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‘Labyrinth’ aims Panel slams political correctness Speakers draw both to curb students’ support and protest stress for finals B y D anny C ordova Collegian Staff

Organizer tested method in prisons

By Hannah Tran-Trinh Collegian Correspondent

As finals creep up, research papers are revised, grades are finalized and summer internships are confirmed, stress on the University of Massachusetts campus rises.

In response, the College of Nursing and the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department teamed up to create a sun-powered meditation labyrinth that can help de-stress any hardworking student.

Located directly behind the Integrated Learning Center on the Metawampe lawn, the temporary art installation intended to offer a calming effect and a visually engaging experience, according to Carolina Aragon, assistant professor in the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department and one of the lead designers of the labyrinth.

“The project uses approximately 2000 oneand-a-half inch handmade photoluminescent circles with a dichroic film on top,” Aragon said.

“As you walk, the colors, reflections and shadows change.”

According to Aragon, the photoluminescent plastic circles are charged with natural daylight and release a soft glow at night. The film that is placed on top of the plastic creates a color-shifting quality which mimics the radiance found in nature,

similar to butterfly wings.

The labyrinth is designed in a traditional mandala-like pattern, round with many twists and turns to create a longer walk in a smaller space. According to Donna Zucker, interim dean of the College of Nursing and partner in creating the labyrinth, walking a labyrinth can help with stress reduction due to the patterned movement. It slows down your body and relaxes your mind, Zucker explained.

“A goal is that if you put yourself in the right frame of mind, you can leave your troubles in the middle and walk away from them,” Zucker said.

“The idea of stress reduction is really to get your mind to quiet down as your body is doing the work.”

Zucker spends time as a volunteer nurse at Hampshire County Jail in Northampton, where she had set up a meditation labyrinth with a six-week mindfulness program to help with impulse control and relaxation. She said that the inmates enjoyed the program and it has continued for nine consecutive years.

During the prison program, Zucker and her partners measured satisfaction of the prisoners and effectiveness in stress reduction in their research study. She discovered that inmates using the meditation labyrinth at the prison significantly lowered their blood pressure levels by the end of the program.

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British jour nalist and entrepreneur Milo Yiannopoulos joined author and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers and YouTube comedian Steven Crowder to discuss feminism, social justice and microaggressions at the University of Massachusetts Monday night.

The event, titled “The Triggering: Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far?” took place at the Bowker Auditorium and

was hosted by UMass College Republicans. The three speakers, known for their conservative viewpoints, drew long lines of supporters as well as pockets of protesters.

When Yiannopoulos stepped into the podium to introduce himself, he received a wave a cries from supporters and dissenters alike. His introduction was brief.

“Feminism is cancer.

Thank you very much,” Yiannopoulos said.

Hoff Sommers claimed that feminist scholars have invented sets of victim statistics used in conversations about sexual assault and gender-biased wages.

The one-in-four on-campus

rape statistic and the gender pay gap statistics, Hoff Sommers claimed, are fabricated exaggerations.

“All of these claims are reckless exaggerations,” Hoff Sommers said. “So often, they are now, in some places, beyond the reaches of rational analysis.”

“Gender scholars, along with mischievous and credulous students have formed an axis of intolerance,” Hoff Sommers said.

The speakers were given an opportunity to define political correctness in their own words.

Yiannopoulos described political correctness as an organized system of lying, one which is designed to “save the feelings of deli-

cate wallflowers at the expense of reason, fact and truth.”

Yiannopoulos went on to say that political correction, at its worse, could be deadly. He cited that political correction stopped people from reporting the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 for fear of being accused as an Islamophobe.

Yiannopoulos was referring to an incident that took place at Fort Hood army base in Texas where Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist and major in the U.S. army, killed 13 people. Leading up to the attack, Hasan had reportedly shown signs of see

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Puppy love

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A therapy dog showers a student with kisses at the Student Union Ballroom Monday afternoon.

Trump and Clinton take aim Poll shows millenial voters at each other’s campaigns shifting to Democratic party Front-runners have eye on next stage

By Cathleen Decker Los Angeles Times

PHILADELPHIA — As Tuesday’s quintuple primaries near, the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns appear to be moving in tandem for the first time.

Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are targeting each other with an eye to November’s general election and are mostly ignoring their party challengers.

Behind them, their rivals are still aiming at the front-runners in a desperate effort to gain ground before the primary season spirals further out of their control.

Polls suggest that voters in Pennsylvania, the biggest of the Tuesday primaries, are lining up behind Clinton and Trump much as voters in New York did last week – in

big numbers.

Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich have given no sign they intend to leave the race before the final primaries in June. But losses in Pennsylvania and the four other Tuesday primaries would be another major blow to the underdog candidates, both in momentum lost and in the delegates each needs to rebound.

“They are struggling to get a narrative that trumps the notion that the other two are inevitable,” said longtime Pennsylvania pollster G. Terry Madonna, whose surveys for Franklin and Marshall College have Clinton and Trump holding doubledigit leads in Pennsylvania.

The contest here has been an echo of the national race. Clinton, who has ties to the state dating to childhood, has campaigned as if she were running for mayor with an excruciatingly local

pitch. Sanders, with his more nationalized message, has reveled in the giant, collegearea rallies that have dominated his campaign everywhere.

Among the Republicans, Trump is pitching himself in a campaign ad meant to reassure voters he’s presidential material. His competitors are casting this state – as they did the last one – as the place to waylay the nomination of a businessman-entertainer who they say would sully GOP chances in the fall from the presidential level on down.

“Pennsylvania has a platform to speak to the country,” Cruz said Friday in Scranton.

“What path do we want the party to go down?”

After an intense focus on New York before its primary last Tuesday, the race has fractured geographically as candidates careened through see

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Results reveal only a third support GOP

By Cathleen Decker Los Angeles Times

Republicans long have worried about how to survive as conservative GOP voters die off and are replaced by more liberal younger Americans.

A new national poll of millennial voters suggests that the 2016 presidential race has only hastened the shift they have feared.

The preference of voters younger than 30 for a Democrat over a Republican as the November victor nearly doubled in the last year as the presidential campaign grew in prominence, according to the survey

by Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

Currently 61 percent prefer a Democrat in the White House, and 33 percent favor a Republican, the poll found.

In a similar survey released last spring, the gap between the two parties was only 15 percentage points.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump was far and away the least popular candidate among those polled.

Overall, only 17 percent of millennials had a favorable view of him, and 6 in 10 said they had a “very unfavorable” view of him. Just under a quarter had a favorable view of the other two Republican candidates, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

Among Republicans, Trump was seen negatively by 57 percent. Only 1 in 3 Republicans felt the same way about Cruz or Kasich.

Not surprising, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton swamped Trump among likely voters in a presidential matchup, 61 percent to 25 percent, despite her significant negative ratings.

Trump was losing to her in part because of a significant drop-off among young Republicans and those who had previously sided with the party’s politicians.

Of those who voted for Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 general election, only 60 percent favored Trump, and 13 percent supported Clinton. A much higher proportion of President Barack Obama’s 2012 voters – 82 percent – sided with Clinton, and only 5 percent planned to switch to the Republican.

In another measurement, young GOP voters said by a margin of 82 points that they wanted a Republican in the White House. But when asked specifically about Trump, there was a much smaller 44-point divide between those wanting him in the White House as opposed to Clinton.

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Police make multiple OUI arrests over weekend Police Log: April 22 to Sun., April 24

By Brendan Deady Collegian Staff

Friday, April 22: 1:02 p.m.: Carl Howard, 43, was arrested on Northampton Road on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Howard was involved in a motor vehicle crash. When officers arrived on scene, they noticed signs of impairment and issued a field sobriety test.

8:47 p.m.: A group of fraternity members illegally dumped a bureau, a recliner and trash at a recycling

bin near the Rolling Green Apartments. A witness described the vehicle to officers who tracked the license plate back to a member of the undisclosed fraternity.

11:54 p.m.: Officers received a call about suspicious activity near the Carriage Shops on North Pleasant Street.

The caller described a white male with a mustache who had caused a disruption by yelling racial slurs at passing vehicles. Officers did not find a person matching that description on scene.

Saturday, April 23: 1:04 a.m.: An officer observed a young male urinating in the alleyway outside of The Pub on East Pleasant Street. The officer warned the man of

the potential consequences mons for disorderly conif arrested for public urina- duct after officers witnessed tion and sent him on his way. him throw a beer can into a large crowd gathered in 1:42 a.m.: A fistfight that one of the Townehouse occurred at the bus stop A p a r t m e n t q u a d s. within Puffton Village led to the arrest of one man. 7:14 p.m.: Allison Martin, 21, Police arrested Sean Young, of Marshfield and Rebekah 25, of Woburn for charges Flores, 21, of Bayonne, New of disorderly conduct, resist- Jersey, were arrested outing arrest and assault and side of 33 East Pleasant St. battery on a police officer. for their involvement in a physical altercation. Martin 1:57 a.m. : An officer received charges of malipulled over a driver for a cious destruction of propmarked lanes violation on erty over $250 and disorderly Sunderland Road. The offi- conduct. Flores received cer arrested Saul Jackson charges of disorderly conSoto, 19, of South Deerfield duct and assault and battery. on charges for negligent operation of a motor vehicle 9:40 p.m. : Chandler and driving under the influ- Burnham, 21, of Rockport ence of drugs. was arrested for an OUI 6:22 p.m.: A 19-year-old charge after he crashed his male received a court sum- car into a parked vehicle.

