police for permission to demonstrate two weeks hours in advance. An application must spell out what the demonstration is protesting, where it will be held, how long it will last and what goal the demonstration’s organizers are hoping to achieve. Any gathering of more than 10 people without

police permission is illegal under the law.

The Interior Ministry and police can cancel or move a protest, and while the law says only appropriate force can be used to break up an illegal protest, it says the security forces have the right to defend themselves.

But what constitutes selfdefense is not defined, and recent history suggests that forces will interpret that broadly. On Aug. 14, security forces attacked sit-ins in support of Morsi, killing about 1,100 people.

The law also allows provincial governors to establish protest-free zones around government buildings. Violators face as much as 10 years in prison and fines of up to about $43,000.

“This must be a joke.

We used to blame Morsi for passing laws without holding public discussions. What is the difference now? At least Morsi used to pretend that he held public discussions but they don’t even try,” said Ahmed Maher, the founder of the Sixth of April movement, which helped spur the 2011 uprising in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that led to the Mubarak’s fall.

Observers say the new government is becoming increasingly repressive.

On Thursday, the Egyptian Cabinet gave police permission to enter university campuses, a birthplace of national uprisings and where Morsi supporters have protested, without prior permission if facilities or students are under threat.

Last week, a court sentenced 12 pro-Morsi students to 17 years in prison for attacking administrative office at Cairo’s al Azhar University.

The interim government is also considering antigraffiti laws and a new antiterrorism law.

Human Rights Watch called the law “an important indicator of the extent to which the new government is going to allow for political space in Egypt”.

Maher said his organization will test the new law soon and go ahead with a planned protest on Monday at the country’s legislative building to object to a draft constitution that would allow some civilians to be prosecuted in military courts.

“We will see what will they do with us. Let them implement the law. We will defy the law,” Maher said. “This law is against the Muslim Brotherhood and anyone who opens his mouth.”

Could be approved by end of the year

By DaviD Zucchino Los Angeles Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a rebuke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a grand council of Afghan dignitaries voted Sunday to approve a proposed 10-year security agreement with the United States by the end of the year, agreeing to an American-imposed deadline.

The chairman of the council told Karzai he miscalculated when the Afghan president demanded a delay in signing the agreement until next spring. Chairman Sibghatullah Mojaddedi lectured Karzai, warning that if he delays signing the agreement, “I’ll resign and leave the country.

“If he had listened to my advice, we wouldn’t have this problem today,” Mojaddedi, 89, a former Afghan president and longtime confidant and mentor to Karzai, said as the president sat stiffly a few paces away.

But Karzai remained adamant that he will not sign the agreement until after the Afghan presidential election in April. That stubborn stance has infuriated U.S. officials, who Friday imposed a Dec. 31 deadline.

Karzai asked the council for more time to negotiate with the United States.

“We’ll try to bargain more with the Americans on

your behalf ” and then sign the agreement much later, he said.

He asked for a chance to apply more political pressure so Afghanistan doesn’t capitulate on the agreement “for free,” that is, without forcing American concessions.

“If there is no peace, this agreement will bring misfortune to Afghanistan,’’ Karzai added in a somewhat elliptical reference to the potential impact of the accord.

Karzai did not indicate whether he ultimately will brush aside the council’s recommendation and defy the U.S. deadline. The Afghan president is notorious for delaying tactics that seek to extract concessions and keep himself at the center of events, especially as he enters a lame-duck period before his term ends in April.

The council’s bold defiance of Karzai presents an opportunity for the mercurial president to save face and back down on the brinkmanship that has put the security deal in serious jeopardy. Mojaddedi told Karzai bluntly: “If there is a problem in the future” with the agreement, “the jirga is responsible.”

Karzai convened the council , an informal but influential traditional assembly known as a loya jirga, to give himself political cover and deflect responsibility for signing a long-term commitment with the United States, according to many Afghan analysts. Karzai faces significant opposition

from Afghan traditionalists who condemn any cooperation with foreigners, especially the United States.

Karzai remained defiant Sunday, telling the jirga’s 2,700 delegates that American soldiers continue to raid Afghan homes and kill civilians. He dug in his heels over that issue last week, just hours after agreeing with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry on the text of the draft security deal.

PresidentBarack Obama responded with a personal letter to Karzai on Thursday pledging that U.S. troops would enter Afghan homes only in “extraordinary” circumstances and only if American lives were at direct risk.

Mojaddedi confronted Karzai after the president joined him on the stage, firmly reminding him that the U.S. had given written assurances on so-called U.S. night raids. The loya jirga voted to attach Obama’s letter to the text of the proposed Bilateral Security Agreement.

“I repeat: The United States cannot enter Afghan homes and kill people,” Karzai was told by the chairman, who turned to face him on the assembly stage. Mojaddedi, gesticulating forcefully, again told the man he called his “son and student” to accept U.S. assurances and sign now, not later.

Karzai muttered, “All right,” and abruptly left the stage.

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Monday, November 24, 2013

An age of toothless protest

A love letter to Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst, though always a popular choice among Chelmsford High School seniors, seemed to often elicit a negative reaction among other kids in my graduating class.

