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HackUMass pushes programmers Sanders rally to to work on experimental projects be held Tuesday Third annual event is the largest yet

Rougly 1,600 have said they will attend

By MoRgAn hughes Collegian Correspondent

By Anthony Rentsch

Roughly 400 students from the greater Northeast area converged on the University of Massachusetts campus this weekend for the third annual HackUMass, a 36-hour marathon event where participants create hardware and software projects.

Participants spent the weekend designing, programming and building new technologies. The hackathon, which initially began in its first year with just 100 students and was held in Marcus Hall, now partners with groups such as MLH, Microsoft, Verizon, Google and Fitbit and took place at the expansive Integrated Learning Center.

HackUMass co-director Frankie Vicusi said the program improves every year. “(The event) was a big success, so this year we decided to grow it,” Vicusi said.

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Student programmers pose in a group ‘selfie’at the end of the opening ceremony to the third annual HackUMass.

The event provided participants with the necessary supplies to create projects through tech talks, mentoring for beginners and even networking opportunities with sponsors such as Fitbit and Verizon. Participants are encouraged to be creative, and created a variety of inventions such as lawn

mower simulators, voicecontrolled robotics and virtual reality video games.

HackUMass also provides opportunities to participants of all skill levels.

Adi Shmerling and Adin Klotz, two high school students from Amherst, may have been among the youngest participants in the hackathon. The young

Students launch Halloween sale

Used clothing sold at sustainable event By stuARt FosteR Collegian Staff

Last year, two students in the Master of Science in Sustainability Science program, Sumedha Rao and Courtney Angen, tried to develop a reused clothing sale during a class about creating convincing business plans.

After thinking about what time of year would motivate the most people to buy used attire, they decided one particular holiday had plenty of potential for a reused clothing sale.

“Halloween was a really good time because that’s when people buy things for just one use,” said Angen, who graduated from the program last year.

Last week, Angen and Rao turned this idea into a reality via the Sustainable Halloween Costume Sale,

students, who were working on a text-based adventure game, planned to “wander” around the event to learn from other projects.

“We thought it would be a cool way to get inspired and learn cool stuff,” Klotz said. see

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Huffington Post, Friedman argued that Sanders’ healthcare proposal would save the country nearly $5 trillion over 10 years, through “reduced administrative waste, lower pharmaceutical and device prices, and by lowering the rate of medical inflation.”

Mansur Gidfar, communications director of Represent. us, an organization that he described as a “nonpartisan anti-corruption organization” at the MASSPIRG semester kick-off meeting, will also present on the influence of special interests in American politics.

The rally is being held one day before Sanders’ holds a town hall meeting, which will be held at George Mason University in Virginia, but will be live streamed at schools across the country.

The start time for the town hall meeting is 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

A post on the event’s Facebook page indicated that UMass for Bernie Sanders would stream the meeting in Machmer Hall room e37 on Wednesday evening.

A rally will be held in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders Tuesday evening on the University of Massachusetts campus.

The event, which is being put on by the unofficial student organization UMass for Bernie Sanders, is slated to start at 5 p.m. outside of the Student Union.

As of Monday night, roughly 1,600 students have said they planned on attending, according to the event’s Facebook page.

The rally is intended to educate people on Sanders’ platform, including his views on the economy, money in politics, climate change, universal healthcare and higher education affordability, and will feature student, faculty and guest speakers.

Among the speakers is Gerald Friedman, a professor in the department of economics, who will talk about Sanders’ plan for the Anthony Rentsch can be reached at United States healthcare sys- arentsch@umass.edu and followed on tem. In a recent article in the Twitter @Anthony_Rentsch.

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where used clothing was sold for students to reuse as part of their Halloween costumes, on Thursday and Friday in the Campus Center.

The costume sale featured used clothing and costume parts being resold, as well as a “Do It Yourself” section where students could decorate their purchases with flourishes such as fake blood.

The resale of clothing made the event environmentally friendly. Rao described how many Halloween costumes are only used once before being thrown away – as most people rarely resell costumes – and going to a landfill.

Angen characterized the advertising for the costume sale as “a lot of social media, posters and word of mouth,” adding that she and Rao had tabled in the Campus Center Concourse to spread awareness about the event. see

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Brittany Florio, Xochiquetzal Salazar, and Jason Depecol lead an apple cider making demonstration at the Farmer’s Market on Oct. 23.

Seventeen.com editor Noelle Devoe gives TechTalk UMass alumna offers digital portfolio advice By colBy seARs Collegian Staff

University of Massachusetts alumna Noelle Devoe, a web editor at Seventeen.com, talked to students about how they can successfully build a professional online portfolio in today’s digital information age at a TechTalk Friday afternoon.

The 2013 graduate discussed

virtual techniques students can use to stand out to potential employers, as well as the techniques she used to get a job at Seventeen.com. About 30 people attended the talk in the Campus Center, which was presented by UMass Information Technology.

“In many fields, there are just so many applicants and it feels intimidating, like you can never make yourself stand out … but you can,” she said. “You’ve got to find what makes you stand out, because we all have something.”

Devoe said the first step in

doing this is knowing yourself and the skills students possess. She encouraged attendees to embrace and explore whatever it is they are passionate about, utilize it and present it professionally online.

Though Devoe said she didn’t know what she wanted to do when she grew up, she did know that she loved technology, HTML coding and pop culture. She cited the television show “Lizzie McGuire” and pop boy band One Direction as some of her original inspirations for creating podcasts and fan videos that allowed her to gain

experience with different technologies.

She eventually created the fan site One Direction Connection when she was a sophomore studying at UMass. She said “hundreds of thousands” of One Direction fans visited the site, which is included on her resume because it shows she is passionate about pop culture, web design and writing.

Devoe also stressed the second step in building an online presence: creating a professional website. A personal site, which she said is essential to have, should

include a biography section, a resume, a portfolio of work and a contact page. She said a blog feature is optional, but encouraged, and that the site should also integrate access to social media pages.

“The key is to not be a template applicant,” Devoe said, claiming the best way to get noticed by hiring managers is to avoid default website themes from resources like Tumblr and WordPress, and instead make them personal by customizing them and utilizing see

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Monday, October 26, 2015

THE RUNDOWN ON THIS DAY...

In 1979, South Korean President Park Chunghee was shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency

Subway agrees to antibiotics ban MASSPIRG says its a major victory

By Daniel Mahoney Collegian Staff

AROUND THE WORLD

UMKC’s Andre McGee, center of Louisville sex parties controversy, resigns The first comments from Andre McGee, the former Louisville assistant who has been alleged to have arranged sex with escorts for basketball recruits there, have come in a letter of resignation at UMKC. McGee, who has been on the UMKC staff since 2014, was put on administrative leave on Oct. 2, and his resignation was announced by the university on Friday.

“The university deserves a full time assistant coach and I am not able to provide that to the basketball team while the false allegations against me are being investigated,” McGee wrote in a letter to UMKC Director of Athletics Carla Wilson.

The NCAA, Louisville and UMKC are investigating the allegations detailed in a book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escore Queen,” published this month by former escort Katina Powell.

Powell wrote that nearly two dozen stripping and sex parties occurred at Louisville’s on-campus

and even for those who were here for the McDonald’s victory, the concrete victory is huge.”

The McDonald’s victory was only a two year agreement to remove antibiotics from just chicken, making this a significant step forward for the campaign, whose greater aim is to target public knowledge of antibiotics. Subway’s total commitment to removing all meats with antibiotics is a huge step in the organization’s campaign, bringing both visibility and legitimacy to the movement’s goals.

