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The University of Massachusetts is set to host the Hult Prize, a competition between student groups to create a business plain that aims to address and solve the world’s greatest problems, on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College.

The competition encourages students to assemble into groups and brainstorm a business plan to confront the designated issue set by the Hult Prize Foundation. This year, the teams will address the issue of living conditions in crowded urban cities.

Fifteen teams are registered to compete in the Hult Prize and around 48 students will participate. The teams will present their plans to a panel of judges, with the winner representing the

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University in the Hult Prize Regional Final on March 11, 2016.

“Students derive their business ideas where it’s going to help people in crowded, urban spaces increase their income and that’s using new and innovative businesses,” UMass campus director for the Hult Prize Gina Semensi said. “It could be a spin-off of something that already exists, or (it) could be something new and totally disruptive.”

Semensi, a senior business management and nutrition major, serves as a representative for UMass and was required by the Hult Prize Foundation to have at least 10 teams register for the competition, have three judges and one press release.

She was responsible for planning and picking the venue for the competition, reaching out to judges and sponsorship and securing funds from the Isenberg see

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Shaha: The Storytellers present issues of racism in the LGBTQIA+ community during their performance in Thompson Hall on Tuesday night.

UMass Transit to increase New magnet system to boost minimum wage to $13.25 UMass’ research capabilities Pay increase will start Jan. 3, 2016

By ShelBy AShline Collegian Staff

The University of Massachusetts Transit Services will increase its starting pay rate from $10.25 per hour to $13.25 per hour as of Jan. 3, 2016, in order to reflect increasing minimum wage.

The pay increase serves as an incentive to encourage students to apply for jobs within the department and to reward current employees for their hard work and substantial responsibility, according to general manager of UMass Transit Services Glenn Barrington.

“The increase in driver pay is long overdue,” Barrington said in an email.

“Over the past decade, as minimum wage has increased, driver pay has not kept up.”

Prior to 2005, employees of UMass Transit Services

had the highest paying jobs on campus, according to Rauley Caine, marketing and public relations coordinator for UMass Transit Services.

In fact, in 1999, the starting pay for drivers was 43 percent higher than the minimum wage. However, because of inflation, the difference had dissipated to 14 percent by 2015, according to Barrington.

Caine added that there are now numerous jobs on campus that pay more while often requiring shorter training times – it takes one to two months to train a bus driver. Their work, he said, comes with a huge responsibility.

“If you drive a 60-foot, $1.2 million bendy bus, you should be paid an appropriate wage,” Caine said in a phone interview. Of course, the drivers are also responsible for the safety of hundreds of passengers each shift.

In comparison to other transit companies in the area, Caine explained, the current $10.25 starting wage

is lagging behind.

He said the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority currently operates three garages: UMass Transit Services, Valley Area Transportation Company in Northampton and Springfield Area Transportation Company.

The Northampton branch pays its staff $17.22 per hour and the Springfield branch pays its staff $18.45 per hour, although neither company utilizes student drivers.

“They’re all doing the same job that (UMass Transit Services drivers) are,” Caine said. “In reality, it’s a professional position and since you’re a driver with a (Commercial Driver’s License), your position automatically garners a certain wage in this country… we don’t think that our drivers should be making less of a wage because they’re students.”

The January increase will mark a 33 percent buffer over Massachusetts’ minimum wage, which will be raised see

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$3.2 million unit brought to campus

By JoSeph CArStAirS Collegian Correspondent

Two weeks ago, the University of Massachusetts’ Life Sciences Laboratories got a big delivery. A $3.2 million, 7.3-ton, 3-Tesla magnet and related equipment arrived on Nov. 17 as part of a $95 million Massachusetts Life Sciences Institute grant given to the University in 2013.

The magnet and its accompanying equipment, which will be used in the building’s Human Magnetic Resonance Center, can take images of body tissue and organs in real time and will be available for research use by students involved in labs and will be incorporated in both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Kinesiology professor Jane Kent, who helped coordi-

nate the magnet’s arrival, compared it to an MRI machine.

“This is the state-ofthe-art for the western Massachusetts region,” she said in a University statement. “Nobody else will have the capabilities to do the exercise studies that we will be doing with this new equipment.”

The system is expected to enhance the University’s research abilities in many different areas, from investigating communication disorders to conducting sleep studies. Kent said students in neural imaging groups could use the equipment to study cognitive function using brain imaging, while students in engineering groups could look at tissue properties and designing better prosthetics.

“Part of the whole operation plan includes an education component for the (undergraduates), to give them opportunities,” she said, noting that the magnet would be used primar-

ily for research.

Though the magnet has been delivered to campus, its installation is not yet complete. Kent said she is hoping the project will be finished in about three weeks, though the equipment will not be available for use until construction on the Life Sciences Laboratories is completed. She estimated that the building wouldn’t be able to be used until early February.

An open house will be held in the spring to showcase the capabilities of the magnet, according to Kent.

In addition to using the new system for her own research – how muscles produce energy while contracting – Kent said she hopes to use the magnet with the students in an exercise physiology course she is teaching next semester.

Joseph Carstairs can be reached at jcarstairs@umass.edu.

US to send more special forces to Iraq to fight Islamic State The Pentagon plans to deploy 200 more troops

will help facilitate the U.S.-led coalition’s air campaign, Carter told the House Armed Services Committee.

“These special operators

By W.J. hennigAn will over time be able to conTribune Washington Bureau duct raids, free hostages, gather WASHINGTON – The Pentagon intelligence and capture” Islamic plans to deploy about 200 more State leaders in Iraq, he said. special operations troops to Iraq “That creates a virtuous cycle of and has stepped up airstrikes better intelligence, which generin an effort to break a military ates more targets, more raids stalemate with Islamic State, and more momentum.”

The new force ultimately will Defense Secretary Ashton Carter be able to launch raids and other told Congress on Tuesday.

“Specialized expeditionary operations against Islamic State targeting force” members will targets in Syria, he added.

“It puts everyone on notice in serve as advisers to the Iraqi military and Kurdish militias, and Syria: You don’t know at night

who’s coming through the window,” Carter said.

The shift marks a deepening involvement for the U.S. military, which has deployed about 3,500 troops at six sites in Iraq over the last 16 months to help train and advise Iraqi security forces.

The Pentagon also recently deployed fewer than 50 U.S. special operators to Kurdishcontrolled areas in northeastern Syria to advise vetted Syrian and Kurdish rebel groups.

Carter did not say how many new troops would be sent to Iraq, but a U.S. defense official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the mission, said the

force would consist of about 200 special operators, search and rescue personnel and other related forces.

The increase comes as coalition aircraft on ships and in regional bases launched a record number of airstrikes against Islamic State in November.

“We’re at war,” Carter said.

“Tens of thousands of U.S. personnel are operating in the broader Middle East region, and more are on the way.”

That blunt characterization appeared to surprise lawmakers, who peppered Carter with questions about Obama administration strategy.

“It’s not war in a technical sense, but this is serious business,” he responded. “It feels that way to our people.”

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the new force would accelerate the gathering of useful intelligence and “will make our operations much more effective.”

“In the days ahead, we’ll be aggressive in looking for ways to reinforce success,” Dunford said.

“And we’ll seize every opportunity to increase the tempo and effectiveness of our operations.” see

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Zuckerberg giving away 99 percent of Facebook stock to celebrate daughter’s birth SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan publicly welcomed their daughter by launching a new charity on Tuesday to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children.”

