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Students, UAW call for just cause for RAs, PMs Dozens of activists marched Tuesday Daniel Mahoney Collegian Staff

Roughly 40 students, labor activists and members of United Auto Workers local 2322 gathered in protest of the lack of just cause in employee discharge for resident assistants and peer mentors Tuesday.

Organizers and attendees of the “Rally and March for Just Cause” met in front of the Student Union and then marched to the Whitmore Administration Building to deliver hundreds of pages of letters in support of the just cause clause to the office of Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.

The rally is a part of the organization’s campaign to fight for fair discharge policies for RAs and PMs. Currently, RAs and PMs have seven days to leave their residence halls and are immediately stripped

of their duties following termination. An appeal process exists, but employees still must find alternative housing after being fired.

“Due process is an important element that needs to be included in labor agreements,” the University said in a statement issued to the Daily Collegian. “That is why there is an appeals process in place in this contract that allows an individual to contest or correct sanctions they believe were unfairly imposed on them.

We believe adding another layer of appeals is not necessary. Contracts between the University and resident assistants, beginning in 2003, have never included a just cause article for this reason.”

Students looked on from classrooms in Herter Hall as protestors chanted, “We are workers, we are strong, we need just cause and it’s been too long.”

Outside of Whitmore, the group gathered to listen to speakers, including

union officials, RAs and PMs. “Since April of last year we have been meeting weekly or whenever the University has been able to get together. We come prepared and organized while the University was not prepared,” said Jocelyn Silverlight, UAW 2322 president.

Julie Kushner, director of UAW region 9A and longtime labor activist, expressed her surprise at the University’s response to the issue. She said she has never had a problem with negotiating such a clause in a contract.

“It’s crazy that a University would not stand up for its students.”

Kushner said.

Avery Fürst, a representative from the Graduate Employment Organization, said graduate students had just cause while RAs and PMs did not.

This distinction is important because graduate student workers have similar contracts to RAs and PMs and, according to

the University, “Just cause provisions in labor agreements protect the jobs of employees who have served a probationary period of normally six months or one year and have no other practical way to challenge their termination.”

Laura Shapiro, a peer mentor in Pierpont Hall in the Southwest Residential Area and is a member of the bargaining unit, feels that her status as a student is a reason that she and others are denied just cause.

“It is frustrating to continue to hear that just cause is not appropriate for this bargaining unit at every meeting,” added Ian Roche, an RA in Webster Hall in the Orchard Hill Residential Area.

After the speakers finished, members of the bargaining unit and staff from UAW 2322 deliver the letters and petitions. The group included Kushner and Silverlight, as well as UAW 2322 servicing represee

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Students rallied outside the Student Union Tuesday before marching to Whitmore to protest the lack of just cause in employee discharge for RAs and PMs.

Student business wins Health officials hunt for Hult Prize competition Costco’s E. coli source 14 teams participated on Tuesday evening

Outbreak tied to 19 illnesses in Nov.

By Stefan Geller

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A team of four University of Massachusetts students will head to California to compete in the next round of the Hult Prize competition after a panel of judges awarded their social enterprise proposal aimed at improving crowded urban spaces first place at a schoolwide contest held Tuesday evening.

Judges awarded sophomores Caelon Smith, Jeffrey Perillo, Lauren Bolduc and James Chappuis first place for their proposed business venture “Recycled Revenue.”

The competition was held in the Honors College Events Hall, with 14 teams competing to present the best social enterprise aimed at doubling the income of 10 million people in crowded urban spaces.

SEATTLE — Federal food safety officials haven’t nabbed a culprit after all in an E. coli outbreak tied to Costco chicken salad that sickened 19 and led to the recall of 155,000 food products last month.

Officials with the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that tests failed to identify E. coli O157:H7 from a sample of celery and onions from Taylor Farms Pacific Inc., of Tracy, Calif.

“The ongoing investigation has not revealed a specific ingredient responsible for the illnesses,” the FDA wrote in a statement.

The celery-onion mixture was identified as the potential source of con-

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Judges at the Hult Prize competition heard from 14 different teams of students pitching their ideas for a social enterprise.

The Hult Prize is the largest business student competition in the world, and with this victory the Recycled Revenue team will head to San Francisco to compete in the regional finals, a trip that will primarily be funded by the Isenberg School of Management.

If the team of UMass students wins at regionals, they will head to the global finals – hosted by former President Bill Clinton – where they will compete for a grand prize of $1 million in start-up funding.

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tamination in Costco rotisserie chicken salad that was linked to 19 illnesses in seven states as of Nov. 23.

That was based on five preliminary tests by the Montana Department of Health, which indicated the presence of the bug in chicken salad samples from a Montana Costco.

In response, Taylor Farms voluntarily recalled multiple products that contained the celery mix on Nov. 26, followed by an expanded recall a week later.

Costco pulled the chicken salad from store shelves on Nov. 20 and stopped production.

Still, that doesn’t mean the bug wasn’t in the samples, only that later tests couldn’t find it, the FDA noted. The samples were analyzed with a rapid test to screen for bacteria. But later analysis may have failed to find the germ

because other bacteria could have grown, too; there were too few of the bacteria in question to detect; they may have been hard to isolate; or they could have died off over time.

“This does not let celery off the hook,” said Craig Wilson, Costco’s vice president of food safety and quality assurance.

The salad was composed of chicken, high-acid salad dressing and the celery/ onion mix. Only the vegetables have been known to be associated with E. coli outbreaks, Wilson noted.

All the products in question were perishable and are no longer available for consumption.

The Shiga toxin-producing E. coli were linked to six illnesses in Montana, five in Utah, four in Colorado and one each in California, Missouri, Virginia and Washington.

Sanders likens Baltimore poverty to ‘Third World’ country Presidential hopeful visited Maryland Tues.

By John fritze The Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE — Hoping to reach African-American voters in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday toured the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested - and likened the poverty he observed to the Third World.

Sanders, running second to front-runner Hillary Clinton, walked the streets of Sandtown-

Winchester for about 20 minutes, joined by community leaders, a swarm of cameras and a growing group of residents who chanted Gray’s name as they passed boarded row homes and crumbling marble steps.

The scene underscored the message of economic inequality that has defined Sanders’ campaign, offering a new backdrop from which to argue for an increased minimum wage, tuition-free public college and tougher federal regulations of the nation’s banking sector.

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,” Sanders told reporters at

the Freddie Gray Empowerment Center. “You would think that you were in a Third World country.”

But the message was partly overshadowed by a news conference in which reporters tried to press Sanders on the Islamic State.

A campaign aide tried to wave reporters off asking about ISIS before Sanders appeared, arguing it was off topic. When a reporter ignored the request, Sanders appeared agitated and ended the news conference.

“What about ISIS, guys? How often do these people talking about the issues that we talked about today? Of course I’ll talk about ISIS,” Sanders said.

“But today what we’re talking

about is a community in which half of the people don’t have jobs,” Sanders said. “We’re talking about a community in which there are hundreds of buildings that are uninhabitable.”

Gray, who was arrested in April, died after suffering a spinal cord injury in police custody. The subsequent protests against police brutality drew international attention. Hours after his funeral, the city erupted in arson, looting and riots. As Sanders toured the city, the trial of the first of six police officers charged in Gray’s death entered its seventh day downtown.

Before Sanders arrived in Bolton Hill, a campaign aide asked a group of about a dozen support-

“Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation.”

Bernie Sanders, Democratic presidential candidate ers not to cheer Sanders’ name.

One woman held a large banner that read “Bernie Sanders For President.” The group, standing on the sidewalk, obliged and the arrival took on a more solemn tone. see

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AROUND THE WORLD

Biden: Ukraine’s democracy is in danger WASHINGTON —Ukraine must root out corruption and impose the rule of law or risk graft becoming the “death knell” of the eastern European nation’s democracy, according to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.

