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UHS to prescribe, AFD responds to three heroin ODs inject hormones for in two hours as drug sweeps state transgender students Incidents contribute Service is covered under health plan University Health Services at the University of Massachusetts announced today that it can now prescribe, inject or teach to inject, and monitor hormones for transgender students.

The announcement was posted to the Stonewall Center’s Facebook page Monday afternoon.

According to UHS’s website, hormone replacement therapy for transitioning students is covered under the Student Health Benefit Plan. The plan states that, “Benefits will be payable for Hormone Replacement Therapy outpatient servic-

es and supplies for peri and post-menopausal women including outpatient prescription drugs or devices.”

Ilana Schmitt, a staff physician at UHS, will be prescribing the hormones.

UHS can still refer students to local providers for hormone replacement therapy, as well as to local surgeons who can perform sex reassignment and gender-affirming surgeries.

Previously, transgender students were only referred to local providers for hormone replacement therapy.

Representatives from UHS and the University could not be reached for comment Monday evening.

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to overdose spike

By ColBy SearS Collegian Staff

The Amherst Fire Department responded to three non-fatal heroin overdoses within a two-hour span Sunday night, continuing a string of incidents that public safety officials are describing as a spike in local area overdoses over the past week.

Emergency responders administered the opioid overdose-reversing drug Narcan in one case and rushed all three patients to Cooley Dickinson Hospital by ambulance. The incidents occurred at homes on East Hadley Road, Northeast St. and Summer St. Fire Chief Walter Nelson said that the first call came around 9 p.m. and the last at 10:45 p.m., both of which

Amherst Police responded to, according to MassLive.

He said that it is not unusual for his department to respond to drug overdoses, though having to respond to three incidents within such a short period of time is uncommon.

Nelson told MassLive that paramedics administered nasal Narcan to one patient and that the medication had already been administered to a second patient before technicians arrived to the scene.

Narcan was not used in the third case, he said, claiming the decision of whether or not to use the drug is based on procedure involving a patient’s medical condition.

Narcan blocks opioids, which can slow breathing to the point of death in an overdose, and restores breathing to normal when administered nasally. All three patients were brought to the hospital

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AFD responded to the three overdose incidents at East Hadley Road, North East Street and Summer Street between 9 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Sunday night. for further treatment.

Sunday’s responses come after a week in which heroin-related overdoses have surged.

Dr. Niels Rathlev, chair of

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The UMass Ballroom Dance Team hosted a Bachata social dance lesson in the Fine Arts Center lobby Monday night.

France calls for United States, Russia to unite in fighting the Islamic State successful. He made clear he was not going to send U.S. ground troops to Syria.

“Every few months I go to Walter Reed,” he said, referring to the military

By Matthew SChofield hospital complex outside Washington. and roy GutMan “And I see a 25-year-old kid that is McClatchy Foreign Staff paralyzed or has lost his limbs. And PARIS — Three days after declaring some of those are people I’ve ordered that France was at war with the Islamic into battle.”

State, French President Francois Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hollande called Monday on the rest of also speaking after the G-20 conference, the civilized world to join in turning said the world had to work together to up the heat on “these despicable cow- stop the terrorist state, but he emphaards.” sized attacking its financing, not its Whether other nations would join military structure. “According to our his call was uncertain. In a speech information, 40 countries are involved delivered at the same time in Antalya, in the funding, including some G-20 Turkey, President Barack Obama told nations,” Putin said. He said that he reporters at the conclusion of the G-20 named those countries during the G-20 conference that the current U.S. strat- meetings but that he would not do so in egy against the Islamic State had been public.

Hollande, however, made it clear he was seeking collective action.

He called for a meeting of the U.N. Security Council and urged Russia and the United States to put aside their differences over Syria to work together against the Islamic State.

Speaking to a rare joint session of the French National Assembly at Versailles Palace, Hollande insisted France would not be bowed by the attacks Friday that left 129 dead and more than 350 injured. He asked the assembly to extend the current state of emergency from 12 days to three months and vowed to “eradicate terrorism.”

“Our democracy has triumphed over much more dangerous opponents,” he said.“We are not involved in a war of see

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UMass student in Paris talks attacks Katie Mason was in the city on Fri.

French President Hollande says the country is at war

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Katie Mason spent her Friday afternoon exploring the tourist attractions of Paris, taking in a panoramic view of the city after walking to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

But by nightfall, a magical afternoon quickly gave way to what she says is a “senseless tragedy.”

Mason, a junior hospitality and tourism major at the University of Massachusetts, was in Paris Friday when a series of coordinated attacks throughout the city left 129 people dead and more than 300 injured, some critically. The violence set off a European manhunt for potential suspects behind the assaults and prompted French President Francois Hollande to pledge vengeance against the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Mason, who is studying abroad in Florence, Italy this semester, visited Paris last weekend with friends and was staying in an apartment just one mile away from the Bataclan concert hall, where four gunmen opened fire and killed 89 people in the audience of a metal concert.

“I feel so fortunate that we weren’t in the wrong place at the wrong time Friday,” Mason told the Daily Collegian. “My heart breaks for all of those that were not as lucky as we were.”

UMass Director of Education Abroad, Kalpen Trivedi, said in an email to the Collegian Tuesday that all University students studying abroad in Paris and its surrounding areas of France are safe and accounted for. At least one American student, Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, of California State University, Long Beach, died

in the attacks last Friday.

Mason said she and two other friends, who are also UMass students, arrived in Paris Thursday night and planned to meet others that weekend. She said her group of friends were waiting to meet another friend, who was en route to Mason via train Friday evening at the Les Halles metro station.

Mason began to receive text messages from friends in the United States concerned about her safety as she waited at the station.

She said they didn’t think much of what they believed to be some type of shooting in central Paris, but when her friend arrived at the train station, Mason realized something was wrong. “(My friend) said that when she was on the metro, it skipped two stops and people were panicking,” Mason said. “She knew things were bad.”

The women quickly returned to their apartment in the city’s second arrondisement neighborhood, which was five minutes away.

Mason then learned about the severity of the violence as messages from friends and family rolled in.

“We were safely back at the apartment when we realized what was happening,” she said.

“Once I read frantic messages from my worried parents, I immediately started crying. I knew I was safe, but the feelings of sadness, fear and uncertainty hit me all at once.”

Three teams of terrorists carried out coordinated attacks involving gunfire and triggered explosives at multiple sites throughout the city, including the concert hall, a soccer stadium and roadside cafes. Seven of the eight terrorists died in the attacks, per French police, while an eighth, Abdeslam see

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Google self-driving car gets off with warning for driving too slow Even autonomous vehicles aren’t immune from traffic stops.

A Google self-driving car was pulled over, but not ticketed, by a Mountain View, Calif., police officer Thursday afternoon. The offense? Driving too slowly.

In a blog post, the department said the officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow-moving vehicle that was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.

