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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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Ryan on Trump: Members should ‘do what’s best for you’ WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan told House Republicans Monday that he will not defend GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump or campaign with him for the next 30 days, and that members should respond to controversy surrounding the billionaire in whatever way is needed to win their districts.

“You all need to do what’s best for you in your district,” the Wisconsin Republican told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning, according to a source on the call.

Ryan and GOP leaders held the call to discuss the current political landscape with their caucus. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden also spoke, the source said.

The call comes three days after The Washington Post released a video of Trump from 2005 making lewd remarks about women and asserting he can get away with grabbing their genitals and other actions because he’s a celebrity.

Since the video’s release more than 30 Republican lawmakers have withdrawn their support of Trump, with many calling on their party’s standard-bearer to drop out of the race.

Ryan issued a statement Friday night saying he was “sickened” by the comments Trump made on the video.

The speaker also disinvited Trump from a campaign event in his district Saturday, which would have marked their first public campaign appearance together.

Instead, Ryan will continue to hit the trail with House and Senate candidates. His October campaign schedule includes stops in 17 states and 42 cities, with more events being planned between now and the election.

“The speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities,” Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said following the conference call.

As to whether Ryan will maintain his endorsement of Trump, Strong said, “There is no update in his position at this time.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have tried to link House Republicans to Trump.

Speaking on CNN Sunday evening, Pelosi, D-Calif., reiterated her belief that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference in terms of policy” between Trump and the lawmakers and suggested that any lawmakers’ efforts to distance themselves now will fail.

“They tolerated all the trash that he dished out for a long time and now all of the sudden it’s impacting their political future so they’re sanctimonious about it,” she said. “But as I say, they can run, they can’t hide.”

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EXERCISE larly barefoot and endurance running.

Lieberman explained that evolutionary biology is essential to understanding the function of physical activity throughout human history, as well as its role today.

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” Lieberman said.

Lieberman spoke about what is often referred to as the exercise paradox – the idea that we evolved to be athletes and yet very few people are sufficiently active today.

According to him, only about 25 percent of undergraduate college students get enough physical activity.

Over the past 150 years, Lieberman said there has been a major increase in chronic noninfectious diseases with a strong correlation to rising levels of inactivity, thus making this a major global health issue.

Lieberman also said that to fight this health issue we need to exercise more and have healthier diets.

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To understand this phenomena, Lieberman spoke about our early ancestors who adopted a huntergatherer way of life, which necessitated frequent movement and a high level of physical activity.

He said that we evolved to hunt through endurance running and that as a result of this lifestyle, the human species adapted to frequent exercise. “The obvious conclusion is that we evolved to be athletes,” Lieberman said.

A number of our physical features, including short toes, arched feet and Achilles tendons provide abundant evidence that humans have been endurance athletes for over two million years, according to Lieberman.

As further indication of our innate athleticism, Lieberman described the evolutionary necessity for humans to expend as little energy as possible in physically demanding environments.

Tara Dowd Can be reached at tdowd@umass.edu.

Daughter calls her dad before death

By Katherine RosenbergDouglas Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Julia Martin knew the right thing to do would be to return her engagement ring.

She’d broken off with her boyfriend of the past three-or-so years about six months ago, according to her father, Derrick Martin.

When her ex came over on the premise of collecting the ring Friday night, he forced open the door and stabbed her repeatedly before jumping to his death from her apartment in the 3000 block of South King Drive, according to police.

Martin, a 27-year-old from Detroit, tried to save her own life. She grabbed her phone and called police. She asked them to send an ambulance for her.

She told them the name of the man who stabbed her.

Then she called her dad.

“Not only did she call me, she texted me while she was going through all this,” Derrick Martin said Monday. “She was calling everybody, saying that she wanted help. She called another friend and she was panting over the phone, trying to get her breath. He thought it was a prank and he hung up on her. He feels so bad.”

He’s not alone. Martin doesn’t check his phone often and didn’t see the text message from his eldest daughter until much later.

It read: “Call me ASAP.” Julia Martin was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead from multiple sharp force injuries. The Michigan State graduate and human resources supervisor at a local architecture firm had never given her father any reason to worry that the man she spent so much of her life with was dangerous.

She recently told him that she had started dating again, her father said.

As of Monday afternoon, the ex-boyfriend had not been formally identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

“There was no indication he was dangerous ...

I never would’ve thought that in a million years,” Derrick Martin said.

She did call her dad awhile back and ask that they connect and meet in person to talk. Just last weekend, he drove down from Detroit to spend time with his church-going, gogetter girl.

“She never went into that much detail about how bad it was, she was just telling me that they had broke it off and that she was planning on giving the ring back,” he recalled.

The pair went to a winery and enjoyed each other’s company, he said.

“God works in mysterious ways,” Derrick Martin said. “He must’ve known it was going to be my last time to see her.”

Julia was the adventurous and ambitious type, her father said. Once she graduated college, she took a human resources job in Houston because she was always looking for ways to challenge herself, like recently obtaining a certificate in her field that led to a raise, her dad said.

“She was strictly into her career, always striving for greatness,” he said.

“She was never satisfied being stuck in one position, she always tried to get higher and higher and higher.”

Julia Martin just received her passport for a New Year’s trip she was planning to Africa, her dad said. She traveled all over the country and hoped to one day live and work in New York City. After living far away in Houston, her family was happy she was living in Chicago, close by.

She had a little sister, Jasmin Martin, 22. Her mother died two years ago, from heart complications, after 20 years of marriage, Derrick Martin said. The day they buried his wife, Jasmin told her dad she was pregnant.

Derrick Martin also has recently buried his mother, father and brother.

He’s having Julia’s body moved back to Detroit for burial. Now, Jasmin and her son, Cameron, are the only close family Derrick Martin has left.

“I just pray, I just ask God to give me strength,” he said. “It’s like he keeps taking people that’s close to me and I don’t know why. You can’t question God, you just figure there’s a plan. And you pray.”

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Clinton is elected, and I believe she will be, I think it undermines her legitimacy.”

Much of the rest of Trump’s speech reprised familiar promises, including Trump’s pledge to bring back steel jobs to the Pittsburgh region. “We’re going to start making things in America again. And we’re going to start making things in Pennsylvania again,” he said.

Trump ascribed the disappearance of those jobs to global trade deals, a premise that many economists reject. But whatever the merits of his diagnosis, Trump professed allegiance with the workers who’d once held those jobs.

“I’m not proud of everything that I’ve done in my life,” he said. “But I’m proud that I’ve always treated the blue collar workers that make this country run with tremendous respect.”

Monday’s appearance came in the wake of defections by some high-profile Republicans from Trump’s banner, including Arizona Sen. (and 2008 presidential nominee) John McCain and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.

But the crowd inside responded enthusiastically and members of the audience _ at least one of whom wielded a “Trump That B _ “ sign _ seemed to take the coarse language used in the leaked videotape in stride.