The Chan Zuckerberg initiative will focus on personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities, the couple wrote in a letter to their daughter, Max. The couple said they will give 99 percent of their Facebook shares – currently about $45 billion – during their lives to advance this mission.

“Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us,” they wrote in the letter.

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Human Rights Watch calls for reopening CIA abuse investigations WASHINGTON — A major human rights group urged the Justice Department to reopen long-closed criminal investigations into alleged CIA torture of detainees in overseas prisons after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In a 153-page report released Tuesday, Human Rights Watch argued that sufficient evidence exists for the attorney general to order criminal investigations of senior Bush administration officials and others for torture, conspiracy to torture and other crimes.

The group called for an investigation of officials who authorized the CIA program, including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

The human rights group relied heavily on the summary of a still-classified Senate Intelligence Committee report that revealed extensive details of mistreatment under the CIA program, including waterboarding, rectal feeding, stress positions and other painful techniques.

Release of the summary last December sparked a public debate over whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques had helped gather useful intelligence. The Senate committee concluded they did not.

But it did not evaluate the legality of the program.

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UMass Transit employees will be paid $13.25 per hour come Jan. 2016. from $9 to $10. According to Barrington, UMass Transit Services will continue to increase the wages going forward to maintain the 33 percent difference, including in 2017, when minimum wage is slated to raise to $11 per hour.

In addition, UMass Transit Services employees receive a 25 cent raise each semester they work with the department. Top wages for positions in 2016 will be $15.

According to Caine, the University will not be responsible for the pay increase. Instead, it will be funded by PVTA, which owns all of UMass Transit Services’ vehicles.

“We tell the PVTA how much we spend on labor and they fund it,” Caine said.

Caine and Barrington hope that the increase in wages will help to encourage more students to apply to work for UMass Transit Services, seeing as how they would like to have 20 to 30 more drivers.

Although UMass Transit Services is not experiencing a shortage of drivers, it expanded its service to offer longer full service hours following a decision by the University to extend class times to 6:30 p.m.

Originally, the “peak operating hours” when buses operate a route every

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15 minutes, were from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Caine said.

To accommodate later class periods, peak operating hours were extended to 8:30 p.m.

“We have a great increase in service, which naturally results in a need for drivers,” Caine said.

Despite this change, Caine pointed out that UMass Transit Services has “not logged a single service loss this semester” and has “not had to miss busses or curb routes due to the lack of a driver.”

Instead, he said, current drivers have stepped up to take more shifts, often working anywhere from 25 to 35 hours each week.

The future increase in pay has also served as an incentive for current UMass Transit Services employees to continue their work, and Caine noted that he has noticed “a massive boost in morale.”

“This pay increase is just a recognition of all their hard work,” he said.

“People put in long hours, sometimes for middle-ofthe-night shifts and they deserve a livable wage.”

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

WASHINGTON — Congress returns to Washington this week facing a potential showdown over Syrian refugees resettling in the U.S., a battle that could lead to a partial shutdown of the government.

Lawmakers must approve a $1.1 trillion spending bill before Dec. 11. And some opponents of President Barack Obama’s effort to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in this country view the mustpass funding measure as the perfect vehicle to thwart the administration’s plan.

“I think it’s better than 50-50 that we’re going to get one,” Norman Ornstein, a centrist scholar on politics and Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, said of a shutdown.

The House of Representatives passed a bill before its Thanksgiving recess that essentially blocks the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the U.S. unless they pass heightened security background checks.

But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has vowed to block the bill sponsored by Republican Reps. Richard Hudson of North Carolina and Michael McCaul of Texas. And Obama threatens to veto it if the bill arrives at his desk, even though it passed the House on a veto-proof bipartisan 289137 vote.

That leaves the spending bill, said Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. “That’s the logical next step, especially if the Senate doesn’t take up the issue,” said Mulvaney, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. “The House will use the power of the

purse. If the president wants to challenge us on that and shut the government down we can have that debate then.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., dismissed shutdown talk on a series of potentially contentious issues from refugee resettlement to federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

“I don’t see a shutdown happening,” McCarthy said Monday.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest, speaking Monday in Paris, said the administration is trusting Republican leaders to keep their word. He noted that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has several times “assured the American public that there won’t be a shutdown this year.”

“Obviously, the Senate majority leader will have a lot to say about the outcome, so his steadfast commitment to ensuring that doesn’t happen is certainly something that we take some solace in,” Earnest said.

Despite those assurances, some GOP lawmakers are agitating to use the spending bill as a vehicle to stem the refugee resettlement program.

Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, sent a letter with at least 73 Republican signatures calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., to halt funding for refugee resettlement in the spending bill unless the White House establishes stricter vetting procedures for refugees.

Lawmakers who advocate linking the Syrian refugee issue to the omnibus spending bill feel that public opinion would be with them this time, despite polls showing the majority of Americans blamed Republicans for partial government shutdowns in 1996 and 2013.

But some political experts say Democrats and the White

House also need to tread cautiously on the refugee issue or potentially pay a price if fear of terrorism remains a frontburner issue in 2016.

“I don’t think there’s any question where the public is on this,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

“Given that they (Democrats) are running upstream, they have to worry about how the public interprets it.”

House Democrats appeared mindful of that.

Among the 47 Democrats who voted for the GOPsponsored refugee bill were 13 members of the Democratic Cong ressional Campaign Committee’s Frontline program for vulnerable incumbents.

And the question of Syrian refugees already appears to be playing out on the congressional campaign trail.

Rep. Patrick Murphy, who is seeking the open Florida Senate seat created

by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s decision not to seek re-election, was among the Democrats who voted for the bill.

New Hampshire Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan, who’s running against incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, was the first Democratic governor to support suspending the refugees program until there are assurances that those seeking to enter the United States are properly vetted.

Governors in at least 30 states also have voiced objections to refugee resettlement plan citing security concerns.

Those concerns were magnified by reports that one of the Paris terrorist suspects had a fake Syrian passport and entered Europe with a wave of refugees from that war-torn country.

Obama doesn’t expect Russia to shift focus in Syria President doubts anti-Islamic efforts By miChael a. memoli Tribune Washington Bureau

PARIS — President Barack Obama expressed fresh doubts Tuesday about Russia’s willingness to turn away from a military campaign in Syria focused on “propping up” President Bashar Assad and instead joining efforts to battle the Islamic State, saying that he doesn’t expect a “180 turn” in the near future.

“I don’t think we should be under any illusions that

somehow Russia starts hitting only ISIL targets,” Obama said, using his administration’s preferred term for the Islamic State.

“That’s not happening now.

It was never happening. It’s not going to be happening in the next several weeks.”

Speaking at a news conference closing his two-day visit to Paris for a global climate summit and a day after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Obama seemed increasingly resigned to a prolonged battle against the Islamic State. The terrorist group is “going to be a serious threat for time to come,” he

said, given its efficient social media tactics, the resources it has from the oil trade and other means, and its network of experienced fighters.

But he insisted, as he did last week, that he was “confident we are on the winning side of this.” A dinner late Monday with French President Francois Hollande was meant to be an opportunity for the two leaders to discuss new efforts to strengthen the international coalition fighting the extremists.

But the stalemate over Syria remains a sticking point. The president said a

diplomatic effort to set the path for ending the nation’s bloody civil war is “moving forward steadily,” though “not conclusively,” as the U.S. continues to insist Assad step down before any political transition.