Puerto Rican Senate will consider new finance law Deal would change interest payments

By Michelle Kaske Bloomberg News

NEW YORK — Puerto Rico’s Senate plans to take up legislation Tuesday that would exclude bonds used to restructure public corporation debt from the island’s moratorium law.

The upper chamber is set to take up the measure passed by the House of Representatives last week, Senate President

Eduardo Bhatia said in a statement Monday. The Senate will change the House bill so general obligation and sales tax bonds would still be subject to the debt moratorium law, Bhatia said. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla has said the commonwealth needs the ability to skip payments on both classes of securities.

Assets and revenue of municipalities and local cooperatives would be protected from the moratorium. A deal that would restructure about $9 billion of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority debt would also be exempt from the

moratorium law, Bhatia said.

Garcia Padilla on April 6 signed the moratorium, which allows him to suspend principal and interest payments on island debt, including general obligations. That law has created an obstacle for Prepa, as the electric utility is known, to move forward with its restructuring plans. Puerto Rico is seeking to cut its $70 billion debt load by asking investors to take losses through a voluntary debt exchange.

The island faces payments in May and July that the governor has said it cannot pay.

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12:05 a.m.: Two male residents of 121 Meadow St. received court summonses for an unlawful noise violation. Officers responded to a call of a large gathering and the hosts did not clear out the party in a manner that met the officers’ standards.

police for assistance with an intoxicated woman he took into his apartment. The reporting party said he saw a group of males approach the woman who was alone and stumbling. The woman passed out on his couch and began to vomit.

She was transported to Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

1:54 a.m.: Two female residents at 79 Taylor St. received court summonses for nuisance house violation of the town bylaws. Officers witnessed the lawn outside of the residence covered in trash, beer bottles and a broken couch, which also violate the town’s bylaws.

8:26 p.m.: Officers broke up a fist fight in front of the Unitarian Meetinghouse at 121 North Pleasant St. The three men involved had a verbal disagreement that became heated and led to a physical altercation.

Sunday, April 24:

3:06 a.m.: A male resident Brendan Deady can be reached at of 97 Puffton Village asked bdeady@umass.edu.

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Milos Yiannopoulos discusses political correctness Monday evening. radicalization.

Officials labeled the attack as an incidence of workplace violence and not terrorism despite the opposition of conservative legislators.

Other members of the crowd weren’t pleased to see the panelists.

Some members of the UMass Interfaith Alliance protested Monday’s event before it started, holding signs that read “Milo does not speak for me,” and “Stop Islamophobia.”

“We do not approve of this kind of speech,” said Bahiya Nasuuna, an UMass junior majoring in public health.

“I’m here because it’s super insensitive for UMass would allow this speech to happen,” Lily Wallace, an UMass junior majoring in political science, said. “Especially on a campus that is coming out of so much antiSemitic and Islamophobic g raf fiti everywhere.”

As some members of the audience began to yell at Yiannopoulos and the panel, Crowder used the demonstration as an

example to make his point on political correction.

“These people don’t want to hear anything about differing opinions, that’s what political correctness is,” Crowder said. “These people don’t have arguments; they just yell out racist.”

Yiannopoulos argued that all speech, no matter how controversial, should be allowed. He used an example where BBC allowed the chairman and then-president of the British National Party, a far-right political party, Nick Griffin to be included in a debate where his extreme right views were challenged. Following the debate, the party began to lose elections.

“This is why it isn’t just important to give a platform to all normal speech, it’s important to give a platform on all speech,” Yiannopoulos said.

“I’m surprised to see the anger that came from some of the people in the crowd,” Michael Moschella, an UMass sophomore said. “I feel like (the panel) should

be allowed to speak, even when people disagree with them.”

Hoff Sommers also challenged the gender pay gap further by citing the work of Claudia Goldin, a professor of economics at Harvard. Hoff Sommers claimed that Goldin said she “can’t find a smoking gun” when searching for a wage gap based on recent studies.

Hoff Sommers referred to an appearance Goldin made on the NPR radio show “Freakonomics.”

Goldin said that on the surface level, a pay gap does in fact exist but not in the form generally referenced in public discussion. Goldin used her own methods of analysis to offer a more nuanced analysis of the talking point, according to her interview with “Freakonomics.”

“If it were really true that you can pay a women 23 cents less than a man, what intelligent employer wouldn’t fire all of their male employees and hire only women,” Hoff Sommers said.

Yiannopoulos followed by criticizing political correctness again. While political correctness is quick to label dissenting opinion as racist, Yiannopoulos said, he and the panel believe in a marketplace of ideas.

“If you believe in an open market of ideas, creative freedom, intellectual diversity, today, your enemies is the regressive left,” Yiannopoulos said.

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

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Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island. But the themes have remained constant in all five states.

For the front-runners, moving toward the general election carries some risk, so neither Clinton nor Trump has completely abandoned comparisons with their challengers. Yet Clinton’s more assertive criticisms of Sanders turned in recent days into a bland mention of his past vote to give immunity to gun makers and sellers from lawsuits stemming from the misuse of their guns. That issue has salience given a crime wave in Philadelphia, home to a large proportion of the state’s Democratic voters.

“Last weekend in Philadelphia, you had 12 shootings,” she reminded female voters Friday in Jenkintown, about 10 miles north. “A police officer was shot, a 4-year-old girl killed.”

Clinton’s advertising has emphasized a November message of job creation, a tax credit for manufacturing and the importance of the “industries of the future.” In appearances she has accented her ties

to Pennsylvania, where her father was born and where she spent childhood vacations with her grandparents. She also won the 2008 presidential primary here, defeating Barack Obama by more than 9 percentage points.

In Dunmore on Friday night, she told supporters that she had dined in nearby Scranton and met people who knew her cousins and uncles.

“I had one man say, ‘Didn’t we sled down Court Street one winter?’ “ Clinton recounted.

“Could’ve been. I was there.”

If her criticism of Sanders has grown more muted, her critique of Trump has become more pointed.

“He actually says wages are too high in America,” she said in Dunmore. “I mean, honestly, I don’t know who he talks to. He ought to get out of those towers and actually come down and talk with people.”

Like Clinton, Trump has presented himself as a familiar figure and one who can best improve the region’s economy.

“Who knows Pennsylvania better than Donald Trump?

I went to school here and

it’s a great state,” the graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school told supporters in Harrisburg.

In his advertising, Trump promises to create jobs, cut middle-class taxes, strengthen Social Security, expand the military, stop illegal immigration and “knock out” Islamic State – the playbook of every Republican candidate.

“Washington is broken.

The truth is too many politicians are totally controlled by special interests and lobbyists,” he says in one ad. “That’s going to change quickly.”

But that calmly recited message is cast aside at his campaign rallies in favor of dubbing Clinton “Crooked Hillary.”

“Is there anyone more crooked than this woman?” he asked in Harrisburg.

Citing an earlier tiff between Sanders and Clinton, he said she was “not qualified” to be president.

“You look at her judgment ... then you have all the mistakes that Hillary made as secretary of State,” he said.

“A total disaster. Not even talking about Benghazi. Just

big horrible mistakes.”

Cruz has nearly begged voters to deny Trump the delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination. In Scranton on Friday, the senator from Texas contended that “all across this country” Republicans were uniting behind him for a convention fight.

“Republicans recognize that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head-tohead with Hillary Clinton, that if Donald Trump is our nominee, Hillary wins and she wins by double digits,” said Cruz, who is a distant second behind Trump in delegates.

He predicted that a Trump nomination would result in a “Walter Mondale-level bloodbath” for Republicans, a nod to the 1984 blowout in which the Democratic nominee won only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

Cruz and Kasich, the Ohio governor and the third GOP candidate, argue they would be far stronger than Trump in the fall election. But neither has made a dent in Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania.

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LABYRINTH that repeated, patterned movements can reduce our stress,” Zucker said.

“It sends a message to your brain to tell it that it has to slow down. In meditation, we are aware of our moment-to-moment messages that we are get-

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ting from our body.”

The labyrinth on campus was available from April 18 to the 25. The best time to utilize it was around 8:30 p.m., according to Zucker, because of the dwindling sunlight. The 2000 circles are most irides-

cent at this time.

“Although I don’t have specific plans to set up another labyrinth, I would greatly enjoy doing so,” Aragon said.