Five hours before Trump took the stage, hundreds were lined up on the street outside, where a clutch of young men chanted “Trump! Trump! Trump!” at passing traffic, along with an occasional vulgar chant about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

“I am absolutely voting for him,” said Ambridge resident Joann Crano. “Most of my family changed from

Democrat to Republican this spring to vote for him.”

Crano, whose T-shirt read “Gun-toting deplorable Christian women vote Trump,” said she’d admired Trump for “his honesty. He’s not your typical insider.”

Like others in line, Crano said she was pleased with Trump’s performance in a “town hall” style debate Sunday night: She called it “1000 percent better than his first one. I think he was nervous: He’s never been in this ring before.”

She also said she was satisfied with his handling of questions about a decadeold tape that surfaced on Friday. In the tape, Trump can be heard boasting about accosting women.

“Was that appropriate?

No,” Crano said. “But I don’t think that’s the person he is. I think he was trying to be one of the guys.”

Sen. Hillary Clinton attacks Trump day after debate

By David Jesse Detroit Free Press

DETROIT — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wasted little time Monday in attacking her Republican opponent _ using her Wayne State University appearance to rebut a number of Donald Trump’s claims during their second debate Sunday night.

“Anybody see that debate last night? (You’ve) never seen anything like that,” she said seconds after a beyond-capacity crowd roared their welcome at the Matthaei Center in Midtown Detroit.

“Donald Trump spent his time attacking when he should have been apologizing.”

She went on to use words like “bizarre” to describe the Republican nominee’s various claims throughout the debate.

What she didn’t directly address was Trump’s controversial comments about sexually assaulting women that were captured on video and audio in 2005 and became public Friday.

The first speaker of the event _ Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan _ took a sly shot at Trump’s reference to his comments being simply locker room talk.

“Hillary is speaking for all the people who aren’t in those country club locker rooms.”

Clinton told the crowd that her campaign is “winning more and more support not just from independents but also

Republicans.”

Since the release of the 2005 tape, a number of Republicans _ including former presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain and Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley _ have withdrawn their endorsements, but have said they will still not vote for Clinton.

Detroit resident Barry Marshall, 47, of Detroit, said after the speech he wished Clinton has spent more time on Trump’s treatment of women.

“I don’t think there’s anyone out there who believes him when he says he’s changed and is a different person,” Marshall said.

“My dad always told me that who you were when you thought no one was looking was who you really were. He’s a sexist pig _ and there’s no way around that.”

The one controversy Clinton spent time on was Trump’s taxes. The New York Times reported Trump took a nearly $916 million loss in 1995 and likely hasn’t paid federal income tax since.

That didn’t sit well with Clinton.

“I believe everyone in this room has paid more income tax than (Trump) has,” she said.

After attacking Trump, Clinton made sure to feed red meat to her crowd _ made up of college students and union workers.

She took Trump to task for his companies’ business practices, including buying cheap steel from China to

“build his skyscrapers.”

“I do have some advice for Donald Trump: He wants to make America great again. Start by buying American steel,” she said.

She also reiterated her support for making college tuition free for families earning les than $125,000.

That drew a loud cheer, including from Danielle Marcus, 19, a sophomore at Wayne State.

“We pay way too much for college,” she said. “You have to take out huge loans and then you are in debt forever. It can really ruin your life. I think college should be like high school and be free, at least for those who don’t make very much money.”

Monday’s visit was Clinton’s first appearance in Michigan since Aug. 11, when she gave a speech on jobs and the economy in Warren.

She has sent a flock of surrogates to speak on her behalf in recent weeks, including her husband, former President Bill Clinton; her daughter, Chelsea Clinton; vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Holton, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who was a Democratic candidate for president until dropping out after the Iowa caucuses. Bernie Sanders made several stops in Michigan last week campaigning for her.

Trump has made has been in Michigan five times since he was nominated.

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Paul Ryan dumps French TV station hacked by Russia Trump, splits GOP

By Tim Johnson McClatchy Washington Bureau

By Mark Z. Barabak and Lisa Mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Republicans faced a deepening split in their ranks Monday as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan declared he would no longer defend Donald Trump and instead focus the last four weeks of the presidential campaign on preserving the GOP’s majority in Congress.

He urged fellow lawmakers to do whatever is necessary to win Nov. 8, effectively declaring every man and woman for themselves.

Ryan drew an immediate backlash, on Capitol Hill and at the party’s grass roots, as loyalists were stunned the top elected Republican in the country was cutting loose the GOP standard-bearer a scant 29 days before the election.

Trump responded with a slap on Twitter. “Paul Ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee,” Trump wrote.

Supporters were equally aggrieved.

“I’m so proud of everyone in this room. You didn’t run,” said Ron Howard, a military veteran who introduced Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, at a rally in North Carolina.

“The rest of the Republican establishment are running away from the sound of gunfire.”

The backbiting, a day after Trump and Hillary Clinton waged a searing, insult-filled debate, underscored the bind facing the GOP and its leaders, who had come around to Trump’s candidacy with varying degrees of enthusiasm.

The choice amounts to rejecting the candidate chosen by voters and risk the party’s base staying home out of pique, or continuing to embrace Trump – overlooking his offensive behavior – and possibly alienate women and other swing voters who can make a difference in close House and Senate contests.

“Republicans made a deal with the devil, and when you make a deal with the devil you end up in hell,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican strategist in Sacramento, Calif., and longtime Trump skeptic.

The move by Ryan, who has been distinctly cool toward Trump, reflected a growing sense of panic among Republicans that their nominee was not only fated to lose the presidential race but could face the kind of landslide that would drag many GOP candidates down with him.

A NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey conducted over the weekend, before Sunday night’s debate, showed Clinton pulling out to a 52 percent-38 percent lead over Trump. In a fourway match-up including Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Clinton led by 11 percentage points.

The survey was in line with other polls that showed support for Trump slipping even before a 2005 video surfaced on Friday, showing him boasting that his celebrity allows him to grope and kiss women against their will.

More worrisome on Capitol Hill, likely voters sided with Democrats, 49 percent to 42 percent, when asked which party they would prefer in control of Congress. The result is up from a 3-point Democratic advantage last month.

Democrats could retake control of the Senate if

Clinton is elected and they gain four seats, a goal that seems well within reach.

(Her vice presidential running mate, Tim Kaine, could cast a tie-breaking vote.) If Trump is elected, Democrats would need to gain five seats.

Democrats would need to pick up 30 House seats to take control, a number that has seemed far beyond their capacity until civil war broke out within the GOP. Dozens of party leaders and elected officials either rescinded their endorsement of Trump or said they would not vote for him after the tawdry video surfaced.

In Sunday night’s debate Trump apologized for the remarks and characterized them as “locker room” talk that belied his true feelings.

Ryan cut his ties to Trump in a Monday morning conference call with GOP lawmakers, telling Republicans they should “do what’s best for you in your district,” according to a participant who was granted anonymity to discuss the private session.

The Wisconsin lawmaker said he would not defend Trump or campaign with him for the remainder of the election.

