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By Anthony Rentsch Collegian Staff

Members of the Graduate Employee Organization and its parent organization United Auto Workers Local 2322 met with University of Massachusetts administrators Monday afternoon to discuss the ongoing discontent with graduate student pay, less than a week after presenting a petition to the chancellor’s office.

Nearly two dozen members of GEO and UAW met with Katherine Newman, provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, and John McCarthy, vice provost for graduate education and dean of the graduate school, to discuss the estimated 400 students that weren’t paid on the first payday and the raises which have not yet been given, despite being slated to have been put into effect over a month ago.

Anais Surkin, union organizer and representative for the Graduate Employee Organization, said one of the chief points of contention was that graduate students have not received a 3.5 percent wage increase that was collectively bargained between the University and the GEO last semester. She said Newman and McCarthy promised students would receive increased pay on the next payday – this Friday – as well as retroactive pay for those who did not receive a paycheck Sept. 6.

Surkin said both Newman and McCarthy took responsibility for the late pay and apologized on behalf of the University. In an email to graduate students, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy also apologized for a comment he made at graduate student convocation concerning graduate students taking an “oath of poverty” when they enroll.

“On the one hand, they finally took responsibility,” she said. “They said ‘Yes, it’s our responsibility and we apologize.’ So it’s a step, I guess.”

Previously, the University said in a statement to the Daily Collegian that student pay could be withheld for rea-

sons such as improperly submitted paperwork, individual department error or graduate student failure to submit required documentation “in a timely and accurate fashion.”

Surkin said the apology was an important step but believes students shouldn’t shoulder the majority of the blame, saying that only a small percentage incorrectly filed paperwork two years ago in a similar instance in which hundreds of graduate student workers were not paid.

However, Surkin also said Newman and McCarthy refused to address several key issues at the meeting.

On Thursday, members of GEO and UAW brought a petition with over 500 signatures to the chancellor’s office in the Whitmore Administration Building.

There, they were told that he was not in, and that they could instead meet with his senior assistant Natalie Blais and Vice Chancellor for University Relations John Kennedy.

Blais and Kennedy told graduate students Thursday that, despite their demands to meet with the chancellor, they would need to meet with Newman and McCarthy to discuss late pay and raises, according to Surkin.

On Monday, Surkin said that Newman and McCarthy refused to discuss these issues and told members of GEO and UAW that they would need to talk to assistant dean of the graduate school Susan Chinman.

“It was this totally circular thing,” Surkin said.

On top of the retroactive pay promised at the meeting, Surkin added that she wanted the University to pay interest for the weeks graduate students have worked without their raises and “late fees” to those who were not paid on the first payday.

“You can’t just not pay your workers and not pay the raises you were supposed to,” she said.

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UMPD officers soon to be required to carry OD reversal drug Narcan Drug stops opioids, restores breathing

By PAtRiciA LeBoeuf Collegian Staff

U n iv e r s i t y of Massachusetts Police Department officers will soon be required to carry Narcan, an opioid overdosereversing drug, as the heroin epidemic continues to affect the state. Local elementary, middle and high schools have been considering doing the same, although they have not made any final decisions.

UMPD is in the process of purchasing the Narcan, which will be placed in key patrol cars, according to interim police chief Patrick Archbald.

Opioids can slow breathing to the point of death in an overdose. Narcan blocks the opioids and restores normal breathing when sprayed into the nose of the overdosing person, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s fact sheet.

According to the Massachusetts Department

of Public Health, 902 confirmed fatal opioid-related overdose deaths of Massachusetts residents were reported in 2013. This was a 26.9 percent increase from deaths in 2012. Last June, Governor Charlie Baker’s Opioid Working Group recommended that treatment beds in Greenfield be increased to 64 by October as part of its action plan to curb the opioid epidemic in the state, according to MassLive.com.

“It’s certainly the case here, so it just makes sense for us to take this measure,” Archbald said.

The discussion to use Narcan started with John Horvath, who was serving as UMPD chief last spring.

Archbald and UMPD’s two deputy chiefs then discussed the proposed measure with the police unions.

Archbald said he hopes all officers can be trained in the administration of the drug by the end of November.

Funding for the Narcan will come from the department’s own budget, with an anticipated cost of approxi-

mately $2,000, according to Archbald.

Multiple local school districts are implementing a Narcan program or are in the process of discussing whether or not to stock the drug.

The Hadley Public School District, however, has stocked Narcan in both its elementary and combined middle and high school, Hopkins Academy, since October 2014, according to The Daily Hampshire Gazette.

“We were aware that there’s an epidemic of opioid abuse and death from opioid overdoses, and we want to participate in that solution,” said Renee Denenfeld, nurse leader for Hadley public schools. She added that the district is also engaged in multiple substance-abuse education efforts.

“We’re really looking at many ways to support our students and hopefully never have to use Narcan here,” she said.

Robbin Suprenant, a school nurse at AmherstPelham Regional High

School, said the regional school is in the process of implementing a Narcan program hopefully by late fall.

“We keep other emergency lifesaving medications in stock and it probably is something that we need to be looking at,” she said.

“This would just be one more thing, if you will, in our emergency bag,” said Mary Phelan, health education coordinator for the Hampshire Regional School District.

Phelan presented the “overdose problem” to Hampshire Regional High School’s school committee on Oct. 5, which led to the discussion of Narcan on campus. The school committee will make a decision on whether or not to stock Narcan on the high school’s campus at their November meeting, she said.

All school nurses in the district have already been trained by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in administering Narcan.

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Regulators say recreational drones may have to be registered Organizations hope to set rules by December

By Jim PuzzAngheRA Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators said Monday they would require most recreational drones to be registered in the wake of a growing number of incidents and will rush to get the rules in place before a Christmas season in which the small aircraft are expected to be popular gifts.

“Registering unmanned aircraft will help build a culture of

accountability and responsibility, especially with new users who have no experience operating in the U.S. aviation system,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.

“It will help protect public safety in the air and on the ground,” he said.

Foxx announced the creation of a task force with representatives from federal agencies, the drone industry and other stakeholders to make recommendations on registration requirements by Nov. 20.

One major task will be deciding which types of drones, such as toys, are a low safety risk and

would be exempted from registration.

Foxx said he wanted to have the registration requirement in place by the middle of December.

The rules would apply to new drone buyers with Foxx expecting that those who already own the aircraft would also be required to register within an undetermined period of time.

Foxx and Michael Huerta, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, were joined in the announcement by representatives of several organizations involved in the drone debate.

They included the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the Academy of Model Aircraft and the Air Line Pilots Association, who all expressed support for the registration requirement.

The FAA said it receives reports every day of potentially unsafe drone operations and that sightings by pilots of drones doubled this year compared with last year.

Last month, the FAA said it would investigate an incident in which debris from a small privately owned drone fell and injured an 11-month-old girl in a stroller on a Pasadena, Calif., street.

Police found the owner of the drone at the accident site and he said he lost control of the aircraft.

But often, it’s difficult to identify the owner of a drone, Foxx said.

“Finding the drone has not been as much of a problem as finding the person who was using the drone. The registration is designed to close that loophole,” he said.

“The signal we’re sending today is that when you enter the national airspace it’s a very serious matter.

This isn’t riding your ATV on your own property,” Foxx said.

Failure to register would lead to penalties, he said.

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contractor Griffin Campbell on Monday was acquitted of murder but convicted of six counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2013 collapse of a Salvation Army thrift shop in Philadelphia that left six dead and 13 others injured.

He also faced 12 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of aggravated assault in the case of a woman who lost her legs after being trapped in the rubble for hours.

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Campbell was the only person to go to trial on criminal charges in the collapse.

He could have faced life in prison without parole if the jury had convicted him of more than one count of third-degree murder.

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Pakistan’s Sharif to meet Obama as India rejects peace plan NEW DELHI — In a visit to the White House this week, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif plans to discuss India peace efforts with President Barack Obama.

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Sharif’s proposal consisted of four points: –Enforce a 2003 cease-fire along the line of control in Kashmir –Withdraw troops and weapons from Kashmir –An

Clinton and allies oppose Benghazi panel Thurs. hearing may be a turning point

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NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton and her allies can’t stand the House Select Committee on Benghazi, charging that it’s driven by political motives and a rehashing of previous investigations into the 2012 attack in Libya that left four Americans dead.