“We’re going to just keep on working at this,” Obama said. “My hope and expectation is that that political track will move at the same time as we continue to apply greater and greater pressure on ISIL.” Obama said he thinks Putin understands that Russia cannot “simply get bogged down in a inconclusive and paralyzing civil

conflict,” and noted that Putin has dealt now with a passenger jet downed by Islamic State militants over Egypt and a Russian military jet shot down by the Turks as it made a brief pass through its airspace.

The latter has presented Obama with additional hurdles. Earlier Tuesday, he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss ways to “de-escalate” tensions inflamed by the shoot-down.

“We all have a common enemy, and that is ISIL,” he said. “I want to make sure that we focus on that threat.”

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Jury selection continues in Freddie Gray case in Baltimore Officer has pleaded not guilty to charges

By JustiN FeNtoN aNd KeviN rector The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — A second pool of potential jurors was being questioned Tuesday morning in the effort to seat a jury for the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William Porter in the death of Freddie Gray.

Like Monday’s first panel, everyone in the 75-person pool said they were aware of Gray’s death and the citywide curfew imposed in response to the unrest that followed. One person said they were unaware of the $6.4 million civil settlement paid to Gray’s family by the city.

Two people in the pool stood when asked if they knew Gray.

Monday’s pool was dismissed with no indication of whether or how many individual jurors had been dismissed, with Judge Barry Williams telling them to return Wednesday unless “otherwise instructed.”

More than 1,400 juror numbers were called to the start of the trial Monday, with the jury pool being ushered into a white marble courtroom adorned with paintings of notable lawyers, including Thurgood

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Marshall, a Baltimorean who served on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Porter, 26, has pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment, with prosecutors alleging he failed to get medical help for Gray when Gray complained of injuries after his arrest.

Defense attorneys have repeatedly asked Williams to move the trial out of the city, arguing that publicity surrounding the case and the prospect of additional city unrest could influence the jurors’ decision. Williams rejected those requests, saying the trial should be heard

by Baltimore jurors, though he also left open the possibility that the case could be moved if an impartial jury couldn’t be found.

Gray, 25, was arrested in West Baltimore on April 12 and driven around in the back of a police transport van for about 45 minutes before arriving at the Western District police station, where he was found to be unresponsive. He died a week later from a severe spinal cord injury sustained in the van.

Rioting broke out on the afternoon of Gray’s funeral on April 27, leading Gov. Larry Hogan to call in the National Guard and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to institute a weeklong nightly

curfew.

The Baltimore trials have gained national prominence as activists have sought to bring attention to police brutality and to the lack of charges in other cases where young black men have been killed, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The latest case to spark protests occurred in Chicago, where a police officer was charged with first-degree murder more than a year after fatally shooting a 17-year-old boy.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby charged the six officers involved in Gray’s arrest and transport on May 1. The charges were condemned at the time by police union officials as a “rush to judgment.” Mosby’s office would later credit the decision with restoring order to the city.

Porter, who is expected to take the stand, was present at multiple stops of the transport van in which Gray was injured, and prosecutors allege he should have sought medical attention for Gray.

The Baltimore Sun has previously reported that, according to a police review of Porter’s statement to detectives, Porter mentioned not being sure whether Gray was faking his injury. His attorneys have cited another portion of Porter’s statement, in which he said he recognized Gray “from the neighborhood,” and that

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A group of people gather outside the courthouse in Baltimore on Monday where William Porter is on trial concerning the death of Freddie Gray in April, which brought national attention to issues of police brutality. it was “always a big scene whenever you attempted to arrest Freddie Gray.”

Porter’s case is being tried first because prosecutors said they consider him a “material” witness against two other officers.

William H. “Billy” Murphy, the attorney for Gray’s family, said people in Baltimore should wait for Porter’s trial to take place – and for the jury to reach a verdict – before coming to any conclusion as to what that verdict should be.

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The White House has come under growing criticism for the continued impasse since the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, with critics in both parties calling for a stronger U.S. effort. Islamic State has retreated from some areas, but still holds major cities in Sunni-dominated parts of Syria and Iraq.

But Carter’s plan raises fresh questions about the expanding American role in Iraq and Syria, and President Barack Obama’s vow to not put U.S. “boots on the ground” to fight the extremist group.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services

“It puts everyone on notice in Syria: You don’t know at night who’s coming through the window, and that’s the sensation we want all of ISIL’s leadership and followers to have.”

Ashton Carter, Defense Secretary Committee and a harsh critic of the administration policy, called the latest escalation a “belated step forward.”

“However, today’s announcement is yet another reactive and incremental step, specifically responding to the Paris attacks, in a policy that has allowed the ISIL threat to metasta-

size to Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere across the globe,” McCain said in a statement, using one of the acronyms for Islamic State.

“A comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL is totally absent, urgently needed, and long overdue.”

In his testimony Tuesday, Carter said Turkey “must do more” to

control its often-porous border with Syria to prevent Islamic State from smuggling goods and fighters to and from the battlefield.

He also acknowledged that only a handful of the 65 countries in the U.S.-led coalition are conducting airstrikes or otherwise participating in military operations. U.S. warplanes have carried out the vast majority of more than 8,200 airstrikes so far.

“Saudi Arabia and the gulf states joined the air campaign in the early days but have since been preoccupied by the conflict in Yemen,” he said.

Western Washington student set at $10,000 bail for racist threats Campbell will be arraigned Dec. 11

By JacK Broom The Seattle Times

BELLINGHAM, Wash.

— A court commissioner set bail at $10,000 for the Western Washington University student accused of posting threats against students of color on a social media website.

Whatcom County Court Commissioner Martha Gross on Tuesday found probable cause to hold Tysen Campbell, 19, for investigation of firstdegree malicious harassment, the state’s hate crime statute. Campbell, who has not been charged, will be arraigned Dec. 11.

Although formal charging is not expected before his arraignment, Gross said, she told Campbell that first-degree malicious harassment can carry a term of up to five years in prison. According to state law, malicious harassment is an attack motivated by a perception of someone’s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability, and results in phys-

asked Monday was whether they would give “more or less weight” to the testimony of a police officer, to which seven people stood.

Twelve said they worked in or had an immediate family member who worked in law enforcement.

The largest number of people – 38 – stood when asked if they had been a victim of a crime or had ever been charged with a crime.

Twenty-six people stood when asked if they had strong feelings about the types of crimes Porter was

ical injury, property damage or threats that would place a reasonable person in fear of harm.

Gross barred Campbell from coming near Belina Seare, WWU student body president, the alleged target of a threat last week on the social media site Yik Yak. Campbell answered “yes” when Gross asked if he agreed to the stipulations on his release.

Campbell’s attorney, Robert Butler, would not comment to reporters on the allegations.

“We look forward to seeing the evidence. They haven’t written up anything yet,” he said, referring to the prosecutor’s allegations.

Speaking of Campbell’s lack of a criminal record, Butler said, “My client doesn’t have so much as a speeding ticket.”

At the request of Butler, Gross modified a provision that would have required Campbell to stay in Whatcom County and agreed that he could go to his family’s home in Granite Falls.

Campbell’s older brother, Morgan Campbell, was at the courthouse to post

bail. “ I don’t know what even happened,” he said. “It sounds like it was an honest mistake. He said something that shouldn’t have been said, and it spiraled out of control.”

Campbell was arrested Monday in connection with a post that read: “Let’s lynch her.” The threat referred to Seare, who is African-American. A polevaulter and member of the track team, Campbell has been suspended from WWU and barred from campus.