About a dozen members spoke up on the call, and most disagreed with the speaker.

“The best way to ensure a Republican majority in the House is to make Donald Trump the most successful candidate we can make him,” one of the participants, Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, said in an interview afterward. “The idea that running from him strengthens that, I don’t buy that strategy.”

A Clinton spokeswoman scoffed at Ryan’s decision.

“There was a time where they could have spoken out.

That time was this summer,” Jennifer Palmieri told reporters traveling with Clinton to a campaign stop in Detroit. “Obviously it’s too late now.”

Some Trump supporters suggested they might punish Republicans who back away from him now.

“A lot of the politicians are trying to protect their future of getting elected and not necessarily protecting the future of the United States,” said Gary Burgess, a 65-year-old engineer from Charlotte who came to the Pence rally in a converted warehouse now used for concerts and theater.

Appearing on cable TV before the rally, the vice presidential hopeful insisted he was fully behind Trump after initially refusing to defend his sexually aggressive and predatory comments.

“It is absolutely false to think at any time we considered dropping off this ticket,” Pence said on CNN. “I look forward to campaigning shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump.”

He also said he accepted Trump’s explanation that talk of forcing himself on woman and grabbing their crotch was only talk. “He said it is not something he has done,” Pence said. “He made it clear last night.”

Pence also waved away Trump’s statement during the debate repudiating Pence’s position on the civil war in Syria _ a potential U.S. military response to Russia’s involvement _ blaming the discrepancy on the way the question was asked.

He said both men support establishing “safe zones” in Syria to protect civilians and using military resources for that effort.

WASHINGTON — Russian state hackers pretending to be Islamic jihadists sought to take down a French television channel last year, a news report said Monday, the latest sign that Moscow may be willing to conduct cyber sabotage as part of its tussle with the West.

A BBC report said Russian hackers sought not only to cripple but also to destroy the TV5Monde channel in a cyberattack in April 2015.

The attack succeeded in taking part of the channel off the air for at least three hours, and TV5Monde Director General Yves Bigot said the goal of the attack was bigger.

“We were a couple of hours from having the whole station gone for good,” Bigot told the BBC, saying the damage came to more than $5.5 million.

The report raises increasingly urgent questions about escalating Russian cyberattacks designed to inflict political or economic damage on Western powers.

The U.S. government accused Russia last Friday of launching cyberattacks on American political parties and institutions to interfere with the Nov. 8 elections.

While the U.S. government had blamed China, Iran and North Korea in previous cyberattacks, the charge against Russia marked the first time Washington had

said an attack meddled directly with governance.

“We see what seem to be disruptive attacks, where they don’t seem to care if they are detected or they want to be detected,” said Adam Segal, an expert on emerging technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a research center.

One cybersecurity researcher suggested that Russia may be pleased to have the veil ripped off some of its secret cyber activities.

“Moscow probably responded to the statement in a positive sense. This shows that Russia is a capable state,” said Laura Galante, an expert on Russian cyber capabilities and director of intelligence at FireEye, a Milpitas, California, company that is one of the fastest-growing U.S. cybersecurity firms.

The group that cyber forensic specialists say is behind the TV5Monde attack has been dubbed APT28, or Fancy Bear, a Russian hacking group that has targeted European security organizations, media and specific journalists. A different and more sophisticated hacking group, called APT29, or Cozy Bear, has its origins in another branch of Russian intelligence, they say.

Fancy Bear is believed to have hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers earlier this year.

Bigot told the BBC that the hacking team had first pen-

etrated his network’s computers on Jan. 23, 2015, then created tailored malicious software to destroy specific encoder systems and hardware deployed by the network.

Custom-designed software able to destroy physical systems is the hallmark of cyber teams sponsored by nations such as the United States, Israel, Russia and China.

The attackers defaced the TV5Monde website and placed an image of a disguised jihadist with a black-andwhite checked keffiyah and the words “Cyber Caliphate,” a group set up by the Islamic State.

“We saw this as the first foray into an active false flag operation,” Galante said, using the espionage term for one side in a conflict disguising itself as a different party.

“This was not long after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, and it served as a laboratory.”

Galante, who previously held posts in the State and Defense departments, said Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to regain glory for a powerful Russia and that the state-backed hacking teams sought to cause political damage and rifts between Western countries that might stymie Russian interests.

A cyber forensics expert based in Berlin, Kimberly Zenz, said there was confirmed Russian presence on the French network’s system.

“APT28 software (a ver-

sion of Sofacy/Pawn Storm) does appear to have definitely been active on TV5Monde networks,” she said in an email, noting that the attribution to Russian hackers is not yet ironclad.

She noted that news of the hack was far more sedate when it occurred.

“Now, a year later, when the political situation has changed, it is covered again with a different tone and level of concern. In hindsight the TV5Monde could be viewed as an early escalation in the Western information space and therefore worthy of revisiting with greater alarm, but the facts of the actual attack remain the same,” Zenz said.

Russia views cyber conflict in a different light from the West, she said, seeing a realm of information warfare “that encompasses online attacks, online attacks with a kineticreal life result, communications and, most relevant here, efforts to control and create narratives.”

Pressure will build to establish global rules as economic and political sabotage in the digital realm increases in magnitude, Segal said.

“It is unclear if an attack causes widespread economic disruption how a state will respond,” said Segal, author of “The Hacked World Order,” a book released earlier this year. “You want to have states have some sense of where the red lines are.”

DA mulls charges after Sikh beating

By Veronica Rocha Los Angeles Times

RICHMOND, Ca — Sikh community leaders are urging that hate crime charges be filed against two men who were arrested on suspicion of severely beating a Sikh man in Richmond, Calif., last month and cutting off some of his hair.

Maan Singh Khalsa, 41, was attacked in what Sikh leaders say was a hate-motivated assaulted directed at Khalsa’s religious beliefs and ethnicity. Khalsa wears a turban and maintains his hair and beard unshorn as part of his Sikh faith. During the Sept. 25 attack, Sikh leaders said, Khalsa’s attackers yelled, “Cut his hair, cut his (expletive) hair,” then used a knife to chop off a fistful of his mane.

“He hadn’t done anything wrong,” said Harsimran Kaur, legal director for the Sikh Coalition.

Dustin Albarado, 25, of Ponchatoula, La., and Chase Little, 31, of Beaumont, Texas, were arrested after the attack, according to Richmond Police Lt. Felix Tan. The Sikh Coalition sent

a letter to police and the Contra Costa County District Attorney asking that they investigate the incident as a hate crime.

“Targeting a Sikh’s turban and hair is analogous to targeting a Jew’s yarmulke or a Muslim’s hijab,” the coalition wrote.

The district attorney’s office is investigating Khalsa’s case, and no charges have been filed against Albarado and Little.

“The Richmond Police Department is following leads regarding (additional) participants, who witnessed events and/or were directly involved,” Deputy District Attorney Simon O’Connell said.

A decision on charges could be made by Wednesday, he said.

