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Area gov. wants more blue lights Governors desire further installations

By Rachel Walman Collegian Correspondent Those traversing the University of Massachusetts campus have most likely seen blue light stations, which signal the location of emergency security systems and are potentially vital to those who need to use them.

These stations, which are equipped to reach first responders for assistance by simply pressing a button, aid campus police in pinpointing exact locations of a potential emergency on campus.

They’re also designed to make campus a safer and more secure environment, no matter the location.

In the past few weeks, however, residential area governors have looked into how many blue light stations UMass has installed, mainly around the various dormitory complexes. Some believe the University needs to add more stations and make these

blue lights more prominent.

“When I first started running for governor a bunch of the girls in my building that I talked to all said that they felt unsafe walking up the hill at night or around Orchard Hill,” Tristan Laliberte, the Orchard Hill area governor and political science major, said.

“So when I asked them why, they said that there weren’t that many blue lights around Orchard Hill, [the lights] were on the door of a building or at the top of the hill and those were useless to them as they are walking up.”

Laliberte then further inspected the blue lights for himself and realized that the stations were indeed very far apart and that in certain places, none were visible at all. “[You] wouldn’t know where to go unless you already knew where they were located,” he said.

To attempt to solve this issue, Laliberte signed up to interview with one of the finalists for the UMass Police see

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Marty Meehan inaugurated as UMass system president UM alum pledges to fight for state’s future

By ShelBy aShline Collegian Staff

Marty T. Meehan was inaugurated as the 27th president of the University of Massachusetts system during a ceremony Thursday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, located on the UMass Boston campus.

Meehan, the first UMass undergraduate to be elected to lead the five-campus university system, vowed to “passionately fight” for the students and faculty of the academic institution which he believes to be “the future of Massachusetts.”

Specifically, Meehan aims to offer “educational programs that both people and the economy require,” which includes more online classes and a greater focus on science, technology, engineering and math majors.

“We’re working with Governor (Charlie) Baker and other legislative leaders to enhance our online programs, develop more online programs and move more students, particularly students from underrepresented communities, into the STEM pipeline,” Meehan said during his inauguration speech.

In addition, Meehan said he intends to continue the system’s development of three-year degrees, which have already come to pass at UMass Amherst, UMass Dartmouth and UMass Lowell. His focus, he said, is on crafting educational programs that are right for everyone who wants to pursue a higher education, regardless of their circumstances.

“These may not be the paths that every student will choose to take,” Meehan said. “Many students and families will still opt for a traditional, campus-based educational experience. But these new paths will be right for some students, and so, they should be made available to all students.”

As part of his inauguration, Meehan also set a goal of raising $1 million in private funds for student scholarships which he significantly surpassed before the event, raising $1.6 million.

Meehan, who graduated from UMass Lowell in 1978 after studying education and political science, said that he sees his presidency as a way for him to carry the torch, so to speak.

Growing up in Lowell as one of seven children, Meehan said that no one in his family had ever graduated from college. “Because of UMass, it was a given” that he would receive a higher education, regardless of the circumstances.

“I see myself as carrying the torch that my parents lit,” Meehan said, going on to describe the ways he would make higher education more flexible for the student.

UMass Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, who spoke at the inauguration ceremony, said that Meehan’s experience earning a degree through UMass Lowell

allowed him to see “the transformative power of a university education.”

“Now, as president of the state’s public research university system, he truly understands the critical role the University plays in the Commonwealth, providing the opportunities of a college degree, regardless of socioeconomic background, while igniting our full innovative research potential for the greater good,” Subbaswamy said.

Baker, who also spoke, said that Meehan’s experience as a collaborator, a leader and simply as someone who has the energy needed to make great things possible, all combine to make Meehan an excellent president for the UMass system.

“He’s not doing this for the prestige and the glory,” Baker said of Meehan. “He wants to do the job.

There’s nothing more powerful than someone who wants to do the job.”

Other speakers included

United States Senator Edward J. Markey, Edward M. Kennedy Institute President Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg, Chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees Victor Woolridge, Lieutenant Governor Karyn E. Polito and student trustees Nolan M. O’Brien and Amanda Robinson, according to a UMass press release.

The UMass Amherst Marching Band, UMass Lowell Gospel Choir and UMass Dartmouth student Caiana Luse provided musical interludes, according to the press release.

Meehan was unanimously elected president on May 1 by the UMass Board of Trustees, the press release stated. He assumed office on July 1.

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

First Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Library UMass gets grant Tower Run to be held on Thursday for house privacy 26-floor contest to begin at 7 p.m.

By colBy SeaRS Collegian Staff

Members of the University of Massachusetts community brave enough to climb the 440 steps of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library will have a chance to do so Thursday night at 7 p.m., during the first annual Tower Run up to the building’s 26th floor.

Modeled after the Empire State Building Run-Up, the world’s oldest and most famous tower race, the Tower Run will place par-

ticipants into different time slots in which they will be allowed to run up the building in intervals, starting from the building’s lower level.

All proceeds from the $10 entry fee per runner will go toward the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Facilities Fund.

The event is sponsored by registered student organization UMass Students of Recreation, UMass Campus Recreation and the UMass Amherst Libraries.

“It’s just sort of something that’s healthy and enjoyable and that highlights the campus landmark of the library,” said development and communications

assistant Alison Kiraly. “It [the library] is the busiest place on campus and it’s something that’s immediately identifiable, and we just thought that partnering to do something like this would be a really great thing.”

The Tower Run is not timed and participants are encouraged to bring their own timing devices. Though the first 100 registrants will receive an event t-shirt, the only prize being offered is bragging rights of completing the race.

According to Kiraly, her coworker and scholarly communications resident librarian Charlotte Roh

approached her in January about holding a Tower Run at UMass, citing the Empire State Building race as an example. Kiraly started to think about who UMass Libraries could partner with to make the event happen, eventually reaching out USOR. “USOR was saying that part of their charge is to do something to raise money for other things on campus … so we chose the Facilities Fund and we’re able to use that to do learning spaces here. So it’s not going to be behind-the-scenes but something that every student will see

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Researches eye building security

By Tanaya m. aSnani Collegian Staff

The National Science Foundation awarded a threeyear, $486,524 grant for a research project to enhance privacy in smart buildings and homes, led by two faculty members at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Objects that make up the Internet of Things (IoT), which consist of internetconnected physical utilities that send data to cloud servers to improve their operability, have become more preva-

lent in so-called smart buildings. Researchers at UMass said that this brings the risk of data leakage from objects in the IoT. “The eventual goal of this research project is to find ways that allow users to control privacy when IoT devices are employed in homes,” Prashant Shenoy, a professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and co-investigator of the project said, David Irwin, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and lead investigator of this project, see

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EU issues new ruling on labeling of Israeli products JERUSALEM — The European Union on Wednesday issued new guidelines requiring labeling of imported goods made in Israeli settlements, drawing a strong rebuke from Israel, which called the move discriminatory.

Under the guidelines, products made in settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, lands captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, would be marked differently from goods made in Israel and will have to carry the word “settlement” on the label.

EU officials described the directive, which was approved by the EU executive, the European Commission, as in line with European policy, which does not recognize the occupied territories as part of Israel.

But Israeli officials called it a political move inspired by the international pro-Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli products.

“The EU decision is hypocritical and constitutes a double standard; it singles out Israel and not the 200 other conflicts around the world,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “The EU has decided to label only Israel, and we are not prepared to accept the fact that Europe is labeling the side that is being attacked by terrorism. ... The EU should be ashamed.”

The potential economic impact of the labeling is limited _ settlement products are less than 1 percent of Israeli exports to Europe _ but it has struck a nerve with Israel’s rightist government, which supports the settlements. The EU, along with most of the international community, considers the settlements illegal because they are built on occupied land.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the EU representative in Israel to complain about the labeling directive and warned that the step could undermine Europe’s role as a peace broker.