Once he approached the car, he realized it was a Google self-driving car.

“The officer stopped the car and made contact with the operators to learn more about how the car was choosing speeds along certain roadways and to educate the operators about impeding traffic,” the department said.

In a separate blog post, Google said the prototype vehicle’s speed is capped at 25 mph for safety reasons.

“We want them to feel friendly and approachable, rather than zooming scarily through neighborhood streets,” the company said.

The company said that their vehicles have never been ticketed and have driven 1.2 million miles.

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Couple plead guilty to multimilliondollar, cross-country shoplifting spree CHICAGO — A Northbrook husband and wife pleaded guilty Friday to a decadelong nationwide shoplifting scheme that netted millions of dollars worth of merchandise they later sold on eBay. “Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!”

Lela Bogdanov said in a heavy accent when asked

by U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood how she pleaded to two counts of transporting stolen goods across state lines. Her husband, Branko Bogdanov, pleaded guilty to the same charges in a separate hearing.

The couple admitted in a plea agreement with prosecutors to stealing as much as $9.5 million in goods dating to 2004.

Despite his admission of guilt, when the judge asked Branko Bogdanov if the facts in the plea were correct, he said the amount prosecutors claimed he’d stolen were “ridiculous.”

“You can’t make millions stealing one or two items from a store,” he said.

Both Branko Bogdanov, 59, and Lela Bogdanov, 53, face up to about six years in prison when they are sentenced in March. Their attorneys, however, said they plan to argue for far more lenient terms.

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care system has treated 40 overdose patients in three days, according to the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Several of those patients have died.

Rathlev said that treating 40 patients in that short of a time frame was “exceptional,” and that it’s not proportional to what the system normally sees, per the Gazette.

Local authorities have heard about a potentially lethal batch of heroin in the area that may be related to these incidents. The surge in overdoses began mid-week, according to a statement issued by Northwestern district attorney David E. Sullivan.

According to Nelson, batches like these will sometimes hit the street after a major drug bust occurs, as dealers try to fill the void in the drug supply.

“Anecdotally, we’ve been seeing that there is some bad stuff out there. Hospitals have been seeing an uptick

in overdoses in the general area and the Pioneer Valley.

Something is going on out there and it’s not good,” he told MassLive.

With the help of the Drug Enforcement Agency Task Force and the Western Massachusetts Gang Task Force, Springfield police confiscated nearly 22,000 bags of heroin in a raid on a Springfield home last Thursday.

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. also warned the public of a potentially dangerous batch of heroin in the Southbridge area after two non-fatal overdoses were reported there Thursday night.

Law enforcement personnel are continuing to investigate the spike in overdoses in the Pioneer Valley but have yet to identify anything associated with the dangerous batch.

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

People argue over cigarettes, alcohol at local Starbucks Police Log: Nov. 13 to Nov. 15, 2015

By Mark Chiarelli Collegian Staff

Friday, Nov. 13 10:41 a.m. – Police responded to a report of larceny at Kendrick Place Apartments, located on 57 East Pleasant St. A collegeaged male was reportedly seen on surveillance video walking out of the building’s lobby with a $500 barstool. The incident remains under investigation.

5:42 p.m. – Three people were reportedly shoving each other and arguing over cigarettes and alcohol at a Starbucks located at 71 North Pleasant St. All three left without issue upon police arrival.

10:38 p.m. – Police responded to a complaint over loud music and smoking in the hallway at a Boulders apartment. Six women were told to turn down their music for the night.

After bouncers denied the two men entry to the bar, Lavallee reportedly broke a wooden fence near a storage area along the side of the building, while TorrBrown broke a wooden gate leading to dumpsters behind the building.

12:47 a.m. – Carter Tiernan, 21, of Weymouth, was arrested and charged for carrying an open container of alcohol outside Stackers Pub on North Pleasant St. 1:16 p.m. – Several vehicles were reportedly parked on the road of a water treatment plant in the vicinity of 1458 South East St. The drivers of the vehicles reportedly had hunting rifles and dogs with them. Police did not find any vehicles upon arrival.

Sunday, Nov. 15 1:17 a.m. – Police identified two signs at rotary on 1101 West St. that were taken down. Police found a license plate and blue paint from a vehicle on the scene, and will conduct a hit and run investigation.

11:17 p.m. – Four small baggies of a class D substance 1:38 a.m. – Benjamin 20, of were found by a police offi- Thornton, Belchertown, was arrested cer on a PVTA bus. and charged with operat11:39 p.m. – Security in ing a motor vehicle under the area of a large party the influence of alcohol, with “hundreds” of people operating a motor vehicle in attendance at 49 South negligently with the intent Prospect St. reported that to endanger and a marked party-goers threw cans lanes violation after a trafand bottles at him when he fic stop on Meadow St. asked them to quiet down.

Police could not locate the 10:13 a.m. – Police respondindividual who threw the ed to a call about an abanbottle and requested that doned vehicle at Puffton the owners of the house Village apartments with remove some of their two parking tickets on it. guests, which they agreed Police determined the vehito do. cle was logged as a stolen vehicle on Oct. 23 and had it towed.

Saturday, Nov. 14 12:27 a.m. – Approximately 25-30 guests were kicked out of a party at 316 Puffton Village after a neighbor reported of loud music and voices.

10:20 a.m – Police responded to a report of vandalism at 20 Allen St. after it was discovered that the tires of three different motor vehicles were slashed.

12:32 a.m. – Two men were summonsed to court on damages they created after they were denied entry to the Monkey Bar, located at 63 North Pleasant St. Dermot Lavelle, 21, of Amherst, and Kendal Allen-Torr Brown, 22, of Mystic, Connecticut, were charged with destruction of property of less than $250.

4:45 p.m. – A caller reported that his $150 drone went missing after he flew it over the roof of a Rolling Green apartment. The man reportedly searched for the drone for two hours. Police could not locate it upon arrival.

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

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“I feel so fortunate that we weren’t in the wrong place at the wrong time Friday. My heart breaks for all of those that were not as lucky as we were.”

Katie Mason Salah, remains at large.

In response, Hollande has said France is “at war” with the Islamic State and has called for efforts to ramp up military actions.

French military launched airstrikes targeting Islamic State sites in Syria Sunday night, and Hollande said he’d allow the government to carry out more police raids in the near future.

French and Belgium officials have tentatively identified a suspect behind the attack, 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud of Belgium.

Mason said she felt “at risk” as she returned to her apartment Friday, but didn’t witness any violence firsthand and didn’t venture out into the city in the aftermath of the attacks on

Saturday or Sunday. She left Paris on a flight to Bologna, Italy Sunday night.

Following the violence, Mason said she felt a mixture of emotions, including anger, fear and heartbreak.

However, she said she hopes to return to Paris one day amid “happier” times.

“I will never understand how people can be so heartless to take the lives of innocent people,” she said. “It’s just not fair, and it makes me sick to my stomach.”

