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Cruz edges Trump; Democrats in dead heat Clinton, Sanders even at Iowa caucus By Dave Helling, Scott canon anD Rick MontgoMeRy The Kansas City Star
DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans picked a Washington outsider over a New York outsider in their caucuses Monday night in Iowa, while Democrats battled to a virtual tie. The results in both parties reflect Iowans’ deep distrust of Washington, but they also suggest that more establishment candidates may still have a path to their parties’ presidential nominations. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas
rode a wave of conservative religious support and a strong campaign organization to defeat Donald Trump and a surprisingly strong Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the state’s Republican caucuses. In the Democratic caucuses, with more than 94 percent of precincts reporting, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held a lead of less than half a percentage point over Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Cruz claimed victory at 10:20 p.m. local time. “Tonight is a victory for the grass roots,” he said to loud applause. “Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across Iowa, and all across this great nation.”
In the GOP caucuses, with more than 90 percent of precincts reporting, Cruz had 28 percent of the vote and Trump 24 percent. Rubio took 23 percent. Trump, a flamboyant businessman who has never held elective office, showed no disappointment. He said he would continue to battle for his party’s top prize. “We will go on to get the nomination,” he told cheering supporters in West Des Moines. Rubio’s strength will draw the attention of the Republican Party’s establishment, which is looking to coalesce around a candidate who could challenge Cruz and Trump. “We are not waiting any
longer!” Rubio told cheering supporters at his election night rally. “I thank you. ... I will be our nominee.” Caucuses in both parties were crowded, but the meetings appeared to go relatively smoothly. Sam Martin caucused for Rubio on Monday. He said the Florida senator was “not as extreme as Ted Cruz and he’s not as stupid as Donald Trump.” At a Republican caucus in Clive, Cruz supporter Leah Stroh called Cruz a “Christcentered” candidate reliably opposed to abortion. Trump, she said, is an “unintelligent” person who tells people what see
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Hillary Clinton, who ended in a near tie with Sen. Bernie Sanders, greets voters in Des Moines on the morning of Feb. 1.
Zika virus named global emergency
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Exposure linked to birth deffects By PatRick J. McDonnell Los Angeles Times
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Two women examine one of the pieces on display in the the ‘I Breathe With You’ exhibit in the Augusta Savage Gallery on Monday night.
UM gets cybersecurity scholarship grant Federal grant links students with gov. By tanaya M. aSnani Collegian Staff
The University of Massachusetts received a $4.2 million federal grant that will partially fund the education of 28 students pursuing careers in cybersecurity in exchange for up to two years of their service at a government agency. The grant, which is awarded by the National Science Foundation, will establish the CyberCorps Scholarships for Service Program and expand advanced courses in cybersecurity at UMass. The CyberCorps program is a partner program between the NSF and Homeland Security designed to develop cybersecurity programs on college campuses and recruit future specialists. “The program enables students to pursue their
interests in cybersecurity from a variety of disciplines. This includes coursework and research that will help place them in a federal, state, local or tribal government position related to cybersecurity,” said Brian Levine, a professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences and primary researcher of the program. The program will fund 28 students for the next five years, including full tuition and fees, as well as $9,000 toward health costs, books, and professional development, and a stipend of $22,500 for undergraduates and $34,000 for graduate students. Accepted applicants can receive up to two years of support in exchange for future work at a government institution’s cybersecurity department. Recruitment will focus on women and underrepresented minorities; the first class of accepted applicants will arrive on campus in fall of 2016.
Graduated students will go on to governmental organizations affiliated with the protection of national security and critical infrastructure such as utilities, water treatment and military defense systems. This includes the FBI, National Institute of Health, Center for Disease Control and federal state and local agencies. Students also can work in national laboratories conducting cybersecurity research or be a high school teacher educating students in cybersecurity. Levine states that students are eligible to apply from the College of Information and Computer S c i e n c e s, College of Engineering, the Isenberg School of Management as well as from the Mathematics and Statistics Department. The academic requirements vary for different backgrounds. For example, undergraduates in computer science must complete
the Security and Privacy track, and undergraduates in electrical and computer engineering must complete a capstone related to security. For graduate students, their research and coursework must focus on security. Prospective recipients must satisfy demanding requirements of the program such as a higher GPA, internships, involvement in certain professional development activities and have the ability to obtain a secret clearance. Per the congressional legislation that funds the grant, the program is limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. “One of the challenges we will face as implementers of this program is undertaking a multidisciplinary project across the different colleges in the students’ best interests,” Levine said. “ Security is one of the few crosssee
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared Monday that explosive growth of the mosquito–borne Zika virus – which has been spreading rapidly in the Americas and may be linked to birth defects – constitutes an international public health emergency, signaling an new phase in the global effort to battle the virus. The United Nations health agency made the decision after convening an panel of experts in Geneva amid reports from Brazil linking the virus to microcephaly, a birth defect of the brain in which babies are born with abnormally small heads. The recent “cluster” of microcephaly cases and other neurological disorders reported in Brazil followed a similar “cluster” in French Polynesia in 2014, WHO Director–General Margaret Chan said in a statement. “A coordinated international response is needed to improve surveillance, the detection of infections, congenital malformations, and neurological complications, to intensify the control of mosquito populations, and to expedite the development of diagnostic tests and vaccines to protect people at risk, especially during pregnancy,” Chan said. Last week, the WHO declared a threat of “alarming proportions,” warning that the Zika virus was “spreading explosively” across the Americas and could infect as many as 4 million people. Monday’s declaration will serve as a kind of global notice of the threat, but the WHO did not move to restrict travel or trade in regions where the virus is found. It will likely trigger additional resources being put toward researching the virus and preventing its spread; to date, officials say, the only cases of Zika diagnosed in the United States
involve people who are believed to have contracted it while traveling abroad. The WHO, however, says transmission will probably spread to all the countries and territories in the Americas hosting the mosquito that transmits the virus – known as the Aedes mosquito – including the U.S. mainland. Some reports have also linked the Zika virus to cases of Guillain–Barre syndrome, or GBS, which can cause temporary paralysis. Among other recommendations, the committee of experts convened by the world health body suggested that surveillance for microcephaly and GBS “should be standardized and enhanced, particularly in areas of known Zika virus transmission and areas at risk of such transmission.” The panel also urged additional research into “clusters” of microcephaly and other disorders linked to Zika. “As these clusters have occurred in areas newly infected with Zika virus, and in keeping with good public health practice and the absence of another explanation for these clusters, the committee highlights the importance of aggressive measures to reduce infection with Zika virus, particularly among pregnant women and women of childbearing age,” the panel said. The illness from the Zika virus is not considered serious and symptoms – including rashes, joint pain and reddened eyes – are usually mild and last for several days or a week, experts say. But the reports of links to birth defects from Brazil have triggered alarm. There is no vaccine for the virus. The Zika illness is common in parts of equatorial Africa and Southeast Asia. Outbreaks have also been reported in the Pacific islands. But the disease did not begin to spread widely in the Americas until May, when an outbreak was reported in Brazil. It has see
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THE RU N D OW N ON THIS DAY... In 1968, Saigon’s police chief shot a Viet Cong officer in the head. Photographer Eddie Adams captured the incident which became an iconic image for the war.
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Donald Trump polls high among Muslim electorate WASHINGTON — A survey of Muslim voters in six states has found one surprising result: Donald Trump was the most popular Republican presidential candidate, despite his calls for tighter surveillance of Muslims and limits on Muslim immigration. The poll, not unexpectedly, found that 67 percent of the respondents support the Democratic Party and 51 percent of them plan to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders trailed with 22 percent. But of the 15 percent who said they intended to vote for Republicans, Trump was the first choice, with more than 7 percent of the total. More than 73 percent of respondents said they plan to vote in their states’ primary elections, an increase from the 69 percent who answered that way in a similar survey taken before the 2014 midterm elections. The survey, which was commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations and carried out Jan. 26, comprised interviews with 2,000 registered Muslim voters in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Virginia – the states with the largest Muslim populations in the United States. The council did not identify the “independent automated call service provider” that undertook the survey. Robert McCaw, the council’s government affairs manager, suggested that the increase in respondents who said they planned to vote was likely “driven, at least in part, by concern over the rise” in anti-Muslim rhetoric since terrorist attacks late last year in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. About 30 percent of the respondents said “Islamaphobia” was their No. 1 concern. The economy and health care ranked No. 2 and No. 3. Despite the concern over anti-Muslim feelings, Trump was the most popular of the Republicans among the respondents – even with his calls for closing down mosques, monitoring Muslims and barring them from immigrating to the United States. Support for other Republicans was negligible: Ted Cruz received 2 percent, Jeb Bush 1.57 percent and Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina each received less than 1 percent. Ibrahim Hooper, the council’s director of communications, called the Trump result puzzling. MCT
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Five males vandalize Sigma Kappa fraternity Police Log: Jan. 29 to Jan. 31, 2016 By Brendan deady Collegian Staff
Friday, Jan. 29 2:03 p.m.: Police responded to a suspicious person call at 204 Triangle St. regarding a man in a black hoodie who was “walking around in the area.” 2:46 p.m.: Two males were heard arguing in “an aggressive manner” on Pray Street. No party matching that description was found in the area upon police arrival. 8:25 p.m.: Police responded to an animal noise complaint at the Rolling Green apartments. The responding officers did not find any animals, rather a group of college age males listening to loud music and using vulgar language. The party were ordered to mind their neighbors.