Katie McKenna When people asked where I was going to college and I answered “UMass,” some would say, “Oh, I applied there, but I didn’t want to go to college with the rest of my high school, you know? I wanted to do my own thing.”

Was this to say that my own college experience wouldn’t be one of independence and new friendships?

It was almost like people mutually agreed that anyone who went to UMass only wanted to hang out with kids from their own high school and live the same life they did in Chelmsford. For the most part, I’ve found that not to be the case.

My aunt Laura, a UMass alum, told me the most accurate thing I’ll ever hear

UMass has it all, but only if we’ll take it.

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Or maybe English. Or maybe a little bit of both. Or even history.

The one thing I could decide on was that I didn’t want to limit myself, to keep my options open and take in absolutely everything I could.

The small schools tried to convince me that this was a poor choice: “At a big school, you’re really just a number, but here, you mean something.”

In my final year at UMass, I’d like to think that I’ve become more than just a number. I’ve made some of the best friends of my life, tried new foods and studied abroad in Galway, Ireland.

I’ve taken classes with a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Congressman, published my own writing and enjoyed lobster on Halloween. UMass has it all, but only if we’ll take it.

If I wandered around for four years in classes I didn’t care about, never said hello to a single face on campus and ventured to all the same buildings, of course I wouldn’t have gotten much out of my college career. If I wanted to talk to only people from my hometown, of course I wouldn’t have made new friends – but I didn’t.

And it wasn’t some amazing feat to make a friend outside Chelmsford at UMass, either. I wanted to, and I did, just like I would on any other college campus. This isn’t to say that I don’t spend any time with friends from home; every day I say hello to four or five people from my town walking around campus. I’m not sure I’ve even taken a class without someone from Chelmsford being there, but what’s so miserable about that?

To see a familiar face on campus, to always have a way home from school, to have someone that understands where you come from, that knows all of your embarrassing childhood stories, but the cute ones, too: this is what it means to be from Chelmsford at UMass – and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

about UMass: “It’s as big or small as you want it to be.”

UMass is what we make of it. It doesn’t have one homogenous student population and a university with 20,000 students doesn’t, contrary to popular belief, contain entirely Chelmsford High School graduates. If I want to spend time with my friends from home, that’s a possibility. If I want to spend time with friends I’ve made in college, that’s another possibility. There are endless possibilities in joining clubs and activities, classes, professors, places to live – and the real world is no different.

The world is a big place with unlimited opportunities, and I wanted to go to a school that reflects that.

When I was visiting colleges, I didn’t know what I wanted – a big or a small school, private or public, Massachusetts or elsewhere. Katie McKenna is a Collegian columI was an 18-year-old who nist and can be reached at kemckwanted to study journalism. enn@umass.edu.

Protests have been inte- method to remedy them. gral to the success of many We remember how the causes and have improved successful Civil Rights and society, from women’s suf- women’s suffrage movements led mass rallies and Stefan Herlitz protests, filled with great speeches and rhetoric, but, frage and African-American in our attempt to emulate civil rights to same-sex mar- past heroes, we have forgotriage and peace in Vietnam. ten that leaders did more We look back to follow the than voice dissent. Martin example set by past leaders Luther King Jr.’s legendand activists for the future. ary March on Washington However, in our fervor to did far more than advance causes and effect voice the grievancchange, we have lost sight es of the marginof what it means to truly alized and downcampaign for a change. trodden; it made We understand the need specific demands for widespread, grassroots for a bill against support. We understand racial discriminathe need for publicity and tion in employmedia coverage, for facts ment, a $2 miniand figures. mum wage and a What we seem to have call against police forgotten is that these brutality, among things are only the means to others. an end. The goal of a moveThe march organizment is not a rally; the goal ers worked with President of a protest is not media cov- Kennedy to ensure that the erage. Successful campaigns march would help push require a clear, achievable through civil rights legisgoal and a specific process lation. As a result, it was by which to achieve it. a resounding success, and This was the downfall one of the most well-known of the Occupy movement. moments in American hisWhat began as a protest in tory. Occupy Wall Street Zuccotti Park in New York did not make as specific of City on Sept.17, 2011 became demands or outline a way a global phenomenon pro- to achieve its goal, and thus testing socioeconomic failed to solve the issues it inequality, corporate greed fought against.. and the uneven distribuWhile it may seem countion of wealth. The Occupy terintuitive, part of the protests attracted hordes of issue is that activism has protesters and dominated become part of the social news coverage for months. mainstream. Social media Yet, more than a year have accelerated the spread after the major protests of many social movements, subsided, the problems that from gender and income precipitated their inception inequality to gay marriage still remain. Occupy Wall and environmentalism, but Street voiced the frustration have also severely lessened of millions at the existing the effectiveness of moveinjustices of modern soci- ments to actually enact ety, but it did not provide a change. Nowadays, every-

one is an activist – everyone has opinions, and many make the expression of these opinions the primary focus of their online presence.

However, these are everyday activists, whose idea of activism is to share a video or news article and change their profile picture to promote marriage rights. The modern millennial activist

social movements flounder.

Most modern issues are incredibly complex.

Income inequality is not the result of a single factor, but of many diverse laws, regulations, policies and social mores. Gender bias and misogyny are cultural issues, and are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to legislate against any more than we already have.

