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By Hayley Johnson Collegian Correspondent

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George Condon, Mikey Genius and Greg Feliu play a game of hacky sack outside of W.E.B. Du Bois Library on Monday afternoon.

The University Museum of Contemporary Art recently opened a temporary exhibit titled “Human Animals: The Art of Cobra.”

The exhibition, organized by the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, has been in the museum since Sept. 15, and will be displayed at the University of Massachusetts until Nov. 20.

“Human Animals: The Art of Cobra” is comprised of the work of many European artists and poets from the 20th century. The art is inspired by pre-World War II surrealism and children’s art, stemming from the 1948 CoBrA movement, which was started by artists in an attempt to combine European communist politics and free expression art to create a new artistic expression. Many of the pieces in the exhibit feature colorful and abstract human-like figures and animals, ranging from oil

paintings on canvas to a large metal, cage-like structure.

A more modern branch of this exhibit, “Cobra: Contemporary Legacy” features many works from Jacqueline de Jong, who is a Dutch artist whose work incorporates a wide range of mediums. These mediums include things like potatoes from her garden, which she covered with platinum and gold in a piece entitled “Pomme de Jong.” She aims to capture the relationships between humans, animals and the world with her art.

The Cobra exhibition also features the work from Herbert Gentry, Asger Jorn, Erik Ortvad, Karl Appel, Carl-Henning Pedersen and more.

Jackeline De La Rosa, a sophomore Art Major at UMass and employee of the museum said, “‘Wafting in the Wind’ is one of my favorites because it is very textured and you can see all the brush-strokes,”

Jai Sen delivers speech Barbara Abdeni Massaad on Kudikidappukaran delivers ‘Soup for Syria’ talk Cookbook has Monday in Tobin Hall 80 soup recipes

By Elizabeth Wallace Collegian Correspondent

Jai Sen, an architect and activist, delivered a talk titled “Explorations into the Dynamics of Resistance and Dwelling Rights of Attached Labor” as part of the resistance studies initiative fall speaker series in Tobin Hall Monday night.

The focus of Sen’s talk was his research in the 1990s focusing on the resistance displayed numerous times during the social movements from 1930 to 1970 by the Kudikidappukaran, or slave laborers, of Kerala, a state in southwestern India.

Sen delved into the history of the Kudikidappukaran, a group of indigenous people outside India’s caste system, before detailing the progress he made throughout the 1990s and revealing the extent of continued research he is currently undertaking.

“Much of my work, in fact, I find – it goes back to the 70s – has been about making the invisible, visible because we see and we don’t see as we do research,” Sen said. “We black out things, things that are inconvenient either to our theory or to our own perceptions.”

According to Sen, the filters that researchers use while approaching certain research questions have caused areas of invisibility to occur. He argues that such has been the case with the indigenous

“Much of my work, in fact I find – it goes back to the 70s – has been about making the invisible, visible because we see and we don’t see as we do research. We black out things, things that are inconvenient either to our theroy or to our own perceptions.”

Jai Sen,

people.

Sen described the first instance of resistance displayed by the Kudikidappukaran as a surprising incident for many people. When technological advancement made the labor provided by the slaves unnecessary, the landowners tried to remove the slaves.

However, the slaves resisted, wanting to stay slaves under the landowner’s control instead of taking their freedom because it was the only life they knew.

“Within the national level [of the Communist Party] agrarian relations policy there is no mention of this [slave labor], so when they apply it to Kerala there is no mention of it,” Sen said. “So they decide in Kerala they will disband all the Kudikidappukaran and will no longer call them Kudikidappukaran, but will call them agricultural labor. So their very identity ... disappears.”

After nearly a decade of study, Sen concluded that the identity the Kudikidappukaran had about themselves var-

ied from the identity imposed upon them by society. He also discussed the path of his research that led him away from the Kudikidappukaran to the Communist Party, before returning to the Kudikidappukaran.

Sen fought to make housing a fundamental right in India in the 1980s before he began to look into the Kudikidappukaran.

He took a break from this research to spend 15 years working with the World Social Forum (WSF), the largest gathering of civil society to find solutions to the problems of our time. Now, Sen plans to return to the study of the Kudikidappukaran.

“I felt I would like to go back to my earlier work ... because [the] next five years will be to go back to that work and complete it,” Sen said. “It remained incomplete in the 90s.”

Elizabeth Wallace can be reached at erwallace@umass.edu, and followed on Twitter @lizwallace2019.

By Joshua Raposa Collegian Correspondent

A crowd of students, professors and community members gathered Monday night at Bowker Auditorium to attend the “Soup for Syria” talk.

The event, hosted by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, featured Barbara Abdeni Massaad, a photographer, writer and humanitarian whose award-winning cookbook, “Soup for Syria,” has touched the lives of thousands of Syrian Refugees.

Also present at the event was internationally renowned oud player, Kinan Idnawi, who performed an intense solo composition titled “For Syria”.

Massaad spoke of her experiences at a refugee camp just 45 minutes away from her home in Beirut.

A screen projected the faces of those she had photographed in Syria. Among those were young and old faces smiling, covered in dirt and wrapped in shawls.

“The vast majority of those in the U.S., in the world even, have never met a Muslim, a Syrian,” Massaad said.

“This leads us to a type of ignorance, a fear, and then a misrepresentation.

These are people.”

Massaad began her discussion by tracing the origins of her book and subsequent project “Soup for Syria.”

“Two years ago, an influx of refugees began

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Barbara Abdeni Massad spoke Monday night in Bowker Auditorium about her award-winning cookbook, ‘Soup for Syria.’ entering Lebanon. I began seeing the pictures in the news and I decided I needed to visit one of these camps,” Massaad said.

Massaad visited the camps more and more frequently, where she began occasionally taking pictures.

“I wanted the photos to give dignity and beauty to these refugees,” she said.

Eventually, Massaad gained a collection of photos and created a Facebook page. Her love of food, she said, influenced her to make a cookbook.

“I began contacting people and friends on the Facebook, trying to get the best recipes for the best soups,” Massaad said.

After whittling down the list to about 80 soups, Massaad took the book and her idea to Interlink Publishing, a local publishing company in Northampton.

“I wanted to take all of the profits and donate them to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),” Massaad explained.

Since its publication, the book has raised $300,000 for Syrian Refugees in the Middle East and has received critical acclaim for its recipes and photography.

After the discussion, the floor was opened up to questions. Many asked what they could do to help.

“If you have an idea, you need to just do it,” Massaad said.

“However, I’m not going to sugarcoat it: They need money. They need donations for food and medicine; things that aren’t available to them right now.”

When asked if Massaad had received any backlash from her project, she replied, “Oh yes. Many say ‘why don’t you help Lebanese instead? They need help.

Aren’t they your people?’”

Despite this popular nationalistic sentiment, Massaad said she didn’t care where the refugees are from.

“I see them. They are see

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AROUND THE WORLD

Kim Kardashian robbed at gunpoint in Paris

PARIS — Reality television and social media star Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint of around $10 million worth of jewelry while inside her Paris hotel room, her spokesperson and a French judicial source said Monday. ` Two masked men dressed as police officers held up the fashion star and businesswoman, leaving her “badly shaken but physically unharmed,” her spokesperson told dpa.

Kardashian West was robbed of $10 million worth of goods, a judicial source told dpa. The initial estimate of the stolen goods includes a ring valued at $4.5 million and a jewelry box valued at $5.6 million, the source said.

Five people disguised as police arrived at the hotel before two entered the apartment where Kardashian West was staying and held her during the robbery, the source added. French media said the incident took place around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT).

A spokesman for the Paris police union told broadcaster BFMTV that Kardashian West had left France to travel back to the U.S. after speaking to police. The television celebrity and her family issued no statements and posted no reactions on social media by Monday afternoon Paris time. `Kardashian West’s husband, rapper Kanye West, was performing a concert at the Meadows Festival in New York on Sunday night when he learned what happened and abruptly ended the his performance.

“I am sorry, family emergency; I have to stop the show,” West told concertgoers.

Kardashian West was in the French capital for Paris Fashion Week along with her mother, Kris Jenner, and sister, Kourtney Kardashian.

The three attended a show by fashion house Givenchy on Sunday night, in which Kardashian West’s sister Kendall Jenner was walking as a model. Kardashian West also attended an event held by Maison Siran at a hotel near the Champs-Elysee.

Last week, she was accosted by celebrity prankster Vitalii Sediuk as she entered a Paris restaurant. Sediuk attempted to kiss her backside before being dragged away by security guards.

