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UMass student farm ranks fifth on national level

“Erratic Horizons”

List comprised of 30 US colleges

By ShelBy AShline Collegian Staff

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Beka Sturges presents the second lecture for the Architecture Department’s “Women in Design” series, titled “Erratic Horizons,” in the Integrative Learning Center at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Last month, College Values Online ranked the University of Massachusetts’ student farm fifth among best sustainable college-run farms because of its organic programming, student involvement and local distribution.

According to College Values Online’s website, the organization selected the top 30 student farms based on an initial pool of 100 candidates and awarded points based on a variety of categories such as total acreage, organic certification, academic courses available and distribution to the local community.

UMass’ student farm received eight points: two points for its acreage, one point for organic certification, three points for selling food to dining halls and on- and off-campus venues, one point for selling Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares and one point for offering academic courses on site.

The farm, according to a UMass press release, features 12 acres split between the UMass Research and Education Farm in South Deerfield and the Agricultural Learning Center in North Amherst.

Benjamin Aufill, sustainability communications and marketing manager for University Relations, said roughly 20 students who are enrolled in the student see

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Cosby drops Singer as his UMass alumnus introduces attorney in sex abuse case new app to Amherst bars Assistance given by powerful firm

By RichARd Winton Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Bill Cosby, after being deposed by attorney Gloria Allred about allegations he molested her client at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15, has dropped a Hollywood pit bull attorney in favor of a powerful downtown Los Angeles firm.

In court papers filed last week, Cosby replaced Martin D. Singer, whose clients have included former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in favor of Christopher Tayback of Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, a firm known for aggressively defending its clients and for employing many former federal prosecutors.

Tayback is a former Los Angeles County and federal prosecutor and son of the late TV actor Vic Tayback.

Singer was defending Cosby in a lawsuit brought

by Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby molested her in 1974 at the Playboy Mansion when she was 15. Earlier this month, Allred, who is Huth’s attorney, deposed Cosby and afterward announced that she would seek a second deposition.

Singer on Tuesday said he could not explain the split with Cosby because it was an attorney-client privilege matter. He said he agreed to a substitute of attorney and signed the court papers. “We are happy to assist in the transition” to new lawyers, he said.

Monique Pressley, a Washington, D.C., attor-

ney for Cosby, confirmed Singer would no longer be representing Cosby in all cases in California.

Cosby is accused of sexually molesting or abusing about 50 women over four decades. At least a half-dozen lawsuits claiming either sexual abuse or defamation are currently being litigated, and at least one allegation is being reviewed by Los Angeles County prosecutors.

Singer has strenuously defended Cosby in both legal papers and the media and accused some of the alleged victims of making up their stories.

Allred reacted to the development Tuesday.

“Mr. Cosby has decided to hire 700 lawyers to fight one woman,” she said of the new law firm. “Mr. Singer has represented Mr. Cosby from the inception of Judy Huth’s case until now. Only Mr. Cosby and/or his representatives would be able to comment on the reason that Martin Singer is no longer representing Mr. Cosby and why this change has been made.

“We look forward to continuing our legal battle on behalf of Ms. Huth and this change will not impact our vigorous advocacy on her behalf,” she said.

Allred said a deposition of Huth last week was delayed.

The contents of Allred’s deposition of Cosby, which lasted for seven hours, will not be made public until at least Dec. 22. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Craig D. Karlan, who is overseeing the Huth lawsuit, wants to review the transcript and allow each side to argue its case about how much, if anything, will become public.

Everything about the

deposition is a secret, Allred told the Los Angeles Times.

Singer’s firm was unable to persuade Karlan to throw out the Huth lawsuit.

The judge rejected claims

by Cosby’s lawyers that the suit incorrectly named the performer when California rules governing older cases forbid such action.

Cosby’s attorneys have argued that Allred is using the case for public attention. Allred represents 26 women who contend they were sexually abused by Cosby over the decades.

Many of the women have alleged the comedian drugged them before nonconsensual sex acts.

Cosby has denied the allegations.

Huth alleges that she and a friend were in Lacy Park in the city of San Marino, northeast of Los Angeles, 1974 when they wandered over to a movie set where Cosby was working, the lawsuit said. He approached the teenagers, invited them to sit in his director’s chair and asked how old they were, the lawsuit said. Cosby invited the girls to his tennis club the following Saturday, it said.

They met him there, then followed him to a house, where he served them alcoholic beverages and played billiards with Huth, who was required to drink a beer every time Cosby won a game, the lawsuit said. Later, the girls followed Cosby to the Playboy Mansion, where the comedian told Huth and her friend to say they were 19 if anyone asked their ages, the lawsuit said.

At one point, Huth used a bathroom and emerged to find Cosby sitting on a bed, the lawsuit alleges. The see

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Customers order via smart phone By hAe young yoo Collegian Correspondent A University of Massachusetts alumnus will introduce a mobile app to Amherst on Wednesday, Oct. 28 that will allow customers to order, pay for and tip for drinks from their smart phones.

Peter Levin, who graduated with a dual degree in economics and psychology in December 2014, is coming to Stackers Pub with his startup app Slydde. The app aims to change the bar experience; people can choose what venue they are going to, pick drinks from the menu, order and tip accordingly. When the drink is ready, the customer will receive a notification with a unique color code combination.

The customer then shows the code to the bartender and

receives the drink that matches it. The same color cannot be replicated live until it is archived on the bartending side. There are never repeat colors and playing the system is impossible, Levin said.

“The inspiration was just being a college student, or not necessarily being a college student, but going to venues that were consistently packed to the point where it was just a huge pain point for the customer,” Levin said. “Every time you want to order, you have to fight the crowd, wait five minutes and flag down the bartender.”

Levin decided to start Slydde at the end of April and it took him and his team three months to finish the first version, which is called an MVP, or minimally valued product. They ran the beta in Worcester in August and received positive feedback.

The users liked it because they did not have to deal with cash, cards or tabs and could order from anywhere

within the venue. The bartenders liked not having to handle payments and receipts and that their only job was to make drinks.

The data also showed an increase in tips of about a dollar more per drink. The bar owners liked that they generated more sales by pushing high volume and turning over more drinks during peak hours. Eventually, owners will be able to track productivity, see what customers prefer and make appropriate changes to their inventory.

“They get customer insight,” Levin said. “Instead of investing in things that don’t bring a return, they have a whole bunch of data.

It’s a symbiotic relationship for every party involved.”