10:43 p.m.: The Amherst Fire Department requested Police assistance to help clear out Monkey Bar at 63 N. Pleasant St. The Fire Marshall was conducting compliancy checks and deemed the establishment above capacity. Officials estimated there were 400 patrons, exceeding the capacity of 240.
Saturday, Jan.30: 12:50 a.m .: Police prevented a man from urinating on the side of the bar “Spoke” at 35 E. Pleasant St. The man was ordered away from the premise. 9:29 a.m.: A caller asked police to remove a “suspicious looking Hispanic woman in a dark hoodie” who was accused of refusing to exit the Jones Library at 43 Amity St. 11:54 a.m.: A clerk at Cousin’s Market at 11 E. Pleasant St. confiscated a woman’s license that he
Puerto Rico faces financial board Congress believes island in debt crisis By Kasia KlimasinsKa and Kathleen miller Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has been anxious for Congress to address its $70 billion debt crisis, but the island’s leaders may not be as happy with the potential outcome as the investors holding its securities. Driving the process are Republicans, who control both chambers and say the island has proved it’s not able to manage its finances and needs an external authority to ensure it cuts expenses and deficits. Democrats, essential to passing a bill in the Senate, insist on giving Puerto Rico access to an orderly, courtsupervised process allowing it to cut its debt. “What may pass may be a mixture of both, possibly a control board with some sort of restructuring access, some leeway in allowing them to restructure some of their debt,” said Shaun Burgess, a portfolio manager at Cumberland Advisors Inc. in Sarasota, Fla. “The island needs some real management and structural help and not just the ability to cram down or restructure their debt.” House Republicans are holding a hearing Tuesday to explore the case for setting up a Puerto Rico financial control authority. One witness scheduled to testify is Anthony A. Williams, a former mayor of Washington, D.C., who also served as an independent chief financial officer of the city when it was overseen by a financial control board established by Congress. Williams said in an interview that Puerto Rico would benefit from longterm, transparent financial planning and that he favors a control board made of people who know and care about Puerto Rico, including people who’ve lived on the island. “Obviously, checks and balances are good,” said Williams, a senior adviser at Dentons U.S. LLP. “I think it would serve the commonwealth well.” Some Senate Democrats have suggested using an energy bill currently being debated on the Senate floor as a vehicle for legislation to help Puerto Rico, but it’s not clear there is enough
consensus on what, exactly, should be done. Senate Republicans led by Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican who chairs the Senate’s Finance Committee, proposed a bill last year that would create a control authority, but didn’t include any restructuring. That proposal was criticized by the island’s non-voting House delegate, Democrat Pedro Pierluisi, who called the oversight authority plan a “mega-board on steroids.” Still, investors favor Hatch’s proposal, said Burgess, who helps manage $2.45 billion in assets, including $100 million of the island’s insured debt. “I like that the bill creates an outside authority that is in a position to help the island create and, most importantly, stick to a budget,” he said. “One of the island’s problems has been kind of management in itself.” Hatch is among the Republicans resisting Democrats’ call to allow Puerto Rico to use Chapter 9 of the bankruptcy code. Granting the island access to Chapter 9 would let some of its corporations, such as the power utility or water agency, enter a court-overseen restructuring process. Hatch said Congress needs instead to find “a whole new procedure” for adjusting Puerto Rico’s obligations. Extending Chapter 9 to Puerto Rico is also opposed by Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees changes to bankruptcy law. “I don’t want this to be an extension of Chapter 9 - that’s for municipalities and that’s a bad precedent to set,” Sen. David Perdue from Georgia said in an interview. “We need to protect the creditors and protect Puerto Rico’s borrowing capability long term, those are the two objectives that I have.” House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew have been pressing lawmakers to find a solution by the end of first quarter. Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank owes investors $422 million in May and the commonwealth and its agencies need to pay back $2 billion on July 1, on the heels of an anticipated $923 million negative cash balance in June.
believed to be falsified. The woman called police and an officer returned her license after further examination.
1:18 p.m.: A stainless steel table valued at $500 was reported missing from The Pub at 15 E. Pleasant St. Police are investigating. 11:25 p.m.: Police stopped a man in Puffton Village for dumping the contents of a blue solo cup “known to be used by students for consuming alcohol” behind a parked car. Officers determined the man was of legal drinking age and issued a verbal warning against public drinking.
Sunday, Jan.31: 12:17 a.m.: Police issued a noise violation warning to the residents at 166 Summer St. after they broke up a large gathering there. 1:00 a.m.: Six squad cars responded to reports of a fight breaking out in the basement of 42 Shumway
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4:15 p.m.: A purported “homeless man in his late 40s” was seen passed out on the sidewalk in front of Antonio’s Pizza by the Slice at 31 N. Pleasant St. The man was transported to the hos2:16 a.m.: A woman reported pital by the Amherst Fire that she heard “five gun- Dept. for severe intoxication. shots” in the Lincoln and Phillips neighborhood. 7:53 p.m.: A man ran into Officers interviewed the call- Bruno’s pizzeria on Main er’s neighbors to corroborate Street and told one of its her story. One neighbor dis- employees he had hit a missed the noises as the kick- car out front because of backs from an old muffler. his anxiety. The driver quickly ran out without 2:25 a.m.: A group of five col- leaving any information. lege aged males were seen throwing a rock through the 8:59 p.m.: A man called police window of the Kappa Sigma in front of Amherst Market fraternity house at 778 N. on Triangle Street to report Pleasant St. The window is that someone threw an apple reported to cost $250 and at him from an apartment the police have no suspects. window in Kendrick Place. Police approached the ten3:21 p.m.: A man wearing ant of the apartment who all black clothing reportedly denied throwing the apple stole a tip jar from the coun- but acknowledged “it was ter of a Subway at 4 Main possible an object came from St. The incident was caught one of these windows.” on video and the police are investigating. Brendan Deady can be reached at bdeady@umass.edu. St. The residents assured the responders that no fight had occurred but requested their help in dispersing over 100 guests. Officers issued the residents a warning.
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they want to hear. Cruz followed a traditional electoral strategy in Iowa. His staff was in the state for months, using new data analytics to understand the electorate and to reach out to caucus-goers. He appeared to survive his sometimes confusing criticism of government help for the ethanol industry. Many Iowans depend on the fuel blend for jobs and income. He also survived a controversy about a last-minute mailer claiming a “violation” by voters who didn’t caucus. And Trump’s repeated assertions that Cruz’s Canadian birthplace disqualified him did not appear to have a great impact. Trump turned conventional campaign wisdom on its head. He didn’t buy enormous amounts of television time or engage in the person-to-person politics believed to be important in Iowa. His campaign outreach was thought to be inferior to Cruz’s. Yet he barnstormed the state in the final weeks, drawing enormous crowds and media attention. He promised to build a wall on the Mexican border, to take care of veterans and to “make America great again.” Trump caucus-goers were not discouraged by the outcome. Supporter Jane Thompson was among about 100 caucus-goers filing into a middle school library in south Des Moines to caucus for Trump. “I’m not Republican. I am tonight,” said Johnson, who’s 65. Until last year she hated
Trump, she said. Too loud, arrogant, dismissive. “But when I heard his first political speech, he hit all the points that matter to me,” she said. “Immigration. The wall. ISIS. Social Security.” Trump claimed endorsements from tea party favorite Sarah Palin and the Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. He produced a video holding up a Bible. He skipped the final debate before the caucuses, claiming disrespect from Fox News, a move that may have hurt him in the final week. A sizable portion of the Republican establishment deeply distrusts Trump. Many aired their concerns in National Review, a wellknown conservative publication, in the closing days of the Iowa campaign. Ben Carson, a physician who also lacks political experience, had less than 10 percent of GOP caucus votes Monday. The other Republicans _ Govs. Chris Christie and John Kasich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Sen. Rand Paul, Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina _ were not expected to get vote percentages in the double digits. Huckabee said Monday night that he would leave the race. In the Democratic caucuses, Clinton held a razor-thin lead over Sanders. She had battled an insurgent challenge from the self-described democratic socialist. Sanders electrified audiences across the state, particularly in college communities with younger voters, in the final days of the
race. Clinton campaigned on her experience, both in Iowa and in Washington. She argued for a moderate approach to change, and emphasized her support for President Barack Obama. She also used the new tools of data and outreach to improve her performance in the complicated caucuses. Many compared her organizational efforts to Obama’s in 2008. Sanders, by contrast, relied on the enthusiasm of his supporters for his caucus success. Considered the most unlikely of candidates six months ago, he was able to convince thousands of Iowans that his liberal proposals deserved consideration. Rachel Cataldo said she’d decided Monday to caucus for Sanders. The barista said she thought he’d be a strong advocate for “the people.” Sanders “is looking to help the young people, and the people who are not the 1 percent,” she said. Kathy Adams, a psychiatrist nurse practitioner, said she’d long admired Clinton and had caucused for her in 2008. She was eager to support Clinton again Monday. “She’s brilliant,” Adams said. “I think we need intelligent female energy.” Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, also competed in Iowa. He suspended his campaign following a poor showing there.
