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U.S. writer on West Bank occupation Memoir of 2 years’ stay in Ramallah B y Josh R aposa Collegian Correspondent

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Jennifer Normanly, head of biochemistry, takes a photo of DNA with her cellphone in a renovated lab in the Morill Laboratory during a tour.

Au t h o r Pamela Olson gave a talk in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall on Tuesday night to discuss her book, “Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland”.

The event was hosted

by Students for Justice in Palestine and coordinated by UMass’ Leila Aruri. It featured a narrative slideshow, a Q&A session, and book signing.

“I was out of college and I decided to visit the Middle East in 2003. The Iraq war was still going on and I was sitting in a café, in Jordan, with a bunch of other journalists. I was talking about maybe going to Baghdad

in Iraq,” Olson explained.

At the advice of journalists, who had just returned from Iraq, Olson chose to travel to Palestine.

Following what she described as her “tantalizing interest in Palestine,” Olson decided to move to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, where she lived for the next two years.

During her time there, she served as the head writer of the newspaper “The Palestinian Monitor.”

She also served as the foreign press coordinator for Dr. Mustafa Barghouti during his bid for the Palestinian presidency in 2005 Olson showed images in a slideshow of the lush Palestinian landscape, dotted with olive trees, apricots, almonds and water. She showed deep valleys of the Sinai into the heart of Palestinian landscape.

“I like to show the

Anti-clown crowd roams UHS opens pop-up flu clinic Students carry bats, sticks, and forks

By Nujhat Purnata Collegian Staff

A crowd of approximately 80-150 students took to the streets of the University of Massachusetts’ Southwest Residential Area on Monday night after rumors of a clown sighting spread like wildfire.

“I saw crowds of people, not even a group of friends but tons of people together, sprinting down Sunset Ave,” said Olivia Izzi, a sophomore legal studies major who saw the crowd from her window and then followed the story on social media.

“It seemed like they were running away from something. It was nerve wracking.

I had the same feeling as last year when there was a supposed gunman on campus,” said Izzi.

Benjamin Fitzpatrick, an undeclared sophomore who lives in Southwest, first heard there was a sighting of a clown on social media. “It

got announced by some clown spotting account on Twitter” says Fitzpatrick.

He saw pictures on social media of students carrying hockey sticks, baseball bats, lacrosse sticks and hangers.

“Someone had a fork,” he recalls.

One student who went clown-hunting seconded the use of a fork as a potential weapon “I showed up with a knife in my pocket. My friend met me with a fork,” Nicholas Soltowski, a sophomore resource economics major. Soltowski lives in Sylvan and first heard about the clown when his friend from Southwest called.

“Well, to be honest, I didn’t know I went [clown hunting] until I went but I continued because my friend convinced me that clowns are evil and because I was fearful of being attacked by a clown,” he said.

The “creepy clown” sightings is a new phenomenon across the nation and especially on social media. Several unverified twitter accounts such as @ClownSpotting and @ClownSighting have been releasing information

about the spotting of “creepy clowns” nationwide. Another such clown hunt occurred at Pennsylvania State University.

On Monday night, reports of an armed clown forced a dorm evacuation at Merrimack College. A shelter in place notice was sent to students at 9:36 p.m. according to the Boston Globe. However, the police found nothing suspicious after clearing and searching the dorm where the clown was allegedly sighted.

Similar reports have been made across other college campuses nationwide including University of New Hampshire and Springfield College.

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Alex Krell is a senior marketing major who first heard about the clown spotting from friends in Springfield College but does not feel threatened on the UMass campus. “It is a very safe community,” he said.

Julia Vlahopoulos, a junior majoring in bio-chem, does not feel threatened or unsafe either. “The mob wasn’t scary. see

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Prevention made more accesssible B y Avery T homas Collegian Correspondent In addition to bringing good weather, summer represents a time when people might worry less about seasonal illnesses.

The common cold comes to mind.—or even worse: influenza.

“At the flu clinics we do not treat people who are ill; rather we administer flu vaccine to protect individuals and the community against the spread of flu,” said Ann Becker, University of Massachusetts Medical Re s e r v e Corps unit director.

In fall, many UMass professors and students take precautions against one of the aforementioned illnesses. Mounting up defenses may seem like a daunting task now that the fall semester is beginning to heat up

academically and socially. On Sept. 29 the first walk-in flu clinic opened at the University Health Services in room 302.

Becker, the public health nurse for the UMass campus, runs the flu clinics for UHS. “The clinics are staffed

by UHS staff and College of Nursing students,” she said. This means that vaccinations are administered only by individuals who’ve been trained to estimate the proper dosage for each student.

Professors and students may require different treatments for flu prevention.

“Different ages require different treatment,” Tom Roeper, a UMass linguistics professor, explained regarding why getting vaccinated was important for people his age. It isn’t common knowledge that elder people require a higher dosage of an influenza vaccination than a younger student would.

Becker says that UHS

staff are equipped to tackle that issue. Taking that into account, the walk-in clinics are no different from walking in for a scheduled flu-shot from your physician.

According to Becker, UHS has made influenza prevention available for a long time. “UHS has provided influenza vaccination for the campus community for many years as it is the best way to protect against getting sick with influenza,” she said.

The new walk-in clinics are a way to access flu prevention in a timely fashion, since no appointment is necessary. This is more incentive for people who simply lack the time to schedule any visits.

According to the UHS website any students, faculty and staff along with their spouses and dependents are the primary recipients of all services, including flu prevention. For Ann Becker, making sure everyone see

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More than a million expected to flee during Mosul battle

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

CAIRO – Aid groups are racing to prepare for what they are predicting will be the largest humanitarian crisis in recent memory, with a million people expected to flee the northern Iraqi metropolis of Mosul once the country’s military and its foreign allies launch their offensive to seize the city from Islamic State militants.

The planned operation to take back Iraq’s second-biggest city could trigger “one of the largest man-made disasters” in years, said Bruno Geddo, the United Nations refugee agency representative in Iraq.

The conflict in neighboring Syria has affected more people, leaving 13.5 million in need of humanitarian assistance. But the

Mosul offensive is unique in that aid agencies know roughly when it will start and that it will displace a massive number of people at once.

Representatives of the various forces have said the operation will start between mid-October and mid-December, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently specifying Oct. 19.

The U.N. made an emergency appeal this summer for $284 million to deal with the crisis but so far has received less than half. The United States has pledged $130 million, said Lise Grande, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq.

“We’re facing this enormous tsunami coming at us,” Grande said. “We’re racing against the clock to be as ready for it as we can be, knowing that we have funding

constraints, capacity constraints, and that we still need to get more supplies into the country.”

If a million people were displaced for a year, the cost of caring for them would be $1.8 billion, she said.

Islamic State seized control of Mosul in June 2014 during a campaign that soon put the militants in control of a third of Iraq and Syria. Iraq’s army has been fighting to recover. Backed by U.S.-led coalition warplanes and tens of thousands of paramilitary fighters - some supported

by Iran - Iraqi troops this year reduced the militant group’s territory by a quarter, according to the group IHS Conflict Monitor.

Across Iraq, about 3.3 million are already displaced, including 1.2 million from the area sur-

rounding Mosul. Of the more than 1.2 million who remain in the city, nearly a third are children, and a fifth are single mothers, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, Grande said.

Many are expected to flee on foot, leaving most of their possessions behind.

Matthew Nowery, Iraq country director for the U.S. relief group Samaritan’s Purse, compared the anticipated exodus to the flight of more than 2 million Rwandans into surrounding countries during and after the African nation’s 1994 genocide.

“This is going to be a very large-scale catastrophe,” Nowery said. “A huge number of people will be moving into a system that’s already stretched.”

Already, 66 camps through-

out Iraq house nearly 700,000 people displaced by violence.

Camps near Mosul are already overwhelmed as new arrivals wait in fenced-off areas to be screened and camp workers try to keep out the Sunni tribal militias that arrive with trucks to recruit child soldiers to fight Islamic State.

Debaga, one of the larger camps south of the city of Irbil, was built to house 20,000 families and is home to twice as many.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is building three camps in the Mosul area to house 36,000 people but is unlikely to complete them before the offensive, Grande said.