But the beta was far from perfect. Customers complained of bugs and had thoughts about the features and seamlessness of the experience, which they brought to see

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The new Slydde app allows customers to order drinks at a busy bar using their smart phones.

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Pistorius leaves South African jail for family mansion JOHANNESBURG — Double amputee South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, convicted of culpable homicide for killing his girlfriend, served just under a year in prison avoiding the worst of South Africa’s prison system, notorious for its drugs, violence, gangs and rape.

After spending the first part of his five-year sentence in the protected environment of a single cell in a hospital wing because of his disability, Pistorius will serve the remaining four years of his sentence at his uncle Arnold Pistorius’ three-story mansion, with its gym, pool, a dozen bedrooms - according to South African media - and a sweeping manicured garden in the upscale Waterkloof neighborhood.

Last year, Pistorius was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in 2013, when he fired four high-powered bullets into the toilet cubicle where she was. His claim that he believed she was an intruder was accepted by the court. But he was convicted of culpable homicide when the court found he was grossly negligent and reckless in the shooting.

South African officials said Pistorius’ early release late Monday didn’t amount to special treatment but was in line with South African correctional policies, which say offenders who aren’t dangerous are eligible for release after serving a sixth of their sentence.

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Bernie Sanders’ Danish utopia girds for deeper welfare cuts COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Bernie Sanders’ utopia needs fixing.

The Denmark that the Democratic Party candidate wants the U.S. to emulate is taking a long, critical look at its welfare model as it decides which bits to scale back.

A government commission now says Denmark needs to cut jobless benefits for graduates as part of a series of tweaks to keep other, more basic welfare services affordable. It follows a push by the previous administration - a Social Democrat-led coalition that was ousted in June - that included the introduction of means-testing to limit Danes’ access to state support.

“Welfare is under pressure in Denmark,” Bente Sorgenfrey, a member of the government commission and head of the country’s second-largest trade union, FTF, said in an interview Monday. “We’re experiencing that all over the place since the crisis, and the absence of funding is putting pressure on payouts.”

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The UMass Student Farm regularly holds farmer’s markets and offers CSA shares to the community. enrolled in the student farm program through the Stockbridge School of Agriculture have access to both of the two locations.

The group of students are responsible for planting, cultivating and harvesting the food, as well as working with their numerous clients which include two Big Y supermarkets, Ear thfoods Café and UMass Dining Services.

“They really do it all,” Aufill said in a phone interview. “The program is teaching them from start to finish how to grow a product and sell a product…There are few instances in education where you’re going to get 100 percent like this and I think that’s what makes the student farm so unique and fun.”

In addition, students in the program head a

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60-member on-campus CSA and the UMass Student Farmers Market, which offers fresh food to the student body every Friday from noon to 4 p.m. on the lawn in front of Goodell Hall.

Such an encompassing program helps to mold students who are wellprepared to open their own farms and work for sustainable farming organizations, according to the press release.

“It’s good to be in an environment where you can make mistakes, because in real life you don’t get that opportunity,” Aufill added.

Aufill said this is the first time that UMass’ student farm has been included on College Values Online’s ranking, and he is hopeful that the program’s success will attract more prospective student farmers.

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the lawsuit alleges. The comedian asked the girl to sit down on the bed beside him and attempted to “put his hand down her pants,” according to the lawsuit.

He then took her hand in his and performed a sexual act on himself “without her consent,” the lawsuit said.

Huth’s lawsuit, filed in December, is the first significant court case against Cosby since he was sued in

2005 by Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee. After being deposed, Cosby settled the case out of court for an undisclosed amount.

Cosby’s attorneys contend Huth once tried to sell her story to the National Enquirer and that it is “absolutely false.” They contend that another lawyer for Huth tried to get up to $250,000 from Cosby in a settlement.

Webb drops from Democratic ballot Former senator was far behind in polls

By DaviD Lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Jim Webb, far behind in polls among Democratic presidential candidates, Tuesday said he is withdrawing from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Webb, a former U.S. senator from Virginia, is considering an independent bid.

“I fully accept that my view on many issues are not compatible with the power structure and the nominating base of the Democratic Party.” And, he said, that hierarchy “is not comfortable” with many of his positions.

His withdrawal is likely to have virtually no impact on the Democratic race. Four major candidates remain, with Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, ahead in national polls, followed by Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont. Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, and Lincoln Chafee, former governor of Rhode Island, are far

behind. A CNN/ORC poll released Monday showed Webb at 1 percent among Democrats.

Webb, 69, is regarded as more moderate than the party’s base, and more inclined to take tough views towards military involvement.

He did not say whether he’d run as an independent, explaining he’ll be talking to voters. Any future decision, he said, will depend on what kind of support he sees in the coming weeks.

“I am not going away” Webb said. “I am thinking through all of my options.”

He explained how “I’ve worked with both sides, and I have a lot of respect for many people who are members of both parties. I know how broken our system really is. This country needs a totally new dynamic that respects and honors our history and our traditions but is not a slave to the power structures that are failing us.”

Webb has been frustrated as a candidate, complaining during last week’s Democratic debate that he didn’t get enough time to discuss his views.

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On the list, UMass’ student farm falls between Califor nia State University’s Chico University Farm of Chico, California, which ranked first with nine points, and Butte College’s farm of Oroville, California, which ranked 30th with four points. Another of the Five Colleges, Hampshire College in Amherst, was also included on the list, ranking 29th with five points.

This is not the first time College Values Online has taken notice of Amherst in recent months. In July, the organization ranked Amherst 27th on a list of the 50 best college towns in the United States.

Shelby Ashline can be reached at sashline@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @shelby_ashline.

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rience, which they brought to Levin’s attention.

After the first run, his team gave the app a complete makeover. Testers in Amherst next week will be the first to see the new interface.

Levin has giveaways ready and expects a big turnout for next Wednesday, with about 100 people testing the app, which will give him access to precious data and feedback.

“We want to create an app that they’ll love and the only way we can do that is look at what we can do to make the experience better,” Levin said. “Ultimately, the use of all of that data and feedback is to build a product that is desired.”

Levin’s team consists of two developers who helped create the product and another who could design the user interface, he said. Levin does not work with anyone from UMass, but he did meet his Android developer in April at the Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative, an entrepreneurship conference supported by UMass.

He says that following the test on Wednesday, all there is to do is to release the product and listen to customers.

“Really, what I’ve learned by trying to start a startup is: just go,” Levin said. “People spend a lot of time talking about things and trying to plan, and don’t get me wrong, planning is very important.

But don’t think about it, don’t talk about it, just go.”