Khalsa, who is of South Asian ancestry, was driving home on the night of the attack and stopped at a red light in Richmond, about half a mile from his home, according to the letter. A man in a white Ford F-150, which was occupied by at least five other men, allegedly threw a beer can at his car.

Khalsa rolled down

his window to talk to the man, but truck passengers responded with profanity, the coalition said. The men exited the truck and walked toward Khalsa, who then drove out of the intersection just as the light turned green.

Khalsa called 911 to report the attack. But his window was still partially rolled down. At the next red light, the men got out of the truck and attacked him through the window, the coalition said. The men knocked off his turban, hit his face several times, pulled his head out of the window and cut his hair, the coalition said.

According to the coalition, the men could be heard shouting “Cut his hair” on a 911 recording.

Khalsa managed to drive to a gas station, where he waited for police.

“Although Mr. Khalsa explained that he believed his attackers were motivated by bias, the officers appeared dubious,” the coalition wrote in its letter.

Khalsa suffered a swollen black eye, dental damage and cuts, and his finger was injured to the point of infection and may require ampu-

tation, Kaur said. He will also require root canal surgeries, she said.

“The attackers caused physical injuries and deep harm when they targeted my Sikh faith,” Khalsa said in a statement. “I urge a thorough investigation so we can address the tide of violence and bigotry in this country.”

Khalsa, who is a U.S. citizen, has been living with his family in Contra Costa County for seven years.

He works as an information technology specialist for the Social Security Administration as a well as a certified caregiver for the elderly.

The attack and other assaults across the U.S. have sparked fear within the large Sikh community in Richmond.

In 2012, six Sikh worshipers were killed when a neoNazi walked into a temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and opened fire.

“No one should be targeted,” Kaur said. “No community should be targeted.

It certainly adds fear for the broader community.”

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Learning how to die as a black woman

Professor Cornel West put it bluntly when giving a speech in front of an audience of hundreds at Smith College this past February.

Elisheva Azarael “I want you all to know you are in this class to learn how to die,” he said.

Not long ago, a Latino friend of mine was coming out of a bar and was stopped by an Amherst police officer. I’m unsure of what exactly transpired between the two of them because I wasn’t there. But his story was that, as a result of whatever verbal altercation transpired, the officer threw him against the hood of the police car and ultimately damaged his shoulder.

And, go figure, no window was opened for a complaint to be made against the officer. Instead, my friend was charged with disorderly conduct.

I frequently think of the procedure that establishments are now teaching people about how to avoid getting shot dead in an encounter with the authorities.

If you’re walking, hands go up, get down with your face flat to the ground and answer every question you’re asked. If you’re in your car, place hands firmly on the wheel, answer every question you’re asked and whatever

you do, don’t move.

There is a two-page how-to in the Massachusetts Driver’s Manual about how to interact when stopped by a police officer.

Coincidentally, the eighth bullet of the “General Guidelines if You Are Stopped by a Police Officer” – yes, that’s exactly what it’s called – instructs drivers to have their information ready before the officer approaches the car. The video of Philando Castille, who was just shot dead this past summer while reaching in his pocket for his information, exemplifies this “guideline” and shows how quickly – and sometimes unjustly – law enforcement follow this procedure.

Professor Joy Hayward– Jansen of University of Massachusetts Amherst English department said that often, whenever stories such as these ones come up, people are first asking themselves, “what did they do to end up getting killed?”

And, of course, this takes accountability off of the perpetrator. Something about it sounds similar to the issue of sexual assault. How often are there signs hanging up on walls on how to avoid getting assaulted, rather than signs hanging

up teaching people how to not assault other people?

“Increase of prosecuting police officers is going to help,” Hayward-Jansen said, At one time, I was one of those who thought it only the black man’s problem. I was wrong, dead wrong. Before seeing West, I had never been pulled over but had heard about Sandra Bland of Prairie View, Texas story. Take a moment to read about Aiyana

even if they were only witnesses. (Aiyana Stanley-Jones didn’t even remotely fit the “lawless thug” profile. But don’t tell anybody I said that.)

Hudson admits that many cops often didn’t think of consequences due to these actions because they knew they wouldn’t be prosecuted due to many investigations being done by people they knew.

And don’t forget the arrest video of Breaion King, a black schoolteacher, arrested in Texas in 2015 and body slammed into a truck. You can literally hear the bang as she’s being slammed by an officer who looks to be twice her size.

Throwing salt on the wound, the officer driving her to the station tells her bias against blacks exists because they’re “intimidating” and have “violent tendencies.”

Some like to use “black-onblack” crime as a justification for the “violent tendencies” accusation, but the FBI’s Department of Justice website shows that most whites are killed by other whites and blacks by other blacks.

Yet, I’ve never heard a cop use the phrase “white-on-white” crime or call white people

“... I’d rather focus on how learning to die from West troubles me into thinking about whether my parents would hold an open-casket funeral service if that time ever comes.”

Stanley-Jones. Are there any instances where this seven-yearold came across as a “threat”?

Former black police officer, Redditt Hudson, says in his opinion piece for The Washington Post that he decided to quit the police force after witnessing how systematic racism and brutality can be in the police force.

He recalls an instance where a boy on crutches was dragged to a police car by the ankles after telling a police officer he couldn’t walk. And he cites hearing co-officers repeatedly refer to people of color as “thugs,”

Use your right brain Among neuroscientists and psychologists, there is a growing consensus that our happiness is linked to the function of our brain.

Charlie Giordano

We have progressed in many ways from our prehistoric human counterparts, though in some ways this progression has led to a lack of hindsight, as well as led to an overuse of the panic response to life’s everyday challenges.

As a result of written and spoken language, our brains have developed such that functions were split distinctly between two sides of the brain: the left brain and right brain.

Of the two, the right brain is much more suited for serving our true needs. The right brain is able to, according to Leonard Shlain, the author of The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The conflict between word and image, “integrate feelings, recognizes images and appreciate music.”

It is distinctly nonverbal in its method of communicating and performing these tasks.

Have you ever felt a piece of music? Not simply heard it, but comprehended it without any need to decipher the singer’s lyrics, if there are any? Classical music throughout its history did not have lyrics. In fact, I believe the appreciation contemporaries that Mozart had for his compositions was somewhat apart of his greater ability to access the use of his right brain.

We are, in our everyday lives, constantly exposed to language through oral communication, text messages, articles and musical lyrics feeding us other individuals’ ideas. Everywhere we are surrounded by words.

But what does it all mean? Words are abstract; symbols, pictures, letters, all given meaning by invention. We decided what words should mean. The disconnect between our feelings and words is lessening, but that’s not because language is chang-

ing or communication becoming simpler. The incidence of language is increasing to a near constant level in the modern westerner’s life.

Words are inherently valuable.

They have allowed for great movements to occur. They have allowed for real feelings to be felt and acted upon. But what they lack is a connection to reality. With each abstract thing we attach meaning to and grant our conscious selves a reaction to, the further we are separated from reality. We often grow further from our right brain that allows us to feel satisfied. In fact, many of us find ourselves using our left brain up to 85 percent of the time.

