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Former Labor Center director describes decline of resources Program surrouned by budget conflicts

By Stuart Foster Collegian Staff

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Their website can be visited at wmua.org, and their broadcast can be listened to live on 91.1 FM. Since a letter written by the former University of Massachusetts Labor Center director describing cuts to the program by the University was published on several blogs in early Sept., the program has been surrounded by controversy over whether the University is trying to eliminate the program.

Since then a petition asking the University to protect the Labor Center by restoring teaching assistantships, externships and the employment of part-time faculty members has acquired 4,700 signatures on Change.org.

Eve Weinbaum, the former director whose letter described

being ousted from her position, said that the Labor Center consistently had to work with declining resources during the decade she worked as the director there.

“There have been cuts kind of regularly over time,” she said.

Weinbaum’s account of the experiences she saw as director conflict with those of John Hird, the dean of the UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Hird said that Weinbaum’s email inaccurately described demands by administrators to Weinbaum that the Labor Center function as a revenue generator for other departments in the University.

“The University doesn’t require any units to be revenue generators,” Hird said. “The Labor Center has never been used to fund other departments.”

Hird also said that the University had not eliminated funding for the Labor Center.

“I think that email is full of misrepresentations and errors,” Hird said. “There’s many, many, many.”

Weinbaum said that she and other faculty members were explicitly told on multiple occasions that the Labor Center could only accept full paying graduate students.

“Our understanding was that

master’s degree programs were to bring in revenue, especially Ph.D. programs,” Weinbaum said. “We were told explicitly we could only bring in full-paying students.”

Weinbaum said that when she first became the director, the Labor Center was able to promise first year students that their tuition would be covered by teaching assistantships, fellowships or externships paid by outside organizations.

“That’s especially important for us because many of our students are from working class families,” Weinbaum said.

Weinbaum added that graduates from the labor studies program at UMass would typically go on to work in jobs with low income, such as in organized labor and with immigrants’ rights groups.

Throughout Weinbaum’s tenure as director, the amount of teaching assistantships offered to students was gradually reduced to three by 2016, before being eliminated in the past year, in addition to the externships previously offered being made unavailable.

“From our perspective, that was a major cut in graduate student support,” she said.

Pat Greenfield, who was the

By Hannah Depin Collegian Staff

Though New England’s drought continues, the town of Amherst is not likely to run out of water anytime soon, according to David Boutt, associate professor of geosciences at the University of Massachusetts.

Boutt said that the height of the water deficit lasted from late winter through summer this year, peaking during the growing season.

Water shortages become especially apparent at this time as farmers attend to crops and there is less water available for streams and groundwater supplies.

In terms of water supply, the current shortage is “nowhere near” as dire as it was during the droughts of the 1960s and 1980s, Boutt said.

In 1980, UMass closed during the fall semester in response to an extreme drought in Amherst, but Boutt doubts that the current drought will require campus to shut down. He explained that the ‘80s drought was longer than anticipated, and that the three wells that were available to pump groundwater could not support the large student population after a long, dry summer.

“They didn’t have enough straws in the water supply,” he explained.

Today, Amherst has five wells with access to the groundwater supply. Boutt believes that, although Amherst’s population has grown, these additional wells will prevent a situation

where the town runs out of water.

“Barring any catastrophic malfunction, I don’t think it will,” he said.

But Boutt also stressed that droughts are multiyear events, and it takes time for the water system to respond to changes in the weather.

The drought as we experience it now actually dates back to 2013. Even if it were to end today, it would take a year for the water system to return to its normal condition, he said.

Sporadic rainy days have little effect on the water supply, Boutt explained, because rainfall is immediately taken up by the parched soil and vegetation. Boutt said that most of the drought’s impact has been felt by farmers.

Masoud Hashemi, extension professor at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, said that the drought’s impact depends upon the type of crop that farmers grow.

He explained that crops are divided in two categories: vegetable and agronomic. Vegetable crops include tomatoes, squash, and sweet corn. Agronomic crops include soybeans, wheat, and corn silage and are grown on a larger scale. Vegetable crops were less impacted by the drought this year than agronomic crops, Hashemi said.

Farmers traditionally grow vegetable crops using drip irrigation systems. The drought required farmers to irrigate more frequently this year, which increased their water and labor expenses.

Growing vegetable crops was costlier for farmers this season, but the drought did not affect the production see

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working class family as a queer woman of color, Ahmad said she relied on a teaching assistantship and diversity fellowship to attend the Labor Center.

Ahmad said she was attracted to the Labor Center by the promise of being taught by people with hands-on experience in labor movements, and that the program emphasized labor over management, peaking her interest in it.

“I had heard over the years there were pressures placed on the Labor Center,” she said. “By the time I came there were only a few professors. It seemed like there was this general pressure.”

Hird explained that the Labor Center currently functions within the sociology department, and that due to a decreased enrollment in sociology this year four teaching assistantship positions were shifted from sociology to economics.

The impact of this resulted in the decreased number of teaching assistantships for students in the Labor Center.

“We need to shift T.A.s to where increasing enrollment is,” Hird said.

Despite disagreeing on the extent of pressure placed on the Labor Center, Hird and Weinbaum both expressed opti-

mism for the Labor Center’s future.

“We think there’s a potential to draw students into the master’s program,” said Hird, expressing enthusiasm over a four plus one program, which would allow students to complete a one-year master’s program after obtaining their undergraduate degree.

“It’s always been an integral part of the University and it will always continue to be,” he added.

Weinbaum, who said she proposed and helped plan the four plus one program, said she thought it is a terrific idea.

Weinbaum said the Labor Center faculty are excited to work and described the Labor Center as a place where “students can get the background and analytic skills they need.”