Hannah Tran-Trinh can be reached at htrantrinh@umass.edu.

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A student takes the time to navigate the Labyrinth outside of the ILC Monday evening.

Kasich has suffered from a lack of visibility that has made it difficult for him to claim kinship based on his upbringing in McKees Rocks, Pa. A Monmouth University poll of likely Republican voters found that more than 4 in 10 didn’t know Kasich was born in the state, and only 3 percent said his birthplace made them more prone to support him.

Sanders’ recent rallies have telegraphed – perhaps unintentionally – uncertainty about his plans. Democratic leaders have begun pressuring Sanders to ease criticism of Clinton, arguing he could weaken her in the general election.

In his first event after his humbling New York loss, the senator from Vermont didn’t deliver his usual criticisms of her speeches to Wall Street firms and her campaign fundraising. But at his next stop, he was back to the usual critiques, and he is critical again in an ad.

“The truth is you can’t fight a corrupt system by taking its money,” Sanders says in the ad.

So far, that message

hasn’t cut into Clinton’s strength any more than the Republican challengers’ criticisms of Trump have turned voters against him. The challengers all have been in the uncomfortable position of citing national polls about the front-runners’ weaknesses but not the state surveys that show them ahead.

Unless there are upsets Tuesday, the races may diverge again. Clinton and Sanders are popular among Democrats, and that could heighten pressure on them not to reignite a fractious fight.

Yet among Republicans, even Trump victories Tuesday would not erase continuing distaste for him within his party.

In Pennsylvania, 3 in 10 Republican voters in the Franklin and Marshall poll said they held strongly unfavorable views of him. The Republican race thus seems destined to be vitriolic as long as there are primaries left to contest.

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of young Republicans telling us essentially that there’s no place to go,” said John Della Volpe, director of polling for the Harvard Public Opinion Project.

Clinton’s continued difficulty in attracting young voters was evident in the poll. More than half – 53 percent – had a negative view of Clinton even as they favored Democrats generically. Only 37 percent had a favorable view of her, the poll found.

According to exit polls, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has consistently beaten Clinton this year among voters younger than 30, sometimes 4 to 1. She has succeeded largely by building her advantage among older voters, who are more likely to cast ballots.

Sanders was the only candidate with a net favorable impression. Fifty-four percent had a favorable view of him, compared with 31 percent who did not. The poll did not measure the Democratic primary race.

Although the poll found broad disdain for the GOP candidates, it also revealed problems for establishment Democrats, if they hadn’t grasped that from this year’s tumultuous primary season.

By 48 percent to 16 percent, young voters said politics today was not up to meeting the challenges facing the country. By 54 percent to 11 percent, they said elected officials do not have the same priorities as they do. Six in 10 said elected officials are motivated by self-

ishness.

Only 15 percent said the country was headed in the right direction, a drop of 8 points from one year ago.

When presented with a list of issues, it was clear why Sanders has caught millennials’ fancy.

Just under half said that health care was a right – a signature line for Sanders – and that it should be paid for by the government if necessary. Only 21 percent disagreed.

As with health care, support for more government spending to reduce poverty and for measures to curb climate change – even if they cost jobs – also grew over the last year.

Della Volpe said that ideological chord is what Sanders has struck in many young voters.

“Presidential campaigns and other historic moments at times force young people to think about politics in a very different way,” he said.

“It’s tangible in an election year.”

Clinton’s standing reflected a certain amount of ambivalence on the part of younger voters, particularly women.

When her competition was Trump, she fared well.

In the general election matchup, women sided with her by a 42-point margin, 57 percent to 15 percent. Male voters, by contrast, backed her by a much smaller margin of 18 points. Clinton also had huge support among young African American

and Latino voters when Trump was the alternative.

But when Clinton was competing with Sanders, the gender gap changed.

Asked which of the five candidates would improve women’s lives more, 32 percent of men said Clinton, and 21 percent said Sanders.

Women, however, gave the edge to Sanders, at 30 percent, over Clinton, at 26 percent.

When it came to whether they had a negative or positive view of the candidates, women were slightly more positive about Clinton than men were. They also saw Sanders more favorably than men did.

Men and women also had different views when it came to whether women face a glass ceiling that blocks their advancement.

Men were split, with 50 percent saying women faced barriers and 48 percent saying they did not. Among women, 68 percent said there was a glass ceiling, and only 30 percent disagreed.

After she lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama in 2008, Clinton bowed out by expressing pride in putting cracks in a glass ceiling.

This year, in her second run, she regularly alludes to a new promise to shatter it.

The poll surveyed 3,183 Americans ages 18 to 29 from March 18 to April 3.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.

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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” - James Joyce

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Unintentionally finding my way When I first came to UMass, Sure, I do wish that I would Amherst in the fall of 2009, I have been able to graduate colnever thought it would take me lege in the normal four years. I will always feel that pestering Ian Hagerty twinge of regret for having lost three years of my potential this long to graduate. I always professional life, even though imagined the college experi- I don’t think it was my fault. ence to be an experience that But without those three years would last all of four years, to think, I never would have at least for the Bachelor’s stumbled upon the thought of degree. It’s not always that becoming a journalist. I never simple. After being essentially a dropout for three years because I couldn’t afford to pay for school, I have an all new appreciation would have written an article for what an accomplishment on a whim for the Block Island Times while working one of graduating college really is.

I’ve had semesters work- my many jobs I had to suping 45 hours a week on top of port myself instead of attenda 21 credit class load, while ing school. I never would have also writing and editing for had that article published the Collegian. All of that, plus and gained the inspiration I’m not very healthy. I’ve had and confidence I needed to weeks where the thought of reapply myself to a major in even six hours of sleep in a journalism when I returned night seemed like the absolute to school. Without that time peak of luxury. I’ve had days as a drop-out and that time I with ten coffees and uncon- had to stumble around blindly trollable twitching, sitting in and think, I don’t think I’d the library, typing away with- be writing this column for out any real idea about what the Collegian today, excited I was writing. This is what about what the world might I will remember most about have to offer me. I barely conmy time at UMass: the abso- sider myself a writer today, lute rushed nature of being a but I wouldn’t pen myself student, without concern for as a writer at all if it hadn’t what is happening around me, been for the blind luck that and without the time for it. It’s was bestowed upon me when easy to get that tunnel vision I wasn’t in school. One of the as you stride around campus most significant aspects of my at a pace just above uncom- schooling was the lack thereof. fortable and just below a jog. I can’t wait to be finished, and College is just a test of your I regret not being done soonlimits and a test of exhaus- er, but I wouldn’t have it any tion, unless your parents have other way. money. It was a sprint to the Writing for the Collegian end, and it still took me seven has surely been one of the greatest experiences I have years.

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had or ever will have. Even with the circulation of print newspapers on a steady decline, my times spent editing and creating layouts in the friendly dungeon of the Collegian office was some of the best life experience I could have asked for out of school. I was certainly more stimulated by debate and more driven by comradery working with other members of Colle gian staff than I was in any of my classes throughout school. During class, students were often afraid to really speak out. Or they zoned out.

At the Collegian, the most heated discussions would pop up even about subjects like chicken wings versus chicken tenders. There was never a subject too simple or mundane or too complex or too far reaching. All subjects and ideas were always open for discussion amongst the curious.

Everyone appreciated it and no one took it for granted.

I’ll miss having an open forum to publish all of the dumb ideas and opinions I have about whatever came across my mind that day.

That’s how I started writing for the Collegian. If something pissed me off around campus or made me think, that’s what I wrote about. It was a really nice way to get my thoughts out, lest they bounce around inside of my skull. Now, maybe if I’m lucky beyond the scope of the stars, I’ll get paid to do this. I can only hope.

“Without that time as a drop-out and that time I had to stumble around blindly and think, I don’t think I’d be writing this column for the Collegian today.”

Ian Hagerty was an assistant opinion editor and can be reached at ihagerty@umass.edu.

Whatever point you’re at in life, it’s possible to find a song that so aptly describes your thoughts and feelings that you feel

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melting pot of teenagers against your will.

I could not have asked for a more supportive group of people than my colleagues at the Collegian. In no other friend group have I ever been able to just completely be myself, without apprehensions or without having to wonder, “What will they think of me if I do that?” At the Collegian, we’re all at least minimally socially awkward, and that’s ok.

The Collegian is where I go to write and edit articles, and to produce the daily newspaper. It’s where I go to do homework. It’s where I go to socialize just because. And it’s where I go to talk through the stresses of the day, even on a Thursday when none of us need to be there.

Now, as my time with them comes to an end, I am left with only one regret: that I didn’t get involved sooner. Working alongside such an amazing group of people has been one of the most rewarding facets of my college career.

My advice then, to underclassmen, is to not hesitate to get involved with something you think you might enjoy. Registered Student Organizations are here for you to take advantage of, so you can have an outlet to have fun outside of the rigorous trials of classwork. You never know who you might meet or how your life will change until you give that extracurricular that interests you a try.