The issue with fossil fuels is not that we use them (after all, it is scientific consensus that they have a negative impact on the environment), but that our alternative energy sources are not yet advanced enough to completely replace them.

As a society, we have many obstacles to overcome in our pursuit of a better tomorrow. The current generation has been extremely vocal as to what we believe must be done, but we have yet to begin to enact the changes we wish to see. The lines are drawn, the goals are set and the objectives are clear. While we may not know the path to a better tomorrow, that should not dissuade us.

The hallmark of a great leader is courage, not clairvoyance. The time for angry writers, armchair theorists and aimless protesters has passed. Popular blogs, tweets, passive-aggressive Facebook posts and shared videos have had their time.

We as a nation must shift our focus away from decrying our problems and towards actually fixing them.

The goal of a movement is not a rally; the goal of a protest is not media coverage. Successful campaigns require a clear, achievable goal and a specific process by which the achieve it.

does not dedicate him- or herself to resolving a single issue. Instead, we post, like, tweet, blog and express our opinions on a wide range of topics. This means that, while many more people vocalize protest against a variety of injustices now than ever before, fewer actually dedicate themselves to finding solutions to the complex problems of the day.

In our defense, the problems of today are much more multifaceted than those of our predecessors.

The women’s suffrage movement succeeded by giving women the right to vote: segregation was undone through a combination of Supreme Court judgments and legislative changes.

Even same sex marriage has a relatively simple solution, since all it requires is legislation making it legal, which in turn helps explain Stefan Herlitz is a Collegian columhow it has gained increas- nist and can be reached at sherlitz@ ing momentum while other umass.edu.

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Kanye and Kendrick tackle Boston’s TD Garden Two egos so huge they need a stadium

By AnA Lopez Collegian Correspondent On Sunday night, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West’s showmanship lit up the TD Garden in Boston.

Lamar opened the concert with a 40 minute set of songs from his recent release, “Good Kid M.A.A.D. City.”

He ran through some crowd favorites, including “Money Trees,” “F-ckin Problems,” “Poetic Justice,” “Backseat Freestyle” and “Swimming Pools.” “F-ckin Problems” easily received the most excitement from the audience as it is one of his most successful collaborations with A$AP Rocky to date.

Lamar’s voice overpowered the stadium as his diehard fans screamed the lyrics and tried to keep up with his impossibly fast flow. Lamar’s energy filled the Garden, hyping everyone up for West’s arrival.

It was unfortunate that Lamar’s set was noticeably short and only featured songs from his most recent album. He has a passionate following that began with his earlier albums, and a performance of older tracks would’ve added some variety and excitement to his set.

West’s theatrics began with his entrance as women wearing white robes and what appeared to be panty hose on their heads glided on stage in eerie synchronization. Opening the show with “On Sight” from his latest album “Yeezus.” the crowd reacted wildly as he lit up the stage wear-

ing his ridiculous, if not creative, masks. West finally took his off mask about halfway through the show, right when the audience had given up on seeing his face at any point. His masks were ornately decorated, from gold chain mesh and jewels to small square mirrors that he wore through the majority of his performance.

His theatrics extended into the religious realm as he introduced Jesus during “Jesus Walks.” West exclaimed “Is that you, white Jesus?” and the two kneeled before each other, as if one was blessing the other. They are equals, after all – at least in Kanye’s mind.

The concert was organized into five sections: Fighting, Rising, Falling, Searching and Finding, as our hero scoured songs for meaning in his effected landscape, alluding to Biblical references. During the performance of “I Am a God,” West’s disciples sacrificed him. Wearing only nude pasties, G-strings and more pantyhose on their heads, the women lifted West and presented him to a higher being, presumably himself if this theatric came from his own mind.

His stage was the most impressive aspect of the show; a towering Mount Kanye, inclining icebergs and the infamous circular 60 foot LED screen that caused the cancellation of multiple shows. The screen allowed for the mountain to become anything from a fiery volcano, as it was during “Black Skinhead,” to an icy arctic mountain during “Coldest Winter.”

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The enigmatic Kanye West set out on his first solo tour in five years with West Coast rapper Kendrick Lamar.

The iceberg itself propped West up as he sang to the falling snowflakes, making for a unique and memorable visual experience.

The pyrotechnics were as shocking as they were blinding, engulfing Kanye and his mountain in flames multiple times as he provoked the audience with his rants and antics. His most memorable guest included a Yeti beast that slunk up Mount Kanye and perched itself as its demonic eyes stared at the audience.

In his choice of songs, he covered an absurd amount

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of material, spanning across most of his albums all the way back to “College Dropout.” While he didn’t perform “Through the Wire,” his first song produced and recorded, “Jesus Walks” and “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” were welcoming throwbacks that the crowd jammed to as West threw up the infamous Illuminati symbol. Even though there were over 30 songs performed, the songs with the most intense reaction were “Stronger,” “Jesus Walks,” “Runaway” and “Black Skinhead.”

West and the crowd vibed as he threw himself around on stage, taking his energy to a new level.

There’s no denying it -West’s performance can’t be compared to any other artists’. While he might not actually be a god, he’s a master of putting together an unbelievable show.

Yeezus is West’s first solo tour in five years and reality proved to exceed the high expectations.