Some even call it the Select Committee to Destroy Hillary Clinton.

Despite all the risks that come with hours of nationally televised questioning before a Republican-led congressional panel, the Democratic frontrunner and her team are looking forward to Thursday’s hearing as a key turning point that will help solidify the momentum she’s built since last week’s debate.

To avoid further charges of political showboating following House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comments on the committee, GOP members are expected to focus their early rounds of questioning on the attacks and to reference her emails as evidence, not as a separate line of inquiry and investigation. Georgia Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, for instance, has vowed that his questions to Clinton “won’t be about the server.”

Aware that his committee’s legitimacy is being challenged, even by some members of his own party, Chairman Trey Gowdy, of South Carolina, was insistent Sunday that his fellow Republicans stop making comments that risk to derail his work. “I have told my own Republican colleagues and friends, ‘Shut up talking about things that you don’t know anything about.’

And unless you’re on the committee you have no idea what we’ve done, why we’ve done it and what new facts we have found,” he said on CBS’s

“Face the Nation.”

While some Republicans may be hoping the Democratic presidential front-runner will slip up during her hours of testimony, a Clinton aide pointed to her long day of Benghazi testimony before Senate and House committees in January 2013 as evidence of her endurance, noting that she’d suffered a concussion and a blood clot the month earlier and still “killed it.”

But during that appearance, an exasperated Clinton also gave her political opponents ammunition when responding to a line of questioning from Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, about the Obama administration’s initial characterization about what sparked the Benghazi attack.

“Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans?” Clinton fumed. “What difference at this point does it make?”

Clinton’s focus before last Tuesday was on preparing for the debate and it’s only since then that she’s been able to prioritize preparations for the hearing, aides said. She has no travel on her public schedule ahead of the hearing and is studying a briefing book to make sure she gets her facts right. While her immediate preparations are limited to this week, an aide noted that her two previous rounds of testimony on Benghazi and the questions she’s been getting on the campaign trail for months about her email account have prepared her for the style and substance of the hearing.

Clinton is expected to start off with an opening statement much like the ones she delivered during her previous round of testimony, honoring the four Americans who died, taking responsibility for her role overseeing the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and stressing all the efforts to investigate and ameliorate what

went wrong on that night more than three years ago.

If Republicans’ questioning heads down rabbit holes that have little to do with Benghazi or that are clearly politically motivated, Clinton can always point to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s suggestion that the committee was successful in hurting her poll numbers or Rep. Richard Hanna’s assertion last week that “a big part of this investigation that was designed to go after people – an individual: Hillary Clinton.”

To prepare to help her keep her cool, Clinton’s team paid close attention to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s aggressive questioning last month of Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, and to Richards’s calm and respectful responses. A few members of that committee – including Gowdy and Rep. Jim Jordan, who often cut off Richards as she spoke – are also on the Benghazi panel.

“The risk is they just shout at her ... and she doesn’t get to say anything,” said former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Clinton supporter.

The hearing is an important moment and one the Republicans don’t want to squander. Since McCarthy’s remarks, Gowdy has made a point of stressing that Clinton is a key witness not because of her current place in American politics but because of the role in which she served on the day the four Americans were killed.

“Secretary Clinton is an important witness in a number of regards, including, but not limited to, policy formulation, the State Department’s security posture prior to the attacks, considerations of a response during the pendency of the attacks, and the administration’s response after the attacks,” Gowdy said in a written statement Sunday, adding that “she is uniquely well-suited to address certain aspects of the Committee’s jurisdic-

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Hillary Clinton on the Democratic debate stage Tuesday. tion and may or may not be able to provide information and insight into other areas of inquiry.

More than 50 witnesses appeared before the committee ahead of Clinton’s testimony and another 40 are waiting to be interviewed.

“So it is important to hear from Secretary Clinton, but it is equally important to hear from all witnesses,” Gowdy said.

Still, the GOP members know this is their only shot at Clinton, who has agreed to answer all questions at Thursday’s hearing but has said it will be her only appearance before the panel.

“It is our one bite at the apple,” said Westmoreland, who added that he’s been exhaustively preparing to make sure that he’s not only successful in questioning Clinton but in representing himself. “This is something that is going to be a big event.

And I think a lot of people will tune in and I don’t want to look like an idiot.”

Clinton’s supporters are ready, too.

David Brock, Clinton’s top outside defender, and the groups he’s founded to fight

on her behalf, are preparing for a busy week. He’ll speak at Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, led by former Clinton communications aide Mo Elleithee, on Monday to argue why the media should stop paying attention to the committee and the leaks coming from its Republican members. Later in the week in Philadelphia he’ll offer a prebuttal to the hearing, making his case against the committee. His Correct The Record super PAC will be running a rapid response war room to respond to new developments.

Westmoreland, meanwhile, said he’s practiced with standins who have answered his questions as Clinton might, “just trying to think about what her responses would be.”

Even while engaged in exhaustive preparations for Clinton’s testimony, Westmoreland stressed that “she is just a witness.”

“I think that is what people are kind of getting all messed up about,” he said. “She is just another witness. We’ve already done 50 or 60 different interviews. She may be, you know, number 61? And there will be other interviews after

Pistorius released from prison FBI investigating SA athlete placed possible hack of under house arrest personal emails By stuart GraHam dpa

PRETORIA,South Africa Oscar Pistorius was released under house arrest on Monday night after serving exactly one year in prison for fatally shooting his girlfriend, a spokesman for South Africa’s prisons department said.

Pistorius was due to be released Tuesday, but the management of Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria said the athlete was placed under house arrest “in the interests of all concerned,” Manelisi Wolela said.

“Yes, the local management of Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Center has confirmed that Oscar Pistorius was placed under correc-

tional supervision tonight,” Wolela said.

“The handling of the actual placement is an operational matter of the local management, and how they handle it is their prerogative. They carry it out in the best interest of all parties concerned _ the victims, the offender and the Department of Correctional Services.”

Wolela confirmed that Pistorius was released at 7:30 p.m. and that he is staying at his uncle’s home in the upmarket suburb of Waterkloof in the south of Pretoria.

Pistorius fired four shots at Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door at his home in Pretoria in the early hours of Valentine’s Day 2013.

She died at the scene.

Pistorius claimed he thought she was a burglar. He was found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced on Oct. 21, 2014, after a trial that

last lasted more than seven months and attracted worldwide attention.

Steenkamp’s parents, who believe Pistorius shot their daughter while he was in a rage, appealed to the parole board not to release him.

On Nov. 3, South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals will hear arguments from the state on whether the verdict against Pistorius, 28, should be changed from culpable homicide to murder.

Prosecutors will argue that Judge Thokozile Masipa misinterpreted the law when she found that Pistorius, a double amputee who competed in the 2012 Olympic Games, had not deliberately shot Steenkamp dead.

If the supreme court of appeal rules in their favor, Pistorius could be sent back to his cell at Kgosi Mampuru II prison for a minimum of 15 years.

mutual withdrawal from the Siachen Glacier, where troops have faced off for more than three decades at heights of up to 6,700 meters and temperatures reaching minus 60 degrees Celsius –Pledge not to use or threaten force under any circumstances It took less than 24 hours for India to reject the proposal. “We do not need four points, we need just one – give up terrorism and let us sit down and talk,” Sushma Swaraj, India’s foreign minister, said in her own speech.

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Athlete Oscar Pistorius is led from the dock after sentencing on Oct. 21, 2014 in Pretoria, South Africa.

Documents stolen from CIA director

By Brian Bennett Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating a hacker’s claims to have breached the personal email accounts of the CIA director and the secretary of Homeland Security, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

An anonymous hacker posted online contact lists and other documents he claims were stolen from the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan, as well as personal information from the Comcast billing account of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

The hacker also claimed to have a copy of Brennan’s application for a security clearance, known as an SF86, found in Brennan’s AOL account. But that document has so far not appeared online. This year, hackers linked to China stole millions of security clearance files stored by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

The possible infiltration into his personal correspondence would be embarrassing for Brennan, who this year established a new Directorate for Digital Innovation at the CIA that was designed in part to figure out how to better hide

the digital footprints of agency employees.