The overuse of the left brain is a widespread symptom of a world growing ever more dependent on the availability of information.

This shows itself, in my opinion, in the growing prevalence of depression in American teens and adults.

Phone addiction is a real issue.

Social media is a real issue. While we are more capable of communicating events and verbal thoughts with others in ever-faster ways, we grow more and more unaccustomed to making the shift from using our left brains (which is needed performing tasks like texting a loved one) to using our right brains, and likewise grow ever more unable to emotionally connect with others.

Central to modern psychology is cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, in which patients suffering from anxiety and depression work with a professional to alter their thought patterns to directly change their level of happiness.

One of the practices of tantra is a way of not thinking through emotions but revealing their source within us and feeling them physically. Our bodies are capable of such

“intimidating and violent” after Adam Lanza shot 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 or after Dylann Roof allegedly shot nine people in a South Carolina church in 2015.

Think about what the “intimidating and violent” label says about black police officers, our current President, or even the University of Massachusetts’ own Police Chief Tyrone Parham.

If you think black police officials don’t get stopped, think again.

In 2008, NYPD Deputy Chief Douglas Zeigler was stopped by officers while in his car, and the officers still didn’t believe he was a chief deputy after he showed NYPD identification. At-the-time New York Senator Eric Adams didn’t have a choice but to admit racial profiling is an issue after that. Now, what if that altercation had have turned fatal?

I’d rather just not talk anymore about it all.

And, instead of going into more nationally acclaimed cases like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, etc., I’d rather focus on how learning to die from West troubles me into thinking about whether my parents would hold an open-casket funeral service if that time ever comes.

Elisheva Azarael is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at jsimpson@umass.edu.

Wanderers are not lost

with the use of our right brain. But we often choose to think rather than to feel and act in response to the complex emotions we experience.

Often I have observed, in my short time on Earth, complex relationships between benevolent individuals falter. They falter because society has conditioned them to not only unconsciously disapprove of whatever deep bond they reach, but also because they are “unable” to communicate properly because they both found themselves trying to resolve an issue that didn’t require work and thought. With the functions of the right brain, we are able to observe things with a holistic, caring nature.

Mindfulness is pushed more throughout society. This simple awareness in the western world could go a long way in solving many of our individual and societal issues.

Life is complex but when mentors taught you to “follow your gut,” they meant it.

Our gut knows what it is we need, what we want and what we do not.

By resorting to our left brain when it comes to making decisions, we learn to distrust our more human side that is inherently better adapted to living in reality.

Feel the rhythms of your body, feel music and feel your life. One who masters the use of their right brain’s capabilities has fully grasped the only skill truly necessary for feeling happy on a daily basis. If more of us do more of these things, I envision a friendlier world with less fearful violence and reliance on material wealth.

As a peer advisor at Career a pat on the back now and then.

Services, my job is to edit people’s Being placed in these situaresumes, help them write their tions has made me realize that no amount of training will ever make Ruwan Teodros me feel ready to graduate or to face “real life” outside of college. cover letters and generally act as As I look at these students who somewhat of a guide for them at expect me to have answers, I find the University of Massachusetts. myself giving them advice that I am there to help students take even I don’t follow through on advantage of the resources this sometimes. Here I am preaching school provides in order to make to these students about making it as easy as possible for them to the most of their college expebe successful in their careers post- rience and staying busy while I graduation. dodge phone calls from my mothStudent after student walks in er about applying for internships. and presEventually, ents a difto silence ferent situher, I will ation. Some grudgingare frazzled ly fill out and panapplications icked about and scramfinding ble to make internships for credit, while oth- deadlines even after I promised ers are flustered about how they myself I would not leave everyneed to get an internship at that thing until the last second. exact second because they just I shed my peer advisor persona realized that they’re three years as soon as I walk out the door of into college and have nothing to Goodell Hall and allow the intershow for it. I always do my best to nal panic surrounding the 1,000calm down the frazzled students word essay that I haven’t even and tell some anecdote from my started to take over. I am no longer own life to comfort them. the person with poised answers The students walk out, pan- about resume tips and interview icked eyes slightly less stormy and skills at the tip of her tongue, but shoulders looser than before. a student who often falls victim to Other times, I review the crippling procrastination. resumes of students who think What I’m trying to say, admitthey already know everything tedly not very well, is that I now they need to know, and just want have come to terms with the me to confirm their knowledge fact that I will never have all the for them. These students usual- answers and that all of us, even ly have ridiculously high grade- the exceptionally studious stupoint averages and heavily-laden dents that have been overachievresumes that put even mine to ers since they came out of the shame. Seriously, how does some- womb, are stumbling blindly in one have multiple internships? the dark.

How do people have time for this? Once you make peace with Sometimes I will look at that, ask for plenty of help along resumes incredulously and just the way and stress-eat a lot, you sigh. However, these people have should be just fine. No promises still come to Career Services seek- though. ing reassurance because although they think they have got it togeth- Ruwan Teodros is a Collegian columnist and er, they still need a little help and can be reached at rteodros@umass.edu.

“With each abstract thing we attach meaning to and grant our conscious selves a reaction to, the further we are separated from reality. ”

“... I now have come to terms with the fact that I will never have all the answers ... ”

Charlie Giordano is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at crgiordano@umass.edu.

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By Sophia Liao

2nd Time Around is a consignment-store located on Pleasant Street in Northampton. The store stocks both clothing and accessories with name brands as well as offbrands. If you’re looking for something a bit pricier – think $45 for a top – 2nd Time Around is a great option. It stocks vintage and used finds that cost a bit more for higher quality than the average thrift store.

2nd Time Around is good for purchasing wardrobe staples that you will wear over and over again, but if you want something trendy and of-the-moment, head over to Urban Outfitters.

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A quick ride from Amherst to Northampton is all it takes to immerse yourself in an incredibly unique cultural experience. After catching a show at The Academy of Music Theatre or grabbing a bite to eat at Osaka restaurant, make sure to wander around downtown for its shopping experience alone. Here is a list of my personal favorites that are definitely worth a stop. If you’re headed into town in the next few weeks when the temperatures begin to drop, make sure to pick up a drink from the seasonal menu at Woodstar Café. Nothing says autumn better than a fragrant-hot cider in one hand while you peruse shelves lined with handcrafted soap and piles of soft scarves.

Casa Del Sol This quaint, cute little boutique on Main Street offers the comfiest finds. The store specializes in handmade accessories found throughout the countries of Ecuador and Peru, as well as both Latin America and Asia. Casa Del Sol uses a series of sustainably-harvested materials such as the tagua nut and guayuru seed.

The shop offers a colorful selection of virgin wool jackets from Ecuador and incredibly soft Alpaca blankets that provide optimal warmth for the coming winter months. If you’re a fair-trade enthusiast and want to support local craftspeople, be sure to check out Casa Del Sol. Its red storefront on matches the vibrancy of its selection and is pretty hard to miss.