Slydde is not Levin’s first app. While he was at the University, Levin developed a concept with two other students called Juvoh, a system that would take all the strategically placed help phones with the blue lights on campus and put them into a mobile app that would

open the dialogue between students and campus police.

Students could send alerts, tell officers exactly where they are and talk to them in real time. Their idea won them $5,000 in last year’s UMass Innovation Challenge.

The next big challenge for Slydde is partnering with venues so users have places to use the app at. Levin has plans to roll the app out officially in Worcester and throughout the Midwest and east coast in the future. He wants to grow his team and start internship programs to engage the undergraduate population.

“There really aren’t too many opportunities, at least when I was there, to get involved in budding startups,” Levin said. “So we’re trying to build teams across a number of universities across the United States.

Slydde is getting ready for a wide-scale launch.”

Levin said he has plans to bring Slydde to every state and college town to the point where he can provide opportunities for ambitious individuals. Creating entrepreneurship programs is just one way. He wants to disrupt an industry that’s been stagnant for many years, and ultimately be a part of the mass migration to mobile and online ordering.

“You see all these ondemand services and we want to make sure to be on the cutting edge before we miss the opportunity,” he said. “We want to be that company that sets the precedent for that kind of marketing.”

Hae Young Yoo can be reached at haeyoungyoo@umass.edu.

US Democrats block bill to withhold funding for immigration sanctuaries Legislation vetoed

by Senate Tuesday

By Sarah D. Wire Tribune Washington Bureau WA S H I N G T O N — Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have withheld some federal funding from cities that shield residents from federal immigration officials.

Advocacy groups for immigrants urged members to reject the bill. But NumbersUSA, a group that wants to limit the number of immigrants in the country, said it would make sure voters knew which senators supported the bill.

Democrats were expected to continue preventing the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act

by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., from getting the 60 votes needed to move forward.

The vote Tuesday was 54-45, with Sen. Mark Steven Kirk, R-Ill., joining Democrats in opposing the bill.

The House passed its version of the bill in July. The White House has threatened that President Barack Obama would veto either measure.

Republicans, led by presidential candidate Donald Trump, drew attention to the issue after the July shooting death of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant in the country illegally who had been repeatedly deported for non-violent felonies.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had asked the city to turn over Lopez-Sanchez after a

recent drug conviction.

Gabriela Villareal, policy manager for the California Immigrant Policy Center, said in a telephone interview that the bill would have had a broad effect in California, with its large immigrant population and multiple sanctuary cities.

The group supports proimmigrant policy.

“It would have taken millions of dollars from cities in California,” she said. And that means “it would have gone a long way to coerce local communities to act as an immigration authority.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said after the vote that police officials warned that people in the country illegally would be afraid to report crimes if there were a chance they would be deported.

“They say, unequivocally, if you end sanctuary cities then you give sanctuaries to criminals,” she said.

“This was the worst thing Senator Vitter could do to law enforcement, and that’s how I feel about it and (I’m) so happy that we stopped it in it’s tracks.”

Vitter called the argument “simply a myth.”

Cities could still have a policy that they don’t inquire about a victim’s citizenship without being considered a sanctuary city, he said.

Vitter is running for governor of Louisiana. The primary is Saturday and the top candidates will advance to a runoff on Nov. 21.

The bill would have stopped some law enforcement funding and community development grants to states and cities that don’t hold immigrants for federal

immigration officials.

The bill would have also mandated a five- to 10-year minimum prison sentence for a person convicted of a felony or drug-related misdemeanors who re-enters the United States illegally.

U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, said he’d like the Senate to consider the mandatory prison sentences again.

“You’ve got to send a strong message that we ought to not only enforce our immigration laws, but people that consistently violate them shouldn’t be out in the street killing people,” Grassley said.

Boxer said she doesn’t expect it to come up again.

“You get five years if you try to get out of Mexico?

There’s no support for that,” Boxer said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said in a statement that she supports mandating communication about violent criminals between local, state and federal law enforcement, but that Vitter’s bill would have applied to all immigrants in the country illegally, not just those with violent pasts.

“This is a standard that could be abused in another administration, and it is potentially a huge unfunded mandate to impose on states and localities,” she said.

Villareal called it a “scapegoat anti-immigrant proposal” and said it would cause immigrants to distrust law enforcement.

“We still have a long way to make sure that community trust is developed in terms of local law enforcement,” she said.

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American Cancer Society changes UN chief appeals its advice about mammograms for calm in Israel Women can now start screening at 45

By Karen Kaplan Los Angeles Times

After a thorough review of the benefits and limitations of mammograms, the nation’s top cancer-fighting organization is advising women that they can wait until they are 45 years old to start using the tests to screen for breast cancer.

New guidelines from the American Cancer Society also assure women that they can have fewer mammograms over the course of their lives.

The guidelines, published in Wednesday’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, are designed for women who are in good health and have no reason to suspect their risk of developing breast cancer is above average. The findings represent a departure from the group’s previous recommendation that all women with an average risk of breast cancer get annual mammograms starting at age 40.

Although the American Cancer Society still endorses that course for women who prefer it, the group acknowledged that some women favor a less-aggressive approach to breast cancer screening. If so, it said, they can delay their first mammogram until they are 45 and wait two years between screenings starting at age 55 without fear that doing so will put their health in jeopardy.

Either way, regular mammograms should continue as long as women have a life expectancy of at least 10 years and are good candidates for breast cancer treatment, the guidelines say.

“We moved away from a one-size-fits-all approach to something that is more personalized or individualized,” said Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, director of the Cancer Survivorship Center at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center and lead author of the

guidelines.

The coming decade will see medicine become more tailored to a patient’s particular biology, genetics and environmental influences, Oeffinger said, and “this is a step in that direction.”

The new recommendations bring the American Cancer Society into closer alignment with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts convened by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The task force touched off an emotional debate about mammograms with

of identifying dangerous but treatable cancers against the harm of overtreatment. In general, they have found that the younger the woman, the greater the chance that the benefits of early detection will be small while the harms of overtreatment will be large.

For instance, evidence from randomized clinical trials suggests that for women in their 40s and 50s, screening mammograms reduce the risk of dying of breast cancer by a modest 15 percent. That means 85 percent of the women in this age group who die of breast cancer would suc-

“We moved away from a one-size-fits-all approach to something that is more personalized or individualized.”

Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, Director of the Cancer Survivorship Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center its 2009 recommendation that women at average risk for breast cancer be screened only once every two years, primarily between the ages of 50 and 74. Screening may begin at age 40 if women so choose after discussing the pros and cons with their doctors, it said.