Biden, visiting Kiev for the fourth time in two years, warned against repeating the broken reform promises of the 2004 Orange Revolution, which failed to curb the clout of the businessmen that control Ukraine’s biggest companies and influence politics. The government must complete economic overhauls under a $17.5 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund, he said.

“Oligarchs and non-oligarchs must play by the same rules,” Biden told lawmakers Tuesday in the Ukrainian capital before a vote this month on the 2016 budget.

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Beijing adapts smog controls BEIJING — On Tuesday morning, the phone at Torana Clean Air Center was ringing off the hook. As China’s capital woke up to its firstever “red alert” for smog, the skies outside were a noxious gray, but the air inside the small storefront was crisp and clean, alive with the mechanical whirring of several air purifier machines.

“I’ve already sold seven machines worth 30,000 renminbi,” or about $4,700, said shopkeeper Yuan Yuxia as she tried to keep up with the steady stream of customers pushing through the door just 90 minutes after the shop opened. Pressing a button on her answering machine, her eyes popped. “I’ve got 31 messages to return.”

Among those waiting in line was Lampel Joy Solis, a Filipino who teaches kindergarten in Beijing.

When municipal authorities announced the red alert on Monday evening, Solis, like many Beijing residents, was caught off guard.

Few in this city of 20 million were unaffected by the alert’s attendant measures: The vast majority of schools, hers included, were closed for the day; construction sites were shut; only cars with even-numbered license plates were allowed on the roads during the day.

The city has previously taken serious precautions to ensure clean air ahead of high-profile international events including last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and September’s military parade.

But this was the first time authorities had imposed such controls during an ordinary week, giving citizens just 13 hours’ notice to make child care arrangements and find new routes to work.

“I think this red alert is good for awareness,” said Solis, a seven-year Beijing resident, as she purchased a new $50 filter for her home machine. “It shows that they recognize it’s a problem before, it was just like, ‘This is part of the normal development of the country.’”

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resentative Court Cline and a number of RAs and PMs. While the group said Subbaswamy was notified that they would arrive to deliver the petitions, Natalie Blais, the chancellor’s chief of staff, told them he was attending a trustee’s meeting.

Kushner expressed her own concerns to Blais, who said she would relay the message to Subbaswamy.

“We intend, at the UAW,

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to address it at the highest level, so we would love the opportunity to discuss this with the chancellor, and hope to resolve it quickly,” Kushner said to Blais. “It’s really kind of embarrassing to be here, to be honest. I feel like we don’t want to make this a big public deal but it will become that if we can’t resolve it.”

Daniel Mahoney can be reached at dpmahoney@umass.edu.

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The winners of the Hult Prize were (from left to right) James Chappuis, Lauren Bolduc, Jeffrey Perillo and Caelon Smith for their business venture “Recycled Revenue.”

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Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, middle, gives Leona Berry-Bova a hug as they tour Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood Tuesday.

Sanders began the tour a few minutes later at the CVS at North and Pennsylvania avenues that burned during the April riots, and is now being rebuilt. He walked to the corner of Presbury and North Mount streets, near where Gray was arrested.

Sanders then met with several prominent faith leaders in Bolton Hill.

Residents yelled out as Sanders passed by, and some joined the media throng. One, reciting a line Sanders has often sounded in debates, shouted “He’s the only candidate without a super PAC!” “We don’t want Trump,” another shouted.

Some held signs that pointing to longstanding complaints with the city’s public housing: “We deserve safe and livable housing.”

“I’m impressed,” said Michael Williams, who lives in Sandtown-Winchester but who described himself as a Clinton fan. “There has never been a person running for president to come to our neighborhood.”

The unrest in Baltimore has pushed its way into the presidential campaign, where Clinton has faced questions about the tough-on-crime policies popular during President Bill Clinton’s administration in the 1990s, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has been asked about mass arrests during his tenure as mayor of Baltimore.

Sanders has been reaching out to AfricanAmerican leaders and activists since members of the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted a speech he was giving in Phoenix in July. Clinton, meanwhile, has received endorsements from prominent black leaders in Congress.

O’Malley, who is also seeking the Democratic nomination, visited West Baltimore in late April shortly after the riots, though he had not yet announced his candidacy at that time. The visit didn’t go as smoothly. With tensions still raw, the former Baltimore mayor was heckled by bystanders for his policing record during his time in City Hall.

Sanders also met with faith leaders, including the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant of the Empowerment Temple in Northwest Baltimore.

The group discussed criminal justice reform, education and the lack of services found in many urban neighborhoods.

“It is very expensive to be poor,” Sanders told the group of pastors. “I didn’t see a decent grocery store around here. So what are moms feeding their kids?”

Sanders also fielded several questions about interactions with policy and recidivism. One pastor, in discussing the militarization of police, said that his daughter was afraid of law enforcement. “She’s freaking out.”

Bryant, who this year briefly considered running for the House seat that includes Baltimore City, stressed that the meeting with leaders did not constitute an endorsement of his candidacy.

“It was so important for us that the senator did not just hear statistics and testimony without seeing the face of a community that is in urgent need of assistance,” Bryant said. “This is not just a Baltimore problem, it is a black America problem.”

ness plan revolves around removing trash in Salvador, Brazil, sorting and recycling it, sending it through brokers in exchange for money and then loaning the money to local individuals for them to start their own entrepreneurial ventures.

“We came up with the idea through teamwork and through mentorship,” said Bolduc, a journalism and political science major. “I think that all of our collaboration and realism made this possible.”

Gina Semensi, a senior business management and nutrition major, organized the competition.

“I am really impressed with all the teams and all the ideas that came about,” Semensi said. “My whole goal for this was to just lay down really stable tracks to get people motivated. The more people hear about the Hult Prize the more people are going to look at it online, the more people are going to compete next year… I

think it gets people thinking about entrepreneurship from a social perspective.”

Each team was given three minutes to present its business model before a panel of seven judges and was allowed to respond to one follow-up question from the judges. At regionals, each team will have eight minutes to pitch their startup.

Second place went to a business called “Wheel Power,” which focused on creating energy from generators attached to bicycles, and third place went to “Community Hydroponics,” which focused on implementing greenhouses and urban community gardens.

The members of the Wheel Power and Community Hydroponics were awarded Visa gift cards for $50 and $25, respectively.

“We were looking for a company that is aligned with the program, and (Recycled Revenue) seemed to have social impact,” said

Dorn Carranza, one of the judges and a senior program officer at VentureWell.

“They seemed to have an innovative approach and business model that can help communities.”

In addition to Carranza, the judges for the competition included PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Todd Bari, EMC consultant program manager Alyssa Caddle, Next Step Living manager Bob Hastings, associate dean of faculty and engagement in Isenberg Thomas Moliterno, Pathfinder International vice president of external relations Scott Schroeder and KPMG partner Jason Tata.

Going forward, Semensi hopes that the Hult Prize helps to start what she called the “social entrepreneurial movement.”

Stefan Geller can be reached at stefangeller@umass.edu.

Cuba turns over US fugitive Man detained by Cuban authorities

By Jay Weaver Miami Herald

MIAMI — An Indiana man wanted on firearms charges was brought back from Cuba to South Florida by federal marshals on Tuesday, marking the first fugitive to be turned over to the U.S. government since it established diplomatic relations with the island nation this year.

Shawn Wegmann, an alleged enforcer for a Midwestern motorcycle gang, was detained by Cuban authorities Oct. 31 after he ripped off his GPS ankle monitor, stole a 13-foot boat in Key West and crossed the

Florida Straits, authorities said Tuesday.

In early November, the U.S. Marshals Service was notified that the 38-year-old Wegmann had been detained while attempting to enter Cuba, authorities said.

On Tuesday, a team of federal marshals flew to Havana to pick up Wegmann from Cuban authorities at Jose Marti International Airport.