“I think our future is actually really bright,” she said. “I think the resources we’re asking the University to restore are really minimal in the scheme of things.”

Stuart Foster can be reached at stuartfoster@umass.edu and followed on Twitter Stuart_C_Foster. Lucy Martirosyan contributed to this report and can be reached at lmartirosyan@ umass.edu and followed on Twitter @ lucymartiros.

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UMass profressors discuss the drought Water supplies are likely to not run out

Labor Center’s director from 1990 to 1997, said that while the term revenue generator was not used during that time period, administrators did view the program as not bringing in enough tuition to justify its costs.

Greenfield said that people at UMass often looked at the Labor Center as a part of the budget that could be cut.

“What constantly was missed is the outsized impact this program had in the state and nationally,” said Greenfield.

Greenfield said the Labor Center remained attractive because of its attraction to young people who were interested in working with social justice issues, its number of assistantships available and its 100 percent placement rate for graduates.

“The Labor Center has a significant reputation within the labor field,” Greenfield said. “As these folks make it into significant positions, they would reach back and recruit into the center.”

Sameerah Ahmad, a current graduate student at DePaul University who graduated from the Labor Center four years ago, said that she was disappointed to read Weinbaum’s letter, saying that someone like her would not be able to attend the Labor Center now. Coming from a

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Pa. court rejects Cosby’s latest appeal

By Laura McCrystal and Jeremy Roebuck The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Wednesday rejected Bill Cosby’s latest bid to halt or delay his sex assault case, clearing the path to a trial in Montgomery County.

The one-sentence order shot down the only pending appeal in Cosby’s case. The Superior Court and state Supreme Court have turned down other requests this year

by Cosby’s defense lawyers to consider dropping the charges against him.

But Cosby’s lawyers vowed Wednesday to take their latest appeal to the Supreme

Court, arguing the entertainer’s accuser should have been forced to testify and face cross-examination at a pretrial hearing in May. Instead of using direct testimony from Andrea Constand that day, prosecutors relied on statements Constand gave to police a decade ago.

A magisterial district judge found the evidence sufficient to hold Cosby for trial.

Cosby’s lawyers appealed first to Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, arguing that Cosby was denied the right to confront his accuser in court before trial.

After Judge Steven T. O’Neill ruled that it was “perfectly proper” to hold the hearing without her direct testimony, Cosby’s legal team appealed to Superior Court.

They asked that the charges be dropped or for the justices to order a new hearing at which Constand had to testify.

Prosecutors asked the court to reject that argument, which it did. District Attorney Kevin R. Steele was pleased with the ruling, said his spokeswoman, Kate Delano.

Brian J. McMonagle, Cosby’s lead defense lawyer, said he is planning to appeal

to the state Supreme Court.

Earlier this year, the court agreed take up the same issue in a separate case: The review of a Superior Court ruling that approved the use of police statements from accusers as prosecutors’ only evidence at preliminary hearings.

“The right to confront one’s accusers is a right worth fighting for and they have taken that right away from us,” McMonagle said.

Cosby, 79, is charged with aggravated indecent assault for allegedly drugging Constand at his Cheltenham home in 2004. His trial is scheduled for June.

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Russia’s response to U.S. accusations that it hacked Democratic emails WASHINGTON —The Obama administration has blamed Russia for the email hacks that have created a chronic headache for Hillary Clinton, the latest batch of which, from campaign Chairman John Podesta’s account, was disclosed Wednesday by Wikileaks.

The Russian response?

Show us the proof.

“It’s flattering,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“But it has nothing to be explained by the facts; we have not seen a single proof.”

When Amanpour pressed the point, asking whether the Russians deny the Obama administration’s accusation, Lavrov responded with what seemed like a nondenial denial. Or he just lost himself in translation. It was unclear.

“No, we did not deny this, they did not prove it,” he said.

The White House has warned it will be responding in kind to what it alleges is Russian interference in the U.S. election.

“We obviously will ensure that a U.S. response is proportional,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday.

Earnest was vague about what that response might entail, but suggested it could very well be carried out in secret.

“The president has talked before about the significant capabilities that the U.S. government has to both defend our systems in the United States, but also carry out offensive operations in other countries,” Earnest said. “So there are a range of responses that are available to the president, and he will consider a response that’s proportional.”

Asked whether he is concerned, Lavrov waved off the threat.

“It’s not worth speculating,” he said. “If they decided to do something, let them do it.”

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Afghanistanis born into the life of war

By Shashank Bengali Los Angeles Times

The young fruitseller, buffing pale red pomegranates to a shine at a roadside stall, cannot remember a time before the war.

Mohammad Tayyeb was born the year the U.S. military stormed into his country. He does not know exactly why the foreign soldiers arrived in 2001, but when the war came to his family’s doorstep in the southern province of Helmand a few years later, they had to leave everything behind.

In the encampment for displaced people where they now live, on the fringes of the Afghan capital, Mohammad struggles to understand why a few thousand foreign troops still remain, fighting a conflict that seems to have no end.

When he overhears relatives arguing or comes across television reports, he is reminded that it is not possible to go home.

“We follow the news. We see the fighting,” Mohammad said.

“Every day in Helmand there is war.”

A generation of children has grown up alongside the American war in Afghanistan, which on Friday completes its 15th year. In Afghan terms that is adulthood, an age at which boys like Mohammad, who cannot afford school, must hold jobs and support their families.

His voice still cracks. The hairs on his chin emerge in wisps. Yet the $2 or $3 Mohammad earns each day selling pomegranates in the camp rep-

resents the only steady income for his parents and four younger sisters, with whom he shares a mud-walled house with a plastic roof.