“There is substantial agreement now,” said Dr. Albert Siu, who heads the task force. “Both of these guidelines indicate that the mammogram is a good test, although it’s not perfect.”

Mammograms save lives by finding cancers that can be cured if caught at an early, treatable stage. But they also find tumors that are not destined to become dangerous if left alone, as well as tumors that can’t be stopped by surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or other drugs.

The problem is that lots of these tumors look the same on a mammogram, so doctors wind up treating them all. That leads to a certain amount of unnecessary care, which doctors call overtreatment.

Many recent studies have weighed the benefits

cumb to the disease regardless of whether they had a mammogram.

More mammograms also mean more false positives, which means women have to return for a second mammogram or perhaps a needle biopsy. Those additional tests can cause anxiety that should not be taken lightly, experts say.

Some women see all this as a good reason to cut back on mammograms.

Other women would rather accept the risk of potentially unnecessary treatment to maximize the chance that a mammogram would make a lifesaving discovery. Both decisions are reasonable, Oeffinger said. In his own family, he said, he has one sister who is sticking with annual mammograms and one sister who has scaled back.

“We don’t want to make people feel wrong or guilty if they opt not to” get a mammogram every year, he said. “We support a woman going to a health care provider and having a discussion and making an informed decision.”

That type of thinking mirrors an overall shift

in medicine toward tailoring care for each patient based on his or her values and needs, said Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of the Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

“We can’t do cookie-cutter medicine,” she said.

The new guidelines also reflect fresh information gleaned from studies that tracked women who took different approaches to screening to see how they fared. Earlier advice was based on randomized clinical trials - which are usually favored - but those trials were conducted 20 to 30 years ago with “outmoded technology,” Oeffinger said. (Randomized trials cannot be done today because mammograms have become the standard of care, and it would be unethical to ask women to skip them for the sake of a study.)

In a twist, the American Cancer Society opted to examine the data in fiveyear age increments instead of the usual 10.

“A lot happens in 10 years,” Oeffinger said.

What the experts realized was that when it comes to the risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer, the risk of dying of the disease and the degree to which mammograms help prevent those deaths, women between the ages of 45 and 49 have more in common with women in their early 50s than with women in their early 40s.

That’s why annual mammograms should begin no later than age 45, Oeffinger said.

The value of annual mammograms dips around age 55, when menopause and other age-related factors cause breast cancer tumors to grow more slowly. Women who opt to be screened only once every two years can still get most of the benefit of annual mammograms while reducing their risk of false positives and overtreatment, Oeffinger said.

Ban urges leaders to negotiate civilly

By Batsheva soBelman Los Angeles Times

JERUSALEM — As violence continued to roil the region, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Israel on Tuesday for a flash visit and talks in Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.

The secretary-general met with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, and was also scheduled to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

In a video message ahead of the trip, Ban expressed sympathy for both Israelis and Palestinians, while calling for an end to violence and urging the leadership of both sides to return to negotiations.

Ban expressed his dismay at the sight of “young people, children, picking up weapons and seeking to kill,” and cautioned that violence would undermine both the “legitimate Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the longing of Israelis for security.”

Addressing young Palestinians, the secretarygeneral said: “I understand your frustration.” Their hopes for peace, he said, have been “dashed countless times” by Israeli settlements, Palestinian leaders and international failure to end the conflict.

However, Ban called on them to “put down the weapons of despair.”

He also offered understanding for Israelis’ anger. “When anyone on the street is a potential victim, security is rightly your immediate priority,” he said, adding, however, that checkpoints and demolitions would not sustain the peace and safety they need.

The secretary-general’s arrival comes amid a U.N. bid to end the violent eruption that has left nine Israelis dead in Palestinian attacks, as well as an Eritrean asylum seeker who was killed by an Israeli security guard during an attack.

According to the independent Palestinian news agency Maan, at least 45 Palestinians have been killed. About half

were shot as they perpetrated attacks or attempted to do so.

His visit also comes ahead of U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s planned meetings later this week with Netanyahu and Abbas, whom he will meet in Germany and Jordan, respectively.

As diplomatic efforts were underway, however, unrest continued throughout the West Bank and Gaza, leaving one Israeli and three Palestinians dead. And Israel announced the arrest of a top founder of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip.

Army spokesman Peter Lerner said Hassan Yousef was taken into custody after “actively instigating and inciting terrorism” by publicly encouraging and praising the attacks against Israelis.

“Hamas’ leaders cannot expect to propagate violence and terror from the comfort of their living rooms and pulpits of their mosques,” Lerner said.

A soldier and a civilian were injured in the West Bank area Israelis refer to as Gush Etzyon on Tuesday when a Palestinian driver tried to ram a car into a bus stop and then tried to stab them, the army said. The driver was shot dead by security forces on the site and was not immediately identified.

Another Palestinian was fatally shot near the village of Beit Awa after lightly injuring an Israeli army officer with a knife, according to a statement from the military. The incident reportedly occurred during Palestinian protests the army described as violent.

And a 27-year-old Palestinian man was shot to death, and three others were injured, by Israeli fire during protests in the central Gaza Strip, according to Gaza medical authorities.

Earlier, Avraham Asher Hasano, a 50-year-old man from the settlement of Kiryat Arba, was killed when he was hit by a Palestinian man driving a truck. He had stopped by the side of the road after his car was pelted with rocks. The truck driver, who turned himself in to Palestinian police, told them it was an accident.

Trudeau promising sweeping change for Canada 23rd prime minister promises change Justin Trudeau, who will become Canada’s 23rd prime minister after his Liberal Party routed Stephen Harper’s Conservatives on Monday night, comes to power promising sweeping changes to the economy, foreign relations, and social policies. Some of his key platform planks are summarized below:

new Canada Child Benefit for parents that the party says will be worth $2,500 annually to a typical family of four. They’ll also tweak tax brackets, cutting the rate for middle-class incomes from 22 percent to 20.5 percent - which Trudeau said during the campaign would be his first piece of legislation as prime minister. To pay for it, he proposes to create a new 33 percent bracket on earnings over $200,000 and to review credits that benefit those with high incomes.

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Environment

By matthew Campell Bloomberg News

The Liberals say they’ll set national targets for emissions reduction while leaving provinces the option of establishing carbon-pricing mechanisms.