“The decision to label products is blatant discrimination against Israel, and Israel views it as a boycott,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely. “This decision is futile and will have absolutely no effect on Israel’s policy regarding the settlements.”

Valdis Dombrovskis, the European commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue, said the labeling directive was a “clarification” requested

by EU member states and “not a political stance.”

“The EU does not support in any form boycott or sanctions against Israel,” he asserted.

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be able to use,” she said of the event proceeds.

The money will be used to upgrade library facilities for students to use, she said, like improving the lower level Learning Commons in Du Bois. She is hoping to raise around $1,000 from the event.

Kiraly said UMass Libraries wanted the run to be very student-driven, and even though the system is involved in the event, they are mostly helping students out with anything they might need during the planning process.

Jay Havey, a senior hospitality and tourism management major and president of USOR, said that though he had a hand in planning the event, he wanted to give credit to Kiraly and Roh for coming to him with the idea.

“They got in contact with us and we thought it was a great idea just because it really aligned with what we’re trying to do and what they’re trying to do,” he said.

Havey said he is hoping that enough people register for the run for it to become an annual event. About 20 people had signed up to participate as of Saturday.

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Though he can’t participate himself because he will be helping out during the event, Havey said the run up the 440 steps should not be taken lightly.

“I ran it just to see how it was and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be,” he said, mentioning that runners will take the elevator back down to the ground level after they have finished running.

For comparison, the Empire State Building RunUp challenges runners from around the world to race up 1,576 stairs. According to the event’s website, the fastest participants are able to run up the building’s 86 floors in about 10 minutes. The 39th annual competition is scheduled for Feb. 2016.

Registration for the Tower Run is limited to UMass students, faculty and staff only, but Kiraly said she would like to try to open it up to the local community in the future if it runs successfully on Thursday.

Participants interested in running must register online in advance by Nov. 17.

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

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explained that smart meters, devices in smart homes that gather data and send it to third parties to create statistics, will be important to the project. Irwin said the smart meters could be used to compile energy statistics by sending data from utilities such as solar panels.

Irwin also said that the project would be composed similarly to a set of smaller projects, with each one focusing on different smart utilities.

Irwin and Shenoy also plan to build a programmable shed fitted with smart appliances that will aid them in their project. They plan to create a series of experimental designs and prototypes to demonstrate what privacy techniques can be implemented with certain devices and what kind of information can be easily leaked.

“We also hope to look at cost-effective privacy techniques, where in most cases, there is a tradeoff between cost and privacy,” Irwin said.

“In the end, we would like to leave the user in charge of the data, and decide which data is worthwhile to share

with the cloud service,” Shenoy said. “We want to prevent users losing control of their data through a deployed device, by being forced to share it.”

Shenoy said that this projects stems from previous preliminary work done by Irwin and him. He said they had experimented with the idea of creating a smart water heater to improve privacy, by creating electrical noise that made it difficult for others to steal sensitive data, while carrying out its normal task of heating water.

Based on this, they obtained their grant under the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Program from the NSF. Irwin and Shenoy stressed that the increasing amount of devices using IoT technology is creating concerns about privacy, especially as the amount of devices using IoT technology increases. They said that while these devices have vast potential to improve society, there still exist security issues which need to be addressed.

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

BLUE LIGHTS Department’s Chief, Thomas Trawick, so that it could be brought to his attention even before he even secured the position.

“I was able to be a part of an interview with Chief Trawick,” Laliberte said.

“After the interview, as we walked back to the hotel, he made it a point to look for blue lights along the way and seemed concerned that there weren’t that many. At one point we stood under one to see if any others were visible from it and they were not.”

At a senate meeting in midOctober, Laliberte brought up the issue of the lack of blue lights and realized that other area governors also were having the same problem.

“We decided to each look into our areas and see what we each need to do individually before making a statement as a whole,” said Laliberte.

“I plan on meeting with the executive board of Orchard Hill and go on a walk of our own to identify where lights should be placed here.”

Tyler Caldwell, the North residential area governor and a computer science major, had spoken with Laliberte about the blue light station concerns

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at the senate meeting. He had the opportunity to point out the scarcity of blue lights to the UMPD on Nov. 2, when the UMPD held the annual “Walk for Light,” a time for students and staff to determine safetyrelated issues on the campus.

“In North Area Government, we’re hoping to have a new blue light installed

by Marks Meadow/Upper Lot 44,” said Caldwell. “Currently the closest blue light is on the other side of the parking lot, which is a long distance to have to go if you are in need of help.”

Laliberte said that this project was still in its’ early planning stages, but that area governors would be working to install more blue lights now that the issue has been raised.

“As governors the best thing we can do to get additional blue lights installed is to advocate for them,” Caldwell said. “It’s a decision that’s entirely in the administration’s hands, and our job is to make sure they know we need some additional [help].”

Rachel Walman can be reached at rwalman@umass.edu.

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Campus racism discussed at UMass Listening Session

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SGA Vice President Chantal Barbosa expresses her concerns at the Campus Listening Session last Friday.

By Stuart FoSter Collegian Staff

Editors Note: This story originally appeared online on Friday.

Members of the University of Massachusetts community voiced concerns about University administration’s handling of race, inclusiveness and social justice on campus at a Campus Listening Session Friday afternoon in Mahar Auditorium.

About 250 students and at least a dozen administrators, including Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, attended the open discussion. The goal of the session, according to a campus-wide email delivered to students Thursday afternoon from Subbaswamy, was to allow people to share their perspectives and suggestions on how to better the campus community. The message was sent in light of recent protests at the University of Missouri.

However, many of the speakers at the event questioned how seriously the administration was taking these issues, as Subbaswamy only listened to questions and did not specifically provide answers to most questions.

“I feel like (administration) did this as a tactic to stop black students from rising up on campus,” political science and legal studies major and vice president of the Black Student Union Sheena Jeune said at the session. “Don’t come here to save face because we’re very aware of your tactics.”

Two microphones were set up in the aisles of the auditorium and community members were encouraged to form lines and speak.

Most administrators sat in the auditorium crowd, while Subbaswamy moved throughout the room to listen to speakers.

While Subbaswamy

began the listening session with a list of accomplishments the University has made in regards to issues of race and social justice in the previous year, students noted that they felt little change in how they experience racism on campus since a similar listening session was held a year ago.

“It hasn’t been an improvement for students that are here today,” said political science and legal studies major and vice president of the Student Government Association Chantal Barbosa. “What are the plans that your administration can do now?”

Speakers at the event expressed dissatisfaction with the timing of the listening session – some claimed they were informed of on short notice – and that the session was selected at an inopportune time for students to attend.

Subbaswamy responded to these criticisms by saying that there would be more public conversations in the future.

“We felt that in light of developments across the country we thought it was important to have one session right away,” Subbaswamy said. “There will be more sessions.”

Speakers at the event described facing incidents of racism on campus such as being called racial slurs and being unnecessarily harassed by police officers due to their race. One graduate student said she was told by her departmental advisor that she only received her job because of her race.

Many speakers at the session also said they wanted to see a structural retraining of faculty, staff, students and police officers at UMass, and that undergraduate freshmen should be required to take a course that focuses on institutional racism.

Others brought up the absence of provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs Katherine Newman, who was not present at the event. Alejandro Oms, a theater and political science major and associate chief justice of the SGA, said that Newman told him it was “not her job” after being suggested that undergraduates be required to take classes on issues such as racism.

“It is not something Provost Newman can do by fiat,” said Amilcar Shabaaz, faculty advisor for Diversity and Excellence in the Chancellor’s office, in response to Oms. Shabaaz said that decisions like those must be made in the Faculty Senate.

Barbosa added that while members of the SGA wanted to meet with Newman about issues such as race and diversity at UMass, they had been unable to do so as their scheduled meetings were continually cancelled.

