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Sanctions to punish Putin

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of the U.S. and everybody in the world is not to see this escalate into a military WASHINGTON — confrontation.”

Secretary of State John F. “Nobody wants this to Kerry, denouncing what he spiral in a bad or a worse called Russia’s invasion of direction,” he said.

Ukraine as an “incredible “The invasion of Crimea act of aggression,” said the has already happened,” United States is considering Kerry said. “And we believe an array of economic sanc- that President Putin should tions to persuade Russian make the decision to roll it President Vladimir Putin to back.” change course or to punish He also appeared to conhim if he refuses. cede that Russian forces The decision by Russian would be able to establish President Vladimir Putin control of at least that porto send troops to Crimea, tion of Ukrainian territory. a region of Ukraine, “is But, he said, in the long really a stunning willful run, Russia would suffer choice by President Putin economic and diplomatic to invade another country,” isolation as a result.

Kerry said on CBS’s “Face “You know, he may be the Nation,” one of several able to have his troops for Sunday morning TV shows some period of time in on which he appeared.

Crimea,” Kerry said on Kerry made it clear that NBC’s “Meet the Press.” the U.S. was not considering But “the fact is he’s going a military move to counter to lose on the internationPutin’s action. On ABC’s al stage, Russia is going to “This Week” program, Kerry said that “the hope see SANCTIONS on page 2

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Pennsylvania State University researcher Pamela Cole presented a lecture called “Language and the Early Development of Emotion Regulation” last Thursday, Feb. 27, in the University of Massachusetts in the Campus Center.

Pamela Cole is a liberal arts research professor of psychology and human development, currently studying emotional development in early childhood. Her work pays particular attention to emotion regulation, which is the ability of humans to control their emotional reactions. Cole’s research

breaks new ground by analyzing the correlation between the development of proper language skills and emotional self-regulation from an early age.

During the presentation, Cole addressed the role that parental language input and toddler language ability contribute to the development of emotion regulation by the time the child reaches four years old.

“We are finding evidence that language development provides the toddler the ability to regulate its emotional reactions through the use of different strategies that vary among different age groups,” Cole said.

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ISO discusses institutionalized racism Lecture on Islamophobia Thursday

By Sarah roBertSon Collegian Staff

Thursday evening the University of Massachusetts International Socialist Organization facilitated a free lecture titled “Islamophobia, Racism, Surveillance and Empire.” Guest speakers Dr. Deepa Kumar, the Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, and Arun Kundnani, author of “The End of Tolerance: Racism in the 21st Century Britain” and “The Muslims Are Coming!,” spoke at the event about their work and the social stigma surrounding the Muslim community today.

The seminar focused on the state of national security in the U.S. and chronicled the existence of Islamophobia in the United States both before and after 9/11. Much of the seminar focused on the imprisonment of Ayyub

Abdul-Alim, a Springfield man who was charged for an alleged firearms and ammunition after a random stop-and-frisk by Springfield police.

Abdul-Alim is a half African-American, half Puerto Rican man raised in a Muslim family and the owner of the store Nature’s Garden. In December of 2011 he was stopped and searched by police officers outside of a convenience store and detained for allegedly having firearms and ammunition.

Instead of serving a 15 year sentence, he was offered freedom in exchange for becoming an informant within the Muslim community. Abdul-Alim refused and received the 15 year sentence in the Hampden County Correctional Center where he awaits trial.

During the seminar the student leaders of the ISO called Abdul-Alim and had him speak to the audience about his incarceration and the struggles of being Islamic in America. He encouraged the audience to never stand for the injustices like those

he has seen when he says “Silence is They encourage people of all a form of consent.”

While none races to speak out against any of the speakers injustices they see and to see encourage violence in any form, they past the discrimination they do preach a form of hyper-activism are confronted with every day. meant to protect ern culture throughout the minorities from police brutality and pro- world. The ISO believes tect their own rights. They Islamophobia was perpetuatencourage people of all races ed by the government to justo speak out against any tify the surveillance, discriminjustices they see and to see ination and abuses of power past the discrimination they needed to create an empire. are confronted with every Ayyub Abdul-Alim’s case is day. just one of hundreds that the Abdul-Alim, Kumar ISO is trying to fight against. and Kundnani all see His first court appearance Islamophobia as a form of institutionalized racism was on Aug. 23 and twenty mean to drive the expansion supporters showed up bearof the United States as an ing signs saying “Justice for empire. In response to the Ayyub” in support. Bail for tragedy on 9/11, the Bush Ayyub is set at $25,000 but administration launched a a campaign was started by “war on terror” that exacerhis friends and supporters to bated the anti-Muslim sentiments already in place in the raise the money for his freedom. Donations can be made U.S. The speakers believe that at justiceforayyub.org. the goal of this war is not peace in the Middle East, Sarah Robertson can be reached at but rather to spread west- srobertson@umass.edu.

Ukraine is Obama’s biggest foreign policy challenge By leSley Clark and anita kumar

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, who sought to “reset” U.S. relations with Russia when he took office, now faces the greatest foreign policy challenge of his presidency.

A standoff with Russia is scarcely the global legacy that Obama has sought. He’s labored to end U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has proved reluctant to engage militarily in Syria, preferring diplomacy to military force. His administration has looked to rebalance its focus to emerg-

ing power economies in Asia.

But it’s the showdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin that may prove defining for Obama.

“By any standard this is the most difficult, the most complex international crisis he’s faced,” said former NATO ambassador Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs and member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors. The dilemma in Ukraine cuts to the heart of decades-old American interests, Burns said: victory in the Cold War, stamping out Communism and overseeing the emergence of stable

Europe.

“If Putin gets away with launching a military offensive, then Europe risks being divided,” Burns said. “The stakes are very high.”

Obama came into office with the belief that the United States needed to take a different approach to Russia than his predecessor.

He maintained that George W. Bush’s administration had been too negative, continually “poking Russia in the eye,” said Stephen Larrabee, distinguished chair in European security at the Rand Corp.

Bush, for example, backed a Europe-based mis-

sile defense system that Russia opposed and pushed for NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, both former Soviet republics.

The Obama doctrine led to some benefits, administration officials say: a strategic arms agreement, as well as cooperation from Russia on helping to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition and the delivery of supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

But Russia, which at the outset was “perfectly happy” to go along with Obama’s reset, became disillusioned when officials perceived the reset as forcing Russia to go along with the U.S. instead

of having its views taken into account, said Anton Fedyashin, a Russia expert who directs the Initiative for Russian Culture at American University in Washington.

“There were high hopes for the reset but it didn’t really go well,” Fedyashin said. “The expectations were unrealistic. It was a lofty goal.”

The administration didn’t pay as much as attention to Russia as Russians thought it should, Fedyashin said.

“It’s not as important to the United States,” he said and it affects Russian pride.

The relationship was headed south by the end of

2011 when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “full investigation” of irregularities in Russian’s parliamentary elections.

“The life went out of relationship in 2011,” said Andrew Weiss, who served as a former Ukraine and Russian expert in the Clinton White House and is now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington research center.

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ern Borno state killed at least 70 people and injured scores,

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The blasts in densely populated areas of the state capital Maiduguri late Saturday may have killed as many as 100 people, the rescuers said, adding that many bodies had yet to be recovered from the rubble.

After the initial blast, many people - including guests at a wedding nearby - streamed to the scene to help the victims. The second blast is understood to have caused most of casualties.

Maiduguri is considered the birthplace of Boko Haram, an Islamist sect opposed to Western influence

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The group has instigated a series of attacks in the Muslim-dominated north of the country, targeting mainly Christian communities.

Last week, militants killed an estimated 43 pupils in a predawn attack on a school in the town of Buni Yadi in the northeastern state of Yobe, setting on fire a locked hostel and slitting the throats of

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advantage of the country’s weakness after the Cold War, Weiss said: “They thought we took advantage of that,” he said.