How the government assesses new projects, like mines and oil pipelines, will also be changed, with the Liberals promising to “restore robust oversight” and toughen environmental protections. Trudeau has said he will consider supporting the construction of TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline, which would link the Taxes Alberta oil sands to Gulf In pursuit of middle- Coast refineries, as well class votes, the Liberals as the Energy East conpromised to introduce a duit to New Brunswick Trudeau broke with Canada’s balanced-budget orthodoxy by pledging to run $25 billion Canadian ($19 billion U.S.) in deficits over three years to take advantage of low interest rates. The borrowing will help underpin federal spending on public transportation over the next decade - a response to worsening congestion in Toronto, Vancouver and other cities. The Liberals say they’ll return Canada to balanced budgets from 2019.

and the expansion of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain line to Vancouver. One pipeline he opposes is Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway, which he says threatens the British Columbia coast.

Relations The Liberals say they’ll create a Cabinet-level committee to manage relations with the U.S. and work to smooth the flow of goods and people across the more than 5,500-mile shared border, which includes Arctic regions. Another bugbear in North American relations, a visa requirement for Mexicans that Harper’s gover nment imposed in 2009, will be removed “immediately,” according to the Liberal platform.

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Examining the role of masculinity in school shootings This Monday, Umpqua Community College heteronormative and cisnormative. Any signs reopened after nine people were killed there on of ‘femininity’ or diverging from a man’s gender Oct. 1. Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, opened role is discouraged, often invoking the use of derogatory terms. Men are emasculated for not Alsina Saee-Nazari conforming to our culture’s masculinity through the use of terms that are violently misogynistic, fire in his English class, killing eight students homophobic and transphobic. The violence that and a teacher, as well as leaving nine wounded. is encouraged in masculinity isn’t only physical Roseburg, Oregon has become the stage for the or verbal, but systematic.

Men will teach their kids what their fathers recurrent national discussion about campus safety, gun control and mental health. Another shoot- taught them: to be physically tough and emotioning has yet again been brought to our attention: ally invulnerable. Growing up, we’re encouraged the problems with how our country regulates to repress all emotions except anger, and our firearms and understands mental health. But the masculinity is equated with intimidation and national dialogue has left out our culture’s dis- power. The “tough guy” and his use of violence to achieve power and respect is glorified through torted view of masculinity.

According to Vanderbilt University research- movies, videogames, advertisements, sports, poliers Jonathan M. Metzl and Kenneth T. MacLeish, tics, porn and more. Having played football in

“Men will teach their kids... to be physically tough and emotionally invulnerable. Growing up, we’re encouraged to repress all emotions except anger and our masculinity is equated with intimidation and power.”

“The ways our society frames the connections between gun crimes, mental illnesses, social networks, and gun access issues reveal as much about our particular cultural politics, biases, and blind spots as it does about the acts of lone, and obviously troubled, individuals.”

Our blind spot is our reluctance to accept how masculinity is manifested in our culture and how it played a role in Roseburg. President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have spoken out about increasing gun control while Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie and a majority of the Republican Party have called for mental illness reform. Harper-Mercer had mental health issues and legally obtained all of his 13 weapons, but what isn’t discussed is his gender.

Mass shootings (defined as shootings events killing at least 4 people) occur in the United States every two weeks. Per the bipartisan Mayors Against Illegal Guns, “between January 2009 and September 2013 there have been 93 mass shootings in 35 states.” It is not a coincidence that almost all of the perpetrators, like Harper-Mercer, are men.

While we call to combat mental illness, we must take the same approach in examining gender and deconstruct what it means to be a man.

To be a “man” means to be straight and cisgender because masculinity is constructed to be

high school, I would be praised by my coach to cause the opposing team pain or emasculated for showing my pain and vulnerability.

There are countless movies that glorify men’s use of violence to achieve power – “Scarface”, “Drive”, “50 Shades of Grey”, “Rambo”, “The Expendables”, The Bourne Trilogy, “Gladiator” - and the pornographic ones sexualize men’s control and dominance over women in a heterosexual lens. Therefore when we examine the shooting at Umpqua Community College and Chris Harper-Mercer, we must recognize the trend of these mass shootings by examining the culture of masculinity. When these men are glorified, masculinity becomes distorted when attributed to power and toxic when means of attaining that power are violent and justified.

Like Harper-Mercer, men are constantly hearing the same message. A gun shouldn’t be the response to feeling powerless. How our culture constructs masculinity is toxic and present on university campuses, so while it is important to make reforms in gun policy and mental health, we must ask how the University of Massachusetts will address the elephant in the room.

Alsina Saee-Nazari is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at Asaeenazari@umass.edu

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Stephanie Meyer goes shallow on gender in “Twilight” remake “Life and Death” We all remember the craze when “Twilight” was released into question the validity of her best-selling status.

Imagine if the entire Harry Potter franchise was rewritin 2005. The book, while not an instant hit, grabbed the attention of many adolescents and adults alike and gradu- ten from the point of view of Hermione. Hermione grew ally rose to become an international bestseller. Now, many up with the same amount of knowledge as Harry about the magical world – that is, none. The only difference would Aly Nichols be her blood status. But gender-swapping the main cast of Harry Potter would create interesting dynamics – after all, fans have a new reason to rush to the bookstore – the according to a conversation between Hermione and Ron “Twilight” 10th anniversary special has been released, titled in “Half Blood Prince,” boys have the “emotional range of a teaspoon.” Now imagine all the supposed emotion of a “Life and Death.”

Sharing a cover with the original novel for this special edition, the new novel is apparently the same exact story with a single twist: the genders of the main characters have been swapped. Instead of Bella and Edward, the story focuses on Beau and Edythe. According to ABC News, Stephanie Meyer announced that “(she wants) to say this is not a real book, and (she is) totally aware of this.” If it’s not a real book, then why did she bother writing it?

Complaints that brought about this change include the cliché fact that Bella exemplifies the archetypal “damsel in distress,” which is outdated in literature female in Harry’s shoes. The character – Harriet, let’s say these days. People want to see new plots and twists, new – would seem unrealistic to us girls because we know the tropes, and most importantly, creativity. Meyer said that she difference between how guys would act versus how girls rewrote the same story just “to prove that the story worked would act in a given situation. Not to mention all the side just as well with the genders reversed”. This tactic is not characters in Harry Potter who would alter how the story making Meyer stand out as an author; if anything, it calls played out if their genders were reversed. In order to make

“(T)he truth is that stereotypical gender roles are still a prominant aspect in society. Changing the genders of the main characters in a novel like “Twilight” requires taking this into account.

the story fairly similar to the original, J.K. Rowling would need to take into consideration each of these interactions.