The threat Campbell allegedly posted was one of dozens of profanity-laced threats that anonymous commenters made about Seare, WWU cultural diversity student leader Abby Ramos and other students of color in the days leading up to the Thanksgiving break.

The threat followed a suggestion by student government leaders that the school rethink its mascot, a Viking, because it didn’t represent all students. The threat was anonymous, but Western campus police served a subpoena on Yik Yak, leading to Campbell’s name.

In an interview Monday,

Campbell’s mother, Lisa Concidine, said her son told here he made a post that was “sarcastic because he was annoyed by all of the uproar.” Campbell told his mother he deleted it right away.

Citing campus safety concerns, Western President Bruce Shepard suspended classes Nov. 24.

But the students who were threatened have sharply criticized him for not acting quickly and thoroughly enough.

The incident has caused much soul-searching on the Bellingham campus, a school about 90 miles north of Seattle better known for a laid-back atmosphere.

All the threats were posted anonymously.

The case is playing out amid a backdrop of protests by black students over incidents of racism at universities across the country. Western students say there’s a climate of racism on campus.

During a town hallstyle meeting on campus Monday, Shepard and several professors and staff acknowledged the school is struggling with racism and hasn’t always done enough to try to stamp it out.

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Williams has ruled that the jurors will remain anonymous. He denied a defense request to sequester the jury to shield them from outside influence during the proceedings.

At the end of Monday’s proceedings, Williams ordered all of the potential jurors to “not discuss anything at all” from the proceedings, whether they had received instructions relieving them of their juror duties or not.

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School of Management.

“My role has just been to spreading the word about the Hult Prize, getting people excited about a really cool opportunity that’s not just helping at UMass, but helping beyond,” Semensi said.

The panel of judges are comprised of representatives from companies like Next Step Living, a home energyefficient company, accounting firms, and UMass faculty members like Lee Badgett, professor of economics and director of the Center of Public Policy and Administration.

Each group will have four minutes to pitch their ideas to the judges. The panel will grade each group on if their business plan aligns with the issue of crowded urban spaces.

Six of the regional finalist teams will attend the Hult Prize Accelerator, a six-week program of entrepreneurial seminars hosted by the Hult International Business School during the summer. Following the Acceleration program, the six teams will attend the

Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting during September.

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will host the Hult Prize Global Finals, where the six teams will pitch their business plans. The CGI Meeting attendees, including Clinton, will select the winning team and award them with one million US Dollars in start-up funds.

“It is really cool because you could actually create your idea; a legitimate and functioning enterprise,” Semensi said.

She hopes that UMass will continue to hold the Hult Prize competition in the future.

“I’m a senior, so (hopefully) next year, it could be even more successful. We could have not 15 but 25 teams.

The year after that, everyone knows about the Hult Prize and 35 teams could compete,” Semensi said.

Danny Cordova can be reached at dcordova@umass.edu.

US Marine guilty of transgender killing Judge in Philippine court makes ruling

By NormaN P. aquiNo Bloomberg News

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of killing a transgender Filipino, in a case that has ignited anti-American sentiment in the former U.S. colony.

A judge in Olongapo City on Tuesday convicted Joseph Scott Pemberton of homicide and sentenced him to six to 12 years in jail. Pemberton could have faced a life sentence had Judge Roline Ginez-Jabalde granted prosecutors request for a murder conviction.

Ginez-Jabalde cited mitigating circumstances, saying Pemberton was drunk and got confused after discovering that the woman he hired for sex was male.

The U.S. Marine, who’s being detained in a U.S. facility at a military headquarters in Manila, was accused of killing Jeffrey Laude, a 26-year-old male sex worker who identified as a woman.

Laude was found strangled in October last year in a motel after being last seen with a foreign man, police said. Roline Ginez-Jabalde ordered Pemberton to be transferred to a Philippine jail in Muntinlupa City.

Pemberton strangled Laude in disgust and “in the heat of passion” after discovering she was male, dragging his victim to the bathroom and dunking her head in the toilet bowl, the court said. Pemberton was committed to the National Penitentiary near the capital, pending a decision by U.S. and Philippine authorities on his detention facility.

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To the editor: On Dec. 9, just two days shy of the close of the Paris climate talks, the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees will meet, and the UMass community will be watching. Some students, faculty, staff and alumni expect the Board will vote to divest their endowment from the fossil fuel industry, thus removing their support of global climate disaster, exploitation and human suffering. For three years, the UMass Board of Trustees has failed to meet the demands of student and community activists for full divestment from the fossil fuel industry. The time for action is now. As people all over the world make a resounding call for bold commitments to climate justice from our world leaders in Paris, we look to the leaders of our university with the expectation that they too will not wait any longer to act for climate justice.

This Monday marked the beginning of the 21st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, or

In the past few years, the world has woken up to the fact that there is more carbon in the fossil fuel industry’s reserves than humans can safely burn without triggering abrupt and catastrophic climate change. We have already seen the impacts of irresponsible carbon extraction and emission, and we have seen that they are felt first, and most violently, in poor and marginalized communities. By maintaining its investments in fossil fuel companies, our university is willingly betting against the public interest and in favor of the destruction of human lives, now and in the future that the university’s students will inherit.

With the support of students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni on multiple UMass campuses, this campaign has done absolutely everything in its power to demonstrate the urgent moral imperative of divestment. We met with administrators, presented a five-year proposal for divestment from the top 200 fossil fuel companies, and demonstrated the UMass community’s overwhelming call for divestment through petitions, rallies, and public actions. In spite of the numerous administrative hurdles we have had to face, we are confident that the work done by students and the community has fully paved the way for the board to act immediately. Nothing stands in the way of a vote to divest unless our leaders’ priorities have been skewed by the powerful politics of fossil fuel interests.

COP21 as it’s known in all the Twitter and Facebook hashtags. This year’s conference is pivotal unlike those of years past; as Laurent Fabius, minister of French foreign affairs said, it’s meant to unite “the world’s nongovernmental stakeholders for the climate, including cities, regions, businesses, non governmental organizations, social and economic forces, and citizens.”

The objective is to reach

Noosha Uddin

In his first speech as new chairman of the board, Victor Woolridge emphasized taking courageous action, driven by “the fierce urgency of now,” citing Martin Luther King, Jr. King stated in 1963, “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.” We know that President Meehan and Chairman Woolridge understand the importance of taking leadership in this moment, and acting with the moral courage that King demanded.

“It’s the one topic that U.S. politicians have been alone in arguing, while the rest of the world has moved on in at least recognizing it’s an actual problem.”

Now is a time for all of us to amplify the voices of people demanding climate justice in Paris, as well as those around the world who are unable to speak out, but need action more than anyone. We, UMass students and the community, have spoken up, and next week, we will watch University leaders with expectation and hope that they will take this vital step to stand on the right side of history, the side of humanity, and in opposition of this outdated and destructive industry.

From, Sarah Jacqz Sophomore student and member of the UMass Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

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Stop judging Black Friday shoppers Contrary to popular belief, no one should be ashamed

They were just out shopping on a Friday like you or I usually would on any other day.

William Keve This got me to thinking about the real reason we to shop on Black Friday. It hate Black Friday shoppers. doesn’t make you cheap, poor, This judgment exists because desperate or immoral to give the people who make statein to the capitalist forces clos- ments like, “Those people ing in on all sides. The level need to enjoy Thanksgiving of judgement passed on the hordes of early-season holiday shoppers has skyrocketed in the past few years, and I think that trend really needs to reverse out of respect for human decency.