Russia doesn’t put much stock in its relationship with the United States, and has watched the U.S. struggle with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: “They’re not interested in good relations with us,” Weiss said.

The unraveling of the ties accelerated when Putin was returned to the presidency in 2012. He sat out the Obama-hosted Group of Eight meeting of leading industrial nations at Camp David in May 2012, instead sending Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev _ a move widely interpreted as a snub.

Obama and Putin tried to portray some bonhomie when they appeared together at a summit in Mexico a month later, but Putin, who has resisted Obama’s efforts to dislodge Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, sat expressionless as Obama talked about what Putin called “the Syria affair.”

Yet even as the relationship deteriorated, Obama

has downplayed Russia as a global threat, poking fun at his Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney for labeling the country the U.S.’s “biggest geopolitical foe” on the campaign trail.

Russia, Obama joked to Romney at the third presidential debate in October 2012, is “calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

But it was Obama who invoked the Cold War last August after he scrapped a meeting in Moscow with Putin over the White House’s growing frustration with the Russian government over its embrace of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, as well as its reluctance to engage in a host of issues.

“There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality,” Obama said of the Russians on “The Tonight Show.” “And what I consistently say to them, and what I say to President Putin, is ‘That’s the past, and we’ve got to think about the future, and there’s no reason

why we shouldn’t be able to cooperate more effectively than we do.’”

Earlier this year, Obama delivered a clear rebuke to Putin’s anti-propaganda laws that are widely viewed as anti-gay, sending a delegation to the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, that included openly gay members - and no high ranking administration figures.

But most Western leaders, including Obama, had underestimated Russia’s desire to reassert its influence in the Crimean region of Ukraine, the Rand Corp’s Larrabee said. Russia’s interests in Ukraine are far more important to Putin than his relationship with the United States, Larrabee said.

“Putin has made clear his objectives. He wants to restore Russia to a position of authority and respect,” Larrabee said. “You have to understand the resentment.

This is personal. It’s the feeling that Russia is not going to be pushed around anywhere.”

Conditions for Boston bomber remain strict By alana seMuels Los Angeles Times

BOSTON — Despite the presence of an FBI agent in the room, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev made a “”statement to his detriment” while his sister was visiting him in prison, federal prosecutors say.

Prosecutors revealed the incident in a filing Friday that argued that special rules governing Tsarnaev’s prison conditions should remain in place. The rules, called special administrative measures, limit who can communicate with Tsarnaev, allows the government to be present while certain people visit him, and place restrictions on who his defense team can share information with. Such measures are sometimes used in terrorism cases in which authorities believe that the defendant could cause bodily injury to others through his contact with others.

Tsarnaev is accused of carrying out the twin April 15, 2013, bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three and wounded 260. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has said he will seek the death penalty for Tsarnaev, whose trial will begin Nov. 3.

In the filing, prosecutors argue that the restrictions are necessary to protect people against the risk of violence or terrorism. Government prosecutors had previously submit-

ted briefs in which they argued that writings found in the Watertown, Mass., boat where Tsarnaev took refuge show “an avowed wish to incite others to engage in violent jihad.”

Tsarnaev’s attorneys have argued that the measures are “unlawful and unwarranted” and violate his rights. The measures “gravely impair the ability of counsel to provide effective assistance to Mr. Tsarnaev,” the defense argued in court filings.

Tsarnaev has had two social visits since being in prison, Friday’s filing said.

As part of the measures, an FBI agent was present during these visits. During the second visit, from Tsarnaev’s sisters, an investigator for the defense team was also present.

At one point during the visit, the investigator began explaining the rationale between the special measures to Tsanaev’s sister, the filing said. Part of her comment regarded restrictions on providing information to third parties outside of prison, and Tsarnaev “made a comment in return,” the filing said.

The government believes that Tsarnaev’s lawyers have moved to lift the special administrative measures in part because of that comment.

“The motion has nothing to do with the (special measures) and everything to do with the fact that Tsarnaev, despite the presence of an FBI agent and

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an employee of the federal public defender, was unable to temper his remarks and made a statement to his detriment which was overhead by the agent,” the filing said.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers say their request to lift the measures has nothing to do with his comment. They also requested that he be allowed to meet with visitors without law enforcement present. The government also argued against this request.

“The suggestion that the defense and visitors be allowed to meet with Tsarnaev without monitoring by law enforcement would, in effect, allow Tsarnaev far greater freedom than the general population of inmates who are subject to the (Bureau of Prisons) regulations,” the government said.

Also late Friday, defense lawyers asked that multiple charges against Tsarnaev be dismissed, arguing that the number of charges “appears designed to put a thumb on the scales of justice in favor of the death penalty.” Tsarnaev is facing 30 federal charges, more than half of which carry the death penalty.

Preparations are being made for this year’s Boston Marathon, which will be held April 21. The Boston Athletic Association said earlier this week that backpacks and bags would be banned from the race’s starting and finish lines and along the 26.2-mile course.

lose, the Russian people are going to lose.”

“He’s going to lose all of the glow that came out of the Olympics, his $60 billion extravaganza,” Kerry said.

“He may find himself with asset freezes on Russian business. American business may pull back. There may be a further tumble of the ruble. There’s a huge price to pay.”

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned that Russia could be sparking a “very dangerous situation” if it continues its incursion into Ukrainian territory. “This is a time for careful, wise, steady leadership,” he said on “Face the Nation.”

“We have many options, like nations do. We’re trying to deal with the diplomatic focus.”

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the U.N., said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Ukrainians are “preparing to defend ourselves” and called for military backing from the West. “When the Russian troops ... are enlarging their quantity with every coming hour, naturally we will ask for military support and other kinds of support.”

Kerry said the Obama administration would ask Congress to begin work on an economic aid package for Ukraine that would seek to stabilize that country’s new, pro-western government. After years of economic mismanagement and corruption, Ukraine is near bankruptcy, officials there have said.

Citizens protest gov’t in Venezuela

By Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul Los Angeles Times

CARACAS, Venezuela — Tens of thousands of students and other opponents of the Venezuelan government filled the streets of the capital Sunday, putting a damper on President Nicolas Maduro’s hopes that a mandated holiday might bring a respite from weeks of protests.

The march originated at four points near universities in Caracas that have been opposition hotbeds and converged on the Chacaito barrio, where opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was arrested Feb. 18 after being accused of incitement to violence.

Opposition leaders say the charges against Lopez are politically motivated and have demanded his release from the military prison where he is being held in isolation.

Each of the four “feeder” marches Sunday had a theme built around a complaint against the Maduro administration: justice, scarcities, freedom and censorship.

Maduro earlier had declared mandatory holidays, hoping that the days off, when added to two previously scheduled holidays for Carnival celebrations, would induce demonstrators to leave the streets where violence has claimed 17 lives and left hundreds of people injured.

The march came a day after the release of 41 protesters detained late Friday by authorities in Altamira Square, a focal point of opposition to Maduro.

Those arrested were among hundreds gathered to protest the erection of barricades by national guard units in an apparent bid to impede mass gatherings there.

Also on Saturday, Tachira state Gov. Jose Vielma Mora said two national guard members had been injured while trying to clear debris from streets in the state capital of San Cristobal, a scene of ongoing clashes between students and authorities.

On Friday, Maduro said a national guard member in Valencia died of a gunshot wound during what the president described as an ambush in central Carabobo state.

The government said Foreign Minister Elias Jaua would meet with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Venezuela. Ban has called on Maduro to open a dialogue with the opposition.

Maduro hosted a “peace conference” Wednesday that was criticized by some opposition leaders for not setting up a mechanism of negotiations between the two sides. Others said dialogue was impossible while Lopez remained in custody.

Residents of the Catia slum held demonstrations this weekend to protest the rise in violent crime in their barrio. The protest was unusual in that Catia has been a stronghold of backers of Maduro and, before him, the late President Hugo Chavez.