Both Upton and Seremba noted this as being particularly impactful on the campaign moving forward.

They both noted that a full commitment on Subway was the first step in what they hoped would be a “chain reaction” that would result in improved public health knowledge and a commitment by other organizations to phase out antibiotic practices.

The future also looks bright for MASSPIRG and the greater antibiotics campaign. Seeking to continue their consistent momentum, the organization has a number of possible next steps which they are still working on planning. While no specifics were able to be given, both Seremba and Upton were clear that Subway was not an end goal but merely a stepping stone to bigger projects.

“It was a big win. A real solid and important victory, but it can’t be our only focus,” Seremba said, “With the momentum gained from this, we can really get the ball rolling in terms persuading other groups to do the same as Subway has.”

While there are no new projects for the antibiotics campaign, they still remain committed to their ultimate goals of public health education.

MASSPIRG celebrated a massive victory this week, as Subway pledged to remove antibiotics from the meats served within restaurants. The agreement, which begins with the phasing in of antibiotic free chicken and turkey within the coming year, is expected to be fully implemented in 2025.

The move follows a coordinated effort from USPIRG and its chapter organizations, including MASSPIRG, along with a number of other public health interest groups. The coalition had previously planned to deliver a number of petitions to local Subway restaurants, as well as the company’s headquarters in Milford, Connecticut.

Protests were promptly changed to celebration events, thanking Subway for its decision to lead the charge on antibiotic-free food. At one such event in Amherst town center, MASSPIRG staff held signs lauding the fast food chain’s move.

Shawna Upton, vice chair of MASSPIRG’s antibiotics campaign and a student at the University of Massachusetts, was excited about the organization’s win.

“We’re certainly at the point where we’re enjoying the win and focusing on giving credit where it’s due,” Upton said, “This is a huge step for the organization as, unlike the McDonald’s campaign, the restaurant has agreed to a total and permanent antibiotics ban.”

Upton was joined by campaign coordinator Julia Seremba, who echoed Upton’s enthusiasm.

“All the students and volunteers involved are certainly overjoyed at the victory,” said Seremba. “For a lot of those on the campaign, this is their first big Daniel Mahoney can be reached at win as part of MASSPIRG, dpmahoney@umass.edu.

dorm for athletes and other students from 2010 to 2014 and that McGee supplied cash for “side deals,” with the escorts that included sex with some recruits, guardians who accompanied them on visit and some Louisville players.

Louisville head coach Rick Pitino has implored his former coach to tell the truth.

“I don’t know if any of this is true or not,” Pitino told ESPN earlier this week. “There’s only one person who knows the truth and he needs to come out and tell the truth to his teammates, to the University of Louisville, to his fans and to his coaches that have taught him to do the right thing for years and allowed him to be part of something special here.

“He’s the only one with any answers. Whether it’s true or not, I don’t know. ... Everything else is absurd. I don’t care about the legal issues. If he’s done something wrong, he has to own up to it and do his penance.”

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US axes plans for Arctic oil leases

By Sean CoCkerhaM McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is abandoning plans to open the Arctic Ocean to more oil drilling in the face of dwindling industry interest and environmental objections.

The Interior Department said Friday that it is canceling two scheduled Arctic Ocean lease sales. One was planned for next year to auction rights to drill for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northern coast of Alaska. The other was for 2017 in the neighboring Beaufort Sea. At the same time, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell rejected the requests of Shell and Statoil for more time to consider drilling under their current leases.

Those leases begin expiring in 2017.

Shell recently announced that its $7 billion Arctic Ocean oil exploration program was a failure. The company said it didn’t find enough oil to justify the cost and was abandoning the offshore Arctic drilling effort “for the foreseeable future.”

“In light of Shell’s announcement, the amount of acreage already under lease and current market conditions, it does not make sense to prepare for lease

sales in the Arctic in the next year and a half,” Jewell said.

The Arctic Ocean is believed to hold huge oil and gas deposits. But low energy prices and high costs have dampened the enthusiasm of oil companies for exploring the Arctic Ocean and the lease sales were expected to draw little interest, especially after Shell’s costly failure.

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, nevertheless criticized the president for blocking “any hope for future energy development in the Arctic.”

He blamed environmental regulations for Shell’s failure.

“Obama has once again played directly into Russia’s hands as he destroys our nation’s energy potential,” said Bishop, who is chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Senate Energ y Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called it a “stunning, shortsighted move.”

“Today’s decision is the latest in a destructive pattern of hostility toward energy production in our state that began the first day this administration took office,” Murkowski said.

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Students shop for clothes at the Sustainable Halloween Costume Sale last Friday in the Campus Center.

Rao said that most of the clothing being sold at the costume sale was left over from the New2You tag sale at the beginning of the semester. Rao said that most of the customers at the New2You sale purchase furniture or other supplies for their living spaces rather than clothing, resulting in a lot of leftover apparel.

“We want to make it easier for people to repurpose clothing,” she said. “We hope people think of it not just as a costume sale,” she added, saying that the event had a strong message promoting sustainability on campus.

The sale was funded by the Sustainability, Engagement and Innovation fund, which was created to incentivize environmentally friendly practices on campus. Rao said that the money made would go back into the fund to help other projects.

The Sustainable Costume Sale was assisted by volunteers from the Eco-Rep pro-

gram, an academic course open to all students which focuses on environmental issues.

“I think it’s a really good idea because a lot of kids don’t want to spend a lot of money on costumes,” said Matt Noke, a sophomore majoring in biochemistry who volunteered at the Sale after being encouraged to as part of his Eco-Rep class.

The University of Massachusetts Administration, which helped advertise for the event on Facebook, and Auxiliary Services also assisted some parts of the Costume Sale.

Students buying clothes at the Halloween sale saw it as a good opportunity to buy costume accessories at a lowered price, and appreciated the environmental component of the event.

“I think reuse is really important,” said Madison Burke, a graduate student studying regional planning and sustainability sciences,

who was looking for accessories at the sale. “The more we can eliminate waste, the better.”

The costume sale was developed by Rao and Angen’s organization, Phoenix Lifestyle, which works to promote sustainable business practices and spread knowledge about the consumerism of clothing.

Looking forward, Angen and Rao listed a Career Services Fashion Sale with used professional clothing as an event they were hoping to work on in the future.

Angen also mentioned that Phoenix Lifestyle hoped to get one of the co-founders from Threads for Thought, a sustainable clothing brand, to speak at UMass Amherst.

“We’re working with the University Store to bring more sustainable clothing brands,” added Rao. Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartfoster@umass.edu or followed on Twitter @Stuart_C_Foster

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$3.5 million grant goes to research team led by UMass to examine link between chemicals and breast cancer NIHS announces large research grant By tAnAyA AsnAni Collegian Correspondent The National Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences awarded a fiveyear grant of more than $3.5 million to a research project studying the health effects of chemicals in household products on women, led by faculty members at the University of Massachusetts.

This grant will be used to conduct research on the potential effects of these chemicals on women during critical stages of their lives and the effects of these chemicals on breast cancer risk. The work will also examine the effects of chemical exposure during pregnancy, which affects subse-quent breast cancer risk in women.

“The big picture of this research would be to pro-

vide information that will help us to decide whether we should worry or pay attention to chemicals and provide relief,” said Laura Vanden-berg, an assistant professor at the department of environmental health services.