Classwork is undoubtedly important – we came to the University to learn – but make sure you make time to do something for you too. Some of the greatest learning experiences can come from outside the classroom.

And UMass? I couldn’t have picked a better school for me. As a journalism major, I’ve connected with so many amazing faculty and outstanding peers, many of whom I have no doubt are going to do great things in the field. Regardless of the unfortunate level of student debt I’m about to face, I wouldn’t change my decision for the world.

deeply connected to the writer, like they must have stood in your very shoes and seen life through your very eyes. Through the romances and the break ups, the victories and the failures, there’s always a song.

As I approach my graduation, the only song repeating in my head has been Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink.” I remember hearing it for perhaps the first time at my high school graduation ceremony in St. Albans, Vermont. The message is simple: make life count, because “100 years goes faster than you think.”

The past four years have gone faster than I could have ever imagined. When you’re constantly looking toward the next project and the next deadline, it’s hard to enjoy the present.

Thankfully, after my freshman year I got involved in extracurricular activities, which I have derived so much of my happiness from. Through riding horses and competing as part of the University of Massachusetts Western Equestrian Team – bet you didn’t know we had one – and especially by writing for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, I’ve developed groups of friends that I hope will last a very long time.

To be honest, I didn’t have many friends in high school. Many of us remember how terrible it was: the cliques that you never seemed to be a part of, the gossip, rumors and derogatory terms circulating school about you or your friends, the downright bullying. Transitioning to a university that has 22,000 undergraduate students, where it is impossible to know everyone, was the biggest relief.

That’s not to say that bad things don’t happen and hurtful words aren’t thrown around now that we’re in college. But here, it is more possible to surround yourself with a group of people who truly support you, to choose who you want to associate Shelby Ashline was an assistant news editor and with instead of being thrown into a giant can be reached at sashline@umass.edu.

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A light on somewhere: Reflections on college I could write a book on all of the things I learned in college, about both myself and the world. Unfortunately, I don’t

Steve Gillard have the time and the Collegian doesn’t have the space, but here are the four most important lessons that I learned in my three years at UMass.

Partying isn’t that cool I did my fair share of partying as an undergraduate, even though I was never one of those people who could get hammered three nights a week. I love singing along to Bon Jovi in a packed bar. I’ve had some of the best moments of my life playing pong beside my buddies in a random house, and drinking pitcher after pitcher with friends at McMurphy’s, laughing the night away.

Partying is fun. But I’ve realized that, at the end of the day, it won’t change your life. Everything we look for in drinking – the laughter, the confidence, the romance and the sense of belonging – can be found elsewhere in higher quality. There is just as much community on the 18th floor of the library during finals week as students silently struggle together as there is on the dance floor of Monkey Bar. You don’t need to be drunk to act stupid around real friends. You won’t find the love of your life in the back of a bar, and you won’t find yourself at the bottom of a bottle.

Work is important Throughout college, I scooped popcorn and ice cream, edited for the Collegian, vacuumed the Fine Arts Center and washed dishes at Berk. In the Collegian offices, I worked with journalists whose commitment to public service was unmatched, dedicated people who would spend all night in the office just to make sure an important story was printed in tomorrow’s paper. In the Berk dish room, I watched everyone – from students to middle-aged moms to my bow-tie wearing boss – strive every day to make an honest living. I’ve come to understand that it doesn’t matter what you do in life – it’s how you do it. The woman cleaning the dorm bathrooms on a Saturday morning is just as respectable as the Ivy Leagueeducated professor, and each has just as much purpose so long as they work hard every day to provide for their families.

Family is everything

Steve Gillard worked full-time in addition to driving me to soccer practice and local libraries and anything else I wanted to try.

Only now, as a 22-year-old man, do I understand that before I could even speak my parents were devoted to me, doing all they could to ensure that I would grow up to live a good life. Even though the future frightens me, I know I will always have a place at the dinner table with my family, and that’s how I know I’ll be okay.

There’s always a light on somewhere

The past couple of months I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about all that I’m going to miss about UMass: the shining library and Southwest towers at night; the humid halls of Bartlett and the cool classrooms of the ILC; long nights in the Collegian offices and longer nights in the Berk dish room, blasting my playlist to stay awake. I’m going to miss cramming into Antonio’s at 1 a.m. for a dollar slice of cheese pizza. I’m going to miss sitting in the library as the sun sets, watching the sky turn orange and the mountains go dark. I’m going to miss having friends a five-minute walk away. Most of all, I’m going to miss the community, being part of something bigger than myself, something that has changed, is changing and will continue to change the world.

Even during the nights when I was walking back to my room at 3 a.m., tired and stressed, I could always see lights on in the towers of Southwest, lights that reminded me I wasn’t alone, that we were all in this together, discovering ourselves.

A lot of people have been asking me what I plan to do when I graduate. I always tell them that since my degrees are in English and communications, I’ll probably scoop popcorn for the rest of my life. But I don’t believe that for a second. I’m leaving UMass with two degrees and student loans, but my experience here has left me with something far more impactful than either of those things: it has left me with a sense of empowerment and humility, a hunger to take on the world and a desire to understand it better. Say what you want about the cost of college, but that is priceless.

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An unexpected journey If someone would have ing some of the most popuwalked up to me four years ago lar sports on this campus and and told me I would become a becoming an Assistant Sports Editor after applying for a Jason Kates third time.

Sure, I may have gone sports journalist, I probably about three months without would have laughed in their covering a single Minutemen face. victory this year (November I wasn’t supposed to be a 7 to February 20, to be exact), journalist. I wasn’t even sup- but the experiences I shared posed to spend my college with my fellow beat partners days at the University of covering those games were the Massachusetts. moments I’ll remember more Yet here I am, sitting at my than anything else. desk writing one last column I’ll never forget the adrenafor the Massachusetts Daily line rush that came to me last Collegian after four years of year at 1:25 a.m. when UMass hard work and dedication to had just won the longest colmaking the Sports section the legiate hockey game in history best it could be. and I realized I would be the And I couldn’t be happier.

T h e time I spent down at the Collegian newsroom and out covering various sports were some of the one that got to write about an best times I had here at UMass, historic event. meeting new people and creat- That is just one of many ing friendships that will last memories that make me beyond the day I finally pack proud of the decision I made my bags and head back to New three years ago when I made my way down to the Collegian.

Jersey.

I still remember the first Before I began to write this sports meeting I went to my column, I asked myself ‘how freshman year and the first would I describe the Collegian assignment I was given. It to someone who isn’t familiar wasn’t the most glamorous with it?’ I’d start by saying it’s story, but the satisfaction that old, the computers often don’t came with seeing “By Jason work, and it’s tucked away in Kates, Collegian Staff” in the the basement of the Campus paper the next day is some- Center.

But it’s also one of the only thing I still feel today.

Whenever I hear the cli- places on campus where I felt ché “you gotta start some- at home, surrounded by other where”, I always look back to students that have the same that article and where I’m at goals as me. Being a part of now. I started writing little 600 such a close knit group and word notebooks on teams that knowing what I’m doing is weren’t even UMass, and these serving other people is what past two years I spent cover- makes the Collegian such an

appealing place to be. Besides, where else would you hear conversations about whether you eat macaroni and cheese with a fork or spoon? (the correct answer is fork, obviously) With my time at the Collegian coming to a close, there are a few people I’d like to thank for making my time as a journalist at UMass unforgettable. First, thank you to all of the Sports Information Directors that helped me along the way. I know I was probably annoying with the constant requests, but you guys made my job and every other writer’s job a lot easier. Next, thank you to all of the current members of the Collegian staff, especially the Sports section. Every section of the paper is amazing, and the pride I take when telling people I write for the largest daily collegiate newspaper in New England is a great feeling. Finally, a special thank you to my parents. For the last four years, they’ve been sharing almost every article I’ve written on Facebook, and have never stopped encouraging me.

“Always leave a place better than you found it” is a cliché I’ve heard a lot, and I’d like to think I’m leaving the Collegian better than I found it.

Thanks for four great years Collegian. Just don’t ask me to come up with any more skyboxes.

“…the satisfaction that came with seeing ‘By Jason Kates, Collegian Staff’ in the paper the next day is something I still feel today.”

This is a cliché I’ve always acknowledged, but never really truly understood until my final two years at college. This truth revealed itself to me slowly: as I entered my first bar with my twin sister by my side, when I heard about my little brother lettering in cross country and track, with every encouraging text, email and call from my parents.

I began to understand that my parents were more than just my current fans – they’d been my No. 1 supporters forever.

Had they not put a copy of “Harry Potter” in my hands 15 years ago I probably never would have developed a love for reading and writing. I would not be where I am today had my dad not worked hours Steve Gillard was an assistant opinion editor and and hours of overtime, had my mom not can be reached at sgillard1993@comcast.net.