I was in an interesting position of needing to go shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving for an entirely different reason than most. I was on vacation and am oth- with their families,” are only erwise too busy to go shop- saying those things because ping during the day. The they’re desperate to have image of the crazy old lady someone below them. Their in Walmart tearing the last own Thanksgiving dinners Tickle-Me-Elmo from a child’s are filled with small talk and arms had always reversed cell phone use, or they don’t my temptations to get good get along with their families deals on things I legitimately the other 364 days a year and needed, but this year urgency are filling this void with an pressed me to my local mall. imaginary slice of society I saw very crowded busi- that must be doing worse nesses, long lines at cash than they are. This is why registers and no parking for deplorable viral Youtube vidmiles. Granted, I didn’t go eos and news coverage of to a big box parking lot at Black Friday violence exist.

6 a.m, but the people I met People get trampled at sportwere as mellow and polite as I ing events and concerts all the would expect any large crowd time and there are a million of human beings to be. They reasons why a scuffle could weren’t overwhelmingly poor, break out at the Apple Store, violent, stupid or unethical. but post-food coma Americans

are compelled to indulge in this bottom-of-the-barrel variety of people watching.

Unfortunately, this judgment flows parallel to hateful rhetoric regarding Americans in poverty. As Aly Nichols wrote last week, Black Friday is a vicious marketing stunt. It targets two kinds

“The best advice I can give you is to go to Black Friday next year. See the people you might otherwise chastise.

See that they are your neighbors, friends and fellow citizens.”

include U.S. president Barack Obama, who called upon other leaders to set an example for the next generation, since we’re all waiting and watching to see what kind of mess us Millennials will have to clean up. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin reiterated the point that the growth of the global economy is independent from gas emissions and stated that the participating nations “can ensure economic development and take care of our environment at the same time.”

Even president Xi Jinping, leader of the nation responsible for 28 percent of global CO2 emissions as of 2011 in China, is pledging

I don’t think nay-sayers of these shoppers realize how they sound. They are blaming the victims of Black Friday marketing instead of the corporations who cause these problems. Our entire economy is based on the premise that consumers will buy a cheaper object over a more expensive one, yet somehow we expect people to ignore the best possible opportunity to get ahead. It’s like putting a plate of turkey and mashed potatoes in front of a hungry man and judging him for eating it.

The best advice I can give you is to go to Black Friday next year. See the people you might otherwise chastise. See that they are your neighbors, friends and fellow citizens.

Engage along with them. Buy something, wait in line and save some money. Will you feel ashamed? Hopefully not.

Maybe, like me, the significance of what’s happening won’t even really occur to you until days later. It could just be a regular errand when you happen to keep a few bucks extra in your pocket.

This supposedly awful thing that you’ve probably never tried can actually be as great as you want it to be.

I think that logic can apply to a lot of other things in life as well as Black Friday.

of people: compulsory shoppers and the working poor.

Advertisements bombard our senses with examples of ideal families who are only ideal because they celebrate a rich Christmas. This immediately deflates the consumer’s sense of class aspiration, assuming they can’t afford the awesome products they seen on television. But wait. One day exists where a consumer can trade his dignity for the ability to build the happy family he sees on television. That sad cycle is to say nothing of the negative externalities of Black Friday: underpaid employees working long hours, dis- William Keve is a Collegian rupted Thanksgiving dinners, columnist and can be reached at and even injuries and deaths. wkeve@umass.edu.

a unanimous decision on keeping the rise in global temperature capped at two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2020 – a means of regulating how much greenhouse gas emissions each nation produces now in comparison to the preindustrial era and how much each needs to cut down.

In short, it’s meant to create a game plan in dealing with the current global climate crisis once and for all. But how can we be sure this conference isn’t just another high profile meeting that leads to nothing but more debates on whether or not climate change is real? It’s the one topic that U.S. politicians have been alone in arguing, while the rest of the world has moved on in at least recognizing it’s an actual problem.

Nevertheless, world leaders are hopeful, discussing what could be monumental for the next generation in a city recently struck with tragedy. The State of Emergency that French President François Hollande declared immediately following the Islamic State attacks calls for a ban on protests and demonstrations, a directive that’s sparking unrest between policemen and climate activists. And so, outside the gates of what could be the most important conference of the time a too familiar dispute between the police and citizens of the state ensues once more.

Notable speakers

to cut emissions by 2030.

Why two degrees? The number was proposed by Yale economist William Nordhaus back in 1977, where he argues anything more than a two degree rise in temperature “would take the climate outside of the range of observations which have been made over the last several hundred thousand years.” But even that may be too high of a threshold; nations among the equatorial regions are already experiencing intense hurricanes, crop shortages, decline in freshwater, and other normalized natural disasters that would’ve been categorized as rare occurrences a generation ago. Placing the cap at two degrees Celsius protects northern states – the richer states – from the impending climate crisis just a little longer.

World leaders, business CEOs and activism groups can give speech after inflammatory speech calling for action, pledging to change and congratulating themselves on domestic cuts on greenhouse gas emissions. Ultimately, however, only a collaborative effort from all nations, business, nongovernmental organizations, citizens and the like will prevent us from destroying the planet.

COP21 has just begun; let’s see how the next couple of weeks unfold.

Noosha Uddin is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at nuddin@umass.edu.

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City and Colour headlines Calvin Theatre Friday

By Morgan HugHes Collegian Correspondent Singer/songwriter Dallas Green – better known as City and Colour – will stop by the Calvin Theatre in Northampton this Friday.

Beginning in 2005 with his debut album “Sometimes,” Green has been producing most of his works as a oneman band, one instrument at a time. City and Colour has won several Juno Awards over the last few years, including Alternative Album of the Year (2007 for “Sometimes”), Artist of the Year (2009 and 2012) and Songwriter of the Year (2012.)

Although the past three years have been quiet for Green, he has made a strong comeback with his new album “If I Should Go Before You,” which was released Oct. 9. The album kicks off with the nineminute long track “Woman,” which sounds something like the lovechild of the yearning tones of Hozier and the crisp vocals and catchy beats of Ed Sheeran’s edgier side.

The blend of influences in City and Colour’s music meet somewhere in the middle of light and heavy. With songs for the folk lovers, country rednecks, hard-rockers and everyone in between, it’s hard to decide from whom Green was mainly influenced. In addition to these many sounds, Green

combined with his rich vocals create a sound that makes you want to close your eyes and just feel it.

City and Colour’s live band features Jack Lawrence from the Raconteurs and Dead Weather on the bass, Dante Schwebel from Spanish Gold on the guitar, Doug MacGregor from Constantines on the drums, and Matt Kelly on the pedal steel and keys.

Bahamas, also known as Afie Jurvanen, will open for City and Colour this weekend. Also a native Canadian, this self-taught guitarist has worked with big names including Jack Johnson and Howie Beck. Bahamas took home two Juno Awards this year, for Adult Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Bahamas’ sound mixes the vocals of Jack Johnson and the instrumentals of indie rock with a folky twist. His most recent album, “Bahamas is Afie,” was released in August 2014.

City and Colour’s perforMILES TSANG/FLICKR mance at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton this Friday Dallas Green’s Juno Award-winning City and Colour project incorporates a wide variety of sounds, influences and musical genres. is set to begin at 8 p.m. Tickets also worked with P!nk in the the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter acts might make Green himself- Dallas, the city, range from $29.50-$39.50 and can be purchased at the Iron duo You+Me, and had a minor songwriter for screamo, post- one envision some kind of and Green, the color. But, don’t Horse Entertainment Group dreamy, cotton candy and judge this book by its cover- a hit with its folky, October 2014 hardcore band Alexisonfire. website.