The war, too, has reached an uncertain, in-between phase: From the 100,000 U.S. troops who served in Afghanistan at the height of the 2010 military buildup under President Obama, fewer than 9,800 remain. The figure is expected to drop to 8,400 by year’s end.

Yet violence against Afghan civilians has reached new heights as 350,000 Afghan soldiers and police prove unable to contain the Taliban insurgency. In the first six months of this year, the United Nations said, 5,166 Afghan civilians were killed or injured _ nearly one-third of them children _ the most since it began tracking casualties in 2009.

The U.S. military says 30 percent of the Afghan population now lives in areas that the Taliban either controls or is threatening to seize. That has drawn American commandos and warplanes back into the fighting.

In August, U.S. military advisors deployed to Helmand, a province of fertile valleys and poppy fields, when the capital of Lashkar Gah was close to falling to the Taliban. It stirred bitter memories for coalition forces, which suffered more fatalities in Helmand than any other province.

Nowhere was deadlier for U.S. troops than Sangin, where Mohammad’s family is from. The river town 45 miles northeast of Lashkar Gah is one of the world’s most

DROUGHT not affect the production and yield of these crops.

However, “the drought had a significant negative impact on the quality and quantity of agronomic crops including corn, hay fields, and pastures,” Hashemi said in an email. He explained that since agronomic crops are not irrigated, they are more severely affected by lack of rainfall. According to Hashemi, corn silage production was down 30-40 percent this year, and pastures and hay fields did not

important markets for opium, the Taliban’s key source of funds.

British forces and U.S. Marines were first sent there in 2006 and would eventually lose at least 176 service members in combat.

Mohammad recalls little about the start of the fighting; he was 5 or 6 years old then. The family had a spacious house near the center of Sangin, where his father farmed wheat and corn. One day an explosion caused one of the walls to collapse.

They escaped with their cattle to the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, but when the fighting followed them they packed a few belongings into a taxi and sought shelter in Kabul, more than 300 miles away.

More than 1.2 million Afghans are displaced in their own country, on top of 2.6 million who have fled across borders. The largest camp for them in Kabul is Charahi Qambar, where Mohammad’s family now lives. The camp is a sea of squat dwellings rising from a stretch of former farmland at the city’s western edge.

Nearly 1,000 families have sought shelter here, most of them ethnic Pashtuns from Helmand. Like the more than 40 refugee settlements across the city, it has taken on an air of permanence, mud walls and sheetmetal roofs gradually replacing tents and plastic sheets.

Mohammad, who has a broad nose and curly dark hair, sits at his fruit stall along the main road into Kabul.

He watches cars file past and thinks about where people are headed, what jobs they hold.

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regrow as quickly as usual throughout this season.

Hashemi said that UMass is advocating for the use of sustainable farming methods in response to the drought, such as no-till farming systems, which conserve twater in the soil. Hashemi believes that these practices aim to “enhance resiliency” in the face of climate change and future droughts.

Hannah Depin can be reached at hdepin@umass.edu.

John Thune is still voting for Trump

By Bridget Bowman CQ-Roll Call

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., says he will likely still support Donald Trump for president despite calling on him to step aside as the GOP nominee.

“I intend to support the nominee of our party and if anything should change then I’ll let you know, but he’s got a lot of work to do I think if he’s going to have any hope of winning this election,” Thune told Keloland Television on Tuesday.

The Rapid City Journal also reported that Thune would likely still support Trump.

Thune, who chairs the GOP conference, was the highest ranking Senate Republican to call on Trump to step aside as the

nominee Saturday. A slew of Republicans revoked their support for the nominee after a 2005 video showed Trump using lewd and graphic language to describe sexual advances towards women.

“Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately,” Thune tweeted from his official Senate Twitter account Saturday afternoon.

A Thune aide said the South Dakota Republican still stands by his Saturday tweet.

“The video that came out on Friday was to me out of all the statements made, that have come out during the campaign, was more offensive than anything that I had seen,” Thune said on Tuesday.

He dreams of a city job of his own.

His family was uprooted from Helmand before he could attend school, so the first time he sat in a classroom was in the camp. Under a dull gray tent stamped with a United Nations logo, he studied in the dirt with children younger than him.

He got two years of basic education, provided for free by relief agencies. By then he was 13. When he tried to enroll in the third grade at a government school, he was rejected as too old.

He can barely read or write. On rare trips into the city, he wanders amid inscrutable street signs and unfamiliar faces, trying to find an office, a doctor, a bathroom.

Once, when he needed a pill for a headache, he spent four hours searching for a particular drugstore.

“I hate always having to ask people for help,” he said. “I have eyes but I am blind.”

There’s an English course he’s seen advertised that charges about $3 a month. One evening he worked up the courage to mention it to his parents.

If you can afford it, they said, go ahead.

But there were seven people to feed at home, and a winter to prepare for. The season is unforgiving in the camps, where snow collapses the roofs, and firewood, the main heating source, grows scarce.

Four years ago, at least eight people died in Charahi Qambar because of the cold.

Mohammad and his family burned through their firewood and slept in their jackets

to make it through the nights.

He calculated that school, for now, was a luxury.

“Winter is hell for us,” Mohammad said.

“I have to do everything for my family so we can survive that.”

They get little help from the outside world.

Because the Kabul camps are viewed as temporary, relief agencies provide few services. Community leaders say the government denies aid to the camp because it doesn’t want to encourage new arrivals and views the Pashtuns from Helmand with suspicion, fearing they maintain ties to the mainly Pashtun Taliban.

“The government and the Americans suspect us of being with the Taliban because we have beards, wear turbans and look like them,” said Noor Mohammad, a 35-yearold elder from Sangin.