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Oregon is next state to confront same-sex marriage laws

By Maria L. La GanGa Los Angeles Times

PORTLAND, Ore. — When Jackie Yerby and a small band of devout Catholics go to the cathedral for Mass this Ash Wednesday, they will be sending an unmistakable message.

Pinned to their lapels will be big white buttons that proclaim, “Catholic Oregonians for Marriage Equality.”

The newly formed group wants to show that “just because we’re Catholic doesn’t mean we don’t support samesex marriage,” said Yerby, who served on the board of Catholic Charities of Portland for six years. “We support same-sex marriage because we are Catholic.”

Just three weeks ago, Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample told his staff via e-mail that the Roman Catholic Church in the state would be joining a coalition called Protect Marriage Oregon to fight the effort to legalize same-sex marriage here.

The kickoff to one of Catholicism’s most sacred seasons is also a crucial time in the battle over legalizing same-sex marriage in the only state on the West Coast where gay and lesbian couples cannot wed.

As an increasing number of same-sex marriage bans are struck down in the courts,

organizers on both sides of the issue have been working to get measures ready for the November ballot. Oregon is poised to be the only state to vote on the issue this year.

Oregon voters passed Measure 36 a decade ago, amending the state constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Proponents of same-sex marriage have gathered enough signatures to place a measure on the ballot to overturn that definition and “recognize and protect the right to marry” for all _ if the courts here don’t accomplish that end first.

At the same time, opponents of gay marriage are working on a measure - a narrower version of the one vetoed last week by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer - that would exempt florists, bakers, photographers and others from “supporting same-sex ceremonies in violation of deeply held religious beliefs.”

And so “freedom to marry” is rubbing up against “protecting religious freedom” here in one of the least religious states in the country. It’s also a place where First Amendment protections under state law are stronger than those offered by the U.S. Constitution. Oregon voters have also cast ballots dozens of times on measures

that largely would have denied legal protections for gays and lesbians.

Oregon is more complicated than liberal, locavore, craftbrew-loving Portland suggests, and there are few better windows into that complexity than the issue of gay rights and same-sex marriage.

“Oregon in many respects has been fairly tolerant,” said George T. Nicola, a historian with the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. “We have four LGBT people who hold elected office on a statewide level...

There’s a small town south of Portland with a transgender mayor.”

But starting in 1978, Nicola said, there have been an estimated 35 ballot measures, local or statewide, that have attempted to circumscribe the rights of gays and lesbians. In 1992 statewide Measure 9 proposed a constitutional amendment to “prohibit government promotion, encouragement or facilitation of homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism and masochism.”

Voters rejected that one.

Although not all of the 35 measures passed and some were later overturned by a state anti-discrimination law, Nicola called their mere presence on ballots significant.

“And I can’t imagine any state having more than that,”

Syrian rebels release Spanish newspaperman B y Patrick J. M c D onneLL Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT — A Spanish journalist kidnapped by Islamist rebels and held for almost six months inside Syria has been released and was safe in neighboring Turkey, his newspaper reported Sunday.

M a rc M a r g i n e d a s, accompanied by Spanish officials, was undergoing a medical evaluation in Turkey, reported El Periodico, his employer.

Since his release, Marginedas has spoken with his family in Barcelona, and with Spanish a u t h o r i t i e s, i n cl u d i n g P re s i d e n t Mariano Rajoy, his newspaper said.

The journalist crossed the border from Syria into Turkey early Sunday, the newspaper reported.

There were no details on how he came to be released or whether any ransom had been paid.

Marginedas, a veteran war correspondent, was kidnapped Sept. 4 near the Syrian city of Hama, the newspaper said. He had

entered the country three days earlier on a reporting trip, the newspaper reported.

El Periodico initially withheld news of his abduction in the hope that public silence would help facilitate negotiations for his release. But when all efforts to secure his freedom failed, the newspaper went public with the news of his kidnapping on Sept.

23, unleashing a wave of inter national solidarity for the abducted correspondent.

According to El Periodico, Marginedas was held by one of the most radical Syrian rebel groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The alQaida breakaway faction holds sway in stretches of northern Syria that have fallen out of the control of the central government in Damascus.

The journalist was repeatedly moved to various rebel-controlled zones during his almost six months in captivity, his newspaper reported.

Syria, engulfed by war for almost three years, has

become the most dangerous country in the world for journalists to work, according to press advocacy groups. Journalists have been targeted for attacks and kidnappings, and have also fallen victim to shelling and gunfire. At least 30 journalists are thought to remain kidnapped inside Syria, free press advocates say. The great majority are believed to be in the hands of rebel groups or criminal gangs.

Press groups, humanitarian organizations and governments have called for the immediate release of all journalists being held in Syria.

Among the kidnapped journalists still believed held inside rebel-held Syria are two other Spaniards: Javier Espinoza, a Beirutbased correspondent for El Mundo newspaper, and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, a freelance photographer.

The two were abducted Sept. 16.

Nicola said. Their supporters “were able to go to these small towns and counties and get these things through.”

But Teresa Harke, spokeswoman for Friends of Religious Freedom, bristles at the idea that the “Protect Religious Freedom Initiative” discriminates against gays and lesbians.

“Our bill is very narrow,” Harke said. “It only creates a religious protection for individuals who do not want to participate in same-sex ceremonies. ... All other nondiscrimination laws would remain intact.”

The proposed initiative, which is aimed at the November ballot, is in the process of receiving its official title from the secretary of state’s office. Once that is complete, supporters can begin collecting the required 85,000 or so signatures needed to get the measure before voters.

Even that process has been complicated, said Harke, whose group is fighting the ballot title suggested by the secretary of state’s office: “Exempts religious opposition to same-sex marriage/civil unions/domestic partnerships from penalties for discrimination.”

Such a title is “politically charged,” Harke said, because it frames the issue in negative terms. Her organization

prefers “Protects persons choosing nonparticipation in same-sex ceremonies based on conscience or religious belief from penalization.”

Pope Francis has suggested that the church focus more on poverty and less on the politically charged social teachings that were the hallmark of the two previous popes. He made headlines in responding, “Who am I to judge?” when asked about homosexuality.

But Catholic doctrine as outlined in 1986 by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI, has not changed: “Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”

Which is why Catholic Oregonians for Marriage Equality - which met in Yerby’s living room for the first time nine days ago - is stepping gingerly into the fray. The nascent group of a few dozen members will take its first public action on Ash Wednesday.

Peter Zuckerman, spokesman for Oregon United for Marriage, said recent polling by his organization shows that 55 percent of Oregonians support “the freedom to marry.”

That mirrors a 2012 survey by an independent company

RESEARCH tions are widely known among psycholo gists, according to Cole. Some of these outcomes include the capability to engage in successful adult relationships, academic success, professional success and better health, among others.

Cole described with detail one of the many experiments she perfor med where she observed the behavior of 120 children ranging from 18-48 months old. The toddlers were given tasks designed to create frustration in order to measure spontaneous speech, emotion expressions and language skills.

The findings showed that toddlers with more advanced language skills were able to use different strategies to distract them from their frustration, such as their engagement on a different task.

Also, they were better at communicating their feelings verbally, rather than physically.

Cole’s contributions to psychology are primarily focused in the area of emotion regulation development in early childhood and its implications for the development of child competence and child

called Public Policy Polling, which found 54 percent in favor of such nuptials.

The poll by Zuckerman’s group was released the same day Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said the state would not defend its ban on same-sex marriage, which is the subject of federal litigation. The ban, she said in court documents, “cannot withstand a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review.”

The campaign has gathered 160,000 signatures and is ready to place a same-sex marriage measure on the November ballot if necessary. In the interim, canvassers are hitting the streets here in the City of Roses, raising awareness and money for the battles ahead.

One recent, chilly afternoon, Lakia Davis tramped along tree-lined avenues near Reed College, knocking on doors and explaining the rapidly shifting landscape.