The name “City and rainbow kind of commercial rose by any other name would single “You and Me.” This is all on top of where Colour,” along with the com- pop, but this act is anything truly smell as sweet. Green’s Morgan Hughes can be reached at Green got his start, as also mon stereotypes of singer- but. The name comes from full-sounding instrumentals mahughes@umass.edu.

ALBUM REVIEW

ALBUM REVIEW

Bieber is overeager to please Frankie Cosmos embraces electronics on stellar new EP By kunal kHunger Collegian Correspondent

To say that Justin Bieber’s road to his latest album “Purpose” has been rocky doesn’t even come close to capturing the full picture of his personal turmoil. Bieber’s antics have dominated headlines significantly more than his musical progression, with highlights like being filmed urinating in a bucket and getting arrested for a DUI in Miami.

For a while, it looked like he was doomed to travel in a downward spiral like many of his child-star colleagues who took a similar path in their transition to adulthood. Now, one year and a roast later, Justin Bieber finishes his apology tour with his most accomplished album to date, “Purpose.”

This isn’t to say this means “Purpose” is a classic. It is obvious from the album’s sound that Bieber is attempting to reach an adult audience that was previously inaccessible to him in his earlier releases.

Propelled by the strength of the singles “I’ll Show You,” “What Do You Mean” and “Sorry,” he captured an older demographic that has eluded him throughout his career with the use of more mature themes and wordplay.

But while the strength of the album’s high production values and his smooth voice

only benefit him, Bieber struggles throughout “Purpose” to consistently reach the high standard that the album’s own singles placed on him.

With this album, Bieber finally actively tries to explain what his life is actually like.

Bieber sings, “My life is a movie and everyone is watching,” on “I’ll Show You” (which is easily one of the highlights of this album), shedding some light on the insecurity and vulnerability that has been missing from his music since the start of his career.

The strength of the songwriting has improved dramatically over his previous efforts, bringing a real sense of gravitas and weight. In spite of that, there are plenty of missteps.

The fact that “Love Yourself” does not come off as an angry tirade is solely to the strength of Ed Sheeran’s ability to make negative emotions palatable for a wide audience.

“Children,” which is Bieber’s attempt at a “Man in the Mirror” type of cultural moment, is nearly laughable in its attempt to stir the public conscience. “Life Is Worth Living” seems artificial in its sentiments, reaching for positivity in order to paint himself in a different light after all the negative press. It’s just obvious that Bieber is trying incredibly hard, which goes against the type of music he is attempting to create that needs to look

effortless in order to succeed.

Throughout all of this, Skrillex is the producer that functions as the glue that holds the whole album together.

His formidable production of “Sorry,” “I’ll Show You,” “The Feeling” and “Children” show his versatility and talent as a pop producer. In spite of the fact that he does not produce every track, it is apparent that Skrillex had a huge hand in crafting the overall aesthetic of the album, pushing Bieber out his original teen-heartthrob sound into the world of EDM, which works flawlessly with Bieber’s falsetto tone.

The positive public response to the Bieber/Skrillex/Diplo collaboration “Where Are Ü Now,” which was arguably the song of the summer, was the beginning of Bieber’s music bending in this direction and marked the beginning of Skrillex’s role in reinvigorating his stagnant career.

Throughout the entirety of “Purpose,” Bieber panders to his audience in an attempt to reposition himself as the next Justin Timberlake, instead of pop’s next bad boy poster child.

For the most part, he succeeds.

But while there are plenty of highs and lows, Bieber shows he’s ready to take on the world of music again and move further towards the direction of a fully established artist.

Kunal Khunger can be reached at kkhunger@umass.edu.

‘Fit Me In’ shows artist’s versatility

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

When I saw Greta Kline live for the first time, she arrived, but her band did not.

It was February, in the midst of one of those distinctly New England winter storms. Her band apparently couldn’t make it through the staggering snowdrifts to the little, temporarily converted classroom in Hampshire College where the show was taking place. Ever the trooper though, Kline borrowed a guitar and tore through a set of revealing but spunky Frankie Cosmos songs on her own.

Although “bedroom pop” and “twee” are typical descriptors of Kline’s work as Frankie Cosmos, they don’t do justice to the beguiling abstractions and lyrical left turns she dots her painfully brief songs with. Even when she was performing in that most vulnerable of states – on stage without her band or even her own guitar – she had the entire crowd comfortably on a string.

Kline’s newest Frankie Cosmos EP, “Fit Me In,” is a departure in that it does not feature a single guitar.

In keeping with her noted commitment to all things DIY, the drum machines and keyboards that compromise the instrumentation of the EP, released Nov. 13, are decidedly humble.

Though the omission of guitars may raise the eyebrows of skeptics, the simple, whirring electronic soundscapes that Kline assembles here end

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‘Fit Me In’ shows that Frankie Cosmos can fascinate with or without guitars. up being almost as good, if not better, a vehicle for her indirect confessionals as her typical backing band.

In less than eight minutes, Kline reveals four simple but breathtaking sketches. Kline’s emotions take a multitude of forms on this EP: cheeky, confident, lost and reflective.

But the minute you think you’ve caught up to her, she’s moved on, leaving tantalizing fragments of scenes in her wake.

On the quietly stunning “O Contest Winner,” Kline seems to long for anything but the reality she is a part of, but also turns this seeming vulnerability on its head by singing at one point, “No need for a retest/I know I’m a genius.” On “Sand,” she declares, “I love when the days are long/I notice more of everything,” before abandoning the perfect little song after 45 seconds.

In an exchange like that lies the honesty of Kline’s music. Kline is willing to not only talk about how she loves enjoying long days but also to cut a song

off, almost to make a point about how she’d rather enjoy the day at hand than keep playing.

Or maybe I’m completely wrong on that front, and Kline simply had nothing left to say on “Sand.” But what makes her Frankie Cosmos material, with or without guitars, so special is that Kline can be as ultra-confessional and intimate as she pleases, while still leaving ample room for people like me to over-analyze the meaning of her brief, but immaculately constructed vignettes. If anything, “Fit Me In’s” bone-simple electronics give Kline more space to connect to our imaginations.

Though its entire length is around seven and a half minutes, each of “Fit Me In’s” songs somehow have enough time to both dazzle and toy with us.

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

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

UMass pleased with first half of 2015-16 season UM men and women enter mid-year break

By PhiliP sanzo Collegian Staff

With 12 weeks down and 12 to go, the Massachusetts men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have reached the midway point of their long seasons.

Following a dominating performance in the Terrier Invitational where the Minutemen finished first out of seven schools, they will have over a month-long break from competition. While it sounds all good and relaxing, this hiatus can be just as strenuous as any match they partake in.

With students at UMass preparing for finals and the stress that comes with them, studentathletes aren’t granted any immunities. On top of academics, the Minutemen need to find a way to stay on top of their conditioning and training as well.

“The reality is that we have a lot of academic stress and the home break. So they have to really manage their time well

TERRIERS

in order to be 100 percent in the classroom and 100 percent in the pool,” men’s coach Russ Yarworth said.

The real challenge for UMass at the midseason break is maintaining its level of fitness that it worked toward in the first half of the season.

“It is really important that we maintain and hopefully improve and I think with the team culture and the attitude we got that we will be able to improve,” Yarworth said.

Improving would elevate the team to a new level of competitive swimming. The Minutemen finished first in their first two invitationals they performed in with Owen Wright dominating in the conference time sheets.