Cedar Chest Cedar Chest is my favorite store

Urban Outfitters Located in a beautiful, historic building on Main Street, Urban Outfitters isn’t exactly the cheapest option available, but its sale section is always worth perusing. The trends are all here with a hipster HANNAH COHEN/COLLEGIAN Picutured above is Main St. in Northampton, which boasts plentiful shopping, eating and entertainment possibilities for the whole family. edge dominating the floral dresses and denim jackets. This Urban in all of Northampton. I remember trying to decide between its multiple of basics. If you head over right now, Outfitters has a small selection of wandering the store in awe when I scents like pumpkin spice or warm there are some really nice dresses accessories and home décor, but it remains one of the few global retailvisited my sister at Smith College vanilla sugar. on sale, too. years ago. Going back recently, after Upstairs, you’ll come upon a nice Faces also has a shoe sec- ers available in quaint downtown all that time, reminded me of the selection of home goods and dorm tion where you can pick up some Northampton. store’s magical quality. When the décor begging you to return for a winter boots. The store’s Chelsea Roz’s Place holiday season rolls around, Cedar second trip. You’ll find your eyes rain boots sell really fast, so if you Chest is a great store for one-stop wanting to take in everything at come across your size, don’t miss Roz’s Place is a thrift store that gift shopping. If you’re looking for once, in which case a second trip is your chance! The jewelry selection is located a bit out of the way from quirky socks with sayings like “cute in order. offers velvet chokers and delicate downtown but definitely worth the but psycho” and “hellraiser,” check jewelry alike and might be the best trip. There is a large selection of out an entire wall lined with an Faces part of the downstairs area. vintage and used finds. Clothing is amazing selection.

If you’re looking for quick pieces separated based on type and color The clothing section has both The clothing section is down- to complete an outfit, Faces is a good for the ease of shopping. Don’t plan large and soft scarves with beautiful stairs in Faces, and offers a selection place to look, but if you want some- on going to Roz’s with something in prints and chunky cardigans – all to with an aesthetic that can be best thing that will carry over into the mind. Instead, anticipate an advendescribed as watered-down Urban next year, you might want to check ture in finding deals for a steal. bundle-up in.

If you wander over to the col- Outfitters. There are the regular elsewhere. lection of soap and lotion, and you trendy pieces in constant rotation Sophia Liao can be reached at might end up spending an afternoon but there is also a decent selection 2nd Time Around yiruiliao@umass.edu.

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Kim Kardashian, a true role model Comfort and style: the best of both worlds

By Samantha Gonda Collegian Correspondent

A tech industry titan, a social media guru, an entrepreneur and a loving mother and wife. This is Kim Kardashian, a woman who is believed to be a talentless leech in today’s media.

She works seven days a week, 365 days a year. She has a net worth of $140 million in hardearned revenue and publicity.

Yet, she is a Kardashian, and for this she is shamed. All of her accolades tossed aside like dirty laundry because she values exterior beauty and material things amongst hundreds of others.

But this perspective needs to change. The perspective of a

A tech industry titan, a social media guru, an entrepreneur and a loving mother and wife. woman being vain and stupid if she’s attractive needs to be set aside. Because every time Kardashian’s most recent purchase in Paris is discussed, or the value of her estate in California is argued over, time is being wasted in refusing her potential as a role model.

In 2007, life handed Kardashian lemons – sour might they be – in the form of a now infamous private video that went viral. In a little less than a year, she made lemonade through her television series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

For a supposedly talentless celebrity, Kardashian quickly learned how best to brand herself and exactly what that entailed.

She may not be famous for her voice like Adele, or her acting abilities like Meryl Streep, or even her clothing line. But she is famous for her intelligence, her quickness and her clever lumi-

nosity.

After gaining a following from her reality show, Kardashian used her popularity to become an ambassador to several brands including Fusion Beauty, OPI nail polish, ShoeDazzle and Beach Bunny.

By endorsing these various brands not only did she earn more income, she kept her name relevant to the public. And that in itself is the artistry behind the entire Kardashian enterprise: They know how to keep themselves relevant, always being sure to maintain their carefully crafted image.

With 84.8 million followers on Instagram and 48.4 million followers on Twitter, Kardashian has more than proved that she is a publicity genius. Kardashian, who manages all of her own social media accounts, uses her profile to share ad campaigns, cutesy family pictures and more controversially, the pride she takes in her body and womanhood.

In fact, some of her most disputed posts have been those showing off her workout progress or post baby weight loss.

Various celebrities have spoken out against her “naked selfies,” framing them as another ploy for superseded attention in the media. She is slut-shamed, questioned and name called.

One of the more brutal critiques often believed to be directed toward her comes from pop star P!nk’s Instagram saying: “Shout out to all of the women, across the world, using their brains, their strength, their work ethic, their talent, their ‘magic’ that they were born with ... It may not ever bring you as much ‘attention’ or bank notes as using your body, your sex, your tits and asses, but women like you don’t need that kind of attention.”

Amongst the many problems of anti-feminist hate speech within P!nk’s critique is that of

inaccuracy. Because in reality, Kardashian has used her intelligence, strength and work ethic to become the woman she is today.

If Kardashian is not intelligent, she wouldn’t have been able to manage creating a brand let alone an entire empire. If she wasn’t strong, she wouldn’t have been able to cope with the loss of her private life and spin it into something positive.

Kardashian writes her own narrative. And if she didn’t have a work ethic, why wouldn’t she have simply stopped after becoming a reality star? Why would she have continued on to expand her skillset and persona?

Since becoming a reality star, Kardashian has not only dominated the world of social media, she has successfully entered the world of technology.

The Kimoji app which gives fans emoji’s inspired by the Kardashians, has been incredibly successful and has brought in reportedly over $100 million.

By entering the tech world and broadening her portfolio, Kardashian has truly earned the title of “business mogul” that Forbes magazine has given her.

She is a powerful Hollywood executive.

But since an aspect of her brand is her own sexuality, she hasn’t been given the same respect as the other business mogul’s that Forbes has had grace its covers.

Kardashian proves she isn’t just an industrialist, she is a role model. She uses her social media to promote body-confidence, something the media has often failed to do.

At the end of the day, a woman who can overcome a private video going viral to later cultivate an entire business empire and become a loving mother and wife is a role model in my opinion.

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

By Cynthia Ntinunu Collegian Correspondent

Imagine the weather forecast predicts a cool, overcast 60-degree day. Rummaging through your messy wardrobe, you come across the perfect outfit.

With your black ripped jeans, leather jacket, fall colored blouse and black chunky boots, you feel like a true fashion queen – until you glance longingly at your crumpled University of Massachusetts sweatshirt/sweatpants ensemble, yearning for its comfort.

Now you’re officially in a fashion funk. So what do you do? The clock is ticking. Is it possible to achieve the ultimate feat and be both comfortable and stylish?