Jason Kates was an assistant sports editor and can be reached at jkates@umass.edu.

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To The Editor, Two weeks ago the “Stand Against Racism” program presented a panel of black activists at the Honors College to talk about their experiences with prejudice. During the Q & A period an audience member asked the panelists what they wanted from whites who wanted to be allies to people of color. They didn’t have to think for more than a moment before the answers came pouring forth. This is what I managed to jot down (paraphrased): 1.

Come to our events.

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Share our social media postings and flyers.

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Link your organizations with ours.

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Don’t come to us looking for recognition for being good (given your pre-existing white privilege).

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Fight white supremacy.

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Listen. You don’t have to inject your own ideas all the time. a.

Don’t think your view can represent our reality. b. Don’t think you can make pronouncements on black suffering.

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Don’t expect blacks to educate you about their experiences; that is the ultimate in white privilege. We are too busy dealing with the effects of racism to educate you. Educate yourself.

There are many books, articles, magazines, movies and other resources.

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Be active, not passive. Interrupt racism as soon as you hear it. Even if it doesn’t offend you, if it offends your black friend, just say something to the other person that makes them uncomfortable and makes them think.

I wanted to pass this information along, since I had wanted to know the answer to the question, “What should I do to be an ally?” and there may be others who had that same question.

Sincerely, Melinda Nielsen

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ALBUM REVIEW

PJ Harvey’s latest record is muddled but mindful

Artist’s ninth album is politically charged B y W ill D oolittle Collegian Staff

The lyrics, “I took a plane to a foreign land and said, ‘I’ll write down what I find,’” from PJ Harvey’s new album, “The Hope Six Demolition Project,” also serves as the record’s mission statement. The album, inspired by visits to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington D.C., was recorded in public and, despite very little PR, feels like one of Harvey’s most open records. It’s one that makes little attempt at lyrical metaphor or secrecy.

Carrying on the political ideology of the magnificent 2011 record, “Let England Shake,” Harvey shines a light on social and political grievances while evoking imagery of free versus oppressed countries. There’s little room for debate in the lyrics, and Harvey’s new focus creates a musical and political tension between Harvey, the music and her public.

This tension is apparent in opener “The Community of Hope,” which has already received controversy for what Washington politicians believe is an inaccurate portrayal of the city’s Ward 7. Both the song and the record’s title reference the United States’ controversial HOPE VI initiative, which seeks to resolve the problems in low-income housing areas through demolition and reconstruction that may not be affordable for the original residents.

The song is catchy, but its lyrics, drawn from a single guided tour, feel like a dilettante’s ramblings.

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Solo musician released her latest album, “The Hope Six Demolition Project,” on April 15. It was inspired by her visits to the US, Afghanistan and Kosovo.

Gentrification and the upheaval of whole communities is no laughing matter, but in “The Community of Hope,” the concepts are summarized with a few noncommittal repetitions of, “They’re gonna build a Wal-Mart here.”

Unfortunately, this is a pervasive problem in “Hope Six.” While the underlying concept is fascinating, it’s often unclear exactly what point Harvey is trying to make, frequently causing her political assertions to come off as ham-fisted and not worth looking into. The anthem-like quality and gritty recording of “Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln,” almost make it sound like a lost number from the 1960s protest musi-

cal “Hair,” and has lyrics that don’t evoke much of anything other than pedestrian interactions around the monuments.

The final lines of “The Orange Monkey” seem to suggest industrialization as a hindrance to Harvey’s globe-hopping initiative, but expound very little on the idea. It may be unfair to expect vivid description in the limited space of song lyrics, but the clear concept of “Hope Six” held against these shortcomings leaves much to be desired.

This is especially disconcerting in the context of the record’s more meditated-on songs. “River Anacostia” is a lumbering tribute to the polluted Washington D.C.-Maryland

river, which Harvey bookends with lines from Underground Railroad spiritual “Wade in the Water.” Anacostia was only peripherally part of the railroad, but the reminder that “God’s gonna trouble (heal) the water” carries a stronger sense of optimism and historical awareness than “The Community of Hope” conjured.

Elsewhere, the aimless people-watching of “Near the Memorials” gets entirely overshadowed by the clamor of “The Wheel,” where Harvey constructs a grander metaphor of gun violence from watching Kosovan children fly in and out of view on a swing carousel. “Hey little children don’t disappear, all

project. The former’s grimy horn-blaring palette helps Harvey maintain cohesion while shifting moods and locations. The latter’s trance-like recording and third-world co-opting can sometimes problematically reflect on the hypocrisy of post-colonial moral obligation.

Often, it’s the musical ideas of these records that carry “Hope Six” through its lyrical blemishes. “The Ministry of Defense” is set to a trudging tempo intercut with driving guitar chords and a saxophone-driven, dungeonesque bridge, while “The Ministry of Social Affairs” takes an interesting foray into blues sampling.

“A Line in the Sand” sees Harvey climbing into the eerily high register that dominated her last two records, invoking the haunting feeling that made “Let England Shake” cuts like “On Battleship Hill” so stirring. Here, the composition and storytelling are enough to keep the listener singing along, even when the statements underneath come off as muddled.

Retelling an experience is difficult, and so is attaching a weighty message to it.

“Hope Six” often succeeds much more at one than the other, causing it to sometimes come off as clumsy and directionless. But these are small missteps, and while “Let England Shake” will undoubtedly remain Harvey’s late-career highlight, “Hope Six” is still a sizable reminder that she has a great deal of song left in her. All she needs is greater clarity of her message to couple it with.

that’s left after a year,” she cries as her band repeats, “I heard it was 28,000,” (an oft-cited statistic referring to the number of gun-related deaths in America).

There’s also plenty to extrapolate in “Chain of Keys,” whose weary lurch and desolate imagery recall post-war Eastern Europe’s deserted cities and those left behind.

Although Harvey’s once-again observational stance makes it difficult to conclude the song’s message, its honest portrayal and less pandering delivery allow the listener to more easily follow along.

“Hope Six” has two recent cousins in David Bowie’s “Blackstar” and William Doolittle can be reached at Natasha Khan’s “Sexwitch” wdoolitt@umass.edu.

CONCERT REVIEW

LuxDeluxe embraces the stage in Northampton hometown

Audience welcomes New England bands

By Lauren Crociati Collegian Staff

NORTHAMPTON — It was both a social gathering and musical event at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton last Saturday night. While rock-oriented bands The Snaz and LuxDeluxe rocked the stage, friends and family members alike watched with the utmost amount of pride. Headlining act and Northampton natives LuxDeluxe were home and ready to impress.

There wasn’t a long wait for the opening act, The Snaz. Once doors opened and the audience was let inside, the four young members graced the stage. Lead singer Dharma Ramirez mesmerized the crowd with a shining metallic kimono and a clear concentration on the music.

After a technical difficulty, the group was stopped short in their first song and instructed to leave the stage until the problem was resolved. After only a few moments, the whimsical band was back onstage and officially began their set.

The Vermont natives played tracks such as, “Try and Try and Try,” “Save You” and a new song titled, “Strung Out On Candy Bars.” Guitarist Nina Cates

explained the freshness of the piece by stating that it was a, “new song we just recorded last weekend.”

During the song, they welcomed a fellow musician and member of their hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont: Archer Parks.

Parks is lead guitarist of his band, Nomad VS Settler and is a youthful 14 years old.

After The Snaz finished its set and the stage was deconstructed, they were embraced by friends and family members who congratulated them on a great performance.

The band definitely has a maturity and music style beyond their years; each member is still in their teens. Their presence on stage is welcoming and they displayed an absolute passion that shined just as brightly as the sparkles that glimmered from Ramirez’s outfit under the Iron Horse spotlights.

Shortly after the opening act, instruments were switched, tall glowing cylinders were placed for decoration at the edge of the stage and LuxDeluxe began its set. Audience members were first greeted by four members of the band. The lead guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer all stood idly waiting for the semi-dramatic entrance of lead singer Ned King.

After a few moments King intricately

approached the stage with a martini glass and red carnations in hand. He then playfully threw each flower into the crowd one by one.

The spirited musician wore a black blazer, black shirt and black pants, displaying an incredible contrast from other band members who wore rather colorful pieces of clothing. This small detail allowed for King to stand out from the other members, which could very well have been intentional.

LuxDeluxe opened its set with a slow-moving tune from their second album, “It’s a Girl,” titled “MTV.” It was an interesting move on the band’s part, as most live musical events begin with heavily beatdriven pieces to increase the crowd’s excitement.

King gripped the stem of his martini glass and took small sips between lyrics until the third song. The gesture made the lead singer appear nonchalant with a carefree attitude.

King clearly portrays himself this way to construct the persona of a stereotypical rock star. Other LuxDeluxe members displayed themselves as downto-earth and focused solely on pleasing their vibrant audience. They continued their set, playing such tracks as, “Maybe Baby,” “Talk to Her” and “So Far Away.”