The research opportunity provides opportunity for collaboration among scientists, clinicians and advocates in the Pioneer Valley.

The collaboration includes women who donate breast tissues through the Rays of Hope Center for Breast Cancer Research, clinicians at the Baystate Medical Center and scientists from the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute.

According to Sallie Schneider, a scientist from the PVLS, “one in eight women are likely to develop breast cancer. Over 70 percent of breast cancer risk is not due to hereditary factors but due to reproductive and environmental factors. ”

HACKUMASS The event’s website encourages be ginners to get involved, writing “Come to learn and experience your first hackathon - we guarantee you’ll want to return.” Vicusi said the program offers participants a variety of resources.

“We have mentors on hand throughout the duration of the event,” Vicusi said. “It’s up to [participants] if they want to use mentors. But if they feel like they want to work and figure it out themselves, they are more than welcome to.”

HackUMass participants can win more than

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10 awards, and there are also monetary prizes for participants who land in first, second and third place, as well as more specific prizes. Fitbit, for example, awarded a prize for a participant’s best use of a Fitbit, and Verizon offered an award for the most effective use of a new communication method or its impact on society.

The program, which began Friday at 8 p.m. with check-in and a dinner at Blue Wall, concluded Sunday afternoon with closing ceremonies.

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HTML code. Though free themes from Tumblr and WordPress can be used, Devoe said customization is crucial.

“You want someone to look at your website and think ‘this person is different, this person has something new to offer me,” she said. “If they go to your website and they see the same template they saw on six other people’s websites, that’s not the message they’re going to get.”

She also suggested students purchase their own domain name and avoid having a subdomain, such as yourname.wordpress. com. Devoe said making sure the site is functional and is always up and running is also a necessity.

Devoe said the next step is for students to take their skills beyond a blog or a website by adding personality wherever possible, such as a resume. Devoe believes that different jobs call for different types of resumes, saying that though someone applying for an accounting or engineering position may use a basic Microsoft Word template, people applying to jobs in graphic design or something web-related, for example, should make their resume stand out.

Devoe recommended Scribus, an Adobe InDesign alternative, GIMP, an Adobe Photoshop alternative, and resume templates that can be purchased off e-commerce site Etsy as methods of achieving this.

She also suggested using a nameplate or personal logo.

The fourth step Devoe discussed was using social media to your advantage rather than letting it work

against you.

“Be your number one fan. That’s the best part about social media…you can really show people what you’re doing and what you’re up to. The internet is literally your portfolio,” she said.

Lastly, Devoe talked about step five, which is for students to show employers what truly makes them unique.

She said that in the information age today, job applicants don’t necessarily need traditional experience to show they have what it takes to be hired for a certain position. Though she said she had no traditional journalism experience, she did have the skills she gained from One Direction Connection and other online work she had done by herself.

Devoe graduated from UMass with a bachelor’s degree in communication before earning a master’s degree in newspaper, magazine, and online journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 2014.

Her position at Seventeen.com requires her to search for viral news regarding celebrities and female-focused topics, among other subjects.

UMass TechTalks is a series of events put on for the UMass community about a variety of technology topics, including how to creatively use technology and how it is shaping the future.

Colby Sears can be reached at csears@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @colbysears.

The chemical compounds to be studied are primarily ones commonly found in household prod-ucts such as cosmetics and sunscreen.

“Pregnancy is a critical period of breast development because the tissue matures and acquires changes that can reduce the lifetime risk of breast cancer by half,” Joseph Jerry, a professor of veterinary and health sciences who will lead the research, said.

Jerry also explained how breast cancer could be more common “if exposure to chemicals blocks this protective effect of pregnancy.”

The team aims to help young women gain more information about household chemicals, which is often ambiguous and contradictory, and would like to produce data on “safe levels” of these compounds and understand how these levels vary for different individuals.

The grant provides funding for five years to

achieve yearly research goals. For the first two years, studies on human breast tissue will be emphasized to determine how individuals respond to the compounds.

The remaining years will focus on rodent studies to directly examine the effects of exposures during pregnancy and the effects of such exposure on tumors. Jerry described the initial focus of the research as “on the responses of the chemicals in tissues from individuals, as this is the most relevant to women.”

In addition to Jerry, research assistant professor Karen Dunphy of the department of veterinary and animal sciences, as well as Vandenberg, will contribute to the research.

Anna Symington, the former director of alumni relations at UMass, leads the Community Engagement program, which will help translate the research findings to different audiences,

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UMass researches were awarded a five-year grant. especially to young women to bring greater awareness of choices in products.

Each individual member at UMass will play a specific role in producing results.

Schneider will collect breast tissue for research.

Vandenberg will use data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other research, to draw on exposure levels of

the toxicants used. Jerry and Dunphy will use cell lines to examine the effect of toxicant exposure on the breast cell sam-ples and on rodent tissue.

“We are gratified to be able to assemble a creative team to be successful in obtaining an award like this,” Jerry said.

Tanaya Asnani can be reached at tasnani@umass.edu.

Clinton confronts GOP critics in marathon Benghazi hearing

By AnitA KumAr And HAnnAH AllAm

McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton calmly refuted critics who accused her of failing to prevent the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, at a marathon congressional hearing Thursday, a high-stakes faceoff set against the backdrop of her campaign for president.

The former secretary of State told the House committee investigating the attacks that she took responsibility for failures that led to the deaths of four Americans, including her friend, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, and that she made necessary changes to prevent further assaults.

“I would imagine I’ve thought more about what happened than all of you put together,” Clinton said at an 11-hour hearing that produced no significant new information. “I’ve lost more sleep than all of you put together. I have been wracking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done.”

Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi went after Clinton throughout the daylong hearing, peppering her with questions about whether she pushed U.S. intervention into Libya, why she did not increase security in Benghazi before the attack and whether she took advice from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend who worked for her husband.

“Let me tell you what I think the Clinton doctrine is,” Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., said. “I think it is where an opportunity is seized to turn progress in Libya into a political win for Hillary Rodham Clinton, and at the precise moment when things look good, take a victory lap like on all the Sunday shows ... and then turn your attention to other things.”

She said Stevens did not directly contact her for additional security, saying he went to others at the State Department.

“I did not see them. I did not approve them. I did not deny them,” she said.

Clinton’s appearance is critical to determining whether her campaign sustains the momentum it’s enjoyed following her strong performance at the first

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Oct. 22.

Democratic debate and the decision by Vice President Joe Biden to sit out the race.

Her performance Thursday was likely to further buoy Democrats.

The hearing, broadcast live on multiple TV networks for much of the day, took place in an ornate and cavernous hearing room filled with dozens of reporters, spectators who had lined up in the hall hours earlier to get a coveted seat and interested members of Congress who came to witness the spectacle.

Her survival guide: Accept responsibility. Talk about the need for bipartisanship in a partisan town.

And remind the audience how often she was in the Situation Room, making sensitive decisions alongside the president of the United States.

Clinton, who spent days off the campaign trail preparing for her high-stakes testimony, worked to stay on message and repeatedly to steer the discussion away from the biggest stain on her record as America’s top diplomat and toward her foreign policy vision to not retreat from the world if elected president next year.

Her responses typically were delivered slowly and carefully, with only occasional unscripted flashes of curtness or annoyance, as she pushed back on what she said were inaccuracies.

“I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative, congressman,” she said at one point.

“I wrote a whole chapter about this in my book, ‘Hard Choices.’ I’d be glad to send it to you, congressman,” she said another time.