CIA and Homeland Security officials said the matter was referred to the proper authorities and would not comment further. The FBI would not comment on the claims.

The New York Post first reported the breach. The hacker, who uses the nickname “cracka,” contacted the Post last week to get attention for his exploits.

In an article published Sunday, the Post described him as “a stoner high school student” motivated by his support for Palestinians and his opposition to U.S. foreign policy.

At the Twitter account @ phphax, the hacker posted hundreds of email addresses he claims were stripped from Brennan’s contacts, as well as spreadsheets with the names of current and former national security officials that appear to include Social Security numbers that the hacker crossed out.

The spreadsheets may date to a period before 2009, when Brennan worked in the private sector and was an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign on intelligence matters. When Obama entered the White House in 2009, Brennan, a 25-year veteran of the CIA, became his homeland security and counterterrorism advisor.

Obama named Brennan director of the CIA in 2013.

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who were not paid on time until Nov. 20. Surkin and other members of GEO have requested that further information be released prior to the date, but said the University has been unwilling to do so.

Surkin said the union had sent a “further information request requesting what communications happened between the graduate school and the departments regarding what people they knew would get paid late.”

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to be paid late, they’re supposed to send a list of those names to administrators at the department level to tell those administrators to notify their graduate student workers.”

She was unsure as to when the University would release that information. At Monday’s meeting, she said Newman and McCarthy said that the parties should meet again in a month, which is “really close to the November date when we’ll have that information.”

Surkin said if GEO didn’t receive at least some of that information, they would consider filing an unfair labor practice charge with the Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations and would look into filing a violation of wage and hour laws with the state attorney general’s office because of the non-payment of wages.

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hasn’t seen any heroin use that officials are aware of.

“We’re just trying to be prepared and be up front in case that emergency should happen,” she said. “Right now, heroin seems to really have a strong hold in New England.”

Phelan plans to go to the school district’s five other school committees and present on this issue. Each committee will make their own decision, she said.

Northwestern district attorney David E. Sullivan has offered to supply Narcan to the schools in his district, according to Lynn Ferro,

project coordinator of the Northwestern Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force, in an email. Training will also be provided for all school nurses, she said.

“The D.A. is supplying the Narcan to hasten the process so that individual schools do not have to go through whatever budget/decision making processes that could potentially hold up their acquisition,” she said. “The DA does not want the lack of Narcan in a school to have been a budget issue.”

The D.A.’s office has supplied Narcan to first responders who attended the office’s

training in the summer of 2014, so the office “has the process down,” she said.

Individuals who overdose on opioids will very often have other drugs in their systems, such as alcohol or sleeping pills, but Narcan only works on opioids, Phelan said. She added that it’s a prescription drug but it has no street value.

“Narcan actually puts someone into withdrawal, and that’s not a good way to feel,” she said.

Patricia LeBoeuf can be reached at patricialebo@umass.edu

Clock-making teen Ahmed meets the president in DC 14-year-old went to Astronomy Night

By Sylvan lane The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON — Ahmed Mohamed wants to design the first generators used during a manned mission to Mars. But first he had to take care of some business at the White House.

Attending Astronomy Night on the South Lawn was the latest high point for 14-year-old Ahmed, who was arrested last month for bringing a clock to MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.

Irving police called the clock “a hoax bomb.”

No charges were filed, but the incident set off an international frenzy, and President Barack Obama invited Ahmed to bring his “cool clock” to the White House soon after.

“I felt really happy that I got support from the president,” Ahmed said Monday morning. “It’s really amazing that he helped me.”

The event Monday night, attended by about 300 people, brought students and teachers together with astronomers and other experts for an evening of stargazing.

What that meant for Ahmed was a chance to meet NASA scientists and astronauts.

“We have to watch for and cultivate and encourage those glimmers of curiosity and possibility – not sup-

press them and not squelch them – because not only are the young people’s futures at stake, our own is at stake,” Obama said. “Some of you might be on your way to Mars.”

When the president greeted visitors after his remarks, Ahmed had a brief conversation with him, though reporters were too far away to hear it.

Ahmed said he was eager to meet other students who are passionate about science.

But many of the people were as excited to see Ahmed, crowding around and taking pictures with him as he walked in.

Ahmed didn’t bring his clock with him because, he said, he has been too busy traveling to pick it up from home. He met Wednesday in Sudan’s capital with the president of that country.

Ahmed, who was born in Sudan, said he hoped to tell the first family about his difficulties growing up in the U.S. “I came to America when I was really young,” he said.

“But on the way, you do make friends, and they help you along the journey. You meet people that are just like you.”

The White House visit was the highlight of a busy trip to Washington. Ahmed spent Saturday night at a Council on American-Islamic Relations gala, and Monday afternoon he toured labs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

On Tuesday, he will address reporters at the

U.S. Capitol with Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., who asked the Justice Department to investigate Ahmed’s arrest.

Despite praise from the president, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and some technology giants, Ahmed’s arrest inspired conspiracy theories about his clock and intentions.

Critics, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, said Ahmed’s invitation showed more respect than the president shows for police, who face dangers every day.

Cruz said Sunday in Plano that the invitation to Ahmed was divisive, and a slap to police whom, he said, the president ignores.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest denounced those charges.

“The president in a variety of settings has made clear the amount of respect that he has for our men and women in uniform who every day walk outside the door of their home and put their lives on the line,” he said.

Ahmed said the backlash hasn’t discouraged him.

“I was positive before any of this happened, and I’ll keep staying positive,” he said.

He hopes to use his fame to encourage children to get involved science, and to judge others by “their heart,” not their race or religion.

So what can people expect from Ahmed’s heart?

“They’re going to see a lot of things.” he said. “They’re going to see happiness.”

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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated after bringing a homemade clock to school in September.

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Planned Parenthood cut from Medicaid in Texas State cites violations observed in videos

By Brittney Martin The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN, Texas — Aiming to drain the last few drops of state funding from Planned Parenthood, Texas officials announced Monday that they have taken steps to exclude the contentious organization from the state’s Medicaid program, citing violations observed in recently released undercover videos.

The move targets about $3 million, most of it federal money, paid to clinics that provided health services to poor Texas women. Planned Parenthood officials vowed to fight the cuts but did not say yet whether they would go to court over the matter.

An anti-abortion group began releasing videos in July that show activists impersonating representatives of a tissue procurement company in order to meet with Planned Parenthood officials. The group alleges that Planned Parenthood is profiting from fetal tissue donation reimbursements. A video from inside a Houston abortion clinic was released in August.

The Office of the Inspector General informed Texas Planned Parenthood affiliates that their Medicaid contracts would be terminated based on conversations in the video that suggested doctors would be willing to alter their traditional abortion methods

in order to preserve intact tissue. The inspector general also accused Planned Parenthood of creating an unsanitary work environment by allowing the undercover group access to the Houston clinic.

Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics function and are funded separately from family planning clinics. No Medicaid funds go to abortion providers.

Planned Parenthood officials on both state and national levels have denied that they have broken the law or turned a profit from fetal tissue donation. The videos are heavily edited.

Gov. Greg Abbott hailed the move as an “unyielding commitment to both protecting life and providing women’s health services.”

“It is completely outrageous that Texas officials are using thoroughly discredited, fraudulent videos to cut women off from preventive health care,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

State leaders initiated investigations of Planned Parenthood clinics following the videos’ release. So far, the results have not been made public.

Over the last three years, Texas has steadily cut off Planned Parenthood from most state funding sources.

Affiliates could, until now, receive Medicaid reimbursements for birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings and HIV/ STD treatment and preven-

tion by serving as contractors in managed care programs.

Managed care works like a private insurance provider within the Medicaid system.

They contract with a network of doctors like those at Planned Parenthood facilities. Nearly $44 billion was spent on services through managed care programs in 2015.

Planned Parenthood received $3 million for Medicaid reimbursements in fiscal year 2015, according to the Health and Human Services Commission. Of that, Texas paid $310,000.