In one of the few notso-exciting parts, West ranted for 10 to 15 minutes about haters and other odd

things through his AutoTune microphone, slowing down the upbeat pace of the show. Not only did it dull the excited mood in the stadium, it felt out of place. Love him or hate him, one thing is for sure; the enigma is committed to being “Kanye.” Other than that, West’s performance, with the help of Lamar, was second to none, leaving no fan disappointed as they walked away from the TD Garden.

Ana Lopez can be reached at aelopez@umass.edu.

ALBUM REVIEW

Jake Bugg explores a new Classic soundtracks from video games past sound in his LP ‘Shangri La’ From ‘Tony Hawk’ to Keiki Kobayashi

By JAckson MAxweLL Collegian Staff

When the casual person thinks of the soundtrack to a video game, a few things come to mind. If they’ve played it before, they may think of the haunting Gregorian chant that serves as the theme to the “Halo” series. Or they may think of the numerous legendary “radio stations” of the “Grand Theft Auto” series. If they are into older games, they will probably remember the iconic 8-bit melodies that score “Super Mario Bros. or “Tetris.”

Along with the games themselves, video game soundtracks have become increasingly ornate, complex and impressive. But there are some fantastic original and non-original soundtracks that typically don’t get thrown around with the greats. These games, mostly around eight to 10 years old, had absolutely fantastic soundtracks that helped increase the musical vocabularies of countless sleepless gamers.

On the non-original side of things, the expansive “Tony Hawk” skateboard series reigns supreme. “Tony Hawk’s Underground 2,” the 2004 game, has a particularly amazing soundtrack that fea-

tures underground and popular artists from a litany of genres. One minute you can be skating around to industrial-metal band Ministry’s “No W,” the next, you might be hearing Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life.” This game alone may have introduced the Ramones, Joy Division, the Doors, X, Violent Femmes, the Dead Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Germs and countless other unforgettable classic bands to young gamers all around the world.

In the tradition of the skateboarding videos that helped inspire the games, the “Tony Hawk” video games all feature this dichotomy of well-known songs by super-popular musicians and underground hip-hop and punk-rock tracks. Few other games take so much care to pay tribute to unsung heroes of underground rock and rap. Other great games in the series, like “American Wasteland,” “Project 8,” “Pro Skater 4” and “Underground,” continue this tradition of opening the minds of gamers to even more great music. While having a blast playing these fantastic games, the young ears of generations past were exposed for the first time to the likes of the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy and 7 Seconds.

The “Tony Hawk” series has never gotten enough credit for exposing people to great independent music. It

was one of the few series that really had the guts to include edgy music that most other video game producers never had the nerve to include.

On the original side of things, one overlooked group of beautifully-scored games is the “Ace Combat” series. Written by the famous “Namco Sound Team,” a composing unit comprised of Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Hiroshi Okubo and Keiki Kobayashi, the music for these games mixed rock, electronic and orchestral elements into a single amazing score. The soundtrack to “Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War” took Namco three years to develop, and involved the full Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Combined with the innovative plots and the advanced graphics of the “Ace Combat” series, the orchestration took on a new level of brilliance.

While many people may view these games as old to the point of irrelevancy, their soundtracks influenced many video games afterwards. The developers of these games recognized music as an integral part of the gaming experience, as more than just background noise. And these are just a couple of the best examples of fantastic video game soundtracks that have flown under the radar over the years.

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

Music that won’t ‘Bugg’ you out By sArAh roBertson Collegian Staff

British folk-rock artist Jake Bugg released his second album “Shangri La” on Nov. 18 to fans around the world ardently waiting for its release. At just 19 years old, Bugg has already released two albums; both of which have captured the attention of music lovers and professionals everywhere. Upon hearing his first self-titled album, legendary record producers Rick Rubin and Iain Archer contacted Bugg and offered to work with him to write and record new material. The resulting album was produced in Rubin’s Malibu-based studio, aptly named Shangri La, and explores the extent of the young musician’s raw talent.

Born on Feb. 28, 1994 to parents who divorced shortly after, Bugg grew up in a struggling single-parent home in Nottingham, England. His early life has had a significant influence on his music and has continued to be the driving theme throughout his two albums.

His songs were inspired by his life in Nottingham and many of them speak of his own life experiences.

The first two singles off of “Shangri La” show a rougher side of Bugg com-

pared to his past work. Bugg relished the opportunity to emulate one of his biggest influences, Jimi Hendrix, by picking up an electric guitar in “Slumville Sunrise” and “What Doesn’t Kill You.” Musically the songs fully embody the blues-rock anthem the producers were aiming for, but vocally Bugg may fall short.

Bugg’s vocals are, as described by the Daily Beast, “A reedy wail that sounds like it would be more at home in Appalachia than on FM radio.” A song better suited to Bugg’s vocal abilities is his bluesy track, “There’s a Beast and We All Feed It.” The song opens up the album and even references Bugg’s viral dispute with British contemporaries One Direction when he says “Somehow we’d better speak it/we’re scared someone will tweet it.”