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cutting fields that is of interest to so many of the colleges across campus.” He adds it is very different than taking on a narrowly focused program within a single discipline. In addition, some of the funds of the program will be used to develop classes, seminars and talks at UMass, related to the field. They will be available to all UMass stu-
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dents and not just to the scholarship winners. “We are currently setting up a website about the program with application materials for the upcoming fall 2016 semester, that should be up and running in two to three weeks,” Levine said. Tanaya M. Asnani can be reached at tasnani@umass.edu.
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region. In Brazil, where Zika has taken on the character of a national emergency, health authorities said they plan to deploy 220,000 members of the military on a single day in February to distribute pamphlets across the country to educate people about the risks posed by mosquitoes. The government of El Salvador, meantime, has advised people to put off having children for two years because of the threat. Residents in Brazil and other affected have also been urged to clean up stagnant pools of water and containers in which the mosquitos tend to breed. Containers that can hold even small amounts of water – buckets, flowerpots, tires – should be emptied, cleaned or covered to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in them, health authorities say. Experts say knowledge of the link between the Zika virus and birth defects is evolving and not yet confirmed. But the reported links from Brazil were sufficient to declare an emergency, officials said. Authorities are urging pregnant women to take several precautions, including delaying travel to areas where the virus is present. Pregnant women living in areas where the virus exists have also been advised to consider a number of protective measures, such as wearing long sleeves and pants and wearing mosquito repellent. Monday’s declaration that the Zika virus was a Public Health Emergency of International Concern was the first such determination by the WHO since 2014 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. In the case of Ebola, the U.N. agency was harshly criticized for what detractors called its slow response. Ebola had
already killed more than 1,000 people by the time the agency sounded the alarm in August 2014. Ebola has now sickened more than 26,000 people and killed at least 11,316. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has issued a decree allowing public officials to enter abandoned or empty homes by force if necessary, in the absence of persons authorized to permit entry. The measure is part of the country’s efforts to eradicate the breeding grounds of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which has been identified as a vector of the Zika virus, as well as of dengue fever, chikungunya, and yellow fever. The new powers, which came into force Monday, are part of a “Provisional Measure” that allows public officials to request police assistance in carrying out forced entry if necessary, and also authorizes the carrying out of educational campaigns and the creation of public guidelines. Brazil’s efforts to target the mosquito’s breeding grounds are mainly focused in the northeastern Brazilian states of Bahia, Pernambuco and Paraiba, whose governors attended a teleconference meeting with the president Friday, also accompanied by the governors of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states. At a news conference following the meeting, Rousseff admitted that Brazil was “losing the fight against Aedes,” but vowed that it would not lose the war. Speaking alongside Health Minister Marcelo Castro, Rousseff said there could be “no contingencies or limits” to the resources the government would make available in the fight against Zika, which she identified as a threat to public health.
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US urges allies to escalate ISIS fight Pentagon pressures President Obama By W.J. Hennigan and Brian Bennett Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has repeatedly touted the U.S.-led coalition assembled to battle Islamic State militants, but Pentagon officials are expressing growing frustration that some of the 64 partner nations and regional groups are backing the effort in name only. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has been the most vocal, complaining recently that some allies are “not doing enough or doing nothing at all.” The grumbling comes as the White House considers stepping up the war effort by sending several hundred more U.S. and allied trainers, advisers and special operations teams to assist Iraqi, Kurdish and Syrian opposition fighters arrayed against the militants in Iraq and Syria. Pentagon planners argue that more coalition troops and other help are needed before Iraqi security forces can recapture Mosul, the militants’ selfdeclared capital in Iraq. Last year’s battle to retake Ramadi, a much smaller city west of Baghdad, took months longer than U.S. officials had expected. Meeting with his national security advisers Thursday, Obama was briefed on plans to accelerate military and diplomatic efforts “on all possible fronts,” the White House said. Secretary of State John F. Kerry will go to Rome on Tuesday to seek greater support from two dozen nations in the coalition. They will “discuss ways to further intensify commitments across all lines of effort to degrade and defeat this terrorist group,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday. Carter will head to Brussels two weeks later to urge defense ministers from 26 countries to send more trainers and advisers, provide more support and reconnaissance aircraft, boost deliveries of arms and ammunition, and increase their role in the war, Pentagon officials said. At least one nation has received the message. On Friday, the government in the Netherlands said Dutch airstrikes would begin to target militants in eastern Syria as well as in Iraq. In a statement, Carter called the Dutch decision “a strong example” of what other countries should do. “Additional capabilities are
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Pentagon officials have pressured President Barack Obama to coax allies to take center role in fight against ISIS. needed from every member nation,” he said. In addition to the military effort, coalition countries are supposed to impede the recruitment and travel of foreign fighters, stop the group’s funding and financing, address the humanitarian crisis and counter the group’s propaganda. So far, the participation by each country has varied immensely. Eight nations have launched bombing runs in Iraq, for example, and nine mostly the same countries have done so in Syria. But America shoulders the heaviest load by far. U.S. warplanes have conducted 68 percent of the 6,655 airstrikes in Iraq and 94 percent of the 3,305 airstrikes in Syria since August 2014. Coalition member Estonia, in contrast, has provided 12 mortars, 480 rifles and pistols, and more than a million rounds of ammunition. “We’re a small country, so we can’t be all over the place,” Estonian diplomat Kairi SaarIsop said. “We have to be very selective in how we help.” Slovenia says it’s listed as a member of the coalition because it holds local courses designed to dissuade young people from becoming radicalized. Lithuania has joined efforts to counter Islamic State propaganda and has helped track fighters trying to enter Europe, said Rolandas Krisciunas, its ambassador in Washington. “We are currently in discussions to send instructors to Iraq to help them build the capacity of local police officers to be able to fight ISIS,” Krisciunas said, using another name for Islamic State. Luxembourg has contributed $87 million to assist Syrian
refugees and is adopting new financial regulations to help track money moving to the militants. “We can’t do everything,” said Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, Luxembourg’s ambassador. “We prefer to give contributions in sectors where we have competency rather than send a few soldiers.” Montenegro has sent ammunition to the Iraqi army and has passed laws to prosecute citizens who go to Syria to fight with Islamic State, said Srdjan Darmanovic, Montenegro’s ambassador. “That’s what a country with 650,000 people can do,” Darmanovic said. “We try to contribute in accordance to our size and capabilities” The U.S. has sent 3,700 troops to Iraq. Sixteen other coalition countries have sent 2,400 troops. Italian military police are training Iraqi police officers to secure cities once they have been retaken from Islamic State. In northern Iraq, German, British and Dutch military adviser teams are training Kurdish fighters and providing new weapons, including anti-tank missiles. Many of the other coalition members have beefed up security measures to identify and stop foreign fighters, and have donated money to humanitarian groups working with Syrian refugees. The U.S. remains the largest donor by far, however, giving $4.5 billion in aid to the Syria crisis. In public, at least, Obama praises the joint effort. On Jan. 13, a day after he delivered his State of the Union speech, Obama noted that America has led a coalition of “more than 60 countries” for more than a year in trying to uproot Islamic State.
“We’re cutting off their financing,” he told a cheering crowd in Omaha, Neb. “We’re disrupting their plots. We’re stopping the flow of terrorist fighters. We’re stamping out their ideology. We’ve had 10,000 airstrikes. We’re taking out their leadership, their oil, their training camps, their weapons.” The White House heralded support from its Sunni Arab allies when the air war began in September 2014, noting that aircraft from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates all joined the early attacks in Syria. But those flights quickly ended. Saudi Arabia launched its own war last year against what it says are Iranian-backed insurgents in neighboring Yemen. Other Sunni nations appear more focused on Shiite Iran’s growing clout than the threat from Islamic State. Arab states disagree over whether to target Islamic State or the Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, who is backed by Russia and Iran, Yousef Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the U.S., said Friday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington. “I think the first order of business if we are to resolve Syria is to get everyone on the same page and so far that has been very elusive,” Otaiba said. The competing objectives have weakened the coalition, said Daniel Benjamin, a former State Department counterterrorism coordinator who now teaches at Dartmouth College. “You have the makings of a real disconnect between us and our partners,” Benjamin said.