Unlike her previous testimony on Benghazi in 2013, when she came close to tears when describing the death

of her friend and banged her hand on the table in frustration, saying “What difference, at this point, does it make?” there was no such standout moment of her testimony this time.

Instead, the most heated exchanges occurred between Republican and Democratic lawmakers, arguing over the committee’s purpose, rules and actions. At one point, a tense argument broke out over whether to release the previous private testimony of Blumenthal. Voices rose and lawmakers spoke over each other as Clinton smiled and sat silently at the witness table.

Clinton entered the hearing with Republicans already on the defensive over comments from House Republicans suggesting the committee was created to focus on Clinton and damage her political ambitions.

Republicans created it in May 2014 to examine U.S. government policies that may have contributed to the attacks and the response of the Obama administration, including Clinton. Chaired

by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., it has cost more than $4.7 million so far.

A Democratic maneuver to kill the committee was defeated on the House floor.

Seven other congressional committees and the bipartisan, independent Accountability Review Board already have looked into the assault. Nearly all of them criticized the Clinton State Department for insufficiently addressing security issues at the diplomatic facility in Benghazi.

Clinton testified twice before Congress on the Benghazi attacks in 2013.

“What is impossible is for any reasonable person

to continue denying that Republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the top Democrat on the committee.

Gowdy dismissed as incomplete all previous Benghazi inquiries, saying they failed to interview key witnesses and access many documents. His panel, which discovered Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email system for government business, recently received hundreds of pages of new Stevens emails from the State Department.

“It is impossible to conduct a serious, fact-centric investigation without access to the documents from the former secretary of state, the ambassador who knew more about Libya than anyone else, and testimony from witnesses who survived the attacks,” he said.

The review board portrayed a total system breakdown in the Benghazi attacks: An inadequate number of security agents, a lack of protective equipment, and officials who failed to appreciate and craft a response to the city’s rapidly deteriorating security situation.

Gowdy criticized the review board for its composition of members who were “handpicked” by the State Department. He said the panel never interviewed Clinton, never reviewed her emails and allowed a top Clinton adviser to review and suggest changes to the final report before its public release. He also complained that it was impossible to know how thorough the questioning was because there’s no transcript from the panel’s interviews.

“That is not independent.

That is not accountability.

That is not a serious investigation,” he said.

As in previous testimony, Clinton defended the review board’s work, calling it nonpartisan and hard-hitting.

The investigators, she said Thursday, “did not pull a single punch” in their criticisms and in their 29 recommendations for the State Department.

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“He who opens a school door closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo

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Let’s legalize mushrooms Last Wednesday, presidenReports of death from tial candidate and Vermont mushrooms are virtually nonsenator Bernie Sanders told existent. A Brown University report only mentions death as Benjamin Clabault a possible outcome in the case of misidentifying the type of Jimmy Kimmel that the mushroom, a problem that United States must end the would be largely mitigated by ¨war on drugs.¨ Sanders also legalization and regulation. said that we must look at While we fail to see sigwhat’s going on in Colorado, nificant health problems from and described himself as ¨”not unfavorably disposed to mov- mushrooms, researchers have ing toward the legalization found a number of psychologiof marijuana.¨ He tied this in cal benefits. According to a

“Even a single usage of mushrooms can lead to a genuine personality change: an increased sense of openness.” with the issue of mass incarceration, reminding the audience that America has more people in prison than any other country in the world.

This two-minute chat nicely summarized what an end to the war on drugs would look like. People should not be going to jail for doing drugs; that much seems clear. The harmful effects of mass incarceration are obvious and manifold. From a cold, financial standpoint, valuable money and resources are wasted.

From a human perspective, precious lives are ruined.

People doing drugs tend to fall into two categories. Some are addicted, or abusing drugs in a harmful way that will likely lead to addiction. They have a problem. They don´t need jail time – they need help.

Others do drugs recreationally. They don´t need jail time – they need to be left alone.

And while it may seem impossible to separate these two categories, my argument here is that it really isn’t so hard. Some drugs have been proven to be harmful and addictive. Cocaine, meth, heroin, and, ironically, legal painkillers like OxyContin are recognized for their tendency to get people hooked while ravaging their bodies. They should remain ¨illegal¨ in a certain sense, but with ¨perpetrators¨ sent to seek treatment, not incarcerated.

Other drugs are not especially addictive, and provide a form of generally harmless recreation. Many people choose to use them, and the government has no business saying that they can´t. We’ve already placed marijuana in that category, with an April poll from the Pew Research Center indicating 53 percent of Americans now support legalization. I think it’s about time that we added another: psilocybin mushrooms.

King’s College Study, psilocybin, the chemical that causes the famous ¨trippy¨ effect, increases connectivity in the brain, resulting in a dreamy state.

But this state is not just a temporary high, it has permanent positive effects. Drugs like cocaine and MDMA are powerful chemical stimulants that can harm the brain and leave users in an agitated, depressed state for days after usage. Mushrooms seem to do quite the opposite.

A 2011 study by Johns Hopkins University found that even a single usage of mushrooms can lead to a genuine personality change: an increased sense of openness.

This means marked increases in areas like ¨imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness.¨ In a country marked by a dogged conservatism and resistance to new ideas, even in an increasingly dynamic world, this openness seems like something we could use a lot more of.

So why, then, are ¨magic mushrooms¨ illegal? Could it be that a society built on order, efficiency, and acceptance of the current structure that fears this ¨openness¨ as a potential disruptive force (cue the eerie conspiracy music)? I don’t know, but I do know that in a supposedly ¨free¨ society the government has absolutely no business threatening jail time to anyone who chooses to engage in a harmless and generally constructive activity.

Transfer students face an unfair requirement Community college is a different world than a four-year university. The idea is to satisfy all general education

Katie Waldron requirements, usually prescribed by a four-year university, while paying significantly less to do so. However, the transition from a community college to a four-year university is often jarring and requires a transfer student to come into the university with absolute confidence about what they wish to do for the foreseeable future. There is no room for doubt, and any student who is not 100 percent set on an academic path is at a decided disadvantage.

Though community college transfer students are usually older than university freshmen and have two or more years of college experience under their belt, this does not automatically mean they have any idea what they want to do. Despite this, specifically in the case of the University of Massachusetts, all transfer students are required to declare a major to be accepted into the institution. The requirement to declare a major before transferring into the University forces students to select a path for which they may not necessarily be prepared.

Of course, there is a solution to this, which is not to transfer into a university with that requirement until one knows exactly what one wishes to do. But is this truly a solution? The

“The marketability of a two-year degree is dismal, which creates a pressure to continue one’s education despite not necessarily being prepared to do so.” marketability of a two-year degree (a credential that some transfers do not even have) is dismal, which creates a pressure to continue one’s education despite not necessarily being prepared to do so. Therefore, this issue of pigeonholing transfer students into majors must be addressed.

The next solution would be to change one’s major after entering the University for the first semester.

But that solution does not necessarily work either. Assuming that a student spends one semester in a major and discovers it is the wrong major for them, they must change majors and then only have three semesters to complete the new major’s requirements. The student could remain at the University longer than that to complete requirements, however, the steeply rising cost of education and the crippling debt that most students graduate with are huge deterrents from extending one’s stay.

With these issues in mind, we might ask if simply waiving the requirement to select a major before a transfer is admitted to the University would be a workable solution to this problem.