Other songs off of “Shangri La” give listeners an idea of the scope of Bugg’s talent. “A Song About Love” is a soft acoustic ballad, and is lyrically Bugg’s most sensitive track. He sings openly about a lost love and regrets in a way similar to his other popular track “Me and You.” These songs stray from his other songs such as “Messed Up Kids” which criticize the burnout youth of England and take a more political standpoint rather than personal. He sings, “The messed up kids are on

the corner with no money/ they sell their time they sell their drugs they sell their bodies.”

The song speaks directly to the community he grew up in. The ninth track on the album, “Kitchen Table,” seems a little out of place.

The song comes directly after the very Johnny Cash-esque track “Kingpin,” and sounds more like a folk musician’s attempt at a tango than an indie rock track.

There is much more to “Shangri La” instrumentally, musically and thematically than Bugg’s first album. Even at such a young age, Bugg writes music with a maturity far beyond his years. When most of his influences have had careers longer than he is old, however, it is easy to see where Bugg gained this perspective. He cites Don McLean, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Neil Young and Nick Drake as major influences on his music, and has often been compared to Bob Dylan as well as The Beatles.

However, Bugg tries to avoid being labeled as “the East Midland’s Bob Dylan” because he wants to keep his sound original and genuine.

Time will tell if the young musician can make a name for himself or fall into the shadow of the great artists he emulates.

Sarah Robertson can be reached at srobertson@umass.edu.

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Butler, Koppel bright spots

By Tom mulherin Collegian Staff

Over the weekend, the Massachusetts men’s and women’s diving teams found success in the diving portion of the Frank Elm Invitational in New Brunswick, N.J., as senior Michaela Butler and sophomore Josh Koppel won the one-meter and three-meter springboard diving events in their respective divisions.

The two diving teams did not finish well in the invitational as a whole, with the men finishing in fifth place out of seven competitors, and the women finishing eighth out of 10 competitors. However, it isn’t as bad as it looks, as the men’s and women’s teams both only competed in two events of the invitational. If all of the events in the invitational aside from the two diving events each team participated in are overlooked,

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then UMass would have finished first for both teams.

Butler led the way for the women’s team by winning both events she competed in, which improved her undefeated mark in springboard events this season. On the men’s side, Koppel is also undefeated in his sophomore season for UMass after the two wins over the weekend.

Aside from Butler and Koppel, Mikhaila Eckhardt also performed well for UMass, as she finished in second place in the threemeter dive, and in eighth place in the one-meter dive.

With those two finishes, Eckhardt earned 50 points toward the final tally, making her the second highest contributor for the women over the weekend.

Invitational shows progression in both diving teams With each team finishing first in the diving events over the weekend, UMass diving coach Mandy Hixon says that she sees a lot of positive performances for both teams, especially in the freshmen who

still need improvement.

“I think they are doing a great job,” she said. “We had all of the freshmen compete this weekend on at least one board and they did a great job. All of them made finals on one-meter, and two of them made finals on three-meter, so it was good.”

Even with those performances, improvements can always be made. Hixon said she sees a lot of fundamental mistakes that the team needs to correct before Christmas break.

“We have a lot of work fundamentally that we need to go back and do,” she said.

“That’s what happens when you start the competitive season because you have to start getting dives off and you kind of lose some of the fundamental work you did in the beginning.

“We have a couple of weeks now before they leave to go home for the break, and now we can go back a little and work on that fundamental stuff again.

It’s the perfect time right now with these two weeks

[to work on those things].”

Hixon has highlighted Eckhardt as a diver who has been the most impressive on a team that has featured positive performances from most of the squad.

“She has done a really great job,” Hixon said of Eckhardt. “She has really come together over this past month.”

Hixon said one of the more surprising divers on the team thus far has been freshman Robert Barry. “[He’s surprising] because he is 6-foot-1,” she said of Barry. “He’s not quite built to be a diver but he has worked really hard and is coming along quite nicely.

“I mean, they are all doing really well, and I hate to just pick out one [impressive diver],” she continued.

“They each have their own things they are doing well and they are all working really hard. I think right now they are all on track and I’m really proud of them.”

mizing ours. Unfortunately [Sunday] that didn’t happen.”

The Minutemen continued to apply pressure in the third period, outshooting UVM 17-13 in the frame, but were left frustrated once again. UMass has averaged 1.25 goals per game in its last eight contests and will need to start converting and finishing opportunities if it wants to start earning wins – something it hasn’t done in six games – and reward Mastalerz for his efforts in goal.

But UMass also knows that it can’t get overwhelmed

by one tough stretch in November.

“We’re starting to really come together and start playing for one another,” Pereira said. “With that being said, we know the goals are gonna come it’s just working on those little things.

“You can’t get frustrated.

It’s a long season. Obviously we know we need to pick up points here on the road, we need to pick up points on Friday. But it’s over now.

We can only get better from here. We need to get better.”

Tom Mulherin can be reached at tmulheri@umass.edu.

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didn’t get the sort of handle on it we wanted or didn’t get the shot we wanted on it.

“I think it goes back to working on those little things and bearing down.”

Santaguida’s play made every mistake by UMass costly. The first mistake turned into the eventual game-winner 18 minutes, 22 seconds into the first period when Chris McCarthy forced a turnover in the neutral zone. McCarthy fed Jake Fallon the puck and Fallon ripped a snap shot from the left circle that beat Mastalerz glove side into the top right corner to give UVM the 1-0

advantage.