“Provost Newman, the students of color here on campus are definitely not your priority,” Barbosa said.

Issues of racism on college campuses have come to the forefront of national discussions after student activism at Missouri led to the resignation of the university’s president Tim Wolfe, who was criticized for his lack of response to rising racial tensions on campus.

Other campuses, such as Yale University and Ithaca College, have seen largescale demonstrations and increased student activism over issues of race and diversity on college campuses.

Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartfoster@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Stuart_C_Foster

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Conspirators are searched for as Kurds move to Islamic State claims Paris attacks free Sinjar region

By Mitchell Prothero McClatchy Foreign Staff

IRBIL, Iraq — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Saturday for the attacks that killed at least 129 people across Paris Friday, issuing both written and audio statements promising that the violence was only the “first of the storm.”

If confirmed as genuine, the statements would make Friday's coordinated violence the first major operation by the group outside an area where it has a significant presence.

The Islamic State claim came as French authorities struggled to put together what took place Friday night, and security officials worried that the network that supported the attacks was still at large and planning more.

Police arrested one of the people thought to be involved in the attack trying to drive back into Belgium, where three of the dead attackers are known to have lived. In addition, Belgian police “made several arrests” of those suspected of involvement in the terrorist plot, according to French media reports.

French officials used the fingerprints of one of the dead attackers to identify him as a 30-year-old French national from the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes who had been previously flagged as having extremist ties.

And Nikos Toskas, the Greek minister for citizen protection, said ta Syrian passport found near the bodies of two suicide bombers had been recorded as entering Europe through the island of Leros as a refugee. The minister noted that it was not clear that the passport belonged to an

attacker.

The death toll was expected to rise. An estimated 352 were wounded in the attacks, at least 99 of them critically. Medical officials called for off-duty doctors to report for work at hospitals treating the wounded.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Americans were among the wounded.

He would not say if any had been killed, but French news reports said at least one American student had died.

The claim of responsibility was released on an encrypted online channel previously used by the group, and the banners and accompanying Quranic verses conformed with the group's previous announcement of a major attack in Tunisia.

The logo referred to the group as the Islamic State of France. The statement was released in French and said the attacks were revenge for French military participation in the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition and perceived insults to the Prophet Mohammed, a reference to January's attack on a French satirical magazine prone to mocking Islam by gunmen from the group's rival jihadists, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. “Eight brothers carrying explosive belts and guns targeted areas in the heart of the French capital that were specifically chosen in advance: the Stade de France during a match against Germany which that imbecile Francois Hollande was attending; the Bataclan where hundreds of idolaters were together in a party of perversity as well as other targets,” the state-

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A crowd gathers for a vigil outside the White House, in honor of the victims of terrorist attacks in Paris, on Saturday in Washington, D.C. ment said/.

“France and those who follow its path must know that they remain the principal targets of the Islamic State.”

The statement also referred to the French capital as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity,” and directly targeted entertainment and nightlife venues.

Multiple analysts noted that the direct targeting of civilians more or less randomly based on the venues - which themselves were picked with obvious care appeared in line with a previous Islamic State attack in Tunisia, which killed scores of mostly Britons on vacation. The analysts noted that al-Qaida and its affiliates usually target political, military or economic targets.

Witnesses described the attackers as very specific and methodical in both selecting the targets and in executing victims, pausing to reload as they shot individual victims. They waited to detonate their explosive vests only as police closed in.

Hollande, the French president, described the

attacks Saturday as an “act of war” in a statement that vowed revenge.

“What happened yesterday in Paris and in Saint Denis is an act of war and this country needs to make the right decisions to fight this war,” he said. “This act committed by the terrorist army, Islamic State, is against who we are, against a free country that speaks to the whole world.”

“It is an act of war prepared and planned outside, with outside involvement which this investigation will seek to establish. It is an act of absolute barbarism.

France will be ruthless in its response to Islamic State,” Hollande said.

To equip eight wellarmed attackers with automatic weapons that are illegal in France and to manufacture the explosive vests the attackers wore, to say nothing of planning an operation that spanned six locations in eastern Paris, likely required a substantial network whose members likely are still at large.

Mizzou names black administrator as University’s interim president

By Matt Pearce Los Angeles Times

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri's board of chancellors Thursday named a former federal civil rights attorney, one of the first black graduates of its law school, to serve as its interim system president as the institution seeks to quell racial turmoil after a week of death threats, racist vandalism and high-level resignations.

At a packed news conference to announce his appointment, Michael Middleton, 68, a retired longtime administrator at the university, spoke bluntly about "systemic racism" he saw on campus.

"It crossed my mind that my 30-year career here had been a total failure," he said of watching protests this semester.

Middleton, who said he was not seeking the permanent job of president of the system's four public universities, promised to work with black campus activists to confront issues surrounding racial inequality at the system's flagship campus in Columbia.

President Tim Wolfe and the campus chancellor resigned on Monday.

Asked by a reporter whether he'd ever felt marginalized because of his race when he was a student and then an administrator, Middleton replied, "Every day."

"It's so subtle," he said.

"I think women understand it. I think people with a sexual orientation (that is not heterosexual) understand it. I think other people of

color understand it. ... It is just the feeling of not being heard, not being respected, and being placed on the margins of what's happening in the world."

He added: "I sympathize with white people who don't understand. I don't blame white people who don't understand." He said the way forward was to confront the nation's history of racial discrimination _ which he has long worked to combat.

Middleton served as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's civil rights division and a director at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

He later became a law professor at the university and was then deputy chancellor for 17 years before retiring this summer.

Activists with the group Concerned Student 1950, an allusion to the year the university admitted its first black student, praised the appointment of Middleton, who had previously met with members.

"We strongly support Deputy Chancellor Middleton as Interim President," the group wrote on Twitter. "However we are still pushing for shared governance" _ a reference to a wish for students, faculty and staff to have a greater say in the system's operations.

The success of Concerned Student 1950 has prompted demonstrations at other campuses around the country.

The social media app Yik Yak's anonymous plat-

form has been used to voice anti-protester sentiment at the University of Missouri, including death threats against black students on Tuesday. Police arrested a white student attending another college almost 100 miles away in connection with the threats.

Hunter Park, 19, was charged Thursday with making a terrorist threat, a felony that carries up to seven years in prison.

A University of Missouri police official said Park was not in possession of any weapons.

Park, of Lake St. Louis, Mo., told a police officer that the Yik Yak threat _ "I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see" _ was "pretty much" just intended to rattle black students, according to a probable cause statement from a university police officer.

One of Park's alleged posts said "Some of you are alright. Don't go to campus tomorrow." Those words were reminiscent of posts the gunman at Umpqua Community College is believed to have made shortly before killing nine people at the Roseburg, Ore., school and then killing himself on Oct. 1, court documents said.

University of Missouri and Missouri University of Science and Technology police found Park in his dorm room in Rolla, Mo. Park admitted to an officer that the posts were "inappropriate," the court documents said.

"I asked Hunter why he posted about shooting

black students; he replied 'I won't get there ... so ...

I don't know," University of Missouri Officer Dustin Heckmaster wrote. "I asked Hunter what he meant by the phrase 'some of you are alright; don't go to campus tomorrow.' Hunter smiled and stated 'I was quoting something.' I asked if he was quoting the Umpqua shooting; he replied 'mmhmm.'

I asked why he had quoted the phrase; Hunter replied 'I don't know I just ... deep interest.'"

Early Thursday, a vandal spray-painted over the word "black" on the sign for the university's Black Culture Center, which is located near several dorms.

Freshman journalism student Isaac Jahns, 18, said he was walking home from a dining hall with three friends shortly before 1 a.m. when he heard someone scream near the culture center.