It’s all about choosing pieces that look and feel good even, at 8 a.m. on a Monday when nothing else does.

Below we have complied a list that offers advice on clothing pieces to can keep you happy and comfortable.

ting gives the illusion that effort was put into an outfit, and joggers do just that. They’re a more fitted sweat pant, allowing for a casual and trendy vibe at the same time.

Pairing joggers with a denim, leather or bomber jacket is a great way to have style and comfort all rolled into in one.

Leggings Leggings are an essential wardrobe pieces for the fall and winter when jeans just seem too stiff and confining. A great place to stock up on bargain leggings is Forever 21.

Boots

Black boots are the perfect fall shoes. Not only can they match with any outfit but they’re super comfortable.

Brands like Doc Marten, Steve Madden and Aldo offer a wide array of selections from combat boots to Chelsea boots to ankle boots.

Tops All of these foot wear options Sweaters, sweaters, sweaters! pair well with oversized sweaters, They are essential layering pieces. skinny jeans and flannels.

Sweaters are great because they can Sneakers range anywhere from plain Jane to the wackiest prints out there.

Oversized sweaters are great Nike Roshe, Converse and because they are basically a camou- Adidas are stylish sneakers that go with any outfit. They offer a casual, flaged blanket.

Keep an eye out for oversized tur- “model off duty” relaxed feel to an tleneck sweaters, “cold shoulder” outfit. Plus, walking around campus sweaters and cropped silhouettes can get tough, so having sneakers is a must. this season.

It’s great to be comfortable and it’s lovely to be stylish, but, as Bottoms Hannah Montana once said, it is Joggers are the ultimate combi- even better to have the best of both nation of comfortable and trendy. worlds.

Sweatpants are perfect leg warmers There are many options out there during the frigid winter months, that allow you to enjoy both, so who and they’re obviously a crowd favor- says fashion can’t be cozy? ite. The only problem is that they aren’t the most flattering pieces of Cynthia Ntinunu can be reached at attire. Having something form fit- cntinunu@umass.edu.

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If you can’t win them over with reason, try yelling louder. Volume usually trumps logic.

A walk in the woods is a great way to clear your head, get in touch with nature and become lost.

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I don’t think children should watch marching I’m majoring in undeclared, with a minor in bands. I don’t want them exposed to so much undecided. sax and violins.

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in Davidson on Thursday.”

UMass loses another heartbreaker The Minutewomen lost 2-1 to George Mason in a double-overtime thriller at Rudd Field last Thursday.

After Alvarez scored in the 52nd minute for UMass, the Patriots answered right back to tie the game and send it to overtime.

The first overtime produced no results but the Minutewomen had a grade-a chance to end it in the second overtime period when junior Gabriela Kenyon was all alone on a breakaway but shot the ball just over the crossbar.

Then, in the 107th minute, Patriots forward Emily Littell scored the

game-winner 15 yards out through traffic to sink the Minutewomen and hand them their fourth straight loss.

UMass did manage to shutdown reigning A-10 offensive player of the week Sarah Hardison in this one, as she managed only four shots throughout the contest.

Babin was active in this match as she had to make eight total saves, doing all she could to keep her team in the game.

The Minutewomen were outshot 21-11, and had fewer corner kick opportunities with three, as opposed to 13 for George Mason.

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

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“I felt like we had some good moments this weekend. And then we had some moments that eliminate the good things we did. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done.”

Amy Robertson UMass coach Izzie Delario continued her strong play as she scored the first Minutewomen goal 51 seconds into the game. It was Delario’s team-leading seventh goal of the season.

“I felt like we had some good moments this weekend,” Robertson said. “And then we had moments that eliminate the good things we did.

There is still a lot of work that needs to be done.”

Hawkshaw added the

second goal of the game from the middle of the circle. Goalkeeper Emily Hazard converted her third shutout of the season.

The Minutewomen return to action Friday against A-10 rival Davidson at Gladchuk Sports Complex. The game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.

Tyler Fiedler can be reached at tfiedler@umass.edu and followed on Twitter @Tyler_Fiedler.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

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UMass will look to climb out of the cellar of the A-10 standings with a pair of road games against Davidson on Thursday and Rhode Island on Sunday. Both the Wildcats and Rams are also winless in A-10 play, posting an identical 0-3-1 clip in conference play.

Field hockey splits weekend in Virginia trip Like so many A-10 teams do, UMass field hockey played a pair of conference games against Virginia Commonwealth and Richmond over the weekend in the Minutewomen’s trip to Richmond, Virginia.

UMass opened up the holiday weekend with a

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2-0 win over VCU behind goals from Izzie Delario and Sarah Hawkshaw Friday night, but fell to the Spiders 4-2 in its Sunday afternoon contest.

The Minutewomen (7-6, 3-1 A-10) were tied at two goals apiece entering halftime against Richmond before Kelly Quinn and Emma Johansson’s second half goals for the Spiders gave UMass its first A-10 loss of the season.

Up next for the Minutewomen is a weekend in Amherst with Davidson and in-state rival Northeastern making trips to the Pioneer Valley Friday and Sunday, respectively.

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

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UMass remains busy over holdiday weekend Football loses third straight on Friday

make it out of the first period after CC scored three goals in the games first seven minutes, 15 seconds en route to its 7-4 victory.

“As a new coach this may not be the worst thing in the world,” said Carvel after Saturday’s loss. “It’s my job to teach these guys how to play the right way, and that goes beyond what you do on the ice. It means how you prepare for games and how you approach it mentally, and obviously there’s a lot to learn from tonight.”

Jonny Lazarus, Anthony Petrella and William Lagesson were responsible for the Minutemen’s goals Friday night, while Steven Iacobellis, Ray Pigozzi, Griff Jeszka and Lazarus scored on Saturday.

UMass has plenty of time to clean up the mistakes it made over the weekend, as the Minutemen’s next contest isn’t until Oct. 21 when they host Army at Mullins.

By Andrew Cyr Collegian Staff

While some students went back home to catch up with family and friends over Columbus Day weekend, it was business as usual for many Massachusetts athletic teams. Whether it was games getting moved because of the effects of a hurricane or another team beginning a new era, it was a busy week for many Minutemen and Minutewomen.

No royalty for football against Monarchs With Hurricane Matthew making its way up the southeast coast of the United States over the weekend, UMass (1-5) and Old Dominion agreed to move their matchup to Friday night, a day earlier than initially scheduled.

However, the lost day of preparation did the Minutemen no favors as they fell to the Monarchs 36-16.

Marquis Young stood out for UMass after running for a season-high 163 yards on 21 carries, including a 12-yard score in the second quarter for the Minutemen’s first touchdown of the afternoon.

Their passing attack, on the other hand, struggled to find any consistency as the trio of Ross Comis, Andrew Ford and, making his col-

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Running back Marquis Young (8) rushed for a season-high 163 yards Friday against Old Dominion. The sophomore has 504 rushing yards on the season. legiate debut, Randall West, all combined 16-for-32 (50 percent) against the Old Dominion defense. Comis earned the starting nod from UMass coach Mark Whipple, but it was Ford who took the majority of snaps under center. Ford finished 11-for21 with 189 passing yards, one touchdown and a pair of interceptions.