Mark Chiarelli can be reached at mchiarel@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Mark_Chiarelli.

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Governors refuse Syrian refugees 23 leaders oppose access after attacks

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and lisa Mascaro Los Angeles Times

HOUSTON — A drumbeat of opposition against allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S. intensified Monday when at least 23 governors, citing security concerns, said they will refuse to accept Syrian refugees into their states following the Paris attacks, even as President Barack Obama said such actions “would be a betrayal of our values.”

In addition to the governors, mostly Republican, GOP members of Congress – including the chairmen of the Senate Armed Services, Senate Intelligence and House Homeland Security committees – have called for a halt to admitting Syrian refugees to the U.S. A House Judiciary subcommittee hearing is set for Thursday.

The issue gained political traction Monday as the world reeled from the horror of the Paris terrorist attacks that killed at least 129 people in a string of bombings and shootings. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the coordinated Friday night assault on six locations.

By Monday afternoon, the states refusing Syrian refugees were: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin.

Kentucky’s Republican governor-elect, who takes office next month, also refused.

Governors cited security con-

cerns, noting that at least one of the Paris attackers had posed as a Syrian refugee.

“Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees – any one of whom could be connected to terrorism – being resettled in Texas,” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote in a letter to Obama on Monday.

“I urge you, as president, to halt your plans to allow Syrians to be resettled anywhere in the United States,” Abbott continued, “Neither you nor any federal official can guarantee that Syrian refugees will not be part of any terroristic activity ... opening our door to them irresponsibly exposes our fellow Americans to unacceptable peril.”

Refugee and civil rights groups condemned the governors’ stance, which the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, called “un-American.”

Democratic governors in a dozen states committed Monday to accept Syrian refugees, including California Gov. Jerry Brown.

“I intend to work closely with the President so that he can both uphold America’s traditional role as a place of asylum, but also ensure that anyone seeking refuge in America is fully vetted in a sophisticated and utterly reliable way,” Brown said.

“You can be sure that we will do everything in our power to protect the people of our state.”

The State Department plans to take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the cur-

rent fiscal year and believes it can fund the necessary screening process, although Congress could block the money.

Last fiscal year about 70,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S., 1,682 from Syria, according to the State Department.

“These people are fleeing the very type of violence we saw in Paris Friday night,” said Martin Zogg, executive director of the Glendale, Calif.-based International Rescue Committee in Los Angeles, condemning the governors’ rejection of the refugees and calling them, “the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable.”

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has proposed blocking resettlement funds in the year-end spending bill until the intelligence community vets Syrian refugee screening. On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said GOP leaders were still considering the option.

Obama addressed the issue Monday at the end of a global summit in Turkey, saying he remains committed to accepting Syrian refugees, who he said are thoroughly screened.

“In terms of refugees, it’s clear countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, which are already bearing an extraordinary burden, cannot be expected to do so alone,” he said. “At the same time, all of our countries have to ensure our security, and as president, my first priority is the safety of the American people. And that’s why even as we accept more refugees, including Syrians,

we do so only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks.”

Obama also noted that “many of these refugees are the victims of terrorism themselves. That’s what they’re fleeing. Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values.

Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both.”

It can take two or more years for U.S. officials to process Syrian refugees’ applications for resettlement, Zogg said. Most applicants are referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the U.S. and other countries that have agreed to accept them.

Protocols are set out in the U.S. Refugee Act of 1980. Each applicant undergoes medical exams, a security check and an in-person interview with immigration officers at the Department of Homeland Security.

“The system, established

by Congress, anticipates cooperation with states and localities. It is based on consultation. The local governments supply support, but they don’t have the authority to refuse people,” said Leonard S. Rubenstein, director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

On Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote to Ryan and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., asking for help to halt the planned resettlement of 425 Syrian refugees in his state.

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Members of the French Foreign Legion guard near the Eiffel Tower on Monday. civilizations, because these murderers represent no civilization,” he said. “We are at war against jihadist terrorism, which is a threat to the whole world.”

The speech came on a day when Paris again mourned the dead, stopping for a minute of silence at noon. Around the city, on the Champs d’Elysee, in churches, in offices and in schools, people stood silently and reflected on the events from three days earlier.

Hollande joined those paying respects at the University of Paris’s Sorbonne building in the city’s Latin Quarter. He said in his Versailles speech that was because most of those killed Friday were young, under age 30.

On Monday, French officials made clear that they view Friday night’s attack as an international conspiracy. They said that 168 homes in France and Belgium have been searched for evidence linked to the attacks and that 23 people have been taken into custody. Police

said that among the weapons recovered in the raids were automatic rifles and a rocket launcher.

Investigators identified the mastermind behind the attacks as Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, from Molenbeek, Belgium, who is now in Syria. The French newspaper Le Monde reported that Abaaoud had become friends with Salah Abdeslam when the two were in jail for armed robberies in 2010. French officials said Sunday they are seeking Abdeslam as the eighth attacker in Friday’s mayhem.

Abbaaoud joined the Islamic State two years ago under the nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Baljiki. Earlier this year, in Issue No. 7, the Islamic State’s Dabiq magazine interviewed him about his efforts and he reportedly answered: “Allah chose me (and two others) to travel to Europe in order to terrorize the crusaders waging war against the Muslims.”

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#PrayforParis is, in fact, meaningful

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I sit down to write this column the day after a series of terrorist attacks throughout

To the Editor: In “Marching in the Wrong Direction,” Stefan Golas makes a number of arguments against the feasibility and desirability of free higher education. Many of these points are also made by others who oppose abolishing tuition and fees, so we should examine them in more detail.

Golas takes it as self-evident that debt relief to the tune of $1 trillion would not only be impossible, but also destructive to the economy. Note that he makes this claim without any evidence, but let’s address it anyway by looking at history. Take for example the Funding Act of 1790, where the federal government assumed the state debts incurred during the Revolutionary War. The ratio of the cost ($21.3 million in 1790 dollars) to total gross domestic product at the time would have been somewhere between six and seven percent. Turning to the present, the ratio of student loan debt to total GDP (in 2014) is about five percent. Thus we can dispense with the notion that the supposed detrimental effects of debt forgiveness should be taken as given.

On the issue of desirability of free education, Golas claims that increased supply of college students will “steepen the continued devaluation of a bachelor’s degree.” On the contrary, a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that the education-wage gap has grown larger over the past 15 years. A college graduate can expect to earn at least a million dollars more over the course of a lifetime than someone with just a high school diploma.

Pursuing that line of thought brings us to Golas’ most interesting argument: Because college is a financial decision, it makes no sense for protesters to complain about the high costs. In other words, higher education is a private commodity like a restaurant meal, not a public good such as police and military protection, roads, national parks, elementary education and so on. While that view is increasingly common in the U.S., it would be considered quite outlandish in much of the developed world (and indeed, many third-world countries) where higher education is free or mostly free. Here, in the richest country in world history, costs for students and their families have surged ahead of inflation over the past 25 years. That is truly scandalous.