Wright’s 20.54 50-meter freestyle time – that he swam at the Terrier Invitational –– is the second fastest in the conference while Wiktor Karpinski’s 20.94 time in the event is good for sixth.

Wright has a top-five time in three events so far: the 50-meter freestlye, 100-meter freestyle and200-meter freestyle.

UMass ended the first half of

the season on as high of a note as it could have when it came in first place all three days of the Terrier Invitational from Nov. 20-22.

“I think the midpoint check mark of going to the Terrier invitational and swimming well was a pretty positive statement of progressing to where I want us to be,” Yarworth said.

While winning is always a plus, the Minutemen’s focus is not on the invitationals, but rather the conference championship. The Minutemen hoisted the Atlantic 10 trophy last season and are favored to repeat again this year. Competing in the invitational is what prepares them for that moment, according to Yarworth.

“Everyone likes to win, that is the goal, but that not the focus, the focus is the process we are in to get to the end of the year, when the championship is the goal,” Yarworth said.

With UMass in much better shape following the first part of the season, Yarworth said he looks to challenge the team more in order to further prepare them for the A-10 tournament in

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Seth Berger goes up for a layup in UMass’ 85-79 win against Howard Nov. 14.

“It’s probably going to be an upand-down game,” he said. “I’m not sure if they push the ball up as fast as we do but we’re going to be focused on the defensive end.”

Tip off from Mullins Center is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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

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Red Sox sign lefty ace David Price Contract is reportedly worth $217 million

By Mark Gonzales Chicago Tribune

The Boston Red Sox more than made amends after losing out on left-hander Jon Lester to the Chicago Cubs last December.

According to the Boston Globe, the Red Sox and marquee freeagent left-hander David Price agreed on a seven-year, $217 million contract. Price, 30, was considered with Zack Greinke as the top two free agent pitchers. But Price’s contract is the largest given to a starting pitcher.

Price’s contract dwarfs the six-year, $155 million contract the Cubs gave Lester last winter.

Much was made of the Cubs’ hopes of landing Price because he pitched for manager Joe Maddon with the Tampa Bay Rays. But

the Cubs are looking to add two starting pitchers and Price’s contract would have placed financial stress on addressing their needs.

According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, Price’s contract

Consistency is key for Minutewomen

Thanksgiving, we have exams coming up which can be upand-down with their schedules and then you have 10 days when they’re home.”

Newcomb calls those 10 days as “unnerving” for him because of how much rides on what his swimmers do when they are on their own at their homes.

Newcomb believes it to be the most difficult part of the season for UMass.

When on campus, he tries to keep practices as consistent as possible.

The midseason break will feature a weeklong training trip to Puerto Rico between Dec. 29 and Jan. 7. Newcomb made it clear that the training will be very intense and physically demanding.

The Minutewomen will continue competition Jan. 8 when they host Rhode Island.

“The conditioning is there and it’s just going to get better.

How fast can you go?” Newcomb said.

The Minutewomen finished fourth in the Terrier Invitational capping off their first half of their season.

Coach Bob Newcomb enters the midseason break with an optimistic attitude about his team’s performance to this point.

“They worked really hard and have gotten very good results at the Terrier Invitational,” Newcomb said.

Much like the men’s team, the Minutewomen need to focus on sustaining their current condition amidst all of the challenges that finals week and winter break brings.

Newcomb stressed the need for the Minutewomen to be consistent and diligent in their workouts.

“The thing about the first half of the year up until the Terrier, Philip Sanzo can be reached at it’s consistent,” Newcomb said. psanzo@umass.edu and followed on “Now we have four days off for Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

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offense, it will be interesting to see if Kellogg attacks them with his big men or plays it safe and matches with the three-guard combo of Trey Davis, Jabarie Hinds and Donte Clark.

Hinds (20 points per game), Davis (18.6) and Clark (16.2) have been the Minutemen’s best players through the early stages of the season.

“That’s something in my head as I see the season unfold. I’m looking forward to that being our advantage when you play a team that’s smaller than you. I’m not sure that we’re at that point yet but that’s the goal over the period of the program,” Kellogg said.

Despite the focal point of practice this week being for the Minutemen to work the ball in the post, Hinds is expecting another up-tempo game against BU.

February.

The Minutemen’s next competition will be at Bryant University on Jan. 16.

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UMass however. There have been a few bright spots that have shined through despite the team’s slow start to the season.

Freshman guard Bria Stallworth continues to be the team’s most consistent scoring option, leading with 15 points per game. She has scored in double-digits every game this season while no one else on the team averages more than 10 points.

Another bright spot comes from a more unexpected place in Maggie Mulligan. While most of the Minutewomen were having a rough weekend, Mulligan was not following that trend in the tournament.

The sophomore’s impact was especially felt on the boards where she pulled down 13 rebounds in the first game against the Buffaloes and followed it up with another eight in the second game against the Cardinals. For her efforts, Mulligan was named to the All-Tournament team.

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Dawley has been nothing but impressed with the growth of the young center this year. “(Maggie) is a huge impact player for us,” Dawley said. “Sometimes I have to sit and think of her just a year ago, not being ready to contribute at the D-I level. After putting in a lot of work, her confidence is growing and I think she is going to become a really good basketball player. “(Wednesday) is very critical for us to gain some confidence and get a win,” Dawley added about facing Bryant. “All of the non-conference games were planned to prepare us to compete in the A-10, so it’s definitely important we start to gain some confidence now.”

Wednesday’s tipoff is set for 5 p.m. at Chase Athletic Center.

Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @aaucoin34.

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includes an opt-out clause after three seasons.

The Cubs continue to search for starting pitching through free agency and trades.

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Kurt Keats battles for a puck in the corner in an exhibation game against Dalhousie.

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David Price pitched for the Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays in 2015 and finished with a combined record of 18-5 with a 2.45 earned run average.

“That’s gotten better and you’re seeing that he’s generating more shots than he did a month ago,” he later added. “Even where he is now that can get better just with the work on his release and what his pre-puck awareness is once he gets into the zone. His heart and courage and tenacity put him in a lot of good spots.”

When the Minutemen head to South Bend this weekend for two games against No. 20

Notre Dame, Keats believes if UMass plays the way it did last Saturday, it can compete with anyone.

“I think any time you go into a weekend you obviously look for two (wins). I feel pretty confident we can go in there and steal two from them,” Keats said.

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

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Minutemen renew rivarly with Boston University Teams last faced each other in 2010

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

The last time the Massachusetts men’s basketball team lost to Boston University, Ronald Regan was in office, no one on its current roster was even born yet and coach Derek Kellogg was a student at Springfield Cathedral High School.

UMass (4-1) has won its last 11 meetings against the in-state rival Terriers (3-3) with the Minutemen’s last defeat coming in a 78-76 loss Nov. 30, 1988. UMass

owns an all-time record of 42-28 over BU with their last matchup coming in 2010.

After suffering its first loss of the season last weekend in the championship game of the MGM Grand Main Event to Creighton, UMass returns to action after a full week of recovery and rest, something that Kellogg believes is important at this point of the season.

“The time off was great.

I think we were exhausted coming back from Las Vegas. As coach (John Calipari) always used to say, ‘If I feel a certain way as a head coach, I can only

“Their guards are as good as we played, the three of them. Then their four-man really facilitates from that elbow and knows how to play.”

Derek Kellogg, UMass coach

imagine how they feel from the travel and the energy and excitement in playing so many games in such a short period of time.’