"I heard a male voice scream out, 'You black ... you're not welcome here!'" said Jahns, who is white.

When Jahns turned and looked toward the culture center, he said he saw a black woman sprinting away from the site toward a parking garage. He didn't know whether she had been the target of the racist comment.

The university's black student government, the Legion of Black Collegians, responded def iantly Thursday.

"We're not afraid. You clearly are," the group tweeted.

"Stay strong Mizzou."

MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq — Using long convoys of homemade gun-trucks and American-supplied a r m o re d ve h i cl e s, Kurdish peshmerga forces opened a long-delayed offensive on Thursday to retake Sinjar, the northern Iraqi city whose capture in August 2014 triggered the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic State.

By the end of the day, the Kurds had seized control of a critical highway junction, had occupied several villages on the outskirts of Sinjar and had made a push toward the city of Tal Afar, another Islamic State stronghold.

But Sinjar itself remained under extremist control.

The operation, which had been in preparation for months, is the largest undertaken by the Kurdish forces since 1991, when they rallied to force the army of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from the region now known as the Kurdistan Regional Government.

An estimated 7,500 Kurdish troops took part in Thursday's offensive.

Notably, no regular Iraqi army units appeared to join in Thursday's fighting; the Kurds have long complained that Baghdad refuses to supply them with modern weaponry and have openly feuded with the Iraqi government about control of areas that lie outside the Kurdistan Regional Government's borders, as Sinjar and Tal Afar do.

The operation, which began at dawn, was backed by scores of U.S. airstrikes; in the previous month, Pentagon officials said, U.S. aircraft had conducted 250 strikes on Islamic State targets in the area.

Fighting was fierce. The Islamic State responded to the Kurds' push toward Tal Afar along Highway 47 with heavy mortar fire and a series of suicide bombing attempts that were thwarted by peshmerga heavy weapons.

In one case, an oil tanker truck loaded with gasoline and explosives was hit, setting off a huge explosion and a ferocious fire that blocked access to the highway for a short period.

According to Kurdish officials, at least five suicide car bombs were destroyed by either airstrikes or ground fire.

At least 30 Islamic State fighters had been killed in the operations, Kurdish officials said. Kurdish casualties were not announced.

The operation, which Kurdish officials had

“Even in a cave on the mountain, they have electricity.”

Sherko, Kurdish special forces fighter touted but that received little notice in Baghdad, is seen as critical for both strategic and morale reasons.

Efforts to eject the Islamic State from areas it controls have generally failed, notably in Ramadi and Fallujah, the largest cities in Iraq's largest province, and Kurdish forces until Thursday had not previously confronted the Islamic State outside the Kurdish area of control.

Much of Thursday's offensive involved airstrikes, with Kurdish forces driving into recently hit villages to clear out remaining Islamic State fighters. In one such operation, led by Kak Saidi, a 60-year-old peshmerga veteran, 15 Kurdish fighters cheered each explosion from nearby airstrikes with the words “Hajj Obama,” a Muslim honorific for the American president.

Islamic State fighters sniped at the men but rarely stood and fought, preferring to melt away before they were hit with American air power. After firing from a ridge line about a half-mile away, a pair of Islamic State fighters escaped on motorbike, leaving their observation post full of clothes, food and a homemade bomb the Kurdish troops easily dismantled.

Blue cables stretched throughout the mountains, the Islamic State's power supply system that linked observation posts and fighting positions with generators that had either been destroyed by airstrikes or moved in anticipation of the offensive.

“Even in a cave on the mountain, they have electricity,” joked Sherko, a young Kurdish special forces fighter who had the unpleasant task of being wrapped in a bright orange poncho, used to alert coalition planes to Kurdish forces in an effort to prevent friendly fire incidents.

Posting lookouts on four ridges to check all directions, the men spent hours ensuring that the Sinjar mountains could not be used to ambush the slow-moving convoy on the road below as it pushed toward Tal Afar, a majority Sunni Muslim city that is home for many Islamic State fighters.

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The battle for time in classrooms

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Dear Chancellor Subbaswamy,

Students have all had at least one professor who begins the first class of

How are you doing?

I recently went to the Campus Listening Session held last Friday, which was a way for students to talk to faculty and administrators about their experiences with diversity (and lack thereof) at the University of Massachusetts. I learned a lot – I never experienced much discrimination first-hand, and I appreciated hearing alternate viewpoints that I never would have heard without this event.

Early on, I asked you to define some terms attached to the listening session, like “underrepresented minorities,” “bias” and – most importantly – “diversity.” Because how we use words affects how we act. If our words are vague, our goals are vague. And if our goals are vague, nothing happens. In response, you directed me to the UMass Amherst Diversity Strategic Plan, which I read.

Unfortunately, I did not find the clearly defined terms I asked for. Or clearly defined goals. Or clearly defined anything, for that matter. I just saw buzzword-laden bullet points, such as what follows.

“Human Resources: increase the focus on diversity training for staff in units that provide tangible services to students, such as admissions, financial aid, UMass Police, Registrar’s Office and Bursar’s Office.”

There was an awful lot of reviewing, analyzing, changing focus and beginning discussion in the paper. Granted, later in the paper, there is serious data and real progress has been made recently. But few (if any) of the goals in the Diversity Strategic Plan involved any real doing, and none of them had teeth.

I understand: this paper was written by consensus, and that’s a good thing. Pieces written by consensus – provided you have the right committee – prevent any party from getting a bad deal. But again: words are important. Vague words lead to vague goals, and vague goals are very easy to procrastinate.

That needs to change. We as a University need to anchor our dreams for a better future with goals that bite.

And because I’m a person of my word, here are some suggestions for the Diversity Strategic Plan, written the way they should be written: - Define critical terms, including but not limited to: “person of color,” “underrepresented minority,” “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “campus environment.”

- Set specific, measurable, University-wide goals for diversity with deadlines, e.g. increase enrollment of African-American students to X% of the student body by Sep. 1, 2025.

- Increase support and funding for outreach and education, both through centers like the New Africa House and Stonewall Center and through education programs for Residential Life staff, faculty and students. Draft syllabi and edit curricula as needed. Have relevant underrepresented minorities lead programs to increase support and funding, e.g. have women lead effort to develop educational materials regarding sexism in residence halls.

- Set specific, measurable goals for individual schools and departments that are tied to the terms of deans in their respective departments, e.g. the Department of X needs to hire [Y] faculty of color by the end of the current dean’s term.

- Publicize all of these goals, and publish yearly status reports regarding progress toward those goals and insights that would be useful for other colleges and departments in the University of Massachusetts and other higher education institutions.

- Complete these changes to the Diversity Strategic Plan by March 1, 2016.

Kate Waldron the semester by informing us that the clock does not dismiss us. The class is the professor’s time to teach, and therefore the professor will determine when the class is over.

What this idea fails to take into account is that the time outside the established lecture is the student’s time. This becomes a battle over whose time is more valuable and more often than not, the student is the one who loses.

With a large campus and only 15 minutes before one lecture time ends and another begins, there can be a rush between classes.

sequences for a student.

Classes going longer than they are scheduled to can cause someone to be late to a job or other obligation, perhaps resulting in disciplinary action or other consequences.

The idea that the professor dismisses the class, not the clock, expresses a lack of respect for the lives of students outside the classroom. With the astronomical price of college still rising, many students work. Though many on-campus jobs tend to be fairly understanding of the life of a student, off-campus jobs do not have the same compassion. Internships are invaluable for future success, and making a good impression here (which

“There should not be a struggle over whose time is more important in the context of a classroom.”

This is especially the case when major requirements are offered at consecutive lecture times on one day, not allowing for much flexibility on the part of the student. Additionally, class is often not the only responsibility a student has. Jobs, internships or other obligations can put a strain on a student’s time.

Students select classes based on how well they fit into a schedule. Or, students build a schedule around their classes.

