Massachusetts Daily Collegian: March 28, 2016

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Second hateful flyer distributed to UM printers WMUA director finds message Sun. By Marie Maccune Collegian Staff

U n ive r s i t y of Massachusetts students found a flyer inciting hatred against people of color and lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual communities on University printers Sunday afternoon. This incident occurred less than a week after an anti-Semitic and white supremacist flyer was similarly distributed on Thursday. MassLive reported that UMass was one of several universities across the country, including Smith College, to receive the flyer Thursday. According to an email

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sent by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy to the campus community Thursday regarding last week’s event, the UMass Police Department was conducting an investigation. The email described the incident as an “information security incident,” and said the flyers were distributed to campus printers and faxes via an off-campus location. Patricia Murphy, the news editorial director for WMUA, found Sunday’s flyer in the WMUA office, and said it was transmitted and printed at 12:10 p.m. WMUA reported the flyer to the information technology department, which responded to the report and asked for more information regarding the incident. A WMUA printer see

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Cathy Schneider speaks on protests and conflict over police brutality alongside fellow panelists on Friday in the Cape Cod Lounge.

Rosenberg creates police body camera grant Program to be reference for future MA policy By Brendan deady Collegian Staff

The killing of Michael Brown in August of 2014 ignited a national conversation about police accountability and set in motion demands for a system that documents interactions between officers and citizens. The ambiguity surrounding Brown’s death led to a call for officers to don body cameras to prevent uncertainty

in cases where complications or allegations of abuse arise. In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker has said that he’s interested in exploring the use of body cameras but is not at the stage of penning legislation that would establish a statewide mandate without a proper framework to govern usage. Now, with a supplemental budget passed in October 2015, police departments across the state will have an opportunity to acquire body cameras and run their own pilot programs. The $275,000 grant, which was

The grant makes funds available for four police departments to acquire body cameras and establish their own policies regarding the technology’s usage. made available last week through the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, is the brainchild of State Senate President Stanley Rosenberg and his staff. The grant makes funds available for four police departments to acquire body cameras and establish their own policies governing the technology’s usage. Rosenberg sat down with the

Daily Collegian to discuss the logistics of the grant and what he hopes it will help accomplish. Rosenberg decided in August to draft a grant program after seeing the frequent incidents between police officers and individuals in the media that resulted in conversations of accountability and transparency. He’d heard that other com-

munities were testing out body camera programs and felt that Massachusetts should be proactive rather than wait for an incident to force action on the subject. “It ought to be more regularized and regulated activity so it’s fair to both the individual police officer and also the individual involved,” Rosenberg said. “So I said, ‘Let’s set up a program to collect data to assess what are the best standards, practices, rules and regulations’ because see

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65 killed in Easter suicide bomb College Pizza’s Splinter Taliban group claims attacks By ShaShank Bengali By Brendan deady Los Angeles Times

A bomb ripped through a public park packed with families celebrating Easter in the Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 250 others, most of them women and children, officials said. A suicide bomber set off an explosive vest packed with ball bearings in a parking lot near amusement park rides in Gulshan–e–Iqbal Park, located in a mostly residential neighborhood of western Lahore. A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, which it said was aimed at Christians celebrating the Easter holiday. Pakistan, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, has a small Christian minority. Officials said they had not confirmed that Christians were the target. The bloodshed overwhelmed rescue agencies

The bloodshed overwhelmed rescue agencies in Pakistan’s second-largest city. Victims jammed Lahore’s hospitals, spilling into the corridors where doctors and medical staff raced to treat them. Many more victims arrived at medical facilities in taxis or motorized rickshaws... in Pakistan’s second–largest city. Victims jammed Lahore’s hospitals, spilling into the corridors where doctors and medical staff raced to treat them. Many more victims arrived at medical facilities in taxis or motorized rickshaws because ambulances were full. Pakistani security officials condemned the attack as “savage,” and said intelligence agencies would find the perpetrators. The chief minister of Punjab state announced three days of official mourning. It was deadliest attack in Pakistan since the December 2014 massacre at an army–run school in which 143 people died, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians.

The Pakistani Taliban, a federation of insurgent groups that aims to overthrow the Pakistani government, continues to mount brazen attacks despite a nearly two–year military offensive against militant hideouts in the country’s northern tribal belt. The group that claimed responsibility for Sunday’s blast, the Jamaat–ul–Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban, split with the federation in 2014 and is believed to have carried out a major attack in Lahore later that year that killed at least 60 people near the Indian border. In January, a separate splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a raid on a university in the northeastern town of Peshawar

that killed 21, many of them students who were shot at close range in their dormitories. Christians, who make up less than 2 percent of Pakistan’s 182 million people, have frequently been targeted by Pakistani extremist groups. In 2013, 75 Christians were killed in a suicide bombing at a church in the northeastern city of Peshawar. Lahore, a cosmopolitan city of more than 12 million and the seat of power in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s home state of Punjab, has been less affected by militant violence than other major Pakistani cities. The park where the attack occurred sits on nearly 70 acres and includes a large man–made lake, zip–lines and a rock– climbing wall. Since 2003, more than 21,000 Pakistani civilians have been killed in militant violence, according to statistics by the South Asia Terrorism Portal, an independent group that tracks the fatalities.

replacement to offer new vibe Owner hopes to open next month By Stuart FoSter Collegian Staff

In the location of the recently closed College Pizza, a new owner says she is preparing a restaurant with a brand new image to appeal to University of Massachusetts students. Rebecca Casagrande plans to open Sunset Grill and Pizza this spring, and wants to create a different tone for students at the Fearing Street location. “I just want students to have a different atmosphere,” said Casagrande, who graduated from UMass in 2000. “It’s super important to me to give the students on campus a really nice place where they can relax.” After the Amherst Board of Health revoked the license of College Pizza in February due to health concerns, Casagrande

thought the location, which is adjacent to the Southwest Residential Area, would be perfect for an establishment to attract students. She said she has always wanted to own a restaurant and has managerial experience working at fast food locations. Casagrande, who said Sunset Grill and Pizza would focus on serving soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers and pizza, added that she looked at the options available at the Hampshire Dining Common to determine what she could put in her menu. “I tried to figure out what was missing to have over here,” she said. Casagrande said that some new additions to the menu would be gourmet grilled cheeses, custom sandwiches made to match customers’ topping preferences and two specialty pizzas each day. Acknowledging the damsee

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