But it seems that Meyer is unconcerned with these issues. We like to pretend that gender doesn’t affect things, but the truth is that stereotypical gender roles are still a prominent aspect in society. Changing the genders of the main characters of a novel like Twilight requires taking this into account. And beyond that, there are a great deal of subplots in the novels that this swap imperils. Take, for instance, the almost-romance between Bella and Jacob. If Jacob isn’t swapped, what happens to that plot? Is Meyer suggesting Jacob would be gay? What about Edward’s ‘traditional’ views on romance – would Edythe have the same, and thus expect Beau to make the first move? It seems Meyer didn’t take this all into thought.

On another note, fans are outraged that this book has been released, and not the sought-after “Midnight Sun,” the development of which was ended despite several chapters having been leaked in 2008. “Midnight Sun” was another version of Twilight as well, except the novel would have been told from Edward’s point of view. Now which sounds more interesting: a novel that is nearly the exact same thing only with different genders, or the novel told from an entirely different perspective? Perhaps Meyer should reconsider how she uses her free time.

Aly Nichols is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at Apnichols@umass.edu.

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Third Eye Blind blows the roof off the Calvin Theatre

By Jessica chaiken Collegian Correspondent Hundreds of fans flooded Northampton last Monday night for the chance to see Third Eye Blind headline the Calvin Theatre, with Iamdynamite providing the opening act.

The headliners did not disappoint, and their raw talent and alternative rock melodies electrified the crowd. Fans came hungry and left satisfied after hearing the band’s renowned classics along with some of its newer, stylistically different material.

Iamdynamite kicked off the show at 8 p.m. with a set of songs that warmed up the crowd. The alternative rock duo from Detroit, Michigan showcased their unique style through their percussive beats and jarring vocals.

The band spent the majority of its set playing songs off of “Wasa Tusa,” its 2014 release.

Iamdynamite definitely brought interesting character to the theater, showcasing its varied instrumentation, such as what it called its “big yellow shaker,” or in other words, a maraca.

Though Iamdynamie brought character to the stage, nothing could have prepared the crowd for Third Eye Blind’s epic, smoke-covered entrance, which brought the entire crowd to its feet.

Having been around for more than two decades, Third Eye Blind could not have sounded better. Each song sounded like it was straight off the record, crisp and perfectly pitched. And their chemistry

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Though the band focused on newer material, Third Eye Blind delivered a crowd-pleasing set last Monday at the Calvin Theatre. up on stage was one of impeccable synchronization.

The band began the show with the hit single off of its new album “Dopamine,” “Everything is Easy.” And after a few more selections from the group’s newer catalog - including “Graduate” – they surprised everyone with their classic “Never Let You Go,” which turned into a theater-wide sing-a-long.

Lead vocalist Stephan

Jenkins artfully worked the crowd with his theatrical performance. Jenkins even tried to create a friendlier environment by urging the audience members to interact with strangers in the crowd and introduce themselves to each other.

Jenkins was not the only theatrical presence on stage though, as Brad Hargreaves – the band’s drummer – treated the audience to a lengthy and

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Guitarist Kryz Reid, a member since 2010, plays the song “Never Let You Go.”

impressive drum solo between songs.

Most of the tracks performed were newer material, with a few intermittent throwbacks cleverly added in between. Jenkins worked his way about the stage during the show, showcasing his other musical talents by alternating between singing, playing the guitar, the drums and even the tambourine.

Amid the new and old

songs, the band threw in a few slower tracks in the middle of the set to break things up a little, ending the segment with the song “How’s it Going to Be.” The audience that turned out for the show was an even mix of younger college-aged fans and older – probably original – middle-aged fans.

But age was just a number on Monday night, as fans old and Jessica Chaiken can be reached at new rocked out to the same jchaiken@umass.edu.

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Bassist Tony Freidanelli keeps the groove going on “Shipboard Cook.”

harmonious acoustics that Third Eye Blind provided.

The band ended its first set with one of their most popular hits, “Jumper,” which had the whole crowd jamming along to the lyrics. But of course, the group came back on for an encore as the audience screamed for their return, closing with its mega-hit, “Semi-Charmed Life.”

Jenkins concluded by addressing the audience and the fans saying, “I’m going to get in so much trouble from my record company for saying this but: if you buy it, you buy it; if you steal it, you steal it…” referring to the pirating of Third Eye Blind’s music.

Besides the legality of this statement, Jenkins is clearly dedicated to the music and to the fans, and wants the band’s music to circulate, no matter how it is obtained.

To the crowd’s surprise, Third Eye Blind then entertained a second and final encore, singing more tracks from “Dopamine.”

If there was one thing to be taken from this concert, it is that Third Eye Blind, after more than two decades as a band, still has a lot of energy. Its raw talent can still be noticed, and it continues to grow.

The show proved Third Eye Blind’s capabilities and gave fans hope for the band’s future.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Deerhunter returns on refreshing, serene ‘Fading Frontier’

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Deerhunter’s “Fading Frontier” is not necessarily the “return to form” many people have been advertising it as.

With just nine songs that clock in at a scant total of 36 minutes, it is the shortest, most simple album Deerhunter has made. It’s also completely unlike anything else in its discography, so calling it a “return to form” would not make any sense.

Instead, it is a true Deerhunter album, rather than the aggressive, reactionary, Bradford Cox show that was their last album – 2013’s “Monomania.” The headline here shouldn’t be that Cox – Deerhunter’s lead singer and primary songwriter – has a

new, more positive lease on life after a nasty car accident, it’s that his new outlook has let the always-astounding, ever-evolving ensemble that is Deerhunter out of the box.

Though the quartet never takes “Fading Frontier” to the endless psychedelic wastelands of their 2010 album “Halcyon Digest” or the senses-numbing noise-pop of 2008’s “Weird Era Cont.,” it’s wonderful just to hear the band operating at full capacity once again.

Opener “All the Same” has familiar guitars that jangle and tumble from the heavens in slow motion, as Cox pries himself out after a long period of lyrical hibernation. After two verses of seeming contentment, Cox dips into far darker, more familiar waters in the third verse: “My friend’s dad

got bored/changed his sex and had no more/no more wife, no more kids/nothing left to live with.”

Cox seems to turn it up 10,000 notches here to quickly dispel any thoughts that this would be Deerhunter’s domesticated, adult contemporary album. It’s a sort of quiet defiance that comes up again on the following track, the stirring “Living My Life.” “I’m off the grid, I’m out of range,” Cox muses in what may be one of his greatest vocal performances with Deerhunter to date.