Wrapped tightly in a scarf and wool coat, the 27-year-old outlined the ballot measures, the court cases, the optimism, the peril: “Do you know anything about what’s been going on in the past couple of weeks?”

“If you’ve heard about Arizona, our opposition is looking to replicate that.”

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Cole’s research breaks new ground by analyzing the correlation between the development of proper language skills and emotional self-regulation from an early age. psychopatholog y.

Her published work includes a series of analyses of cross-cultural variations in emotion and socialization, and also of the hidden role of the early brain development in response to the infant’s emotional environment.

The presentation was a part of the Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series by the Center for Research on Families (CRF), an interdisciplinary research center on campus. The lecture series was established in 1999 in Memory of Tay Gavin Erikson.

Through the series, CRF brings nationally reco gniz ed speakers that specialize in family research to campus every year in order to share their research and provide research consultation to CRF Family Research Scholars.

Cole will use her visit as an opportunity to offer consulting for

CRF psychology professor Elizabeth Harvey on her most recent project “A Longitudinal Study of Emotion Regulation in Preschool Children with Symptoms of Attention Def icit Hyperactivity Disorder,” which she is planning to submit to the National Institutes of Health.

Elizabeth Harvey was selected to participate on the Scholar Program due to her outstanding research on the early development of ADHD, which is her area of expertise. She has been widely published in many psychology journals and at the moment counts on a grant by the NIDH to continue her research on ADHD. Cecilia Prado can be reached at sprado@umass.edu.

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‘Stand Your Ground’ must be repealed Let’s talk about Stand Your Ground.

Debate surrounding this controversial law didn’t die with George Zimmerman’s acquittal; it’s still as alive

Hannah Sparks and volatile as ever. Let’s talk about how it not only is bad legislation, but also sets a bad precedent for behavior, telling Americans to shoot before they think, before they question, before they run. SYG is a puerile throwback to the Wild West, to cowboys; it’s a supposed homage to American individualism and freedom that is merely an excuse for vigilantism. Too often, it serves only to accommodate the murderous tendencies of unchecked tempers, and it must be stopped.

Stand Your Ground has been marketed as common-sense legislation from day one. It’s all in the name. SYG is essentially a ramped-up version of self-defense, in which a threatened party can retaliate violently against an attacker or potential attacker without any duty to retreat.

SYG can be applied to situations outside of the home; so if someone feels threatened on a residential sidewalk, or at a gas station, for example, they can open fire. Traditional self-defense laws, on the other hand, require the threatened party attempt to leave the dangerous situation whenever possible, and to only resort to lethal violence when their own lives are truly threatened.

The thought behind SYG is: why shouldn’t I have the right to defend my life from those who threaten it, in places I legally occupy? It’s a good theory, I suppose, but terrible in practice.

Everybody has a different trigger: what makes one person feel threatened may not affect another the same way.

For some, provocation is the approach of a mugger bearing a weapon. For others, it’s a teenage boy playing loud music and not wanting to turn it down when asked.

Whether or not the person was legitimately threatened is at issue once the case comes

to trial, but cases usually only come to trial once someone is dead. The main purpose then is the pursuit of justice which, so often, our “justice system” does not dole out.

Though its wording does not explicitly mention race (few modern laws do), Stand Your Ground is a racist law.

How it is enforced and how cases involving it play out in the courts shows how it upholds the systems that reinforce racist beliefs and behaviors in the United States.

Living in a racist society means that, for example, some Americans see black people as inherently “threatening,” even if the behavior of the supposedly threatening individual is not even remotely close to dangerous. Americans have, by and large, been trained to believe that black people,

couldn’t come to a decision in the murder of Jordan Davis, declaring a mistrial despite what appears to be some pretty strong evidence, though it did find Dunn guilty of other charges that will lead to a prison sentence.

This is also why Marissa Alexander, a black woman, was slammed with 20 years in jail for firing mere warning shots at her abusive exhusband after he verbally threatened to kill her. Of all the cases, this seems to be the kind that SYG was made for.

Thankfully Alexander has been granted a new trial, after spending more than a year in jail.

Even if Trayvon Martin punched George Zimmerman, or Jordan Davis said something to set off Michael Dunn - even if Renisha McBride knocked too aggressively or Jonathan Ferrell’s body language as he approached police was misread - what does it say about our society that we think that we should have the right to respond to these “provocations” with such disproportionate violence?

The answer to a punch is not a bullet, the answer to suspicion not a point-blank shotgun blast. Stand Your Ground would have you believe otherwise.

This isn’t just a Florida problem. This is an American problem and a human one.

Asking that gun owners not turn their weapons on others at the slightest provocation is not a call to hand in your weapons or a move to disarm Americans. It’s a call not to murder people for senseless reasons, for no reason. It’s a call to mercy and to sanity.

There is a time and a place for lethal violence committed in self defense in response to a legitimate attack on one’s life.

When a mugger brandishes his knife, or a home invader his gun, you do what you have to do to survive. But we as a society can, and absolutely need to, set the bar much higher than Stand Your Ground sets it, far above the racist murk it sits in now.

“What does it say about our society that we think that we should have the right to respond to these provocations with such disproportionate violence?”

and black teenage boys especially, are naturally inclined towards mischief and, worse, violence. This stereotype has become the de facto excuse for so much modern raciallymotivated violence.

“I felt threatened.”

It’s why George Zimmerman started to follow Trayvon Martin. It’s why Michael Dunn told Jordan Davis to turn down the loud music in his car before he unloaded his bullets. It’s why Renisha McBride was shot point-blank in the head with a shotgun after knocking on a Michigan man’s door, looking for assistance. It’s why a similar fate befell Jonathan Ferrell, who was shot by Charlotte police while looking for help following a car accident.

There are too many stories like this, in which the first inclination is to kill, instantly, no questions asked, especially when confronted with a “threatening” individual.

And this way of thinking is Hannah Sparks is a Collegian columwhy George Zimmerman nist and can be reached at hsparks@ was acquitted, why the jury umass.edu.

Saying goodbye to childhood: a possible final snow day Although waking up has always been a momentous task for me, the minute word was out of a school cancellation when I was a child, I would be up and

Elementary and sit next to the kid who picked his nose and ate it.

As I spent the day off a few weeks ago, I realized that it may well be my final academic snow day.

Justin Surgent I’m a senior in college, and I don’t plan on attending wide awake, ecstatic and grad school anytime soon. bouncing around the house. Regardless, I feel missing a I’d run past my brother day of school when I would to the windows, gazing at be in pursuit of a master’s the falling snow, feeling would be more of a nuithe cold glass against my sance than a blessing, espeface as I pressed it against cially when I think about the window pane and plot- the money involved. The ted the day’s adventures blissful reward, though now in my newly fallen winter dulled with the sense of wonderland. Outside my adulthood I feel overwhelmfather would be snow blow- ing my inner child, was still ing the driveway to get to work, and he’d occasionally shoot snow at the window.

I’d jump and smile all the same and pound on the window for more. On weekends when I was young we would pack up the car, loading in pounds of winter clothing and an old green sled and present, though subdued, head to the hills down the and temptations of ways to street. We would come home waste the day ran through after, brushing snow off our my head. But as they did, shoulders and be greeted the realization that this may by our big golden retriever, be the last overwhelmed jealous he wasn’t included them. in the snow-bound fun. In I’m not sure when I my memories, our fireplace began to grow up, but it is always on in the corner, wasn’t all as gradual as I the television declaring thought it would be. I felt news of the storm in the like a child until close to background and the entire 20, when out of ashes of a scene has a nostalgic glow heartbreak things in my life to it. began to change for me. The I think that’s how a lot idea of being an adult began of people remember snow to finally make sense, and days as children. Even as I I realized that there was a grew older, it remained just lot more to this world than that; a sense of sheer frozen what I wanted and who I bliss. What originally began was. I learned respect and as a day in the snow to sled earned respect, and began became a day to read, or as I to see through the faults of entered high school, to play those around me. My father video games and sleep. As always told me those were I worked my way through the first steps to growing up, college, snow days became and I know I’ve taken them, a day to catch up on writ- or at least, have begun to in ing, movies or a little extra the recent years of my life. homework I should have That, and my beard is comcompleted the night before. ing in thicker.

