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A representative from the University of Massachusetts’ Police Department delivered a presentation on ‘active shooter threats’ during Monday’s SGA meeting.
UM Hillel to play in tournament
Team of eight will travel to Maryland By ChanCe Viles Collegian Staff
During the last weekend of March, eight students from the University of Massachusetts will travel to Maryland to play in the third annual intercollegiate National Hillel Basketball Tournament. “The tournament is the NCAA (Tournament) of Jewish Basketball,” Marketing Executive Daniel Goldberg said. The tournament is an all-Jewish, non-profit basketball tournament comprised of 40 schools from across the country. This year, it will be held from March 28 until March 30 at the University of Maryland. UMass has competed in the tournament every year since it was founded in 2011. With the University of California Los Angeles participating this year, the tournament will include a west coast school for the first time ever. Yale, Harvard and UCLA are
“The tournament is the NCAA (Tournament) of Jewish basketball.” Daniel Goldberg, marketing executive among the 32 male teams playing, while eight women’s teams from schools in Boston, Columbia University and more will be participating in the tournament as well. “This is the most schools the tournament has ever had,” Goldberg said. “(It) is a tradition where all these schools around the country come to Maryland, West Coast included... every year it has grown.” Each school can register a team of five to eight undergraduate students for a fee of $1,000, which includes food, gym reservations, apparel and other tournament costs, according to the tournament’s website. Students are also invited to attend as fans. This year, it is being put together by volunteers mainly from the University of Maryland, as well as
sponsors. “We haven’t had any fans come in the past years but it would be great to see some UMass students come down and support our team. For the future, they could definitely drive down with other friends for the weekend,” said Corey Dicker, a junior at the University and UMass Hillel team member. The tournament begins with all participating members, including players, volunteers and other team members, sitting down for a Shabbat dinner on Friday night, which has included over 500 people in the past. The games begin the following day with a separate women’s and men’s tournament. Each team competes for the trophy, known as the “Kiddush Cup.” The weekend games are seen as a great way to build camaraderie between Jewish college students, as well as just to have fun, according to Goldberg. “I feel that it gets our name out a lot more throughout the entire college Jewish community, which is definitely amazing,” Dicker said. “The
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tournament is an excellent experience and a huge opportunity to meet hundreds of other (Jewish) college students from different Hillels across the country.” The tournament is funded by anonymous donors or sponsors, as well as the registration fees. Although the tournament is relatively new, it has attracted various sponsors, including Under Armour, which is supplying jerseys for the teams, and Ben Yehuda, which will supply food, such as pizza. Other sponsors include Gatorade, Muscle Milk and Bobble Water. The Shabbat dinner is sponsored by the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi. “I am really excited to play in the tournament. Our team had an awesome time and weekend at the University of Maryland last year, and we are very much looking forward to going back again this year,” Dicker said. Chance Viles can be reached at cviles@umass.edu.
The University of Massachusetts has invited two finalists for the position of senior vice chancellor of academic affairs and provost to campus next week to participate in public forums for the campus community. John Hopkins Dean Katherine Newman and Purdue University Dean Jeffrey Roberts were both named finalists for the position, which opened in October when James Staros announced he would resign at the end of the academic year. Newman has been dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at John Hopkins since 2010, where she also serves as a professor of sociology. She previously served as the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Newman also served as the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of California Berkeley and she received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and sociology from the University of California San Diego. Roberts has been dean of the College of Science at Purdue University for almost five years. He is also a professor of chemistry at Purdue. Roberts was previously the head of the chemistry department and a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities from 2005 to 2009. He holds a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California Berkeley. Roberts will be at a public forum on Tuesday, April 1 at 2:15 p.m. in Campus Center 174-76. Newman‘s public forum is Wednesday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m. in Campus Center 168C. A search committee appointed by UMass Chancellor Kumble
The senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost is the top academic officer at UMass, reporting directly to the chancellor and serving in the chancellor’s place when Subbaswamy is unavailable. Subbaswamy chose Newman and Roberts from a national search pool. Among the members of the committee were Tim Anderson, dean of the college of engineering; Craig Bidiman, representative from the Graduate Student Senate; Joye Bowman, chair of the history department; Lori Clarke, chair of the school of computer science; Diego Fellows and Charlotte Kelly, Student Government Association representatives; Patty Freedson, chair of the kinesiology department; Enku Gelaye, interim vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life; Michael Malone, vice chancellor for research and development; Andrew Mangels, director of finance and budget; Christine McCormick, dean of the college of education; and Susan Pearson, associate chancellor. Julie Hayes, dean of the college of humanities and fine arts, served as the committee chair. The senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost is the top academic officer at UMass, reporting directly to the chancellor and serving in the chancellor’s place when Subbaswamy is unavailable. The senior vice chancellor and provost oversees all of the campus’s schools and colleges, including the graduate school and the Commonwealth Honors College. A hiring decision is expected in the coming weeks, shortly after the public forums. Collegian News Staff
Justices ready to reject contraceptives mandate Obama’s health care law was criticized Tues. By DaViD G. saVaGe Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply criticized part of President Barack Obama’s health care law Tuesday, suggesting they will rule later this year that requiring Christian-owned corporations to offer their employees contraceptives coverage violates the freedom of religion. “Your reasoning would permit
requiring profit-making corporations to pay for abortions,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy told U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, who defended the contraceptives provision of the Affordable Care Act. The administration’s lawyer warned that the court would be adopting a “dangerous principle” if it gave employers a right to exempt themselves from federal laws based on their religious beliefs. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. countered that Congress had passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993 to require
special exemptions based on religion. The women justices - Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg - spoke in support of the Obama administration’s rule. They agreed with Verrilli that it would cause problems if employers were permitted to refuse to pay for benefits based on religion. “You would see religious objectors come out of the woodwork,” Kagan said. But the five conservative justices sounded as if they stood in opposition to the contraceptives mandate. The justices were hearing a politically charged clash over a
provision under Obamacare that requires all new health insurance plans pay for contraceptives, including the “morning after” pill and intrauterine devices, or IUDs. Catholic bishops and some evangelical Christians opposed this rule, arguing that it forces employers to be complicit in what they consider to be a sin by paying for drugs that may destroy a fertilized egg. The administration and women’s rights advocates say contraceptives are a basic health right for women, preventing both unplanned pregnancies and abortions. The case also raises the question of whether for-profit corporations
can invoke the religious beliefs of their owners in order to seek an exemption from federal law. David and Barbara Green, founders of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores, sued and won an exemption from a lower court. Verrilli argued that for-profit corporations do not have a right to religious liberty that trumps federal law. But Paul Clement, the former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, defended the Greens and argued that they had followed their faith in operating the Hobby Lobby stores.