The marshals returned with him to Fort LauderdaleHollywood International Airport.

“Wegmann is the first fugitive who has been returned to the United States by the Cuban government after fleeing to Cuba since diplomatic relations began” in July, said U.S. Marshal Amos Rojas Jr., who led the trip to Havana.

On Wednesday, Wegmann will have his first appearance in Miami federal court, where he will have an extradition hearing to face criminal charges in Iowa. Previously free on a bond, Wegmann is charged with three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and three counts of possessing a stolen firearm.

Despite Cuba’s cooperation in turning over Wegmann to U.S. authorities, dozens of Cuban immigrants charged with or convicted of defrauding the federal Medicare program are suspected of living on the island. The FBI and Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General have compiled a list of defendants whose cases date back years.

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San Bernardino attackers may have left bomb behind Husband and wife pair killed 14 people

By RichaRd Winton and coRina Knoll Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Investigators are trying to determine if the husband and wife who killed 14 people in a San Bernardino conference room left an explosive device behind in hopes that it would cause more carnage and possibly kill first responders, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

The device consisted of three bundled pipe bombs and remote control car parts. The items were hidden inside a canvas bag left at the Inland Regional Center by Syed Rizwam Farook and Tashfeen Malik, according to San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan.

The build of the device is similar to the schematics for other crude explosives that often fill the pages of al-Qaida’s Inspire magazine, a newsletter often

fawned over by radicals seeking guidance in planning attacks.

Police evacuated the area surrounding the regional center after they discovered the device last week.

The source, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about the ongoing investigation, said bomb technicians do not believe the device would have actually detonated.

The building’s sprinkler system was set off during the shooting, and water damage could have also caused the device to malfunction, according to the source.

The use of bombs to target first responders and rescuers is a common tactic among terrorist groups.

“It was designed that the remote-controlled device would somehow trigger or set that device off,” Burguan said last week. “We don’t know if they attempted to do that, and it failed, or what the story is.”

In the wake of the attack, federal authorities are investigating whether or not the couple had ties to

terror organizations.

On Monday, the FBI said it appeared Farook and Malik had been selfradicalized “for quite some time,” and the cache of weapons and bomb making equipment found inside the couple’s Redlands home suggested the attack was pre-meditated.

Federal investigators have also been trying to determine if Farook was at all influenced by Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, a former Minneapolis resident known as “Mujahid Miski” who has served as a recruiter for Islamic State.

Hassan is believed to have encouraged the gunmen who attempted to storm a convention in Texas earlier this year, where attendees had entered a contest to draw cartoon renditions of the prophet Muhammad.

Hassan surrendered to authorities in Somalia, where he had been hiding, on Monday, according to the U.S. State Department.

He is in the custody of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency in Mogadishu, and

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Monica Gonzales relights candles on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at a memorial for the shooting rampage in San Bernardino.

U.S. officials are discussing his case with Somalian government leaders, according to a State Department spokeswoman.

The U.S. and Somalia do not have an extradition treaty.

While the investigation reaches from California to

Pakistan, where Malik was born, surviving victims of the assault continued to heal in San Bernardino.

Of the 21 people who were shot and wounded in the attack, four remain hospitalized. Two of the victims are in critical, but stable, condition, according to hos-

pital representatives.

Early Tuesday, a GoFundMe account set up

by San Bernardino Mayor Carey Davis to collect money for victims of the attack had already collected more than $38,000. The total funds will be split among the victims.

Officials abandon plan to American teens exercise 39 detain trans immigrants minutes a day, study finds Activists want release of LGBT detainees By cindy caRcamo Los Angeles Times

Immigration officials say they have abandoned their plan to detain transgender immigrants at a facility in the high desert community of Adelanto, Calif.

The detention center would have been the first in the nation to house transgender women alongside other female detainees.

Some immigrant rights activists called the decision a victory, but others said they wouldn’t be satisfied until immigration officials release all lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees.

“I cannot celebrate until my trans sisters are immediately released and safe. The inhumane treatment we receive inside detention centers creates severe trauma and makes it more difficult to reintegrate into society,” said Jennicet Gutierrez, a leader with Los Angeles-based Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.

Currently, the majority of transgender immigration detainees are housed at the Santa Ana jail. Transgender women are detained alongside men, where immigrant rights activists report they suffer disproportionate cases of abuse.

Amid mounting pressure over its treatment of female

transgender detainees, ICE released new guidelines in late June allowing them to be housed in facilities that match their gender identity. Soon after, ICE officials announced they would house a certain group of transgender detainees alongside women in Adelanto - a step toward meeting their revised guidelines.

But immigrant rights groups were opposed to Adelanto from the start, arguing that housing transgender immigrant women there would harm a vulnerable population.

They said the location was too remote and far from attorneys who could help with their cases. In addition, they said the detainees would be at risk of receiving subpar medical care, citing past allegations of medical neglect.

“Adelanto would have kept transgender immigrants hours away from legal counsel and community support, making it nearly impossible for advocates to ensure accountability at the facility,” said Aaron C. Morris, Immigration Equality’s legal director.

“While we continue to advocate for alternatives to detention as the only safe option for LGBT immigrants, taking Adelanto off the table is an enormous victory for our community.”

The decision to no longer pursue Adelanto as a site for housing female transgender detainees was made late this

summer, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“After further analysis, ICE decided that another facility in our Los Angeles area of responsibility was not necessary to house the transgender population at this time,” she said.

Kice said ICE officials try to guarantee the safety and welfare of all detainees and are in constant communication with facility officials they contract with to make sure the sites are equipped for specific populations such as transgender immigrants.

The agency’s reversal on Adelanto comes at a time when members of the LGBT community are at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement and are increasingly raising concerns about this particularly vulnerable group of immigrants.

Of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally, more than 267,000 are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a 2013 report by the Williams Institute, a gender identity and sexual orientation think tank at UCLA. Many suffered persecution in their home countries because of their sexual identity and allege humiliation and mistreatment at U.S. immigration detention centers.

Researchers call for in-school activity

By KaRen Kaplan Los Angeles Times

Researchers have a prescription for improving the health of America’s teens: Get more exercise at school.

Public health experts recommend that kids spend at least 30 minutes of the school day engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

That would get them halfway to the goal of exercising for at least an hour each day.

To make that happen, schools would need to devote 7.5 percent of their instructional time to physical fitness. Instead, students are spending a mere 4.8 percent of the school day – or 23.2 minutes – improving their bodies instead of their minds, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics.

“Because adolescents spend so much time at school, even a small increase in the proportion of at-school time spent physically active could lead to meaningful increases in overall physical activity and metabolic health,” the study authors wrote.

American teens have a reputation for being among the most sedentary in the world, with only 8 percent getting the recommended 60 minutes of exercise a day.

That exercise deficit sets them up for a host of chronic diseases, including diabetes and heart disease. It also saps their brainpower and causes their grades to suffer, studies show.

To see when and where teens were (and weren’t) getting exercise throughout the day, researchers outfitted 549 volunteers from Seattle and Baltimore with GPS monitors and activity trackers.

The trackers recorded their location and their movement once every 30 seconds for about a week.

The volunteers – all between the ages of 12 and 16 – spent more of their waking hours at school than anywhere else, according to the GPS readings. On average, they passed 42 percent of their time at school, 28 percent at home, 13 percent in their neighborhoods, 4 percent near their schools and the rest elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the activity trackers revealed that the students averaged 39.4 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity over the course of each day. On school days, 55 percent of those minutes were tallied at school. When weekends were factored in, 42 percent of the week’s total exercise occurred on school grounds.

The amount of time teens spent exercising was more than 25 percent higher on school days than on week-

end days, according to the study.