France and its capital have seen security tightened after a series of terrorist attacks that have left more than 230 people dead in the past 21 months. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a statement that the heist had nothing to do with the work of police and security forces charged with ensuring safety in public space. dpa Distributed by MCT Information Services

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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by opressor, it must be demaded by the opressed.”

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Jackeline De La Rosa, an art major and employee of the museum said of Appel’s 1975 painting.

“It’s really interesting.”

Samantha Gerdes, a junior double-major in sustainable food and farming, and women, gender and sexuality studies major, agrees. “I think the cage is very interesting,” Gerdes said. “I also think it’s interesting how they have a picture

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of some of the men who curated [it] originally … it’s so whimsical, everything is so whimsical.”

The University Museum is free and open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and is located in the Fine Arts Center.

Hayley Johnson can be reached at hkjohnson@umass.edu.

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Oud player Kinan Idnawi performed Monday at Massaad’s speech. filled with hope,” she said.

“They say ‘even if my home, my village, everything is destroyed, I want to go back and rebuild it.

I want to go back because this is where I belong.’”

Josh Raposa can be reached at jraposa@umass.edu

Russia ends deal with United States

By Vera Bergengruen McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — President Vladimir Putin suspended a 16-year-old deal with the United States to dispose of weaponsgrade plutonium on Monday, further calling into question the future of the beleaguered mixed oxide facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The Kremlin cited the “inability of the U.S. to deliver on (its) obligation” to uphold its end of the nonproliferation deal in which both countries agreed in 2000 to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

In April, the Obama administration effectively scrapped the unfinished nuclear facility in Aiken, S.C., which is billions over budget and years behind schedule. The Department of Energy instead backed an alternative, cheaper method called downblending, but it had not secured Russia’s permission to change the terms of the deal.

“This is not what we agreed on,” Putin responded in April, according to a translation provided by the Kremlin. “Russia fulfilled its obligations in this regard and built these facilities, but our American partners did not.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, South Carolina’s Republican senators, had warned in the spring that Russia would see the Obama administration’s move to pull the plug on the plant as a breach of the treaty.

On Monday, Graham slammed President Barack Obama. “Russia abandoning one of the most important underpinnings of our nonproliferation regime is just another example of how President Obama will be leaving office with the world a much more

dangerous place than it was when he was elected,” he said.

The Kremlin’s statement Monday indicated that Russia’s withdrawal is a “direct result of this administration’s mishandling of the MOX project,” Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., told McClatchy.

“Time and time again, President Obama has tried to close the facility for political, inaccurate reasons, without any concern for what the implications would be for the international community,” he said.

Scott said the Obama administration’s opposition to finishing the plant was “nonsensical.”

“We are once again seeing the ramifications of the current administration’s unfocused and reckless efforts in dealing with dangerous actors like Russia,” he said.

The plant is $12 billion over budget and potentially decades away from completion, according to the latest estimates, released last month by DOE officials. At the current pace, it could take until 2048 to complete the facility.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has pushed for the Obama administration to honor its agreement to finish the plant at the current site, which currently employs 2,000 workers. At Haley’s request, state Attorney General Alan Wilson sued the Energy Department in February over its failure to complete the plant.

Disposing of the plutonium in South Carolina would cost the government an estimated $800 million to $1 billion annually for several years.

The downblending alternative would dilute the plutonium, package it and send it down to a federal repository in New Mexico, saving the government $400 million per year, according to a Department of Energy report.

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Columbia to vote on peace deal Sunday

By Jim Wyss Miami Herald

BOGOTA, Colombia — In the days leading up to Sunday’s vote on a historic peace deal with Colombia’s largest guerrilla group, the administration cast the decision in stark terms.

If the deal failed, President Juan Manuel Santos warned, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, would have no choice but to resume their 52-year war. And he said there was no chance of renegotiating the 297-page peace deal, which had been almost four years in the making.

On Monday, Santos was put in the unlikely position of trying to prove himself a liar, after Colombians narrowly defeated the proposal at the polls.

The good news for this long-troubled nation is that no one is talking about resuming the bloodletting.

All the political actors, including the guerrillas, the government and the promoters of the “no” vote insist peace is the only way forward.

“Colombians who voted for ‘yes’, those who abstained and ... those of us who voted for ‘no’ all share a common element,” said ex-President Alvaro Uribe, who campaigned against the deal. “We all want peace.

Nobody wants violence.”

The bad news is there’s no clear path forward.

Santos sent his negotiators back to Cuba Monday to confer with the FARC and said he looked forward to meeting with members of Uribe’s Centro Democratico party in hopes of finding a “happy ending for the peace process.”

“We have to work fast and establish time limits,” he warned. “Uncertainty and the lack of clarity about what comes next risk everything we have built up until now.”

At the heart of the discontent is the sense that the government gave away too much at the bargaining table. Uribe and his followers are demanding deep reforms, including stiffer penalties for guerrilla leaders and a prohibition on them running for office.

The Santos agreement offered those accused of serious crimes alternative sentences to prison as long as they confessed and provided reparations. The FARC were also guaranteed at least five seats in the House and Senate for two election cycles.

Those two points _ transitional justice and political participation _ were some of the most hard-fought issues at the bargaining table.

“After 60 years of conflict, the FARC did not sit down to negotiate only to be told that they have to go to jail,” said Sandra Borda, the dean of political sciences as Bogota’s Jorge Tadeo University.

What Uribe and his followers are asking is tantamount to a FARC surrender, she said, “and that’s simply not going to happen.”

And yet, the FARC may have to bend if negotiations are to be salvaged.

“The ball is really in the FARC’s court,” said Cynthia Arnson, the director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “It really depends on whether these four years of negotiations, and all the military blows of the previous decades, have genuinely changed the FARC’s outlook. Do they feel there is more to be gained by participating politically?”

So far the answer seems

to be yes. FARC Commander Rodrigo Londono says his group is committed to a peaceful solution and will abide by a bilateral ceasefire in place since June.

On Monday, the group issued a communique asking Colombians to march and take other peaceful actions in support of the deal.

“Peace in Colombia is a constitutional right and an obligatory duty that should be above hate and violence,” the group wrote.

But new negotiations could undermine that peaceful resolve. The cease-fire made sense as both parties had the finish line in sight.

Now it’s unclear if the finish line still exists.

“The security outlook is uncertain even if an immediate return to war is unlikely,” wrote Maria Luisa Puig, an analyst with the New York-based Eurasia Group.

Because the guerrillas are unlikely to hand over their weapons anytime soon, and there’s no short-term obligation to give up criminal activities _ their economic lifeblood _ security is likely to suffer, Puig said.

Sunday’s vote was almost evenly split, with the “no” camp winning 50.2 percent versus the 49.8 percent. But as few were expecting the outcome, it registered as a landslide. Everyone seemed caught off guard.

The United Nations was already starting to set up a peace verification office, and the guerrillas had started to demobilize and destroy stocks of explosives.

“The FARC had tipped its hand ... .and infused their own side with a sense that peace was possible,” said Eric Farnsworth, the vice president of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas. “Once that mental shift occurs, it’s awfully hard to get people to go back to the jungle and start fighting again. Of course, I think that’s a good thing.”

Even Uribe had to scramble to write a last-minute victory speech.

“Nobody was expecting (Sunday’s) results so nobody has a plan,” Borda said. “The Uribe faction had a platform that was against the deal ... but they don’t have the slightest idea of how to move forward from here.”

If negotiations turn out to be a dead end, there might be other solutions.

There’s talk about calling an assembly to rewrite the Constitution with hope of building consensus around peace. But that avenue is also fraught with problems: How to give the FARC a role in the process if it is still an armed group facing criminal charges and a terrorist designation?

FARC chief negotiator Ivan Marquez wrote on Twitter that the plebiscite was not binding and the deal still could legally be put into effect. Analysts said that wasn’t politically feasible given Sunday’s results.

Add to the mix that presidential elections are coming in 2018, giving the Uribe camp incentives to stall for time as they turn the limping negotiations into political fodder.

“The next two years are going to be incredibly complicated for the country,” Borda said. “We’re stuck with a lame-duck president and an opposition that’s going to want to flex its muscles.”

One of the reasons the results were such a jolt was the battery of polls that gave the “yes” vote a healthy lead. Gallup, Ipsos Napoleon Franco and Cifras y Conceptos all gave the “yes” vote a 24-30 point

advantage. Datexco had the narrowest spread, predicting “yes” would win 55 percent to 37 percent.