Perhaps not, as waiving this requirement completely may cause the same

problem that changing a major after transferring in would cause: an inability to complete degree requirements in the time allotted to graduate. But a potential solution could be that a transfer student must select a major by the end of their first semester at the university.

If this policy were the case, it would give students time to adjust to the transition from community college to a four-year university, and it would allow for some breathing room. If a transfer student were allowed to take four or five classes their first semester from various departments at the university they are interested in, they would have access to faculty from those departments, as well as advisors, and they would be able to experience the energy and politics of those departments first hand. This would allow for a much more informed decision regarding the selection of a major and perhaps much higher student satisfaction upon graduation.

Katie Waldron is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at kwaldron@umass.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

The abysmal ‘Pan’ leaves nothing to the imagination Film is problematic and disappointing

By Nate taskiN Collegian Correspondent If one was to define “bad” as “the absence of any positive qualities,” then “Pan” might be the worst movie of the year.

“Pan” is a mess of film, a pile of underdeveloped, poorly cobbled together ideas that tries to disguise its blatant flaws with feeble, superfluous attempts at adding to its universe’s lore. Here is a fantasy film devoid of originality, inspiration, warmth and most importantly: magic.

Set during World War II, “Pan” is a prequel to the classic J.M. Barrie story wherein we learn how the titular Peter Pan discovered Neverland and why he can fly, which is an entirely unnecessary origin story. Young, precocious Peter (Levi Miller) was abandoned by his fairy mother at an orphanage’s doorstep. In a perfectly, unsubtly biblical reference, his mother’s name is Mary (Amanda Seyfried).

Unfortunately, this orphanage is governed by sadistic nuns who made a deal with the wicked pirate Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman, in a careerworst performance) to abduct orphans and force them to mine for pixie dust (or Pixium, as they call it on the streets).

With the help of a daring, two-handed debonair named Hook (Garrett Hedlund, who acts as if he is doing an impression of Jim Carrey doing an impression of Han Solo), Peter escapes the Pixium mines

and encounters a group of “Natives.” When confronted with his flying abilities, the Natives declare him “The Chosen One” who will fulfill “The Prophecy” and vanquish Blackbeard from Neverland.

Yes, “Chosen One” and “The Prophecy” are the movie’s exact words.

The movie’s story arc results from soulless focus group tests, hoping to find a skeleton of a plot that would resonate with the greatest number of demographics.

Given the fact that “Pan,” had I not had a ticket, would have played to any empty theater, it would seem that this model yields diminishing returns more and more these days.

Amen.

It’s this kind of conveyor belt-style filmmaking that makes “Pan” feel so undistinguished. Blackbeard is introduced – I kid you not – singing Nirvana’s “Smell Like Teen Spirit.” Later, when he tries to have Peter executed, Blackbeard leads a chorus that bellows the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop.” Those two songs occur within a space of 20 minutes, and are the only musical numbers in the entire film.

It’s almost as if after the film’s umpteenth rewrite, the producers thought to make “Pan” a punk rock jukebox musical, only to change their minds halfway through the shoot. “No one could be bothered” would make for a great tagline for this movie.

That’s a shame, because Joe Wright is certainly no director-for-hire. In the past, he has made positively exqui-

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The usually great Hugh Jackman delivers a career-worst performance as villainous pirate Blackbeard in Joe Wright’s slapdash and utterly infuriating ‘Pan.’ site period pieces like “Pride and Prejudice,” “Atonement” and “Anna Karenina,” as well as the excellent thriller “Hanna.” His talent makes it all the more baffling, then, that “Pan” is such a filmmaking nightmare.

Establishing shots are thrown out the window, as is spatial awareness. One scene that involves a meeting between Peter and the “Savages” is so inexplicably edited that it’s borderline avant-garde. Eye lines are all over the place, one character is filmed in an extreme close up, another a medium, another a

wide, and the viewer is given zero understanding of where each person is in relation to the camera.

I have thus far danced around the movie’s uncomfortable racial politics. I refer to the Neverland denizens as “Natives” and “Savages” and not “Native Americans” because, well, that’s what the film decides to call them. Peter Pan’s history with Native Americans is troubled, to say the least. From the original Barrie to the Disney animated adaptation, this story has mocked and “othered” Native Americans to a hideous

degree.

This film’s misguided attempt at a solution is to cast lily-white Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, and entirely shut out Native American actors.

“Pan” makes a baffling attempt to fix its franchise’s historical racism with the complete erasure of a marginalized group, and it falls flat on its face.

The greatest evil that “Pan” commits is the way it drains the wonder from fantasy by needlessly explaining in-world phenomena. The most egregious example: Blackbeard seeks out the aforementioned Pixium because it grants

immortality. The film thus gives a ham-fisted explanation for how children in Neverland do not age: the power of harvested fairy stalagmites.

Nobody needs a scientific explanation for the internal logic of a fictional universe.

The appeal of fantasy lies in its vast, exotic worlds and wideeyed sense of wonder, mystery, and awe. When everything is laid out for you, there’s nothing left to imagine.

Nate Taskin can be reached at ntaskin@umass.edu.

FILM REVIEW

A boring, forgettable ‘Intern’ ‘Everest’ stays the course Trite, awkward film forces its humor By isaac simoN Collegian Staff

“The Intern,” written and directed by Nancy Meyers, is a stretch for laughs. It is more a light emotional drama than a romantic comedy. In fact, almost everything attempted in the film becomes a bit of a stretch.

For the most part, its central concept feels misplaced.

The film focuses on Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) a 70-year-old retired phone book company executive who also happens to be a widower. Ben is on a quest to remain active and productive and live a life that is anything but stagnant.

But traveling the world on vacation and doing yoga with other active seniors is not enough.

Ben decides to apply for a senior internship program at About the Fit, a fastpaced, high stakes, up-andcoming e-commerce fashion company. Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) is the company’s founder and CEO and comes to stand out as the opposite of Ben. She can never be in one place for more than 10 minutes, is constantly stressed out trying to micromanage everything at once, and doesn’t even remember the senior citizen internship program she signed off on.

The audience is made to feel like all hell is about to break loose when Ben receives the internship (it is clear that he is overqualified) and is assigned to work alongside Jules. At first, there is very little for Ben

to do other than to sit at his desk in between the two other interns, both of whom are at most half his age.

Again, here we see Ben struggling to not be stagnant. Meyers makes too many references to Ben’s age. Perhaps she forgets that it is apparent from the beginning given De Niro’s physical attributes. It makes for about two good laughs.

In one instance, an employee asks Ben where he sees himself in 10 years, to which he replies, “When I’m 80?” It becomes evident that he is unlike any of the usual interns. Ben doesn’t know how to turn on his laptop, brings a briefcase when others use backpacks and wears a business suit in an

70-year old intern that Jules had reservations about in the beginning becomes the person she relies on in the end. The two of them begin to bond and Ben becomes more involved in Jules’ life.

Even though Ben is only an intern, he comes to mentor Jules through her personal hardships, providing her with the advice and facts that are at her disposal. He reminds her that the only person who built About the Fit was herself, meaning it would make no sense for her to step down and let another CEO take her place.

The two of them build a more meaningful relationship when Jules asks Ben to accompany her on a busi-

The audience is made to feel like all hell is about to break loose when Ben receives the internship. environment that is barely business casual.

The entire mood of the films seems to change when Ben spots Jules’ driver drinking some foreign substance out of a brown paper bag. Ben begins to slowly cultivate a strong personal relationship with Jules as her new driver, picking her up to and from work and driving her around where she proceeds to juggle both professional and personal duties.