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Americans still sharply split on global warming, poll finds Americans remain deeply polarized on climate change, but broadly support increased reliance on solar and wind energy, a new poll has found.

The partisan split extends “across a host of beliefs about the expected effects of climate change, actions that can address changes to the Earth’s climate, and trust and credibility in the work of climate scientists,” the nonpartisan Pew Research Center survey reported.

“People on the ideological ends of either party _ that is, liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans _ see the world through vastly different lenses across all of these judgments,” the report found.

The Pew survey is one of the most comprehensive independent polls documenting attitudes on global warming in recent years.

It found 76 percent of liberal Democrats said that cuts in power plant pollution can make a big difference in addressing climate change, while 29 percent of conservative Republicans agreed.

Similarly wide gaps emerged between liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans on whether other policies can make a big difference: an international agreement to limit carbon emissions; tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks; and corporate tax incentives to encourage businesses to reduce their carbon footprint.

Pew’s findings portend grueling political struggles ahead as the next president and Congress grapple with climate change, which President Barack Obama views as humanity’s greatest long-term threat.

Facing resistance from Republicans in Congress, Obama has used his executive powers to try to curb global warming by, among other things, mandating cuts in pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has vowed to press forward with his climate agenda and build upon it.

Her GOP rival, Donald Trump, rejects science showing that carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels is warming the Earth and endangering civilization. If he is elected, he plans to withdraw the U.S. from the nearly worldwide Paris climate treaty mandating reductions in carbon emissions and lift all Obama administration restraints on the burning of coal, oil and gas.

Pew found wide partisan divides on the potential for environmental devastation from climate change, and what might be done about it.

But across the political spectrum, large majorities back expansion of solar panel and wind turbine farms _ 83 percent of conservative Republicans and 97 percent of liberal Democrats. The poll also found widespread agreement on expanding wind energy.

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beauty and especially the people of Palestine.

Oftentimes, because of the news, we forget that they are people.”

She then proceeded to display the urban life of Palestine, providing an insight into the culture of a place like Ramallah. The images displayed a hub of commerce and culture: streets lined with markets, multicolored dress and a vibrant artistic life.

“I always show these images before talking about, you know, the occupation.” Olson explained.

In the slides that followed, Olson described the grim reality of what she described as “the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

“You have about 500 checkpoints and roadblocks that cut through the heart of Palestinian land. This land, continuously being built on by ‘legal’ Israeli settlements, is getting carved up,” Olson said.

According to Olson, many Israelis living in settlements drive directly past what she describes as “a prison wall” encircl i n g Pa l e s t i n i a n s.

Olson traced the roots of this conflict and occupation back to the U.N. Partition Plan of 1947.

Mandated by the U.N., this granted Israelis the right to own land that was previously considered Palestinian. The

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plan fell through in 1948 neo-apartheid solutions. U.N. Security Council In closing her discusamidst Arab backlash. Olson then emphasized that had used veto pow- sion, Olson emphasized In 2016, over half cen- the role that the United ers against almost every the role of student activtury a later, the conflict States had in the region, proposed resolution ism on campuses and remains unresolved as not as an arbiter of peace, was the United States. stressed the need for many Palestinians still but of conflict: “We need to “I would imagine that people to be informed live under Israeli author- understand as Americans it is in large part due to ity. However, according that Israel could not be domestic politics. The of the Palestinian truth. to Olson, “many, barely allowed to be doing what it American Israel Public “If the Palestinians any, are granted the same is doing without our help.” Affairs Committee is have anything on their rights as Israeli citizens.” Olson cited a number consistently cited as the side now, its international “I remember these of failed U.N. resolutions largest campaign con- law, morality and truth.” three children. Iman al that charged Israel with tributor. It would be Hams, Raghda al-Assar human rights violations. very unpopular to talk Josh Raposa can be reached at and Ghadeer Jaber The one country on the about the true Palestine.” jraposa@umass.edu.

Mokheimer. They were all killed by Israeli snipers in broad daylight. Two of them in class. No one received any punishment.

If they do, it’s minor.”

As a country, Olson elaborated, Palestine has no jurisdictional authority.

“You have a ‘nation’, if you could call it that, completely dependent on Israel. Imports. Exports.

Water. Electricity. You name it. The entire economy is dependent, and the authority is lacking as well.

They can’t do anything.”

Olson then spoke of the disproportionate conflict between the two sides as she showed pictures of rubble and brick that had once been homes, hospitals and schools.

“These neighborhoods, they are just becoming wastelands,” Olson said.

In discussing possible solutions to the ongoing conflict, familiar proKATHERINE MAYO/COLLEGIAN posals were cited: the one-state, two-state and Pamela Olson discusses her memoir in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall Tuesday night.

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I understand why students did this. I understand their point of view.”

“They were not fighting normal people. They were trying to fight something that they presumed to be dangerous,” she continues.

“No one got hit, no one got harmed. People were just protecting themselves,” says Fitzpatrick.

Krell, along with several other students interviewed on Tuesday evening, shared a similar mindset. “This is good for future reference. We are not gonna put up with it.

[Clowns] are trying to scare people. Students are taking initiative.”

“Any clowns thinking of coming to UMass better rethink that because we are ready,” says Izzi.

Ed Blaguszewski, director

of the Office of News and Media Relations, said that there are no confirmed sightings of a clown that the police are aware of or any incident involving a clown at UMass.

“There have been falsely reported clown sightings in many campuses. Reports of this type has surfaced in a number of places leading to paranoia, rumors and speculation,” says Blaguszewski.

“We monitored the situation and responded to calls.”

Blaguszewski encourages the students to call either 911 or the campus police if there are concerns for safety.

“People should not put themselves in danger and take the law in their own hands,” he adds.

Nujhat Purnata can be reached at npurnata@umass.edu.

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on campus is in tip-top shape health wise is the number one priority.

From October to December, walk-in clinics will be open to the community in different places around campus.

Upcoming clinics will be at the North Apartments on Oct 6 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., UHS room 302 on Oct. 7 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and the Commonwealth Honors College on Oct. 13 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m..

The clinics are spread around campus so they

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can be easy to reach for people living in any residential area. All upcoming dates for the clinics, along with their locations, can be found on the UHS public health page.

According to the public health page, the costs are billed to health insurance plans, so it is urgent that anyone seeking a vaccination bring their insurance plan’s identification card with them.

Avery Thomas can be reached at averythomas@umass.edu.

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cult to buy or rent space to expand camps, said Frederic Cussigh, who leads the U.N. refugee agency’s office in Irbil.

There are other challenges: Cussigh said that the opening of two camps was delayed last week after the Iraqi military had to be called in to remove unexploded ordnance.

Many of the people who flee Mosul are expected to receive assistance at 20 emergency sites that the U.N. is rushing to open near the city and stock with tents, food, water and latrines for thousands of people, Grande said.

The Iraqi military wants Mosul residents to stay put when the offensive begins and has been airdropping leaflets advising them not to leave.

“The thinking of the Iraqi security forces is that they will be trying to protect people in their homes,” Grande said. During offensives this year in the Iraqi cities of Hit, Qayyarah and Sharqat, the military succeeded in doing just that.

But aid officials believe an exodus from Mosul is inevitable. In the aftermath of offensives during the last two years in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, more than 200,000 people were displaced.

Grande said Iraqi forces are preparing to direct civilians to escape routes and on to the camps. As they exit the city, they would be checked by soldiers for weapons and screened in an attempt to prevent Islamic State fighters from slipping away with the masses.

Aid workers plan to provide food and water along the way as well as medical assistance from mobile units on flatbed trucks.

Violence is expected, based on other mass departures this year in which fleeing civilians were attacked by Islamic State fighters. In Fallujah and surrounding areas, which saw about 100,000 people leave after an offensive in May, some were killed by improvised explosive devices and others drowned trying to escape across a river.

“When the populations

move, Daesh destroys the cities,” Grande said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. “They booby-trap and destroy them.”

About 150,000 families have fled the Mosul area since fighting intensified there in June. Most forgo the camps to live together in apartments or take refuge in abandoned schools, churches and other buildings.

