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Jay R. Lund hosts talk on CA drought Draws connections to town water ban By Elizabeth Wallace Collegian Correspondent
economy, $54 billion are in agriculture, which is “just a few percent of the total.” However, 80 percent of the human water use is agricultural, a third of which is being used for permanent crops such as almonds and wine-producing grapes. Lund said that California’s water production is concentrated in the north, where 40 percent of the state’s total surface area produces 90 percent of runoff, while the majority of the population lives in southern California. “In recent years, even after we’ve built a large infrastructure system, we find we still have problems with drought,” Lund said. According to Lund, California has experimented with altering the demand for water as well as utilizing water markets to diminish the impact of a drought. “This drought we’ve seen movement to groundwater legislation, which I think is going to be very useful to us,” Lund said. He added: “One of the wonderful things about California is we have a lot of things we can do to manage water – surface reservoirs, groundwater, water conservation, water markets, wastewater reuse, desalinization, all kinds of things. And … so, what we’re looking at is how do we come up with a good economical, environmentally effective mix of things to make California pretty robust and resilient?” Lund, along with several colleagues, operates the CaliforniaWaterBlog.com, which according to its website “is intended to provide thought-provoking ideas and information on water issues in a digestible form for a policy and educated lay audience.” Lund is also the Director of the center for watershed sciences at UC Davis, which according to its website, is California’s leading academic institute in water management.
University of California Davis professor of civil and environmental engineering, Jay R. Lund, delivered the 2016 Tsuan Hua Feng Distinguished Lecture “Drought and Global Change – Lessons from California” in the Campus Center last Thursday, Oct. 6. In the midst of Massachusetts’ drought, Lund discussed the impact of a globalized economy on a drought, California’s current water system and the opportunity droughts present to test water systems. According to the University of NebraskaLincoln’s United States Drought Monitor, over 98 percent of Massachusetts is experiencing a moderate, severe or extreme drought as of Oct. 4, up from under 55 percent in the beginning of July. The Amherst Select Board recently decided to impose fines for violating the water usage ban, an upgrade in regulations since the water ban was initially enacted in August. One of Lund’s primary points throughout the lecture was the relationship between a drought’s impact and the economic system of the area it affects. “[The] strong diversified global economy provides water security. So, in a subsistence economy, you’re very worried about water because it directly relates to your economic well-being and your public health; whereas, in a strong diversified economy you get your water security by … that huge network of people around the globe that you can rely on for food,” Lund said. “Also the urban economies in which you diversified away from agriculture [are] much less susceptible to drought.” Elizabeth Wallace can be reached at According to Lund, out erwallace@umass.edu and followed of California’s $2.3 trillion on Twitter @lizwallace2019.
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The UMass Police Department release its annual security report, which saw an increase of rapes at UMass from 11 in 2014, to 17 in 2015.
Rape numbers on rise at UMass UMPD discloses UMass crime stats By Dan Curtin Collegian Correspondent The number of rapes at the University of Massachusetts rose from 11 in 2014 to 17 in 2015, according to the annual security report published by the UMass Police Department. The annual security report is released every year in accordance with the Jeanne Clery disclosure of campus security policy and crime statistics act, with the previous year’s records, information of campus crime prevention and safety awareness programs available. The statistics also includes individuals referred for campus disciplinary actions such as liquor and drug law violations. The number of rapes offcampus reported to authorities rose from one in 2014 to seven in 2015, and specifically the number of reported rapes on-campus remained
the same at 10 in both years. The report includes a statement on sexual assault that reflects where the University stands on this issue stating, “UMass Amherst has always prioritized its efforts to combat sexual harassment and sexual violence by providing both proactive and reactive resources to ameliorate the devastating effects on victim/survivors and on our campus community as a whole.” UMass has a Title IX coordination team to help address the issues of sexual assault and violence on campus, which is made up of members from the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, the Center for Women and Community, the Department of Athletics, the Dean of Students Office, the Center for Counseling and Psycholo gical Health, Residential Life, International Programs, Campus Activities and Involvement (SAI) and UMPD. According to RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest
National Network, “Only 20 percent of female student victims, age 18 to 24, report to law enforcement.” The number of fondling offenses reported also rose from two in 2014 to five in 2015, all of which took place on campus. The definition for fondling used in the report was “the touching of the private parts of another person for the purposes of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental incapacity.” Supposedly, the risk of being a victim of sexual violence in college fluctuates depending on the time of the year. According to RAINN, “more than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occur in either August, September, October, or November”. The number of domestic violence reports dropped from a total of 16 in 2014 to seven in 2015. The statistics for liquor
law arrests, liquor law referrals, drug law arrests and drug law referrals all saw declines in numbers from 2014 to 2015. The amount of liquor law referrals saw the largest drop from 676 in 2014 to 323 in 2015. Of the 323 liquor law referrals, only one incident occurred outside of the dorms. The annual security report can be found on the UMPD website and was emailed to all students. The annual security report included a message from Chief of Police, Tyrone Parham, which read, “Recognizing it takes a university community to grow scholars, we believe every member of the campus community has shared accountability for the success of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As such, we are honored to participate in the academic process and to help foster learning outside of the classroom environment.” Dan Curtin can be reached at dcurtin@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @dmcurtin96.