Golas further writes that the whole protest is pointless because change will “never happen in our lifetimes due to the immense clout of those on Wall Street.” He seems to have forgotten that many of the benefits of modern life that we take for granted – weekends, mass schooling, civil rights and so on – came out of struggle against powerful interests. There is no law of nature that says that society cannot make progress toward some ideal, whether it be tuition-free college or anything else.

Realistically, yes, it is likely that none of us would ever personally reap the benefits of a more equitable higher education system. Does that mean we should abandon future generations and only look after ourselves? That is not how progress is made, and it certainly is not the kind of society that any rational person should want to live in.

Johnny McCabe the city of Paris have claimed the lives of more than 120 people and wounded hundreds more. I usually write on science, popular culture and technology, all of which are areas of personal interest. However, each time I tried to rack my brain for potential topics, I found myself coming back, again and again, to the unspeakable violence and loss that is currently wracking the hearts of the European population. I find it impossible to concentrate on the things that normally interest me. How important is the latest operating system or astronomic discovery when Paris is gripped by its greatest violent crisis since World War II? The tragedy has dominated my brain – like a cloud of fog or static on the radio, it has made it impossible to do or think about anything else.

Disasters always do – they carry an obsessive priority, a

“But I think the impulse to change one’s profile picture or tweet with #PrayForParis, or Instagram a drawing of the Eiffel Tower that impulse comes from a place of compassion, not of any perceived benefit.”

Michael Berner Class of 2016

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What happened to free speech?

A few years ago, my uncle told me topics. The anti-speech impulse that has a story about his time in college that, manifested itself clearly in the recent in light of the recent unrest at various protests at Yale University, the University of Missouri and Ithaca College is the Lucas Coughlin logical extension of an ideology more interested in making itself heard than universities across the country, is par- proving itself right. ticularly germane.

What may have started as a moveWhile he was an undergraduate stu- ment with a laudable goal has become a dent at Dartmouth University in the microcosm of the problems with modern 1950s, the school invited a “scientist” of campus culture. To protest incidents of eugenics to give a speech. As eugenicists hate is hardly objectionable, but the bulare accustomed to do, he held forth about the genetic inferiority of African Americans and the need for population control. According to my uncle, he gave his speech uninterrupted and when the time for questions came about his argument was rightly lying of journalists and the restrictions dismembered by some of the black mem- of speech that have come about are borderline fascistic. bers of the audience.

The alleged incidents at Missouri – Once upon a time, colleges were places where ideas were set against each other, racist remarks made in the vicinity of with the understanding that the stron- the campus by locals and a swastika ger ideas would prevail in the minds of made of fecal matter found in a baththe public and the weaker ones would room – cannot logically be blamed on dissipate. To judge from the behavior of the school’s president. Demanding his the protestors, that is no longer the case. resignation shows that the protesters Students today are interested only in are interested primarily in punishing their own ideas and have demonstrated the administration. The way to go about a willingness to go to extreme measures dealing with racism is not to coerce to preserve ideological uniformity. Safe school administrators into resignation, spaces, trigger warnings and the like nor is it to intimidate reporters. And it is exist to stultify debate and to limit con- most definitely not to try to silence those versation about potentially disquieting who are interested in dialogue.

The obnoxious haranguing that the Missouri protests have devolved into and the frighteningly Orwellian speech codes being implemented are hallmarks of our mollycoddled generation. We are scared to take on ideas we oppose and more likely to retreat to a safe space or shout down our opponents than to engage with them. We are not brave for this, nor are we enlightened. We are risible.

What will the current crop of college students be remembered for? For finally defeating the menace of classic authors on the syllabus? For refusing to succumb to the oppressive, atavistic document that is the Bill of Rights? For winnowing down language to remove the possibility of dissent, for refusing to tolerate anything that could possibly construed as offensive, and for being utterly unprepared to deal with life outside of the university? That seems to be the direction we’re headed.

Every new generation that comes of age wants to change the world in some way, but the world that our generation seemingly wants to create is one where freedom is secondary to feelings. Count me out.

“We are scared to take on ideas we oppose, and more likely to retreat to a safe space or shout down our opponents than engage with them.”

Lucas Coughlin is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at lmcoughl@umass.edu.

and wondered how it could make any real difference in the face of such devastating loss. This tragedy, however, was different.

When I first heard the news of widespread bombings and shootings in Paris, my thoughts immediately flew to several of my friends and acquaintances studying abroad in France. Concerned for their well-being and safety, I took to Facebook, which recently implemented a feature in which people can mark themselves “safe” in widespread emergencies.

Over the hours, they each posted statuses declaring that they were shaken but unharmed. Without hesitation or a second thought, I “liked” each one.

I think that knowing people who were personally affected by the attacks has given me a new perspective on how social media affects our response to this type of disaster. I’m sure that many people are already criticizing those who change their profile pictures,or companies that make similar announcements in the name of capital-

demand to be thought about and processed that impedes everyday life. I admit that I am well outside of my traditional “comfort zone” – I’m sure that others who know much more than me about religion and politics will write columns much better and more thought-out than this one. However, whenever I find myself with a head full of thoughts that I can’t ignore, I find the most helpful thing to do is to write them out.

As I scour the internet for updates, like I have been since first hearing about the attacks, I notice displays of solidarity in all forms. Reddit, which ran a live blog and served as a digital forum for those affected as the attacks were still in progress, had its mascot Snoo hold a French flag. YouTube did the same with the red play button in its logo. Facebook presented an option for users to overlay the French flag over their profile pictures in support.

To be honest, I have never really understood the purpose of these gestures, up to this point. Like many others, I held the opinion that changing one’s profile picture exemplified the trend of “slacktivism” that affects our generation: people exploiting the suffering of others for social media capital. From the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage to the earthquake in Nepal, I questioned the benefit of something so simple and inconsequential

izing on sympathy. Politicians have already started wheeling the atrocity for political points. But I think the impulse to change one’s profile picture, tweet with the hashtag #PrayForParis or Instagram a drawing of the Eiffel Tower comes from a place of compassion, not of any perceived benefit. It comes from the same place as my “like” on my friend’s Facebook post, a place of, “I’m glad you’re okay.”

Terrible events like these have a way of dominating our experience. They have a way of numbing the senses and blocking the brain, of making us experience them and contemplate them over and over again. They have a way of making us feel isolated, detached and alone. But the one positive thing about tragedy is that different people have different ways of coping. Some people can just think about it by themselves for a while, then move on.

Some people write about it – like me. But many individuals deal with the influence of tragedy together, with other people. Sure, a Facebook “like” or an Instagram post can be vapid and meaningless – but it can also be just a digital way to say, “I care about you.” And if my “like” or post can help my friend feel even a little better, was it truly meaningless?