The administration was behaving like the deal was already done. On Sept. 26, Santos and guerrilla commander Londono signed the peace pact at a high-profile event in Cartagena attended by a dozen presidents, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the heads of the U.N., the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of American States.

Some saw the ceremony as savvy politics _ the administration showing skeptical voters that the deal had broad international support. But in hindsight it looks like a gaffe fit for a blooper reel, a cyclist pumping his fists in victory only to wipe out inches from the finish line.

Analysts said the polls likely lulled “yes” voters into a sense of complacency. In addition, bad weather brought on by Hurricane Matthew kept all but the most determined at home, particularly in hard-hit coastal areas. Only 37 percent of registered voters cast a ballot, compared to 48 percent during the last presidential election in 2014.

In many ways the vote mirrored the last presidential election, with the “no” vote dominating in the center of the country where Uribe’s candidate, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga had won. But there were also surprises.

Some of the areas considered FARC strongholds, such as Meta and Caqueta, voted against the deal. While areas hardest hit by the conflict, such as Choco and Putumayo, voted in favor.

Colombians living in the United States voted 62 percent against the deal versus 38 percent for it.

Rosa Jattin, 74, voted at the Colombian consulate in Coral Gables, Fla., clad in a “no” baseball cap.

“I didn’t think we were going to win,” she said Monday. “In Colombia they had silenced the ‘no’ campaign.”

Jattin, who left Colombia 19 years ago, said she opposed the deal because it would have given former guerrillas too much access too quickly to the political process.

“I don’t agree that someone could be a senator without fighting for it,” she said.

Even so, she wants a peace deal.

“I hope they can accept other terms, because I know it’s not easy,” she said. “I want peace _ but real peace.

Lasting peace.”

In Colombia, results also point to an alienated electorate little swayed by international opinion.

“I think there was a disconnect from the very beginning between the closeddoor (negotiation) sessions in Havana and the public, which was skeptical about a process where it didn’t feel included,” said Virginia Bouvier, a Colombia expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

“The fact that the country is so deeply divided _ and clearly divided in half _ means that it’s important to find a solution that can bring more people on board.”

Colombia has seen a handful of peace talks falter in the past, but never before had a deal been so close and tangible. And that’s what makes this latest obstacle so painful, said Arnson, of the Woodrow Wilson center.

“If this moment is lost,” she said, “it’s hard to imagine negotiations ever taking place in Colombia again.”

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Researchers announce Zika Joe Biden calls Trump vaccine success with mice ‘dangerously uninformed’

By David Templeton Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PIT TSBURGH—Amid the growing surge of Zika research, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has announced early success with two experimental vaccines that prevented the pups of immunized female mice from becoming infected with the virus.

Both vaccines, with one more effective than the other, succeeded in producing an immune response to the virus that was transferred from mother to her pups.

That would represent an important goal in a human vaccine, given the severe neurological birth defects including microcephaly (an abnormally small head) and Guillan-Barre syndrome that the viral infection can cause.

“We’ve not only developed a promising vaccine candidate to move toward larger pre-clinical and, eventually, human clinical trials, but also a delivery format that would be inexpensive to produce and distribute to hundreds of thousands of people,” said Andrea Gambotto, an associate professor of surgery at the medical school who was senior author of the study, published online Monday in the EBioMedicine journal.

Congress recently allocated $1.1 billion for Zika research, money that Pitt researchers hope to tap to advance their vaccines

to human clinical trials, potentially within a year, Gambotto said.

The Pitt focus is creating a vaccine given to the mother that protects the fetus and newborn against birth defects. So far, so good.

“Pups born to mice immunized with (the one Pitt vaccine) were all protected against lethal challenge infection without weight loss or neurological signs,” while 50 percent of the pups born to dams immunized with the second Pitt virus were protected, the study says.

One vaccine involved a standard injection. The other used crystals affixed to a patch similar to a BandAid to keep them in contact with the skin until they dissolved.

The vaccines generate an immune response against an antigen _ a protein _ on the outer shell of the virus.

The Pitt study describes the immunization as “a promising candidate vaccine” for the prevention of Zika virus disease.

Bites from mosquitoes of the Aedes species represent the key method of viral transmission, with sexual transmission also possible.

Various South American, Central American and Caribbean nations are experiencing epidemic levels of infection, while Florida has reported Zika infections contracted from local mosquitoes. The virus already has spread to 50 nations, with

6,400 cases in the United States and its territories, the National institute of Health reports.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases currently is working on five Zika vaccines, with the Aug. 2 launch of a human clinical trial.

Once a vaccine is developed, it typically is tested in mice then monkeys. If successful, the next step is three phases of human clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness before it goes before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval.

Even if the institute’s vaccine proceeds on the current fast track, its effectiveness on humans won’t be clear until early to mid-2018, said institute director Anthony S. Fauci. Consider, however, that vaccines typically take seven to 10 years to be developed and approved.

Developing a Zika virus poses no serious difficulties in vaccine science, given that similar flavivirus vaccines already have been developed for yellow fever and several types of encephalitis.

Besides the five NIH vaccines, pharmaceutical companies, universities and others also have reported their development of vaccines.

“The more shots on goal you have, the better the chance of getting a vaccine,” Fauci said. “If history holds true, there should be an effective vaccine against Zika.”

Vice Presidents no longer play second fiddle

By Noah Bierman Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — One man entered the national stage this summer as the reassuringly dull half of the GOP ticket.

The other, the Democratic No. 2, is a career politician who proudly called himself boring.

Yet as Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine prepare to face off Tuesday in their only vice presidential debate, they are vying for an office that has gained increasing clout in recent administrations.

In Pence’s case, the role could expand even more than it already has over the last 40 years, given Donald Trump’s lack of government experience. Kaine could find himself in a more complicated position, competing for influence in Hillary Clinton’s White House against her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

But neither man, if elected, will be relegated strictly to attending to funerals, maintaining preparedness should the president fall ill or absorbing mockery on late-night TV shows. The office, once housed outside the White House in the Executive Office Building or the Senate and seen purely as a stand-in job, has now cemented itself as an integral part of running the country, with more access and influence than almost anyone in the president’s orbit gets.

The job’s heightened stature derives from a number of factors, including the increasing complexity of the president’s job, a political shift in how running mates are selected, and the trust presidents have placed in their understudies.

“It would be difficult to throw the vice president out of the West Wing or to refuse to break bread with them once a week,” said Joel K. Goldstein, a St. Louis University law professor and author of “The White House Vice Presidency.”

Goldstein pointed to Walter Mondale in the late 1970s as

the first modern vice president, who attended a weekly lunch with President Jimmy Carter and had the power to invite himself to his meetings.

Mondale and those who followed all had varying levels of responsibility, both to give the president unvarnished advice or to lead initiatives; but none relinquished the core access.

Once chosen to provide ideological or geographical balance, running mates are now usually picked to fill in gaps in the presidential candidate’s experience or expertise.

Al Gore won so much trust during Bill Clinton’s first term that Elaine Kamarck, a Gore aide, recalled glimpsing Gore wagging his finger in Clinton’s face as he lectured him about diplomacy in Bosnia.

“They were alone and this was their way of helping each other,” Kamarck said, adding a parallel story of Clinton helping Gore to connect better with voters. “In the first term, that was one of the best working relationships I’d ever seen.”

Their relationship soured in the second term as Clinton faced impeachment and Gore pursued an unsuccessful White House bid.

Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who published a paper on vice presidential power last week, said Dick Cheney attained his role leading intelligence and foreign policy in the White House by controlling the policy options that were put on the desk of President George W. Bush, who came in as a governor with no foreign policy background. Cheney had served as secretary of Defense.

Pence could win similar influence on several fronts, depending on his skill and ambition and the level of trust he gains from Trump, who would enter the job with less policy experience than anyone in modern history. Pence could command expertise on several issues. Not only is he a sitting governor, but he is also a former member of Congress

and a politician trusted by many movement conservatives and evangelicals.

On the campaign trail, Pence has opted for the role of explainer, trying to tamp down Trump’s rougher edges.

Pence has deviated little since his introduction in July, when he contradicted his own statements and policies to defend Trump on issues such as banning all Muslims from entering the country and taking a hard line against trade agreements.

“What I hear Donald Trump saying is, ‘Let’s _ let’s look at these trade agreements and reconsider them and renegotiate them,’ “ Pence, who backed the North American Free Trade Agreement, said on “60 Minutes” during his initial interview with Trump.