Although schools accounted for biggest share of total exercise, they were also the places where teens were most likely to be sedentary. Over the course of an entire week, only 4.8 percent of time at school was spent getting exercise. That compared with 5.3 percent of time at home, 9.5 percent of time in one’s neighborhood, 9.7 percent of time near school and 7.1 percent of time in other places.

In each of these locations, boys got more exercise than girls, the researchers found.

Policymakers should keep that in mind when designing programs to boost physical fitness among teens, the study authors wrote.

The analysis turned up no differences in exercise patterns based on teens’ race or ethnicity, or whether their parents had a college degree.

In addition to endorsing more physical education at school, the researchers suggested that teens spend more time in the areas near their homes and schools, since those were places where teens tended to be more active.

“Increasing time in home and school neighborhoods might increase physical activity, partly by reducing time spent in less active locations,” they wrote.

House passes visa waiver bill that will increase travel restrictions Both parties widely support legislation By lisa mascaRo Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Paris, the House moved Tuesday to restrict travel to the U.S. by passing a bill that would end visa-free entry to those who have visited Syria, Iraq, Iran or Sudan.

The legislation, shaped in part by the White House, won widespread support from both parties despite objections by some that it is not tough enough, and by others that it will impose hardships on ordinary citizens of foreign allies.

Passage on a vote of 40719 emerged as one area of agreement between President Barack Obama and Republicans in the fight against Islamic State terrorism.

But it was largely overshadowed by GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. Responding to Trump’s comments, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., emphasized Tuesday that there was no “religious test” in the House proposals because “freedom of religion is a fundamental constitutional principle. It’s a founding principle of this country.”

The measure now moves to the Senate, where it is expect-

ed to be attached to a mustpass spending bill needed by Friday to keep government from shutting down.

However, the funding measure is tangled in other battles, including one being launched

by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, one of Trump’s main rivals in the Republican presidential contest. Cruz has called for blocking all refugees from Syria and other countries where terrorists operate from entering the U.S. for the next three years.

Cruz vowed Tuesday to try to attach his refugee ban to the broader spending measure, reviving an idea others in the GOP have set aside.

Given the unresolved differences over that and other issues, Congress may miss Friday’s deadline and is like-

ly to pass a stopgap proposal to keep government operating while lawmakers work through the weekend to pass the funding bill.

Under the changes to the visa program approved by the House, citizens of 38 countries, including Britain, France and other American allies, will no longer be allowed visa-free entry to the U.S. if they have traveled to Syria, Iraq, Iran or Sudan since 2011.

Instead, they would need to apply for a visa, with exceptions for those who had traveled for military or government work.

The changes are among the most substantial ever made to the 30-year-old visa waiver program.

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“A man is only as good as what he loves.”-Saul Bellow

Learning to say “hi” I often smile at strangI was caught off guard. If ers and ask cashiers how this man conformed to the their day is going. My walk statistical profile of a Haitian based on YourStory’s field Francis Schulze research, he was lucky to have a job and lived on to class is an open book; the roughly $300 per year. How easiest step a person can well he did in the market take to increase their own that day could potentially happiness and respect for determine whether or not he their community is to let the ate that night. Yet despite willing into their lives. his dire plight, he chose to I wish I could say my own approach me, a complete culture taught me the impor- stranger, with trust instead tance of this. of apprehension. I chalIn January 2015, I trav- lenge you to think of a single eled to southern Haiti with Dunkin Donuts, NAPA Auto

a genocidal dictator, watched scant rumors regarding the AIDS epidemic destroy tourism, lived under United States occupation, voted in countless fraudulent elections, and, perhaps worst of all, watched an earthquake level everything you had built in spite of all that came before.

Yari and his open, transparent, trusting approach was this missing variable that helped me understand how the people of Haiti continue to thrive despite hard

Why I don’t use Tinder For the record, I am not the app for the purposes of on Tinder nor have I ever dating. What I have found taken the dating app seri- is that the Tinder experience differs based on the Isaac Simon age of the user. My parents have been married for ously. Tinder entered the almost 30 years but have scene in 2012 and encour- divorced friends that are ages strangers to create on Tinder. A friend of my profiles, upload photos and dad is on Tinder and has swipe right and left on pos- traveled the world with the sible interested partners. women he met. In his midTwo people swiping right 50s, this friend is not lookon each other indicates a ing for casual sex, nor is match, allowing them to he looking to date someone

Parts or any other store that would be so forgiving of a customer who lost his wallet at an inopportune time, even with much less to lose.

I’m not advocating that businesses should all be universally trusting to the point where they let their customers pay for their goods when it is convenient for them.

However, it is clear that the attitudes that govern even simple business transactions in America permeate other areas of its culture.

Americans feel uncomfortable walking side-by-side with a stranger or looking them in the eye while passing them on the sidewalk.

They feel strange sitting in a seat next to someone on a bus or a crowded lecture hall. Talking to a stranger is understood to be a brave undertaking. Approachable, trusting people shatter both our natural inclination to be defensive and our assumption that others will behave the same way, much to our discomfort.

The people of Haiti have survived the worst fortunes that could befall a nation.

If you are 40 years old in Haiti, you have lived through

times. I have known some Haitian people to pool a portion of their funds to help a neighbor should they need it, with trust as the fund’s guarantor. They smile and say good afternoon to everyone they see, regardless of whether they know each other or not. They adopt children in need of a home without regard to their own economic security. The kind of strength it takes to survive what Haitians have survived is communal, and I am not sure, given the individualistic, skeptical approach many Americans have, that they would be ready to weather the misfortunes of Haiti and still survive as the Haitians have.

The people who can help you when you need it most will enter your life by fate.

To enrich your life, increase your receptiveness to new encounters. I would rather each person I meet remember me with a grin on my face and an inquiry about their day than staring at the ground, wondering when they will leave me in peace.

human interaction, it comes in the form of typed responses and photos, often accompanied by a brief biography. There seems to be an intimidation factor at play here. It is as if people are scared of others.

To a certain extent the app is demeaning, the definition of “judging a book by its cover.” Women objectify men, and men objectify women in order to seek pleasure. Tinder does

“To a certain extent the app is demeaning, the definition of ‘judging a book by its cover.’ Women objectify men and men objectify women in order to seek pleasure.”

“Approachable, trusting people shatter both our natural inclination to be defensive and our assumption that others will behave the same way, much to our discomfort.” an organization called YourStory International to perform case-by-case transitional assistance consulting. I had never left the United States before, and in an aggressive gamble, I pledged to travel to the former French colony with people I barely knew and without any knowledge of what the residents of the country were like beyond media memories from the 2010 earthquake. I consider myself a skeptic, and my initial nervousness did not suggest that this adventure would ultimately teach me to approach the unknown with trust instead of defensiveness.

During the expedition, I had the opportunity to purchase a souvenir from a persistent street merchant.

I decided on a painting, but almost immediately remembered that I had left my wallet elsewhere for safekeeping. I asked Yari, the vendor, to hold onto the painting I had picked out while I went to retrieve my wallet.

Without a second thought, he gave me a funny look and simply said: “Take the painting with you. I know you’ll come back to pay.”

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chat with each other for a certain amount of time.

No one my age that I know of takes Tinder seriously. For many Americans, including University of Massachusetts students, the app has redefined what it means to have casual sex.

Many of my friends will use the app to kill time.

Whether it is waiting for a professor to begin lecturing or for laundry to dry, countless students seem to use the app when they find they have nothing better to do.

The amount of time people spend on Tinder varies, and it is almost never built into a person’s schedule. Of course, there is a difference between killing time and wasting time. Friends of mine use Tinder for hookups; no one I know of uses it to engage in long-term relationships.

This is, of course, not to say that people don’t use

half his age. With four kids and a steady job, the app is the prime way to meet people given his busy work schedule.

Tinder has an estimated 50 million users with 10 million users every day, according to DMR. This amounts to roughly 1.6 billion swipes per day with the largest age block falling between ages 25-34, while 54 percent of users are single.