Pediatricians recommend HPV vaccine for 11 year olds New strain better fit to combat virus By Vikki Ortiz Healy Chicago Tribune
The country’s leading doctors on Monday issued annual recommendations for childhood and adolescent immunizations, including that 11-yearolds get a newly improved HPV vaccine that has the ability to prevent more strains of cancer-causing human papillomavirus infections. Nine years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading physicians groups first advised that children be immunized against HPV, which is most commonly transmitted through sexual contact, the vaccine is still largely unused. And local pediatricians say persuading parents to approve the vaccine for their children is an ongoing challenge. “There’s definitely more
emotion around this vaccine than others,” said Dr. Frank Belmonte, vice president of pediatric population health at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Illinois. “I think there’s this connotation that (because) it has something to do with sexual activity ... people just can’t see their children in that light.” The 2016 vaccination schedule released Monday by the CDC includes the recommendation that 11- or 12-yearold boys and girls receive the 9vHPV vaccine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2014. The new vaccine is an improvement over the previous one, medical experts say, because it covers nine strains of HPV, offering protection against at least 80 percent of the cervical, vulvar and anal cancers caused by HPV, compared with 65 percent covered by earlier vaccines. The new guidelines, which also were approved by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, also recommend that children as young as 9 years old who have been exposed to sexual abuse or sexual trauma begin the threedose HPV immunization. Research shows that these children are more likely to engage in unsafe sexual practices and to become infected by HPV in the future, said Dr. H. Cody Meissner, professor of pediatrics at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, who sat on the committee that helped draft the recommendations. Medical experts say the HPV vaccine recommendation remains the least followed. In 2014, about 40 percent of girls and 22 percent of boys across the U.S. between the ages of 13 and 17 had received three doses of the HPV vaccine. This compares with almost 91 percent of children in the same age group who received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to data from the CDC. “The vaccine continues to be controversial, and it’s
unfortunate that it’s gotten wrapped up in the politics and ethical issues,” Meissner said. “We’ve always wanted a vaccine that protects against cancer, and now we’ve got one and people aren’t using it as widely as they should.” It’s a frustrating situation for medical experts, who say that research has dismissed earlier questions about whether the HPV vaccine loses effectiveness over time. The latest studies show that patients who receive the three-dose HPV vaccine as early as 9 years old should not require a booster or update later, Meissner said. HPV is a group of more than 150 related viruses transmitted through intimate skinto-skin contact. The viruses can lead to genital warts and cancer. About 79 million Americans are infected with HPV, about 360,000 people in the U.S. get genital warts each year, and more than 11,000 women in the U.S. get cervical cancer each year, according to the CDC. To be effective, the HPV
vaccine is administered in three separate doses _ at around 11 years old, one to two months later, and six months after that. Because it is recommended by the CDC, its cost is covered by most insurance providers. The vaccine is available for free to uninsured patients through the federally funded Vaccines for Children program, doctors said. The CDC is not recommending that patients who have received an earlier version of the vaccine receive the new one, but available data show no serious safety concerns for those who do. Patients should consult with their health care professionals if they are interested, CDC officials said. Nadia Qureshi, a pediatric infectious disease physician for Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., said she routinely deals with parents who are reluctant to consent to the HPV vaccine for their 11-year-olds. A few years ago, the hesitation could mostly be attributed to lack of awareness about the virus,
or confusion about whether males also should be immunized. But in the last couple of years, parents’ reluctance stems from feeling uncomfortable with the idea of talking about sex in regards to their preteens. Yet parents regularly consent to the hepatitis B vaccine for newborn babies _ an immunization that prevents another disease that can be sexually transmitted, Qureshi noted. “It’s just the time of transitioning from late childhood to adolescence,” Qureshi said. “People have this premonition that if they’re going to vaccinate their child against a sexually transmitted disease, then they’re going to be more at risk of having sexually active behavior.” Other additions to the immunization schedule released Monday include a new vaccine, meningococcal B, for children 10 years or older who are considered at increased risk for serogroup B meningococcal disease.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”-Winston Churchill
Anti-Semitism still alive at UMass UMass.snap is an unofficial and in the very same snap University of Massachusetts story as these pictures, a video Snapchat story, a place where captioned “on my Jewish flow” showed a man picking Jeremy Tibbetts up a coin. Jewish history is a story students can submit footage of second-class citizenship, of of the “real” UMass life. While forced isolations and expula lot of the content might be sions, and of violence and illegal or lewd, there was genocide. The global Jewish some footage posted recently population has never gone that was very disturbing. On above 17 million people, which a table with an American flag it reached in the 1940s before pattern, a few people were falling to 11 million. Recently, playing beer pong with a swas- there have been rallies outtika on one side and a Jewish side synagogues in France star on the other. Three pic- with shouts of “Death to the tures of the game were shown, Jews” and “Hitler was right” captioned “Jews vs Nazis.” (on Bastille Day, no less) in I took screenshots of these the past year and a Ukrainian images and as I reflected mayor was elected a few more on these pictures, I felt weeks ago who is member of upset, angry and ashamed a neo-Nazi party. that our community does not America has been a haven take seriously that 11 mil- for Jews by comparison. lion people, including people Growing up in the United of color, queer people, Jews, States, I was in an environChristians, Rromani, disabled ment where I was proud to people and more, were mur- be Jewish, to wear a kippah dered under this banner. I (a religious head covering) am disturbed that there are around without fear. I attendpeople uneducated about and ed Jewish day school that did indifferent to the attempted not have to masquerade as a genocide of my people 70 municipal building or exist in years ago, and that the sym- secret in a basement. I was bol of my extended family’s also taught to face the jokes, murder is part of a game to the assumptions, and the play and drink around. What questions with humor and levturned out to be even more ity. I was told that I was repredisturbing was what occurred senting our people, and that after. we needed to be grateful for I have experienced anti- how good we had it and keep Semitism on campus before, our heads down. When they though none of it has been make jokes and laugh, laugh violent. I have had change along. Our people have seen thrown at me, both on campus mountains, so let the moleand off campus. People have hills go. made jokes about my nose, According to UMass my major and more. I didn’t spokes person Ed realize the number of other Blaguszewski, the University students who have had similar was notified about these (and worse) experiences, even offensive images via email in from just this past semester. December and the UMass Bias Jewish students have been Response team began “looking called kikes, an anti-Semitic into the issue.” Blaguszewski slur, at the kosher dining said that the students in the section in Franklin Dining images were identified within Commons, the only place on 10 days and “the matter was campus some Jews can eat, adjudicated under the Code of
Student Conduct.” The school never issued a public response, but did respond to those that notified the news office of the image, per Blaguszewski. These events happened over a month ago, and I am shocked that the University still has had no official response, not even reaching out to our Jewish community. It simply is not enough to find the people responsible and punish them, because these events are not isolated and are not solely about individuals. Minimizing an incident and sweeping it under the rug only allows it to happen again. The University needs to be honest about what is happening. We are in college to learn, but we are exhibiting as a community that we are deficient in equally important areas. Long gone are the days when the Jewish community could only rely on itself in the face of these hateful ideologies, so where is the University? At UMass there is no room for ideas that strive to kill, and our community is teaching us not to be proud, but afraid of our Jewish identity. As Tu Bi’Shevat, the Jewish holiday associated with the renewal of nature and the “birthday” of the trees and plants, was this past Sunday, it would be appropriate to quote the Talmudic story of Choni, a sage who happens upon a man planting a carob tree. Choni asks him why he would bother planting the tree, since he will be long dead by the time the tree bears fruit. He replies, “I found a fruitful world because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise, I am planting for my children.” I call on the University not to ignore these problems any longer and work to prevent these acts and all like it on our campus. Jeremy Tibbetts is a Collegian contributer and can be reached at jtibbet@umass.edu