Yet they still offered that I also often wonder if same sense of bliss I had I’ll know when I’m officialwhen I was in 4th grade and ly “grown up,” as if some didn’t want to go into Mrs. life-studies program will Gilbert’s class at Cashman give me a diploma that says

“We all remember the excitement of a snow day when we were young.”

“congratulations on becoming an adult” and a firm handshake before taking away the little child-like innocence I have left. In place I’d be handed a tie and a mortgage and told that I need to start putting money into my 401k. My back would begin to hurt and my stomach would grow rounder. Regardless, I’ve noticed times in my life that marked the progress into adulthood, and my final snow day was definitely one of them.

My days of sledding are done, and even video games offer little interest for me when the snow has cancelled my academic responsibilities. At this point in senior year, work is minimal and I have little to catch up on with a free day because I’ve learned how to schedule correctly. Even the usual college suspects of drinking beers and watching movies all day no longer interest me, and honestly, I may rather be in class.

Maybe that’s part of growing up, not only knowing you have responsibilities, but learning to like them too, though it could just be that I like what I do. And maybe another part of growing up is this driving force I feel to get these things done, regardless of a few inches, or two feet, of snow.

Before I know it, I may be the man outside snow blowing the driveway, no longer looking forward to snow as a way to avoid responsibilities, but seeing it as yet another to add to my list. I just hope I’ll always have enough inner-child to remember to shoot some snow at the window to make the little guy inside’s morning a perfect beginning to a childhood snow day. Maybe I’d even forget about the mortgage and 401k long enough to take him sledding.

Justin Surgent is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at jsurgent@umass.edu.

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Emo band avoids sophomore slump

new album ‘Oxymoron’

The Hotelier returns with flair ScHoolboy Q releases West Coast rapper debuts on new label

AlexA Hoyle Collegian Staff

Massachusetts-based band The Hotelier (formerly The Hotel Year) has been releasing music since 2009, but if you have never checked them out before, now is definitely the time.

Their first album under their new moniker, “Home, Like Noplace Is There,” released on Feb. 25, is a remarkably honest effort that truly establishes them as a major force in the emo music scene.

The musicianship on the album is full of variation and texture, most notably on its opener, “An Introduction to the Album.” The song plays out mostly in a soft, measured tone until it explodes three-and-a-half minutes in. Singer Christian Holden holds nothing back as he screams his lines with ever-increasing intensity until they culminate into the desperate yells of “I choked, I choked, I choked!” that end the song.

The emotion is palpable, raw and affecting.

The album’s second song, “The Scope of All of This Rebuilding,” is a clear standout, and one of the few songs with the ability to put emotional weight behind the words “I don’t know.” Its catchiness makes it easily one of the album’s most accessible songs. But not all of “Home, Like Noplace Is There” is so easy to sing along with. Emphasizing the variety of melodic textures on the album, “Life in Drag” is far more twisty and distorted, with Holden’s vocals shaking with power as he sings

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Worcester–based band the Hotelier released their second album this week. about the struggle of gender identity.

One of the strengths of that album is that it is always heartbreakingly self-aware; the honesty behind Christian Holden’s words is undeniable. On the track “Your Deep Rest” Holden sings “I called in sick from your funeral / The sight of your family made me feel responsible / I found the mess you left behind / Little hints and helpless cries / Desperate wishing to be over.” It is a painfully cathartic song that finds its root in an inherent self-interest that does not always have to be denied.

Album closer “Dendron” invokes all of the various elements of ”Home, Like Noplace Is There” and mixes it into one final outburst. Towards the end of the track Holden sings, “Part of your charm was the way you would push me from / all of the traps that I just couldn’t see / Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up / would be the one that was set there by me.” It is blisteringly frank, and closes the album by bringing many difficult emotions to light.

The album as a whole is a study in all of the emotions that people find difficult to think about or process. The strife of survival, the selfishness of saying goodbye, and the pervasive thought that all of these emotions are not just in your own head. The album’s lyrical content provides a rarity: the ability to feel, not just relate to, the power behind words written entirely from someone else’s perspective. To find the meaning in lyrics despite your own personal detachment from them is the mark of a special kind of songwriting.

“Home, Like Noplace Is There” is not always a happy album. Actually, it rarely is. But it is one of those exceptional records that do not come around often. It is bracingly real, and the reality it portrays is often as painful as Christian Holden makes it sound like. It will never stop being thrilling to hear an album this honest.

Alexa Hoyle can be reached at ahoyle@student.umass.edu.

Abrasive and intense, ScHoolboy Q is back with his third studio album “Oxymoron.” A member of the powerhouse entertainment group, Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), Schoolboy Q is a rising star in a label that houses artists like certified hip-hop heavyweight Kendrick Lamar, Isaiah Rashad and Ab-Soul.

“Oxymoron,” released on Feb. 25, has been endlessly hyped up by TDE’s artists, building anticipation for “Oxymoron” to a fever pitch.

Immediately after its release, “Oxymoron” sent shockwaves through the music community. Q’s sound has moved into a darker realm while holding onto the same party life vibes he has exhibited on his previous albums. On “Oxymoron,” Q also picks up some highprofile guest spots from Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, The Creator and 2 Chainz.

Major influences like 50 Cent, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. are prominent on “Oxymoron.” Q shares the same steely exterior as Nas and Pusha T, lighting up his tracks with bursts of anger, nearly frightening the listener while still pulling them in. Q can easily alternate from slurred, slow bars to double timed lyrics in a snap, like on “Collard Greens,” impressing listeners with his unexpected versatility.

On “Oxymoron,” Q stays true to his easy going, party lifestyle, and shows it through his songs and

lyrics. Classic Q shows up on tracks like “Collard Greens,” “Gangsta,” “Break the Bank” and “Man of the Year.” His deep voice reverberates beautifully against the dark tones and quick tempo, with the layered style vividly bringing life to his drug-fueled lyrics and trance-like flow. “Collard Greens,” a much-hyped collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, is an easy highlight.

The styles of the two artists compliment each other well, as Q raps in his trademark, slurry style while Lamar whips through lyrics at impeccable speed and clarity.

Q gives listeners a peak inside the deep recesses of his often drug-influenced mind with more insightful tracks like “Prescription/ Oxymoron,” “Hoover Street” and “Blind Threat.”

“Prescription/Oxymoron” is an exceptional track, with almost frightening lyrics that give insight into the deeper, more hidden realm of drugs. He uses his daughter as a lyrical overlay, adding a heart-wrenching quality by detailing those who are affected more personally

by his consistent drug use.

His songs are laden with mysterious tones and layered beats, making for a more complex rhythmic sound than on his previous albums. Q’s flow becomes trance like on tracks such as “Studio,” “His and Her Friend” and “Gravy.” On each of those tracks, Q exposes a somewhat softer, more emotionally vulnerable side without becoming too sentimental. It is a pleasant sonic shift from his other, more intense and aggressive beats.

As his true debut album under TDE, ScHoolboy Q is proving himself worthy of the superior ring of rappers.

“Oxymoron” does not show as much artistic growth as it could have, but it shows Q staying true to himself.

Q honors his gang life past, embracing it for what it has given him and sharing it through generally impressive lyrics and songs.

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

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West coast rapper ScHoolboy Q performs live in 2012.