Becky Bakr Abdulla, a spokeswoman for the Norwe gian Refugee Council in Irbil, a hub for humanitarian agencies about 50 miles east of Mosul, said many of those families are trying to help remaining relatives escape the city and join them before the offensive.

“They really want to get out before the fighting begins, but it’s very difficult for them to find safe routes out,” Bakr Abdulla said. “We are in a race against time to try to protect the civilians of Mosul.”

Under Islamic State rule, Mosul residents live with the constant threat of summary execution for offenses that include using the internet and cellphones, making it difficult to know what is happening there.

The majority of Mosul residents are Sunni Muslims, which is likely to pose its own set of problems. The surrounding area includes the semiautonomous Kurdish region where officials have said they will not accept displaced people from Mosul. The Iraqi government is dominated by Shiite Muslims.

Mayor Hussein Ali Khajem said tribal fighters and Iraqi forces will enter Mosul while Shiite militias conduct operations outside the city, although he said the militias would not screen those who flee.

“The official plan is that the Shiite militias will not participate in this fight.

That’s the official order from the prime minister.

Still, the people inside fear that some of these militias will not agree,” said Atheel Nujaifi, governor of the surrounding Nineveh province, who was forced to flee Mosul when the

city fell to Islamic State but who remains in touch with former neighbors.

“There is some resistance inside Mosul” lately, he said, with residents raising the Iraqi flag in public squares, painting “M” for muqawama, Arabic for “resistance,” on walls and parallel stripes of red and black, for the Iraqi flag.

Nujaifi said that without assistance for 100,000 of those fleeing the city, let alone a million, it makes sense for residents to initially shelter in place.

“If it is a quick fight, the people will stay” for several days, he said, but “if there is bombing for a long time, they will leave.”

Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a fellow with Washington-based Defense Priorities, said he expects sectarian militias will complicate the offensive.

“I just can’t see how this is going to work well,” said Davis, who recently visited the Dibaga camp and met with Kurdish officials. “...

You’re going to have hundreds of thousands of people just hanging out in the desert. And how are you going to feed the people?”

Remaining in Mosul may be even more dangerous as Islamic State fighters dig in, he said.

“Do they say this is our Alamo, we are not going to leave, we’re going to die in place here?” Davis said.

A l e k s a n d a r Milutinovic, who heads Iraq operations for the International Rescue Committee, said he worries the offensive will become a sectarian battle that tears the country apart, leaving hundreds of thousands displaced for months in a region where winters are cold and snowy and many people already depend on aid agencies for blankets and kerosene heaters.

In Irbil, his organization has mobilized 534 staff members for the crisis and plans to hire 200 more people in the next few weeks and work round the clock to train them. But as funding is delayed, he said, “it’s just going to get more difficult to hire people, stock our warehouses.”

“It is going to be too late,” he said.

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Texas cop urges Hurricane Matthew slams into clown vigilantism Haiti’s southern coast on Tuesday

By Avi Selk and Julian Gill The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — A Denton, Texas, police officer urged vigilantes to make a bloody example of the next creepy clown, as hysteria over the phenomenon has spread across the country.

"This clown crap is really getting on my nerves," Officer Latrice Pettaway wrote on Facebook Monday night, according to screen shots sent to The Dallas Morning News. Denton is about 40 miles northwest of Dallas.

"Please handle it," Pettaway continued. "Pop a cap in the first clown you see. Someone needs to just hit one and the rest of these fools will learn."

Denton police said Pettaway, a sworn officer since 2014, could face an investigation if she broke the department's social media rules, though they were still looking into the post after learning of it late Tuesday morning.

"We frown upon posts like that," police spokesman Shane Kizer said.

He said shooting people dressed like clowns is "absolutely not" how the department wants the public to respond to viral reports of clowns luring children in the woods, prowling backyards or standing menacingly on

darkened streets.

Many of those reports turn out to be hoaxes, false rumors or misunderstandings _ like the creepy clown in Virginia who turned out to be an autistic boy showing off his Halloween mask.

But some police departments around Dallas issued alerts about "clown threats" this week. Kizer said Denton schools were threatened in an Instagram post by "killerclown jonny," which promised to "kill the teachers ... and kidnap all the kids."

Killerclown jonny later deleted the picture and said it was a hoax.

Whether or not the clown menace is real, some civilians have threatened to take measures into their own hands.

But Pettaway, who could not be reached for comment, appears to be the first police officer to urge vigilante justice.

After she asked her friends to shoot a clown on sight, another Facebook user wrote to Pettaway: "I think I heard that one was already hit in the head somewhere up north today."

That referred to another hoax _ a fabricated news report that a creepy clown had been shot in Indiana.

But Pettaway, apparently credulous, replied: "Great!"

By Alexandra Zavis Los Angeles Times

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew tore into Haiti’s southern coast early Tuesday, ripping off rooftops, toppling trees and flooding streets and agricultural fields in a country still recovering from a devastating earthquake six years ago.

The dangerous Category 4 storm, the strongest Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade, was carrying winds of 145 mph when it made landfall at 6 a.m. near the town of Les Anglais, on the southwestern tip of Haiti, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Many residents hunkered down in flimsy shacks that offered little protection from the howling wind, heavy rains and battering storm surges.

Authorities had not yet determined the full scale of the damage. But Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti’s civil protection agency, said more than 10 towns were flooded and a number of homes and boats destroyed.

Landslides and downed trees were hampering access to many communities.

There were also reports of one person killed in Haiti and four more in neighboring Dominican

Republic, bringing the suspected death toll on the island of Hispaniola to at least seven. A fisherman drowned in heavy seas and another went missing as the storm approached Haiti over the weekend, officials said.

Officials in Haiti spent Monday trying to persuade residents in vulnerable coastal communities and shanty towns around the capital, Port-au-Prince, to move into emergency shelters set up in churches and schools. But many were too afraid to leave their homes, in case they were robbed.

Some sought shelter only after the worst of the storm hit, sloshing through knee-high water and debris-strewn streets in the pelting rain.

“There was panic in the cities of Jeremie and Les Cayes,” Alta JeanBaptiste was quoted as saying Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper. “The population was distraught because of the rise of the water.”

A video filmed in Les Cayes showed palm trees whipped by fierce winds.

“Pray for us,” a voice is heard yelling.

In Port Salut, Jenniflore Desrosiers huddled with her family in a leaky cinderblock house.

“The winds are making so many bad noises,” she

told The Associated Press.

“We’re just doing our best to stay calm.”

Aid agencies warned of more danger ahead.

Between 15 and 25 inches of rain were forecast over hills that are largely denuded and prone to flash floods and mudslides, and the National Hurricane Center warned that as much as 40 inches could fall in some places.

Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest country, is still reeling from the 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people, and the deadly cholera outbreak that followed. Tens of thousands of people live in tents and other makeshift housing.

As Matthew bore down on the country, government officials and international aid agencies were anxious to avoid a repeat of the confusion, waste and duplication that marred the response to those crises.

“I know from the international community, there was a pretty impressive response from as early as Friday, when it started looking like this was on the radar screen,” said Chris Skopec, of the Los Angelesbased Inter national Medical Corps. “Normally I think we might wait a couple of days to see the direction (the storm) was

going to go - it’s a very unpredictable weather pattern. But because everybody is a bit hypersensitive to how vulnerable Haiti is and is really committed to improving on past response efforts, there was a lot of mobilization of resources and supplies and pre-positioning of teams.”

The storm hit at a particularly difficult time for Haiti, just as farmers in the south were about to start harvesting plantains, a staple, and as authorities were preparing for a longdelayed presidential election on Sunday.

By Tuesday afternoon, the storm was headed north toward Cuba at a slow 10 mph and was expected to reach the Bahamas overnight. Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center said some fluctuations in intensity were possible, but Matthew was expected to remain a powerful hurricane at least through Wednesday night.

In the U.S., states of emergency were declared Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.

“If Hurricane Matthew directly impacts Florida, there could be massive destruction which we haven’t seen since Hurricane Andrew devastated Miami-Dade County in 1992,” Florida Scott.

Gov. Rick Scott said.

LAPD releases video of moments before police shooting

By Kate Mather, James Queally and Veronica Rocha Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police released a security video of the chase that lead up to the fatal police shooting of a black 18-yearold in South L.A. over the weekend, one of two shootings by officers that sparked protests across the city.