“But if we go back to Helmand, the Taliban will view us as government collaborators because we lived in Kabul.”

Wakil, an impish 14-year-old from Sangin who has only one name, was born two months after the U.S.-led invasion, on the day Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan’s interim presi-dent. He and his family escaped to Charahi Qambar eight years ago, after roadside bombs killed their neighbors.

He earns money by polishing shoes and helped his father last year to build the mud walls of their home.

But every time it rains, he said, they have to make repairs.

Sometimes his

father talks about returning to Helmand, which makes Wakil’s wide eyes brighten.

“We could go back to our good life,” he said.

“It would be much better to work on our own land. I wouldn’t have to polish shoes.”

But one of his uncles has a small TV, powered by a car battery. Wakil sees the news from Helmand is not encouraging.

The Taliban holds or is contesting control of nearly all of the province’s 14 districts. Over the last two weeks, the insurgents have surrounded Sangin and clashed with police defending the town, killing or wounding dozens of officers, local officials said.

Seated next to Wakil, 15-year-old Qasim rubbed his right thumb, wrapped in an orange bandage. The night before, a fight had broken out in the camp. Two children were playing marbles when the adults in their families got into an argument that escalated into punches and stone-throwing.

A dozen men were sent to the hospital and several others were arrested. Boys ended up with scrapes and bruises.

“There are some rivalries in the camp,” said Qasim, the ninth of 10 children. The Pashtuns sometimes clashed with other ethnic groups, he said.

Noor Mohammad shook his head as he recounted the fight.

“No schools, no jobs _ that’s why they fight,” he said. “If these children grow up to become robbers or rebels, who will be responsible? There is a dark future waiting for them.”

Drama to continue at North Carolina’s Senate debate

By Anna Douglas

McClatchy Washington Bureau Presidential campaign drama will likely spill into Richard Burr and Deborah Ross’ Senate debate Thursday night in North Carolina.

But political strategists from both parties say viewers can expect a tamer scene on stage in Raleigh than was on display in St. Louis on Sunday when Donald Trump told Hillary Clinton she’d probably go to jail if he becomes president.

“The (Senate) debate certainly will be more civil. Both of these candidates have been in the public arena for quite some time and know how to handle themselves,” says Scott Falmlen, a Democratic strategist.

Clinton and Trump won’t be in the room, but their presence will be felt Thursday night, Falmlen said. Polls show a virtual tie in the Senate race among likely voters as Burr and Ross head into their first, and likely only, televised debate.

“The top of the ticket is very likely going to determine the outcome of this race,” he said.

Burr, the two-term incumbent from Winston-Salem, supports Trump and serves as a campaign adviser for him, but his personality couldn’t be more different than the presidential nominee’s, says one North Carolina-based Republican political consultant.

Burr is “calm, cool and confident,” says Larry Shaheen of Carolina Political Consulting.

Trump has created a difficult environment for down-bal-

lot Republicans, Shaheen says.

And Democratic strategists say it’s in Ross’ interest to pin Burr down on Trump, who recently declared himself “unshackled” from party leaders and congressional Republicans.

“If I was doing debate prep for Deborah Ross, that would be exactly what I was trying to zero in on _ put Burr in a box,” said Gary Pearce, one of North Carolina’s most experienced Democratic consultants.

It’s expected Burr will try to corner Ross on the topic of sex-offender registries _ an area his campaign has hammered the challenger on for several months. Even there, Pearce says, Ross _ a former lawmaker and lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union _ can find an opening to counterattack.

“If you’re so concerned about sexual offenders, how can you support Donald Trump?”

Pearce suggests as a comeback for Ross.

Burr earlier this week condemned Trump’s gloating comments about groping women and his ability to “do anything” with women because of his fame. Still, Burr said, Trump is a better alternative than Clinton.

Shaheen said Burr has handled the Trump dilemma “with grace.”

There’s likely nothing new Burr can say to reiterate his disapproval of Trump’s past behavior or language but Shaheen said Burr already has appropriately spoken out and now he needs to show voters he’s his own person.

Shaheen says Burr should keep Thursday’s debate focused on three key issues: supporting

the military, protecting national security and promoting sensible immigration policy. Burr may also find openings, Shaheen said, to tie Ross to what he calls failed Democratic policies on healthcare and fighting terrorism.

In the debate, Burr’s goal should be to portray Ross as too liberal on issues like women’s right to abortion and the right to burn the American flag as protected free speech, Shaheen said.

Ross may look to attack Burr, Shaheen said, on the North Carolina state law, House Bill 2, often referred to as the “bathroom bill.” The law requires transgender people to use public bathrooms according to the sex listed on their birth certificate and also prohibits local municipalities and counties from passing anti-discrimination ordinances.

There, Shaheen thinks Burr has a solid retort: He’s called the Republican-written bathroom legislation “too expansive” and has criticized state leaders for letting the law jeopardize federal education funding for North Carolina. Still, Shaheen said, voters realize HB2 is a state issue _ maybe a liability for Gov. Pat McCrory _ but not a problem for federal candidates like Burr.

But, Democrats say Ross has a significant advantage heading into the debate, due to the Trump factor, and can lump Burr in with other embattled Republican candidates.

Republicans, Falmlen said, “are really fighting into headwinds.”The Senate debate will take place Thursday evening.

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Caring for the youngest victims of opoid epidemic for half the price

By Christine Vestal Stateline.org

Before hospitals in the rest of the country started seeing a surge in the number of infants born with severe drug withdrawal symptoms, this town of 50,000 was already facing a crisis.

In 2010, babies born to mothers using heroin were filling so many beds in the newborn intensive care unit at the city’s main hospital that little space was left for babies with other life-threatening conditions.