In 2013, state lawmakers removed Planned Parenthood and other family planning providers affiliated with abortion providers from the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which provides birth control, cancer screenings and HIV and STD tests and treatment to low-income women. The move prompted the federal government to withdraw funding. Now Texas spends about $36 million per year to operate the program with no federal funding.

Planned Parenthood was removed from another state program that provided screening for breast and cervical cancer to low income women and connected them with treatment options.

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, the affiliate that operates clinics in Houston and the surrounding area, said the move has “nothing to do with the well-being of the people of Texas.”

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“I am the one who knocks.” - Walter White

Switching from Android to iPhone

Participation grades: A narrow form of assessment

Anybody who knows me understands that I have a lot to say about smartphones. Even those that read my articles probably have a

Johnny McCabe pretty good idea as well about this point. For me, the reason is simple: After only a few short years, this technology has been integrated into every part of global culture, and the way we interact with it makes up a huge part of our day-to-day experience.

With that perspective in mind, I like to think I have kept a healthy distance from the “brand wars” that so frequently dominate the tech landscape. My personal workflow is founded on a diverse range of hardware and software from both Apple and Google, along with many more manufacturers and developers. However, as my last column foreshadowed, I recently made the momentous – and divisive – switch from an Android phone to the new iPhone 6S. My old phone, the 2013 Moto X, was far past the end of its life, a sputtering, dinged up workhorse of a thing, and by far the best phone I have ever owned. Designed by Motorola during its brief apprenticeship under Google following a philosophy of “it just works” that had been unheard of amongst the Android community up to that point, it was a poster child for Google’s purest vision for the software.

I got it off-contract for a song and dance as a birthday present to myself. Not only did its incredibly average internal specs and screen promise stellar battery life, but it came with a ticket into the inner circle of Android: the elite club of near-instant software updates, untouched by service carriers, previously open only to Google’s Nexus and Google Play Edition lines.

For a while, that was exactly what I got. I waited mere days for the update to Android 4.3 KitKat, and marveled at how much Google’s software made a meaningful difference in my life. Google Now kept me up to the minute on traffic on the way to and from UMass, contextual weather informed me when to prepare for rain or snow and intelligent notifications automatically silenced my phone during class.

However, as the months dragged on, and the announcement of Android 5.0 Lollipop came and went, my Moto X began to lag behind the pack. Its features were as useful as ever, but its mediocre specs became more and more questionable as Google’s unfulfilled promises piled up.

In the meantime, Apple kept steadily iterating on its own software and devices, as regular and metronomic as the precession of the stars.

The iPhone 5 and 5s came and went, and with the iPhone 6 and iOS8, Apple incorporated more and more of what I loved about Android: contextuality, communication between apps and more robust notifications. As my update rolled around a few weeks ago, I was faced with the choice of either a slightly older Android phone, or one of the new Nexuses, the 6P or the 5X. The 6P’s specs are impressive for sure, but I was reluctant to part with the smaller footprint of my Moto X. And the 5X, while cheaper and smaller, would already have outdated specs at launch, just like the Moto X. I could get the iPhone 6s for the same price from my carrier, albeit attached to a two-year contract.

In the end, I went with the iPhone – however, I still miss my old Android. While I grew exhausted with Google’s irregular update schedule, there are still things I miss about what Android could do when supplied with a never-ending diet of my personal information.

I still navigate fluidly between Apple’s and Google’s software ecosystems and don’t see myself giving up Gmail and Google Calendar anytime soon. However, Google needs to stop letting Android settle for second-best, because when they do, it forces people like me to either settle or switch. I’ve settled for a while, so it was time to switch. I don’t think the Moto X was my last Android phone – but I do think it was time for a change.

Johnny McCabe is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at rjmccabe@umass.edu.

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A long-standing tradition within many son Lahey’s article caused such a stir. Her schools across the country has been the lackadaisical attitude toward introversion existence of participation grades. These in classrooms is a traditionalist point-ofview in which students are required to Gabby Vacarelo speak regardless of if they are comfortable.

Various counterarguments have are essentially a way of determining how appeared over the past two years in much you interact with the class at hand. regards to Lahey’s piece – one in particuFor a lot of students, this provides their lar is Katherine Schultz’s “Why Introverts grade with a little extra cushion. But being Shouldn’t Be Forced to Talk in Class.” graded on contributions can be a source of Schultz vehemently disagrees with Lahey anxiety for some individuals. Often it can on all levels. In her opinion, it’s wrong to be difficult to speak up in front of a class presume everyone who doesn’t speak up in – sometimes it’s so stress-inducing that stu- class is an introvert. Not every person stays dents choose to accept a bad grade rather silent for the same reasons. In addition, than possible (and very unlikely) criticism Schultz says class participation shouldn’t from peers. always be verbal. Thoughtful silence, the This, therefore, raises the question of whether participation grades should continue or be banished from existence. On one hand, it seems somewhat cruel to force someone to publicly share his or her opinion or work when they don’t feel comfortable enough. But there’s another side to the argument as well; participation grades motivate students to offer valuable input and process of taking reflective notes and even a simple nod of the head can all be viewed provide them with important life skills.

About two years ago, a controversial as participation.

Lahey and Schultz both provide some fair article was published in The Atlantic points.

Lahey is right in thinking commuregarding class participation grading policies. The author, Jessica Lahey, argued nication skills need to be emphasized withthat communication is a significant part in educational systems. Communication of life and introverts need to accept that. is vital not just for future careers, but for She was supported by Dr. Kendall Hoyt of life in general. However, I don’t necessarily Dartmouth Medical School, who stated, agree with the idea that this communica“You don’t get a pass for your personality tion must be forced rather than fostered.

Forcing something is the easiest way to type.”

Yes, all students should learn how to create a negative atmosphere.

Students don’t need to be babied, espeeffectively communicate, but there’s a rea-

cially those in college. But everyone has different learning styles and it’s not completely fair to only cater to extroverted individuals who find it easy to discuss their thoughts.

The truth is, there are ways to find a happy medium. Professors who grade based on participation should be aware of students who don’t typically speak up.

Perhaps they can incorporate assessments that aren’t always discussion-based, such as short writing assignments. This type of system could be a way to promote knowledge, encourage social growth and establish a little comfort in learning environments without coddling students.

As an introvert, I get it. I hate giving presentations and discussing my thoughts; I dread classes weighted heavily on participation. But the fact is no matter how strongly I dislike participation grades, their existence does have value. They provide a way of engaging the class, as well as assessing how the students understand the topic at hand. And it’s possible to grade participation without penalizing those who can’t voice their opinions in class.

Don’t condemn participation grades just yet. Acknowledge their benefits as well as their downfalls and, most importantly, try your best to create a welcoming atmosphere for your fellow classmates who might not be as outspoken as you.

“Students don’t need to be babied, especially those in college. But everyone has different learning styles and it’s not completely fair to only cater to extroverted individuals who find it easy to discuss their thoughts.”

Gabby Vacarelo is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at gvacarelo@umass.edu.

Today’s country music is uninspired The first country music album that I ever country songs on my iPod that I’ll happily owned was Tim McGraw’s 2004 “Live Like blast while driv-ing down the highway on a You Were Dying,” which went four times summer night or preparing for a night out.

Still, the culture embodied by this genre, Steven Gillard one of getting drunk and getting laid, has severely damaged the reputation of country platinum. At the age of 11, I was instilled music in 2015. with a love for the genre and many of the Of the top country music songs on 1990s and early 2000s artists who I grew up iTunes, one is about throwing a house party, with: Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan another concerns buying a boat and yet Jackson and, of course, McGraw himself. another is told by a man who begs a woman Turning on country radio back in 2001 or 2002, you would hear a wide variety of songs, covering topics from heartbreak to death to letting loose on a Friday night after a long week’s work. Today, however, country radio is barely listenable.

The aptly named “bro-country,” embodied by artists such as Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line has replaced traditional country as the mainstream, and it draws its in-fluence to break up with her boyfriend and “bring from other genres of music such as hip-hop, it on over.” The No. 2 song on the charts is rock and pop. Instead of detailing both the one by none other than Bryan, titled “Strip harsh reality and unbelievable beauty of It Down,” in which he, in uninspired lyrics, life, many of the songs that top the charts describes getting naked with his girl.