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Making long-distance relationships work As I write this, I am on FaceTime with tance relationships are more likely to fail my long-distance boyfriend. It’s our third than a regular relationship. That is not week apart after a whole month together the case. According to The Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, a Emelia Beuger long-distance relationship is just as likely as a regular relationship to fail. This over winter break. Yes, it’s been a tough positive data about long distance relathree weeks. But to me, a long-distance tionships could be attributed to FaceTime relationship, no matter how far apart, is and Skype, which allow face-to-face conworth it. nection with your partner. I met my boyfriend during my senior The Cornell study revealed that long year of high school. I figured it would distance couples learned more deep break off by the end of the school year and information about their partner due to we would go our separate ways. Needless the more meaningful conversations. Due to say, I was wrong. Even though every- to this deeper connection, partners may one (and everyone’s parents) told me that realize that this person is not the match a long-distance relationship was a waste for them and will break up, just as any of time, my boyfriend and I decided to other relationship. Or this deeper concontinue our relationship. Despite the 460 nection will bring the couple closer while miles between us, we have been together apart. Another thing about long-distance through the entire first semester of col- relationships is that they require trust lege and plan to stay together for this between the couple. If you do not trust semester. your significant other, long distance may Now, I wonder why people, and even not be the fit for you. parents, discourage people from long-disTo many, it sounds like long-distance tance relationships. I’m currently taking relationships don’t have many benefits. I a class in sociology where we discussed would disagree. The biggest benefit that I how in American culture parents are less have found is that I have time to do somelikely to believe that their children are in thing for myself without my boyfriend. I love during adolescence. can be my own person and do things that You’ll see dozens of Thought Catalog I enjoy. Being on my own has taught me articles about “How long distance wasn’t a lot about self-love and it’s been a very worth it” or “How long distance destroyed enriching experience. Yes, I get lonely my relationship.” There is a stigma in our and miss my boyfriend, but that’s norculture surrounding long-distance rela- mal. But that pushes me to get out there tionships, and I believe that this is not and participate around campus. completely underserved. People think that a long distance can But, that stigma is starting to change. ruin your college experience and that it In the United States, 75 percent of college is not ideal. To you I say that if it feels students have tried long-distance rela- right and the person is right for you, tionships, according to a 2013 study by you should try. You’ll never know unless Cornell University. The study also looked you try. And for all my friends out there at 63 long-distance couples, with the aver- toughing it out long distance, you’re not age age of 21 years old. Many were in alone and you’re certainly not doing anycollege or of college age. The findings thing wrong. The cliché saying “absence were very surprising to the research- makes the heart grow fonder” is true. ers. They found that yes, long-distance Long distance is like college in the sense couples interacted fewer times a day, but that it is what you make of it. their interactions were more meaningful. I never thought that I would be in Long distance was also found to have just a long-distance relationship, let alone as much positive trust as “geographically write a column about it, but being in a close ones.” This is because you do not long-distance relationship has made a see your significant other on a daily basis large, positive impact on my college expeand you do not know what they are doing rience. I’m glad that I gave long distance every second of every day. You have to a chance and I encourage others to do the trust that your partner is being faith- same. ful and yes, this can be tough for some people. Emelia Beuger is a Collegian contributer and can be People also tend to think that long-dis- reached at ebeuger@umass.edu
Antwaan Randle El and the future of football For generations, football has served as a vital entertain- reconsider allowing their child to play. ment source and a tangible representation of stereotypical “I tell parents, you can have the right helmet, the perfect masculine attributes, a platform to demonstrate physical pads on, and still end up with a paraplegic kid,” Randle El said. Michael Agnello By limiting the number of encounters with intensive collisions, players can potentially live healthier lives post-partoughness and mental acuteness. In recent years, however, football has received flak for its link to head trauma, specifically Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which is a degenerative brain disease associated with memory loss, impulsive behavior, depression and dementia. Football’s legitimacy continues to come into question as education about these side effects increases. In order to ensure the continued success of the sport, it is pertinent to protect future players and therefore discourage youth football. Shorter playing careers could be beneficial in reducing lasting brain damage and could also change American cultural attitudes in regard to male stereotypes. Antwaan Randle El, a former wide receiver standout and Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, recently ticipation. Playing football at young ages and then continusaid he regrets playing football for a career because of the ing through high school, maybe even college and the NFL, lasting consequences. At age 36 he is experiencing sig- means that the blows to the head are compounded, raising nificant memory loss and often has to walk down the stairs the probability of lasting brain damage, considering that sideways, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “If I CTE develops from repeated head trauma. If careers began could go back, I wouldn’t [play football],” Randle El said. He in high school, the compounded trauma would be lessened. was drafted into the MLB while in high school, but instead To have a child undergo repeated head-to-head contact pursued college football and a degree. A notable NFL player while his or her brain is rapidly developing is illogical. A possible explanation for why children want to play essentially denouncing his career addresses the harsh reality of the sport and puts the needed pressure on parents to such a dangerous game at a young age is the culture. In
America, a football player is glorified for his toughness, which has long stood as a stereotypical masculine trait. The sport therefore offers children of virtually all ages a chance to adopt the trait and win respect from their peers. Though, if there is less emphasis to participate in football at young ages, then it is possible that the culture would experience slight changes in response and the desire to participate at youth levels would be eliminated. If one generation of parents factor in the risk-reward ration of allowing their child to play football, significant positive changes will affect the sports’ culture. Like many parents who grew up with football central in their lives from an early age, Randle El acknowledged that “It’s a tough pill to swallow because I love the game of football,” but in the end “it’s a physically violent game” and change needs to be embraced. Revising the standard introduction to the sport can certainly be difficult, but it is crucial when factoring in health risks. A career in football can leave players with debilitating brain injuries, as proven by new scientific inquiries and the testimonial of Randle El. Now is the perfect time to slowly loosen the grasp that the sport has on our hearts. Protecting children should be at the forefront of every parent’s mind and despite the reality that football has been important to our culture, acknowledging the negative consequences it holds can make future generations safer.
“In America, a football player is glorified for his toughness, which has long stood as a stereotypical masculine trait. The sport therefore offers children of virtually all ages a chance to adopt the trait and win respect from their peers.”
Michael Agnello is a Collegian contributer and can be reached at magnello@umass.edu
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Arts Living “As good as chocolate tastes, that’s how it sounds.” - Willow Smith on her voice
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Heartbreaking songs of 2015: Another year, another tear By William Doolittle
“Tropic of Cancer” stands as a powerful testament to the The top releases of 2015 affecting power of loving and offered listeners catchy, being loved by your parents. upbeat hits, as reflected in 4. Blood Orange Mark Ronson’s hugely suc“Sandra’s Smile” cessful “Uptown Funk.” Justin Bieber and OMI Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes brought us their tropical used his lyrics in 2015 to raise dance hits, “What Do You awareness for anti-black vioMean?” and “Cheerleader,” respectively. Aside from these lence, namely calling out hot hits, music in 2015 fre- those who choose to stay quently ventured into a world silent in its presence. “How many times have you of heartbreak. These five heard of some celebrity whose heartbreaking releases set career is indebted to black a heavier undertone for the people and their love of black year. people, who then… become(s) 5. Panda Bear - “Tropic deafly silent when we really need their help or voice?” he of Cancer” wrote in an annotation for Noah Lennox loves his “Sandra’s Smile,” a meditation on the unjust death of family. “There isn’t much that I Sandra Bland. Musically, the feel I need/But with a little song has Hynes’s signature girl, and by my spouse/I only breezy R&B style, but it carwant a proper house,” Lennox ries a sentiment weightier sang on Animal Collective’s than anything he has released “My Girls.” That song’s stray, before. Hynes asks in his lyrics: dark undertone – the death of Lennox’s father – was the “Look, an hour ago, I read subject of Panda Bear’s 2004 Sybrina’s quote. I mean, why sparse, notebook-like album should she forgive? D’we lose “Young Prayer.” It’s only on you if, we don’t?” Hynes ref“Tropic of Cancer,” a standout erences Sybrina Fulton’s – from this year’s “Panda Bear mother of Trayvon Martin Meets the Grim Reaper,” that – response when asked by the subject is given a sense New York Magazine if she forof immediacy while Lennox gives her son’s killer, George repeats – over a gleaming harp Zimmerman. The events sample from Tchaikovsky’s evoked by this song are not “The Nutcracker” – “and you just heartbreaking; they’re can’t get back, you won’t come enraging. back, you can’t come back to it.” It’s touching enough 3. Sufjan Stevens that this passing had such an “Fourth of July” impact on Lennox more than a decade after the fact, but Most songs from Sufjan
Lake” as a “Matthew Barney diss-track.” This description does the song a disservice. As “Black Lake” demonstrates, you’re not looking to ”diss” someone during that seemingly endless healing process – you’re just hurt.
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1. Adele - “Hello”
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Adele’s wailing apologies in her latest release qualifiy ‘Hello’ as the most heartbreaking hit of the year. Stevens’ album “Carrie and Lowell” merit the title “heartbreaking,” but none hit quite as hard as his song, “Fourth of July.” The record unpacks Sufjan’s time with his schizophrenic mother and “Fourth of July” takes listeners to the night of her death. “The hospital asked should the body be cast before I say goodbye, my star in the sky,” he whispers midway through the song. In other contexts, the series of pet names Stevens employs could fall under the “adorkable” category, but here they feel like bare coping mechanisms. Its opportunistic placement in the track list allows
its reverberated piano to finally cut through the haze of hushed finger-picking and synthetic atmospheres, making it especially poignant as a highlight on the album. While there is some obviousness or melodrama attached to a repeated closing line like, “We’re all gonna die,” the preceding four minutes of torrential, emotional downpour make him believable.