The Catamounts added the insurance goal on the power play 11:11 into the third period when Mario Puskarich cleaned up a rebound on McCarthy’s shot from the point that went off the pad of Mastalerz and onto the stick of the freshman forward.

“That is the difference,” UMass coach John Micheletto said. “That is the margin of error we have right now. Our guys know it. It’s the world we’re living in so we gotta make sure that we’re minimizing their [chances] and maxi-

CHAMPIONS ple big shots from [Jasmine Harris] and [Emily Mital] late in the second half, but it was our ability to defend and get to loose balls that kept us in this game.”

Trailing 51-46 with 9:23 remaining, Rashida Timbilla dished the ball out to an open Harris, who buried a deep 3-pointer to cut the Hawks’ lead down to just two. Less than two minutes later, Harris drilled another straightaway three to give UMass a 52-51 lead, its first lead since the 14:44 mark of the first half.

While it might have been Harris who ultimately gave the Minutewomen the lead with her back-to-back triples, no one arguably deserved more praise for her play than center Kim Pierre-Louis.

The junior finished the game with a career-high 19 points to go along with nine rebounds. Seventeen of her points came in the second half, while seven of her nine rebounds were on the offensive end.

“I was just trying to score,” Pierre-Louis said.

“They weren’t guarding as well as they could have so I just had to be aggressive and attack the basket.”

Since being removed from the starting lineup after the first game of the season, Pierre-Louis has been playing with a chip on her shoulder. And while her energy and efforts haven’t shown much on the stat sheet this season, she was finally rewarded on Saturday.

“Some talented players play much better coming off the bench,” Dawley said of her center. “She’s emerged as the spark for us. She likes to take in the tempo of the game for a few minutes before coming in, and because it’s

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worked out so great, things are going to stay that way.”

Up 54-53 with 4:58 remaining, UMass was set to inbound the ball with only one second remaining on the shot clock. Once again, it was Pierre-Louis making her presence felt, as she set a screen along the baseline to free up Mital, who buried a corner 3-pointer to beat the shot clock and give the Minutewomen a 57-53 lead.

But Hartford (1-2) wouldn’t go away. After a pair of free throws from Cherelle Moore, and back-toback field goals from Amber Bepko, the Hawks cut the UMass lead down to just two at 61-59.

Then, after a missed Nola Henry free throw, and a defensive stop on the ensuing possession, Pierre-Louis was fouled with the ball in her hands.

She then calmly stepped to the line and sank both free throws to clinch the win.

“I was confident,” PierreLouis said. “The only thing going through my mind was that this is a two-point game with two seconds left so I have to finish this.”

Dawley said her team is continuing to gain confidence.

“We are definitely a more confident team on defense that’s for sure, and our offense will build off of that,” Dawley said. “Every game someone different steps up on offense so we are going to keeping rolling with that.”

The Minutewomen return to action this Tuesday at 7 p.m. when they travel to Holy Cross.

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

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“Turnovers kill every football team, especially one like us,” UMass coach Charley Molnar said after the game.

“They were able to capitalize on a couple of them. It’s just poor ball security in the run game and then of course in the passing game. Some of those are head scratchers, how and why.”

The offensive burden was instead left to freshman Shadrach Abrokwah in his first career appearance.

Abrokwah entered the game in the second quarter and ran for 93 of the Minutemen’s 169 yards of total offense on 20 attempts, including a 31-yard carry.

With so much depth in the backfield heading into the season, it seemed likely Abrokwah would simply sit out and redshirt this year.

But injuries to Woodley, Stacey Bedell and Jamal Wilson changed that.

“Since this was my first time playing college football, I didn’t really know what to expect,” Abrokwah said.

“But I went out there, did my job, ran hard.”

Molnar said afterward that he expects to use Abrokwah in the season finale Friday at Ohio as well.

“There was really no need to use him earlier in the year,” Molnar said. “We had plenty of depth at that position, as I have talked about all year. But we’ve been DEFCON 3 for the last several weeks. Every game we’ve gone into, we may have to use Shad, and we’ve been able not to.”

The Minutemen converted on just three of their 12

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third downs and were 0-for-2 on fourth down for the game.

That offensive ineptitude turned costly in the second quarter when the Chippewas erupted for 20 points to take a 27-0 lead into halftime.

Trailing 10-0, Doyle threw an interception to Tony Annese that was returned 34 yards for a touchdown to make it 17-0 CMU. The Chippewas extended their lead to 24 on their next offensive possession when Cooper Rush connected with Titus Davis for a 34-yard touchdown pass.

Davis finished with a game-high seven receptions for 154 yards and two touchdowns, the second of which came with 5:41 left in the third quarter on a 30-yard reception. Davis’ performance put him at over 1,000 receiving yards for the season.

The one bright spot for UMass was the defense’s ability to slow down running back Zurlon Tipton. The same Tipton that burned the Minutemen’s defense for 185 yards and four touchdowns last season was held to just 50 yards on 16 carries.

“If (Tipton) gets a corner, if he gets a seam, gone. This week in practice we emphasized the run so much,” defensive tackle Galen Clemons said.