Kaine, who served as mayor of Richmond and governor of Virginia before winning a Senate seat, has also had to finesse old positions, like his support for some restrictions on abortion not favored by Clinton.

But his challenges in the White House would be different than Pence’s. Not only would Clinton come to the job with unusually deep experience, but she would have the counsel of her husband, whose appetite for giving freelance advice is well-known.

“We’ve never had this before, with a former president being in the White House, and Hillary has indicated that he will have an active role,” said Charles Burson, a former chief of staff to Gore.

“Kaine is going to have to carve a role between he and Clinton and the president,” Burson added. “It’s almost to me a triangle, where usually it’s the president and the vice president.”

Hillary Clinton promised in a recent People magazine interview that she would view Kaine as a key player, describing the job in similar terms to the one Joe Biden now has under President Barack Obama.

By Steven Lemongello Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO — Vice President Joe Biden ripped into Donald Trump at a Hillary Clinton campaign event Monday in Orlando, calling the Republican nominee “dangerously uninformed.”

“Never in the history of the United States of America has there been a major presidential candidate who has been less informed,” Biden said to a crowd of 400 inside the Cheyenne Saloon on Church Street.

He cited Trump’s “unabashed enthusiasm” for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump’s statements that he would not necessarily protect the Baltic states from Russian invasion. Biden said he had to personally tell the presidents of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that Trump’s statements did not represent the view of the U.S. government, or even the majority view of the Republican Party.

Biden said foreign leaders are “very, very, very worried.”

Biden also said Trump’s rhetoric that President Barack Obama was the “founder of ISIS” played into an urban legend in the Middle East and was being used in anti-American propaganda by the leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Biden took issue with

Trump for saying the idea that he may not have paid federal taxes for 18 years made him “smart.”

“What does that make the rest of Americans, including the very wealthy businessmen, who pay their fair share?” Biden asked.

The vice president also mocked Trump for his middle-of-the-night Tweets last week, telling a laughing crowd that he was being “deadly earnest” in talking about Trump’s character.

“What type of leader awakens at 3 o’clock in the morning and Tweets, quote, ‘Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?’”

Biden said, not including the part of the Tweet in which Trump called for Americans to “check out” a sex tape of former Miss Universe Alicia Machado.

“At 3:30 in the morning?” he continued. “This man wants to be president of the United States of America?”

“His lack of sensibilities are disqualifying,” Biden concluded. “His lack of understanding as to who we are as a people. The way he comports himself and the words he utters – and I mean this with every fiber of my being – are truly beneath the office of the president of the United States.”

Biden spent much of his speech talking about the U.S.’s economic role in the 21st century, in order to

counter what he described as Trump’s downplaying of the U.S. economy and overhyping of foreign economies, including China.

“The American Dream is still alive,” he said. “I don’t know where Trump and everybody else lives, but here it’s still alive.”

The vice president ended by pointing out that voter registration in Florida ends on Oct. 11.

“Bust your necks, folks, getting your friends to register to vote,” he said. “It does matter. It does matter.”

Biden was preceded by a number of local Democrats, including Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson – who called Biden “the real deal,” and congressional candidates Darren Soto, running in District 9, and Stephanie Murphy, a candidate in District 7.

“Welcome to Central Florida, where presidential elections are won and lost,” Dyer said. “As a city and county, are we ready to show that no amount of divisive rhetoric can tear us apart?”

“Do you know who I’m referring to?” Dyer joked.

“Just checking.”

Murphy, who introduced Biden, told the crowd, “Hillary Clinton faced baseless attacks throughout her entire life, and she’s never given up. She’s been called every name in the book.

But I can’t wait to call her Madam President.”

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Give us cybersecurity, or give us war Last Monday saw cyber security vague- vulnerabilities in state computers and ly debated between presidential candi- offered security scans.” In theory, the dates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. voting booths should be secure because they are “decentralized” and “diverse.”

James Mazarakis But other details in the article seem to indicate the problem is deeper. During the Whereas Clinton held that recent hacks on Democratic Primary, controversy broke out the Democratic National Committee and over the authenticity of the election results State department were evidence of Russian after thousands of voters found themselves President Vladimir Putin’s “very tough, in long lines and, in long game,” Trump rebuked with a state- some cases, dropped ment that the true hackers were not known, from the voter rolls, postulating that it could be “somebody sit- most notably in ting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.” New York which Trump is standing against a growing has a closed primaexpert consensus that Russia was behind ry. While this was the attacks, although the point has yet to shrugged off at the be substantiated with evidence. Regardless time, by June the FBI of the findings of this ongoing investiga- had found a group of hackers on the deep tion, for Clinton to say the United States web called “Fancy Bear,” which obtained should “defend the citizens of this coun- a Microsoft Word document containing try” by “[engaging] in a different kind of the voter data of almost 4 million people. warfare” is a disturbing motion. It would This is what our “decentralized” and be foolish to unleash cyber warfare against “diverse” election management looks like. an adversary when our voting security While having a wide array of systems is systematically vulnerable to hackers. throughout the nation is a tactic of cyber The supposition is that rolling up our security, since manipulating multiple sleeves with Russia would be necessary encryptions and systems would become for the sake of defense, but what these tedious, a lack of oversight on information hacks really demonstrate is that we need management is not. This allows hackers to bring the fight here at home. Protecting to effortlessly troll through thousands of our democracy should be among the highest systems and exploit every lapse of judgment priorities in the United States, yet the Senate they can find. Cybersecurity is a constant Intelligence Committee and a stunning and ever-increasing battle; every federal number of politicians seem to think the idea worker responsible for voter counts needs to of an expensive cyber war is a better idea. be using a secure server and be aware when TIME Magazine claimed the likeli- translating that data into applications or hood of our elections being tampered clipboards where they can be easily hacked. with is “unlikely” and that the govern- Voting machines catch a lot of attention ment has “pushed out patches for known for being vulnerable as they leave no paper

trail, meaning there is not a physical receipt for each vote to audit the results. Ariel Feldman, a computer science professor at the University of Chicago, told the Chicago Tribune, “The level of security confidence when it comes to these voting machines is much lower than the sort of industry standard ... I mean, your iPhone is probably much more secure than most of these voting machines.”

But many states are veering away from these machines and have returned to paper ballots. According to Politico, The Princeton Group, who has been observing the vulnerabilities of voting machines for years, maintain that the problems extend beyond this stage of voting. In a successful hack, databases containing “digitized voter registration,” voting machines in development or software patches can be used to manipulate the results of an election. In fact, a committed hacker could trick a county clerk into installing the software under the guise of the government or a trustworthy group like FedEx. “No county clerk anywhere in the United States has the ability to defend themselves against advanced persistent threats,” Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University said.

Government-issued software could help, but many of these clerk offices interact with sensitive information on Windows XP computers, which have not been patched

by Microsoft since April 2014. Moreover, we cannot rely on every federal employ-

“Protecting our democracy should be among the highest priorities in the United States.”

A memo on gratitude: It can be found everywhere How do your shoes feel not be invented for another around your feet? You likely 15 years.

Some of our infrastrucJoe Frank ture was built by people no longer here to use it. Their didn’t notice. This is due to work outlives them and exists sensory adaptation, which for our benefit. occurs when our brains stop But what’s the point? Why noticing irrelevant stimuli. It should we care about who can be helpful, as it allows built our homes or the histoour brains to only focus on ry of manhole covers? After so much at a time, though we all, we do have other things often act in a similar way in to worry about. our day-to-day lives. When There’s an answer, which we see a house we rarely ask who built it. We often do not ask who paved our roads. We worry about things we deem more important. The houses are there, is that our surroundings are so we forget that they haven’t constant reminders to be grateful for what we have always been there.

For instance, think of man- because nobody achieves hole covers. Near my home, anything by themselves. there is a manhole cover with We all have something to be the date 1913, meaning that grateful for. manhole cover was placed Who built your house? there 103 years ago. And just Who paved your roads or about everybody walks past built manhole covers? Who that manhole cover every day made the shoes that you can because it is not pertinent. forget are around your feet But a lot has happened since and the jacket that keeps you 1913. World War I had not yet warm? Thousands of people started, and Fenway Park in over the course of many Boston was only in its sec- years have contributed effort ond season of operation. The so each of us can live the high-five had yet to be intro- lives we live. We have a sociduced and sliced bread would ety built by others and we

contribute to it as well, so we did not make it here alone.

There is not one person who hasn’t needed anybody for anything. We all have something for which to be grateful for. But that makes our lives even more remarkable.