2. Björk - “Black Lake” Björk’s eighth album, “Vulnicura,” chronicles the several months surrounding her breakup with husband Matthew Barney, piquing
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Few things are more crushing than feeling like you’ve let someone down, but are unable to make things right. For Adele, this notion is what makes “Hello” so crushing. Sure, she’s secured her spot in a lineage of legendary songstresses, but her cries of apology on “Hello” are falling on deaf ears; for all the tears, she’s ultimately wailing into the void. The “other side” she refers to in the chorus represents someone letting down their armor, waving a white flag to a kingdom that could care less. And it seems Adele’s sorrow turns inward as well. The line, “it clearly doesn’t tear you apart anymore” is a heavy self-laceration – an assumption that despite your feelings of heavy guilt toward another person, they don’t feel anything for you at all. As a single, Adele is playing it safe with “Hello,” but while it should surprise no one that another one of her tear-jerking ballads dominated the charts, the underlying message is a new one, and she has never sounded more three-dimensional.
with the 10-minute track, “Black Lake.” The song takes place two months after their split and finds Björk more devastated and direct than she has ever allowed herself to be on tape before. Her tendency to let her music breathe has previously come off as selfindulgent; the extended sections of orchestral drone that separate her stanzas feel like moments of dangerous isolation, as though they’re the space where she dives deeper into her psyche to pull out lines like, “You have nothing to give, your heart is hollow.” Following the release of “Vulnicura,” Billboard insult- William Doolittle can be reached at ed Bjork by describing “Black wdoolitt@umass.edu.
MIXTAPE REVIEW
Smith’s debut album falls short Future plays it safe ‘Ardipithecus’ sacrifices with ‘Purple Reign’ appeal for uniqueness By Will Doolittle
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Let’s get one thing straight: Willow Smith’s “Ardipithecus” is, by any measure, better than any pop record you will ever hear from a 15 year old. Smith, the sole writer and producer for almost the entire album, quietly dropped the evolution-themed album last month following years of shelved plans and, to its credit, the project sounds like it couldn’t have come from anyone else. But “Ardipithecus” is not the long-overdue teen pop opus from the girl who gave us “Whip My Hair,” nor is it an expansion of the alternative R&B makeover from the 2014 EP, “iii.” Unfortunately, “Ardipithecus” feels like a disappointment compared to either prospect – an overstuffed, over planned album that plays like it was meant to satisfy no one other than Smith, herself. It seems “Ardipithecus” suffers many of the same problems as the biggest 2015 pop disaster, “Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz:” lack of quality control, sub-par recording and, most gratingly, the adoption of an obnoxious college stoner persona. The only difference is that where the Miley of “Dead Petz” probably went to CU-Boulder, Smith sounds like the pretentious Hampshire College freshman who wears a third eye and won’t shut up about the Gaia hypothesis. The lyrics are a hodgepodge of concepts from new-age philosophy, astronomy and whatever else is likely to make you think Smith is “deep.” They feel overly self-important, yet regrettably formulaic – an oppressive device hell-bent on not letting you forget that Smith really is as hyper-mature and sophisticated as she seems. Look no further than the
opening line for an example: “Classification and organization is ruining the minds of our generation.” She punctuates the remark with an “I said it,” in case you didn’t register just how much of a truth bomb she dropped. The next several lines include exclamations in Na’vi, a plug for her brother’s clothing line – an entity named “True” – and possibly an “Adventure Time” reference. The writing only gets more convoluted for the next 14 songs – get ready to do some Googling unless you’re already familiar with terms like “labradorite,” “Nibiru,” “indigo children” and “Annunaki.” Though this esoteric turn is not entirely unexpected given Smith’s history of pushing social boundaries, as well as her surrounding influences – “I could pretend money grows on trees, but it does and that’s the funny thing” is surely a scrapped Jaden Smith tweet – her “enlightened” assertions become immediately exhausting. Smith’s decision to helm the album’s composition is admirable, but the results are less than impressive. A seasoned Ableton user could easily call up any patch or loop used here, including the jarring harp and xylophone combination of “F Q-C #8,” or the misplaced EDM breakdown at the end of “RANDOMSONG.” The rawness of Smith’s vocals end up being a double-edged sword as well. Although there’s still a hint of Rihanna (an admittedly lazy comparison that’s followed her since “Whip My Hair”), her new go-to inflection, an even heavier “island” tinge, simply makes her sound like Sia with less pitch control. While it’s nice to hear Smith sing in an unpolished form that her tween days would never have permitted, she doesn’t yet have the compositional skills to back it up. She is constantly writing herself out of her range or shifting to talking mid-phrase as
though the melody isn’t interesting enough to follow through with. “Ardipithecus” is still nowhere near the barren wasteland of “Dead Petz” (although that’s setting the bar pretty low). “Natives of the Windy Forest,” a distant cousin to Angel Haze’s conceptually-similar “Back to the Woods,” is a bouncy number with choruses of shouted vocals swarming and eventually overtaking the beat. “IDK” features the record’s most refreshingly straightforward instrumentation, along with an exceptional hook where her Sia impression pushes into bolder Alanis Morissette territory. Late album dance cuts “Star” and “Wait a Minute!” offer glimpses of what a more traditional evolution might have sounded like. “I don’t even care, run my hands through your hair, you wanna run your fingers through mine, but my dreads too thick and that’s alright” she sings on the latter track. Continued Na’vi interjections and references to alternate dimensions aside, it’s here that Smith finally mixes in just enough of her own quirk to be unobtrusive while still molding the song into her own. The surprise release of “Ardipithecus” suggests that it’s to be viewed in the same vein of other unconventional records to surface on the iTunes store, but where albums like “Beyoncé” and “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” seemed genetically designed to maintain appeal while avoiding descriptors like “radio-friendly,” “Ardipithecus” has a singular goal to prove how different it is. And while Willow Smith is undoubtedly happy with the final product, whether people get it or not, the rest of us are left to wonder how much is even worth getting. Will Doolittle can be reached at wdoolitt@umass.edu.
By Kunal Khunger Collegian Staff
Southside dominate the project, which does not take any risks and plays it safe. But as always, Future has a strong ear for instrumentals. “Inside the Mattress,” which was produced by Nard & B, sounds like a trap house enclosed in a private jet five-thousand feet up in the air. “All Right,” produced by Metro Boomin, features a snarling beat while Future belts, “You know I’m getting that mulah on a daily basis.” Future’s lyrics still contain the same darkness and pettiness that characterized him in the past. On “Never Forget,” Future states, “I had to take a loss so I could cherish this s***,” showcasing his selfawareness and that the failure of “Honest” is what really increased the momentum and propelled his aesthetic to the forefront of hip-hop. As always, drugs are a big topic. He characterizes his girlfriend as “lean” on the album-closer “Purple Reign” and moans “I’m drankin’ on my lean/I swear to God I would quit,” on the highlight track “Never Forget.” “Perky’s Calling,” another highlight, features the hook “I can hear the purple callin,” showcasing Future’s subtle hints to his constant struggle with drug dependency. Future has perfected the ability to make pleas for help sound like absolute bangers. Is “Purple Reign” as good as “Beast Mode” or “56 Nights?” No, not really. The same level of quality is not really present, making this fall more under the “mixtape” category than most of his 2015 releases. Despite that, this “warm-up” is still worth a listen. Future proved himself able to engage an audience’s attention for the long haul and I, for one, cannot wait for Future Hendrix to follow up this mixtape with a more cohesive body of work. Is Future still Codeine Crazy and commanding our attention? Only time will tell.
Future owned 2015. No other hip-hop artist dominated 2015 like Future did. Arguments can be made for Drake and Kendrick Lamar, who both released high-quality projects and enjoyed a large degree of critical acclaim. But only Future was able to release multiple records and maintain high album-quality. Rebounding from the 2014 commercial and critical failure “Honest,” Future came back with a vengeance, dropping the mixtapes “Monster,” “Beast Mode,” “56 Nights,” his album “Dirty Sprite 2” and finally his victory lap with Drake, “What a Time to Be Alive.” All describing his drug addiction and hedonistic lifestyle, Future pivoted from his attempt at R&B ballads to strictly grimy street anthems and bangers. Now, looking to bring forth his dominance in 2016, Future released his mixtape “Purple Reign.” “Purple Reign” doesn’t try to significantly rewrite Future’s style and plays it relatively safe¬ – both sonically and lyrically. What has been hugely evident throughout his ferocious comeback is that Future’s lyrical capabilities have improved dramatically. “Purple Reign” showcases a more mature artist who consistently makes steps to perfect his craft with every release. Described as being a “warm-up” for 2016 by its creator, this mixtape still manages to showcase quality music – even if it doesn’t reach the dizzying heights of his previous releases. Metro Boomin and DJ Esco, Future’s right-hand men, executive produced “Purple Reign” and sonically, it returns to Future’s trap roots. Compared to the lush and extravagant sounds of “DS2” and “What a Time to Be Alive,” “Purple Reign” features a more stripped back sound that harkens back to the mixtapes from early in Future’s career. Typical producers like Metro Kunal Khunger can be reached at Boomin, Nard & B, DJ Spinz and kkhunger@umass.edu.
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“I’m keeping him on the bike for two days and I’m going to try to use him against Rhode Island, I’m going to keep him on the bike for two days and I’ll try to use him at Richmond, I’m going to keep him on the bike for two days and I’m going to try to use him against VCU,” Kellogg said. “I think his health has hurt us some because I thought he was a guy who didn’t really need the ball and was doing a lot of good stuff for us. It’s one of those things that, it is what it is.”