The video shows a young man in a blue sweatshirt, who police say is Carnell Snell Jr., running through a strip mall and behind parked vehicles holding what appears to be a gun in his left hand.

The young man then crouches and appears to tuck the handgun into his sweatpants before running away from the camera. Moments later, a police officer is seen running in Snell's direction.

Police Chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Times that he and Mayor Eric Garcetti spoke at length about the issue and decided to release the video to correct what the chief described as competing accounts about Saturday's shooting.

"My huge concern is that the dueling narratives further divide the community," Beck said.

The tape was taken from a nearby business, and Beck said the recording shows Snell running with a gun in his hand. Many residents have questioned the police account, including whether Snell had a gun.

The LAPD is the latest law enforcement agency to release footage linked to a controversial police shooting in the wake of large-scale protests. Last week, officials in San Diego County originally said they would not immediately release video of a fatal shooting by El Cajon police, but they reversed course after days of protests. Police in Charlotte, N.C., released footage of a fatal shooting there after days of unrest garnered national attention.

Local activists said Beck's decision shows the department can release footage quickly without impacting an investigation and undercuts the agency's routine refusal to release video in connection with controversial uses of force. Beck, along with other law enforcement leaders, has said he generally opposes releasing body camera footage, expressing concerns about violating privacy and

possibly interfering with investigations.

"Now it just knocks out the rationale that police officials, LAPD officials, have for not releasing video," said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a civil rights advocate and president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable.

A debate about the LAPD's policy on releasing videos connected to shootings by officers could begin this month. Police Commission President Matthew Johnson said early Tuesday that he will recommend a process for the civilian panel to evaluate the department's stance on the release of footage.

Despite the department's hope that the footage might stymie outrage in the community, a vocal group of protesters descended on the Police Commission's weekly meeting, chanting "fire Charlie Beck."

Melina Abdullah, an organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement in Los Angeles, accused the department of trying to "assassinate" Snell's character after his death and said the recording didn't answer all questions about the shooting. The video does not show the moment when officers opened fire, and leaves unanswered the critical question of whether or not Snell turned toward police while armed.

"I don't care if he had a gun," she said, drawing applause. "Because life matters."

Abdullah went on to call for the LAPD to release videos from other police shootings.

"If they can release that video, they can release every damn video," she said.

The shooting of Snell became the latest local touchstone in the national debate about policing and how officers use force, particularly against African-Americans.

Beck told reporters Monday that officers were working near 108th Street and Western Avenue about 1 p.m. when they spotted a light blue Nissan that had paper plates. The plates didn't match the year of the car, Beck said, causing officers to think it may have been stolen.

As the officers watched the vehicle, Snell, sitting in the back seat, looked toward them, then ducked "as if to hide from them," Beck said.

He said officers started to follow the car, which slowed down.

As officers activated their lights and sirens, he said, the car slowed

more and Snell got out, "holding his waistband as if he was supporting something."

Thinking Snell was holding a gun, the officers chased him, Beck said. At some point during the 200to 300-yard pursuit, the chief said, the officers saw Snell pull out a gun and hold it in his left hand.

They chased him to a driveway on 107th Street, where Snell turned toward them, Beck said, the gun still in his hand. Police opened fire.

Snell died at the scene.

Beck said a .40-caliber handgun was found "no more than 5 feet away" from Snell's body. The gun was fully loaded, Beck said, indicating it wasn't fired.

The officers did not have body cameras, the chief said, but a video from a nearby business "clearly shows" Snell running with the gun in his hand.

Beck acknowledged the anger surrounding the weekend's shootings and said he believed some of the reaction has been compounded by other police killings around the country.

"We have all seen policeinvolved shootings that defy justification in other municipalities.

I have seen them where I am at a loss to understand why," he said.

"I think that affects what happens on the streets of Los Angeles."

After Snell's death, scores of people gathered near where he was shot. Some shouted profanities at officers. One man complained about police helicopters and sirens keeping him up at night. Others said they were tired of being repeatedly stopped by officers _ "they don't do that in Beverly Hills," one man said.

Graffiti covered buildings near the intersection. "Rest well Carnell," one message read.

"LAPD" was written next to his name, the letters crossed out with an X. On Sunday, during a second night of protests, news spread of another deadly police shooting in South L.A. Coroner's officials have not yet identified the person killed, described by police as a man between the ages of 18 and 22.

About 5 p.m., gang enforcement officers were investigating a report of a man with a gun near 48th Street and Ascot Avenue. The officers spotted someone matching his description and began to approach the person, Beck said.

The man then turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, the chief said, prompting police to open fire. Paramedics took the

man to a hospital, where he died.

The gun, Beck said, turned out to be a replica weapon, with its orange tip covered by black paint or pen.

A woman who said she witnessed the shooting from a house across the street told reporters that police did not issue commands before opening fire and that a second volley was fired while the man was on the ground.

Beck said the officers were wearing body cameras and that the video "clearly refutes" reports that the man was shot while on the ground. Beck said he had not made a decision on whether to release that footage.

Hutchinson said he doubted the release of videos in police shootings would do much to heal what he described as an incredibly deep divide between police and black communities nationwide.

"It wouldn't make any difference almost if it was Mother Teresa and St. Paul that had the video in front of them with holy water and a cross," he said. "People are not going to believe it. It really reflects something bigger, and the bigger is, you can have truth out there, but people have been so conditioned to believe police routinely lie, routinely cover up, wash them-

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Shadily Abdulshasheed, 24, with her son Shaka, 6 months, drops a single red rose at the memorial site for Carnell Snell Jr., 18, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 in Los Angeles, Calif. Snell was shot and killed Saturday by Los Angeles Police Department officers.

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“The one” gets in the way of love

Bees are dying, and you should care

Like many people my age, my morning routine consists of waking up, actually waking up, cursing existence, grabbing some coffee and checking up on the global bee population.

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You can imagine my horror this weekend when I discovered that for the first time in history, bees had been added to the endangered species list; specifically, seven species of native Hawaiian bees.

According to the National Resources Defense Council, the primary causes of colony collapse are pesticides, loss of habitat and climate change — all man-made causes, of course.

There are practical reasons to care about bees dying. We’ve all seen “Bee Movie,” we all know pollination is important. According to the US Department of Agriculture, “about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce.”

The extinction of any animal has severe consequences for the world’s ecosystems. But what if we did not need bees to live? Would it be okay to just let them die?

I am not an especially zealous Christian, but I did attend a Catholic high school, which means I took four years of theology.

Out of those four years, one philosophical concept stuck with me: stewardship. It was derived from the second creation story in the book of Genesis, in which God creates Adam and sets out to create a companion for him.

Before finally creating Eve, God created all of the animals and Adam individually named them: “bear,” “wolf,” “lion,” and so on for millions of species, or so the story goes. The process of naming the animals is symbolic of humanity’s role over the animals: we are the caretakers of creation, responsible for the wellbeing of all life.

Religion and symbolic mythology aside, it is a nice idea. Our role as the dominant species is to care for the other species of the world because we have the intelligence and the compassion to do so. However, we have become so used to being bombarded with tragic news that we have become numb to it.

It becomes easy to fall into the mindset of “Oh, the environment is collapsing? Bees

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are dying at an alarming rate? Well, I have an essay due on Tuesday so I’ll just have to purge that unpleasant knowledge from my memory until a more convenient time arises.”

We don’t have time for nice ideas like stewardship. Deadlines on syllabi are more tangible than duties to wildlife. Also, most young people alone do not have the influence to actively fight against bee extinction.

We do not have the capability as individuals to care for the species that share Earth with us.

But, we have a responsibility to stay informed on the status of our planetary roommates. We have an obligation to care.

Apathy is just as guilty as climate change for the deaths of thousands of living beings.

Caring can go a long way.

A little over 50 years ago, there were only

The other night my roommate and I started watching the Netflix original show “Easy.”

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Each episode follows one couple and highlights an aspect of relationships. I’m three episodes in. It’s a very good show.