Humans came together to build a society, and we are lucky enough to take it for granted. For that privilege, we should be grateful.

Sometimes it feels like we are unfortunate and that everything is going the wrong way. We all have bad days. On those bad days, take a few deep breaths, take a few steps back from the problems at hand and look at the big picture. We all have so much for which to be grateful, whether it is the clothes on our backs or the opportunity for an education like the one offered at the University of Massachusetts. Take a look at the infrastructure that we share. There’s always something that we could be thankful for, whether we feel good, bad or somewhere inbetween.

“Our surroundings are constant reminders to be grateful for what we have.”

Joe Frank is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at jrfrank@umass.edu.

ee being tech-savvy enough to fully implement or combat malware threats.

It is not likely that calling on Putin to put an end to the hacking, for which he has neither claimed responsibility nor been formally charged, will have any effect.

Russia will continue to push its cybernetic capabilities to the limit and hack in any way they feel they can get away with.

The pragmatic solution to this problem is to call for competitive encryption technology to run our elections in a way that is decentralized, but with informed oversight to ensure maximum security. Brand-new machines in all 50 states with a paper trail and a substantial investment in internet security throughout the nation would go a long way as well. Perhaps most importantly, federal employees need computer science training before running an election.

Cyber security has the potential to affect every level of our national security – everything from private information to internet access can be weaponized by forces unknown. Voters across the country should treat suspect elections like the one in Arizona as a warning sign of troubles to come. It is hard to confirm the number of citizens disenfranchised, and connecting the hack to the primary’s malfunction is as speculative as connecting it to Russia, but the most sophisticated hacks are the ones we never detect. If we discover that a group has successfully influenced a United States election, it is not a good sign for our democracy. We should demand better and fight for our votes, not accept living in fear of an attack that could set off a war.

James Mazarakis is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at jmazarakis@umass.edu.

Why Lewinsky scandal may be a dead end for Trump Tribune News Service Ramesh Ponnuru

Eric Trump thinks that his father showed “a lot of courage” during the debate by not bringing up Bill Clinton’s sex scandals: “I mean, he really took the high ground where he had the opportunity to go very, very low. And I’m proud of him for doing that.”

Donald Trump praised himself for his restraint, which he attributed to his respect for the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea.

Whatever one thinks of this standard of virtue, it is one that Trump’s allies are not meeting. Top Trump supporter Rudolph Giuliani said Hillary Clinton is “too stupid to be president” because she believed her husband when he denied having an affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Perhaps it is unsurprising that Giuliani, who famously used a press conference to announce he was leaving his wife for his mistress, believes that a man’s adultery reflects poorly on his wife.

As it happens, I doubt that Hillary Clinton was as shocked by her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky as the Clintons’ official line would have it. Everyone remembers that when the story broke, Hillary Clinton did an

interview with Matt Lauer in which she blamed the allegation of an affair on a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

In the same interview, Lauer asked her if her husband would have to resign if he “had an adulterous liaison in the White House and lied to cover it up.”

Her answer: “Well, I think that — if all that were proven true, I think that would be a very serious offense. That is not going to be proven true.” If she were really convinced of her husband’s innocence, would she really have used the phrase “proven true” twice?

Kate Andersen Brower’s book “The Residence” reported that members of the White House staff said that “Hillary knew about Lewinsky long before it came out, and that what really upset her was not the affair itself but its discovery and the media feeding frenzy that followed.”

And it wouldn’t have been the first time she had tried to mislead the public about her husband. According to Carl Bernstein’s biography of her, she was in charge of the campaign to discredit Gennifer Flowers for talking about her affair with Bill.

Trump aide David Bossie says that Hillary Clinton was an “enabler”

for her husband’s sometimes predatory sexual affairs. That might be taking the low road, according to Eric Trump. But Bossie’s description seems reasonable to me. And while Clinton’s conduct during her husband’s scandals should not be a top issue in this campaign, it is certainly fair game.

It would also, very likely, be a dead end for the Trump campaign.

Voters didn’t turn against Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal, at least politically. They reacted with sympathy for Hillary Clinton. The passage of time does not seem likely to make the issue more potent. Nor does the identity of the people who are currently raising, and passive-aggressively raising, the issue. Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani will only get hit with a boomerang if they talk about marital fidelity. Trump’s credibility on the issue is further weakened because, when he wasn’t running for president against a Clinton, he called the Lewinsky scandal “totally unimportant.”

The notion that Trump deserves credit for his forbearance presupposes that bringing up the sex scandals would help him: He has heavy ammunition but is refusing to use it. What he really has is a pop gun.

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New performist era on the runway Snow app mimics Breaking the mold Snapchat format in designer outlooks New photo app taking over Japan

By Samantha Gonda Collegian Correspondent

Fashion shows have been turning heads ever since their creation in the late 1800s. As society has evolved and changed its social boundaries, fashion has also evolved and changed alongside it.

Designers pack venues with the most elite celebrities, photographers and journalists to ensure that their designs become well recognized.

The formulaic approach to fashion shows has proven successful for generations, and it was only recently that designers decided to innovate this mold to incorporate performance elements like nontraditional music, art and dance.

A prime example of this new performance appreciation amongst designers is Kanye West’s launch of his Yeezy Season 4 line.

Kicking off New York Fashion Week, his show was received and evaluated as more of a performance piece than a fashion show.

West started the show by bussing his audience from Chelsea, New York to Roosevelt Island in an act of mysterious prelude. Once the guests arrived, they observed a slew of models – both famous models and those who answered West’s casting call on Twitter – standing in a triangular formation in the middle of grassy field.

Mere hours after West’s Season 4 show, Tom Ford premiered his fall/winter line for 2016 contributing to the “see now, buy now” craze taking over fashion weeks all over the world.

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Models from the Club Monaco show at New York Fashion Week stand at Vanderbilt Hall inside Grand Cenral Terminal. to turn his show into an experience, and aired on the side of performance art. He turned his show into a glamorous multicourse dinner that included celebrity guests Tom Hanks, Rita Ora and Karlie Kloss.

Adding to the charm of the night, soul singer Leon Bridges accompanied by two guitarists played during the dinner creating an atmosphere of serenity at the Four Seasons.

With an already prestigious reputation in the fashion world, Ford’s decision to embrace performance elements of role playing and live music only elevated this.

The “Gatsby-esque” experience put the audience straight into the world of Tom Ford and his imagination, as opposed to simply viewing Ford’s designs.

But innovations of the traditional fashion show at NYFW didn’t stop there.

Michael Kors had singer Rufus Wainwright per-

form live during his show.

Designer Tommy Hilfiger’s nautical collaboration with Gigi Hadid took place on Pier 16 with various carnival rides, booths and cotton candy machines.

Ralph Lauren shut down an entire block of Manhattan turning the sidewalk into a runway.

This trend of changing fashion shows into entire performances has so far been mostly showcased at New York Fashion Week, but not exclusively.

In Milan, Dolce and Gabbana presented its latest season in a jazz lounge with the none other than New York-based jazz band, The Hot Sardines, playing light-hearted dance music as the models wore nostalgic designs inspired by the jazz lounges of the 1940s.

As fashion weeks are coming to a close globally – excluding Paris, which ends Oct. 5 – the new idea of runway performance and pushing the boundaries in runway presentation

is catching fire.

Runways are no longer glimpses into the designer’s world, they are becoming a way to not only see the designer’s work but to also see their work in the atmosphere the designer envisioned them in.

The point is fashion isn’t one dimensional. It’s not meant to stay plainly on a platform, but to exist in everyday life, worn by everyday people. Ralph Lauren showed his consumers that his clothes are more than a runway. Dolce and Gabbana envisioned its clothes being danced in, so it took the runway to a jazz lounge.

We have now entered the era of clothes for carnivals at the pier, for dancing at jazz clubs, and even exclusive dinner parties. The new era of runways is the end of clothes made for and only worn on the runway; this is the era of clothes for living.

Samantha Gonda can be found at sgonda@umass.edu.

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Youtube channels offer fashion advice

By Cynthia Ntinunu Collegian Correspondant

Have you ever wanted a personal stylist? Someone who could give you tips on the seasons trendiest pieces, making you immune to those fitful mornings with nothing to wear? Well your fashion prayers have been answered by YouTube. Fashion YouTubers are essentially stylists who provide advice on how to transition styles seamlessly into a new season.

With thousands of fashion channels out there, it can be overwhelming when you first set out to find a YouTuber that suits your style. Lucky for you, we created a list of five creative YouTubers who are guaranteed to impress.