I think we’re all tired,” Kellogg said.

BU enters Wednesday’s game coming off of a 10-point win over Binghamton Saturday on the road. Prior to that, the Terriers fell against

Calipari’s No. 1 ranked Kentucky 82-62.

Wednesday marks the fifth consecutive game BU will play away from the state’s capital.

“They lost to NJIT who’s beaten a bunch of teams, they lost to Northeastern who beat Miami and then they played Kentucky pretty tough. So they’ve gone on the road. It’s a tough

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matchup for us so we’re going to have to be sharp, we’re going to have to make shots,” Kellogg said.

Similarly to the Minutemen, BU relies heavily on its experienced guards led by senior John Papale and sophomore Cheddi Mosely. Papale leads the Terriers in scoring averaging 15.7 points per game while Mosely follows close behind with 15.3.

In addition to Papale and Mosley, BU has two players averaging over double-digits in scoring with Kyle Foreman (12.2) and Nathan Dieudonne (11.7).

Foreman’s 32 assists are most on the Terriers while

Dieudonne’s 35 rebounds are a team-high as well.

“Their guards are as good as we played, the three of them. Then their four-man really facilitates from that elbow and knows how to play,” Kellogg said.

Now that both Rashaan Holloway and Malik Hines have had a handful of games under their belts as freshmen, and with UMass looking to attack the post more often, Kellogg thinks that moving forward a bigger lineup could help against smaller teams moving forward.

With the Terriers running a primary three-guard see

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Keats hitting his stride for UMass Minutewomen

look to end fourgame losing skid UM takes its first trip to Bryant

By AdAm AuCoin Collegian Staff

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Kurt Keats rips a shot on net in the Minutmen’s 5-3 win against UConn Nov. 7, at Mullins Center

Freshman has six points this season

By JAson KAtes Collegian Staff

In a season where freshmen Austin Plevy, Nic Renyard and William Lagesson have all been in the spotlight for the Massachusetts hockey team, it is easy to overlook the contributions of firstyear forward Kurt Keats.

Keats, a Winnipeg, Manitoba native, has three goals and three assists on the year for the Minutemen (6-5-4, 2-2-4 Hockey East), including three points in UMass’ last four contests.

Before ultimately deciding to continue his hockey career in Amherst, the freshman had always had the Minutemen at the top of his list.

“I wanted to go to a school that I knew would have a good hockey program which they obviously do, and I wanted to go to a school where I knew I was going to have fun at,” Keats said. “The coaching staff was awesome and when I came down for my visit the guys were great so that really helped.”

After just three points through the first 10 games of the season, Keats scored goals in consecutive road games against New Hampshire and Merrimack

on Nov. 20 and 21. An assist against then- No. 3 Quinnipiac six days later topped off the stretch of recent offensive contributions.

Playing his first year of college hockey, Keats said it’s all about getting comfortable as he plays more games.

“It’s something we can all build on and moving forward, that confidence can only get bigger and stronger and I’ve definitely been feeling pretty good about my game,” Keats said when asked about his recent success.

For coach John Micheletto, it’s evident Keats has gotten better as the season progresses, despite a tentative start to his college career.

“I think in the early part of the year he’d be the first guy to tell you that he was worrying about everything rather than just settling in and getting comfortable playing,” Micheletto said after Monday’s practice.

“He got four or five games in and all of a sudden took a deep breath, you see how much his game has come over that time,” Micheletto added.

Throughout the season, Micheletto has praised the amount of depth on UMass’ roster and it was put on display in last Saturday’s 1-0 loss to the Bobcats.

With Plevy not in the

“I wanted to go to a school that I knew would have a good hockey program which they obviously do. I knew I wanted to go to a school where I was going to have fun at.”

Kurt Keats, UMass forward starting lineup, Keats replaced him on the Minutemen’s top line alongside Dennis Kravchenko and Dominic Trento.

“They’re definitely two guys with big pedigrees and a ton of talent that work pretty hard, so that was pretty special,” Keats said. “I just tried playing my own kind of game, working hard and getting them the puck and trying to make some plays when it was there. Hopefully moving forward we can start to generate some offense for us.”

Micheletto added: “We thought it was important at Quinnipiac on Saturday to have a little bit more of a forecheck presence and some pace on Dennis’ line and I thought he brought that to that group real effectively. Whether it’s he or (Patrick Lee) or Keith (Burchett) or guys coming in and out of the lineup, I think as a coaching staff we feel we have a lot of flexibility that way.”

Keats has also regularly played with fellow freshman Joe Widmar this sea-

son, who’s felt comfortable playing on his line.

“It’s been really good.

I’ve played center, he’s played center. We’re both on the same line and I really enjoy it,” Widmar said. “He’s a workhorse out there, he helps me a lot and I think he helps the team a lot.

“He’s always buzzing around the puck, his feet are always moving,” Widmar added. “He’s making plays, he’s always around the puck and that way he generates offense.”

As with every freshman, Micheletto knows Keats can make improvements to his game, although he feels Keats “is already playing beyond his trajectory.”

“I think he could shoot the puck more. With all of our new guys, that window to shoot is narrower than it was at the previous level and I think he’s adjusting to that idea now that once it gets on your stick you have to have an intention of ‘this is what I’m going to do with it,’” Micheletto said. see

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The Massachusetts women’s basketball team’s trip to Boulder, Colorado for the Omni Hotels Classic this past weekend did not go as planned for the Minutewomen.

With a 90-63 blowout loss to Colorado last Friday and a similar result against Ball State (81-54) the following night, UMass (1-4) is in need of something to turn the season around.

Currently riding a fourgame losing streak, the Minutewomen have their next opportunity to get back into the win column this Wednesday against Bryant (2-3) in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

UMass coach Sharon Dawley expects her team to come out strong in its return to action and doesn’t believe there will be any carryover from the weekend.

“We bounce back. That’s what we do,” Dawley said.

“We ran up against two really strong teams in Colorado. I think once we mature we will be able to compete with those types of teams at a very high level.

We are just very young right now, so there is bound to be growing pains.”

The Bulldogs (2-3) are coming off a nail-biting 65-64 loss to Holy Cross Sunday. Bryant was down by as much as 13 points in the first quarter before storming back to take the lead late before dropping the game.

The matchup with the Bulldogs is the first time the two programs will meet.

Dawley said the unfamiliarity won’t affect the game.

“It doesn’t really affect our preparation at all,” Dawley said. “They run some interesting stuff and we have run to through that, so it’s unfamiliar in that sense, but in general the traits are the same. If we play our game, I’m very comfortable we’ll be ready Wednesday.”

UMass has struggled stopping opposing offenses this season, as it has given up an average of 70.8 points per game.

Dawley doesn’t believe the issues are completely because of defensive lapses and instead applauded the ability of the Minutewomen’s opponents as to why the team has struggled defensively.

“Anytime you play the game of basketball you always walk away thinking there was lapses,” Dawley said. “Especially in (Colorado) I think it was more the opponent being as good as they were than us having defensive lapses.”

Bryant won’t make life easier in this regard as it has three players who average more than 13 points per game this season.

Sophomore guard Ivory Bailey, who is coming off an 18-point game against the Crusaders, heads the Bulldogs’ offensive attack with a team-leading 16.8 points per game. Seniors Breanna Rucker and Tiersa Winder are also large contributors averaging 13.8 and 13.2 points, respectively.

Not all is negative for see

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Alyx Stiff (3) goes to help Leah McDerment (25) against Buffalo Nov. 21.