Defensively, Steve Casali led the Minutemen with 11 tackles. Defensive tackle Joe Previte added three tackles for losses as well.

Linebackers Shane Huber and Teddy Lowery, safety Khary Bailey-Smith, fullback John RobinsonWoodgett and left tackle Elijah Wilkinson all did not play.

UMass makes its final trip across the Mass Pike to Gillette Stadium this season when it hosts Louisiana Tech Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

College Friday night at the Mullins Center, however a slow start plagued the Minutemen in the back-end of the home series against the Tigers Saturday night.

Minutemen open Carvel Freshman goaltender era with weekend split Ryan Wischow earned the starting job in the crease UMass opened the Greg for UMass (1-1-0), totalCarvel era with a 3-0 shut- ing 31 saves Friday. But on out victory over Colorado Saturday, Wischow couldn’t

FIELD HOCKEY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Emily Hazard made fives saves in game

Megan Burke had three shots on goal

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By Ryan Ames

Minutewomen fall to Colonials Home-field advantage did UMass no good as it fell to George Washington 2-0 on a rain-covered Rudd Field Sunday afternoon.

A pair of first-half goals from Lina Proska and MacKenzie Cowley a mere 6:07 apart were all the Colonials would need as the Minutewomen (2-8-1, 0-4-0 Atlantic 10) dropped their see

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Minutewomen comeback Early goals sink UM on falls short Sunday vs. Spiders rainy day at Rudd Field Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts field hockey team could not get enough stops as its comeback effort fell short losing 4-2 to Richmond Sunday.

Two late goals for the Spiders ended up being the difference in the game. Kelly Quinn of Richmond put the Spiders ahead 3-2 on a penJESSICA PICARD/COLLEGIAN alty corner at the 59:16 mark.

Anna Dijkstra (8) scored one of UMass’s two goals Sunday afternoon.

Penalty corners were a major problem for the Minutewomen (7-6, 3-1 Atlantic 10) as UMass “We possessed the ball really After Richmond went ahead coach Amy Robertson was well at times and our offense for a third time, UMass failed displeased with the team’s is pretty threatening when to put anything together that happens,” offensively. defensive effort.

Robertson said. “There were times on the “[Richmond] Richmond 4 “Our midfielders offensive side when we tried caught us ballplayed much bet- to get through their sticks,” watching a couUMass 2 ter today than they Robertson said. “Richmond ple times [when contested everything and have been.” they scored],” D i j k s t r a made us beat them on the outRobertson said.

“We were not covering the was one of the midfield- side which we were unable to important areas of the field at ers that stepped up for the do.”

Minutewomen offensively. UMass did not get many times.”

Richmond (6-6, 4-2 A-10) However, moments later penalty-corner opportunitook advantage of the the Spiders took the lead ties either, finishing the Minutewomen as their speed once again. Hannah Loos game with only five. On the was too much for UMass to put another ball past Emily other end, the Minutewomen handle. Emma Johansson Hazard just three minutes allowed 11 penalty corners. added the fourth and final after Dijkstra knotted the The loss was UMass’ first in conference play. The goal for the Spiders with game at one.

The back-and-forth affair Minutewomen have struggled seven minutes to play.

But the UMass offense did did not stop there. Just to maintain a winning streak overcome a couple of early under seven minutes went this season, hanging around by before UMass struck .500 for most of the year. deficits.

Down 1-0 in the first again. This time it was Grace UMass shuts out ten minutes of the game, Horgan who tied the game VCU Friday the Minutewomen offense for the Minutewomen. It was

Horgan’s third goal of the responded. Anne Dijkstra The weekend started scored her second goal of season but her first in eight off on a high-note for the the season on a redirection games.

Minutewomen as they shutdefense in front of the net. Sarah Richmond’s out Virginia Commonwealth Hawkshaw ripped a shot into was tight all game and the 2-0 on the road Friday. the circle that Dijkstra tipped- Minutewomen did not get in to tie the game at one. many open opportunities. see RICHMOND on page 7

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“We were late in on tackles and when you’re a little frustrated you come in a little late. We got those two (yellow cards) and we talked to those kids and it’s uncharacteristic, but I think those were just frustration.”

On a wet and windy Sunday afternoon in Amherst, the Massachusetts women’s Ed Matz soccer team was washed UMass coach out by George Washington UMass’ best chance of Weithofer and Daniela 2-0. the afternoon came when Alvarez.

The Colonials (8-4-1, senior captain Megan

“We were late in on 2-1-1 Atlantic-10) scored two goals in a matter of tackles and when you’re a Burke had possession just six minutes, seven seconds little frustrated you come outside the Colonials net to take an early two-goal in a little late,” Matz said. but was denied by GW lead, which ultimately set “We got those two [yellow goalkeeper Miranda Horn UMass (2-8-1, 0-4-0 A-10) cards], and we talked to with a leg save. back for the remainder of those kids and it’s unchar- The Minutewomen had acteristic, but multiple opportunities to the match.

I think those get back into the game, “The game GW 2 were just frus- however they couldn’t capcame d ow n italize on the chances they tration.” to about 15 were given and fell for the UMass 0

U M a s s m i n u t e s , ” fifth straight game. concluded the M i n u t e m e n first half with The Minutewomen fincoach Ed Matz ished the match outshootsaid. “We lost what we six shots, two corner-kick ing the Colonials 11-9, and opportunities and two were trying to do defenhad twice as many corsaves from Babin. sively and they scored two ner kicks with eight, comgoals very close to each The second half was a much different story for pared to GW’s four. other.”

“We have to win, in my Lina Proska got the the Minutewomen as they opinion – four out of the were buzzing all around scoring started for the last six games – or got to Colonials after she beat the Colonial end and outwin four games somewhere Minutewomen goalkeeper played GW for the majoralong the way to give us a Cassidy Babin 15 yards out ity of the half. good chance,” Matz said.

“I thought in the second following a centering pass “Maybe three but we’re from teammate MacKenzie half the ball was in their shooting for four.”Matz Cowley in the 21st minute. end the whole half,” Matz added: “Our goal is to Then in the 27th minute, said. “It’s good to come out, make it to Rhode Island Cowley scored a rebound but again what they were and that’s still obtainable. goal after the initial shot doing during that 15 minI asked them if that was from Proska was turned utes is what we prepared still their goal and every aside by Babin to give GW for. It was just a matter single person said yes. It’s of adjusting defensively a 2-0 lead. tough for their responses UMass showed some and making the switches right after a loss, they’re frustration following the and calling them out and frustrated, they’re mad, second Colonials goal as we weren’t doing that. But but we have to fly down evident by the two yel- we had a good second half and try to get a good result low cards given to the and again we had some see SOCCER on page 7 Minutewomen’s Julia chances to score.”