Everything seems to be going smoothly until one of Jules’ colleagues pulls her aside and recommends she find a new CEO. Jules’s indecisiveness and feelings of self-doubt that follow require Ben’s council. The

ness trip to the west coast.

This film is not as compelling as “It’s Complicated,” or any other Nancy Meyer films. Hathaway does too much overacting and some scenes have too many bad jokes to feel anything but awkward. De Niro, it seems, hasn’t done a serious film in 10 years. Given his last decade of performances, this one is neither memorable nor embarrassing.

The film though, provides the lesson that just because someone has more experience, doesn’t necessarily mean that person is smarter.

Isaac Simon can be reached at isimon@umass.edu.

Film is greater than the sum of its parts

By JacoB JohNsoN Collegian Correspondent “Everest” doesn’t cover much in the way of new ground, but it works.

The film concerns itself with the 1996 story of Adventure Consultants, which is a mountain climbing team tasked with scaling the legendary Mount Everest.

The team itself is led by Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) alongside another team lead in Scott Fisher (Jake Gyllenhaal).

It seem we’ve seen this story before, as “American Sniper” hit theatres with a vaguely similar premise of a man separated from his wife as they have a child on the way. American audiences have also seen the classic natural disaster flick – which “Everest” may as well be – and they’ve seen the story of a man trying to make it back home to his family.

So what is it about “Everest” that is compelling?

It offers compelling characters provided by great acting.

The film does a very good job in making the audience care about the characters, and when the mountain itself seems to be against them, I felt far more than just along for the ride. This movie is brutal. Frostbite claims more than one victim, and we see a series of gruesome visuals that one doesn’t witness often in an uplifting disaster flick like this. There are bodies cast in icy tombs, frozen in position with arms outstretched, and weak and sad and slurred voices into radios making last calls to loved ones.

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‘Everest’ does not necessarily feel refreshing, but it satisfies nonetheless.

It is to this film’s credit to treat the story with somber and sober honesty, in the sense that while there are moments of inspiration, moments of human triumph, there is also an unsettling amount of moments of death and futility. Clarke’s acting as Hall is a real showstopper.

His tender moments with his wife are actually the least interesting bits in the movie.

in the way of beautiful photography as one might expect with such an array of natural compositions.

However in the leading third of the film, before the climbers are even at the mountain base camp, there are some beautiful shots of the ascent through green forest, Buddhist floating temples and oxen through cobbled streets.

And so while this movie isn’t exactly the most artistic or impressive feat to emerge in theaters, it is certainly not disappointing, and easily the best disaster movie to come out in years. The theater I was in had an elderly couple, a troupe of teen girls, a young mother and her even younger son, a line of young men, and a father and his son.

I was actually the first to leave, as everyone around me was still talking about it when it had ended. There is at least something to be said of a film if it can have anyone and everyone thinking about it when it has ended.

Instead, the more human and sentimental scenes occur when he speaks to his friends on the mountain, helping them and led laughing. His rapport with Gyllenhaal’s character, Scott, is good, and the mailman Doug Hansen (played by John Hawkes) helps create the most tender, melancholic scenes and lines with Hall (Clarke).

The film is also beautifully shot. However this isn’t so impressive, as it is easy to find majesty, enormity and power in shots of wide-open nature, mountains, snow, and so one shouldn’t necessarily call the director Baltasar Kormákur a master of cinematography. Jacob Johnson can be reached at In fact, there is actually less jacobjohnson@umass.edu.

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Excitement in the crowd boiled over in one of the final swimming events Saturday at Boyden Gymnasium, as the 50-yard freestyle went to the Massachusetts men’s swimming and diving team.

The Minutemen not only won the race, but amassed 16 points with all three of their swimmers finishing in the top three.

The victory capitalized a successful day for UMass in its only home meet of the year until Senior Day in January, as the Minutemen defeated Boston University 176-122.

While UMass consistently finished ahead of the Terriers Saturday, every race was intensely contested with top performers from each team finishing neckand-neck with each other.

However, the Minutemen won first place in 10 races, three of which were achieved by sophomore Oliver Wyeth, who set a new men’s swimming program and a Joseph R. Rodgers pool record in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 49.42 seconds.

Wyeth also won the 200yard backstroke (1:49.14) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:38.28) Saturday. He added another victory to his tally as the lead leg of the 200yard medley relay that bested BU. The Minutemen’s diving team grabbed both first and second place in the 3-meter dive with total scores of 339.98 and 236.40 from Trent Kindvall and Nolan Burns.

The two finished in the same

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The Minutemen improved to 1-1 in dual meets this season, while the women dropped to 0-2. order in the 1-meter dive earlier in the day.

Following a 187-120 defeat at Army last week, there was an added piece of importance to this matchup, according to coach Russ Yarworth.

“I told them today’s a big day and they know what our tradition is here, they needed to go out there and do what they could do,” Yarworth said.

focused, we’ve been swimming better. We swam significantly better today than we did two weeks ago so I’m pretty happy with where we are,” Newcomb said. “We’ve ran into two of the best teams we swim against the last two weekends. Our goal is to be very competitive and I’m happy with where we are.”

Rebecca Quirie earned first place in the 200-yard Minutewomen fall individual medley (2:15.48) to Terriers along with two second place On the women’s side, finishes in the 100 and 200the Terriers bested the yard backstroke races.

Minutewomen 166-129 to Jocelyn Yuen added two hand UMass its second con- second place finishes of her secutive loss in dual meets. own in the 100 and 200-yard While not thrilled with butterfly races, along with Saturday’s overall outcome, Steph Campo (500-yard freeMinutewomen coach Bob style) and Ansley Baker (100Newcomb said he came away yard breaststroke). encouraged by some individLike the men’s side, the ual performances.

Minutewomen divers also “I think the team is earned first and second in

both diving events. Emma Roush led the way with 18 points in two first place finishes.

Newcomb stressed the progression of his team moving forward, adding he was impressed with the high quality of UMass’ recent workouts.

“The idea is to get them to race better every week and to work on things…It’s all about getting better every week,” Newcomb said as he stressed Saturday’s finish was positive for the team’s continued growth.

The UMass men’s and women’s divers head to Connecticut Nov. 7 for their next meets while all the swimming and diving competition follows the next week at Brown on Nov. 14.

Christopher Marino can be reached at cmarino@umass.edu.

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an early 3-0 lead, UMass answered with touchdown passes on back-to-back drives to Rodney Mills (10 yards) and Shakur Nesmith (14).

Sharpe’s first touchdown capped off a six play, 76-yard drive with 11:10 remaining in the first half, while Marquis Young’s 50-yard touchdown run on the ensuing possession gave the Minutemen a 28-10 lead with 8:23 remaining in the second quarter.

UMass quarterback Blake Frohnapfel finished 27-of-49 for 240 passing yards with four touchdowns and an interception. Young led all rushers with 80 yards.

T h re e of the Minutemen’s four touch-

MELTDOWN the quarter, a four-yard pass to Michael Roberts, allowed Toledo to regain the permanent lead.

According to Whipple, penalties helped kill any momentum UMass built in the opening half and give Toledo extra opportunities on both sides.

This started on the Minutemen’s opening drive of the third quarter when a holding penalty on Tyrell Smith and a personal conduct penalty on Tyshon Henderson on the same play negated a run for a first down by Marquis Young.

UMass was backed up 25 yards and faced a third and 26, which it couldn’t convert.