Either way, the start and end times of lectures tend to be an extremely important determining factor in what hours a student can work or when they can make it to a lab for their independent study, office for an internship or even when their next class can be. In these situations, should a professor decide to take an additional five, 10 or 15 minutes for class, it can have serious con-

These improvements are by no means definitive – I’m not a committee, and I don’t know everything. But it’s a start, and the results would promote action, which – from what I heard at the Community Listening Session – is long overdue.

Thank you, Ajey Pandey UMass student

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includes being on time) is imperative. Should a student have another class directly after one that runs over, there is a possibility that student will be marked absent from the second class due to being late.

There should not be a struggle over whose time is more important in the context of a classroom.

There is a set time for a class that students, by registering for that class, agree to attend. This should go both ways – a professor sets a time for the class and should agree to complete all material for that lecture within that period. While I fully believe that a student should respect their professor’s time and knowledge, professors should also respect the student’s time and obligations.

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

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Sorkin’s forgettable script a fatal glitch in ‘Steve Jobs’ Well-acted, directed film still disappoints

By NathaN FroNtiero Collegian Staff

Shortly before the launch of the NeXT Computer in 1988, Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) confronts Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) and asks him, “What do you do?”

The two men stand surrounded by empty chairs and music stands in the orchestra pit of the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Wozniak disparages Jobs for his undeserved genius reputation and continues, “You can’t write code. You’re not an engineer.

You’re not a designer … What do you do?”

Without skipping a beat, Jobs says, “I play the orchestra.” It’s fitting that this scene takes place roughly halfway through the film, since it underlines the overall narrative structure that Danny Boyle employs. The director orchestrates “Steve Jobs” the same way that its title character claims he leads his team. Boyle is a conductor, and his film is a symphony in three movements.

“Steve Jobs” traces the preparation for three major product launches – of the Macintosh in 1984, the aforementioned NeXT Computer in 1988 and the iMac in 1998.

Boyle takes the audience backstage as Jobs rushes through fights with engineers and conversations with Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), the marketing executive cum moral compass who remains by his side for most of the film.

Each of these separate acts create tension by depicting Jobs’ growing professional and personal conflicts. The sequences build in intensity until a curtain call – Jobs enters the stage to introduce the new tech and the film jumps forward to the next

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Michael Fassbender delivers an excellent lead performance, as does his supporting cast, but their acting fails to save the film from a lackluster screenplay. launch.

Let me pause to make a quick distinction. “Steve Jobs” should not be confused with “Jobs,” the 2013 film that shamelessly fellated the Apple co-founder’s reputation for slightly more than two hours. The most intriguing element of that film (which was directed by Joshua Michael Stern) was the uncanny resemblance between star Ashton Kutcher and Jobs himself, but its story read like a bloated promotional reel, tritely tracing the rise-fall-rise-again path common to many biopics that aggrandize their subjects.

Danny Boyle’s film is no such ego stroke, and that’s my favorite thing about it.

Based on Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography of the same name, “Steve Jobs” directly

critiques its subject – it holds the man up to a harsh light and challenges the audience to see past the sheen of clean designs and product lines that many have grown to glorify him for.

The movie throws itself at the famous Silicon Valley figure, but its indictment never feels ham-fisted. Boyle focuses on intimate moments – between family members and businesspeople alike – and lets Jobs incriminate himself.

Fassbender’s formidable chops turn Jobs into a compellingly deplorable character. The actor’s sturdily muscled physique and iron jawline make for an aesthetically intimidating presence onscreen, and his clipped, cold delivery gives him an inapproachable, enigmatic aura. Fassbender digs into

the cruelly pragmatic role. He barks orders at his engineers and dismisses Wozniak’s numerous attempts to get the Apple II team its overdue recognition for keeping the company afloat.

He callously interacts with his ex-girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterson), and refuses to accept that he is the father of her daughter. Fassbender’s Jobs treats everyone around him like insignificant cogs in his grand machine. In the actor’s capable hands, the face of Apple becomes easy to hate.

Boyle and cinematographer Alwin H. Kuchler give each act (and correspondent time period) its own unique aesthetic. The mid-‘80s Mac launch is framed in fuzzy, mostly pale green spaces.

The NeXT launch feels sharp

Apple’s older marketing campaigns, like a smart touch of iconographic satire.

Despite its often-impressive visuals, “Steve Jobs” stays firmly anchored in mediocrity thanks to Aaron Sorkin’s lackluster script.

Dialogue is sharp and crisp but nonetheless forgettable.

I found that I cared far less about the characters’ words than I did about the manner in which the actors performed them.

Sorkin’s screenplay sometimes works to great structural effect – an argument between Jobs and CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), for example, cuts seamlessly between the present and flashbacks thanks to verbal parallels in each scene – but it largely disappoints.

The screenwriter fails to cement the movie syntactically in the viewer’s mind.

His well-lauded rat-a-tat dialogue is still at work, sure, but “Steve Jobs” leaves the viewer far less intellectually stimulated than his terrific effort in “The Social Network.” Both movies present flawed men consumed by their own irreconcilable narcissism, but it seems that Sorkin stumbled in his attempt to reach that same darkly memorable quality that he has in the past.

It’s telling that Universal pulled “Steve Jobs” from roughly 2,000 theaters barely two weeks after its wide release. I saw the film when it opened, and in the time since it has apparently faded as much from my own mind as it has from the public consciousness. Neither solid direction nor a commendable cast could save the film from its unmemorable script.

That’s not to say that “Steve Jobs” is poorly made by any means – it just has a glitch I can’t ignore.

in stronger red and brown hues, and the iMac finale looks retro-futuristic in bleak, largely blue and silver tones.

Boyle further demonstrates his talents as a visual director, peppering “Steve Jobs” with several compositionally excellent moments.

Before the first launch, he pans the camera over a crowd and captures the wave of people rising from their seats to their feet in an impressive wide shot.

Later, Jobs and Hoffman argue in a blank concrete corridor, and Jobs describes a ’70s NASA satellite called Skylab. Boyle pulls the camera back and overlays footage of the satellite’s rocket launch on the wall behind Jobs. The scene feels like Nathan Frontiero can be reached at something that would be nfrontiero@umass.edu and followed right at home in one of on Twitter @NathanFrontiero.

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Flaws bar ‘Beasts of No Nation’ from reaching true brilliance War drama film is harrowing, uneven

By Nate taskiN Collegian Correspondent “Beasts of No Nation” is a good movie that missed on its potential to become a great one, made by a good director who may one day become a master filmmaker.

As a cinematographer, Cary Joji Fukunaga’s visual eye allows him to craft beautiful imagery based around the bleakest content. As a director, he has an exact purpose behind almost every camera placement.

As a screenwriter, though, Fukunaga’s shortcomings become more apparent. Rife with excellent performances and gut-wrenching sequences, “Beasts of No Nation” is the product of astonishing filmmaking. If only it could maintain that level of excitement for its entire duration.

Adapted from Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel of the same name, “Beasts of No Nation” takes place in a deliberately vague West African country. A young boy named Agu (Abraham Attah, in his acting debut)

finds his village caught in the middle of a factional conflict between a military Junta called the NRC, and the NDF, a rebel militia.

In the space of a few minutes, Agu witnesses his father and brother murdered like cattle, and his village is consumed in a ball of fire. As he starves and hallucinates alone in the jungle, he runs afoul of the NDF, a group of self-styled “freedom fighters” composed of child soldiers, and dominated by Idris Elba’s fearsome Commandant.

With a choice between the death of his innocence or death by machete, Agu joins the NDF and commits numerous heinous acts in order to stay alive.

Fukunaga’s use of light and shadow is astonishing.

War torn landscapes and lush jungles exude evocative imagery. One memorable sequence involves the use of a color filter that turns the environment into a striking, almost alien pink hue, providing a terrifying backdrop as Agu and the rest of the Commandant’s army terrorize a village in a drug-induced haze.