Keyboardist Gabe Bernini explained their

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Vermont-based rock band The Snaz opened for local act LuxDeluxe at the Iron Horse Music Hall last Saturday night. eagerness to attempt an act that could potentially invigorate the crowd.

“We want Ned to jump into the crowd and switch shirts with somebody. You can put as many clothes on him as you want,” Bernini humorously made clear.

King then did as he was told and entered the audience to come back to the front of the stage with three new pieces of clothing. This sort of interaction with fans rapidly sparked the energy in the room.

It is dutifully clear that LuxDeluxe devotes much of its on-stage attention to

charming audience members.

King is a bustling force as shown through his rapid dance movements.

At the show, he played an important role in the creation of the lively energy.

However, in some moments the lead singer’s vigor was imbalanced next to his fellow members’ and might be overwhelming to some. Despite this, anyone observing the show would recognize King’s passion for his art. It was often admirable.

LuxDeluxe’s hometown concert exhibited an

immense appreciation and importance for local musicians. Residents rose to the occasion and welcomed the group home with open arms. The band’s indie rock style allowed for both a calming and energized fervor throughout their diverse sounds.

LuxDeluxe has three more shows in the area over the next few months.

The band’s next stop is Amherst College on May 1. Details can be found on their official website.

Lauren Crociati can be reached at lcrociati@umass.edu.

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The Minutewomen cheer from the dugout during a game against St. Josephs on April 9. can absolutely do that and be at 100 in less than two years.”

After having a day to reflect on everything, Stefanoni said she feels no different than she would with any other win.

“I feel normal,” Stefanoni said. “After a day to reflect, everyone says it’s a milestone and all I think about is three more wins in conference, three more wins for UMass.”

While Stefanoni was

humble and reserved after the win, players and coaches in the softball community didn’t hold back on social media, where it was easy to find praise of Stefanoni.

“UMass softball is

extremely proud of her and wouldn’t want anyone else to have her job,” Inglesby said. “She’s so much more than the 50 wins.”

Zander Manning can be reached at alexanderman@umass.edu.

NBA

Warriors still alive without Curry Golden State can survive PG’s injury

By Carl Steward The Mercury News

Doomed?

Sure, it’s an understandable feeling as the Warriors face the reality of moving forward in the NBA playoffs without the best player in the league, Stephen Curry, for an uncomfortably undetermined amount of time.

But you would be advised not to don the black veil and go into full mourning mode just yet. There are still games to play. It’s anybody’s guess if and when Curry will return, and how effective he will be when he does. But the other reality is that even though the Warriors suddenly become vulnerable in his absence _ they probably will have to finish off the Houston series and then win the next series without him _ they aren’t done.

Somebody still has to take them out, and it’s not likely you’re not going to see Draymond Green or anybody else from this team throwing in any towels, even if the experts try to throw them in for them.

Don’t bet against these guys, even now. They could still win the NBA title, even in the worst-case scenario of Curry not playing again this year (which, based on the MRI results Monday, doesn’t seem that likely).

That’s not false bravado or homer-ism. That’s just honesty, mixed with a little bit of rationale at a time when it’s tough to be rational.

No, it won’t be easy. In fact, it will be hard, very hard. But a team that was essentially even money to win it all with Steph, what are they now? 5-1?

10-1? 25-1? Whatever the line is, they wouldn’t and shouldn’t be impossible odds.

The Warriors have been touting the “Strength in Numbers” slogan for two years. So that’s all gone now that one player _ albeit the best player _ has gone down? Some will say yes.

Modern NBA history tells

us that no team has ever lost its best player in the playoffs for an extended period and won the title.

Then again, it hasn’t happened all that often and hasn’t happened like this.

Here are 10 reasons it could still happen, regardless of how long Curry is sidelined: 1. Home-court advantage: This one is so important. The Warriors have shown they can win at home without Curry, even against top-flight competition. And the theory still holds that an opposing team will probably have to win twice at Oracle to take them down, because it’s too hard to see Golden State getting swept three games on the road simply because of their defensive capabilities (remember, defense travels).

Considering the notion that the Warriors could be facing a Game 7 or two _ something they never even had to worry about last year _ knowing a decisive game will be at home could be a crucial trump card.

2. Three legitimate stars to carry the load: Green, Andre Iguodala, Klay Thompson. Thompson is the ultimate court warrior, arguably the smartest in player in the league and the second-best long-range volume shooter behind Curry. That’s still a hell of a trio to try and lead this team to 13 more wins if necessary. They’re all playoff-tested and intensely competitive with killer instinct to spare.

And if your face wasn’t buried in your hands at the bar, you heard this from Iguodala after Sunday’s victory over Houston as to why the Warriors were so dominant without Curry: “There are things we can do that we hold back with because our team doesn’t need it.”

3. An able veteran, Shaun Livingston, to step in for Steph: No, Livingston won’t score 30 points a game, and he made 400 fewer 3-pointers than Curry (402-2). But he is a savvy, self-assured, athletic point man who creates mismatch issues for opponents, both at the offensive

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and defensive ends. You couldn’t ask for a much better stand-in, even if he plays a completely different style of game.

4. Playmaking: Usually when a team loses its point guard, it’s chaos. But the Warriors already operate a lot of their offense without the ball in Curry’s hands.

He’s a fabulous playmaker, no doubt, but the Warriors have no shortage of them with Green, Iguodala, Andrew Bogut and Livingston.

Even Thompson, when pressed to do it, has shown an ability to pass the ball.

Moreover, the Warriors still have the personnel to play big or small better than any team in the league and force the opposition to adjust to them.

5. Defense: One of the best defensive teams in the league will lose some steals and fast breaks with Curry out, but they will still be tough to score against when they turn up the D like they can. In some situations, they might even be better with Livingston on the floor as opposed to Curry.

As stated before, the Warriors’ ability to defend will serve them well, particularly in road games that would otherwise not seem to favor them without Steph.

6. Underdog status: It will be playing into the Warriors’ hands to tell them they no longer stack up against teams such as San Antonio, Oklahoma City or even the Los Angeles Clippers. It should provide tremendous motivational fuel and maybe even relieve some of the pressure they otherwise might have felt as the defending champions trying to protect the sanctity of their record 73-9 regular season.

7. Wild card: Harrison Barnes. Barnes has been maddeningly inconsistent, but when he finds a groove, he can be a game-changer. He is a solid defender who can make up some of the Curry offensive loss when his mid-range to long-range shot. He’s playing for a big contract. No better time to prove your

worth than now.

8. Bench: Marreese Speights, Leandro Barbosa, Festus Ezeli, Brandon Rush, and perhaps even Ian Clark. They have all shown they can have a major impact and their role-playing will become even more significant, particularly if the Warriors do have a showdown against another deep team such as San Antonio and Curry still is not up to speed.

9.

Coaching: The Warriors have a staff that is smart and strategic enough to get the most out of the remaining cast for as long as it takes. It’s not really an X’s and O’s thing, although that always helps.

But this is a group of coaches that is as good at preparing a team psychologically as any in the league, and no way will Steve Kerr allow the Warriors to slip mentally in times of doubt, and there surely will be some rocky moments as the Warriors adjust their floor game without Curry.

10. The competition: If the Warriors finish off the Rockets as expected, they will have essentially beaten them three times without Curry in a playoff series. That gives them a significant head of steam moving forward against tougher opposition.

The Warriors did achieve a psychological edge against all the teams that could be in front of them. They were 4-0 against the Clippers, 3-1 against the Spurs, 3-0 against Oklahoma City, 2-0 against Cleveland, 2-0 against Toronto, 3-1 against Portland. Any mental edge will matter, even more so without Curry.

The best-case scenario is that the MVP is a quick healer and Curry finds his way back for the Western Conference finals. Until we know, nobody should doubt that the Warriors have the ability to bridge an extended injury gap, or perhaps even get to the top of the mountain without their shining star if it’s so required.

DALLAS — A Dallas County grand jury voted to indict former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel after an allegation that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend.

The indictment will be made public Tuesday.

Manziel faces a charge of misdemeanor assault. He is accused of kidnapping, hitting and threatening to kill ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley earlier this year.

Dallas police referred a Class A misdemeanor domestic violence assault case to a grand jury instead of making an arrest. Typically, Dallas County’s grand juries hear only felony cases.

One of Manziel’s attorneys, Bob Hinton, said Monday that the 2012 Heisman trophy winner will plead not guilty. Hinton said Manziel remains in Los Angeles.

Once the indictment is official, Hinton said, the attorneys will appear before a judge.

“Judge, set the bond at whatever you think is right,” Hinton said he plans to say.

“We will produce Johnny and we will pay the bond.

“We are not asking for any special treatment.”

Hinton said he could not yet address how Manziel is doing or if he is seeking treatment as he has before for alcohol use.

“Johnny is coming around. He is awfully young and he is thrust into the maturation process,” Hinton said. “It is unfortunate that these circumstances have presented themselves.”