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

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Visiting Writers Series astounds with professor and alumna Juxtaposing styles, widely inspirational

By Sarah Gamard Collegian Staff

A pair of writers with ties to the University of Massachusetts hosted a night of witch trials, futuristic antiabortion laws, extramarital affairs and drastically contrasting writing styles during last Thursday’s installment of the regular Visiting Writers Series.

The UMass Masters of Fine Arts Program for Poets and Writers hosted UMass professor Noy Holland and MFA graduate Leni Zumas Thursday night in Memorial Hall.

A live fiction reading doesn’t necessarily sound like the most thrilling way to spend a Thursday night, especially if it meant travelling through the biting, wet cold weather to enjoy the free admission.

Thirty minutes before the event started, things did not look promising as the large room was freckled with potted trees and plants and placating, framed landscapes.

However, the disappointing quietude was soon eradicated by the start of the event when the several rows of old, creaking, metal chairs were completely filled by enthusiastic attendees. The cold, rainy night outside made dim-lit Memorial Hall feel extremely cozy (and soon humid) with so many bodies in one space, wafting with the inevitable cigarette-musk and buzzing enthusiasm that comes with crowds of college-age writers and poets at late-night readings.

Zumas read first and was introduced by an old friend from her undergraduate years at Brown University, who called Zumas’ writing a gift to everyone and reminisced over their shared love for William Faulkner’s “The Sound and

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Leni Zumas, a UMass MFA alumna, and Noy Holland, a UMass English professor, were featured in Thursday’s Visiting Writers Series at Memorial Hall. the Fury” in the early years of their friendship.

“When I read (Zumas’) astonishing work now, I can still feel our time with Quentin and Caddy,” her friend said, referring to Faulkner’s two famous characters from the novel. “I feel the wonder one feels … when a human being you are close to has a shining talent and can use it.”

Zumas read from her workin-progress “Red Clocks,” a futuristic dystopian novel about an American witch trial in a small town in Oregon. The novel takes place in 2025 after the passing of a constitutional amendment granting rights of “life, liberty, and property” to a fertilized human egg. Under this amendment, abortion is illegal and advanced reproductive technology is nearly illegal. The story follows a woman who defies these laws and is accused of witchcraft.

Zumas was unpretentious and at ease on her old campus.

Her imagery-heavy writing is disturbing, unhindered and unapologetic; her piece was detailed with sexually explicit

– but not enticing – and misogynistic images of women, vulgar and detailed imagery of pubic hair, human lactation and burning witches’ bodies.

It became apparent when Holland, who followed Zumas, was introduced, that the room was full of adoring friends, colleagues and UMass students.

Zumas called Holland of her favorite fiction writers “on the planet.”

The close friend and colleague who introduced Holland recalled a time that the UMass professor shut off all the lights in a Bartlett classroom and read by a small lamplight to ensure students would listen to and hear the story in its purity.

Her presence, even the quiet way she walked to the podium, was charming, approachable and humble. She began her reading with a quick confessional and gratuitous speech, openly appreciating the love of her colleagues, Zumas’ writing and her students.

“I feel all messy,” she said amicably as she took a swig of water, referring to her grati-

tude for the loving introduction.

She said she often feels undone by her students’ work and that she walked into workshop that day feeling “irrelevant.” Her openness was inspiring, not only as a writer to other writers, but as an accomplished person reminding others that even recentlypublished forces of talent can be vulnerable. The reading was not only creatively inspirational; Holland’s presence was, for a student who has not taken her class and was unused to her, spiritually and emotionally placating.

Her writing, on the other hand, was the exact opposite.

Holland was compared to a “secret keeper” earlier in the evening. Indeed, Holland illustrated this with her own double persona. On the outside, she is much shyer and soft-spoken than Zumas.

Holland’s humble, motherly demeanor disappeared when she read from her novel, “Bird,” published just two days prior to the reading, replaced with a powerful and

tionship with her students, but also in her writing. “Bird” follows the double-life of a dutiful wife and mother and her recollection of reckless love as a young woman that is revisited with a passionate, extramarital affair. Unlike Zumas’ fiction, which penetrates through a creative and thrilling plotline, Holland’s writing exhilarates through lyricism.

Both readers were followed by booming applause. After the reading, the satisfied audience filtered out, buzzing more enthusiastically than before from artistic fulfillment for the night, to the after-event at High Horse Brewing in downtown Amherst.

Zumas is currently an assistant professor at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University.

She has published the short story collection “Farewell Navigator” and “The Listeners,” a novel and finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared in New Orleans Review and Columbia Journal, among other places.

Holland is published in prestigious literary magazines such as The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Milan Review and The Believer, and was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award for artistic merit and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Holland also serves on the board of directors for the Fiction Collective Two, which describes itself as “an author-run, not-forprofit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction.”

Her collections of short fiction and novellas include “Swim for the Little One First,” “What Begins with Bird” and “The Spectacle of the Body.”

penetrating voice.

She read her prose rhythmically, as if it were poetry.

Memorial Hall was not only silent but also still, under the spell of her commanding, masterful voice produced from years of solitary, arduous practice and the light of the podium lamp reflecting off the pages like a halo onto her concentrated face and cascading blonde hair.

Holland’s reading voice is akin to a musical instrument; she switches the way a musician begins to play an instrument or sing, or the way an actor dons the persona of their character. She broke character for only a moment between readings – saying, “I’m gonna skip ahead a little bit” – momentarily reverting to her delicate demeanor before delving back into the prose.

The person who introduced Holland compared her anxiety over developing written work to “a mother’s fierce worry for what will become of her children.” That motherly role was Sarah Gamard can be reached at sgaalso shown not only in her inti- mard@umass.edu or on Twitter mate presence and her rela- @SarahGamard.

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The Black Sheep Deli: Delicious diamond in the rough Entertainment hub, deli, cafe, study spot

By JeSSica chaiken Collegian Correspondent As the work from the semester begins to pile high, many University of Massachusetts students flock to the library or the coffee shops of the area to buckle down and study. There are many places to go to study and do homework, but few

have a distinct and homey atmosphere that distinguishes it from the others. Most coffee shops play the same music and have the same menu items with no unique qualities except employing different names. It is a rare find to come across a place that has such character. But when you do, it’s hard to ever return to average coffee shops again.

Nestled in the heart of downtown Amherst, The Black Sheep is a deli and bakery at 79 Main Street in

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Amherst Center that embodies the rustic and local charm that most coffee shops lack.

The café, which has been around since 1986, is unique with its wide-ranging menu and catering department.

They have everything from a variety of coffees and blends to sandwiches, salads and an assortment of baked goods.

There are several different blends of coffee offered at The Black Sheep. Owner Nick Seamon suggested some of the most popular blends are the Black Sheep House Blend, the Sumatra blend and the French Roast. They also have a selection of other coffee drinks such as cappuccinos, lattes and Café au lait.