Don’t get me wrong, there are still a lot nowadays fo-cus mainly on the superficial: attractive women in skimpy clothes, Fireball of great country songs being released today, but it’s disappointing to see just how far the whiskey and the sweet smell of smoke.

While bro-country has drawn a host of genre has fallen. The average country fan criticism for its subject matter, I’m not one under 30 will happily exclaim that he or she of them. In fact, I have a number of bro- is a fan, but will most likely cite his of her

favorite artists as Alde-an or Bryan. The days when the genre was defined by names such as George Strait are long gone.

The country music industry has become akin to the fast food one: the product is easily produced and easily consumed. It takes very little talent to string together a few chords and pen some catchy lyrics that tap into America’s fascination with good-looking women and beer. Moreover, it’s just not healthy. These songs constantly glorify one-night-stands and binge drink-ing, and ignore the problems associated with both.

Like I said before, I don’t hate these songs; in fact, I enjoy quite a few of them. But I’d prefer that they were the anomaly and not the mainstream. I’ve always taken pride in being a country music fan since such a young age, but it’s hard these days to express pride in a genre that has come to be defined by shallow, derivative lyrics. I fell in love with country music because of its ability to capture the human experience in just a single song.

Let’s bring it back to that. Yes, drinking and sex are parts of life too, but unimportant ones. Country music deserves better.

The country music industry has become akin to the fast food one: the product is easily produced, and easily consumed. It takes very little talent to string together a few chords and pen some catchy lyrics that tap into America’s fascination with good-looking women and beer.

Steven Gillard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at sgillard@umass.edu.

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Why the Pioneer Valley is the perfect place to enjoy cider Local autumn fruit, heavenly beverage

By Sarah Gamard Collegian Staff

As the crisp autumn weather blankets the University of Massachusetts campus and the Pioneer Valley landscape seeps from deep green to vibrant reds and oranges, students remember why this greatlykept western Massachusetts seasonal secret is so heavily lauded. Along with the changing foliage and cozy wardrobe emerging from the back of everyone’s closets comes a slight change in diet: pumpkin spice, herbal teas and, best of all, apple cider.

In all UMass dining halls this week from Oct. 18-24 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., it is “Apple Week” as more apple selections will be offered, and students on meal plans can take full advantage of the locally-grown autumn fruit.

Along with its delicious local apples, the Pioneer Valley is certainly a celebrator of cider, both virgin and alcoholic, which is made directly from apples.

Hampshire Dining Hall has cider daily and many students (of drinking age) enjoy the Angry Orchard Hard Cider in substitution of beer.

Both the history and process of making cider is, like most of our beloved American pastimes, very long and complex. This is fitting as the apple is arguably the most quintessential, iconic fruit of the United States.

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punching holes into apple juice boxes in preschool, eating apple pie with vanilla ice cream as dessert, apple picking with their families in the fall, affiliating the fruit with its influence on Newton’s Laws of Motion and Adam’s demise in the Garden of Eden. Not to mention drinking cider. The fruit even impacted the budding genius of young, orcharddwelling Steve Jobs during the early years of his company. Consuming apples in any form (including drinking our cider in the fall), whether or not we realize it, is an inherently patriotic act.

And, if that is what it means to express American pride, I am not going to complain.

I had never had cider, except for the Atkins Farm Cider from the UMass dining halls, until this Columbus Day weekend when I visited a friend’s house. Her parents hosted a cider press party for the whole neighborhood to come and make their own cider with machines.

It was the perfect autumn day: crisp, clear-skied and just warm enough to stand outside. Apples of all different breeds seemed to proliferate as the day went on and other visitors brought their own bushels, probably adding up to the thousands. I never felt more in touch with bucolic New England than that afternoon.

But my experience, apparently, has not been limited to western Massachusetts but across the northern regions of the United States. The family I visited who hosted the cider press, in fact, adopted the tradition from where they grew up in Michigan.

The process was simple: Apples were washed in a large barrel of water, then cut into fourths and placed into a giant bowl. The bowl of apples, once full, went down the chute of the cider press while someone spun a reel that grounded them into even smaller bits. These shreds fell into a bucket and were then compressed by a wooden block pushed downward by a spiraling pole, the force of which squeezed out the juice. The juice fell through the bottom of the bucket and drizzled into a tin tray, soon to travel into the bellies of the mason jars and reused plastic gallon jugs waiting on the table.

The job of pressing the cider alone took two people, and four people were stationed to wash and fraction the apples.

It was the most relaxing afternoon I had since the fall semester began. Maybe it was standing in the sun and breathing fresh air instead of staring at a laptop screen, or kneeling down with a glass to catch the dripping cider from the bucket like it was a fountain of youth.

Maybe it was experiencing something new, however trivial it seemed.

If anything, making cider was therapeutic. With the stress of midterms and the seemingly endless tunnel of a journey through the remaining semester, students should remember to make time in any way they can to relax, be outside and enjoy the simple pleasures that the special little pocket of New England has to offer.

Cider pressing is a great and easy way to relax and boost mental health, especially if you spend most of your day

staring at a phone or laptop screen. The best part is the reward at the end: delicious, nutritious and completely natural cider. While college is an inherently stressful feat, it’s important not to let yourself forget to take full advantage of being a student in the Pioneer Valley for the fleeting time you are here.

Cider has deep cultural roots in the Amherst area, mimicking most of the United States. The Amherst Cider Festival took place on National Johnny Appleseed Day on Sept. 26 at the Lindabury Orchard at the top of Christian Hill, celebrating John Chapman (known today as Johnny Appleseed), an American pioneer who introduced apple trees to many parts of the United States in the early 19th century.

Carr’s Ciderhouse in Hadley manufactures hard cider, cider vinegar and cider syrup for Pioneer Valley cider-lovers. There are also the famous and popular apple cider donuts specially made at Atkins Farm, which prides itself on 50 years of local, high-quality business right in the UMass neighborhood.

The tradition of cider is near ancient. According to the UTNE Reader’s article, “The History of Cider Making,” cider began as an alcoholic beverage dating back thousands of years ago, involving the Greeks and Romans. The best cider, strangely enough, is made from the bitterest apples; interestingly, early cider was made of apples not sweet enough to eat.

Water, before filters, was often an untrustworthy bev-

erage as it contained myriad diseases including (but not limited to) cholera and E. coli. Therefore, cider, like rum for pirates (but less scurvy-inducing, it seems), was a alternative to water in apple-growing regions.

People drank a pint or more a day, sometime starting at breakfast.

According to Mass.Gov, cider differs from apple juice in that cider is raw apple juice that has not undergone any filtration process to remove pulp or sediment.

Apple juice that you buy in a store or drink from a Mott’s carton, however, is filtered in order to stay fresh lon-

ger. Regardless, the juice is a great source of potassium, iron and pectin (which is shown to keep cholesterol levels down). A six-ounce glass is only 87 calories.

My hosts said the amount of apples it took to make a gallon of cider depended on the apples: how big they were, how much juice they yielded and other factors.

Apples themselves are already low in sugar compared to other fruit, making it a comparatively healthy alcoholic beverage.

Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgamard@umass.edu or on Twitter @SarahGamard

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Shredded apples are pressed and juiced with a two-man cider press machine.

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Amherst Coffee: Calm study haven, delicious menu Cafe, bar provides unique atmosphere

else was on their laptop that sunny, Friday afternoon. Both the shop and the town of Amherst offer free, accessible Wi-Fi, so students can work and surf online.

Seating was available inside on long, cozy, wooden tables and at bars along the brick walls. Large windows let the natural light in while dim-lit lamps and light bulbs hung from long wires over the bar.

A glass tip jar was filled to the brim with dollar bills by the cash register, suggesting satisfied (if not just generous) costumers.

The popular café sits in the same complex that holds Amherst Cinema, near the corner of North Pleasant

Street and Amity Street.