But this app goes well beyond meeting with others in rather intimate ways.

It has continued to perpetuate laziness in people’s day-to-day lives. There is no bigger way of presenting yourself as a quitter than by initiating dialogue through a smartphone screen. In this case, the screen acts as both the center and the prime protector of the individual using the app. Instead of an assessment taking place through

more than just demean people, however; it creates unnecessary competition between individuals. It has created a language where swiping right or left means the same thing as approving or disapproving.

Perhaps the worst element of Tinder is not the reinvention of casual sex or the barely social element of meeting someone through a “match” but the insistence that love will be found on your mobile device. Of course the amount of time people spend on their phone is ridiculous to begin with.

Tinder further incentivizes this usage, taking it to a whole new level.

I do not know how I will meet my future wife one day. All I know is that I will not be limiting my options to a swipe right or left.

Isaac Simon is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at Isimon@umass.edu

I didn’t need a reason to cut my hair

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Women’s hair is the – read Return of Kings if subject of great scrutiny. you do not believe me.

This is the environCelebrity award shows are ment I was met with when Kate Waldron I cut off all my hair a couple years ago. I went from rife with opinions, compli- hair below my shoulders to ments and complaints about Anne Hathaway’s hair in women’s hair. Many movies “Interstellar”. When people and television shows, includ- saw me for the first time ing “Girls,” “Tangled” and after cutting it all off, I was “The Big Bang Theory,” met with assumptions and use the trope of a woman questions like “Why did cutting off all of her hair you cut off your hair?” “You to signify some major plot must be a hardcore femipoint or to emphasize char- nist,” “You looked so much acter development. Short better with longer hair,” hair used to be, and per- “Are you trying to make a haps still is, stigmatized statement?” and “You’re so as a signifier of sexuality. brave for cutting it all off.”

Even my philosophy pro- Frankly, it was irritating fessor, who I regarded as because I really did not have absolutely brilliant, stated a reason for cutting off my that when women become hair. It was not to make a feminists or begin to ana- statement, and it certainly lyze systemic issues of sex- was not because I wanted to ism or misogyny, they cut advertise my political beliefs off their hair. There are to the entire world via my countless opinions on the head. I just wanted a change.

Internet about why women Let me make it clear: I should stop cutting off all do identify as a feminist. I of their hair, even to the am a liberal. But there is no extent that some believe reason for my hair to advershort hair ruins a wom- tise that for me. It is not as an’s aesthetic completely though I suddenly read “The

Feminine Mystique” and ran out to Supercuts. I got a pixie cut because I thought it would look cute. I got a pixie cut because I thought it would be easier to maintain, even though it wasn’t. Then, I grew out my hair to shoulder-length and I stopped getting side-eyes from people wondering why my hair was so short. Then I cut it again. The process repeated.

I have no plans to cut it off again, and when I confided this fact in a friend, he asked me if it was because I did not want to be stereotyped as a feminist. Just as there is no profound reason for me cutting off my hair, there is no profound reason for me growing it out again.

I did not have a reason to cut off my hair. I did not do it because I’m a feminist. I did not do it because I’m a liberal. I didn’t do it because I wanted to bravely defy stereotypes of femininity. I was just a girl with short hair for two years.

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“Run up in your spot like CJ from San Andreas.”- Dave Chappelle, ‘2Pac is Alive’

Colorful aspirations, uneven execution

By NathaN FroNtiero Collegian Staff

Making up seems to be in vogue this fall.

In early November, Ellie Goulding returned from the bleak, dubby synth-pop of her “Halcyon” days and released “Delirium,” which she called her “most fun and exciting venture yet.” Two weeks later, Adele – yes, that Adele – returned from a nearly fiveyear hiatus (and a Grammysweeping breakup album) and released “25,” which she explicitly deemed “a make-up record.” Frank Ocean is even rumored to be releasing a new single this Friday, which would help me begin to mend my own heart, which broke when “Boys Don’t Cry” didn’t drop last July.

Chris Martin experienced his own now infamous heartbreak last spring, when he and actress Gwyneth Paltrow consciously uncoupled after 10 years of marriage. The unfailingly earnest frontman poured his emotions into the creative process, and the result was “Ghost Stories,” an immaculately produced, sonically crisp bummer of an album that seemed to signal the end of Coldplay’s brand of uplifting silliness.

The band abstained from touring and instead returned immediately to the studio. Just 18 months after releasing those 45 minutes of general sadness, they’re back with “A Head Full of Dreams,” which plays like the dawn to its predecessor’s dusk. Martin and company have traded the broody synthesizers and stilted programmed drums for disco goofiness, processed vocal loops, and a more sugary version of their typical pop schmaltz.

Band’s seventh LP is earnest but clunky

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The first sign the world got of what was in store with Coldplay’s seventh full-length album was its guest list.

There was Beyoncé, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, Gwyneth Paltrow (Chris Martin’s exwife and the obvious subject of last year’s maddeningly uneven breakup post-mortem, “Ghost Stories,”) and – because why not – President Barack Obama.

Only Coldplay, rock’s eternal humanists, would think of inviting rock’s biggest curmudgeon (Gallagher,) the queen of pop and the subject of a breakup album they made just a year and a half ago onto the same record. And only on a Coldplay album would such a motley crew of guests make any sense whatsoever.

Since the band went supernova with 2002’s “A Rush of Blood to the Head,” Coldplay has never confidently put all their eggs into one basket. On “Ghost Stories,” the band’s startlingly fresh ventures into moody, sparse atmospherics (singles “Midnight” and “Magic” especially) clashed terribly with the still-dreadful, dance floor-ready Avicii collaboration, “A Sky Full of Stars.”

Similarly, 2005’s “X&Y,” another album where the quartet also pushed for a more muted outlook, will always be remembered primarily for “Fix You,” the band’s most bloated tearjerker. Coldplay has never been able to shake

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Chris Martin evidently reconciled the heartbreak that motivated ‘Ghost Stories,’ but even his rediscovered joy isn’t enough to save ‘A Head Full of Dreams.’

Martin certainly seems to be enjoying himself again.

With the emotional weight of “Ghost Stories” now off his chest, the singer sounds like he’s rediscovered the myriad ways that making music gives him pleasure. On the albumopening title track, after a few bars of Guy Berryman’s swaggering bass line, Martin sings, “Oh I think I landed / in a world I hadn’t seen,” with his voice gliding into the sound mix as if he just surfed over to the microphone on a rainbow streaming through the recording room windows.

The song glides along on its jubilant, funky vibe until a synth and guitar interlude transforms the disco jam into a four-on-the-floor anthem. The

its need to be all things to all people at once, something that, in just looking at the guest list for “A Head Full of Dreams,” never mind even listening to it, the band clearly hasn’t shaken.

“A Head Full of Dreams,” released Dec. 4, can be quite clearly seen for what it is: a reactionary outpouring that acts as the fraternal twin of “Ghost Stories.” While the latter album lived, and thrived in, the colorless aftermath of a relationship, when expression of any kind takes concerted effort, “A Head Full of Dreams” is nothing but a group of excitable expressions, all of which the listener is forced to assess at face value.

You are immediately tossed into this whirlpool with the buoyant title track, which is all high hats, disco bass lines and guitar leads straight out of U2’s “The Joshua Tree.”

Although it’s easy to see right through the song’s U2-meetsNew Order line of execution, Chris Martin takes the listener’s concerns about being derivative and answers them with a triumphant set of stadium-charging “Ooo”s, rendering them, for the moment, irrelevant.

It’s Martin’s most convincing moment as a performer in years. He’s got a head full of dreams, and with the world at his back, he’s going to make the listener feel as light-headed and jubilant as he is.