One look into the dessert display case at The Black Sheep will have any mouth watering and will easily persuade customers to purchase a delectable sweet. Pastries and baked goods are prepared from scratch daily. Fruit tarts and éclairs are among the deli’s more popular desserts.

Upon entering The Black Sheep, very enticing jars full of cookies tempt customers to try one of the many flavors. One of the many unique flavors is the deli’s popular “Republican Party Cookie,” which is described as containing many “fruits and nuts.”

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Along with coffee and sandwiches, the deli offers artisan pastries and weekly music and entertainment shows. lar to the campaign.

There is a politically liberal vibe expressed by The Black Sheep and its efforts as a local business devoted to its customers and the people.

In fact, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke there in 2012.

The environment in The Black Sheep is conducive to those who need to focus and get work done. They play relaxing and upbeat folk-style music that gives it the “mom and pop” persona that is usually unachievable by most venues. And the best part of going to the deli is the food: whether someone goes in the morning, afternoon or evening, its wide culinary selec-

tion can feed you along the way. With options of breakfast sandwiches, deli sandwiches, salads or desserts, customers will not go hungry any time of day.

Another great feature is the deli’s abundance of events and weekly shows. Eric Lee hosts a bluegrass night called “The Great Blue Grass Open Jam” every Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The band Gypsy Wranglers also performs every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. These are only some examples of the many musical guests and performances.

There is nothing like a little live music from time to time to break up the week and encourage people to let loose

and relieve some stress.

It’s also a great place to get out, support a local business and meet new people.

The Black Sheep has all of the small-town appeal and welcoming atmosphere that invites locals to stop inside. It is a great place to study and do homework, meet and have a laugh with friends over a cup of coffee and a pastry or enjoy some live entertainment. The cafe is open seven days a week 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday.

Jessica Chaiken can be reached at jchaiken@umass.edu.

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Minutemen split pair Peyton Manning ruled of weekend contests out Sunday vs. Bears

Top Vermont 4-0, fall to Keene State

By Ryan ames Collegian Staff

Senior forward Alex Rojas and freshman forward Cam Fisher scored two goals apiece and the Massachusetts club hockey team cruised to a 4-0 shutout win over Vermont Saturday night at the Mullins Center.

Fisher got the scoring started for UMass after a nice individual effort at six minutes, 10 seconds into the first period. He entered the offensive zone with speed, made a couple dekes around a Catamounts defender, got a shot on goal and promptly hammered home the rebound chance to give the Minutemen an early lead. Sophomore Ted Zimmerman was credited with the assist.

UMass (10-5-1) controlled the pace of play throughout much of the first period playing almost entirely in the offensive zone, as well as establishing a physical presence handing out a few big hits.

“That’s our style of play, we may not be the biggest team but we’re physical,” Minutemen head coach Mike DeFazio said regarding the physical play. “We try to out-hustle and outhit every team we face and it was successful here for us tonight.”

The second period began with an early goal after Rojas tallied his first of the night putting UMass up by two.

Rojas found the back of the net once again recording his second goal 12:53 into the second period off a delayed penalty by Vermont. “(Rojas) is one of our gifted goal scorers out

there so it’s obviously good to have guys like him who you can rely on to score goals,” DeFazio said.

UMass continued to play in high gear in the second period with gritty play and numerous scoring chances.

Entering the third period, the Minutemen held all the momentum with a three-goal advantage along with stingy defensive zone play.

Just over halfway through the third, Fisher got his second of the night by redirecting Zimmerman’s shot right in front of the Vermont goaltender. It was the last scoring play of the game and ultimately sealed the victory for the Minutemen who secured the shutout.

Starting goaltender Connor Walker was replaced by sophomore Dan Graham following Fisher’s second goal. DeFazio was pleased with both goalies’ performances, as they combined for a shutout.

“Walker has earned his spot as one of the better goalies we have and Graham has worked extremely hard in practice, so once we had the lead we got him in there to reward him for his hard work,” DeFazio said.

An overall dominating performance by UMass came as a result of consistent quality scoring chances combined with timely saves from the goaltenders to propel the Minutemen to their 10th win of the season.

Although UMass came out with the win, junior forward Adam Kmetz left the game late in the third with an injury and did not return.

“Looks like a broken clavicle for Adam,” DeFazio said. “The trainer said if he doesn’t need surgery

he’ll be out until February or March. If he does need surgery, we’re looking at a five to six-month recovery time.”

This could prove costly for the Minutemen down the road as Kmetz is one of the most reliable scorers UMass has to offer.

UMass loses 4-2 to Keene State Friday On Friday night, the Minutemen lost a close battle to Keene State by a final of 4-2.

Trailing 2-0 entering the third period, UMass senior Brian Collins cut the deficit to one after a hard wrist shot beat the Keene State goalie less than five minutes into the period.

But the Owls rebounded to score the next goal and restore a two-goal lead.

UMass kept things interesting after Rojas scored a rebound goal with two minutes remaining in regulation to bring the game to within one once again.

Just seconds later however, the Minutemen pulled their goalie to gain the extra man with just over a minute remaining.

With about 20 seconds left, Keene State scored on the empty net to secure the win.

UMass returns to action Tuesday night when it travels to Worcester for a matchup with Holy Cross. The Minutemen play again at home next Saturday against highlyranked William Paterson University, with puck drop scheduled for 8:30 p.m. at the Mullins Center.

Ryan Ames can be reached at rames@umass.edu.

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BU, PC tie in rematch UMass Lowell wins two vs. Black Bears By matt LieBeRman Collegian Correspondent It was a long weekend for the University of Maine hockey team, as it ran into red-hot UMass Lowell and was swept by the No. 5 River Hawks in a homeand-home series on Friday and Sunday.

Friday’s game, which was hosted by UMass Lowell (8-1-2, 4-0-2 Hockey East), was the more competitive of the two games as the Black Bears seemed determined to pull off the upset on the road with resilient defensive play.

The game was scoreless going into the third period, but the drought was broken

by River Hawks sophomore defenseman Michael Kapla at nine minutes, 35 seconds of the period. An empty net goal by C.J. Smith sealed the deal with 61 seconds left to play and a late Black Bears power play goal was too little, too late as UMass Lowell held on 2-1.

The setting shifted to Orono, Maine for the second game, but Maine was far from comfortable at home. UMass Lowell scored just one minute, 47 seconds into the game and never looked back as the River Hawks won 6-0.

UMass Lowell goaltender Kevin Boyle had a career night with 39 saves in the win, and the River Hawks improved to 3-1-1 on the

road this year.

Although UMass Lowell has looked good on both sides of the ice, its identity this season has been on the defensive side, specifically in net. Boyle came through with another strong weekend against the Black Bears, tallying 66 saves over the two games and only allowing one goal.