My friend ordered a latte and put cocoa powder in it, which was available along with cinnamon at the counBy Sarah Gamard ter. I got a regular coffee, Collegian Staff which was delicious on its I had heard so much about own and a refreshing change Amherst Coffee during my from the UMass Dining first year as a student (from blend. In fact, I was actustudents and professors ally shocked upon my first alike) that I knew I needed to sip – after drinking UMass take the short bus ride there Dining’s coffee daily – by the myself. As a coffee lover and difference. student in need of a change Calming, eclectic music of atmosphere from the camplayed inside the café. The pus, I was not disappointed. music was not loud, making The café’s atmosphere it easy to work. was typical: crowded but I was so happy with the simultaneously calming. productive atmosphere Everyone was focused on that I returned to Amherst homework and whatever Coffee a few weeks later on a Friday night to churn out some homework with another friend. I ordered the same regular cup of coffee and my friend ordered peppermint tea, which came with its own kettle to pour the tea into a glass when it was finished brewing.

The night atmosphere was different than the day because the entire shop was lit only by the dim light fixtures, as opposed to the heavy amount of sunlight that comes in during the daytime. Several people frequented the “Whisk(e)y Bar to enjoy a weekend-initiating glass of wine, but the shop was still peaceful enough to get homework done.

My coffee experience repeated itself: I took a sip of the regular coffee I ordered and was once again shocked by the drastic difference between Amherst Coffee’s SARAH GAMARD/COLLEGIAN brew and that of the dinWhisk(e)y Bar serves a wide selection of alcoholic beverages and hors-d’ oeuvres. ing halls. The brew was rich,

delicious and I did not need to add any cream or sugar (a rarity for me). Amherst Coffee is a great place to do homework no matter the time of day and the beverages are well worth spending money outside of your campus meal plan.

Items on the menu include espresso (with milk and water), hot cocoa, lemonade, espresso tonic (a good beverage for the final warmweather days), soy and almond milk, triple chocolate and chocolate chunk cookies, ginger molasses cookies, “power” cookies, lemon almond pound cake, toast, shortbread, fennel and feta croissants and more.

The café has three branches, including its Amherst location: Amherst Coffee, Northampton Coffee and Greenfield Coffee. A lot of Amherst Coffee’s products also come from Tart Baking Co., which has its own location on Main Street in Northampton that is open every day of the week.

According to its Facebook page, the organic-oriented shop has been open since 2012. Products available for purchase included granola, a brownie with “cocoa nibs,” a “Fig Bar” and chocolatecovered almonds.

The “Loose Leaf Tea Menu” listed an assortment of exotic-sounding teas. The categories were Green Tea (Spring Green, Jasmine Dragon Pearls), Oolong Tea (Iron Goddess of Mercy, Monkey Picked Tieguanyin), Black Tea (Yunnan Black, Golden Monkey, Earl Grey), Pu-erh

Tea (Camel’s Breath Pu-erh, Chrystanthemum Pu-erh) and Botanicals (Ginger Lemon, Peppermint).

Different coffee bean blends, ranging from light, medium and dark, that are available for purchase include Gold, French, Italian, Berkshire, Kalledevarapura, Decaf Gold, Nigusse Lemma, Estate, Aceh, Kochere, La Esperanza, Beatriz and Kemgin. The beans originate from all over, including places like India, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Colombia, Sumatra, Indonesia and Mexico. Brew constituents range from dark chocolate to floral bouquet to longan berry and dried fruit. A free cup of drip coffee is available with purchase of coffee beans.

Bar ringtonCof fee.com contains more information about the different roasts and flavors.

Used coffee grounds were also available to take home to your personal compost pile as coffee grounds are a great

natural source of nitrogen.

A sign behind the bar advertised “High Lawn Farm 100 percent Jersey Milk” which explained how the milk used is all natural, contains no rBST growth hormones, is “Berkshire Farm Fresh” and contains “20 percent more calcium” and “17 percent more protein.”

The café’s “Whisk(e)y Bar” features an a la carte menu that includes bread and olive oil, chevre and truffle oil, olive tapenade and crostini, olives, Spicy Marcona Almonds, cornichons and a flourless, chocolate torte. The special drink served that day, called the “Sea Dragon,” was a dirty martini made with fresh tarragon, gin, laurel liqueur and cornichon brine.

Amherst Coffee’s hours of operation are 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sundays.

Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgamard@umass.edu or on twitter @ SarahGamard.

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Dual losses for UMass Men, women lose meets at West Point

By Ryan Donovan Collegian Staff

After claiming a victory last week at the three-team Colgate Fall Classic in New York, the Massachusetts swimming and diving team had another chance to shine in the Empire State this past weekend.

Facing off against a familiar foe in Army – UMass and the Black Knights meet each year – the men’s and women’s teams visited Crandall Pool at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York for their first dual meet of the season.

Coming off two first place finishes in a row, the Minutemen had their hopes set high on Friday but tasted defeat for the first time this year in a 187-120 loss.

While UMass didn’t get the outcome it desired, there were positives to take away from the meet.

Owen Wright performed well in the swimming portion of the competition for the Minutemen, placing second in both the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle events and fourth in the 100-meter individual medley.

In the 50-meter freestyle however, Wright finished just 0.26 seconds behind winner Chris Szekely of the Black Knights. It was the story of the day in the pool for UMass swimmers, who did not finish first in any of the meet’s events.

Other contributors for the men’s side were sophomore Oliver Wyeth, who took second in the 100-meter backstroke with a time of

51.83 seconds, and senior Kyle Vieira, who placed third in the 1000-meter freestyle, beating teammate Alessandro Bomprezzi by about 0.02 seconds.

The Minutemen were more successful on the diving boards in Friday’s meet than in the pool, led by sophomore Trent Kindvall and junior Nolan Burns.

Kindvall placed first in the one-meter event and second on the three-meter board, while Burns won the threemeter event and took second in the one-meter dive, giving UMass a one-two finish in both events.

Despite the efforts of Burns and Kindvall, the Minutemen couldn’t catch Army, as the Black Knights’ advantage in the pool was too much to overcome.

UMass looks to get back on track next Saturday at Boston University. The meet will begin at 1 p.m.

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Emma Roush, junior Julia Jagannath and freshman Katie Polk dominated the diving events, sweeping both the one-meter and threemeter dives.

Roush took first place in both events, while Jagannath finished second in the onemeter and third in the threemeter. Polk took home third place in the one-meter and second place in the threemeter, as UMass took the top three places in both events.

The Minutewomen’s divers will look to continue that success as the season progresses, but they will need help from their teammates in the pool.

Similar to the men, the women’s swimmers found themselves just shy in winning some key events, settling for second place finishes where they lost ground to the Black Knights.

Senior Jocelyn Yuen fell just short of a first place finish in the 100-meter individual medley and the 200meter fly, narrowly finishing second in both events.

Freshman Steph Campo continued her success after a promising debut, posting a second place finish in the 1000-meter freestyle with a time of 10:33.40.

Meriza Werenkski, Jen Robeson and Rachel Grant all earned first-place finishes in other races, but it wasn’t enough as UMass was ultimately edged out in the pool

by Army.

The Minutewomen will try to regain their form at home Saturday, when they take on Boston University at 1 p.m.

Despite winning both diving events Friday, the UMass women’s team also fell to Army in its first dual meet of the year.

After winning the Colgate Fall Classic, the Minutewomen, like the men’s team, were hopeful heading into Crandall Pool Friday.

While the diving team lived up to their expectations, UMass swimmers struggled to find themselves atop the podium, which resulted in a lopsided final score of 191120.

A strong point for the Minutewomen this season has been on the boards from Ryan Donovan can be reached at a trio of divers. Sophomore rpdonovan@umass.edu

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Blake Frohnapfel warms up during the homecoming game against Kent State Saturday. to games at both sites, they noted the difference in the two game day experiences.

“The campus atmosphere is much better,” John said. “There’s more students involved, more tailgating, more fans, it’s definitely more of a college atmosphere here.

They need to get all the games here, I think.”

“Plus, you don’t have to sit as long (in the car),” Tanya jokingly added.

John and Tanya witnessed yet another mile-

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stone for Tajae Saturday, as his seven receptions for 46 yards in the loss against the Golden Flashes gave him the program record for most career receiving yards. He broke the program mark for most career receptions earlier this season against Temple.

