Massachusetts Daily Collegian: Apr. 14, 2014

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Blarney review begins Monday Expected to be finished by Sept. By AvivA LuttreLL And PAtrick Hoff Collegian Staff

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UMass Dining held its fifth annual 5K Dash and Dine to benefit the Amherst Survival Center on Saturday.

Plans ongoing for New2U Tag Sale Sustainable UMass project progress By JuLiA McLAugHLin Collegian Staff

During the fall 2014 move-in weekend, Sustainable UMass will be holding its first ever New2U Tag Sale, a sustainable initiative designed to promote the reuse of used items. In preparation for this event, Sustainable UMass will be collecting students’ unwanted, used items during the last week of school this semester to be sold at the tag sale on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 this fall. Jackie Hynes, UMass senior and Eco-Rep Program Manager, describes this pilot program as “an expansion of our existing Sustainable Move-Out program.” Until 10 p.m. each day from May 4 to 9, students will be able to drop off their items in bins under the reuse tent on the Coolidge

Hall Lawn in Southwest Residential Area. Over the summer, the items will then be stored, cleaned, and labeled before being sold in the fall. With “don’t feed the trash monster!” as their slogan, the New2U Tag Sale serves as an opportunity for UMass students to reuse items while reducing their carbon footprint. All proceeds will be used to fund this pilot program and other sustainability projects on campus. Along with Ezra Small, Campus Sustainability Manager, other students leading this initiative are Waste & Recycling Fellow Alexandra Gabriel, Student Sustainability Coordinator Liz Pongratz, and Eco-Rep Facilitator and future Eco-Rep Program Manager Kevin Hollerbach. This project is also sponsored by the UMass Sustainability Innovation & Engagement Fund, a grant program which allows any one

group on campus to receive up to $12,000 to fund an idea that will either generate an economic payback or engage the campus community in an environmentally focused experience. After Gabriel submitted a proposal to the grant program, Sustainable UMass won with the New2U Tag Sale as their project. Some other sustainable efforts going on at UMass include the clothing swap being held this year by Sustainable UMass, the current clothing drive run by Isenberg, and NetImpact’s drive of energy, power and granola bar wrappers in conjunction with TerraCycle, a company that focuses on the recycling of formerly non-recyclable or difficult-to-recycle waste. “There are a lot of different ways to get into Sustainable UMass which I think is really interesting…” Hollerbach, the advertising head for New2U, said. Some ways that students

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can become involved are through organizations such as the Sustainability Fellowship Program, Eco-Reps, the Permaculture Committee, Gardenshare and Sustainable UMass Action Coalition (SUMAC). As advertising head, Hollerbach came up with the tag sale’s logo, worked on the promotional material, put together a slide for the Housing Services Cable Network, the campus cable system, and reached out to WMUA to air a public service announcement about the event. But the success of this event so far, in regards to organization, stems from the cooperation of a multitude of groups on campus. “It’s kind of great because everyone in New2U is sort of involved in their own separate thing,” Hollerbach said. He then noted that many of see

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Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis will begin his review of Blarney Blowout and its subsequent handling by the University of Massachusetts and the town of Amherst on Monday. Davis said that he will be on campus all day Monday to meet with staff and students as well as times throughout the week so that he can get perspectives before the semester ends. Davis and his team will also be talking to members of the Amherst community, the town manager, town businesses and “everyone who has a say” in town. Davis’ team will be comprised of Col. Mark Delaney, the former head of the state police; retired Boston Police Chief Daniel Linskey; and Christine Cole, the executive director of the program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University. Davis said that the review is scheduled to be finished by September but he will move that up as much as he can. He said that it should be a two to three month process. The aim of the review is to develop strategies to prevent similar situations in the future. It will take into account the preparedness of both the campus and the community before the event, as well as how police officers, University officials and town leaders handled the disturbance, both during and immediately afterward. Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy made the decision to retain Davis’ services after consulta-

tion with UMass President Robert Caret and Board of Trustees Chair Henry Thomas. “Commissioner Davis is an outstanding choice for this assignment,” Subbaswamy said in a press release. “He is regarded as one of the country’s top law enforcement experts and he will draw upon his longtime success in community policing to help us prevent a recurrence of last week’s disturbing events. This initiative has the support of our community partners in Amherst town government, a cooperative approach vital to solving this difficult problem.” Davis has 36 years of law enforcement experience and served as the Boston Police Commissioner from 2006 until 2013. Last April, he led the Boston Police De par tment through the marathon bombing investigation and manhunt. Davis’ team that will conduct the review includes four members, among them retired colonel and former head of the Massachusetts State Police Mark Delaney. Subbaswamy also outlined a number of other initiatives to address unruly student behavior in the release. These include establishing a task force of students, faculty and staff to develop behavior-related policies and change the culture of campus, expanding the UMatter at UMass bystander intervention program, developing better methods of crowd management with the aid of experts in the psychology of crowd behavior and broadening the campus social norms campaign to address student perceptions of troublesome behavior, such as binge drinking. see

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Divestment campaigners to New sustainable dining meet with UMass President at Hampshire College

Fossil fuel divest plan moves forward By AvivA LuttreLL Collegian Staff

After nearly a year of requesting a meeting with University of Massachusetts President Robert Caret, three members of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign will finally get the opportunity to speak with him face-to-face on May 13 in Boston. Although Divest has been upping its tactics since the fall by sending several letters and calling the president’s office on a regular basis to reiterate its request for a meeting with Caret, it wasn’t until two weeks ago that the campaign’s

efforts resulted in any significant outcome. UMass graduate student and Divest member Stephen Treat was invited by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy to attend the Intentionally Designed Endowment Conference, hosted by Hampshire College, as a student representative. There, he met Judith Murphy, associate vice president and controller of the UMass Foundation. “Her and I were able to speak extensively,” Treat said. “It was sort of the first real face-to-face conversation Divest has had with the endowment fund.” The conference was held in Cambridge April 3-4, and was attended by 115 college,

university and private foundation leaders, according to its website. “The conference wasn’t about divestment as much as it was about what they call ESG investment. So it’s aligning your portfolio with your environmental, social and governance goals,” Treat said. “It’s basically an in-depth analysis of what it takes to get your endowment to that position.” Treat said that although Divest and the administration had been butting heads over the past year, he and Murphy were both excited about the concept of ESG investment and realized they shared more similar goals than differences. see

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100% Local Food Challenge underway By SHeLBy ASHLine Collegian Staff

Faculty at Hampshire College are intensifying their efforts to improve the campus’ sustainability by launching the 100 Percent Local Food Challenge, whereby their aim is to get nearly all of the campus’ food from within a 150 mile radius. The effort is part of the college’s Healthy Food Transition, an initiative aimed at “redefining what the college dining experience can be…by changing

how food on campus is produced, prepared, served and consumed,” according to a Hampshire College press release. “I think the goal is really to use our ability as an educational institution to educate students who will be leaders in the future and to allow them to see how food is produced,” said Beth Hooker, Hampshire College’s director of food, farm and sustainability. She also said that faculty hope to “engage (students) in not just the oncampus community but the local community and the regional community in an effort to promote regional resiliency for the future.” According to a Hampshire

College press release, the 100 Percent Local Food Challenge will be supported by a $50,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the production of local, healthy, sustainably produced food throughout New England. “We chose to support this initiative at Hampshire because colleges are key levers for change in the food system,” Kendall Foundation Executive Director Andrew W. Kendall is quoted as saying in the press release. “They are able to create a meaningful impact on the see

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