Harvard professor Trump continues attacks on Clinton discusses exercise By Chris Potter Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Talk highlighted human evolution By Tara Dowd Collegian Correspondent Daniel Lieberman of the biological sciences department at Harvard University spoke at the Commonwealth Honors College Thursday Oct. 6, where he discussed the role of physical activity and its health implications from an evolutionary perspective. His lecture, titled “Is Exercise Medicine? An Evolutionary Medical Perspective,” provided insight into how to prevent
illness and promote health through exercise. It came as part of the Tay Gavin Erickson lecture series at the University of Massachusetts. “From an evolutionary perspective, the only way we are going to solve this problem is to make exercise both more necessary and more fun,” Lieberman said. Lieberman is a paleoanthropologist at Harvard where he serves as the Edwin M. Lerner II professor of biological sciences and chair of the department of human evolutionary biology. He specializes in the evolution of the human skull and in human locomotion, particusee
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AMBRIDGE, Pa. — Speaking Monday to a crowd of roughly 2,500 in a high school gym near Pittsburgh, with thousands more watching on a giant screen outside, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump followed up Sunday night’s bruising debate with an equally pugnacious speech. “My whole life I’ve been a fighter, and now I’m going to fight for you,” Trump said during a 45-minute speech, his first public appearance since Sunday night’s debate. In an address that appeared to rely on teleprompter, Trump said the debate had been “a lot of fun, and I would say that Hillary is highly overrated.”
He spent much of his speech revisiting Sunday night’s debate, repeatedly boasting that Clinton had been unable to defend herself from his attacks. “I was getting beaten up for 72 hours on all the networks for ... locker room talk, whatever you want to call it,” he said, referring to the Friday release of a decade-old tape recording in which Trump boasts of physically accosting women. But as he did last night, he argued that “Bill Clinton sexually assaulted innocent women.” He blamed Clinton for being “deeply familiar with her husband’s predatory behavior,” and enabled him “to take advantage of even more women.” Clinton has never been charged with, let alone
convicted of a crime, and the accounts of his accusers are hotly contested. But Trump showed no signs of backing down, promising to revisit the issue throughout the campaign “if they want to release more tapes about saying inappropriate things.” Trump – and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also appeared – returned repeatedly to his debate-night threat to have Clinton investigated by a special prosecutor for alleged crimes involving her email server. Giuliani said he had spoken with a federal judge – who he did not name – who told him “part of that debate sounded like a confession to a federal crime.” For his part, Trump
recited a litany of accusations regarding Clinton’s use of a private email server. It prompted – not for the first time – chants of “Lock her up!” from the crowd. “Special prosecutor, here we come,” said Trump. That kind of language bothers some legal observers. Wesley Oliver, who teaches criminal law at Duquesne University, said he thought Trump’s pledge Sunday night “wasn’t meant literally. But “he’s said so many things that could be taken literally when he doesn’t mean them that way.” And he worried Trump’s rhetoric would “have a longterm effect on the country” in that “when Hillary see
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