CONCERT PREVIEW

Old Crow Medicine Show to headline Calvin Theater Country folk band to play in Noho AdriA Kelly-Sullenger Collegian Correspondent

In 2000, legendary folksinger Doc Watson was walking down a street in Boone, North Carolina. A country string band of seven caught his eye as he wandered past a pharmacy. It was the second year that Old Crow Medicine Show had spent busking on street corners since they began by working their way around New York state and Canada. Doc Watson invited them to play at MerleFest, one of America’s largest music festivals, and seeing the promise in this show the band jumped at the opportunity with tenacity and zeal. Now Old Crow Medicine Show can be found on tours with massively popular groups like Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers.

Marcus Mumford said in the tour film “Big Easy Express” that listening to Old Crow Medicine Show was what “really got me into folk music… that’s what made me fall in love with country music.” Even though the band’s umbrella genre is country, with most of the members playing multiple instruments and singing, OCMS achieves a unique and funky sound that’s hard to place a finger on. The band’s lineup is com-

prised of seven members: Kevin Hayes on the guitjo (a stringed instrument combining elements of both the guitar and banjo), Cory Younts playing the mandolin, keyboard and drums, Critter Fuqua on a banjo and slide guitar, Chance McCoy jamming on the guitar, banjo and fiddle, Ketch Secor playing the harmonica, banjo and fiddle, Gill Landry on a slide guitar and banjo, and Morgan Jahnig on the upright bass. All of these instruments come together to create a brilliant mixture of American roots, folk and bluegrass. Their brisk and vibrant performance brings a magnificent energy to their shows and makes crowds go wild.

Old Crow Medicine Shows’ debut album, “Eutaw and Greetings From Wawa,” was released in 2002, but it was not until 2004, when they released their second album, “O.C.M.S.,” that they started gathering a larger following.

On “O.C.M.S.” was the band’s breakthrough hit “Wagon Wheel,” which received the RIAAs’ Platinum Certification for selling over 1 million copies and has now become the band’s signature song. The band’s most recent album, 2012’s “Carry Me Back,” shows a growth in their sound and a wider variety of tones and textures. On “Carry Me Back” the band jumps from upbeat folk to country anthems, broadening the scope of their

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Popular country string band Old Crow Medicine Show performs live in 2005. musical knowledge.

Old Crow Medicine Show also won a “Best Long Form Music Video” Grammy Award in 2013 for “Big Easy Express,” a documentary of the Railroad Revival tour. On this journey they joined Mumford & Sons and Edward Sharpe and the

Magnetic Zeros for an oldfashioned train ride from California to New Orleans.

The band now frequents popular festivals like Bonaroo, Coachella and the Newport Folk Festival.

Over the years, Old Crow Medicine Show has devel-

oped a reputation for their incredible live shows, and this Wednesday they will take a break from their tour with the Avett Brothers to stop by Northampton. Opening for OCMS is singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez and guitarist Luke Jacobs, known for

their smooth country tones.

They will be at the Calvin Theatre on March 5 at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $35 for balcony seats or $45 for the dance floor.

Adria Kelly-Sullenger can be reached at akellysu@umass.edu.

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Minutewomen drop season finale at Saint Louis Sunday

UM to play GMU in A-10 Tourney

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

Like so many games before, the Massachusetts women’s basketball team found itself in a hole early on in the game that was too big to climb out of.

This time, the result was an 87-68 loss to SLU 87 S a i n t L o u i s UMass 68 in the re gular season finale on Sunday afternoon.

“We got down early on in the game, they made their shots down the stretch and we didn’t,” UMass coach Sharon Dawley said. “They killed us on the boards, and (Denisha Womack) really hurt us inside.”

Womack was unstoppable for the Bilikens on Sunday, finishing with 22 points and 21 rebounds. Rashida Timbilla, Kim PierreLouis and Kymber Hill all picked up two fouls in the

LACROSSE UMass coach Angela McMahon said that the difference in Eipp’s play has come from reaching a level of comfort within the offense.

“Coming in as a transfer to a new team, there can sometimes be a little bit of a transition in terms of figuring out your place on the team,” McMahon said. “But we’ve really been trying to encourage her to just be aggressive.

“That’s what we’ve been seeing of her,” McMahon added. “She’s stepping up and making the most of her opportunities out there.”

McMahon said that the key to UMass’s offensive success on Saturday stemmed from the success found on the draw control, where the Minutewomen held a 21-6 advantage over Iona.

Freshman Hannah Murphy finished with a team-high seven face-off wins, while seniors Kelsey McGovern and Kelsey Sheridan had six and three, respectively.

“They just dominated on

first half, making it easy for Womack to attack the smaller Minutewomen (4-26, 1-15 Atlantic 10) lineup. Her 21 rebounds tied a St. Louis school record.

Erin Nelson and Jamesia Price each had 15 points for the Bilikens, while Sadie Stipanovich chipped in with 17 points coming off the bench.

St. Louis (12-17,7-9 A-10) outrebounded UMass 53-36 for the game.

“She was big for them all game,” Jasmine Harris of Womack. “We struggled matching up inside with her and we constantly had to figure out who was matching up with her.”

Har ris led all Minutewomen scorers with 20 points. Harris, who has been struggling with her outside shooting recently, hit three 3-pointers.

According to Dawley, had it not been Harris’ scoring outbreak, the Billikens’ lead would have been even greater in the second half.

“My outside shot was falling and I felt really good,” Harris said. “I tried attacking the basket early

in the game and I couldn’t get anything to go. Once they started playing off me a little but I was able to knock down some outside shots.”

Harris has scored in double figures in 10 of the last 12 games for the Minutewomen Alyx Stiff set a new career high after scoring 10 points coming off of the bench, eight of which came in the second half.

Pierre-Louis also eclipsed the double-digit mark, finishing the game with 12 points to go along with her seven rebounds. However, the starting center was limited to just 14 minutes of playing time after getting into early foul trouble.

“We had too many players get into early foul trouble,” Dawley said. “We were forced to play with a different lineup and (Womack) took advantage of that. We can’t have some of our best players get in early foul trouble, especially those that help us on the offensive end.”

Kymber Hill attempts to drive past a defender in a game against Saint Joseph’s earlier this season.

George Mason in the first round play in game of the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

The first time UMass played Looking Ahead the Patriots this season it With a 1-15 record lost 101-73 on Feb. 12.

“These next few days of in conference play, the Minutewomen will play practice are really impor-

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the draw (control) and that directly correlated with us having the ball on the offensive end,” McMahon said.

“That was probably the most dominant statistic of the whole game.”

The Minutewomen opened up 3-1 lead on consecutive goals by Tanner Guarino, Ferris and Sam Rush. Leading 5-3 with less than 18 minutes left in the half, UMass used a 6-0 run to open up an 11-3 lead. The Minutewomen led 12-4 at halftime.

Ferris and Rush started the half with consecutive goals to extend the lead to 10. Mary Kate McCormick put Iona back to within single digits with a goal, but UMass answered with a 5-0 to lead 19-5 with 5:58 to play.

On defense, the Minutewomen forced 24 turnovers and allowed the Gaels (0-3) to muster up just 11 shots on goal.

“I thought we did a good job of putting pressure on them to make them uncomfortable and force them to either rush decisions or take

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bad angles,” McMahon said.

“I just think we did a good job again in executing our game plan and being aggressive.”

After a 2-0 road trip this past week, UMass returns home to McGuirk Stadium on Saturday for a 3 p.m. matchup against New Hampshire.

Ferris named to Tewaaraton Watch List Ferris was named as an early candidate for the 2014 Tewaartaton Award, which recognizes the top men’s and women’s lacrosse players in the NCAA, on Thursday.

This is the second straight season that Ferris was named to the 50-person initial watch list for the national award.

Ferris is UMass’ all-time leading goal-scorer with 268 career tallies.

Through five games this season, Ferris has scored 11 goals and has a team-high 14 assists for UMass.

Anthony Chiusano can be reached at achiusanoumass.edu and can be followed on Twitter @a_chiusano24.

sophomore Kyle Karaska – which held Brown to a goal each in the first and fourth quarter.