While homecoming weekend for UMass was in large part spoiled by a loss to Mid-American Conference rival Kent State, Lynn maintained that the game was a great

opportunity to see her son play and spend time with him following the game, which isn’t usually possible.

“It’s worth it because I get to see him after the game too,” Lynn said. “We get to see him after, we get to see him in the morning before we go home. This is really special and it’s a great place to be.”

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

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he’s just beginning to play at the level we know he can play.”

In the five games Morris has started since re-joining the team, the Minutemen have scored six goals. It’s not a remarkable pace, but it’s considerably better than UMass was doing before.

As Morris and Boino are starting to find the back of the net, O’Leary hopes their goal-scoring will become contagious within the team.

“Sometimes (goals) come in little bundles, sometimes (you) get one then go quiet. Hopefully, this will send us off on a

little run,” O’Leary said.

With Morris getting healthy and Boino finding confidence in his first year of collegiate soccer, the Minutemen are poised to do just that.

Ross Gienieczko can be reached at rgieniec@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @RossGien.

RUGBY

Minutemen lose second consecutive game vs. BC UMass struggles offensively in loss

advantage in the following minutes, after scoring a try on a line-out and converting when a penalty was called after a UMass player dove

By HenRy BRecHteR over the ruck.

Collegian Correspondent UMass answered soon After three straight blow- after with a penalty converout wins to begin the season, sion of its own, but another the Massachusetts rugby try for the Eagles created club lost its second East a 12-point deficit going into Coast Rugby Conference halftime. game in a row over the Just a minute into the weekend, falling to Boston second half, Brzoski scored College 39-20 Saturday in his second try of the game Boston. after Thomas Thekaekara Coming off a gruel- set him up with a quick tap. ing 18-8 defeat against New England College two weeks ago, the Minutemen entered Saturday’s contest against the undefeated Eagles who are ranked third in the conference.

The Eagles’ victory improved their record to 5-0 and allowed them Matt Crush, to remain tied with UMass captain American International atop the ECRC standA conversion by Joe Jenkins ings.

A lack of offensive pro- then cut the Eagles’ lead to duction plagued UMass 20-15.

After Brozski’s try, BC once again. The Minutemen managed just three tries in began to pull away. Two conSaturday’s loss after scoring secutive tries for the Eagles an average of 50 points in increased the lead to 12 and effectively put the game out the previous four games.

Early on, the game was of reach. Despite an electric neck-and-neck. After a 60-meter scoring run from penalty against BC four senior outside center Mike minutes in put the ball on Tarolli late in the game, BC the five-meter line, UMass outscored the Minutemen junior flanker Ben Brzoski 19-12 in the second half to scored the first try of continue its streak of five the day on a pick and go. consecutive victories to However, just four minutes start the season. “(Saturday) was a tough later, the Eagles scored a try one,” senior inside center of their own. Missed conversion kicks by each team left Matt Crush said Sunday the game tied 5-5 through night. But the captain was ready to move on from the the first 15 minutes.

Quick passing and a loss and was confident in his Minutemen miscue allowed team going forward.

“BC is definitely a top BC to take an eight-point

team in our league, but we went down there and they simply beat us,” Crush added. “We have a great group of guys, and with our experience, I don’t think these two losses will affect us as much as they would other teams.”

One of the areas UMass is eager to improve on is its offense, which needs to return to early-season form if the Minutemen want to return to its domination that was shown in the first three games of the season.

After a very promising start, UMass has slipped in the rankings over the last two weeks.

A lack of offense and discipline with the ball has led to two losses in conference play, and those mistakes will need to be corrected if the Minutemen want to reach their goal of a conference title.

With a home game against Albany this Saturday followed by a match against top-seeded American International, UMass looks forward to more chances to put wins on the board.

“We just need to get back to playing within our system,” Crush said. “We will win by getting back to that, and we’ve been drifting away from it in recent weeks. Anyone can win in this league, and we’re looking forward to playing Albany this weekend.”

Saturday’s game against the Great Danes is set to begin at 1 p.m.

“We just need to get back to playing within our system.

We will win by getting back to that, and we’ve been drifting away from in in recent weeks.”

Henry Brechter can be reached at hbrechter@umass.edu.

HOCKEY EAST

Boston College and UConn handle non-conference foes Eagles and Huskies earn second wins

By JaReD yellin Collegian Correspondent Looking to rebound from a 2-1 upset loss at Rensselaer on Oct. 11, the Boston College hockey team defeated Wisconsin 6-0 in its home opener at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill Saturday.

The Eagles (2-1) took control early with a goal just 12 seconds into the game, when Austin Cangelosi cleaned up a loose puck in front of the net after a shot from Chris Calnan. Teddy Doherty tacked on another goal, this time short-handed, just four minutes, 27 seconds later. It was at this point that Badgers (0-2-2) coach Mike Eaves inserted first-year goaltender Matt Jurusick to replace starter Adam Miller in net.

In the first few minutes of the second period, Wisconsin applied some pressure on BC goaltender Thatcher Demko, but the Eagles quickly turned the table on Wisconsin. At 6:50 into the second period, Adam Gilmour found Ryan Fitzpatrick open in the slot, and Fitzgerald beat Jurusick to make it a 3-0 game.

The BC offense didn’t slow down, netting two more goals

late in the waning moments of the second period. These goals, separated by just 40 seconds, came in large part to a strong forecheck and a quick, efficient transition game.

Colin White scored his second goal of the night at three minutes, 12 seconds of the third period as the Eagles cashed in on a five-on-three power play to provide the final tally of the contest.

Demko preserved a 20-save shutout against the Badgers for his fourth career shutout and first of the season. It was BC’s first shutout in its home opener since 2012 against Northwestern.

The Eagles will head west to face Colorado College in a two-game series this weekend. Puck drop Friday night is set for 9:30 p.m.

goal by a sizeable margin, outshooting the Sun Devils 41-25.

UConn took a quick 1-0 lead off of a shorthanded goal from sophomore Kasperi Ojantakanen in the first two minutes of the opening period. It was the Huskies’ first shorthanded tally since the 2012-13 season.

They would score two more goals in a 53-second span later in the first. Freshman Max Kalter scored his first collegiate goal after winning a puck battle and firing a shot into the net while falling to the ground. Naas scored the first of his two power play goals seconds later, tipping in a Letunov wrist shot. Shawn Pauly scored the lone goal of the second period to give UConn a 4-0 lead.

Arizona State (1-3) received its lone goal of the contest at 6:16 of the third period from Ryan Belonger, before Naas scored to restore a four-goal lead for the Huskies.

UConn returns to action and opens up its Hockey East schedule on the road against Boston University on Saturday at 7:05 p.m.

Friday night in Hartford, Connecticut, the Connecticut improved to 2-1 on the young season, as the Huskies defeated Arizona State 5-1 at the XL Center.

UConn was led by sophomore Spencer Naas, who scored twice, and freshman Max Letunov, who continued his hot start to the year with two assists. The Huskies led Jared Yellin can be reached at the overall battle in shots on jyellin@umass.edu.

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For families, homecoming is extra special Frohnapfel, Sharpe families visit UMass B y Anthony C hiusAno Collegian Staff

For most fans in attendance Saturday, the atmosphere surrounding the Massachusetts football team’s 2015 homecoming game wasn’t too different from any previous home games on campus since the Minutemen’s partial return to McGuirk Stadium last year.

Hundreds of fans, young and old, gathered outside the stadium four hours in advance of the game in the parking lots to celebrate with food, beer and games in a typical tailgate atmosphere.

Once the 3:30 p.m. kickoff time approached, the official attendance of 15,217 filed into their respective

seats on one of two sides of bleachers within the stadium. With frigid fall temperatures and a penaltyladen, sloppy on-field performance – UMass would lose the game 15-10 to Kent State – a large chunk of the crowd disappeared by the start of the third quarter.

But for some in attendance, Saturday’s game was one of the final opportunities to make it to Amherst to see the Minutemen back on campus and cheer as their sons played in front of the home crowd.

“It’s Blake’s last homecoming. We try to go to every game,” said Lynn Frohnapfel, mother of UMass starting quarterback Blake Frohnapfel. “It brings the campus together, it brings the community together. Look at all these fans, they make it a great experience for old

students, new students, the team, everybody.”