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UMass ties UVM 2-2 Alex Rojas scored two goals on the evening, but it wasn’t enough as the Minutemen tied Vermont 2-2. UMass opened the scoring after Rojas tallied his first of the game with five minutes remaining in the opening period. The Catamounts tied the game following a Minutemen penalty a little more than halfway through the second period, but Rojas added his second goal soon after to put UMass back on top. The Catamounts evened the score once again with time ticking down in the period and this score held up for the rest of the night. Next weekend UMass heads to Wayne, New Jersey to face off against No. 1 William Paterson, then returns to Amherst the following night to take on Montclair State at the Mullins Center. Ryan Ames can be reached at rames@umass.edu.
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both the one and three meter dive. Trent Kindvall secured the top spot in the one-meter dive scoring 276.59 in the event. Robert Barry finished first in the three-meter dive with a score of 300.38. The A-10 tournament begins Wednesday Feb. 17 in Geneva, Ohio and lasts through Saturday, Feb. 20. Philip Sanzo can be reached at psanzo@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.
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“We fought much harder today and we are moving in the right direction,” Xi said. Across the board, the Minutewomen were more competitive. Even in losses, Aarzoo Malik, Beth Crawford and Carol Benito played tie-breaking final sets. The loss dropped UMass to 1-4 on the season, but because of the challenging opponents the Minutewomen have faced, Xi was not too concerned by the losing mark. “I believe you improve by playing against stronger opponents, and that’s
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[Connor] Walker. The last couple years he’s played well against Northeastern so we figured he’d get the job done tonight, and he did so I was glad with his performance,” he said. “The team’s going in the right direction now. I think we’re firing on all cylinders so it’s definitely good to see heading into the postseason,” DeFazio continued.
SWIM & DIVE pelled the men’s swimming and diving team to a 179-114 win over Fordham. Wiktor Karpinski, Brian Stiles, Kellen Gray, Oliver Wyeth, Alex Mesisca, Alex D’Anna and Heath Maginn combined to win eight swimming events for the men. Karpinski collected two first place finishes. He came in first in the 50 yard free with a time of 20.67 and the 100 yard free (45.82). The Minutewomen won
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CLUB HOCKEY most of the man-advantage but after a point shot from senior captain Ryan Daigle trickled around the crease, Litwack was there to clean up, hitting it in and extending the lead to 2-0. The Huskies wouldn’t relent following the Minutemen’s second goal and had the UMass players on their toes for the rest of the period. The Minutemen committed four penalties in that span and gave Northeastern multiple chances to get back in the game. However, the UMass penalty kill was superb, shutting down every NU power play chance. “Our penalty kill was real good tonight,” DeFazio said. “I think that kept us in a good spot for the remainder of the game.” At the start of the third, it looked as though the Huskies were starting to mount a comeback, but UMass quickly regained momentum and showed their dominance for the rest of the game. Before the final horn sounded, sophomore Rob Tirea scored the third and final goal after senior Alex Rojas found him with a nice saucer pass in the slot with just under a minute left in regulation. DeFazio praised his goalie’s performance after the game. “Lepine played outstandingly tonight. This whole week he looked really good in practice so we decided to give him the start over
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why we scheduled three tough opponents early on in the season,” Xi said. “We’re constantly learning, too. Instead of being sorry about the loss, we are learning how to improve.” UMass will return to action this weekend with home matches versus LIUBrooklyn and St. Johns on Saturday and Sunday. The matches will take place at the Bay Road Tennis Center. Christopher Marino can be reached at cmarino@umass.edu.
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Cam Newton steps off the Carolina Panthers team plane as they arrived in San Jose on Sunday, Jan 31. for Super Bowl 50.
By James F. Peltz Los Angeles Times
It’s the one day when many Americans gladly take a gamble: Super Bowl Sunday. As the Denver Broncos meet the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 this Sunday, millions of people will place some type of bet on the game even if they don’t care about football. A minority will gamble legally at Nevada’s casinos but most will make friendly, if often illegal, wagers at their workplace, corner bar or Super Bowl house party. Even those careful with a dollar often plunk down $10 for a square in the office pool. “A lot of people bet on only one game the entire season, and this is the one,” said Jay Kornegay, director of the sports book at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. They’ll bet not only on which team will win this year’s game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., but on a myriad of other scenarios related to the big event – maybe the pregame coin toss or how long it takes to sing the national anthem. Add it up and Americans will spend at least $4.2 billion betting on the Super Bowl this year, the American Gaming Association, a casino trade group, estimated last week. It’s widely agreed that no other single U.S. sporting event commands such betting, and the sports website Pregame.com esti-
mates that more than half of adult Americans will have some money at risk on Sunday’s game. Using the gaming association’s estimate, the Super Bowl bets legally placed at Nevada’s casinos amount to a mere 2.8 percent of the total wagered nationwide, most of which is private and unlicensed. Moreover, the group also believes its figure is “a conservative estimate” and that the actual dollar amount wagered on the Super Bowl probably is higher, association spokesman Chris Moyer said. “No one can say with pinpoint accuracy” how much is bet, he said. Except at Nevada’s casinos, where regulators keep a close eye on the action. Gamblers placed $116 million in bets on the Super Bowl last year through the casinos’ sports books, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks in that game, 28-24. But untold millions of dollars changed hands among bettors in the final minute when, just as Seattle appeared set to score the go-ahead touchdown, New England’s Malcolm Butler intercepted a pass to preserve the Patriots’ victory. The amount wagered in Nevada last year was down 3 percent from the record $119.4 million bet on the Super Bowl in 2014. But the betting volume generally has increased in recent years in step with the U.S. economy’s improvement
from the severe recession. Super Bowl gambling at the Nevada sports books has more than doubled in the last 22 years. The figure was $54.5 million in 1994 when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Buffalo Bills, 30-13. That’s not surprising because the Super Bowl itself “has become so much of a social and cultural event for Americans,” said David Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. A record 114.4 million Americans watched last year’s game, and “there’s just a sense of the atmosphere around it, it’s almost like a holiday,” Schwartz said. Just as many people watch the game mainly to see the new TV commercials, placing a bet also is widely considered part of the festivities, he said. But for those betting at Nevada’s casinos, wagering on sports generally has one of the lowest winning percentages compared with other forms of gambling, gaming board figures show. Sports’ winning percentage was 5.8 percent last year, compared with 18 percent for roulette and 12 percent for blackjack. Even slot machines, with an average winning percentage of 6.4 percent, have a better payout than sports. The American Gaming Association started estimating the total amount of Super Bowl gambling last year mainly to raise
awareness of how much illegal gambling occurs and whether state and federal gaming laws need to be changed. The group’s purpose, after all, is to represent the legal casino industry and funnel more betting its way. But Moyer said the effort was aimed more toward curbing large-scale illegal betting. “We’re not talking about those harmless office pools” that are “relatively low-dollar figures and fun,” he said. There is no federal law against making bets on sports, but about half the states “have ancient laws on the books saying you can’t make a bet,” said I. Nelson Rose, a law professor and gaming expert at Whittier Law School. Those laws “of course are never enforced” at places such as bars and backyard Super Bowl parties, he said. Betting on horse racing is legal because it’s “expressly carved out on the federal and state level” to allow parimutuel gambling, Rose said. Some of those state laws also are now being tested by the increasingly popular daily fantasy sports business, led by DraftKings and FanDuel. But those companies maintain that their contests are games of skill and not gambling. Fantasy entrants draft professional athletes for their virtual teams and then, using points based on the athletes’ real-world performances, calculate how their virtual teams finish.
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Thanks, Obama: Warriors to visit White House Thursday By DiamonD leung San Jose Mercury News When President Barack Obama welcomes the Warriors to the White House on Thursday to honor the team on winning the NBA championship, Stephen Curry will know his way around a little bit. That’s because during his tour of the place last year when he first met Obama, Curry asked where was the room where Obama greets NBA championship teams. “I actually saw the room, so I know where
to go, which will be fun,” Curry said. The Warriors a day after they play against the Washington Wizards will make the trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. along with former teammates Justin Holiday and David Lee, who are expected to be in attendance. Curry will go back to the White House a champion after having first met the president to discuss their respective malaria initiatives. Obama later in the summer made good on scheduling a golf outing with Curry. Curry, Harrison Barnes and
Draymond Green were among a group of Warriors who met with Obama at an October speaking engagement in San Francisco. Coach Steve Kerr is the most experienced with visiting the president after championships, as he made three trips after winning it all as a player with the Chicago Bulls and San Antonio Spurs. Bill Clinton was in office for each of the visits. “I think I told him, ‘We’ve got to stop meeting like this,’ and I don’t think he knew what the hell I was talking about,” Kerr said, laughing. “I thought
I was making a funny joke. He probably forgot he had even met me.” A Bulls fan, Obama has never met Kerr. The two did speak in a congratulatory call after the Warriors won Game 6 of the NBA Finals. “I just hope when I talk to him I don’t stumble on my words or get too nervous,” Warriors guard Klay Thompson said of being excited to meet Obama. “I don’t normally get star-struck, but I feel like when I meet the leader of the free world, I’m going to be a little nervous.”