“The group collectively, it was a group that determined the outcome of this game,” Cannella said.

“Playing very solid defense against a team that scored 13 last week, (Brown won 13-6 over Quinnipiac) only allowing two goals – that’s a good effort.”

The last time UMass held its opponent to two goals was a 23-2 win against Boston College on March 21, 2001.

Freshman Nick Mariano led the Minutemen offensively with five goals, bringing his total to 14 through four games. The attack got on the board in the second quarter and notched his third consecutive hat trick in the third. Grant Whiteway and Andrew Sokol also had two goals.

Clean assists and twoway play by the midfield were primary factors that generated scoring.

Collins set to play in Brooklyn

By Andy VAsquez The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) Jason Collins’ first week back in the NBA was a media spectacle in Portland and front-page news in Denver.

So imagine what it will be like Monday night when Collins, the first openly gay player in the history of the four major American sports, plays his first home game in New York.

Collins, who signed a 10-day contract Feb. 23, makes his Brooklyn debut tonight when the Nets play Chicago in their first game at Barclays Center since Feb. 12.

In four games with the Nets, Collins has played a total of only 34 minutes.

He’s committed 10 fouls and scored only three points.

But when he checked into the game in Milwaukee on Saturday, fans gave him a nice round of applause. It wasn’t overwhelmingly loud, but none of the other Nets was cheered upon checking in to the game.

The cheers should be even louder Monday night when Collins checks in for the first time in Brooklyn.

“I’ve always said, I’m not worried about the reaction,” coach Jason Kidd said. “I think they all will support a Net. He’s been a Net before and I think they’ll be excited to have him.”

“It’s going to be interesting,” guard Deron Williams said. “I think it will be great.

He played here for ... most of his career, those teams that went to the Finals, so he should get a great reception going home.”

Collins was a Nets’ role player in 2002 and 2003 when point guard Kidd led New Jersey to the NBA Finals.

He’s been a role player ever since.

But over the last week, he’s gained widespread attention and recognition for the barrier he’s broken.

Collins’ No. 98 jersey spent several days last week as the top seller on NBA.com.

But Collins has said repeatedly that his focus isn’t on making history or changing society. He wants to concentrate on playing basketball and helping his team.

One way Collins already has been helping out is to offer advice to his younger teammates.

“That’s part of my role,” Collins said. “Especially the past several years. ... It’s important as a veteran to share what knowledge I have with the younger guys.”

When Collins was a younger player, he remembers soaking in basketball wisdom from the likes of Dikembe Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning. Now, at 35, Collins is relishing the chance to pass those lessons along to Nets’ youngsters, including rookie forward/ center Mason Plumlee.

“It’s a cycle,” Collins said.

“Now I’m that old man at the end of the bench, that veteran. Even though I might not be playing minutes, there are still are other ways I can definitely help the team win.”

Collins said it hasn’t been difficult to fit into the Nets locker room and feel comfortable voicing his thoughts, even though he’s only been around for a short time.

“I’ve never been afraid to be honest with regards to what I see out there on the court,” Collins said. “So

be ready for that this time,” said Dawley.

The Minutewomen tip off at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Richmond, Va. Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@ umass.edu, and can be followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

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tant for us,” Harris said.

“We’re going to have to be focused and dedicated to get ready for the tournament.”

“The first time we played George Mason we didn’t play well. They hurt us from the outside and had a balanced attack so we’ll have to

it’s just speaking up and just constantly talking to my teammates.”

After Saturday night’s game, Kidd was worried that some of Collins’ lessons are being taken too literally. The joke on the team is that Collins is a “professional fouler.” In about four minutes of first-half play Saturday, Plumlee picked up three fouls.

“He taught Mase how to foul (Saturday), so I’ve got to keep him away from Mase,” Kidd said, jokingly. “But I think Jason will be fine. ... the big thing is for him to be able to help us defensively and being the good character person that he is.”

BRIEFS: A Nets win tonight would pull them to .500 for the first time since early November, when they were 2-2. They have not been above .500 this season. ...

Marcus Thornton, acquired from from Sacramento on Feb. 19, also is making his home debut. He scored a game-high 25 points to lead the Nets to victory in Milwaukee.

Freshman midfielder Jeff George had three helpers, while Connor Mooney and Cleary combined for three more.

Aggressive defense by the midfield also helped force 17 turnovers from the Bears, 10 of those coming before halftime.

Brown sophomore attack Kylor Bellistri made the score 4-1 with 47 seconds left in the first quarter on the man advantage.

A.J. Lucchese got Brown’s other goal with 6:17 to play, but the game had been out of reach for nearly three quarters at that point.

Oliveri, who made 11 saves in the win, said the UMass defense made his job in the crease easier than it could have been.

The netminder highlighted the value of intense preparation for the Bears; a game he admitted was circled on his team’s calendar.

Oliveri said the hardest part of the contest was staying on an even keel mentally, even with UMass dominating most of the

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“The team as a whole did a good job of staying composed.”

Zach Oliveri, UMass goalkeeper game.

“It’s always a 100 percent mental, 100 percent physical effort,” Oliveri said. “The team as a whole did a good job of staying composed. We kept it on – we kept the energy up and continued to understand it’s a full game.”

Cleary echoed his teammate’s sentiments.

“We used our athleticism all over the field,” Cleary said. “We really challenged them to make them uncomfortable. We challenged every 50/50 ground ball, we pushed transition, we finished the ball and we imposed our will.”

Peter Cappiello can be reached at pcappiel@umass.edu. Follow him on Twitter @petecapps.

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Maloney allowed nine runs on 11 hits in 41/3 innings. Maryland broke the game open in the fifth inning, scoring eight runs on seven hits behind triples from White and Brandon Lowe.

The Terrapins entered the inning leading 1-0 after Wade scored on a sacrifice fly from Rescigno.

Despite the rocky fifth, Stone was pleased with what he’s seen from Maloney (0-2) in his two appearances.

“He’s throwing the ball well and he’s competing out there,” Stone said. “He’s composed, he’s comfortable, we’re encouraged by his performance.”

Nick Sanford drove in the lone run for UMass, singling home Jon Avallone, who pinch-ran for Campero in the seventh inning. The Minutemen finished with five hits.

Stinnett no-hits UMass The Minutemen were victimized by Stinnett in the opening game of the series, failing to register a hit in a 4-0 loss. Stinnett struck out nine UMass batters while walking just two. He forced 13 ground-outs to just five fly outs and improved to 2-0 on the season.

“Oh, dominating stuff,”

Stone said of Stinnett. “(He had) a real live fastball, great action and a very sharp breaking ball. He had command of three pitches and a good changeup.”

It was the first Terrapins nohitter since 2008.

Geannelis, who was the designated hitter, and shortstop Vinny Scifo were the sole base runners for the Minutemen. Conor Leblanc pitched eight innings for UMass, allowing four earned runs on eight hits while walking two and striking out one.

Stone acknowledged that UMass has room for improvement at the plate, but said that generating offense will come as the team gets used to crucial ingame situations.

“We need to get more experience in those situations,” he said. “It’s a comfort issue at this point, it’s our sixth game. We just need to get in those situations and get comfortable and then be able to capitalize.”

The Minutemen return to action against Davidson on March 7.

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

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UMass draws UVM in HEA playoffs Game will be aired on NESN

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7 at 7 p.m. at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vt. The game will be televised on NESN. The Catamounts swept the season series with UMass with a pair of wins back in November. UVM overcame a 2-0 deficit in the game’s first two minutes for a 3-2 win over the Minutemen at Mullins Center Nov. 22. Two days later, freshman goaltender Mike Santaguida made 39 saves for a 2-0 win over UMass at Gutterson Fieldhouse.

While Notre Dame, which finished as the No. 8 seed, may have been the favorable matchup for the Minutemen, they will at least avoid the long trip to South Bend, Ind., for a single elimination playoff game.