During the second episode, “Vegan Cinderella,” Chase, played by Kiersey Clemons, describes to a friend how she met the girl she had hooked up with the night before. C h a s e starts by explaining how their eyes locked from across the floor of a concert hall and how she felt an instant connection.

Later in the conversation, the two friends muse about how often people must miss out on “the one” because they were looking down at their phones instead of having that locking-of-theeyes moment.

If you believe in the idea that every person has their “one” who they are meant to fall in love with, you can stop reading now. I don’t believe in “the one”, and I don’t think you should either. But, I don’t want to ruin it for you.

The classic, age-old love story always ends with true love, whether it’s a tale of someone finding “the one” after years of searching or a breakup story where someone thinks they were with “the one” only to find the true “one” in the aftermath of the breakup.

These stories are designed to be distractions from the messiness of the real world but can establish

a footing in our minds that changes our perceptions of real relationships.

In real life, “the one” doesn’t exist. With over 300 million people living in America alone, I’d imagine I could marry thousands of them, and so could you.

But, the age-old love story exists with such ubiquity that it’s hard to escape.

A rational mind can declare “there’s a lot of fish in the sea,” but there’s always a little voice secondguessing and questioning if this person or that person was “the one.”

Why do people party so hard at college? We watch “Animal House” or “Greek”, assuming that’s how college will be, then act accordingly. The concept runs true in our relationships.

We watch shows where major plotlines revolve around ideas of destiny, true love and romanticized fantasyland relationships.

Think about “How I Met Your Mother,” where the thesis of the show is that we are destined for perfection in our love lives.

In life, there isn’t perfection in anything, and rarely is there that “aha” moment where love is realized on first sight. Relationships take time, effort and persistence.

The person you call the love of your life probably isn’t the only person on Earth to make you the happiest, but simply a person that makes you happy. And that’s fine.

Real love, as opposed to true love, is the mutual admiration, respect and connection that leads people to make a life together.

It will get hard and it will never be perfect, but in real love partners will work through problems, not with an inspired monologue, but with gradual improvement and a trust that both sides are invested.

Don’t let a doubt that something isn’t destined, or a thought of “is this really true love?” get in the way of real love.

Don’t settle, but don’t fall into the fantasy world trap.

Life isn’t a TV show.

“There isn’t another aspect of life where there is such pressure, so much at stake and so little odds of achieving that best-case scenario.”

“Apathy is just as guilty as climate change for the deaths of thousands of living beings.”

417 nesting pairs of bald eagles left.

Public outcry, led by Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” led to government regulation that allowed for a dramatic recovery.

In 2006, there were 9789 nesting pairs. For obvious reasons, the American people and U.S. government had a special interest in saving the bald eagle. Collegian readers may be shocked to know that none of the world’s 196 sovereign nations selected the bee as the symbol of their country. No one is watching out for the little black-and-yellow guy.

But we can care. That’s what caretakers do. For students, the job right now is to study. We don’t need to be out saving animals one at a time. But when we join the world as academics, professionals and scientists, we can all be stewards. We can all hold up the lives of insects, mammals, birds and fish as something that matters. So today, take the time to care about the wellbeing of the animal kingdom.

That being said, mosquitoes can burn.

Damn the consequences.

Dan Riley is a Collegian columnist who can be reached at dpriley@umass.edu.

It’s actually a very terrifying concept once the romanticism wanes. In the entire world there’s only one match for every person.

There isn’t another aspect of life where there is such pressure, so much at stake and so little odds of achieving that best-case scenario.

Separating fantasy relationships, and the standards of love perpetuated by them, from real life ones is incredibly difficult.

When those lines are blurred it can cause people to constantly question their relationships or to myopically wait for their fateful love to fall into their laps.

When a person is young, often the only understanding they have of relationships, adulthood and sex is from media—whether it is a book, TV show or movie—because they can’t Evan Gaudette is a Collegian experience those things columnist and can be reached at themselves. egaudette@umass.edu.

In the PC debate, both sides have it wrong With the discussion of political correctness (PC) taking center stage in the national dialogue, it’s easy to get swept up by the emotional pitches coming from both sides.

There are those who argue that “PC cul-

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ture” has become too dominant to the point that it is detrimental to free speech. And there are those who disagree, asserting that political correctness is an important defense against discrimination.

While both sides have legitimate arguments, the ways in which people are approaching this debate demonstrate ignorance towards the opposing side’s viewpoint. Instead of arguing the case for their points, members of both sides tend to antagonize those with whom they have the disagreement. Neither side is willing to compromise nor concede that a solution likely lies somewhere in the middle.

I’m aware that the nature of this debate is particularly polarizing and not conducive for a middle-ground stance, but there ought to be a third choice for almost all issues.

Especially in today’s politically divided environment, in which the two-party system has fostered a two-ideology population, the need for diversity in options has dramatically increased.

The anti-PC faction views political correctness as an affront to free speech and

a threat to society. This may be extreme, but the group has a point that the other side often refuses to acknowledge: political correctness at times goes so far as to stifle a diverse exchange of ideas, particularly on college campuses, which have historically been hotbeds of free-thinking. Even President Obama has voiced his concerns about colleges and universities prohibiting certain individuals from speaking, simply because they hold divisive opinions that may offend some.

For the same reason, there have been countless controversies regarding comedians telling offensive jokes.

Those who are anti-PC have another point here. It’s often a comedian’s responsibility to walk and even cross the line of what is offensive. So is it too outrageous to suggest that someone offended by an edgy comedic performance should leave quietly or not bother attending the event?

I want to be clear that I am not asserting that people should be less sensitive—an argument that some in the anti-PC population make—as it is simply irrational behavior to tell another that they shouldn’t be

offended by something.

Those who argue in favor of the increased use of political correctness point out that there is also a societal threat if the anti-PC side gets its way. They have a legitimate concern that the pushback against PC culture will go too far, resulting in a much cruder, more disrespectful manner of speech becoming the norm.

We may be seeing evidence of this already with Donald Trump being an outspoken supporter and icon for the fight against PC culture due to media coverage of his presidential campaign.

But, for as much adoration Trump has received for speaking his mind and pushing back against PC culture, he has received equal criticism for his un-presidential behavior. Trump supporters may take that notion as a source of pride, seeing as a large part of the candidate’s appeal is that he speaks his mind, differentiating himself from the political establishment.

It’s important to remember, though, that one can speak one’s mind more freely than the typical politician while also maintaining a respectful, civilized tone necessary

“I’m aware that the nature of this debate is particularly polarizing and not conducive for a middle-ground stance, but there ought to be a third choice for almost all issues.”

for intelligent and constructive discourse.

Trump, thus far, has failed to engage in the latter. The candidate himself has asserted that he has the same temperament that he had as a first-grader, priding himself in the consistency, but failing to see how that attribute is not exactly ideal for the job of handling the nation’s nuclear codes.

I won’t pretend that I alone know the solution, or solutions, to this problem. Still, there’s got to be some middle ground in this debate. It doesn’t seem that way though. Ask anyone what they think of political correctness and I’m willing to bet that they’re going to give you an unequivocal response. But, as with all disagreements, there ought to be opportunities for compromise. Of course, we shouldn’t expect a solution overnight.

Opportunities may be few and hard to find in this particular discord, due to the fact that this is a social, rather than legal, dispute and that the subject matter deals with speech itself. That should not be a deterrent for society today, but instead a challenge to be conquered. How can people discuss the nature of speech itself and its limitations while also adhering to its existing limitations? In the meantime, we should consider ourselves fortunate to live in a country that celebrates free speech and maybe try doing a little more listening.

Joe Carnovale is a Collegian contributor and can be reached at jcarnovale@umass.edu.

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A conversation with Amherst’s Where’s Walden?

By Lauren Crociati Collegian Staff

Local band Where’s Walden? is an emerging force in the University of Massachusetts music scene, with three out of the four members being students.

The group categorizes itself as part of the postpunk genre, and has worked to get its music known through scattered performances in the Boston and Western Mass. areas. I sat down with the band to get a closer look into its development and overall style. `The group consists of sophomores Jack O’Brien, Alex Walsh and Corey Camara, along with family friend Cody Lemire.

Where’s Walden? began as an idea by O’Brien and Camara, and after some shuffling of members, became the group it is today.