Unfortunately for UMass, the offense simply couldn’t pick up the defense, particularly Doyle, who had arguably the worst performance of his career on Saturday.

“They played great today,” Doyle said of the defense.

“We didn’t have their backs on offense. And that lays all on me.”

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

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

UNC upsets No. 3 Louisville UNCASVILLE, Conn. — A week ago Sunday, North Carolina suffered one of the most troubling losses of Roy Williams’ head coaching tenure – a defeat against Belmont that called into question the Tar Heels’ direction and potential without P.J. Hairston and Leslie McDonald.

After that defeat, Williams said he was anxious to see how the Tar Heels would respond. They couldn’t have responded any better than how they did on Sunday – with a 93-84 victory against No. 3 Louisville in the championship game of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tip-Off here at the Mohegan Sun Arena.

UNC’s victory snapped Louisville’s 21-game winning streak. The victory was also UNC’s first against a top-5 opponent since it defeated No. 3 Duke to end the 2011-12 regular season.

Louisville senior guard Russ Smith finished with 36 points, but outside of him the Cardinals struggled offensively in all aspects. The Tar Heels used their size advantage on the interior, and controlled the game down low.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Georgia Southern tops Florida without completing a pass GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators knew exactly what was coming.

Knew it since last summer, when coaches first began to prepare for Georgia Southern coach Jeff Monken’s unconventional triple-option rushing attack.

Knew it on virtually every snap on Saturday afternoon in the Swamp.

But a Gators team that had seen its season slowly slip into irrelevance could do nothing to stop Georgia Southern’s triple option from pushing Florida (4-7) into the abyss.

The undermanned, overmatched Eagles kept the Gators’ once-impenetrable run defense guessing all day. When the dust settled, Georgia Southern had piled up 429 yards on the ground to stun the Gators 26-20.

The Eagles attempted only three passes, and missed on all them.

Yet, Georgia Southern gained more yards against the Gators than any team this season but SEC East leader Missouri, which totaled 500 yards during a 36-17 win last month.

Georgia Southern’s 429 rushing yards were the fourthmost rushing yards allowed by Florida in school history and the most during the regular season since the 0-10-1 1979 team yielded 453 yards on the ground to Alabama – coach Bear Bryant’s sixth and final national title team.

Including the postseason, the Eagles’ output on the ground was the most against a Gators’ ‘D’ since Nebraska piled up 524 rushing yards during the Gators’ 62-24 loss in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl.

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B OX I N G

Manny Pacquiao earns first victory in two years MACAU, China — No one knows if speed really kills.

Brandon Rios can tell you that it hurts.

Through 12 repetitive and decisive rounds, Rios could neither stop the missiles Manny Pacquiao was aiming or find him when it was time to retaliate. The end result was the kind of blowout in which Pacquiao had specialized, as Pacquiao got his first victory in two years.

It was as unanimous decision as you could get. The judges gave it to Pacquiao 118-110, 119-109 and 120-108, which meant that Rios won three rounds, total, on three cards, and even that required some imagination.

“I just got beat by a great fighter,” Rios said in the ring, “one of the best fighters in the world. He had a game plan and he executed it.”

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CHAMPIONS of facilitator, accounting for a team-high six assists.

Instead, the team turned to role players such as Derrick Gordon and Putney.

Gordon finished with 10 points on 5-of-8 shooting while adding five rebounds.

Putney was tasked with guarding Tigers star forward K.J. McDaniels, who entered the game as Clemson’s leading scorer.

McDaniels finished with 14 points, but missed 10 shots in the process.

“I’ve been trying to say it all year, but our team is full of guys that just want to win and want to play,” Williams said. “So, these guys are taking the opportunity that’s given and just going out there and performing. For us to go out there and do what we did tonight, it’s pretty good.”

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“I know we’re probably gonna have a number at the end of [our team name], but it still doesn’t change the way we play.”

Chaz Williams, UMass point guard rankings after winning six games in a row to start the season.

“People are gonna think what they think,” Williams said. “It’s just best to play our game, so that’s what we’re gonna go out there and do. I know we’re probably gonna have a number at the end of [our team name], but it still doesn’t change the way we play. We’ve just got to stick to our basketball.”

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

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HOCKEY

Minutemen shut down by Santaguida, UVM Catamounts sweep weekend series

By NiCk CaNelas Collegian Staff

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Massachusetts hockey team couldn’t have asked much more from Steve Mastalerz on Sunday.

The junior goaltender played about as well as he c o u l d UVM 2 have in just his UMass 0 second g a m e back from an undisclosed injury that kept him sidelined for three games. He handled the constant pressure that Vermont gave him and made

a number of impressive saves in the process. He looked like the player that carried the Minutemen in their first nine games of the season.

But no matter how many big saves he made or how many times he bailed out his teammates, it wasn’t enough to outperform Vermont freshman goaltender Mike Santaguida, who stopped all 39 UMass shots to lead the Catamounts to a 2-0 win in front of 3,150 at Gutterson Fieldhouse to complete the sweep of the Minutemen.

“I got outplayed [Sunday],” said Mastalerz, who made 32 saves of his own. “It’s a case where if I outplayed him we would’ve won the game so I gotta give him the credit, he obvious played well. It is what

it is.”