The Minutemen finished with 15 penalties for 134 yards. Ten of those transgressions came in the second half.

“When you have a 25-yard penalty on outside zone, I can’t say I’ve seen that many times,” Whipple said. “We

downs in the first half came as a result of interceptions forced by its defense. Joe Colton, Jette and Trey Dudley-Giles were on the receiving ends of those interceptions.

Whipple said the turnover battle was one of the biggest factors Saturday.

“I think it was key, just look at the score,” Whipple said. “In the first half it was 3-to-1, in the second half it was 0-0.”

“That was definitely our best half of football,” Jette added about Saturday’s first half.

Saturday’s loss marked the third consecutive loss for UMass, with all three coming in conference play.

“I guess you could say we didn’t execute. We just

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haven’t been very good in the second half, they’ve been really good in the third quarter… We just didn’t stop them and didn’t make any plays on offense. And the penalties were very discouraging.”

Jette said the Rockets made some second half adjustments on offense that allowed the unit to be more effective and go on prolonged drives against the Minutemen’s defense. However, Whipple said the difference in the two halves came down to a lack of execution.

“We dropped a couple (interceptions) and they threw three balls over our head,” Whipple said. “It was the same guys that intercepted them that had the balls thrown over their head. We probably dropped another one in the first half.”

Saturday wasn’t the first instance of UMass failing to produce coming out of half-

Bowling Green’s winning streak grew to five after a dominating 48-0 shutout of Kent State Saturday.

The Golden Flashes’ defense was tormented all afternoon by Falcons quarterback Matt Johnson, who finished with 430 passing yards and five touchdowns to pace Bowling Green in the victory.

The defending MidAmerican Conference East champion Falcons (6-2, 4-0 MAC) overmatched Kent State (3-5, 2-2 MAC) from start to finish, registering 602 total yards from scrimmage while allowing only 166. The Golden Flashes’ offensive woes continued, as they’ve failed to score an offensive touchdown in four out of eight games this year.

The Falcons jumped out to a quick 21-0 lead following three drives of at least 75 yards, aided by costly penalties and miscues by Kent State’s defense. By halftime, the lead grew to 31.

Johnson, the nation’s passing leader, threw five touchdowns for the third consecutive game, and now has 3,321 passing yards to go along with 29 touchdowns in 2015.

The loss marked the Golden Flashes’ first shutout defeat to a MAC opponent in 13 years, since they lost 50-0 to Ohio in 2002.

Leading the conference in total defense prior to the matchup, the Golden Flashes had difficulties with the passing attack. Bowling Green’s Ronnie Moore had 151 receiving yards and a pair of touchdowns and Roger Lewis registered 102 receiving yards and a pair of highlight scores, including a one-handed snag in the end zone as well as a 64-yard reception where he stole the ball from a defender’s hands.

The win makes the Falcons bowl-eligible for the fourth consecutive year, and

time. Through seven games, the Minutemen have only scored in the third quarter once – coming against Bowling Green Oct. 10 when they scored 14 points in a blowout loss.

When asked why the Minutemen have continuously struggled coming out of the first half, and particularly in maintaining any momentum gained in the early stages, UMass wide receiver Tajae Sharpe said he didn’t have a definite answer.

“If I knew the answer to that, we would have fixed it by now,” he said. “We just have to continue to go back to work and continue to practice hard.

We can’t put out heads down, we have to continue to fight and continue to make adjustments each and every week.”

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

we need them, simple as that.”

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they are now 4-0 in the MAC for the first time since 2003, when they finished the year 11-3.

The Golden Flashes have 12 days before a Nov. 5 home game against Buffalo. The Falcons have an 11-day break before hosting Ohio.

CMU holds off Ball State Central Michigan defeated Ball State Saturday behind two clutch fourth quarter field goals from kicker Brian Eavey.

With five minutes, 30 seconds remaining in the final quarter, Eavey nailed a 34-yard field goal to give the Chippewas a 23-21 lead over the Cardinals, which was the final result.

Before the game-winner, Eavey connected on a careerlong 47-yard field goal earlier in the quarter to put Central Michigan (4-4, 3-1 MAC) within range of a victory.

The Chippewas thrived behind a balanced attack led by quarterback Cooper Rush, who ended the game completing 30-of-38 passes for 316 yards and two touchdowns along with one interception.

Martez Walker registered 86 yards on 19 carries to pace the rushing attack.

Ball State (2-6, 1-3 MAC) battled throughout, coming back from an early 10-point deficit. The Cardinals took a 21-20 lead during the fourth quarter following an 89-yard kick return by KeVonn Mabon.

Ball State relied heavily on quarterback Riley Neal, who was 25-of-40 for 187 yards and a touchdown.

Corey Lacanaria was Neal’s most reliable target, catching 10 passes for 72 yards and a touchdown.

The Chippewas moved to third in the MAC West standings with a matchup with rival and second place Western Michigan looming next week.

The Cardinals remain fifth in MAC West standings and host Massachusetts next week.

Matthew Williams can be reached at matthewwilli@umass.edu.

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this season. At home, UMass has been playing considerably better with a 3-3-1 mark.

One day later, O’Leary said the team already moved on from the loss.

“The Dayton game is gone now. We’re focused on George Washington,” O’Leary said Sunday.

The Colonials will be the next matchup for the Minutemen, and they are another top team in the A-10.

With just two games remaining in the regular season, Saturday’s matchup at George Washington isn’t a must-win game for UMass, but it’s close. Any type of positive result, even a draw, would be a big boost to the Minutemen’s postseason chances.

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

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Monday, October 26, 2015

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Loss ends four-game points streak for UM

UMass blows chance at upsetting Toledo

By ross GienieCzko Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team saw its four-game unbeaten streak come to an end Saturday night at Dayton, as the Minutemen were doomed by three Flyers goals in the first half of a 4-1 loss.

Malik Schoonderwoerd had an explosive offensive performance in the first half for Dayton (9-4-2, 4-0-1 Atlantic 10), scoring a hat trick in the first 29 minutes of the game to give the Flyers a commanding lead UMass’ lone goal on the night came from midfielder Ty Goncalves in the 66th minute of the game.

It cut the lead to 3-1 and gave the Minutemen some offenDrexel 15 sive momentum, but a UMass 14 response from Dayton came just eight minutes later as Anthony Keene iced the game, extending the lead to 4-1.

“We had a handful with a very powerful team, probably the best team in the conference,” UMass coach Fran O’Leary said Sunday.

“We had two or three chances to make the game interesting, but we just couldn’t get that second goal.”

The loss dropped the Minutemen to 4-11-1, but more importantly moves them to 3-2-1 in A-10 play. The top eight teams in the conference qualify for the A-10 tournament at the end of the season, and UMass currently sits in seventh place. However, they are four points clear of falling out of the playoff picture and just three points out of first place.

Dayton opened the scoring quickly in the second minute of the game, as Schoonderwoerd tallied his first goal of the night by heading home a free kick. He knocked in another header in the 13th minute, and capped off his hat trick in the 29th minute by beating goalkeeper Jorge Becerra right in front of the net.

Saturday’s loss was the first time in four games the Minutemen conceded more than one goal, as they had tightened up defensively since the start of A-10 play.

The defeat was another one on the road for UMass, who has struggled away from Rudd Field this season. O’Leary talked last week about how his team needed to translate some of their recent success into wins on the road, but the 4-1 loss against the Flyers dropped the Minutemen to 1-8 on the road see

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UM plays flat after halftime

By Anthony ChiusAno Collegian Staff

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UMass linebacker Joe Colton can’t corral Toledo running back Kareem Hunt in the Minutemen’s loss Saturday.