Maine (0-8-3, 0-4 HEA), on the other hand, has been struggling mightily this season and has yet to record its first win.

The Black Bears are averaging just over one goal per game, and their lack of scoring ability showed against a stout goaltender in Boyle.

The River Hawks will return to action next Friday against a tough Notre Dame team while Maine will host Vermont for a pair of games.

BU, Providence tie in championship rematch

into the period.

What followed was a game defined by aggressive play that led to power play chances for each team. The Friars scored a power play goal courtesy of Jake Walman at 12:36 of the second period, and the Terriers trailed 2-0 entering the third.

But No. 11 BU (5-3-2, 3-2-2 HEA) countered with three unanswered goals in a span of just over five minutes to quickly gain a 3-2 advantage. Ahti Oksanen put the Terriers on the board with a power play goal at 7:12 of the third, and two tallies from freshman Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson put the Terriers ahead (with one of them coming on the power play again).

As it did in the national championship game, however, Providence regrouped to tie the game 3-3, as Walman scored his ninth goal of the season to even the contest. Neither team could break through for a game-winner and after a scoreless overtime, the result was a 3-3 draw.

The Friars will return to action with a home-andhome against Northeastern this weekend, while BU will host Michigan for a pair at Agganis Arena.

After a memorable national championship game last spring that saw Providence capture its first championship at TD Garden in Boston, the No. 1 Friars tied Boston University 3-3 in a rematch between the Hockey East giants and national finalists.

In Saturday’s game at Agganis Arena, the Friars (6-0-3, 0-0-2 HEA) took the lead late in the first period as Brian Pinho put Matt Lieberman can be reached at Providence ahead at 17:13 mlieberman@umass.edu.

Manning to sit with foot and rib injuries

By Dan WieDeReR Chicago Tribune

The good vibrations certainly didn’t last long.

Ten plays into Sunday’s game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning completed a 4-yard pass to Ronnie Hillman, setting off a brief deluge of fanfare and tribute.

That completion made Manning the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards, pushing him past Brett Favre (71,838) and leading to a stoppage in play so Manning could bask in his glory.

The standing ovation proved heartfelt. Manning nodded and raised the football several times, appreciating the acknowledgment.

But from there? It was nothing but misery for the star quarterback. In a dismal performance during a disheartening loss, Manning came unglued. His body ached. His passes fluttered. His mystique suddenly seemed to be in tatters.

The Chiefs won 29-13 on the Broncos’ home turf.

Manning chucked four interceptions, threw for just 35 yards and was yanked from the game with 6:34 left in the third quarter. And then came Monday’s news that the litany of injuries

the 39-year-old quarterback is dealing with – sore ribs, shoulder discomfort – also includes, according to multiple reports, plantar fasciitis in his left foot, including a partial tear of tissue.

The end result: Manning will be inactive Sunday at Soldier Field against the Bears. Brock Osweiler will start.

Broncos coach Gary Kubiak delivered that announcement Monday afternoon. It’s best for the team, Kubiak asserted. It’s best for Manning.

“I just know that we have to step back here and we have to take the time and make sure that he takes care of himself and we get him back to himself and feeling good,” Kubiak said.

Bears coach John Fox had already finished meeting with reporters at Halas Hall when the development in Denver became official.

Fox had waxed nostalgic about his three years coaching Manning – he called the quarterback “the best timemanagement guy I’ve ever seen” and lauded his competitive leadership.

“It’s how he raises all boats,” Fox said.

But in the context of this week’s preparation, Fox’s familiarity with Osweiler has suddenly become more pertinent.

“He’s smart,” Fox said.

“He’s had the opportunity to learn under one of the best. For a big man he’s got

good quickness and good athleticism. I felt good about him.”

Indeed, the NFL’s always unpredictable roller coaster has whirred through a dizzying corkscrew recently.

Suddenly, the Broncos – who just 10 days ago were one of the league’s last remaining undefeated teams – find themselves sputtering through a two-game losing streak. Sunday’s face-plant against the Chiefs marked their most lopsided home loss since 2011. And now they’re dealing with significant uncertainty at the most important position.

The Bears, meanwhile, have won two straight with Sunday’s 37-13 trouncing of the Rams seeming like a springboard victory, the kind of convincing win that can propel them forward with confidence.

Manning’s absence from Sunday’s game also now changes the complexion of an already intriguing matchup.

The Broncos have moved into adapt mode, their Super Bowl aspirations much cloudier as they seek to get their Hall of Fame quarterback healthy.

Kubiak wanted his players to understand early this week that Osweiler is their new offensive leader until further notice.

“I wanted the team to know our direction,” he said.

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In-state rivalry renewed

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Jabarie Hinds catches his breath during UMass’ 75-73 win Saturday against Howard at the Mullins Center.

UMass ready for Harvard showdown

By Anthony ChiusAno Collegian Staff

Last Saturday, it was Trey Davis’ deep 3-pointer with less than a minute left that clinched the Massachusetts men’s basketball team’s season-opening comeback win over Howard.

Now on a quick turnaround, the Minutemen return to the venue where Davis couldn’t quite connect on a late 3-point attempt in the waning seconds of last November’s loss to Harvard.

UMass (1-0) travels to Cambridge Tuesday night to face the Crimson (1-1) in the 27th installment of the in-state rivalry in which the Minutemen hold a 15-11 alltime advantage.

“When you have the nailbiters we’ve had the last couple years, I think it’s kind of one when both teams are evenly matched,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg said. “If there’s good local rivalries that we can have to go along with our national schedule, I think that benefits a lot of different things.”

Harvard handed the

Minutemen their second loss of the season last year on Nov. 29, 2014 in a 75-73 battle. Off an inbound with two seconds remaining, Davis’ potential game-winning shot bounced around the rim before falling out.

Jabarie Hinds, who finished with 10 points off the bench in last year’s matchup, said the loss still resonates with UMass, although both teams look relatively different from last season.

“Last year I felt like they stole one from us,” Hinds said before UMass’ Monday practice. “(Tuesday) we’re going to come in full focus and go hard a full 40 (minutes).”

Wesley Saunders, the Crimson’s leading scorer last year, scored a game-high 27 points in last November’s matchup. But with his graduation, Harvard has turned to a pair of freshmen guards to carry the offensive load over its first two games of 2015-16.

Freshmen Corey Johnson (13 points per game) and Tommy McCarthy (10.5) have led a talented Crimson backcourt early on. Kellogg said he plans on relying on the Minutemen’s more experienced backcourt in Hinds

and Davis – who each scored 19 points against the Bison – to counter the freshmen and maintain an up-tempo style of play.

Kellogg will also look toward guard Donte Clark to jumpstart the offense after scoring 16 points in Saturday’s opener. Despite the point total, Kellogg acknowledged his four turnovers and added he’s looking for more aggression on both sides of the ball from the sophomore.

“I’m honest with Donte and I told him, ‘I think you have another gear,’” Kellogg said.