UMass had a number of chances to beat Santaguida throughout Sunday’s contest, but every time it appeared the Minutemen were going to pull through, the freshman would make one strong save after another.

UMass’ best chance came in the first period when Ray Pigozzi came around the net with the puck, made a move with his stick right in front and attempted a shot toward the far post. But Santaguida sprawled out and reached for the puck with the glove before making an extraordinary save, losing his stick in the process.

The Minutemen appeared to get an offensive boost by reuniting seniors Michael

Pereira, Branden Gracel and Conor Sheary on the top forward line for the first time since Nov. 1. The trio generated offensive pressure almost every time they stepped on the ice, including an opportunity where Sheary found Pereira in the slot with some daylight in front but his shot went wide of the mark.

Every other chance moving forward was swallowed up

by Santaguida.

“He played well. You can’t take away a shutout from a kid. Obviously he made the saves he had to make,” Pereira said of Santaguida.

“That being said, I think there’s times where there’s pucks floating in front that we see

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Steven Iacobellis and the UMass hockey team came up empty in a weekend sweep to Vermont.

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FOOTBALL

UM loses again in thumping Turns the ball over 4 times in loss to CMU

By NiCk CaNelas Collegian Staff

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The UMass men’s basketball celebrates after winning the Charleston Classic tournament championship on Sunday night in Charleston, S.C.

A.J. Doyle was healthy enough to start at quarterback for the Massachusetts CMU 37 football team on Saturday UMass 0 despite battling an ongoing ankle injury. But that didn’t necessarily mean good news for the Minutemen’s offense.

Doyle completed just 6 of 16 passes for 45 yards and threw three interceptions as the UMass offense was held out of the end zone in a game for the third time this season in its 37-0 loss to Central Michigan at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. It was the second time the Minutemen were shut out this year.

Doyle was one of the few healthy pieces to the UMass offense as left tackle Anthony Dima, tight end Rob Blanchflower and running back Lorenzo Woodley were all held out of the contest.

Their absence was certainly felt, and the Chippewas took advantage, turning three of UMass’ four turnsee

UMass beats Clemson, wins Charleston Classic

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

Many writers with votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll have a decision to make regarding the Massachusetts men’s basketball team Monday morning.

On Sunday night, in the championship game of the Charleston Classic, UMass did its best to make that decision an easy call.

The Minutemen (6-0) barely defeated Clemson, 62-56, building an early lead and ultimately holding off a pesky Tigers comeback.

The performance punctuated a successful three games in four nights stretch for UMass, which knocked off No. 19 New Mexico and Nebraska to reach the title game.

“It’s tiresome looking at the wall and not seeing any new [trophies] other than the ones from when I played,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said on bringing hardware back to Amherst.

“I mean, I’m tired of those things. I want to throw them in the garbage and start our trophies as a coach and team. So, that feels great.”

Clemson cut the deficit to 59-56 with just 56.4 seconds remaining.

But a Raphiael Putney putback

ROAD TO THE TITLE first round UMass 96, Nebraska 90 Chaz Williams (10 points) is held in check, but his teammates pick up the slack as the Minutemen prevail over the Cornhuskers on Thursday.

“It’s tiresome looking at the wall and not seeing any new [trophies] other than the ones from when I played.”

Derek Kellogg, UMass coach

who’s off to a remarkably consistent start to the season and won Charleston Classic Most Valuable Player. Lalanne dominated in the paint, leading all scorers with 20 points and grabbing 12 rebounds on his way to his fourth doubleThe Minutemen go on a 20-4 run over the last eight minutes of regulation double of the season. He provided to knock off the 19th-ranked Lobos on Friday. a dependable low-post presence, which the Minutemen went to in bulk in the half-court offense.

“It felt pretty good,” Lalanne said. “I felt like we put in the work over the summer to get to this The Minutemen hold off a late Tigers run to come away with the 2013 level, to this point. So, it felt pretty Charleston Classic championship on Sunday night. good that we won the tournament, and I’m honored to be MVP.” UMass won without a typical layup off a Chaz Williams miss 10 points in just eight minutes performance from Williams, who bumped the lead to 61-56, allowing of play. But a helter-skelter final scored just four points on 1-of-12 the Minutemen to hang on. two minutes filled with turnovers shooting from the field. Williams The Tigers launched a come- and missed shots eventually fell struggled to get shots off around back in the second half squared UMass’ way. the basket and deferred to a role primarily on the shoulders of forThe Minutemen relied heavily ward Devin Coleman, who scored on junior center Cady Lalanne, see CHAMPIONS on page 7

semifinals UMass 81, New Mexico 65 championship UMass 62, Clemson 56

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

UMass wins 2nd straight By aNdrew Cyr Collegian Staff

Massachusetts’s women’s basketball coach Sharon Dawley knew that with a young UMass 63 roster it was going to take Hartford 59 some time for her team to get acclimated to playing at such a competitive level.

However, just five games into the season, with back-to-back nail biting wins only three days apart, this Minutewoman team is gaining confidence quickly, and showing no signs of slowing down after a 63-59 win against Hartford on Saturday.

“I was really happy with our team’s performance on the defensive end,” Dawley said. “We had a cousee

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