The nurses who cared for these agitated and often inconsolable infants knew there was a better and less costly way to help newborns through the painful, weeks-long process of drug withdrawal.

By 2012, they had created a separate newborn therapy unit just for babies in withdrawal. Because their treatment didn’t require the same high-tech equipment needed in an intensive care unit, it was about half the cost of neonatal intensive care, said Dr. Sean Loudin, who heads the new unit at Cabell Huntington Hospital.

The next step was to create an infant recovery center outside the hospital where newborns could be taken as soon as it was safe to leave the hospital, usually within two weeks.

Not only would it free up beds for other newborns who need intensive care, it also would be tailored to the needs of infants in drug withdrawal, and their parents.

The facility, known as Lily’s Place, opened Oct. 1, 2014, in a one-story building that had been a podiatry practice in downtown Huntington. The city, West Virginia’s second-largest, is at the center of the country’s opioid epidemic, with an overdose death rate nearly 10 times the national average.

Staffed by the same doctor and team of nurses who treat drug-exposed babies in the hospital, plus a social worker, administrative staff and additional nurses and assistants, Lily’s Place is a transitional care center where parents can visit their babies throughout the day and occasionally stay overnight before taking them home.

Infants receive the same kind of medical treatment for their withdrawal symptoms as they do in the hospital: small doses of the longacting opioid methadone to gradually wean them from their drug dependence.

Since it opened, 135 infants have spent from two to six weeks at Lily’s Place.

And the center has become a model for communities in the rest of the country that are experiencing the same kind of growth in drug exposed newborns as Huntington.

“Lily’s Place is a terrific model,” said Dr. Edward McCabe, chief medical officer at the March of Dimes.

“The care for these babies is very different than the care for a small premature baby or one with a birth defect. Not to minimize what they’re going through, but these babies don’t need to be in a high-cost intensive care setting,” he said.

Rebecca Crowder, the facility’s executive director, said Lily’s Place has talked to at least 30 groups across the country that want to replicate what the center has done, including organizations from other communities in West Virginia and groups from Arizona, California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon and Virginia.

Farthest along is a facility called Brigid’s Path near Dayton, Ohio, that is scheduled to open in April 2017.

Nationwide, the number of pregnant women using heroin, prescription opioids or addiction treatment medications methadone or buprenorphine has increased more than five times since 2000. With increased drug use, the number of babies born with severe withdrawal symptoms has also spiraled, leaving hospitals scrambling to find better ways to care for this burgeoning population of drug addicted newborns.

Until the opioid epidemic began spreading across the country about eight years ago, most hospitals had only one or two cases a year of what is known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Now, a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal every 25 minutes in the U.S., according to the National

sive crying, sleep problems, diarrhea, vomiting, seizures and muscle cramps.

The treatment is small, gradually tapered doses of either morphine or methadone over three to six weeks.

The cost of caring for a drug exposed newborn in a hospital is nearly 20 times the cost of hospital care for a healthy infant. The cost of caring for newborns at Lily’s Place is one-fifth the daily rate of a hospital intensive care unit, Loudin said.

The concept for Lily’s Place came from Kent, Wash., where a similar facility, the Pediatric Interim Care Center, was started in 1990, during the cocaine epidemic.

Its founder and executive director, Barbara Drennen, began caring for infants born to mothers who were abusing drugs by becoming a foster parent. Doctors and nurses visited her home to treat the first four babies she took in.

Later, she said, “the hospitals asked me to provide the same kind of care on a larger scale.” Today she runs a facility, funded by state grants and private donations, that cares for up to 20 newborns in drug withdrawal.

Drennen said she learned how to care for the youngest victims of drug abuse from an earlier pioneer, in New York City. Clara Hale, who died in 1992, took in abandoned and orphaned newborns, starting in 1969, and cared for them in her

By Paul A. Specht The News & Observer

A week before Sharifa Mattis and Tyler Ahrendsen’s wedding, Hurricane Matthew toppled a tree in their backyard and knocked out power to their new house in east Raleigh.

With their wedding planned for Saturday, the couple relocated to Mattis’ mother’s house in North Raleigh. It was an inconvenience, for sure, but they felt lucky.

Their bad week continued, though. The couple returned to their home Tuesday to find that someone had broken in and stolen hundreds of dollars worth of jewelry and wedding supplies.

“Every piece of jewelry that wasn’t on her, they took,” Ahrendsen said of his fian-

cared for at Lily’s Place, a staff social worker helps parents and their extended families prepare their home to become a safe and nurturing place to care for their new babies, who typically continue to suffer from mild withdrawal symptoms for several months.

Infants in drug withdrawal can be fussy and more difficult to care for than other infants, staff social worker Angela Davis said, so each family member is trained on how to care for their infant. Davis also helps parents find jobs, better housing, financial help and addiction treatment.

Once their symptoms subside and they no longer need to be dosed with methadone, the infants are ready to go home with their parents.

A staff social worker visits the home a week later, to make sure the parents are coping well with their new baby. Visits are then cut to once a month, then once every three months, or as needed.

Parents are free to call nurses at Lily’s Place, who are on duty at all times, or visit. A pediatric neurologist holds clinics for parents twice a month.

With a bare-bones budget of $1 million, Crowder said Lily’s Place relies on volunteer work and donations, which continue to pour in. The building was donated by a Huntington family, and local residents have paid for most of the supplies, including diapers,

furniture and clothes, she said.

When they were in the planning phase, the founders of Lily’s Place sought the advice of U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, a Republican, who at the time represented Huntington in the state Legislature.