“I moved out here from Boston and I knew Corey, we had played together in high school briefly, and I had an idea for a new band I wanted to start,” began O’Brien, the band’s lead singer. “Then I sat down with Corey and said ‘Hey, let’s try this.’”

The post-punk band is influenced by numer-

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Where’s Walden?, a post-punk band that merges influences as diverse as R.E.M. and Smashing Pumpkins , is an emerging force in the Amherst music scene. ous, varying artists whose sounds come together to help forge the group’s unique style. Though the band’s main influence is R.E.M., Where’s Walden?

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Alex Walsh, Where’s Walden?’s lead guitarist, performs live with the band.

also finds inspiration from bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Smiths and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Walsh, the band’s lead guitarist, mentioned the unique influences that play into his own musical style.

“I listen to a lot of different types of music. I’m really into folk and jazz, so I try to bring that influence into my lead guitar playing.”

The band then touched upon the origins of their name. “I was driving down the street with my mom and I was thinking of that TV show, ‘Oswald’, and I was like ‘What happened to Oswald?’ and then I thought of names that sounded like ‘Oswald,’” said O’Brien.

“Also, ‘Walden’ is a metaphorical meaning for the darker side of human

beings, so my ‘Walden’ comes out occasionally,” continued the lead singer.

The group works diligently to get its name known by performing shows across the state.

From house shows and performances in downtown Amherst to venues in Boston and at radio stations, Where’s Walden? is a force that strives to be heard.

“When I moved out here, I was trying to play as many shows as possible,” O’Brien said.

“Coming from Boston, everyone who wants to play will get a chance to play regardless. Here in Western Mass it’s a smaller scene so they’re not very receptive to new musicians. That’s why we decided to just play

shows in Bartlett.”

Where’s Walden has played a few “secret shows” in classrooms inside of Bartlett Hall on the UMass campus.

The writing techniques of the band were described in depth by O’Brien, who said he usually starts the process and other members then do their own part to complete the piece.

“Generally I’ll write the songs and bring it to everyone, and then we’ll sit down and we’ll arrange them together. If you were to play the song acoustic, that’s what I’ve written, and then Corey will add his drum part and go over a bass line,” said O’Brien.

Cur rently, Where’s Walden?’s music can be found online through their site, and some of their earliest tracks can be found on Spotify. The group also expects the release of its debut album within the next few months. They will make a live session, recorded at a recent show for radio station WHUS in Connecticut, available for fans on the band’s Spotify account as well.

Where’s Walden?’s next show is in Bartlett Hall on Oct. 6, and the band has several more to follow throughout the year.

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

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Corey Camara, percussionist for Amherst’s Where’s Walden?, performing live.

ALBUM REVIEW

Bon Iver brilliantly deconstructs itself on ‘22, A Million’ Band’s return is a rewarding challenge

By Jackson Maxwell Collegian Staff

Before Bon Iver was a band, it was a story.

It was the legend of the band’s creative mastermind, Justin Vernon, retreating to a remote Wisconsin cabin to transcribe the wreckage wrought by a broken band and relationship. That backstory, romantic almost to the point of being cliché, was what breathed life into 2007’s “For Emma, Forever Ago,” a humble record with few aspirations other than to document a specific moment in time in Vernon’s life.

Of course, the album was a revelation, a haunting portrait of a prodigiously gifted singer/ songwriter grappling with self-imposed isolation.

Selling over 500,000 copies by 2013, “For Emma, Forever Ago,” was not just a commercial success but a cultural touchstone, one of the albums that began the years-long process of blurring the line between indie and mainstream music.

“Bon Iver, Bon Iver,” released in 2011, was designed to push back on all of this. Expanding his

sound far beyond the claustrophobic confines of his debut, Vernon was no longer a singer/songwriter, alone with his guitar, but the conductor of a ninepiece ensemble.

A Rorschach inkblot of distant lyrics and stunning arrangements, “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” was almost reactionary in the way it directly contrasted “For Emma.” From a small, isolated cabin in the woods, Vernon had switched musical settings to a fantastical open world whose almost infinite empty space could be formed into whatever shape or atmosphere the listener had in their head at that moment.

Artistically, “Bon Iver, Bon Iver” was an extraordinary achievement. Only as an attempt to maybe stem the tide of Bon Iver’s growing commercial success was the album a failure. The band’s sophomore effort reached the 500,000 sales mark even faster than “For Emma,” and managed to net the band two Grammys.

Overwhelmed by his band’s meteoric rise, Vernon withdrew after touring behind “Bon Iver, Bon Iver,” and began the laborious creative process that would, years later, result in the band’s third album, “22, A Million.”

‘22, A Million’ is just as much of a Rorschach inkblot as its predecessor, but the image the listener is presented with is far more complex and frustrating to comprehend.

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Bon Iver’s third album is fractured, bold and obtuse, but incredibly beautiful.

The effects of fame on the reclusive Vernon dominate “22, A Million,” (released Sept. 30) a deeply anxious, splintered deconstruction of Bon Iver’s component musical parts.

Listening to it means resigning yourself to attempts at catching fleeting glimpses of Vernon’s familiar voice through the mountains of audio effects he places on it on almost every track, keeping up with songs through abrupt shifts in instrumentation and direction, all the while looking for deeper meaning in lyrics that are often opaque to the point of reading like it’s word salad.

If this all sounds like a bit of a pain, it certainly is at times. But, “22,

A Million”’s moments of beautiful clarity—think the luminescent gospel of opener “22 (OVER S∞∞N)”—triumph over the headaches involved, like writing about an album filled with song titles like “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄” and “21 M◊◊N WATER.” Anxiety and foreboding eat away at the album’s core from its first moments.

The album’s first line is “it might be over soon,” while the relentless, mechanized charge of “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⚄ ⚄” is constantly punctuated by disquieting, chopped-up vocals. Though you’d never know that the de-humanized interjection in the middle of the song’s first verse is Vernon saying “darling didn’t love right”

from “Bon Iver, Bon Iver.”

But towards the song’s conclusion, Vernon puts his vocals through a jarring series of effects, which crack his normally clear falsetto.

“21 M◊◊N WATER” is almost like a piece of ambient music. Resting on icy synths, clipped vocal and instrumental samples and ending with sax lines that would give pause to even the most seasoned free-jazz fan, it’s a microcosm of the album’s formula. “22, A Million” is not without the sort of serenity that made Bon Iver’s name, but finding it amidst the mechanized voices and musical misdirection this album constantly tosses your way is tantamount to exploring a thick jungle without a map.

In a way, it’s the same setting as the band gave us on “Bon Iver, Bon Iver,” with all of its infinite possibilities. “22, A Million” is just as much of a Rorschach inkblot as its predecessor, but the image the listener is presented with is far more complex and frustrating to comprehend. These quirks do not, however, make the end result any less rewarding.

in reverse unless you watched the song’s lyric video, it isn’t difficult to detect Vernon’s agitation.

Even the comparatively cathartic and uplifting “33 ‘GOD’” shows Vernon far from at ease with himself.

“I’d be happy as hell, if you stayed for tea,” he gently admits in the first verse, while belting “staying at the Ace Hotel/If the calm would allow” in the song’s sledgehammer of a chorus.

These emotions spill over into the album’s arrangements, a choppy whirlpool of synthesizers, often distorted acoustic instruments and Vernon’s voice, almost never left to its own devices.

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“Obviously you like to get in rhythms, but me and Andrew have talked about this. It’s something that we knew. We are both starting guys and we can both provide valuable minutes to the team,” Comis said.

“Whoever is playing really well is going to help the team out, whichever one of us that is.”

Ford took questions before both Comis and Whipple Tuesday and was not asked about the nature of sharing the quarterback position with his fellow roommate.

Instead, Ford said he’s

looking to move on from his subpar performance against the Green Wave going forward.

“It’s just a long game,” Ford said of the lessons he’s taken from last Saturday.

“It’s one of those games where you just have to forget about the play before, whether it’s good or bad, and take it one play at a time. You just need to keep a positive attitude when you’re out there, no matter what.”

Andrew Cyr can be reached at arcyr@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Andrew_Cyr.