The opener is blinding, but it may or may not stun the listener long enough to shield them from how Jonny Buckland’s lovely guitar leads on “Birds” serve to obscure the unnerving similarities of

choral chants that Coldplay has made their trademark post-“Viva la Vida” come out in full force – I wonder if Chris Martin is contractually obligated to belt a certain number of “o” sounds on each subsequent release – and the song ends with a triumphant final piano flourish. It alludes to a kind of bombastic energy that the rest of “A Head Full of Dreams” fails to consistently keep up with.

Parlophone and Atlantic Records did their hardest to advertise that this Coldplay album would feature more collaborations than any other, and it does. I just wish those collaborators were given more to do.

Beyoncé herself joins Martin on “Hymn for the Weekend,”

but the ostensible queen of pop gets relegated to providing vocal bookends and slight backing vocals during the leadup to the choruses. The track itself sounds like the British quartet’s stilted attempt at a Beyoncé song – digital handclaps jive alongside a deep, programmed drumbeat, looping piano, and processed horns – but it’s ultimately more garish than gratifying.

Tove Lo gets credited as the featured artist on the alleged duet “Fun,” but she gets short shrift, too – she harmonizes with Martin in the song’s chorus and outro, but her voice is barely there in the mix. I was excited to see how the unique timbre of the Swedish alt-pop singer’s pipes would gel with

Coldplay, as it has on much of its recent material, struggles to put all its eggs in one basket, musically. nently feature Chris Martin on vocals. On the piano ballad, “Everglow,” Coldplay lazily copies from its own catalog, turning in the most turgid slow-burner of its career.

Even lead single, “Adventure Of A Lifetime,” seems to try to copy the formula of the title track, with leads straight out of The University of The Edge and those same, pulsating disco bass lines. Having blown its cover, the band doesn’t have the confidence to pull off the same trick twice, making the intended high point of the album feel like an extended anti-climax.

Elsewhere, the album’s stronger points are often overcome by the group’s newfound love for overdone effects. The cut-up vocals that maintain a constant presence behind “Army Of One” deflect some

confuses more than satisfies me. “Army of One” sets a lyrical pledge of love to bright blaring organs and a powerful drum beat that congeal into one blissfully soaring wall of sound. But then Martin takes another bizarre detour on hidden track “X Marks the Spot,” rapping through light vocoder over a beat ripped off wholesale from Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank).”

I find it almost cruelly ironic that my favorite moment on the album, the lilting and grinding guitar solo that kicks off halfway through the rockgospel album closer “Up&Up,” comes courtesy of guest Noel Gallagher rather than the band’s own guitarist, Jonny Buckland. It’s the one snapshot on the record that truly allows a featured artist to stand out, but as much as I adore it, it’s too brief and arrives too late to save the album from candycolored mediocrity.

Promotional materials mentioned that “Coldplay have never enjoyed making a record more than this one.

Nor have they been happier with the results.” I’m happy for the band, and can laugh with them at times – for example, Chris Martin seems to find the groovy “Adventure of a Lifetime” and swoony “Amazing Day” as lyrically embarrassing as I do, and that’s part of the charm. Still, I often feel like “A Head Full of Dreams” is an inside joke these British lads have chosen to not let me in on. That’s evidently their prerogative, but I just hope that the next time they release an album it allows me to love it as much as they do.

a Coldplay song. Both her and Beyoncé’s appearances on “A Head Full of Dreams,” however, feel half-baked, like missed opportunities to let their unique talents shine through.

Even the album’s most ham-fisted moment of reconciliation, the tender piano ballad “Everglow,” feels rushed.

Gwyneth Paltrow herself joins her ex-husband to provide backing vocals – in what fellow Daily Collegian staffer Jackson Maxwell aptly called “the most Coldplay gesture ever” – but they consist merely of a single trilled note sent through a filter and reverbed into the background.

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bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion to the bass and percussion parts on The Cure’s song, “Close To Me.” And, this is far from the only time on “A Head Full Of Dreams” that Coldplay quite brazenly copies the work of others. The beat to the R&Binflected “hidden track,” “X Marks the Spot” is quite literally that of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank),” while the lead guitar on “Amazing Day” follows the melody of John Barry’s theme to the 1969 film, “Midnight Cowboy,” almost exactly.

And, even when the band isn’t directly lifting from others, the group is still taking obvious cues. Beyoncé does almost all of the heavy lifting on “Hymn For The Weekend,” turning it into a Beyoncé song that just so happens to promi-

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getting emotional at the sight of President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at Clementa Pinckney’s funeral, and thinking that the only way he could share this emotional response with the world was by sticking a sample of it on the new Coldplay album.

Of course the sample is an absurd inclusion, but one can’t help but admire the band for their total lack of self-consciousness.

Even more so than its predecessor, “A Head Full Of Dreams” is a total grab bag, an album that tries to please anyone and everyone.

One minute it’s disco, the next it’s R&B, the next schmaltzy adult contemporary, the next spoken-word poetry. And by diving headfirst into each and every one of those urges, the album stretches itself more thinly than any Coldplay album before it.

But while they stretch themselves too thinly, one gets the sense, as always with Coldplay, that they believe wholeheartedly in what they are doing. In an age where it’s too easy to be cynical, you can listen to Coldplay throw its entire being into a wildly uneven semi-pop album that samples President Obama and think, if nothing else, here’s a band that, for all the constant criticism that has come its way, still wears its heart completely on its sleeve.

of the spotlight away from one of the record’s strongest melodies.

Gospel-inflected closer “Up&Up,” aside from its cringe-inducingly simplistic lyrics (“Lying in the gutter, aiming for the moon/trying to empty out the ocean with a spoon,” “How can people suffer? How can people part?/ How can people struggle?

How can people, break your heart?”) also has an overabundance of trickery that makes one wonder if the band had just discovered guitar pedals for the first time.

Its many faults non-withstanding, “A Head Full Of Dreams” can never quite be called a grueling slog. Because it’s a Coldplay album, it has the band’s incredibly charming, almost dopey, earnest- Jackson Maxwell can be reached at ness. One can imagine Chris jlmaxwell@umass.edu and followed Martin sitting at his computer, on Twitter at @JMaxwell82.

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in the World Junior tournament will take him out of the UMass lineup for at least one game and possibly more if Sweden reaches the medal round. It’s telling that the first thing Micheletto and Chukarov mentioned when asked about Lagesson’s upcoming absence was his character and presence in the locker room, not in his on ice abilities.

Lagesson will play one more game for the Minutemen before departing to join team Sweden after UMass hosts Union Friday at the Mullins Center.

The World Junior tournament will take place in Helsinki, Finland and begin on Dec. 26. Sweden will play Switzerland in their opening game, and their opening round matchups will include highlyanticipated matchups against the United States (Dec. 28) and Canada (Dec. 31).

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arc against UMass. Loftus has knocked down 21 3-point attempts this season, while Luciano has made 19 from deep range.

“There are many ebbs and flows throughout the game, so as long as we stay cohesive as a team and work together to get defensive stops we should be fine,” Minutewomen sophomore guard Alyssa Lawrence said.

The Westchester, New York native and San Diego State transfer had a career-high 20 points against the Bulldogs last week. Lawrence is averaging 9.8 points a game this season, the third highest mark on the team.

However, despite having a career day against Bryant, Lawrence said

she wasn’t too focused on making sure she repeats her impressive performance.

“I don’t really focus on stuff like that,” Lawrence said. “My teammates are the ones putting me in the best places to succeed, so I think it’s more important that we stay together and play off of each other to find success. If we all are confident in each other and playing freely, it will take the pressure off of us and we should play a great game on Wednesday.”

Wednesday’s tipoff is set for 7 p.m. at Mullins Center.

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Johnny Manziel renamed Browns starting quarterback Cleveland to take on 49ers at home Sunday

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By Nate Ulrich Akron Beacon Journal Browns coach Mike Pettine gave Johnny Manziel a belated birthday gift Tuesday by lifting his punishment and formally naming him the starting quarterback.