Jenkins helped them get temporary approval to operate as a medical facility, under a state pilot program that initially classified them as a long-term care center for the elderly and the disabled. Later, he backed a state law that created a new licensing designation for Lily’s Place and others like it.

Now he’s negotiating with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to get the needed approval for Lily’s Place to receive reimbursement through Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance plan for the poor.

Jenkins was elected to the U.S. Congress in 2014.

He supported a recently enacted federal law, the Comprehensive Recovery and Addiction Treatment Act, that includes a provision calling on the federal government to smooth the regulatory path for other communities that wish to open facilities like Lily’s Place.

It’s in the government’s interest, he said, to allow other communities to develop similar facilities.

It would free up hospital intensive care units and save taxpayers a lot of money.

Instituteon Drug Abuse.

When a pregnant woman uses drugs or alcohol during pregnancy, some of the substances pass through the placenta to the baby.

In many but not all cases, exposure to opioids, alcohol and other drugs during pregnancy can cause the fetus to develop physical drug dependence. When the umbilical cord is cut at birth, the newborn is abruptly disconnected from its supply of drugs and can suffer withdrawal sympTHE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS/TNS toms, much like adults do.

Whitney Hensley holds her son, Liam, at Lily’s Place, a medical facility in Huntington, W.V., where newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms are cared for.

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Couple first faces Hurricane Matthew and then burglary

home.

But the founders of Lily’s Place wanted to do something different in Huntington. Instead of caring for orphaned or abandoned babies and those taken from parents by child protective services, they wanted to create a transitional therapy center that eventually would allow parents to care for their babies at home.

By the end of this month, Crowder said the Lily’s Place website would offer a guidebook to help ease the time-consuming process of explaining to others how they created the facility. It will, for example, explain how to create a nonprofit and raise money, and how to comply with building codes and meet staffing requirements to be licensed as a medical facility, she said.

Anyone who has walked through the doors of Lily’s Place knows it is unlike any medical facility they’ve ever visited. There is no hustle and bustle and no whirring and beeping technology. The lights are dim and the staff speaks in hushed tones. Parents wait in silence to visit their babies.

Each baby or set of twins is cared for in one of 15 private nurseries with a crib, changing table and rocking chair. The rooms, all cheerfully decorated, allow parents to visit and hold or rock their babies in private, without disturbing the other infants.

While the babies are

cee. It was “jewelry from her mom and from me, heirloom pieces – stuff she’d collected throughout her life that’s not replaceable.”

Their friends are raising money for the bride and groom through GoFundMe.com.

“She feels violated,” Ashley Thorsen, a friend of the couple, said of Mattis. “They basically turned the whole place upside down.”

Mattis, 26, and Ahrendsen, 31, bought the house about a month ago. Over the weekend, they were featured in a News & Observer story about the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.

On Tuesday morning, Mattis bought doughnuts to give the construction workers she expected to see working on the tree in the back yard.

Ahrendsen said his bride-tobe rolled up to find police cars instead.

The couple have insurance, Ahrendsen said. By Tuesday morning, they had yet to determine the scope of their losses.

“We’re still going through everything. They went through all of our clothes, stuffed we’d boxed up,” Ahrendsen said.

“They took all the wine for the wedding, most of the beer ... a lot of electronics.”

Despite what happened, the wedding is expected to go on as planned.

Two things burglars didn’t get: the wedding bands.

“We’ve had a lot of things happen right up close to this wedding,” Ahrendsen said.

“But we’ve got a great support system here with our families.”

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Thursday, October 13, 2016 “The world keeps spinnin’ round and round, and my heart’s keeping time to the speed of the sound” - Hairspray

Happy Columbus Day: Let’s talk about Native Americans

Well, here it is. Another bright beginning to condemn the antiquated and sunny Columbus Day weekend stereotypes of native peoples. And yet, in the United States and, despite the despite this surface-level attention to the egregious ability of Americans to Christin Howard overlook the massacres, oppression and exploitation that is an integral fact that some cities such as Denver, part of our nation’s culture and very Seattle and our own Amherst and infrastructure, we are still doing the Northampton are opting to rebrand bare minimum to even acknowledge the holiday as Indigenous Peoples the first nation’s interests. What we Day, we are still not talking about are not talking about are the physical real Native issues. issues that Native American peoples It is shocking to me that it has struggle with every taken us until now to even begin day, and we are disto acknowledge the unimaginable cussing why these insensitivity of having a national issues exist even less. holiday named after a man who not One of the most only committed genocide and mass glaring issues in the enslavement of indigenous peoples in Native community South America, but who also paved is that of police viothe way for the unmitigated slaugh- lence. Native peoples ter and both social and cultural make up roughly one percent of the destruction of native people in North total U.S. population, and yet they America. account for almost two percent of We are just now beginning to all police killings. Mass incarceraaddress the intrinsic problem of tion also remains a problem in tribal glorifying the destruction of these nations, the worst offender being cultures, or at least glorifying those Hawaii which has an indigenous popwho perpetuated this destruction, in ulation of only 10 percent, yet indigmainstream society. We are finally enous people make up 39 percent of

the incarcerated population.

In addition, there is a huge issue about jurisdiction in prosecuting crimes in tribal communities. Tribal governments are allowed to prosecute individuals in their tribes, but only up to a maximum of three years.

Because of this limitation, more serious crimes are supposed to be prosecuted by the federal government.