The 2013-14 regular season is officially over for all 11 Hockey East teams. And the Massachusetts hockey team will travel to Vermont next weekend to take on the No. 17 Catamounts in the opening round of the conference tournament.

The Minutemen finished the season in 10th place in the conference after Boston University’s season-ending sweep of Northeastern pushed the Terriers into ninth, while UVM held onto seventh place with a 3-2 over UMass Lowell on Saturday night.

The two teams will play a single elimination playoff game for the right to move Nick Canelas can be reached at on to the conference quar- ncanelas@umass.edu and followed terfinals Friday, March on Twitter @NickCanelas.

Chaz Williams scored 17 points in the UMass men’s basketball team’s 86-79 loss to Dayton on Saturday.

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Minutemen fall to Flyers on the road UM dominates

By Patrick Strohecker

ket.”

Oh, and then there was fast start to the second half All of the little things that by the Flyers, who went on the Massachusetts a 9-0 run in the men’s basketball did first two minutes so well Wednesday Dayton 86 of the half to turn night in its win a one-point halfover Rhode Island UMass 79 time deficit into was ultimately an eight-point the deciding faclead, catching the tor in Saturday’s 86-79 loss at Minutemen (22-6, 9-5 A-10) Dayton. so off-guard that before they UMass was outrebounded, knew it, the game was slowly beat to the majority of loose slipping away from them. balls and couldn’t convert on “The first 30 seconds, I key free throws late in the would say,” Kellogg said of the game, dropping it from third game’s turning point. “They to fourth in the tightly packed went on a (9-0) run on two Atlantic 10 standings. pretty basic plays as they got “It really comes down to open 3s, and we turned the ball two things,” UMass coach over on our end.”

Derek Kellogg said in a postUMass never overcame the game radio interview. “One opening surge, trailing by as was rebounding. We didn’t many as 12 points with five outrebound them like we were minutes, 38 seconds left in the supposed to, and the second game. thing is the 50-50 balls. Every But, in typical Minutemen time there was one that they fashion, they never gave up. came up with, it led to a bas- UMass kept charging back, Collegian Staff

doing its best to respond to any Dayton (20-9, 8-6 A-10) basket with one of its own.

The Minutemen cut the Flyers’ lead to only three points with just under a minute left when Chaz Williams made a layup that brought the score to 80-77. But Dayton ended any UMass hopes of a comeback, knocking down six of eight free throws down the stretch to end the game on a 6-2 run.

“When you’re down 11 with however much time left and you do a good job of cutting it to (three points), you have to be very lucky to come away with the win,” Kellogg said.

After a nip and tuck first 20 minutes, the Minutemen walked off the court and into the locker room with a 37-36 lead. With the offense well in rhythm, Kellogg told his team following the game that in order for this UMass team to be successful come postseason, it is going to need to be

stronger on the defensive end.

“It’s what we talked about after the game,” he said. “Our offense feeds off our defense, whether it’s the press or the half court. Honestly, when teams are scoring the way they did today, we can’t our transition game going.”

The explosive offense that doomed the Minutemen came mostly from the sharp shooting of Jordan Sibert. Sibert scored a game-high 23 points, going 4-for-7 on 3-pointers. He was one of five Dayton players to hit double figures in the contest.

Trey Davis led all Minutemen with 19 points off the bench, while Williams finished with 17 and Derrick Gordon chipped in with 15.

They were the only three players to score at in double figures for UMass.

Patrick Strohecker can be reached at pstrohec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @P_Strohecker.

Iona on road Rush leads rout with four goals

UMass (5-0) marked its largest scoring output of the season. Senior Sam Rush finished with four goals and two assists, sophomore By aNthoNy chiuSaNo Erika Eipp had three goals Collegian Staff and one assist and senior Two minutes, 29 sec- Katie Ferris recorded two onds into Saturday’s goals and two assists to lead game between the No. 10 the Minutewomen.

“We have a lot of people Massachusetts who can score, women’s lacrosse UMass 19 so it was great team and Iona, for everyone B e r n a d e t t e to contribute Iona 6 Gennaro scored today,” Eipp the game’s first said. goal to give the Eipp, a transfer from Gaels an early 1-0 lead.

Louisville, now has seven That was the only time Iona goals in her past two games led in the contest, as twelve following a four-goal perdifferent scorers paced the formance against Boston Minutewomen to an evenUniversity on Wednesday. tual 19-6 victory.

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UMass offense explodes Minutemen swept by Terps UM falls to 0-6 “We need to gain experience and play. in victory over Brown after weekend Unlike the major leaguers in spring Mariano scores five goals in win

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By Peter caPPiello Collegian Staff

Sean Cleary mentally dissected the play of Brown’s first midfield line from the sidelines. He saw openings in the defense and thought to himself that he could capitalUMass 15 ize. Two minutes, Brown 2 27 seco n d s into the game, he proved it.

Cleary, a junior midfielder on the Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team, got a step on a short stick defender and let a shot go a few yards from goal line extended to score the game’s first goal. He did it again less than two minutes later to put the Minutemen ahead 2-0. UMass scored two unanswered goals from there, then broke the game open with 11

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Sean Cleary scored two goals in UMass’ 15-2 win over Brown on Saturday. straight scores to beat the Bears 15-2 in Providence, R.I., on Saturday.

“That got us off to the right start,” Cleary said of his first two goals. “From there, it was just pedal to the metal. It was a total team effort. There wasn’t one facet of the game where we didn’t execute and play well.”

Cleary added that the victory was sweeter since UMass lost to Brown 9-8 in overtime last year.

Minutemen coach Greg Cannella, in his 20th season, expected his team to play as a cohesive unit and was proud of their effort, especially on the road. The win marked Cannella’s 175th career victory.

He also highlighted the effectiveness of goalkeeper Zach Oliveri and his defensive corps – particularly senior James Fahey and see

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The Massachusetts baseball team fell to 0-6 in its young season, losing three straight to Maryland this weekend in College Park, Md. UMass (0-6) fell 3-2 on Sunday in 10 innings, failing to escape a bases loaded jam in the extra frame.

The Minutemen dropped both ends of the Saturday doubleheader, falling 10-1 in the second game and dropping the first game 4-0. They were no-hit by Terrapins (8-2) starter Jake Stinnett in the opener.

According to UMass coach Mike Stone, there are signs of incremental improvement in his team’s play despite the six-game losing skid.

“The result does matter of course, but we need to play,” Stone said. “We need to gain experience and play.

Unlike the major leaguers in spring training, unfor-

training, unfortunately, (these games) do count for us.”

Mike Stone, UMass coach

tunately, (these games) do count for us.”

On Sunday, the Minutemen ran into trouble in the bottom of the 10th. Aaron Plunkett, who pitched 51/3 innings in relief, allowed back-to-back singles to Terrapins batters Charlie White and LaMonte Wade and then hit Anthony Papio with a pitch, loading the bases.

Plunkett’s day ended after Papio’s at-bat. UMass senior D.J Jauss entered the game to a bases loaded, oneout situation. Jauss couldn’t put Mike Rescigno away, as Rescigno drove in the winning run on a ground ball to second base.

“What we were looking for there was a strikeout to start to get deeper out of the inning,” Stone said. “It was a playable ball and we just didn’t finish it.”

UMass starter Mike Geannelis allowed two runs, both of which came in the first inning, in his first career start. He lasted four innings and allowed those two runs on four hits while striking out a batter. Nik Campero cut the deficit to 2-1 in the third inning for the Minutemen on an RBI ground out. Kyle Adie tied the game in the fourth on yet another RBI ground out.

Fifth inning proves costly UMass freshman pitcher Ryan Maloney, who received high praise from Stone following his first career outing a week ago against Army, hit a snag in the fifth inning of Saturday’s back end of the doubleheader, which the Minutemen lost 10-1. see

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