Lynn and Steve Frohnapfel, Blake’s father, made roughly a 12-hour trip from their home in Stafford, Virginia to see Blake, a graduate student, play in his second to last game at McGuirk Stadium.

Lynn, a school teacher, said she likes interacting with the UMass student body prior to the game and enjoys the on-campus atmosphere that comes with the game being in Amherst.

“This is only my second time being here in Amherst. Last year for the September game, the first one here (against Bowling Green), it was fun,” Lynn said. “To me, the best part of being here is being with the kids on campus. It’s not just the adults tailgating.

It’s fun and makes you feel

young.”

Accompanying Lynn and Steve at their tailgating station was Blake’s twin brother Eric, sister Sarah and a handful of other relatives clad in UMass gear.

For Eric, Blake’s former teammate at Marshall before Blake transferred to UMass last year, it was his first time in Amherst seeing his brother play for the Minutemen.

“The school I went to (Marshall) wasn’t as big, there wasn’t as much student involvement, so it’s been really cool,” said Eric, who graduated last year.

“I think the crowd will be excited. I’m excited to see the stadium atmosphere.”

While the Frohnapfels tailgated alongside hundreds of other UMass students and alumni, John and Tanya Sharpe, parents of Minutemen senior wide

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Tajae Sharpe runs through defenders Saturday against Kent State. receiver Tajae Sharpe, opted to solely embrace the game experience in their son’s final homecoming.

“We don’t really tailgate,” John said. “We just watch them walk past and we go try to get our tickets and go inside.”

T r av e l i n g from

Freshman awarded A-10 rookie honors

By Ross GienieCzko Collegian Staff

Freshman forward Kevin Boino is not a loud or boastful type.

If he was, the firstyear striker for the Massachusetts men’s soccer team would’ve heard about his Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week award before his teammates alerted him of the fact Sunday.

“I didn’t even know it until my teammates told me yesterday in the locker room. It’s a pretty good feeling,” Boino said.

The Dalton native earned the weekly honor for the period of Oct. 12-18, a stretch that included the Minutemen’s 2-1 road win against St. Bonaventure Saturday. In the victory over the Bonnies, Boino had the breakout performance of his young collegiate career. The freshman scored both goals in the UMass victory, his second and third tallies of the year. His efforts helped the Minutemen remain unbeaten in A-10 play at 2-0-1 after

UMass began the season with an ugly 1-9 record.

As the Minutemen started 2015 slow, so did Boino.

He appeared in five games and started two of them, but was unable to find the back of the net until a home showdown against Hartford Sept. 16.

In the matchup against the Hawks, UMass trailed 1-0 after conceding a goal in the 21st minute. But the Minutemen stormed back, tying the game on a goal from Samuel Asamoah in the 38th minute and taking the lead for good when Boino struck in the 64th.

Boino’s goal secured milestones for himself and his team. It was the first goal of his collegiate career, and the 2-1 victory it clinched was the first of the season for UMass and first win under coach Fran O’Leary.

“He’s grown confidence all along,” O’Leary said of Boino. “He was a quiet lad coming in, but he’s got comfortable in his surroundings. You’re starting to see a fun personality develop and manifest itself in his play. He’s been terrific for us.”

Confidence is obviously a key factor for any soccer player, but it is especially important among strikers, according to O’Leary.

And nothing is better for a striker’s confidence than finding the back of the net.

“Particularly for strikers, they thrive on goals.

That’s how they’re defined.

If they’re scoring goals, it gives them an enormous boost,” O’Leary said.

It’s no coincidence then that Boino says his confidence has increased throughout the season as he’s continued to accumulate goals for the Minutemen. It’s also how the freshman has managed to remain effective after going five games before scoring his first goal and six games before netting his next two.

“You’ve just got to know that eventually you’ll get your shot, and when you get your chances you have to finish them,” Boino said.

O’Leary added: “That’s the life of a striker. They score, they go games without scoring. If someone could guarantee a goal every game, they wouldn’t be playing for UMass.

They’d be earning an awful lot of money somewhere else.”

A welcome return Boino’s growth as a scorer has been part of a steady improvement for the Minutemen’s offense as a whole. After scoring just five goals in its first 11 games of the season, UMass has struck five more times in the last three games alone. O’Leary said it’s something the Minutemen have worked on every day, but the return of senior forward Mark Morris has played a big role in the offensive outburst as well.

Morris was the recipient of his own A-10 award after a hat trick against Rhode Island earned him co-Player of the Week honors for the week of Oct. 5 – Oct. 11. The senior missed time early in the season due to an injury, but his return has given UMass some much-needed firepower on the offensive end.

“We lost him for six or seven games, then we hurried him back and he was rusty,” O’Leary said. “Now, see

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Minutewomen impress at HOC

By RyAn Ames Collegian Correspondent

Kevin Boino dribbles the ball past a defender in a game against Boston University on Sept. 15.

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ROW I N G

UMass earns two silvers in Regatta

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Piscataway, New Jersey – roughly a four-hour drive – John and Tanya said they attend every home game, whether UMass plays at McGuirk Stadium or Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. Having been

He also thought Kolovson’s second-place finish did wonders for team morale and energy for the remaining races.

“I think her performance pumped up the squad for the rest of the day, and rightfully so,” Dietz added.

The next race Sunday was the Women’s Championship 8+ where UMass earned 24th place with a time of 17:37.843.

“We had a difficult start in that we began in last position, but I was glad to see that we passed eight boats pretty quickly, which is impressive considering there were nationally ranked teams in that race,” Dietz said.

In the final race of the meet for the Minutewomen, the Women’s Lightweight 4+ squad – composed of Estefi Marti Malvido, Carly Zanatta, Jill McGill and Hallie Dunlap – came away with a silver medal finishing at 19:41.218.

“Another great performance by the gals since we started in third position, ended in first position and got second overall so it was a fabulous way to cap off the weekend,” Dietz said.

With cold weather sweeping the northeast region, Dietz said his team was unfazed by the frigid conditions.

“We were prepared for worse conditions than what we had. We did have high winds and it only really got cold today (Sunday) once the sun went down, but as long as it’s not raining the girls are happy” Dietz said.

Moving forward, Dietz said he feels his team is on the right path in order to achieve success come the spring season.

“The fall season is a kickoff for the spring season and the team has been working extremely hard,” Dietz said. “They’re starting to see that the hard work is paying off, so we’re in a very good spot right now and feeling extremely confident.”

Next weekend, the Minutewomen head to Mercer, New Jersey to compete in the Collegiate Small Boat Challenge on Lake Mercer.

Competing at the historic Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, the Massachusetts rowing team continued to show why it should be considered one of the best in the nation with another successful weekend.

While the rest of the UMass campus was largely participating in various events during the school’s homecoming weekend, Minutewomen coach Jim Dietz said his team was competing in “America’s homecoming.”

“Everybody knows everybody at this Regatta and it’s just an incredible event that has over 10,000 athletes competing, which makes for a great weekend of racing,” Dietz said.

The 2015 Head of the Charles was the 51st in the Regatta’s illustrious history.

The event was first held in 1965, expanded to a two-day event in 1997 and currently hosts over 11,000 competitors and more than 400,000 spectators.

UMass kicked off its racing schedule Saturday with a ninth place finish in the Women’s Club 8+. With just 38 teams competing, the Minutewomen finished with a time of 17:44.66, just nine seconds behind fourth place finisher Northeastern.

T he Women’s Championship 2x boat concluded a solid first day in which the UMass duo of Krysten Menks and Allanah Rubi-Mooney placed 13th with a time of 20:37.10.

On Sunday, the Minutewomen enjoyed their most successful day of the weekend, medaling in all but one of the events for the day.

Sam Kolovson led the charge by earning a silver medal in the Women’s Club Singles with a time of 22:02.898.

Dietz was impressed by Kolovson’s performance in the race.

“I couldn’t be more pleased for somebody who’s worked so hard, and to see her in her element, racing the single and doing that well, was abso- Ryan Ames can be reached at lutely fantastic,” Dietz said. rames@umass.edu.