However, the government often declines to prosecute these cases

ervations and until recently could not be punished by the tribal government. In fact, the nonprofit group Mending the Sacred Hoop, citing 1990s data from the CDC and the Department of Justice, reports that “over 80 percent of violence experienced by Native American women is committed by persons not of the same race,” and Native women are “3.5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault” than non-Native women. Additionally, Native children have a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder rate of 22 percent, the same as that of Iraq war veterans, and the rate of suicide for 15 to 24-year-old Native youths is 3.5 times highwithout giving reason. This essen- er than the national average. tially means that violent criminals Poverty is, of course, also a huge are often released, leading to more issue. 27 percent of all self-identified crime and less prosecution.

American Indians and Alaska Natives However, crime rates are not just live in poverty, compared to only 11.6 high in these areas because Native percent for white Americans. peoples are committing them. They Housing is an absolute disaster. 40 are also high because non-Native percent of Native Americans who live peoples can commit crimes on res- on reservations live in sub-standard

“What we are not talking about are the physical issues that Native American peoples struggle with every day, and we are discussing why these issues exist even less.”

Legalization of marijuana is long overdue

Cannabis, also known as estimated to generate $100 pot, grass, reefer, dope, or million for state and local marijuana. Ever heard of governments. This money could be used to campaign Anthony Ferranti against driving while high and what is leftover can it? Surely you have come be used to fund education across it at some point in and much more. In addition your life; you may have to this extra state spendeven taken a toke or two ing money, legalizing canyourself. Cannabis is an nabis would allow for law incredibly prevalent drug in enforcement to focus on America. Even when taking more violent crimes. into consideration its legal- Even though Africanity in Washington, Oregon, American and white popuAlaska, Colorado, and the lations smoke cannabis at District of Colombia, it is similar rates, Blacks are no surprise that cannabis much more likely to be is still the most commonly arrested for possession. used illicit drug in America. After decriminalization of Along with Maine, Arizona, the drug in Massachusetts, California and Nevada, in 2014 Blacks were 3.3 times Massachusetts has a bal- more likely lot question for this fall’s to be arrested election that proposes the for possession legalization of recreational than whites. cannabis.

This statistic The plan would allow contributes to adults 21 years and older the all too relto legally purchase under evant issue of an ounce of marijuana. The police racial main arguments against bias that leads this proposition emphasize to the unjust the health risks of cannabis p r o s e c u t i o n and the danger the drug and even poses to children and teens. deaths of innoAlso, many citizens dread an cent Africanincrease in DUIs and auto- A m e r i c a n s . mobile accidents caused by L e g a l i z i n g drivers that are under the cannabis for influence of marijuana. As r e c r e a t i o n a proponent of legalization use would certainly help of recreational cannabis, I to eliminate some of this am mostly concerned about racial bias. On top of that, how law enforcement would law enforcement will no control drivers that were longer waste valuable time under the influence. In my policing virtually harmless experience, driving while crimes having to do with high is considered far more marijuana. socially acceptable than Compared to all other driving while drunk, so illicit drugs, cannabis is the Massachusetts would need safest. Alcohol kills around to spend significant funds 40,000 people a year in the on advertising against driv- United States alone, and ing high. cigarettes appallingly kill However, if cannabis is over 480,000 Americans per legalized, there will be an year including 42,000 deaths excise tax of 3.75% and local caused by second-hand communities can impose a smoke, and yet smoking tax of up to 2%. This tax is marijuana is not as social-

ly acceptable as drinking.

No one has ever overdosed from cannabis consumption because it is impossible to do so, so why is cannabis illegal if it is so much safer than alcohol and cigarettes?

The reason dates back to a man named Harry Anslinger. In 1929, Anslinger became the chair of the Department of Prohibition in Washington, D.C. After alcohol prohibition proved to be a disaster at the end of the 1920s, Anslinger found himself with little work to do in a major government department. To preserve his job, Anslinger began campaigning to outlaw cannabis, claiming that it caused people to commit violent crimes and become inevitably insane. This incredibly false campaign was p e r s u a s ive enough to make citizens fear cannabis, ultimately making it illegal in all fifty states, but Americans have been advocating for its legality since the 1930s.

It is true that cannabis negatively impacts mental health more than physical health. Legalizing it will allow us to more easily conduct research and understand its effect on mental health, which is a stigma of its own in the United States.

Even those who stress the harmful side of cannabis use will benefit from legalization because it will allow for stricter control of the drug. If cannabis

“For Massachusetts citizens, question four marks significant progress in destigmatizing a DEA Schedule I drug that, for many reasons, should never have been outlawed in the first place.”

becomes legalized, the market will be heavily regulated which implies more safety all around. Regulation will make it much harder for those under the age of 21 to obtain the drug. Cannabis may cause significant damage to the developing teenage brain, so its legality will discourage teenage abuse of the drug. Furthermore, the bulk of cannabis will no longer be distributed by dangerous drug dealers; legal dispensaries will make drug distribution far safer throughout communities.

For Massachusetts citizens, question four marks significant progress in destigmatizing a DEA Schedule I drug that, for many reasons, should never have been outlawed in the first place. Despite all claims, legalization means nothing more than regulation, which directly implies safety. It is embarrassing that society has taken so long to regulate cannabis considering how common and socially acceptable it has become.

If not in this election, cannabis will inevitably become legal. For thousands of years, cannabis has been used for both medicinal and recreational purposes all over the world. When compared to other drugs, cannabis clearly belongs in its own category. Now is the time to make it legal so we can peacefully study it, enjoy it, make it safer and overall more beneficial for ourselves and communities all over Massachusetts.

Anthony Ferranti is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at aferranti@umass.edu.

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housing, and 16 percent of homes have indoor plumbing. Native health care is also abysmal, due to the fact that the Indian Health Service is terribly underfunded.

America is a nation that was founded on the exploitation and killing of Indigenous Peoples. It is no secret. They have been shunted to undesirable land away from their tribes and families, and today the US government does not fund Native communities in the same way that it funds the rest of the country. They have actively devalued and erased Native culture and languages, and they continue to steal land and exploit these peoples.