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Unanswered goals lead URI over Davidson

The Rhode Island men’s soccer team took down Davidson by a final of 2-1 Saturday in Kingston.

At just 12:26 into the contest, the Wildcats (1-8) were able to grab an early 1-0 lead. On a slip pass into the box from Hunter Howard, Davidson’s leading scorer, Maxi Pragnell put his fourth goal of the season into the back of the net.

The Wildcats’ first goal and lead of the year wasn’t safe for long though, as Niklas Middrup was able to head in a corner kick off the foot of Stavros Zarokostas just 17 minutes later. Middrup’s second goal of the season evened up the score at 1-1, as the match remained tied until halftime.

Just two minutes into the second half, a giveand-go sequence between Emil Jesman Sunde and Carlo Davids resulted in Ryan Bailey’s first goal of the year giving the Rams (4-6-1) a 2-1 lead.

Play from the URI defense was solid throughout the rest of the second half and Bailey’s

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Commissioner Manfred: HOF possible for Papi Steriod allegations hurt Ortiz’s chances

By Erik Boland Newsday

TORONTO - MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said his recent comments regarding David Ortiz and his positive drug test during survey testing in 2003 weren’t meant as an implicit endorsement of the retiring slugger’s induction in the Hall of Fame.

But Manfred, speaking before Tuesday night’s AL wild-card game between the Orioles and Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, nonetheless still didn’t sound opposed to the idea.

“I would never presume to give guidance to the baseball writers on Hall of Fame votes,” Manfred said.

“I think over time the writers have done a phenomenal job making judgments about who belongs in and who doesn’t belong in given what the Hall of Fame criteria are.”

Manfred said he was “a little surprised” how much traction his comments in Boston received, though he probably shouldn’t have been.

Addressing the media Sunday, before Ortiz’s final home game at Fenway Park, the commissioner said there

were at least 10 false positives during that survey testing and didn’t rule out that Ortiz might have been among those.

Manfred said Ortiz never has failed a test since MLB instigated its drug testing program in 2004, which has been toughened a handful of times since.

“Even if your name was on that (anonymous) list,” Manfred said, “it’s entirely possible that you were not a positive ... I don’t think anyone understands very well what that list was.”

Hall of Fame voters, made up of writers from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, have shown an overwhelming disinclination to vote in players who have been caught using performance enhancing drugs, or been suspected of using them.

“I see a huge difference between players who are caught, suspended, whether it’s because of a positive test or some investigation on the one hand,” Manfred said Tuesday night. “Writers have to make a judgment about what that means. On the other hand, I do think that it’s unfair to base a decision on rumor, innuendo, or what I regard to be an ambiguous piece of information (the leaked names) that was never intended to be public in the first place.”

Ortiz, whose Red Sox face

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“We were going to play Ross last week a little bit, it’s just how the game goes,” Whipple said. “They both are good players so we’ll just see how the week goes really. We’ll see how tomorrow’s practice goes.”

Comis said that he was feeling 100 percent Tuesday after receiving treatment multiple times per day for the past three and a half weeks.

Now that Comis is back on the field, he said he was willing to share dual-quarterback responsibilities with Ford for the benefit of the team.

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the Indians in one ALDS starting Thursday night, had a remarkable final season, posting a .315/.401/.620 slash line with 38 homers and an AL-best 127 RBIs. His 541 career homers and consistent standout performances in the postseason make him a candidate for the Hall.

Manfred addressed several topics during his meeting with reporters Tuesday.

There were several questions about the Basic Agreement between players and owners, which expires on Dec 1. Manfred said he could not answer whether this offseason would operate under the old agreement if a new one isn’t reached by the time free agency starts, shortly after the conclusion of the World Series.

“My hope would be that we would resolve the new agreement before the free-agent market starts,” Manfred said. “There have been years, not this past agreement, but the one before where we actually finished the deal during the World Series. And the last time around in 2011, we actually extended a couple of deadlines in the free-agent market in order to allow us to finish up. I do think there’s a natural deadline there, the idea of operating under the new agreement is an appealing one, so let’s hope that we do it again.”

early goal would prove to be enough for the team to secure their season opener.

Turning away each of the five shots he faced after Bailey’s goal, Rams’ goalkeeper Nils Leifhelm made sure his team would leave the pitch with a win, snapping the five game losing streak they carried with them into the match.

URI looks to build off of Saturday’s win as they travel to Philadelphia on Wednesday night to take on Saint Joseph’s at 7 p.m. Davidson hopes to turn things around when they travel to Durham on Tuesday to take on Duke at 7 p.m.

2-0 shutout gives VCU first A-10 victory of season

attack of their own, putting eight of 20 shots on net.

Gardan’s efforts in goal Saturday combined with another shutout last Tuesday against Akron awarded him this week’s Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Week award.

In the 36th minute, Jorge Herranz was able to start the scoring for VCU on a shot from eight yards out which found its way into the back of the net.

On an assist from redshirt sophomore Eli Lockaby, Herranz’s goal marked his third of the year, and moved him into a tie for second overall on the team.

Although one would prove to be enough, the Rams added onto their lead with an insurance goal in the 79th minute.

Off the foot of leadscorer and last week’s Offensive Player of the Week, Luc Fatton, the goal inside the Patriots’ box was assisted once again

by Lockaby, who totals three assists and a goal for four points this season.

VCU looks to continue their early season success on Wednesday when they travel to George Washington to face the Colonials at 2 p.m. The Patriots will travel back to Fairfax on Saturday to host Saint Joseph’s at 7 p.m. in their A-10 home opener.

A soft offensive performance from the George Mason men’s soccer team allowed Virginia Commonwealth University to put up a 2-0 shutout Saturday night.

At the Sports Backers Stadium in Richmond, a strong defensive presence from the Rams (3-52) shocked the Patriots (2-6-2), who were only able to get off seven shots throughout the entire contest.

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and try to shift them a little bit,” UMass coach Fran O’Leary said. “Sometimes you want to be direct and sometimes you want to knit passes together.”

The improved passing in the past couple of weeks for the Minutemen is something that was absent in the first several games of the season and it could be attributed to better chemistry among the players, but Steinkamp has a different theory.

“I don’t think it’s chemistry,” Steinkamp said. “I think we’re working more together as a team and there was a spell (earlier in the season) where we just worked on possession and keeping the ball and I think that it shows now later in the season.”

Whether it’s hard work

or improved chemistry, UMass has definitely found its stride on offense and has created more scoring chances than they have all season.

The past three games, which include a 0-0 draw with Dayton, a 3-2 victory over Hartford and yesterday’s win over the Blue Devils, they’ve also managed to take 21 corner kicks with four in Tuesday’s game. That totals more than the other eight games they have played this season combined.

The Minutemen’s corner kick totals are indicative of how much more often they’ve been playing in their opponent’s half of the field, and that trend continued today.

“Even on defense we’re picking off passes in

[CCSU’s] half of the field,” Gonclaves said. “It’s a lot less running, so definitely more fun to play in [CCSU’s] half of the field.”

“We want guys who have the confidence to make mistakes,” O’Leary said.

“Usually if you’re willing to make a mistake, probably something good will happen.”

UMass will look to maintain its current hot streak now that it has wrapped up its non-conference schedule and will only be playing A-10 opponents for the rest of the season.

The Minutemen’s next game will be on the road against Fordham on Sunday with kick off set for 1 p.m.

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Minutemen shutout, best CCSU UM finally hitting Henry Steinkamp offensive stride nets game-winner Minutemen hang on to win at Rudd

By Philip Sanzo Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team finished its non-conference schedule with a 1-0 win over Central Connecticut at Rudd Field Tuesday.

After starting out the season 0-5-1, UMass (3-6-2, 0-0-1 A-10) has played much better as of late, posting a record of 3-1-1 in its last five games. Holding on to the 1-0 lead for the remaining 35 minutes of the match shows how far the Minutemen have come.

“I think that we’ve hardened, we are learning what you have to do to win a game,” UMass coach Fran O’Leary said. “I feel that our concentration levels are better and our decisionmaking is better.”

Tuesday’s only score came off the foot of midfielder Henry Steinkamp.