The always-awesome Idris Elba channels every quality that makes him one of our great actors and brings them out in full force as the Commandant.

He exudes enough of his magnetism that we immediately believe that he could manipulate hundreds of desperate young boys into his army, all the while possessing a vile malevolence that, without needless exposition, acknowledges how many men, women and children he has brutalized.

Though Elba receives top billing, this film marks a rare occasion where the other actors in the cast do not seem outclassed in his presence. My favorite supporting character was Strika (Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye) a mute soldier that goes on to become one of Agu’s only true confidantes. Without a single word, his eyes display a delicate balance between cold-blooded pragmatism and guarded compassion.

Abraham Attah, a Ghanaian local found on a cast scouting, is a revelation as Agu. He never explodes with rage or breaks down in tears, yet we see a boy gradually lose his soul on his screen. His face carries an unspeakable weight, forever tainted by the unconscionable horrors he witnessed and committed.

For this reason, it’s a shame that the film fails to stick with Agu’s point

of view. About half way through, “Beasts of No Nation” starts to jarringly shift from Agu’s perspective to the Commandant’s, only to move back in its final 30 minutes. We are treated to a disposable scene where the Commandant meets his commanding officer, and an unnecessary subplot is forced in that involves his aspirations toward a promotion. Unmistakably Agu’s story, the film decides to pay closer attention to a wretched monster that doesn’t deserve it.

The odd tonal shifts don’t help either. At times, the movie desires for a “City of God”-type feel of dystopic abandon in the wake of institutional neglect. Yet it often changes its mind as it descends into “Apocalypse Now”-inspired chaos.

While they work in their own right, many formal elements don’t gel in an organic way. For example, although it has moments of beauty, Dan Romer’s M83inspired synth score feels mismatched with the movie’s hyper-modern African setting.

While individual scenes make for compelling drama, the film as a whole often fails to measure up.

“Beasts of No Nation” juggles two themes – how hostile environments engen-

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Idris Elba delves into the aggressive aspects of the fearsome Commandant. der pointless conflict, and the horrific psychological effects of war on the preadolescent mind – and the balance is often tenuous at best.

The film also sells itself short. Many of the thematic problems could resolve themselves had the movie extended its runtime to three hours. The final 30 minutes feel like a fast-forward. A long movie only elicits groans if the material is insubstantial, and the material in “Beasts of No Nation” never fails to be compelling, even if its conclusion feels anticlimactic.

It’s a film that departs us too soon, when more of its subject matter needed exploration.

Yet despite its flaws (and its tactless ad campaign as Netflix’s “first original film”) it deserves to be seen in theaters. A work of profound empathy, “Beasts of No Nation” avoids white savior trappings and the saccharine false charity of “Kony 2012.” It acts as a harrowing exploration of the trauma that victims of war endure.

We know that Agu has done terrible things in the name of survival. As his entire universe collapses around him, the film implores the audience to understand how these tragedies come to pass.

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

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UMass opens 2015 with win over Holy UMass competes Cross behind crucial run in final quarter in NCAA Regionals By niCk souza

Dawley earns 300th win as a head coach

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What a difference a year makes.

The Massachusetts women’s basketball team opened the 2015 season Sunday with a resounding 74-60 victory over Holy Cross, which is a stark contrast to last season’s 63-41 loss to Western Michigan in the opening game.

UMass (1-0) coach Sharon Dawley stressed the value of winning the first game of the season.

“I think it’s huge,” Dawley said. “I think momentum is critical. When you look at last season, there were a couple of games if we had grabbed early, I think we would have gotten a lot more wins down the stretch.”

She added: “This game is about comradery and confidence, and confidence only comes from playing in tight games and coming out ahead in tight games. All these early games are critical for us that if we can grab them, we’ve got to grab them to gain some confidence.”

Leading 53-50 at the end of three quarters, UMass pulled away in the final frame to clinch its first victory of the season.

The Minutewomen led by as much as 15 points in the first quarter and led 20-9 after one frame. But Holy Cross (0-2) outscored UMass 24-8 in the second quarter and took a fivepoint lead into halftime.

The second half began as a much more back-and-forth affair. In the third quarter, the lead switched hands on six straight possessions before finally ending with UMass pulling ahead by three points.

The Minutewomen rolled in the fourth quarter, outscoring Holy Cross 21-10. Kymber Hill played a huge role in securing the win, chipping in six of her 12 points in the final frame.

“Kymber Hill came in and

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With UMass’ win Sunday, coach Sharon Dawley’s career record now stands at 300-263. played really stellar defense,” Dawley said. “Then unexpectedly we also got 10 points from Kymber, which really set us apart at that point.”

The retooled Minutewomen made up for the loss of last year’s leading scorer Kim Pierre-Louis with contributions from two players making their UMass debut – freshman Bria Stallworth and transfer sophomore Alyssa Lawrence.

Stallworth impressed in her collegiate debut on both sides of the ball, tallying 19 points, and six assists while adding in solid defense in 38 minutes of action.

“I don’t think (Stallworth) looked like a true freshman,” Dawley said. “She did a great job distributing and playing defense.”

After sitting out last season following her transfer from San Diego State, Lawrence finally got a chance to play in a game with the Minutewomen, and she made the most of it. Lawrence shot 5-for-11 en route to tallying 10 points, three rebounds and three assists.

“Alyssa was solid for us offensively and defensively,” Dawley said. “She attacked the

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rim and got a lot of looks for us early.”

The player that stood out the most in the win however, was sophomore and leading returning scorer Cierra Dillard. After finishing second in scoring her freshman season, Dillard showed she was capable of handling an even larger role, leading the team with 21 points in 39 minutes.

She was only substituted out of the game for 43 seconds midway through the first quarter.

“Cierra was really on fire getting to the rim and she did a great job setting us up on offense,” Dawley said.

Sunday’s resounding victory was not without some blemishes for the Minutewomen.

Both teams exhibited some rust, as one might expect this early into the season, and tallied 12 turnovers each.

The beginning of the game was especially sloppy.

UMass turned the ball over seven times in the first quarter, including three in the first 11 minutes coming after forcing a turnover on defense and promptly turning the ball back over themselves on the ensuing possession.

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UMass running back Marquis Young racked up a career-high 168 yards in Saturday’s win. playing time out there. He’s got great speed and can hit the big play at any time. I’ve been showing him different ways and different keys to make the reads easier for him. He’s been doing pretty well with it.”

The Minutemen’s 57 carriers were by far the most they have had as a team this season, surpassing their previous clip of 37 attempts against Bowling Green. Young’s 168yard performance was also a seasonhigh for a UMass rusher, breaking his own mark of 103 yards he against Notre Dame earlier this season.

Frohnapfel finished with a seasonlow 20 passing attempts after averaging 44 attempts per game entering Saturday. He finished 10-of-20 with 109 passing yards, one touchdown and one interception. His lone touchdown was on a 39-yard pass to Tajae Sharpe that gave the Minutemen a 14-3 lead less than one minute into the second.

Frohnapfel’s interception came in the end zone that was set up by a 43-yard run from wide receiver Elgin Long with UMass threatening to take a 21-3 lead.

Eastern Michigan answered by driving 80 yards on the ensuing drive

that ended in a 10-yard touchdown pass from Brogan Roback (26-of-42, 260 passing yards and two touchdowns) to Eric Daugherty.

The Eagles’ only other touchdown came with 2:58 remaining in the game with the Minutemen playing a soft zone, prevention defense.

UMass’ defense held the Eastern Michigan offense to just 59 rushing yards on 26 carries. Its leading rusher Darius Jackson finished with just 55 yards on 15 carries for the Eagles.