On “Breaker,” the first recorded duet between Cox and Deerhunter’s other guitarist/ songwriter Lockett Pundt, Cox’s voice has a startling serenity. “I’m alive!” he sings, while letting Pundt tackle the uncertainties of the cho-

rus. Like they are instrumentally, Pundt and Cox are absolutely flawless vocal foils for each other, with their voices complimenting every nuance of the other’s.

Cox then takes helm of the ship for the album’s second section, piloting confidently through the bright, up-tempo sheen of “Duplex Planet,” the murky ballad of “Take Care” and the very Atlas Soundesque “Leather and Wood.”

“Leather and Wood,” with its spidery guitars, off-beat piano and Cox’s whispery vocals, is the only hiccup of “Fading Frontier,” as it feels much more like a plodding, muddy Cox home recording than a woodshedded, laboredover Deerhunter track.

Fortunately however, what immediately follows is the

most extroverted song Cox has ever written. “Snakeskin” bursts with attitude, with Cox pouting all the way through.

“I was born already nailed to the cross/I was born with the feeling I was lost,” he snarls, daring the listener to disagree with his self-styled identity as a lost poet.

Pundt answers Cox’s cockiness with the measured, atmospheric of beauty of “Ad Astra.” Continuing his status as Deerhunter’s ace in the hole, Pundt floats his voice over a soup of warm, bubbly synths, stopping the album in its tracks while he’s at it.

And although Cox asks himself, “What’s wrong with me?” multiple times on closer “Carrion,” he shoves his own self-doubt aside with the album’s final lines, “Even

though you’re gone/I still carry on/it’s the same big sea/ it’s the same to me.”

On “Fading Frontier,” Bradford Cox finally seems less interested in being “Bradford Cox” than he is in just being the leader of Deerhunter.

Though Deerhunter has sounded more confrontational, and all-encompassing in the past, the band’s evolution into a pleasant rock-with-a-capitalR band is a natural one.

Cox may have a more positive outlook on life but he and the band behind him are as wily, chameleonic and unpredictable as ever.

Jackson Maxwell can be reached at jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

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“We could be sitting in great shape come six o’clock tomorrow, or we could be in a dog fight, so it’s a very important game.”

Fran O’Leary, UMass coach stay focused on the task at hand regardless of what the result in the previous game was.

“We always say the day after that the last game is history,” he said. “You have to have short term memory if you’re going to be a soccer player and have a decent team, so if you win you can’t get too excited, if you lose you can’t get too down.”

He added: “The first practice we have after every game we just say the last one is history, move on to the next one.”

With four games remaining in the regular season, the Minutemen will have

to take advantage of their home contests if they wish to hold a position in the conference postseason picture.

“It’s always important to pick up your home wins, so it just leaves us in much better position,” O’Leary said. “We could be sitting in great shape come six o’clock tomorrow, or we could be in a dogfight, so it’s a very important game.”

Wednesday’s kickoff is set for 3 p.m. at Rudd Field.

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RUN GAME “There’s no big difference, but when you know Marquis is back there we really have to get up to the second level fast because when Marquis gets the ball he flies,” Smith said. “Jamal is really patient, he reads the blocks well and then he really gets it going.”

The team’s two leading rushers from last year, Shadrach Abrokwah and Lorenzo Woodley, have seen their roles reduced with the additions of Young and Lindsay and with Wilson healthy after he missed the final nine games of 2014 with a leg injury.

Abrokwah, who led UMass in yards (578) and touchdowns (seven) in 2014, has only nine carries for 58 yards, all of which

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came in the season opener against the Buffaloes.

Woodley has 10 carries for 36 yards on the season.

Young commented on the Minutemen’s ability to rotate in different running backs and said that it’s been important in his transition as a freshman into college football.

“Playing as a running back, you’re always going to get bumps and bruises, so for you to have help out there on the field, it builds you mentally and prepares your body to get a little bit of rest,” Young said. “For us to have a good rotation with a good usage of back it feels good.”

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Trento with four points this season

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Massachusetts hockey player Dominic Trento has gotten off to a great start this year, recording four points through the Minutemen’s opening three games.

But in the eyes of the Brockport, New York native, the credit shouldn’t all go to him.

“It’s obviously fun and nice to contribute to the team,” Trento said after Monday’s practice. “I can’t take much of the credit, it’s a team thing and I think as a whole our line has been clicking really well lately.”

In the last two games for UMass (3-0), Trento has found himself on a line with freshman Austin Plevy and sophomore Dennis Kravchenko, with the latter two combining for 15 points.

While Plevy and Kravchenko have received most of the attention, it’s easy to overlook the contributions being made by their third linemate.

In last Friday’s 5-2 victory over Sacred Heart, Trento assisted on the game-winning goal and added an insurance goal of his own.

On Oct. 10, he recorded another assist on a gamewinner in the Minutemen’s 4-3 come-from-behind win against Colorado College.

After a rigorous offseason in which coach John Micheletto said Trento dropped some weight and lowered his body

fat number, it appears to be paying dividends in the early stages of the year.

“I think you’re seeing that he’s being rewarded for a good summer,” Micheletto said.

“You’re seeing his natural hand-eye coordination at the net front and his ability to utilize his body to get positioning.

Those things are a really big part of his game and now with the added strength and conditioning, you’re seeing him have a lot more effect on the game consistently.”

He added: “We needed him to extend his abilities from last year, and so far it’s happened.”

Trento believes his success has been a result of the entire team’s start to the season.

UMass has outscored opponents 15-to-8, including a 9-2 advantage in the third period so far.

“I think it has a lot to do with how the team’s playing really, as well as my linemates,” he said. “I think a lot of it comes with opportunity, and I’ve been getting a lot of it this year, so I’m just trying to make the best of it and so far I have.”

Regarding Trento’s recent ability to step up in key situations, Micheletto believes the forward’s capability to get into critical areas during crucial moments has been important.

“You’re not going to see that a lot from the fringe, so we’ll take as many clutch performances out of as many guys as possible,” Micheletto said.

“Shane (Walsh) has done that in the early going and Austin and Dennis and now Dom, so it’s nice to not have to rely on a single or small group of

guys, and keep extending our number of players to get the job done.”

Despite not playing much together, Plevy believes the chemistry between himself and Trento will continue to progress as the season goes on.

“Obviously the second time in Colorado was the first time we played together,” Plevy said. “It’s always tough to play with new guys that we haven’t practiced with much, so it’s been good the last two weeks getting a lot of practice time in.