Dallas police referred a Class A misdemeanor domestic violence assault case to a grand jury instead of making an arrest. Typically, Dallas County’s grand juries hear only felony cases.

The maximum punishment for a Class A misdemeanor assault is a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

The grand jury voted Thursday to indict Manziel, but in Dallas County, indictments are official after two working days. In Dallas County, unlike smaller counties, four grand juries meet multiple times each week to hear cases. Indictments require paperwork and staffing before they are formally issued.

It was not immediately clear why the indictment was delayed a day, although grand jury referrals are somewhat different from other cases heard by the grand jury.

It was almost certain Manziel was going to be indicted after a “no bill” – a notice that he was not indicted – was not issued on Thursday.

The NFL’s own investigation into the incident is ongoing, a league spokesman said Monday.

If Manziel signs with a new team, he would be subject to all aspects of the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

If the NFL rules that Manziel violated the policy, he would be suspended without pay for at least six games for a first offense and would face a lifetime ban from the NFL for a second offense.

Manziel doesn’t have to be found guilty in court to face punishment by the league.

It’s been a bad month for Manziel.

He was dropped by his agent and lost all his endorsement deals.

Manziel released a statement last week, saying he still hopes to play pro football this year and that he needed to resolve his problems. Manziel’s NFL future is uncertain. He was cut by the Browns in March after two tumultuous seasons marked by inconsistent play and offthe-field headlines about partying and drinking. He had a stint in rehab.

“I’m hoping to take care of the issues in front of me right now so I can focus on what I have to do if I want to play in 2016,” Manziel said in a statement to USA Today. “I also continue to be thankful to those who really know me and support me.”

He’s been dropped by two agents. The first, Erik Burkhardt, cut ties with Manziel after last season.

Burkhardt’s successor, Drew Rosenhaus, dropped the quarterback last week after giving him five days to seek help.

Manziel, 23, is accused of abusing Crowley in a fight over another woman Jan. 29 at Hotel ZaZa in Dallas.

Crowley and Manziel broke up in December after dating for two years and living together in Cleveland. She said she saw him that night in January when he invited her to his hotel room to talk.

Crowley, also 23, told police that Manziel slapped her on the head and ruptured her left eardrum, causing her to lose her hearing.

She said Manziel hit her, dragged her by the hair, forced her into a car and drove her to Fort Worth, where she lives.

Dallas police opened an investigation on Feb. 5, a day after Crowley alleged in a Fort Worth police report that Manziel had hit her at the hotel.

Investigators interviewed witnesses at the hotel and reviewed hotel video.

Dallas and Fort Worth police eventually combined the cases into one. Dallas had jurisdiction because Crowley alleged that the assault began there.

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Hornets even series NCAA flip-flops during

By Ira Winderman Sun Sentinel

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This time there again was a stunning road collapse, just like the previous road game of this series, just like the Miami Heat’s regular-season road finale that created this best-of-seven first-round NBA playoff series.

But this time there also was pushback against the Charlotte Hornets after the deficit reached 18 early in the second half.

Just not enough.

And so, after dominance in the first two games of this series at AmericanAirlines Arena, the Heat now find themselves in a 2-2 series tie after Monday night’s 89-85 loss to the Hornets at Time Warner Cable Arena.

On a night the Heat spent the latter stages in scramble mode, turning to everyone from Gerald Green to Udonis Haslem, there ultimately was no catching back up, not with Kemba Walker scoring a career playoff high 34 points for the Hornets Jeremy Lin adding 21.

And, so, on a night Heat center Hassan Whiteside clearly was limited by a bruised right hip and Dwyane Wade struggled with his shot, the Heat came up short.

After all of the Heat’s rallies, Walker stepped up with a jumper, a pair of free throws and a 3-pointers with 4:58 left for a personal 7-0 run and an 83-75 Hornets lead.

The Heat later moved within 85-80 on a Joe Johnson 3-pointer with 3:29 to play only to have it matched by a Walker 19-foot jumper for an 87-80 Hornets lead.

A pair of Wade jumpers then drew the Heat within 87-84.

Finally, with 31.1 seconds to play, Whiteside got to the line for a pair of free throws, making just the first of two free throws, to draw the Heat within 87-85.

The Heat then forced a Walker miss after a near shot-clock violation, but the Hornets controlled the rebound, with Courtney Lee then fouled.

Lee made both free throws for an 89-85 Charlotte lead with 4.6 seconds to play, effectively ending it.

For all the Heat endured to that stage, they pulled within 76-75 with 6:07 to play on a jumper by Green, who was not inserted for the first time until the start of the fourth quarter and only after Dorell Wright had been given his first meaningful NBA minutes since returning from China.

The Heat’s surge came with Haslem on the court, as well, as Whiteside sat with foul trouble.

With Heat point guard Goran Dragic called for his fifth foul early in the fourth, Green was summoned for the first time, with Wade back in the Heat locker room at the time.

Wade finally returned with 7:42 to play and the Heat down 76-69.

After being outscored 9-0 at the start of the third period, the Heat saw their deficit climb to 18.

But this time the Heat’s veterans stepped back up, including Joe Johnson, with the Heat putting together a 17-1 run to trim what had been a 57-39 deficit to 58-56.

The trouble was Dragic

was called for his fourth foul amid the rally and then Whiteside was called for his fourth foul shortly after the surge, with 4:36 left in the third.

After the Heat moved within one, the Hornets then closed the third quarter with a 7-0 run to go into the fourth up 69-61.

The Heat had another of their road moments in the second period, and it was particularly ugly, as the Hornets turned what had been an 11-point deficit into an 11-point lead before going into halftime up 48-39.

The Heat shot 3 of 19 in the second period, with a 21-4 Charlotte run in the period doing similar damage to the 18-0 run the Hornets put together in Saturday’s Game 3 victory that put them in position for this tie in the series.

The Heat’s desperation reached the point of coach Erik Spoelstra inserting both Wright and Haslem in the second period. That meant playing Wright ahead of Gerald Green and Haslem ahead of Josh McRoberts.

In fact, the only active players for the Heat not to see action the second period for the Heat were Green, McRoberts and Briante Weber.

After building an early 11-point advantage, the Heat took a 26-19 lead into the second period, with nine assists on their first 11 baskets.

Jeremy Lin came off the bench to keep the Hornets afloat in the first quarter, with five of his seven points in the period coming from the foul line. Lin attempted five free throws in the first quarter to two for the Heat.

North Carolina scandal

By Luke DeCock The News & Observer

The NCAA didn’t just revise the notice of allegations against North Carolina during the eightmonth intermission in this interminable process.

Between August and April, the NCAA somehow revised its entire approach to the scandal.

Out went the broad allegations of impermissible academic assistance that included football and men’s basketball, among other sports. In its place, the revised notice received from the NCAA on Monday takes a far narrower reading of NCAA bylaws, one that instead drops a sledgehammer on the women’s basketball program and that program alone.

While North Carolina still faces the NCAA’s most serious charges, lack of institutional control and failure to monitor, the revised notice of allegations omits much of the previous language that described the phony classes and grade changes as “impermissible extra benefits” and specifically mentioned football and men’s and women’s basketball players as benefiting from them.

That language could have given the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions license to identify many individual athletes and teams that used players who would have been otherwise ineligible; instead, after this eight-month delay, that phrasing is limited to Jan Boxill and the women’s basketball team. There were

252 references to exhibits that showed how football, men’s basketball, women’s soccer, baseball and other athletes were involved; the amended notice makes no such references, and North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham said there were only 112 (not yet redacted and released) exhibits that go with it.

The allegations have become more general and less specific, with the exception of Boxill, who continues to play an oddly prominent role, as if she alone conceived, perpetrated and hid all of the malfeasance.

Boxill, the former faculty chairwoman, served as women’s basketball athletics academic counselor in the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes.

The reality is that countless people who should have known better played a role for two decades, whether by admitting unqualified athletes, shunting them into phony classes or merely looking the other way.

They’re set up to get a free pass, as are any number of programs that competitively benefited from the academic fraud over the years, including the two big money-makers, football and men’s basketball.

The NCAA has been scrambling to figure out a way to deal with the North Carolinas of the future, because as things stand, there’s nothing to stop anyone from setting up a fake department for its athletes and claiming it meets university standards, the aca-

demics who oversee the NCAA being deathly afraid of interfering with “curriculum,” as if all of its strictures regarding entrance requirements and academic progress and so on don’t have the same effect.

The NCAA’s newest proposal, which could be approved as early as Thursday, is to require universities to adopt their own academic misconduct policies, which the NCAA can then penalize them for violating, the kind of contrived contortion that could only come from a bureaucracy that is charged with prosecuting its own membership.

Academic fraud should require the same parsing as former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s view of obscenity: You know it when you see it.