Joel aka Gallucks

Gallucks, a London based blogger, is a nontraditional YouTuber in the fashion realm.

The fashion world of YouTube is often dominated by women, so it’s refreshing to see a man make a splash in the fashion pool. He favors minimalistic looks, which is evident by the black and white color scheme grazing his page.

His style staples include black ripped jeans, Chelsea boots, boxy t-shirts, flannels and more.

Recurring brands on his channel are Zara and Fear of God, which are two of his favorite clothing stores.

Currently at 26,682 subscribers, Gallucks offers an array of fashion videos extending his

style to home decor as well. So for men’s 2016 fashion and room inspiration, check out his channel.

Brandon Hayden aka “Happily Dressed”

Sticking with the theme of men’s fashion, “Happily Dressed” on YouTube breaks stereotypes by refuting the idea that “men can’t wear pink.” Encouraging men to step out of their comfort zones and reject gendered clichés, Brandon runs his own fashion race with a personalized style of neutrals and pinks.

Though he only has 3,117 subscribers, which is on the lower side for a YouTuber, his unique style shines through with thrifted and “bargain bin” pieces. He’s not afraid to experiment with colors, silhouettes and prints - a territory often avoided by men. His most popular video is “Spring Trends 2016|Men’s Fashion|Happily Dressed” with 20,000 plus views. Check out his thrifting videos to get tips on how to look trendy for less.

Remi Cruz aka “MissRemiAshten”

Moving towards more popular YouTubers, “MissRemiAshten” is the “it” girl right now. With a personality so infectious she could make the Grinch smile, Remi is a fan favorite in YouTube fashion. She currently has over 1.4 million loyal subscribers virtually camping out to see her

latest DIY room decor videos.

As far as personal style goes, she is into bright pinks and blues which is evident on her page.

She’s a plus-sized woman who advocates for the body acceptance of all women, which makes her channel that much more interesting to subscribe to.

While refusing to let her size define her and encouraging everyone to do the same, Remi creates colorful outfit-of-the-day videos. Check out her “Back to School Outfit Ideas” video to get some inspiration for campus friendly fashion trends.

Cassie & Ricci aka “Tothe9s” A Canadian based duo started their channel to showcase their unique yet fresh style. Now, three years later, they have gained over 417,000 subscribers. A fun fact about them is that they’re both college students, which makes them more relatable for most subscribers.

With both Cassie and Ricci’s personalities being on the channel, it allows for a variety of styles and outlooks that a single YouTuber couldn’t provide.

While sticking to their own styles, their perspectives often intersect, which makes it obvious why they started a channel together. Cassie favors the more feminine, elegant side of trends, while Ricci leans towards the street, urban side of fashion.

“Tothe9s” has styling videos on current pieces like “culottes” or

“mom jeans,” favorites among many. Two things you can expect from this duo are expertly styled “lookbooks” and high quality editing. Check out one of their latest videos “NEUTRALS LOOKBOOK: No Black Clothes Challenge,” a video challenging everyone to step out of their fashion comfort zones.

Steph and Mel aka “The Fashion Citizen” Steph and Mel turn the meaning of fashion guru upside down.

Most fashion YouTubers shop at big brand name stores like Zara, H&M and Topshop. But Steph and Mel take a step back from these corporate brands and opt for thriftier options. Many of their style videos feature clothing from Savers, Goodwill and other thrift shops.

Being unique in the way that they style and shop caused these Arizona based gurus to wrangle up more than 321,000 subscribers. Their style is a blend of minimal and vintage with the integration of bold prints and colors.

With both girls showcasing their distinctive flair, it allows for their channel to have diverse style content. Itching to learn how to make your own clothes and get an even bigger bang for your buck? Check out their “DIY Zara Inspired Top” video.

Cynthia Ntinunu can be reached at cntinunu@umass.edu.

opposed to Snapchat’s shorter 24-hour option.

So naturally I had to check it out.

The first filter I tried was a stamp that adds two fluffy round ears and a brown furry snout that makes your cheeks appear to be blushing—my initial thoughts were that maybe it was a pig? The most bizarre thing about this filter is that when you open your mouth, two little bear hands appear and it looks like they’re feeding you a chocolate chip cookie.

Despite Snow’s similarities to Snapchat, filters like this one truly make it unique, and oddly enough this seems to be the most popular stamp among users despite its ambiguous meaning.

Another interesting feature about the app is that the stamps can apply onto as many people’s faces that can fit into the frame of the photo— unlike Snapchat where a maximum of two faces can have a filter at the same time.

This feature gives the freedom to have filters that consist of two types of stamps at the same time and can randomly alternate to give you the stamp you most desire.

I feel like this feature employs a great strategy since it calls for goofy group photography sessions which millennials are always striving for.

Even though most of the communication aspects are extremely similar to Snapchat, most of the time people only use the app to take photos of themselves to save to their photo library. The app seems to acknowledge that it is more in line with a goofy Photo Booth than it is with social media.

Not many people add their photos to their stories or send photos to their friends through the app like they do on Snapchat.

I’m not sure how this app would be received here in the U.S. with Snapchat as a competitor. In fact, much of Snow’s success can be attributed to the fact that Snapchat is blocked from the country as a whole.

“Let’s take a Snow!”

“What is your favorite Snow filter?” I heard girls saying to each other in excitement while I waited for my friends to arrive in front of Shibuya station in Tokyo. As soon as my friends arrived, I asked them what “Snow” was. This earned a look of amazement. They couldn’t believe I had never heard of the app.

Snow is an app that has recently taken Japan by storm, much like the Snapchat phenomenon in the western part of the world. It was created by Korean company Naver, the developer behind Line messenger.

Snow is a temporary photo-taking app that creates conversation between users through photos taken with the inclusion of filters.

One of the main differences between Snow and Snapchat is that the filters on Snapchat change their selection frequently, often have locally themed geotags and geotags that correlate with something happening widespread, like the Presidential Debate or New York Fashion Week.

Yet, Snapchat’s countless filters are still fewer than the selection of those offered on Snow.

Snow is more focused on changing the way the user looks personally, like the funny face filters—but it takes it a step further.

First, you choose what kind of skin tone you wish to have, then you choose from all the categories of face filters —which are referred to as “stamps”— whichever one you would like to have on your face and the face of whoever is joining you in the picturetaking process. There are countless filters to choose from that can be downloaded for free, including the synonymous dog filter as seen on Snapchat, a fried egg or a rock star performing at a concert.

Snow includes a GIF maker (similar to Instagram’s Boomerang) Matthew Hachisu can be reached and 72-hour stories as at mhachisu@umass.edu.

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added seven saves, while sophomore Max Prawdzik totaled 10. Both backup goaltenders held perfect periods with the Panthers only score

By Will Hayes coming in the first period Collegian Correspondent against LaCouvee.

The Boston University The Terriers will take the hockey team validated its No. ice in their final pre-season 1 ranking in the Hockey East exhibition this Thursday preseason coach’s poll with against the U.S. National a resounding 10-2 win over Prince Edward Island at the Under-18 team.

Agganis Arena in an exhibiProvidence College tion game Saturday. chops down Axemen Forward Patrick Harper led the charge for the No. 10 Providence defeatTerriers as he picked up five goals, with his fifth goal com- ed Acadia University 3-0 in ing shorthanded with 12 min- exhibition play at Schneider utes, four seconds remaining Arena on Sunday.

Sophomore forward Scott in the third period.

Fellow freshman Clayton Conway shined with a powerKeller and Dante Fabbro also play goal in the third period joined the scoring party with to go along with two assists. three and one goals scored, Forward Ryan Tait started off the game with a rebound respectively.

The Panthers were unable goal, only 1:59 into the first to get much going through- period. Bryan Lemos extendout the game with both of ed the Friar lead with a goal their goals coming via 5-on-3 later in the first on a rebound shot attempt by Conway. power plays.

The BU goaltenders Friar’s goaltender Hayden played a solid game as junior Hawkey did his part by addConnor LaCouvee picked ing 18 saves, shutting out the up 11 saves on 13 shots. Axemen.

Freshman Jake Oettinger On the other side, Acadia

goaltender Robert Steeves recorded 16 saves, while backup Brandon Glover added eight of his own.

The Friars will begin their 2016-2017 season on Friday at Schneider Arena in the first game of a back-to-back against Miami (OH). Puck drop is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

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egory.

The X-Men carried the momentum early into the third period with a shorthanded goal by left-winger Mark Tremaine 23 seconds into the third.