Eastern Michigan’s best chance to regain the lead came when it was driving at the end of the second quarter before cornerback Jordin Hamilton forced a fumbled that Jesse Monteiro quickly recovered.

Whipple was fairly straightforward with his reasoning behind the Minutemen getting their second win of the season. And it came because they played a complete football game.

“We finally played four quarters,” Whipple said.

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the Minutewomen will try to avoid repeating is the reliance on the team’s starters. The starting five played 150 out of a possible 200 minutes, and UMass only saw four points from its bench.

“The bench didn’t get a lot of minutes, that will change,” Dawley said. “We have to make sure we give them more opportunities, but it was a close game, it was a tight game, the starters were playing great, so we went with them.”

The win also marked a milestone for Dawley’s career as a head coach. It was her 300th career coaching victory.

“I’m happy that UMass won,” Dawley said. “The 300th, that’s fun, that’s frosting on the cake, but I’m just excited that our girls played well and got a win today.”

Dawley will look for win No. 301 when the Minutewomen play next on Wednesday on the road at Harvard. The Crimson will enter the matchup 0-1 after losing their home opener to Maine 64-53.

Wednesday’s game will tip off at 7 p.m.

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

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Minutewomen catch tough break The women’s race featured 38 teams and was won by the favored Providence.

The Friars finished with 49 points leaving some distance between them and second place Syracuse (92 points).

The first runner to cross the line for the Minutewomen was Heather MacLean (21:51.1) earning her 44th overall. Freshman Alexa Livingstone was UMass’ fifth runner (23:28.5), making the pack time 1:37.

“They really gave everything they could today, we just had a few runners affected by what they have been dealing with over the course of the season,” Minutewomen coach Julie LaFreniere said.

Livingstone has struggled with an illness in the last month. Following a tough performance at A-10s, she found her way back into UMass’ top-five runners.

Senior Carly Zinner followed her strong performance at A-10s as the second UMass runner to finish for the second consecutive race with a time of 22:29.

LaFreniere went into the meet with hopes of finishing in the top 15 of the region.

The scores didn’t break that way, as both Livingstone and Deirdre Martyn dealt with illness Friday. However, LaFreniere was still in good spirits.

“This is a young team and I think the future is very bright. The finish doesn’t reflect our potential, but it is still respectable and I think the runners know that,” LaFreniere said.

While the Minutemen ran their final race of the fall season, the Minutewomen will finish at IC4As next weekend.

Nicholas Souza can be reached at njsouza@umass.edu.

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free throws.

With center Tyler Bergantino sidelined with a shin injury, freshmen Malik Hines and Rashaan Holloway were expected to play big minutes in their debuts Saturday, barring any foul trouble. However, with the two struggling with the pace of play, Holloway – who started at center – played 12 total minutes and only three in the second half.

Hines played only four minutes, all of which came in the first half.

Kellogg accredited the lack of playing time to both their inexperience and the production Coleman (13 points, six rebounds) and Berger (10 points, four rebounds) brought in the smaller lineup.

“I thought that Seth and Zach were playing fantastic and also we are trying to win and I thought (Malik and Rashaan) were still trying to catch up to the pace of play, and figure out if we are going to press, how hard you really have to play,” Kellogg said.

Coleman, at 6-foot-7, was the de facto center and made most of his impact from the high-post in the middle of the Howard zone.

Coleman went to the free throw line 15 times, converting on nine of them. As a team UMass went 28-for44 (63.6-percent) from the line.

BISON

The Massachusetts men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to a familiar course Friday in Franklin Park for the NCAA Northeast Regional Championship.

Both teams went into the meet feeling they still had something to prove to the rest of the region and both finished near the upper echelon of the toughest region.

The favorite going into the men’s race was Syracuse, which was the highestranked team in the field, and it came away with a convincing first place finish with 29 points.

UMass finished 12th in a field of 37 teams with a score of 447. The Minutemen were led by senior Ben Groleau, who finished with a time of 31:46.4 as the 49th runner to cross the finish line. With Daniel Sheldon finishing at 33:00.3 as the fifth UMass runner, the Minutemen had a pack time of 1:14.

“A lot of racing in a big crowd like this is about feel and knowing what your proper pace feels like. We wanted to start out a little slower and play to our strengths which was endurance,” UMass coach Ken O’Brien said.

The 10k distance at the regional championship was the longest distance that the team has run this season.

While it was on a familiar course for the men, the larger field of competitors compared to the Atlantic 10 tournament at the same venue changed how the Minutemen could approach the race.

“The runners probably think more about the extra distance leading up to the race, but once the gun goes off and you fully immerse yourself in the ins and outs of the race you don’t think much about it,” O’Brien said.

“We might have hit our ceiling at A-10s, but I still think this was a good performance by our team and I think that the runners can

walk away knowing they had a good season, and can still improve going forward.”

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Point guard Jabarie Hinds (5) led a three-guard, two-forward lineup in the second half.

With the smaller and faster lineup on the court, Kellogg used a full court presses with Berger guarding the Bison’s in-bounder. Despite not implementing it until earlier this week, Kellogg said that had it not been for the Minutemen’s ability to press full-court, they wouldn’t have pulled it out.

“Honestly we haven’t worked on it as much as we’d like. Our half-court defense was subpar at best in a couple of our games and I said we had to sure that up. So the press hasn’t been an afterthought but we’ve done it the last four or five days,” Kellogg said.

“I thought today, if we didn’t press, we were going to lose. So at some point, I said we’re pressing the rest of the game and let’s go.

I thought we wore them down a little bit. Some of the threes they were making when they were comfortable, (they) didn’t go in down the stretch for them. And then we rebounded some of those balls, because they were getting too many extra possessions.”

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

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decent stuff.”

Coleman went to the free throw line 15 times and finished with 13 points while Berger (10 points) was a catalyst on both sides of the court before fouling out.

“There was a stretch in the second half where the group that was in, we had a solid run,” Berger said.

“That’s not easy to do down (14 points) in a safe place to come back like that.”

Kellogg said the come-frombehind victory is something that gives him confidence moving forward but also shows the further improvement and development that is needed for the team.

“I’ve seen some good spurts out of them but we haven’t really put up a full 40 (minutes) together, even in our scrimmage or exhibition games,” he said. “I thought at times they chinked our armor a little bit

and I think we battled back, which is nice to see. I’m getting more confident that this is going to be a team that’s going to fight and claw every time we step on the floor.”

He added: “I’m happy with the win and know that we have a lot of work to do to get better.”

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

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Kellogg shortens rotation

UMass rushes for 330 yards against Eagles

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts football team followed the same blueprint Saturday that the 10 previous opponents Eastern Michigan has faced this season created – run the football.

UMass (2-8, 1-5 Mid-American Conference) used the ground attack to propel its struggling offense in a 28-17 win UMass 28 behind a 330-rushing EMU 17 yard performance against the Eagles (1-10, 0-7 MAC) Saturday in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Marquis Young and Jamal Wilson each shared rushing duties for the Minutemen as Young finished with 168 rushing yards and a touchdown while Wilson added another 112 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

Both of Wilson’s scores came from one yard out in the second half, with the second coming with 13 minutes, three seconds remaining to put the game out of reach and give UMass a 28-10 lead.

Young’s two-yard touchdown run capped off a 10-play, 77-yard drive in the first quarter giving the Minutemen 7-3 lead after Eastern Michigan had jumped out to an early 3-0 lead behind a 51-yard field goal from Dylan Mulder.

“With the combination of those two and really the offensive line, with either of those guys in, they were hitting the holes hard and had big holes to run through.

Both of those guys were making the extra guy miss and that really made the different,” quarterback Blake Frohnapfel said.

“We talked to the offensive line because we were just off on some of the plays last week,” UMass coach Mark Whipple said.

“We had to take it up a notch and the guys did today up front and gave (Wilson and Young) some room. They had a really good day, it was a nice one-two punch.”