That’s why the UNC scandal has been the knot the NCAA can’t untangle, why it resorted to using impermissible benefits as a blanket charge in the original notice of allegations. Had that thread been followed into the transcripts, it could have resulted in scores if not hundreds of athletes being declared retroactively ineligible, just as if they’d taken money from an agent.

It was always pushing the outside of the envelope of the NCAA’s own procedures. Apparently, eight months was enough time for the NCAA to reconsider _ or be convinced to reconsider by North Carolina and its lawyers. As Cunningham said Monday, the revision process is not “a one-way street.”

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Minutewomen bounced in first round Dixon says she’ll return next year

By Chris Marino Collegian Staff

Following a 4-3 loss to George Washington Friday, the Massachusetts tennis team saw its season come to an abrupt conclusion following a strong showing in the second half of its schedule.

The Minutewomen finished the regular season on a nine-game winning streak that dated back to February, earning them the second seed in the Atlantic 10 tournament. Despite this they were defeated in the first round in one of the closest matches they competed in all year.

“We’re bitterly disappointed,” coach Judy Dixon said. “That’s for sure. I

think that this was very unexpected. We were one point away from beating George Washington 4-1. We had multiple match points so if we convert we win 4-1 and we get off the court, but we didn’t so there we are.”

UMass experienced tough defeats across the board. Ruth Crawford, Ana Yrazusta, and Anna Woosley all lost threeset matches where the Colonials earned points in singles. Crawford and Woosley lost the deciding sets of their matches by two points or less.

“We learn from this,” Dixon said “I think they took a little bit for granted that they were going to be successful. I think they sort of thought ‘yeah, we got this’ as opposed to ‘we have to work for this.’”

Dixon said the unex-

pected result following the highly successful end to the regular season offers an opportunity for the program to improve, and Dixon said there may be some changes in their approach coming this offseason.

“I think there’s some things that need to be changed.” Dixon said.

“Some of those changes might be (that we have) a little bit different way that we practice, a little bit different way that we do our fitness, a beefed up schedule, and a more one-on-one approach to the way we practice.”

Although the nine-game streak that they accomplished is still a point of pride for them, Dixon believes the Minutewomen may have been better off versus competition that would have challenged the

“We’re bitterly disappointed. That’s for sure. I think that this was very unexpected. We were one point away from beating George Washington 4-1. We had multiple match points so if we convert we win 4-1 and we get off the court, but we didn’t so there we are.”

Judy Dixon, UMass coach team a bit more heading into the postseason.

“We have to toughen up our schedule so that we play harder matches after our spring break so that we’re not just winning, winning, winning,” Dixon said.

Despite the season ending in defeat, the Minutewomen still finished 14-7 with an undefeated record at home this spring.

So the overall the season is not one that Dixon looks at negatively.

“I’m always proud of it when I look at the overall

record for the year I would have to say that we had a good year … that win-loss record is important and of course we are proud of it,” Dixon said.

For Dixon, the turnaround into next season is a quick one.

“I take a couple of days to complain and be sad and all that kind of stuff, then I get back to work.” Dixon said. “I start recruiting and that’s my main focus, to get on the road and recruit.”

Given the United States Tennis Association New England Hall of Famer just

completed her 24th season at the helm in Amherst, speculation once again swirled at the season’s conclusion over whether she would be running the program moving forward.

At least for the upcoming season, Dixon says she’ll be here coaching in Amherst.

“Next year? Yes,” Dixon said. “For next year I can say yes.”

By Zander Manning

2013 after a long battle with cancer, Stefanoni was named associate, then interim head coach in the next two seasons. She was officially named head coach before the 2015 season, and credits all of her success to Sortino.

“My first thought after the game was to call my coach and thank her, but she’s not here anymore,” Stefanoni said. “I credit all of my success to her … She started this program from the ground up. This isn’t just 50 wins for me, it’s 50 wins for her and for UMass too.”

“She’s incredible,” assistant coach Kaitlin Inglesby said of Stefanoni. “She’s passionate about UMass softball and it’s so great to work with someone like that. She makes it fun to come to work every day.”

It took less than three years for Stefanoni to reach 50 wins, and assistant coach Victoria Hayward is already looking ahead at 100.

“No, not at all,” Hayward said, when asked if she was surprised at the rate Stefanoni got to 50 wins.

“This is a program that

Chris Marino can be reached at cmarino@umass.edu.

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Meg Colleran hurls a pitch in a game against George Mason on April 2. The Minutewomen swept a doubleheader against the Patriots.

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As the Massachusetts softball team closed in on a three-game sweep of Atlantic 10 rival George Wa s h i n g t o n S u n d ay afternoon, coach Kristi Stefanoni was firmly focused on finishing the job in an important conference game.

When UMass star Meg Colleran struck out Colonials sophomore Morgan Rinehart, the Minutewomen clinched the sweep, but also delivered a milestone victory for their third-year head coach, the 50th win of Stefanoni’s young career at the helm in Amherst.

“It means a lot,” Stefanoni said in a postgame interview. “I didn’t think anyone would ever count my wins.”

Stefanoni played under UMass legend Elaine Sortino for four years from 2003 to 2006 and was hired right out of college as the director of operations for the Minutewomen. A year later, she became an assistant head coach under Sortino, a role she held for five years.

When Sortino died in

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NFL

Deflategate circus rolls on: Brady suspended again

By Bob Glauber Newsday

Less than eight months after Tom Brady scored a major victory in court to have his four-game suspension for his role in using purposely deflated footballs in the 2014 AFC Championship Game, a federal appeals court on Monday ruled against the Patriots quarterback and reinstated his suspension.

Two of the three judges on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals – Denny Chin and Barrington D. Parker – ruled in favor of the NFL, while the third – Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann – ruled for Brady.

It is uncertain whether NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will re-impose the suspension, or whether Brady will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court or ask that the case be heard before the majority of the Second Circuit judges. It is

also possible Goodell and Brady could reach a settlement that would decrease the length of the suspension.

“We are pleased the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled today that the Commissioner properly exercised his authority under the collective bargaining agreement to act in cases involving the integrity of the game,” the NFL said in a statement shortly after the decision was announced. “That authority has been recognized by many courts and has been expressly incorporated into every collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and [the NFL Players Association] for the past 40 years.”

The NFLPA, which represented Brady, expressed disappointment about the decision.

“We fought Roger Goodell’s suspension of

Tom Brady because we know he did not serve as a fair arbitrator and that players’ rights were violated under our collective bargaining agreement,” the players’ union said in a statement. “Our Union will carefully review the decision, consider all of our options and continue to fight for players’ rights and for the integrity of the game.”

Brady could miss the Patriots’ season opener in Arizona followed by home games against Miami, Houston and Buffalo. He would be eligible to make his 2016 debut in Week 5 in Cleveland.

Jimmy Garoppolo is the only other quarterback currently on the Patriots’ roster. He threw four passes in five games last season, completing one for 6 yards.

Monday’s decision reverses a ruling last Sept.

3 by federal judge Richard M. Berman, who said he

found several flaws in how Goodell investigated the case. The NFL first looked into the matter when Colts general manager Ryan Grigson informed the league in the first half of their game against the Patriots at Gillette Stadium.

A months-long report by NFL-appointed attorney Ted Wells concluded it was “more probable than not” that the footballs used in the first half were purposely deflated and that Brady was “generally aware” of the situation.

Two of the three judges ruling in Monday’s decision said that Goodell “properly exercised his broad discretion under the collective bargaining agreement and that his procedural rulings were properly grounded in that agreement and did not deprive Brady of fundamental fairness.”

Judge Katzmann, the lone dissenter, said Goodell “exceeded his authority, to

Brady’s detriment, by resting Brady’s discipline on factual findings not made in the Wells Report.”

Katzmann added, “I am troubled by the Commissioner’s decision to uphold the unprecedented four-game suspension.

The Commissioner failed to even consider a highly relevant alternative penalty and relied, instead, on an inapt analogy to the League’s steroid policy.

This deficiency, especially when viewed in combination with the shifting rationale for Brady’s discipline, leaves me to conclude that the Commissioner’s decision reflected ‘his own brand of industrial justice.’ “ Goodell imposed Brady’s suspension in May 2015 and upheld the sanction after an appeals hearing at which Brady testified. During the hearing, the quarterback acknowledged that he destroyed his personal

cellphone a day before he was scheduled to meet with Wells. Goodell cited the cellphone issue in his ruling, charging that Brady intentionally withheld evidence that was central to the case.

Goodell said last July, in announcing his decision to uphold the suspension, that Brady’s “deliberate destruction of potentially relevant evidence went beyond a mere failure to cooperate in the investigation and supported a finding that he had sought to hide evidence in his own participation in the underlying scheme to alter the footballs.”

Brady testified that he regularly destroyed his cellphones whenever he got a replacement phone.

Goodell said in February that he wouldn’t “speculate what we’re going to do depending on the outcome” of the NFL’s appeal, which was heard in early March in New York.