Massachusetts Daily Collegian: Apr. 24, 2014

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BEER FOR THE BEER GODS

ONE LAST TIME

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UMASS FIGHTING FOR PLAYOFFS SPOT

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By Brendan deady Collegian Correspondent The Orchard Hill Residential Area’s annual Bowl Weekend will proceed as planned on Friday and Saturday. In a partnership with the University of Massachusetts’ student-run radio station, WMUA, the Orchard Hill Area Government and the Bowl Weekend Planning Committee will be hosting their annual weekend carnival that includes free food, snacks, craft tables, inflatables, a movie, dance and live music. Damien Cranshaw, the new OHAG governor, expects this year’s event to be one of the biggest in recent memory, a testa-

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Bowl Weekend underway despite minor setbacks OHAG prepares for annual event

ment to the organization skills of all those involved, given the recent drama. In the past two months, the former Orchard Hill government resigned and a temporary freeze was placed on OHAG’s funds by the Student Government Association due to an alleged misuse of funds. Some concerns surfaced over the fate of event the event during last month’s financial freeze, which prevented OHAG from making any financial transactions in preparation for Bowl Weekend. The freeze was lifted at the end of March and money was freed for Bowl Weekend, but the hold on the account had prevented any rentals to be made for a number of weeks and Orchard Hill was in need of a new govsee

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Massachusetts Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Steve Grossman spoke to the campus community in the Student Union on Wednesday.

SELF Magazine hosts American Soldier faces Workout on the Quad hearing for killing Iraqi teens Excercise classes at UM this Saturday By Kate Leddy Collegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts has won a contest that will have its students feeling the burn. SELF Magazine’s Workout on the Quad Challenge will be coming to UMass this Saturday starting at 11 a.m. on the Northeast quad for a memorable day filled with exercise classes, freebies and nutritious treats. SELF is a magazine dedicated to improving the health of women with fun, easy fitness and diet tips. According to Robyn Hayley, media consultant for SELF Magazine, the magazine has hosted multiple Workout in the Park events across the country in parks such as Central Park in New York. Last year, it introduced the first Workout on

the Quad event at American University in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Workout in the Park series. “We had an amazing turnout,” Hayley said. “Thousands of students as well as faculty, staff and alumni enjoyed the exhilarating event. As a matter of fact, over 11,500 fitness enthusiasts participated in the Workout in the Park series last year including the inaugural Workout on the Quad event.” The Workout on the Quad event will feature a day of workouts from yoga to Crossfit. Students may attend exercise classes from the Main Stage, which includes toning workouts, Zumba and dynamic flexibility workouts; the Quiet Zone, which includes an array of yoga routines; or the Reebok Fit Zone, which includes eight classes of the CrossFit Workout of the Day. Each class is 20 minutes long.

Students may attend any number of classes, but space is limited for all Quiet Zone and Reebok Fit Zone classes, which will be accepting participants on a first-come, first-serve basis. “There’s really something for everyone,” Hayley said. “Workout on the Quad will offer an incredible lineup of all the latest classes in one convenient place just in time to find your favorite workout for the summer season.” The event will be powered by HerCampus, an online community for college women. UMass won the Workout on the Quad Challenge this year by having the highest level of participation when competing via the SELF Workout in the Park Social Game on Facebook. According to a press release, the event will also feature giveaways and a free one-year subscription to see

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By MichaeL MusKaL Los Angeles Times

A U.S. soldier faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges he unlawfully killed two unarmed teenagers in an Iraqi battle zone. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael Barbera has been charged with several counts, including premeditated murder, and faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted of the killings. The preliminary hearing, known in military parlance as an Article 32 proceeding, is being held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. The Army has been reluctant to comment on the case, which was pushed into the limelight in 2012 by an investigative report by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in which soldiers who served with Barbera said they were troubled that no legal action had been taken after the shootings. Barbera was an Army

paratrooper in March 2007, leading a Small Kill team on a reconnaissance mission outside the village of Asada in rural Iraq, 50 miles from the capital, Baghdad. Barbera and his team established a camp in a palm grove overlooking what they thought was a safe house used by insurgents who had been known to use boys as combatants. The next day two boys were driving cattle toward the unseen soldiers, according to the reports of the incident. Barbera stood up and allegedly opened fire on the boys, who were later found to be deaf. They were identified as Ahmed Khalid Timmimi, 15, and his brother, Abbas, 14. Some soldiers complained about the shootings, but no action was taken in the field. Even after Army criminal investigators at Fort Bragg, N.C., recommended that Barbera be charged with

murder and lying to officials about what happened, generals at the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg chose not to put him on trial. Instead, they gave Barbera a reprimand, promoted him to sergeant 1st class and placed him in charge of a larger unit at Alaska’s Fort Richardson. The Tribune-Review published its investigative report, “Rules of Engagement,” about the killings and the aftermath in December 2012. The Department of Defense reopened the case in response to demands from members of Congress who read the report, which won multiple journalism awards. Barbera is also charged with falsely telling superiors the Small Kill team came under insurgent attack and for allegedly making a threatening cellphone call to the wife of Tribune-Review investigative reporter Carl Prine.

USDA grants awarded to two assistant professors Research in food science, nutrition

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ment, and Goddard, of the Food Science department, have recently received United States Department trina of Agriculture (USDA) grants in the amount of $499,000 and $489,100, respectively. What Liu and Goddard BorofsKi plan to investigate with these funds Collegian Staff are two very distinct projects. Liu, in collaboration with With a campus as diverse as the University of Massachusetts, the Richard J. Wood in the departwork completed by its students, fac- ment of Nutrition at UMass as well ulty and staff ranges from topics far as Joel B. Mason from the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and few between. on Aging at Tufts University, is Even for assistant professors completing research on the funcZhenhua Liu and Julie Goddard, tion and efficacy of nutrients and whose departments even share the its relation to cancer. same building, their goals and iniMore specifically, Liu and his tiatives at the University are both correspondents intend to idendiverse and highly unique. tify the attributes of obesity that Liu, of the Nutrition depart- contribute to cancer. According

to the Project Summary for Liu’s research, “We expect to delineate an innovative mechanism that is responsible for obesity-associated tumorigenesis. Such insights will be translated to dietary approaches that can be used to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.” “I was at Tufts doing some research on nutrition and different types of prevention, looking at epidemiological studies,” Liu said of how he became involved in this type of research connecting obesity and cancer. “Obesity is a really critical factor for many types of cancer, such as colon cancer.” According to Liu, there are a number of anesthetic mechanisms that contribute to how this obesity may affect cancer, and Liu is hop-

ing to demonstrate that mechanism through his research. In addition to completing this research, Liu teaches a number of courses here at UMass, covering topics such as nutrition, genomics and minerals. In the future, Liu said he would like to create a course that incorporates food nutrition and physical activity in collaboration with cancer prevention. Liu has been at the University for three years, prior to which he completed work and studied at both Tufts University and the University of Alabama. Goddard, on the other hand, received a USDA grant to complete research intended to improve the efficiency and environmental sustainability of certain enzymes per-

taining to food production. According to Goddard, “The goal of the work is to stabilize enzymes that can be used more effectively for what is called ‘value-added products.’” In explaining the purpose and significance of such research, Goddard said, “Enzymes are these proteins that catalyze very specific chemical reactions. Unfortunately, they’re not always stable for commercial use.” Thus, the root of Goddard’s research lies in stabilizing these enzymes “so they can be better for using in a bioprocessing application.” Dr. Vince Rotello of the see

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