Maine fired back nearly a minute later as forward Blaine Byron scored a powerplay goal to decrease the St. Francis lead to one.

The Black Bears battled for nearly the entire period until the X- Men scored again on Sam Studnicka’s empty netter in the final minute to secure the victory for Saint Francis Xavier.

Maine forward Chase Pearson scored with only 19 seconds left, but the comeback was held short.

Goaltender Brandon Hope recorded 27 saves for St. Francis Xavier, as Rob McGovern (18) and Matt Morris (12) combined for 30 saves for the Black Bears.

Maine will open its regular season this Friday against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 7 p.m.

Maine blew an early three-goal lead to lose to St. Francis Xavier 6-5 on home ice Sunday at Alfon Arena.

The Black Bears started the game flying out of the gates with forward Nolan Vesey scoring with 58 seconds into the opening period.

Forward Jake Pappalardo and defenseman Eric Schurhamer each scored a goal in the first period to increase the Black Bears lead to three.

However, in the second period, St. Francis Xavier took charge by tallying four goals, with three coming off the power play, which led to Will Hayes can be reached at a 19-7 edge in the shot cat- whayes@umass.edu.

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BLUE DEVILS You’ve got to be focused on our A-10s, but also you get a little break, so that’s kind of good and bad,” Becerra said. “But we take every match the same, so we should be fine.”

Becerra will be looking for another clean sheet against the Blue Devils after keeping the Flyers off the scoreboard – the Minutemen’s second shutout over the past four games.

That opportunity may very well present itself against Central Connecticut as the Blue Devils have scored just six goals this season and have been held scoreless in six of nine matches, though his opponent’s struggles will not be changing Becerra’s mindset.

“Like I say every game, if we don’t get scored on we can’t lose, so we’ve got to go out with a defensive mentality that we want a clean sheet every game,” Becerra said. “We can’t really think about whether the other team has scored many goals or not, we’ve just got to go out there and play our game, do our thing, and we’ll be fine.”

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to a record of 2-1, compared to the 0.67 goals the Minutemen averaged during the first six games, resulting in a record of 0-5-1 to begin the season.

“I thought we were very unfortunate not to score against Dayton,” O’Leary said. “We hit the cross bar, missed a couple of really good chances. So we’re creating chances, we need a little better luck and a little finishing.”

The match against Central Connecticut offers UMass the chance to, once again, get some in-game action before the Minutemen return to A-10 action against Fordham on Sunday.

Due to the team’s recent four game stretch where UMass has gone 2-1-1, the Minutemen are now relishing those chances.

“Now we’re getting in the habit of we’re excited for the next game, we can’t wait for the next game to come. It’s another chance to build our confidence and lay down the marker that we’re a decent team,” O’Leary said.

Tuesday’s opening kickoff is at 4 p.m. at Rudd Field.

Jamie Cushman can be reached at jrcushman@umass.edu.

MLB

White Sox choose Rick Renteria as next manager Former manager Robin Ventura fired

By Colleen Kane Chicago Tribune

White Sox didn’t wait long or look far to find their next manager after Robin Ventura announced his departure from the team Sunday after five seasons.

On the morning after the season ended, Sox general manager Rick Hahn said he believes the Sox already had the best candidate in house.

Rick Renteria was introduced as the 40th manager in Sox history _ and just the second ever to manage both the Cubs and Sox _ at a news conference Monday morning.

Citing Renteria’s high baseball IQ, tireless work ethic and ability to communicate across a multicultural clubhouse, Hahn said Renteria has been at the top of the Sox’s internal list of potential managerial candidates for years.

The club had about a month since Ventura announced his intention to leave to weigh their options, and

they decided to eschew a full managerial search and hire Renteria.

Hahn acknowledged other candidates might have similar qualities as Renteria, who spent six seasons coaching for the Padres and managed his lone major-league season with the Cubs in 2014. But he said Renteria’s familiarity with the organization and players after a year as Ventura’s bench coach and his “ability to seamlessly take over the position” and “hit the ground running” gave him the edge as their next manager.

“There are some quality candidates out there,” Hahn said. “Some of them might have been as good.

We didn’t feel any of them would wow us any more than Ricky had wowed us.

At the same time, there is a benefit to him already having these relationships with some of these players. He knows what they are about, what buttons to push, what buttons not to push. And the players have a healthy level of respect for him on Day 1.”

Hahn spent much of his time with the media explain-

“Whether it’s a veteran club or a young club, my job is to get the most out of whomever it is that we’re presented with. When you take a managing job, I can tell you that you try to both, win and develop with younger players.”

Rick Renteria, White Sox manger ing why the Sox didn’t want to fully explore their options and why hiring Renteria isn’t maintaining the status quo in an organization that has put together four straight losing seasons and eight straight years without the playoffs.

He said he believes Renteria has already had a “tremendous influence” on players and other coaches, and he thinks once he assumes control the team could see a “real change.”

“From being on the inside, he had to suffer through points of this season just like the rest of us did,” Hahn said. “He has very strong opinions about various areas we need to improve upon and how we are going to start doing that in spring training. That’s a

nice advantage.”

After shaking hands with Hahn and slipping on a Sox jersey, Renteria thanked Ventura for encouraging him to take the job and then described himself in a way most who covered the Cubs already have _ positive, detail-oriented and focused on ways to encourage players to be at their best.

He said he hopes to bring “a little more intensity” to the club and is happy with leading the team no matter which direction the team goes in the offseason, whether it’s rebuilding or trying to win in 2017. Hahn again declined to state the team’s offseason plan.

“Whether it’s a veteran club or a young club, my job is to get the most out of whomever it is that we’re going to be presented with,”

MLB

Matz to have elbow surgery Tuesday New York pitcher went 9-8 in 2016

By Marc Carig Newsday

Mets left-hander Steven Matz has no regrets about pitching through a bone spur in his elbow, which will be surgically removed Tuesday at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

“I’m happy that I did pitch through it,” said Matz, whose season was cut short by another injury, a left shoulder impingement that caused inflammation.

Matz, 25, went 9-8 with a 3.40 ERA in 22 starts this season, his first on the Opening Day roster. He last pitched on Aug. 14, his attempt at a comeback falling short because of lingering inflammation in his shoulder.

He’s expected to be ready for spring training.

“It’s always disappointing when you have to miss time due to an injury,” Matz said.

“But I’d see some good outings, I’d see some bad outings. It’s all something you can learn from, the good and the bad.”

In June, the pain in Matz’s elbow prompted discussions about undergoing surgery immediately. But the Ward Melvile product decided to pitch through the discomfort, comfortable enough with assurances that while pitching might be painful, it would not make the issue any worse.

“I do know it was tough.

Warming up in the bullpen was the worst,” he said. “I was like ‘Dang, how am I going to get through this?’

Normally, when I got back on the mound, I don’t know if the adrenaline kind of took over, there was never a point where I was like ‘Man, I’ve got to come out of here.’”

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New York Mets pitcher Steven Matz (32) will miss postseason after surgery.

Matz had hoped to pitch in the postseason, as he did last year. And in his last few starts, he said the discomfort in his elbow had actually eased up.

“I really got over the hump and feeling great,” he said.

But his shoulder issue proved too much to overcome, though it will not require offseason surgery.

“With the shoulder, everything structurally checked out fairly well,” he said. “So I’m pretty happy with that because the shoulder can be a tricky thing.”

Renteria said. “When you take a managing job, I can tell you that you try to do both, win and develop with younger players. ... In either case you’re trying to end up at the same place. You’re trying to develop an organization and a club that’s going to give you some consistency over an extended period of time and give you the ability to hopefully post up in the postseason.”

Renteria was fired so the Cubs could hire Joe Maddon after the 2014 season, and he spent a year away from baseball. When he returned to join the Sox last offseason, he largely stayed behind the scenes in regard to the media. He said Monday he bears no hard feelings toward the Cubs and his departure from the club taught him about how to deal with change.

“When you give yourself to a task, if you really appreciate the importance of it, without at the same time taking yourself too seriously, you can accomplish a lot of things,” Renteria said.

“So hopefully I’ve learned that these opportunities are fleeting and you have to try

to take advantage of every moment that you have.”

Renteria becomes the only current Latino manager in Major League Baseball.

Sox first baseman Jose Abreu said he didn’t have any trouble communicating with Ventura, but he also said having a Spanish speaker as the club’s leader would make it a little more comfortable.

“He’s a nice guy, too,” Abreu said through a team interpreter. “He knows a lot about baseball. He’s passionate about baseball.”