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On the rebound
Club team beats NU, ties UVM Minutemen continue impressive season By ryAn AMes Collegian Staff
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Seth Berger battles for a rebound in the Minutemen’s 86-75 loss against Saint Louis on Jan 23. at Mullins Center.
Minutemen looking to snap seven-game skid By Anthony ChiusAno Collegian Staff
The Massachusetts men’s basketball team’s current sevengame losing streak marks the longest in Derek Kellogg’s sevenyear stint at the helm of the Minutemen. Now, with a trip to Richmond and a home matchup against firstplace Virginia Commonwealth on the horizon, UMass (8-12, 1-7 Atlantic 10) sets its sights on breaking its slump against Rhode Island, (12-9, 4-4 A-10) in Amherst Tuesday night. “We have to win (Tuesday), just for me personally,” Minutemen senior guard Trey Davis said. “I need to get a win and get this streak back started. I don’t like losing like that and it’s bothering me.” UMass enters the matchup coming off a 78-72 overtime loss to Fordham Saturday afternoon in which the Minutemen faltered down the stretch in containing Rams’ drives toward the basket,
resulting in layup opportunities and trips to the free throw line. Kellogg said avoiding similar breakdowns against a talented URI backcourt is a point of emphasis this week in practice. “We’ve got to get some post presence defensively to where teams aren’t able to shoot a layup on different occasions,” Kellogg said. “Whether it’s Tyler (Bergantino) or Rashaan (Holloway), that’s the last line of defense and at times, that’s been suspect.” Davis added: “I’m looking at that as the most important thing right now. I probably won’t even worry about offense anymore, we have to worry about defense.” With the absence of E.C. Matthews – the Rams star point guard who tore his ACL in their season opener – URI has relied on a balanced offense composed of five double-digit scorers, including three guards. Guards Jarvis Garrett (12.6 points per game), Jared Terrell (12.1) and Four McGlynn (11.4) have all stepped up without Matthews in the lineup while forwards Hassan Martin (11.8) and
Kuran Iverson (10.5) round out the Rams’ usual starting lineup. “For us personally, we just have to lock in a little bit more on defense,” UMass guard Donte Clark said about approaching URI’s guard unit. “We watched some of the film of the Fordham game and we were letting guys that had the ball get in gaps too easily. We were getting beat too easy on straight-line drives and stuff like that.” While the Minutemen prefer to play at an up-tempo pace at both ends of the floor, the Rams like to slow the game down and play in low-scoring defensive battles. URI has allowed the secondfewest points per game in the conference this year. “They’re one of the better defensive teams out there and I think we’re still trying to get better defensively so I’m hoping there will be a little more offense than it being a defensive battle,” Kellogg said. “They’ve played better defense than we’ve had so far in league play and that’s something we’ve concentrated on a day and a half now since our last game.”
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Clark added that UMass won’t try to adjust their own game, but will instead attempt to force the Rams into playing at a faster pace. “We have to try to make them play our game,” Clark said. “We’ll press them, play man-toman full-court and stuff like that to speed up the game and make them play our game.”
Holloway impresses, Coleman update Minutemen freshman center Rashaan Holloway played 11 minutes in Saturday’s loss to Fordham following a seven-game stretch in which he saw an average of less than five after losing his starting job. The 6-foot-11, 335-pound center responded by going 2-of-2 from the field with three rebounds and a block before being limited in the second half and overtime with four fouls. In this time, Holloway provided an energy boost, picking up offensive rebounds on consee
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This winter season – especially the month of January – has not been kind to a number of varsity sports teams around campus, but the Massachusetts club hockey team has been an exception. Coming off a successful first half of the season, the Minutemen continued their winning ways Saturday night at Mullins Center by defeating Northeastern in a 3-0 shutout victory. Junior Casey Litwack had a goal and assist, while senior goalie Luke Lepine stopped every shot he faced to lead UMass (18-62-2) to the shutout. “That was a big win for us,” head coach Mike DeFazio said following the game. “This is a game we had circled on our calendars, and the guys came out and played awesomely. I was really happy with their effort on the ice tonight.” After the game began almost an hour late due to Senior Night festivities from the women’s club hockey team beforehand, it was clear both teams had a lot of pent up energy as the Minutemen and the Huskies traded quality chances early on. The back and forth play continued throughout the first period, but ultimately neither team scored. UMass came out with strength to begin the second period and put pressure on the Northeastern team right from the drop of the puck. Just two minutes, 53 seconds into the period, freshman Anthony Lespasio broke the deadlock with a slick breakaway goal to give the Minutemen a 1-0 lead. Litwack made a nice clearing pass from the defensive zone to Lespasio, who fought off a Huskie defender and put the puck in the five-hole to put UMass ahead. About a minute later, a Huskies defender was called for tripping and put the Minutemen on a power play. UMass had trouble getting things going for see
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UMass splits vs. Fordham as Minutewomen swept Atlantic 10 meet approaches in weekend matches By PhiliP sAnzo Collegian Staff
The Massachusetts men’s and women’s swimming and diving dual match against Fordham Saturday served as a final tune-up heading into the Atlantic 10 tournament. The women’s team fell to Fordham 171-124 in the Joseph R. Rogers pool. It was their fourth dual match loss of the year. Junior Meriza Werenski won the 1000 yard freestyle with a time of 10:39.37 and the 200 yard individual medley (2:07.70) making up the only victories the swimmers had in individual competition. The relay team of Maddie Biron, Steph Campo, Rachel Grant and Ansley Baker secured first place in the 200 freestyle relay, posting a time of 1:40.20. The divers had a fantastic day, finishing first in both the one and three meter dive. Emma Roush finished first while Katie Polk finished second in the one-meter dive
with scores of 247.80 and 246.83 respectively. The Minutewomen completely swept the top three spots of the three-meter dive; Roush again finished first (263.25) followed by Polk (258.23) and Julia Jagannath (247.13). Head coach Bob Newcomb was happy to have another opportunity for his swimmers to compete before the A-10 start in two weeks. “The biggest thing is that it was our last opportunity to compete before A-10s and that’s been our biggest goal all year long,” Newcomb said. Much of the swimming season is all about preparing for A-10s as the coaches have said in the past. The plan now, according to Newcomb, is for the team to “taper,” otherwise known as rest. “A swimming term called tapering, where we bring down the yardage, letting them rest, we are letting their bodies recover,”
Newcomb said. “We’ll work on a little bit of technique, fast swimming and that’s what we got for the next 16 days until the meet.” In the meet against Fordham, Newcomb admitted that the swims were not fast but that he was still happy with how they swam. Newcomb said one of the goals going into the dual match was to swim well and he believes his team achieved those expectations. The team is allowed to bring a 25-woman roster to the tournament. Newcomb says that women’s team will be bringing 22 swimmers and three divers.
Men defeat Fordham 179-114 With eyes set on repeating as A-10 champions, the Minutemen put in a great performance against the Rams two weeks before the conference tournament, as 10 first place finishes prosee
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UM shut out by Eagles in 7-0 loss By ChristoPher MArino Collegian Staff
In the first of two matches of what proved to be a difficult weekend for the Massachusetts tennis team, the Minutewomen were swept 7-0 in a dominating performance by Brown. Only one match made it past two sets in the loss to the Bears (2-1). The contest got off to a tough start when Ruth Crawford was defeated in straight sets (6-3, 6-3) and the rest of the match seemed to follow a similar script, as UMass struggled to match the level of competition presented by Brown. However, as assistant coach Li Xi pointed out, the numbers didn’t tell the whole story. “A lot of the matches were actually closer than the score appeared. We played tough
matches,” Xi stated optimistically. As for whether or not the match produced concern for herself or head coach Judy Dixon, Xi said it was important to keep early season matches in perspective. “For our girls to come back from a long break to face three very tough teams, it’s difficult, and we see these losses but we are improving.” Ana Yrazusta won the only set of the day for the Minutewomen in what proved to be the most closely contested match of the afternoon, when she pushed Brown’w Alyza Benotto to three sets. Yrazusta won the first set 6-2 before Benotto rallied to win the final sets 7-6 and 10-6.
didn’t produce the results that the Minutewomen were looking for, as the Eagles prevailed in a 5-2 victory. However, with two match wins and more competitive performances, Xi viewed the loss to BC as a time for the team to build. Against the Eagles, the No. 48 team in the nation, UMass undoubtedly showed an improvement in overall play, securing two singles victories and forcing all but one of its losses to the final set. Anna Woosley (6-1, 7-6) and Laura Moreno (7-6, 6-4) each grabbed victories in their singles matches, with Woosley’s in the number four slot and Moreno at number six. Minutewomen fall to Woosley paired with Ruth Crawford for a 6-4 win in a BC 5-2 doubles match as well, but BC would take the other Much like the initial two matches to clinch the result of the weekend, doubles point on the day. Sunday mornings matchup versus Boston College see TENNIS on page 7