A statement released by Pettine makes it clear the Browns intend to start Manziel not only for Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers, but for each of the remaining four games this season.

“Johnny will be our starting quarterback on Sunday,” Pettine said in the statement. “He’s been solid in the building over the last couple of weeks, and we are hopeful he takes this opportunity to continue to build on the progress he’s made on the field throughout the season. The goal for every game is to go out and win, and Johnny needs to show that he can put us in position to do so during these last four weeks of the season.”

Manziel, who turned 23 on Sunday, spent the past two games on the bench after Pettine docked him for his off-field behavior. A few days after he had been named the starter for the remainder of the season on Nov. 17, Manziel partied during a bye-week break, then lied to the Browns about it.

So Pettine demoted Manziel from starter to third string on Nov. 24.

On Monday, Pettine said Manziel’s actions from a few weeks ago would factor into this decision, so the coach must have felt the former Heisman Trophy winner from Texas A&M University had been grounded for a sufficient period of time.

With Manziel in Pettine’s doghouse, veteran Josh McCown was reinserted into the starting lineup Nov. 30 for a 33-27 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Austin Davis became the primary backup and Manziel served as the No. 3.

Then Pettine named Davis the starter for Sunday’s 37-3 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals after McCown had been placed on injured reserve with a broken collarbone suffered against the Ravens.

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But last week, Pettine also left the door wide open for Manziel to return to a starting role this year.

He explained the Browns wanted to see Manziel, the 22nd overall pick in last year’s draft, play again this season and described the quarterback situation as a “weekly thing.”

Now Manziel has an opportunity to use the final stretch as an audition for the future. The Browns (2-10) will end the season with games against the 49ers (4-8) at home, the Seattle Seahawks (7-5) and Kansas City Chiefs (7-5) on the road and the Pittsburgh Steelers (7-5) at home.

With the NFL’s worst record, the Browns would own the No. 1 overall pick in next year’s draft if the season were to end now.

They’ll need to know whether they should select a top-rated quarterback like University of California junior Jared Goff or University of Memphis junior Paxton Lynch. So the larger the sample size they can use to evaluate Manziel, the better.

Manziel is 1-4 as an NFL starter, including 1-2 this season. He has completed 59.4 percent of his passes this year with five touchdowns, two interceptions and a rating of 88.4.

Although Manziel’s off-field behavior concerns the Browns _ especially because he spent more than 10 weeks this past offseason in an inpatient rehabilitation facility specializing in alcohol and drug addiction treatment _ they were impressed with what they saw the last time he appeared in a

game.

In Manziel’s most recent start, a 30-9 road loss to the Steelers on Nov. 15, he completed 33 of 45 passes (73.3 percent) for a careerhigh 372 yards and one touchdown with an interception. He posted a passer rating of 95.8. He ran three times for 17 yards (5.7 average), took six sacks and lost a fumble.

He also fell short of a rushing touchdown by a hair, and wide receiver Travis Benjamin dropped what would have been another touchdown pass.

Two days later, Pettine gave Manziel the starting nod for what was supposed to be the rest of the season, then eventually took the reins of the offense away without another game being played because the immensely popular and polarizing player had violated the trust of the coaching staff.

“He was doing some great things on the football field a couple of weeks back, and I expect him to continue that level of play,” wide receiver Brian Hartline said.

“So I’m sure it’s an added preparation for the incoming team, and I’m excited to play with Johnny again.”

Davis, 26, will be Manziel’s backup. He dropped to 3-6 as an NFL starter by losing his starting debut with the Browns on Sunday.

He completed 25 of 38 passes for 230 yards with an interception and finished with a rating of 71.2. He lost a fumble on a backward pass and was penalized twice for intentional grounding.

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A.J. Davis led the Knights with 14 points while three others finished in double digits for UCF. Fall, who only played 16 minutes, only had four points and one block.

UMass center Tyler Bergantino was tasked off the bench to mostly face Fall while freshmen centers Rashaan Holloway and Malik Hines were limited to 12 combined minutes.

Bergantino, at 6-foot-9, finished with five points in 24 minutes.

“It’s crazy, I think (Fall) turned and rotated and I went underneath his arm,” said Bergantino, who said he was

happy with how the frontcourt unit limited Fall down low in the post. “It was just an unbelievable experience to go against that guy.”

Tuesday’s defeat marks the Minutemen’s first losing streak of the season. UMass continues its Florida road trip Sunday afternoon when it takes on Florida Gulf Coast in a rematch of last year’s 84-75 loss in Springfield.

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

MLB

Starlin Castro traded from Cubs to Yankees

By Pete caldera The Record

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Starlin Castro is headed to the Yankees, securing their need for an everyday second baseman.

Shortly after the Cubs reportedly signed free agent infielder Ben Zobrist to a four-year deal on Tuesday, Chicago spun Castro to the Yankees _ a deal first reported by the New York Post’s Joel Sherman. Adam Warren and a player to be named later are headed to the Cubs according to YES Network’s Jack Curry. Infielder Brendan Ryan will be the additional player, according to Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com

Castro, 25, transitioned from shortstop to second base for the Cubs last season, playing 38 games at the new position. The righthanded hitting Castro batted .265 with 11 homers and 69 RBIs, and he’s under contract through the 2019 season at $38 million.

The acquisition of Castro could make Rob Refsnyder available in another deal for a controllable starting pitcher. Refsnyder and Dustin Ackley were tentatively penciled in as the Yanks’ second base platoon before the Castro deal was struck. The deal’s completion is pending physicals.

Warren, 27, went 7-7 with a 3.29 ERA last season in 43 games, making 17 starts.

MLB

Chicago inks Zobrist to four-year contract New York Mets lose bid on utility player

By Mark GoNzales Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Cubs made the first of two significant moves Tuesday night by agreeing to terms with versatile Ben Zobrist on a four-year contract. They also traded Starlin Castro to the New York Yankees for right-handed pitcher Adam Warren and a player to be named later.

Zobrist, 34, a 10-year veteran who played nine of his 10 seasons for Cubs manager Joe Maddon with the Tampa Bay Rays, is expected to fill a variety of roles for the Cubs.

Zobrist batted .276 with a

.359 on-base percentage for the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals in 2015.

The signing of Zobrist was confirmed about an hour after President Theo Epstein discussed that two quick moves could be made _ a signing of a free agent and a trade.

“Most of the trades we’ve discussed have a corresponding free agent pursuit attached to it,” Epstein said. “Most of the free agent offers we’ve made have been tied to making trades that complement the signing. A lot of those moves are dependent upon one another, and then timing becomes a big issue. Such is the nature of our roster and the particular market place this winter.”

Zobrist will earn $56 million over the life of the contract.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

UMass loses in final seconds against UCF Davis lifts Knights on tip-in basket B y Anthony c hiusAno Collegian Staff

All the talk from the Massachusetts men’s basketball team heading into Tuesday’s night matchup with Central Florida in Orlando, Florida was focused on 7-foot6 Knights center UCF Tacko Fall.

But at the end of the night, it UMass was UCF forward Shaheed Davis – standing a full foot shorter than Fall – who rose up to the occasion to down the Minutemen 67-63 and hand them their second straight loss in brutal fashion.

After a floater from UMass guard Trey Davis

rimmed out with 14.7 seconds left in a 63-63 game, Shaheed Davis tipped in a missed layup from Daiquan Walker on the other end to give the Knights the permanent lead with 2.4 seconds remaining.

With Fall and his massive wingspan pressuring the ensuing inbound, Minutemen guard C.J. Anderson was called for a line 67 violation trying to run down the 63 line in search of an open teammate, which ultimately clinched the game for UCF (4-3).