Rockets jet past Minutemen in Saturday matchup at Gillette Minutemen allow 38 unanswered in defeat

Minutemen in total yards 355to-123.

“It was a battle of two halves and they won the second half,” UMass cornerback Randall Jette

By Andrew Cyr said.

Collegian Staff The Minutemen were forced FOXBOROUGH — All it took to punt on their first five drives was 13 minutes, four seconds for of the second half and had two the Massachusetts football team turnover on downs over the final to watch one of its most impres- half. Their only productive drive sive bodies of work come crash- came on Tajae Sharpe’s second ing back down to reality. of as many touchdowns with 4:11 After playing one of its best remaining to make it a two-poshalves in its Football Bowl session game.

Subdivision era, amounting an “We haven’t been very good 18-point lead heading into the in the second half, they’ve been locker room against a ranked really good in the third quarter,” opponent, UMass (1-6, 0-3 Mid- UMass coach Mark Whipple said.

He added: “We just didn’t stop American Conference) allowed them and didn’t make 38 consecutive secondhalf points and fell Toledo 51 any plays on offense.

And the penalties to No. 19 Toledo 51-35 Saturday at Gillette UMass 35 were very discouraging in the second half.

Stadium.

This is why they are The Rockets (7-0, 4-0 MAC) scored on seven consecu- ranked where they are and why tive drives to start the second they are 7-0. We still haven’t half, with the first five result- played a complete game.”

Toledo quarterback Phillip ing in touchdowns and the final Ely (26-of-47, 355 passing yards, two coming from field goals. five touchdowns and three interThey outscored UMass 41-7 in ceptions) quickly erased the the second half, outgaining the

18-point deficit by throwing for touchdowns on three consecutive drives to start the second half.

Cody Thompson, Alonzo Russell and Michael Roberts were on the receiving end of those scores.

The Rockets scored 38 unanswered points in the second half before Sharpe’s three-yard touchdown reception.

“Eventually, a good team, a top-20 team, is going to score. We missed a couple plays where we couldn’t turn the ball around and give it back to the offense,” Jette said.

After receiving the second half kickoff, the Minutemen had made it a manageable third and one from their own 44 before a holding penalty by Tyrell Smith and an unsportsmanlike penalty from Tyshon Henderson led to a UMass punt.

Whipple noted that those penalties were a big factor in the Minutemen’s loss. They finished with 15 penalties for a total of 134 yards lost.

After a 35-yard field goal from Jameson Vest gave Toledo see

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FOXBOROUGH — The Massachusetts football team found itself 30 minutes away from its second win of the season and its first victory over a ranked team in its four-year Football Bowl Subdivision history after a strong first half Saturday.

But then the third quarter came and everything unraveled.

No. 19 Toledo (7-0, 3-0 MidAmerican Conference) scored 38 unanswered points in the second half Saturday at Gillette Stadium to overcome a 28-10 halftime deficit and hand UMass (1-6, 0-3 MAC) its third straight loss. “(Toledo) made some good second half adjustments,” UMass defensive back Randall Jette said after Saturday’s loss. “We had to make in-game adjustments to (match) their second half adjustments that kind of slowed us up.”

Over the past few weeks, coach Mark Whipple talked about the Minutemen’s inability to find consistency on both sides of the ball in the same game. It appeared UMass finally found this balance, forcing three interceptions that each led to touchdowns for the offense in the first half.

But then the Rockets, who boast one of the conference’s top offenses, found their rhythm.

After finishing the first half with three interceptions, a punt, two turnover on downs and a pair of scoring drives, the Rockets scored on each of their seven second half drives, including five straight touchdowns. This doesn’t include Toledo’s two quarterback kneels with under a minute left in regulation.

Toledo quarterback Phillip Ely finished with five touchdown passes – four coming in the second half – and the Rockets combined for 265 yards on the ground behind a three-headed running back corps.

“They can run it, they have a bunch of running backs and a good (offensive) line,” Whipple said. “We just didn’t match them in the second half which was discouraging.”

Toledo has yet to give up a touchdown in the third quarter this year through seven games and the Rockets outscored the Minutemen 21-0 in the third frame Saturday.

The Rockets’ final touchdown of see

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minutewomen salvage Sun. road game at VCU with draw Kozlowski sparks UM comeback in 2nd half

By JAmie CushmAn Collegian Staff

Some key coaching moves helped power a comeback for the Massachusetts women’s soccer team Sunday as it overcame a 2-0 deficit in the second half to earn a much-needed point on the road against VCU. The Minutewomen salvaged a 2-2 draw Sunday against second place VCU to move to ninth place in the Atlantic 10 standings with two games left in the regular season.

The Rams (8-7-2, 6-1-1 A-10) utilized their home field advantage and jumped out to an early lead, pressuring UMass and tallying two goals off deflections in the first half. At halftime the Minutewomen (6-6-4, 3-3-2 A-10) switched to a 4-4-2 formation.

“We were hoping to put a little more pressure on VCU and energize our team, and it worked,” UMass coach Ed Matz said. “We came out and played incredibly well in the sec-

ond half. I can’t be happier with the way we played in the second half.”

Another halftime move was the insertion of freshman defender Paige Kozlowski into the lineup. Kozlowski was forced to play out of her normal position, moving up front to replace injured Megan Burke.

After sitting out the entire first half, Kozlowski’s presence was felt almost instantly as she scored the first Minutewomen goal of the day in the 48th minute.

After intercepting a VCU pass, Kozlowski dribbled a long distance before converting her breakaway into a goal.

Matz said he was pleased with Kozlowski’s instant energy as well as the poise the freshman showed following a lengthy run.

“Sometimes when you have that many yards to cover, you start to think about your shot a little bit too much, but Paige did a great job, just placed the ball right in the corner,” Matz said. “It was a very good, wellcomposed shot, especially for a freshman.”

Carried by the momentum of its first goal, a UMass set piece led to the game-tying goal five minutes later in the 53rd minute, scored by senior Rebekka Sverrisdóttir who finished off a loose ball in front of the net.

In addition to a good delivery from junior Danielle Alvarez, junior Julia Weithofer made a nice save along the end line to give Sverrisdóttir a chance to score.

“It was set up by a very nice set piece by Danielle Alvarez and just a lot of heart and commitment by our players to finish it,” Matz said.

Goalkeeper Cassidy Babin was solid again for the Minutewomen.

Neither of VCU’s goals were easy opportunities for Babin, as both shots were deflected in front of her, leaving her out of position to make a save.

Babin made a number of important saves in the second half, including a tough stop on junior Tori Burress coming just minutes after UMass tied the game.

Next week marks the end of regular season action, meaning spots in the conference tournament will

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UMass senior defender Rebekka Sverrisdottir tied Sunday’s game at 2-2 with a goal in the 53rd minute of a double overtime draw with VCU. be up for grabs. The Minutewomen enter the final week of play trailing George Mason and Duquesne by one point and La Salle by two.

The top eight teams in the conference will earn bids to the A-10 conference tournament.

The Minutewomen will face two tough opponents next week as they

try to clinch a spot. UMass will go on the road to face fourth-place Saint Joseph’s Thursday night before wrapping up the season at home Sunday afternoon against third-place Dayton.

Jamie Cushman can be reached at jrcushman@umass.edu.