“We started developing some chemistry and I think it showed Friday night. I think we had a pretty good game and our chemistry is definitely starting to build.”

Plevy recalled the opportunity he got to form a relationship with his fellow teammate.

“When I came out at the beginning of the year I lived in his house with him, so we got an early start,” he said.

“Our relationship has been building, it’s still a work in progress but as the days go by we’re definitely starting to come together more.”

Dating back to last season, Trento has now tallied 12 points in his last 14 games.

Micheletto attributed this carryover to an increase in the sophomore’s confidence, and compared it to the recent successes of Walsh.

“A little bit like Shane did the same thing last year, I think in addition to experience, confidence plays a big part of it for Dom,” Micheletto said. “He’s got a great approach to practice but the added confidence of getting on the score sheet

has just allowed him to gain a little bit of momentum coming off of last year and into this year.”

Trento said he worked on becoming stronger and faster during the offseason, also rehabilitating an ankle injury he suffered.

After admitting he was unprepared for the rigors that came with Division I hockey, Trento said he worked even harder to improve his game.

“I worked really hard to come back in the best shape I could be just so I could stay healthy throughout the year,” he said. “I think last year I came in a little unprepared and didn’t know what Division I hockey was going to be like, so I think that has a lot to do with it. It’s great being help to produce for the team because we keep winning games, you can’t beat it.”

While his contributions may be overshadowed, Micheletto is excited to see Trento’s game take off even more than it has.

“I think he’s on a good trajectory right now in terms of his improvement,” Micheletto said. “The things he is better at now from last year are things he just needs to continue to improve on. His defensive play has been excellent and I would expect him to play in key situations whether we’re up a man or down a man.”

Jason Kates can be reached at jkates@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Jason_Kates.

To say the Massachusetts football team has a passfriendly offense would be an understatement.

UMass coach Mark Whipple has a storied background in the offensive game where he was the offensive coordinator for Miami and has had stints as a quarterback coach with the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers.

He won a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers serving as a mentor to quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.

Add quarterback Blake Frohnapfel and wide receiver Tajae Sharpe – statistically one of the best receivers in the country – and it’s no surprise UMass (1-5, 0-2 Mid-American Conference) has run passing plays on 63 percent of its offensive snaps this season.

But last Saturday in the Minutemen’s 15-10 loss against Kent State, the lone touchdown drive came with UMass primarily running the football, finished off with a five-yard run from Jamal Wilson.

As a team, the Minutemen have accounted for a total of 588 rushing yards, the fourth fewest in all of college football. They have eclipsed the 100-yard mark in just three games so far, with the worst performances coming against Temple (45 rushing yards) and Bowling Green (30).

“I thought we did some good things in the run game in the first half (against Kent State), I probably should have stayed with it more,” Whipple said.

One of the biggest factors on that drive was when Whipple lined up both tackles on one side of the formation. Between

Tyrell Smith, Elijah Wilkinson and Tyshon Henderson, the three have been rotating in at tackle with multiple formations involving two of the three located on the strong side of the formation.

“We’ve practiced it a lot so we feel really comfortable together,” Smith said of the unbalanced formations. “Every other series or so, we’ve been switching so we are kind of used to it now. We’ve been doing it for a while now so it’s instilled in us. Me personally, I’m really comfortable blocking next to both of them.”

“They’re all playing well, we saw in camp that Tyshon had made a big jump and felt like with 12 straight games and with the heat early in the season, we just kept rotating them,” Whipple said. “Keeping them healthy is key.”

So far this season Whipple had balanced the snaps of his running backs, primarily using the trio of Wilson, Marquis Young and Sekai Lindsay.

Both Wilson and Young lead the team with 35 carries with Lindsay following close behind with 29 of his own. Young leads the team with 291 rushing yards while Wilson’s three rushing touchdowns are tops in that category.

Young’s breakthrough game came against Notre Dame when the freshman broke open an 83-yard touchdown run in his 103-yard performance on the day. Wilson’s three touchdown came in three separate games against Colorado, the Fighting Irish and the Golden Flashes.

Smith said there wasn’t a huge difference of blocking in front of the different running backs, but he mentioned it was the little things that the lineman have to adjust to. see

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Marquis Young (middle) rushes against Kent State last weekend. Young ran for 68 yards against the Golden Flashes in the 15-10 loss.

MEN’S SOCCER

Minutemen look to extend unbeaten streak to four

By Jason Kates Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team will look to extend its unbeaten streak to four games when it takes on La Salle Wednesday afternoon at Rudd Field.

Since losing its Atlantic 10 opener to Saint Joseph’s on Oct. 3, the Minutemen (3-10-1, 2-1-1 A-10) have won their last two and tied the other, placing them in a current tie for fifth place in the conference.

During the recent run of success, coach Fran O’Leary has pointed to the 3-2 win over Rhode Island on Oct. 7 as a major boost.

“I think the home win against URI gave us confidence and a belief that we’ve maybe been lacking,” he said. “We pushed on to score three goals against one of the A-10 favorites, and then to come back a few days later and shutout the favorite for the A-10 obviously gives

you cause for big belief.

“The best thing about each of these games is we’ve been gathering a lot of opportunities and now we’ve been starting to take some, so hopefully that’ll continue.”

In its last game, UMass earned its first win of the season away from home, securing a 2-1 victory over St. Bonaventure last Saturday.

O’Leary acknowledged the win as a result that adds another layer of belief for the guys.

“We can talk about doing things and finishing in the top eight and surprise a lot of people, but you have to go and produce to really build that belief,” he said. “So now that we’ve gone and won on the road, the road hopefully the remainder of the way won’t seem as scary.”

Heading into this one, the Explorers (5-8-2, 1-3-1 A-10) are looking to get a positive result after losing 5-0 to Dayton last weekend.

La Salle is led by Andrew Connors, who leads the way offensively with five goals and 10 points, with Tony Daniele second behind him with six points.

The message from O’Leary to his players as they approach this conference affair is simple: keep doing what they’ve been doing.

Among other things, he touched on the necessity to continue to bring a high energy level and

high intensity to the game.

“We’ve got to bring a composure when we have the ball, a willingness to work for each other, and a little bit of quality in final passing and finishing,” O’Leary said. “They’re the things we’ve had in our two wins of late, and we’ll be looking for that tomorrow.”

Throughout the year, O’Leary stressed the importance of not dwelling on the past, and how crucial it was to see

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