“Honestly, (Davis) took a shot that he’s made in the past, kind of a runner off the wrong foot. It looked like it might go in and that was obviously the play of

the game,” UMass coach Derek Kellogg told reporters about the shot selection on the Minutemen’s final possession.

“Then they got a tipback. I was just a little despondent because those were plays we usually make coming down the stretch and I’m accustomed to our guys coming up with those plays,” Kellogg added.

UMass (5-3) clawed its way back into the game after digging itself into an early 15-point deficit in the first half. After heading into the halftime break down 37-25, the Minutemen went on an 11-4 run over the first two minutes, 39 seconds into the second half to cut the Knights’ advantage to five.

The Minutemen took their first lead of the game

at the 10:43 mark of the final frame off a 3-pointer from point guard Jabarie Hinds to give UMass a 50-49 lead. After a period of back-and-forth action, the Minutemen held a 61-57 lead with five minutes left in regulation.

Hinds said UMass’ run was spurred by its focus on a high-tempo pace on both ends of the floor and better execution on the offensive end.

“We came out in a diamond (press defense) and just wanted to speed them up more and get the game moving,” Hinds said. “In the first half we knew we missed some shots and a couple of easy layups but I knew the second half we were just going to come back out with a stronger effort.”

HOCKEY

However, over the final 5:19 of play, the Minutemen only recorded four points on 1-of-8 shooting as UCF battled back to retake the lead and clinch the victory.

“If one more shot probably goes (in), I think the game’s in hand to a certain extent,” Kellogg said.

“Those plays are what win and lose basketball games.

We had a couple roll in and out and didn’t go in. So I guess those are the breaks sometimes in college basketball.”

Davis led UMass with 20 points Tuesday, but did so on 7-of-23 shooting including 4-of-14 from 3-point range. Kellogg said he was waiting for the guard to “take the lid off the basket” and that he took too many shots to get to his point total.

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William Lagesson will travel to Helsinki, Finland to play in the 2016 World Junior Championship for the Sweedish national team.

Lagesson to join Swedish WJC team When Massachusetts hockey coach John Micheletto first watched freshman defenseman William Lagesson play while recruiting him to come to UMass, he knew right away Lagesson was someone he would love to have on his team.

“There wasn’t much evaluation when we first saw William,” Micheletto chuckled. “It was more about, ‘How do we attract him to the University of Massachusetts?’ He was a guy we really coveted in the recruiting process, and were fortunate enough to get.”

It was a much longer journey for Lagesson to get to UMass than most. Born in Gothenberg, Sweden, Lagesson played several seasons for the Frölunda Hockey Club (based in Gothenberg) on their Under18 and U20 teams. In 2014-15, he crossed the pond to play for the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League before joining the Minutemen at the

“Sweden is getting a top-notch defenseman.

He makes it easy playing with him.”

Ivan Chukarov, UMass defensemen start of this season.

“There’s a lot to like in (Lagesson)’s game. He’s a prototypical two-way defenseman that we value here…. Mobile and smart enough to defend on the big ice, but also can use those tools to exploit the big ice on offense,” Micheletto said.

Lagesson’s strong build and effective play throughout the years made him a touted NHL prospect, as he was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round of the 2014 draft (No. 91 overall).

His home country has taken an interest in him as well. Lagesson has played 65 games for Sweden’s development teams and earned an invite to the country’s World Junior Championship team last season, where he helped lead his team to a bronze medal.

Sweden named to its roster for the 2016 World Junior

tournament Monday and Lagesson was selected again.

“Of course, it’s an honor to play for your country,” Lagesson said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun to see all the old friends I have there.

It’s pretty close to home, so I have a lot of friends and family that are going to be there.

It’s going to be exciting.”

Since arriving at UMass, the 6-foot-3, 198-pound 19-year-old has immediately been a pillar on the defensive corps. He skates on the top pairing, plays on the power play and penalty kill and is tied for the team lead in points by a defenseman with six. He also boasts a minus-one plus/minus rating despite logging heavy minutes against opponents’ top offensive lines and playing on a team that has been outscored by 12 goals.

His partner on the first line, fellow freshman and NHL draft pick

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Defense key for Minutewomen against Hofstra UM is allowing 70.5 ppg this year

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

National treasure

By Ross Gienieczko

“But if he makes that last runner, we’re feeling pretty good about things,” he added.

Meanwhile, Hinds rebounded from a one-point game against Mississippi last Saturday with a 14-point outing against the Knights. Kellogg said he seemed more comfortable attacking UCF’s defense compared to the stifling 1-3-1 zone UMass faced last week against the Rebels.

“He did a better job of controlling the game.

Obviously, when he gets moving and there’s more open floor opportunities, he’s a much better player,” Kellogg said. “I’m looking for him to continue to get where he was when he was playing his best basketball.”

Ivan Chukarov (selected in the seventh round by the Buffalo Sabres in 2015) said Lagesson was nothing short of an ideal line mate to skate with.

“He’s really reliable. He’s aggressive, strong on his feet,” Chukarov said. “Also, he’s really smart with moving the puck. Sweden is getting a top-notch defenseman.

He makes it easy playing with him.”

The duo has formed UMass’ top defensive pairing for nearly the entire season, and Chukarov talked about the growth he’s seen from Lagesson and they chemistry they have developed throughout the year.

“He’s been more patient with the puck. He’s picking his head up a bit more and seeing his options,” Chukarov said. “I trust him 100 percent. If I jump into the play, I know he’ll cover me. I feel like I can give him a pass without looking at him, I can sense where he will be. I like the way he talks as well, we communicate really well.”

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In college basketball, halfcourt defense often separates the contenders from the rest of the field.

Although it’s early in the season, the Massachusetts women’s basketball team has often found itself on both ends of that spectrum.

Some games UMass has proven that it’s ready to take the next step forward much like it did in the 201415 season, when it posted a 12-18 record and allowed an average of 64.9 points per game. But in others, the Minutewomen (2-4) look like the same team from the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons that went a combined 7-53 and allowed an average of 74.2 points per game over that span.

From giving up more than 80 points two games in a row at the Omni Hotels Classic to convincing wins against Holy Cross and Bryant, UMass has seen glimpses of hope for the

The Pride support a trio of players averaging double digits in points. Hofstra’s leader in scoring is junior guard Kelly Loftus who averages 14.4 points per game. Sophomore forward Ashunae Durant and junior guard Krystal Luciano average 12.6 and 12 points respectively.

“They have really strong guards so stopping them will be a major focus for the game for us,” Dawley said. “They are very talented and have the ability to take over games, so we need to make sure we keep them in check.”

The Pride head into Wednesday’s game in the midst of a three-game winning streak. Hofstra had little trouble dispatching of Coastal Carolina with an 82-40 win Nov. 28 and had similar success against Buffalo last Thursday in a 79-36 victory.

Dawley is cognizant of the Pride’s success so far this season but is hoping UMass comes out strong especially on the defensive side of the ball. She stressed the importance of containing the Pride’s guards and lim-

“When we talk we are a very sound defensive team. We need our leaders to step up and talk and give us a lot of energy on Wednesday.”

Sharon Dawley, UMass coach future and has also experienced lapses of concentration throughout the young season.

“I think it all comes down to us staying fresh and talking on defense,” UMass coach Sharon Dawley said.

“When we talk we are a very sound defensive team.

We need our leaders to step up and talk and give us a lot of energy on Wednesday.”

The Minutewomen look to build on their defensive success from last Wednesday’s 86-69 win over Bryant and search for its first winning streak of the season when they take on Hofstra (7-1) Wednesday night at Mullins Center.

iting the penetration into the lane.

Dawley is hoping the momentum the Minutewomen gained from the win against Bryant will carry over to Wednesday’s game.

“A win like that gives you a lot of confidence in terms of shooting,” Dawley said. “We also shared the basketball very well and our assist to turnover ratio was very good. I think all of these things bode well for us to be successful moving forward.”

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