UMass led for the final 52:18 after Young’s touchdown.

“He’s been phenomenal,” Wilson said about the freshman Young. “He’s been getting a lot of see

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Hines, Holloway see limited time in debuts

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

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Seth Berger (24) scored 10 points off the bench for UMass in Saturday’s season-opening win. He and Zach Coleman played extensive minutes in the post as part of the Minutemen’s second-half lineup.

Minutemen overcome 14-point deficit to beat Howard in opener

Davis, Hinds finish with 19 points each in victory

victory with free throws on ensuing possessions.

“I told (point guard Jabarie Hinds) that when I come off the screen, just pass me the ball and

By Anthony ChiusAno I’m going to shoot it,” Davis said Collegian Staff about the shot.

Over the first 15 minutes of On the possession prior to his the second half Saturday, the 3-pointer – one of his three for the Massachusetts men’s basket- day – Davis hit two free throws ball team shrunk to give the Minutemen Howard’s lead – once their first and only lead UMass 85 of the final half. Davis’ as large as 14 in the first half – to four 19 points were equaled points or less on four Howard 79 by Hinds for the team separate occasions. lead, while three other But each time the UMass players reached Minutemen went on a run, the double digits Saturday.

Bison seemingly had an answer “It’s a good way to start off the waiting on their next turn down season with a win. It didn’t exactly the court. play out the way I envisioned it in my Then the fifth time proved to head, but I did like the way our team be the charm for UMass (1-0), fought and scrapped,” Minutemen who escaped with an 85-79 sea- coach Derek Kellogg said. “I thought son-opening win over Howard our guys showed some character (0-1) at the Mullins Center. today.”

Senior guard Trey Davis UMass entered the halftime break scored 12 of his 19 points amidst down nine points behind poor free a 17-to-3 run for the Minutemen throw shooting (12-for-21), sloppy over the final three minutes, 30 turnovers (10) and rebounding strugseconds of regulation. gles (Howard held a 17-to-10 advanThe run was capitalized by a tage, including 8-to-1 on the offensive deep 3-pointer by Davis just in side). front of the half-court UMass The Bison, led by James Daniel logo that gave the Minutemen a III (30 points, nine steals) and James four-point lead with 34 seconds Miller (27 points, seven rebounds) left, allowing UMass to clinch the broke open a double-digit lead over

the final five minutes of the first half, turning a 35-34 game into as much as a 47-37 lead in the final minute.

Howard was sparked by good perimeter play, converting on 5-of-8 first half 3-point attempts.

Coming out of intermission, Kellogg turned to a small lineup and a six-man rotation over the final 20 minutes that included forwards Zach Coleman and Seth Berger playing extended minutes in the post.

While starting freshman center Rashaan Holloway (two points) played the first three minutes of the second half, he was subbed out at the 16:44 mark and never checked back in. Backup center and fellow freshman Malik Hines only played four minutes and sat out for the entire second half.

According to Kellogg, the decision was made due to a combination of Berger and Coleman’s first half play and the fact that the pair of freshmen needed more time to get acclimated to the college level of play.

“I thought that Seth and Zach were playing fantastic and also we are trying to win and I thought (Malik and Rashaan) were still trying to catch up to the pace of play, and figure out if we are going to press, how hard you really have to play,” Kellogg said. “It was a good learning curve for them pretty quickly, but I thought they did see

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When the Massachusetts men’s basketball team needed them most, it turned to its smallest guys to clean up the mess and finish the job.

UMass trailed by as many as 14 points in the second half before its small-ball lineup turned on the jets, giving the Minutemen just enough energy to secure an 85-79 win in their season-opener against Howard Saturday.

UMass coach Derek Kellogg was forced to go to a smaller lineup down the stretch consisting of Jabarie Hinds, Trey Davis, Donte Clark, Seth Berger and Zach Coleman, with none standing taller than 6-foot-8. All five finished with double-digit points.

“It’s a good way to start off the season with a win. It didn’t exactly play out the way I envisioned it in my head, but I did like the way our team fought and scrapped,” Kellogg said. “I thought our guys showed some character today.

Despite struggling for most of the game, Davis made the shots when it mattered most, scoring 10 of his 19 total points in the final two minutes, 35 seconds, including a deep 3-pointer to extend the Minutemen’s lead to four with 34 seconds remaining in the game.

Hinds tied Davis with a teamhigh 19 points and added eight assists, five steals and three rebounds in his debut as starting point guard. Davis was the primary point guard last year, but Kellogg feels more confident with Hinds handling the ball to allow Davis to get more shots from the wing.

“I told (Jabarie) that when I come off the screen, just pass me the ball and I’m going to shoot it,” Davis said of his late 3-point shot.

UMass regained the lead for the first time since the 5:29 of the first half on a pair of Davis’ free throws with 1:11 remaining in the game. The Bison entered halftime with a 47-38 lead and for much of the second half looked like they were going to hold off numerous Minutemen attempts to regain the lead before Davis made both his see

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HOCKEY

UMass salvages Sunday matchup at Vermont with tie UM rallies from three goals down in final period

The Minutemen trailed Vermont 3-0 entering the third period, but goals from Patrick Lee and William Lagesson cut the deficit to 3-2 with under five minutes to play. With 40 By ross GienieCzko seconds left and the UMass net empty, Collegian Staff Ray Pigozzi did what he couldn’t It’s becoming a trend for the do Friday against Merrimack and Massachusetts hockey team to fall scored to tie the game 3-3. behind early, dig a sizeable hole and The Catamounts had several pull off an improbable rally to earn chances to redeem thempoints in an unlikely fashselves in the overtime ion.

UMass 3 period but either couldn’t It happened on the finish or couldn’t beat first weekend of the seaMinutemen goaltender Vermont 3 son, when the Minutemen Nic Renyard, and the trailed by three goals game ended in a draw. entering the third period against UMass coach John Micheletto Colorado College, but stormed back said he’s tried to keep emotions out to tie the game and eventually win in of the equation in a season that’s overtime. featured some stunning comebacks.

It reoccurred in their Hockey East “I don’t let myself be in a position opener against New Hampshire, as to have emotion tied to it,” Micheletto UMass trailed 6-1 – yes, 6-1 – before said. “We try to play in the moment. scoring five unanswered goals to I’m happy when we do it, and I’m earn a stunning 6-6 tie. happy we have guys that can.”

And Sunday afternoon at Vermont jumped out to a 2-0 lead Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, after first period goals from Jonathan Vermont, it happened again.

Turk and Brian Bowen, and led 3-0

in the second period after Alexx Privitera scored again for Vermont.

It was all Vermont would manage offensively for the afternoon after UMass’ defense tightened and Renyard showed good poise in net.

Renyard, a freshman, made 41 saves to keep his team in the game while it figured out the issues in front of him.

“We saw a lot of this in his play during the recruiting process, and he’s transitioned really well to this level,” Micheletto said. “His calm demeanor is a real asset when play gets frenzied.”

In the third, a power play goal from Lee put the Minutemen on the board and a Lagesson shot through traffic made it a one-goal game, setting the stage for Pigozzi’s heroics.

“We had a great response in the third period,” Micheletto said. “I thought our effort and execution improved as the game went on.”

Still, Micheletto was not happy about another slow start for the team and said he wasn’t quite sure why it’s been a theme for UMass over the last few games.

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Ray Pigozzi (15) scored his fifth goal of the season in the final minute of regulation Sunday.

“I don’t know that I can put my finger on it yet. It’s not the whole team. A couple of guys have been slow to get to their game and that has a ripple effect on the group,” Micheletto said.

The Minutemen will close out a pair of Hockey East series next weekend against New Hampshire

and Merrimack. UMass will travel to Durham, New Hampshire Friday night for a matchup with the Wildcats and will take on the Warriors in North Andover the next day.

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