The junior successfully made his way through the Blue Devils’ defense on the right side of the net and shot the ball from eight yards out passed the goalkeeper, Carson D’Ambrosio. The goal came 10 minutes into the second half.

“We talked about that if we could keep it tight, you always felt we had a goal and what a good goal it was,” O’Leary said. “The guys did great, a good combination play and a quick intricate pass and a terrific goal.”

Failed opportunities on the offensive side of the ball forced both teams to head into halftime scoreless. The Minutemen were able to tire out the CCSU

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Matthew Mooney dribbles past Central Connecticut State University during Tuesday’s 1-0 victory at Rudd Field. defense, eventually leading to the lone goal.

“We’re just getting better and more fit and at the end of the game. We’re not making as many mental mistakes,” senior midfielder Ty Goncalves said. “And we’re winning first balls and second balls and not giving other teams chances to score.”

Not long ago, there was a high possibility of the Minutemen relinquishing such a narrow lead.

However, in recent games UMass has done a tremendous job of staving off opposing offenses.

“That’s a big theme for us,” Goncalves said. “We want to be going from the first minute of the game and we want to just wear the other teams down, and we know we’re a fit team and we know the later it gets the better chance we have at holding the other

team off.”

UMass has not let up a goal since its game against Hartford on Sept. 24.

Goalkeeper Jorge Becerra saved three shots against the Blue Devils, having saved all seven shots on goal made in the last two games.

“Overall we are a little more resilient now, we got three clean sheets in the last four or five games,” O’Leary said. “They always say that if you get shutouts, you stand a good chance of doing some good things. We did that today.”

It’s all Atlantic 10 opponents from here on out for the Minutemen. UMass is entering conference play in a much better place than it was a year ago. However, how the Minutemen play in this next month will determine their ultimate fate.

“You know, [A-10 games] are all like finals, we can

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finish high up, we can finish last,” O’Leary said.

“We’ve got one point, that will see us last so we’ve got to find ways to get more points. We’re going to Fordham who are a terrific team, we battled them last year twice. We beat them here and we lost in the quarterfinals to them. So we’re expecting a very hard match and looking forward to it.”

UMass has already gotten a taste of the A-10 once this season when it tied Dayton 0-0 at home last Saturday. This Sunday’s match against Fordham will be a rematch of last season’s A-10 quarterfinals game. The Rams (3-3-3, 0-0-1 A-10) have a meeting with Dayton on Oct. 5 prior to their game with UMass.

Philip Sanzo can be reached at psanzo@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Philip_Sanzo.

While outside temperatures are beginning to turn from hot to cold, the opposite has been true for the Massachusetts men’s soccer team’s offense moving into the fall.

This outburst of offense for the Minutemen (3-6-2, 0-0-1 A-10) helped them pick up a 1-0 victory over Central Connecticut State, and has the team at 3-1-1 in their last five games.

UMass’s lone goal came from junior midfielder Henry Steinkamp, who took his shot from eight yards out crossing from the right post to the left corner with 35:08 left in the second half.

Fellow midf ielder and senior captain Ty Goncalves assisted Steinkamp on the goal.

“I think it came off of a throw in,” Goncalves

said. “Barrowman picked it up and laid it back and I saw Henry [Steinkamp] run behind the defender’s shoulder and he took a great touch and a good finish.”

“We just threw it in really quick,” Steinkamp said. “I just ran behind the defense because they weren’t set and I think we just caught them off guard.”

While the Minutemen have only scored once in the last two games, they have combined for 31 shots in the 200 minutes they have played in that time with 15 coming against CCSU (1-7-2, 0-0-0 NEC).

With the exception of the final 20 minutes, UMass spent much of the game playing in the attacking half of the field. The Minutemen also displayed consistent passing late in the first half and early in the second.

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Minutemen goal tender Jorge Becerra holds the Blue Devils scoreless Tuesday

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Whipple says both Comis, UMass preps for Patriots foe George Ford, will play QB for UMass A-10 Mason to face UM

Both quarterbacks will play Saturday

By Ryan Ames Collegian Staff

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

It’s clear by now that the quarterback situation for the 2016 Massachusetts football team has been its most prominent and overt dilemma the team has dealt with during the first five weeks of the season.

But come Saturday when UMass (1-4) travels to Virginia to face Old Dominion, Minutemen coach Mark Whipple could unveil something he’s never done before in his time at UMass.

After practice Tuesday, Whipple said that both quarterbacks Ross Comis and Andrew Ford could share the snaps in the Minutemen’s matchup with the Monarchs.

When asked who the quarterback this week was going to be, Whipple said “probably both of them.”

“They both played really good,” he added. “Both have had some good moments and bad, so I’ll figure it out.

They both practiced really well today, so it’s a good problem.”

Comis was named the starter by Whipple during

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Redshirt sophomore Ross Comis took his first snaps since Sep. 10 vs. Tulane

“They both played really good. Both have had some good moments and bad, so I’ll figure it out. They both practiced really well today, so it’s a good problem.”

Mark Whipple UMass coach summer camp and played the first two weeks of the season against No. 25 Florida and Boston College before suffering an injury that sidelined him for the next two weeks.

In his absence, Ford led the Minutemen to its first win of the year against Florida International and threw for four touchdowns against Southeastern Conference opponent

Mississippi State.

But with both dressing against Tulane, Ford got the starting nod only to have Comis replace him in the fourth quarter, where he led the UMass offense on two fourth-quarter scoring drives after Ford and the rest of the Minutemen only generated 83 yards of total offense. see

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Luck has not been on the side of the Massachusetts women’s soccer team lately.

It has failed to record a win in its last five games, while losing the last two in the final minutes of play.

On Thursday, UMass (2-6-1, 0-2-2 A-10) welcomes George Mason to Amherst in what will be a crucial game in the heart of the Minutewomen’s season.

The Patriots (8-3-0, 2-0-0 A-10) enter the matchup tied for first place in the Atlantic 10 conference with Duquesne, and are winners of their previous four games.

With four seniors on the roster, including captain Megan Burke, head coach Ed Matz is confident the leadership and experience they possess will help in bringing the rest of the team out of the rut they are currently in.

“We really didn’t have to say anything to our seniors,” Matz said. “They’re frustrated, they brought it in today before we even said anything to the team, and said ‘let’s just have a good practice, let’s make today’s practice one of our best ones.’”

“Sometimes they say things before we have to,” Matz added about his seniors.

Burke, who hasn’t quite found her stride yet tallying only one goal this season, does admit to feeling extra pressure at turbulent times like these.

“I think there is always pressure,” Burke said.

“There’s definitely pressure on my back but I think the entire team feels it right now, so as a whole, I think we’ll get through this.”

“I’d rather lead by example,” Burke said about her leadership style. “I think a lot of girls will watch what you do as a leader and they’ll take after that, so I try to work hard and do my part so others will follow.”

Although the season hasn’t quite started the way Matz had hoped, he’s still proud of how his seniors have handled this adversity.

“The seniors are a good bunch of seniors,” Matz said. “They are committed to the program and to each other.”

“They’ve been good, some of them are coming back from injuries they sustained earlier on in their careers. They’re not 100 percent but they are giving 100 percent,” Matz added.

An all-out effort will be needed Thursday as George Mason is one of the hottest teams UMass will face this year, after the Patriots beat

their respectable conference foes in Dayton and St. Bonaventure last week.

The Minutewomen faltered in the early part of their conference schedule as they lost back-toback 1-0 games to La Salle and Richmond, respectively. Clearly, this game against George Mason will measure the rest of the Minutewomen’s season and will be critical in determining where they stand as an A-10 team.

This will also be the first home game for UMass since their 3-1 loss to Central Michigan on Sept. 11. Both Matz and Burke expressed their delight in returning home to familiar ground where they tend to perform better.

If nothing else succeeds Thursday, Burke highlights the comradery of the senior class as an advantage in and of itself.

“I think the senior class is really close,” Burke said.

“Altogether I think each and every one of the seniors is a leader in their own way.

Some vocal, some not, again some lead by example some don’t.”

“When we all combine and we’re all together, I think we can lead this team in the right direction.”

Ryan Ames can be reached at rames@umass.edu amd followed on Twitter @_RyanAmes.