Abreu was one of several Sox players to give Renteria rave reviews Sunday after word of his promotion leaked out.

“He definitely will get his point across a little more, vocally,” Sox outfielder Adam Eaton said. “Not that he has more passion than Robin or anything like that, but he’s a little more upbeat, a little more bouncy. He’s kind of a bundle of baseball joy.”

The team didn’t announce contract details for Renteria and said they plan to make coaching staff announcements at a later date.

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MEN’S SOCCER

UMass looks to find consistency UM seeks revenge against Blue Devils

Becerra has three shutouts this season

Central Conn. won 5-1 in ‘15 matchup

By Henry Brechter Collegian Staff

For Massachusetts coach Fran O’Leary and the rest of the Minutemen, consistency comes first.

After a shaky start to the 2016 season, UMass (2-6-2, 0-0-1 Atlantic 10) is 2-1-1 in its last four games with two shutouts. The most notable game was also the most recent, as the Minutemen battled defending A-10 champions Dayton to a 0-0 draw last Saturday afternoon.

“I think the first thing that stood out was how well we defended our penalty area,” O’Leary said of his team’s latest effort. “[Dayton] were on top in the first 30 minutes with seven or eight corner kicks, and we showed great strength defending our box.

As a result of that, we grew into the game and felt we had better chances the rest of the way.”

The game’s theme was defense, something the Minutemen have been focused on since the season’s start. Between 2014 and 2015, UMass had just three shutouts in two full seasons.

Half-way through 2016, the Minutemen already have two.

UMass’ back line has been its strongest phase. Thanks to clear communication and execution, few corners or free kicks have led to goals against the Minutemen.

Goalkeeper Jorge Becerra saves 4.9 shots a game, good for 28th out of 150 qualified Division I goalkeepers, and that has a large part thanks to the defenders in front of him. A healthy mix of veteran presence and blossoming talent, the group has gotten better in every game.

The improving play is

By Jamie Cushman Collegian Staff

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Jorge Becerra (1) averages 4.9 saves per game in 2016, which ranks 28th out of 150 Division 1 goalkeepers. promising, but it must continue for it to matter. The team’s record is not where they want it to be and O’Leary knows that consistent improvement and constant focus are key in taking the next step.

“The concentration levels are getting better and better,” O’Leary said. “Overall, we’re more focused on defending collectively as a group. This happens when you try to get better as the season goes on.

We have two shutouts in our last four games, which gives us a good foundation to build on as the season continues.”

The concentration among the players and coaches is unmistakable. Amid dense fog, the team practices early on weekdays before the beginning of classes. The heavy morning air does not slow the Minutemen as they continue drill after drill. Coaches can be heard bellowing orders as the rest of campus is just rolling out of bed.

“We’ve been wanting to show more composure in

“Overall, we’re more focused on defending collectively as a group. This happens when you try to get better as the season goes on.

We have two shutouts in our last four games, which gives us a good foundation to build on as the season continues.”

Fran O’Leary UMass coach possession, in order to knit together a number of passes,” O’Leary said. “If we can keep spitting out performance after performance, our confidence in each other will grow accordingly.”

Consistency has many moving parts. For success to be consistent, everything that goes into producing success must stay constant.

Whether its maximum effort in the early morning practices, concentration during a game or chemistry growth, it all goes into the steadiness of the team’s performance. This steadiness is what O’Leary

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team will be seeking revenge Tuesday afternoon when UMass closes out its nonconference schedule with a match against Central Connecticut State University.

The Minutemen lost to the Blue Devils 5-1 last year and were never really in the contest, allowing three goals in the first half, including a goal in the opening eight minutes.

UMass (2-6-2, 0-0-1 Atlantic 10) has shown improvement since last year’s match against Central Connecticut (1-6-2), including a draw against reigning conference-champion Dayton on Saturday to open up its A-10 schedule.

Minutemen coach Fran O’Leary views the match against the Blue Devils as a barometer of the team’s development.

“They handled us comfortably last season, so it will be a good marker of how far we’ve come,” O’Leary said. “Have we improved enough to beat them? Time will tell, but I think we’re really excited to close out the nonconference and welcome Central Connecticut to Rudd Field.”

For some of the members on UMass, the return to nonconference play just three days after the conference opener feels a bit strange.

“Yeah it is strange, especially because we had a week in between games, we didn’t have a mid-week game last week,” senior midfielder Ty Goncalves said. “[It’s a] different atmosphere obviously, but we still need to bring the same intensity we brought against Dayton.”

UMass goalkeeper Jorge Becerra believes the Minutemen just need to focus mentally to overcome the scheduling oddity.

“It’s more of a mental thing than a physical thing. see

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and the Minutemen are striving for to compete for a conference title.

“We just want to spit out another good performance,” O’Leary said of his team’s final nonconference game, a Tuesday afternoon home match against Central Connecticut. “After coming off back-to-back good performances, we want to have the same level of energy, the same level of intensity and the same level of concentration.”

Henry Brechter can be reached at hbrechter@umass.edu.

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Senior Ty Goncalves (17) dribbles ball up against Dayton last Saturday.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Clark ready to lead Minutemen in upcoming year Guard was second on team in scoring in ‘15-16

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

It’s Donte Clark’s time to thrive and there’s no disputing that fact for the Massachusetts men’s basketball team in 2016-17.

During his first two collegiate seasons, Clark blended in the background behind former players Trey Davis and Jabarie Hinds, who carried the load with their veteran leadership. Now there is no more hiding for Clark.

All eyes are on him.

Clark is cognizant of the fact his younger teammates are looking at him for leadership.

“They’re definitely watching me. They tell me all the time,” Clark said before Saturday’s practice. “It’s important for me to come out every practice as hard as I can because I know that if I’m going hard, they’re going to do the same.”

“Donte has really grown as leader,” junior guard C.J. Anderson said. “First coming in and last year, he was really quiet. That’s just the guy he is.

He understands that he’s supposed to be a leader this year and that’s his role and he’s been stepping up big time for this team.

Everybody’s trusting in him, so it’s going to a good year for him.”

Offense is what has largely defined Clark during his time at UMass. During his freshman year, he averaged 9.6 points per game and that production increased to 16.1 points per game

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Junior guard Donte Clark (0) looks to get by a defender during UMass’ 74-64 loss to Ole Miss last season. Clarke was second on the Minutemen in scoring (16.1 points per game), behind only former-guard Trey Davis. during last season, second on the team behind Davis. With offensive stalwarts like Davis and Hinds gone, Clark’s offensive game will need to take another step forward if the Minutemen want to find success.

“This is his year,” Anderson said. “We’ve been talking about it day in, day out. It’s his time to prove himself. The conference doesn’t think he’s a top 10 player.

He is. There’s no doubt about it.”

UMass coach Derek Kellogg knows Clark has the ability to

take the proverbial next step and he’s challenging the junior to make that leap.

“When I look at these magazines and he’s not one of the top 10 players in some people’s opinions in the league, I challenge him to be that player,” Kellogg said. “To be a guy who’s thought of as an all-league firstteam player. A guy who not only leads us in scoring, but leads us in rebounds and dives for loose balls and assists because I believe he’s very capable.”

the Minutemen over the offseason has centered around their recruiting class that included two four-star recruits, DeJon Jarreau and Chris Baldwin, and three three-star recruits, Brison Gresham, Unique McLean and Tyrn Flowers.

Of the five freshmen, Jarreau is the most highly touted and the comparisons to Clark have been evident early on. “(DeJon) reminds me of myself every day,” Clark said.

“He’s kind of laid back, not going as hard as he’s supposed to sometimes. I talk to him a lot and have taken him under my wing. I’ve known him before he came here.”

Competition has driven both to succeed and push each other in early practices.

“I go at them like I go at anyone else,” Clark said. “They try to go at me like anyone else.

They’re out there hacking me.”

With the youth of UMass, energy and excitement has not been lacking in the Minutemen’s practices.

“It’s been one of the most energetic teams that I’ve played on as far as all the young guys coming in loud and excited to play,” Clark said. “This is one of the most talented teams I’ve played on.”

Kellogg is aware of the fact that Clark would rather lead by example than by being a vocal player on the court.

“Being vocal, I’m not really sure that’s his forte, but his forte is being a leader in the way he carries himself,” Kellogg said.

“When we talk and meet the guys, they all bring his name up as a guy they look up to. I’m challenging him to be Donte, but be Donte at the highest level pos- Adam Aucoin can be reached at aaucoin@umass.edu and followed on Twitter sible.”

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