“He scored somewhat effortlessly and I thought he was going about 80 percent as far as how hard he was pushing himself. If we can get that to 90-100 percent on both ends of the floor, then we have enough guys playing at a high level so I can then say, ‘Okay, now we look like the team I want to be.’”

In a polar opposite to the two teams’ respective guard situations, the Crimson return three major contributors from their front court while UMass comes off its opener in which it opted for a smaller lineup in the second half instead of playing freshmen Rashaan

Holloway (6-foot-11) and Malik Hines (6-foot-10).

Kellogg reiterated Monday that the decision to cut down on the pair’s minutes stemmed from the desire to enforce a constant press defense to overcome an early deficit. He added that both understood the situation and will be expected to contribute against Harvard and its experienced big men.

“I understood fully about (Kellogg) going with a small lineup and why I didn’t play much in the second half,” Holloway said. “Me as a person, it doesn’t affect me.

I understand that that’s the way we were going to win, and that’s why I’m here. I’m with him.”

He added: “(Hines and I) just have to get rid of all those freshmen jitters. We can’t have zero and two points. We’re going to have to play and get open shots for our guys and play like we’ve been here for three years.”

Tuesday’s tipoff at Lavietes Pavilion is set for 7 p.m.

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

time and he’s also a great young man.”

As a freshman, Wright was first team all-conference for the Atlantic 10 in the 800meter free relay and second team all-conference in the 200-meter medley relay. He set the school record in the 100 IM at the A-10 championship meet with a time of 1:49.22 in the preliminary round (he would finish fourth in the final). Wright also posted the fourth-fastest swims in the 100-meter freestyle (44.88, fifth place in finals) and 200meter freestyle (1:38.37 in the 800m free relay leadoff).

This year in the month of October, Wright was named the UMass student-athlete of the week along with UMass hockey’s Austin Plevy and men’s soccer’s Mark Morris.

Wright was honored after he spearheaded the Minutemen to a win at the Colgate Fall Classic to open UMass’ fall season.

With the fall season wrapping up and a successful two months behind him, Wright said the focus is on improving for the winter season as the Minutemen try to defend their A-10 title.

“I hope to train harder and enjoy being fortunate enough to compete for the school all while improving,” Wright commented on his outlook for the rest of the season.

Yarworth has high expectations for the standout sophomore for the upcoming weekend at the Terrier Invitational hosted by Boston University.

The Minutemen have won the invitational four times in the last nine years – in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2012 – and collected a third place finish in 2013. Last year the team finished in a close second place.

“I hope to break all my best times and set a school record in the 100 Free and reset my record in the 200IM,” Wright said. “Right now I’m doing as much as I can to fully recover from the flu.”

The Terrier Invitational will begin Friday at 10 a.m. in Boston.

The Massachusetts swimming and diving team suffered a tough loss against Brown Saturday, falling 20395 against the Bears in a lopsided contest.

But regardless of the outcome for the Minutemen, sophomore Owen Wright stood out amongst the team by placing either first or second in all three of his events – even though he wasn’t 100 percent healthy.

“Last weekend I actually had the flu and felt as though all my performances were off,” Wright said.

Luckily for UMass, Wright’s “under the weather” performance was still more than exceptional.

He took first in the 100meter freestyle (46.56 seconds) and placed second in the 50-meter freestyle (21.13 seconds) and 200-meter freestyle (1:43.30).

“Owen’s a competitor, he’s a kid that we can rely on, and when it’s time to race he’s going to bring it to the pool,” Minutemen coach Russ Yarworth said.

Wright started his swimming career at Attleboro High School where he competed on varsity for four years. He was a three-time Hockomock League all-star and was named the 2012-13 All-Scholastic Swimmer of the Year by the Boston Globe and Boston Herald.

“I started seriously competing in the eighth grade for a local YMCA team called Tsunami Swim Team,” Wright recalled. “Just before going into high school, I became good enough at competing that I was able to join a local club team named Attleboro Bluefish Swim Club.”

Now in college, Wright is a social thought and political economy major and one of the leaders of the Minutemen as only a sophomore.

“It’s obviously good for us to have a level swimmer like that, who’s also very competitive,” Yarworth said with a Mollie Walker can be reached at smile. “He wants to win every molliewalker@umass.edu.

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Young Minutewomen hope for healthier season in 2016 By tyler MovsessiAn Collegian Staff

Looking back on its 2015 season, the Massachusetts women’s cross country team might have hoped for a better finish on the stat sheet.

But this UMass team, which was celebrating its 40th anniversary as a program, is a very young and talented group that’s only graduating two seniors in Carly Zinner and Molly McMahon. These two athletes will be missed, but coach Julie LaFreniere is very confident that her younger runners can step up and push for better results in the future.

The Minutewomen had their ups and downs throughout the season. They finished as high as fourth place at the Atlantic 10 championships, but as low as 27th at the Paul Short Invitational. Unfortunately for

“Usually for our freshmen, it takes a full year for them to develop into the athletes they need to be. Come next August, they will be at another level.”

Julie LaFreniere, UMass coach UMass, it also ran into illness and injuries along the way, especially the former.

LaFreniere is very experienced – she was a runner on the very first Minutewomen cross country team back in 1975 – so she knew that her team was not at full health for much of the season and acted accordingly.

“This team is a very hard working and motivated group,” LaFreniere said. “Sometimes, one of my girls would come to practice looking terrible.

I would send them to bed. I remember one time when (Deidre) Martyn still wanted to run anyways. I would tell them that they would be helping the team more by going

home and getting some rest.”

While upperclassmen like Martyn and Zinner were having a hard time with illnesses, underclassmen like Brook Hansel and Renee Capps stepped up in crucial races for the Minutewomen. Hansel, a freshman, finished 110th overall in A-10s while Capps placed 97th.

“Running at the A-10 championships in Virginia was a great experience,” Hansel said. “I had a lot of fun and I got to run with great teammates.”

While Hansel and Capps got to gain experience with the varsity team, runners like Zinner and Alexa Livingstone worked hard to come back

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UMass coach Julie LaFreniere coached the Minutewomen in the program’s 40th year in 2015. from their injuries so they could get back to their team.

“When you get injured yourself, you work really hard to come back; and when you do come back, you’re more driven to succeed,” Zinner said.

With UMass’ 19th place finish at the NCAA Regionals Friday, the Minutewomen’s season has come to a close.

For now, they will work on strength and conditioning four times a week until they come back for the indoor track season in January.

LaFreniere is confident that the talented group will perform even better in 2016.

“Unfortunately, this season we were never healthy enough to get to the top. Next season

we should be right there competing with the top two teams,” LaFreniere said. “Usually for our freshmen, it takes a full year for them to develop into the athletes they need to be.

Come next August, they will be at another level.”

Tyler Movsessian can be reached at tmovsessian@umass.edu.