We need to stand up. It is easy to ignore Native issues because they don’t jive with our nationalistic rhetoric of “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” It is easy to ignore Native issues because they are pushed to the margins. We ignore Native issues because we can, but we can choose not to as well.

Christin Howard is a Collegian columnist and can be reached at christinhowa@umass.edu.

A government of laws, not of men

Barack Obama was sworn have poked fun at Donald in as President when I was in Trump for blundering and sixth grade. Now, as a sopho- encouraging his supporters to vote for him on November 28, Becky Wandel 20 days after the actual election. If you oppose Trump, it more in college, I will watch is easy to wish that his suphim end his eight-year residen- porters would actually miss cy at the White House in just a their chance to vote because few months. In many ways, he it would mean he would lose has been my only president, the election and your candisince politics did not mean date would win, but this is a much to me in my pre-adoles- dangerous wish to make. cence, and I’ve grown rather It may seem like a harmless attached to the man. I would hope that someone you deem truly prefer him as president to as evil or dangerous doesn’t get elected almost anybut, at its one else heart, it is but, even in a hope to my weakest disenfranmoments, I chise those would never you diswish for his agree with. third term.

If hatred Presidential of one man term limis powerits weren’t ful enough made law to eclipse a until the belief that 22nd amendeveryone should have a right ment was ratified in 1951, four to vote, we might as well not years after it was passed in have that right at all. We must congress. It is no coincidence be vigilant against letting any that this amendment was person get under our skin or proposed immediately followinto our hearts to the point ing the death of Franklin D. where we would undermine Roosevelt – the only president our own deepest-held beliefs. ever to be elected to more than Many call Donald Trump two terms. Americans were dangerous, and perhaps he is quick to realize post-Roosevelt if he can make sensible people that presidencies lasting 12 or wish to amend the constitution 16 years were antithetical to just to avoid him. our nation’s anti-authoritarian In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote roots. in his pamphlet “Common I believe that term limits are Sense” that “in America, the the best way to protect these law is king. For as in absolute roots, for they ensure that governments the King is law, the power of the president is so in free countries the law always temporary and there- ought to be king; and there fore has little chance to become ought to be no other.” absolute. To ignore these limits There ought to be no other, “just this once” in favor of a and there will be no other, if we third Obama term would be stay steadfast in our principles equivalent to uprooting the – on election day and beyond – tree just to save one apple. The and ignore the zealots who wax apple will die soon anyway, apocalyptic in our ear. just as it was going to, but now the tree is rotten as well.

Becky Wandel is a Collegian Another example: voting columnist and can be reached at rights. In recent days, many rwandel@umass.edu.

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Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters a Pioneer Valley gem A great coffee shop outside of Amherst

By Jessica Chaiken Collegian Staff

If you’re thinking of switching from your usual fast-food chain coffee and leaving the non-fat, no whip, double espresso, mocha-whatever behind, you should. If you believe that your next best option is making your way into Amherst center to one of the over-crowded local shops, think again.

As a freshman, I was overjoyed when my friend first introduced me to the local coffee shops in Amherst, and convinced me to stop going to Starbucks. I really felt like I was integrating myself into Amherst, becoming a “townie.” But little did I know, beyond the intersection of Pleasant and Main Street, there was more to be discovered.

I recently heard about a coffee shop nearby called Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters. The closest one of their six locations is their shop in Hadley. It is nestled right on Route 9, at 322 Russell Street, just across the way from the Whole Foods shopping center. Although their location does not easily stand out, as it took three years of me driving by there to finally notice them, they are certainly a good find.

Shelburne Falls is your typical “mom and pop” coffee shop. There is definitely a sense of community within the shop, as can be deduced from the walls of local flyers. Founders Kathy Lytle and Curtis Rich began their coffee endeavors over 20 years ago. They have nurtured Shelburne Falls to be the successful multi-location business that it is today, starting from experimenting with coffee on their first espresso machine, to now owning six fruitful locations where they both sell and brew their hand roasted coffee beans.

Although seemingly small from the outside, Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters in Hadley is quite spacious inside. When you walk in, you are instantly greeted with the energizing aroma of freshly brewed coffee. The décor is homey and serene; there are tables and chairs in the front by the windows, letting in plenty of light to create a bright and airy feeling. There is also a back room that has less natural lighting, but is dimly lit by antique lamps.

Several large wooden tables and plenty of mismatched wooden chairs fill the room, surrounded by rustic red walls, creating a sort of “tavern” feel.

The atmosphere of Shelburne Falls creates the ideal spot to get some homework done or simply

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Shelburne Falls is a great alternative to crowded coffee shops in Amherst. relax over a cup of coffee.

There is free Wi-Fi, and plenty of outlets around the shop. The ambiance is usually quiet, with typical coffeehouse music softly playing.

Besides the atmosphere and community feel, Shelburne Falls most stands out for their carefully-crafted coffee. They have an extensive menu with a wide variety of food and drink. The different coffee drinks range from iced to hot, to basically everything else you can think of, such as lattes, espresso drinks, frozen beverages and more.

There are also nine varieties of flavored of coffee available to choose from, including chocolate rasp-

berry, hazelnut, French vanilla and pumpkin spice.

I ordered a plain café au lait, not realizing how many more choices I would have to make. When I ordered, the barista handed me a cup and told me to go to the counter behind me (where the different coffee flavors were lined up for self-service) and to fill my cup with any coffee up to where I wanted the milk.

Then he asked how I wanted my milk steamed.

I was confused; I had never been asked this before. He clarified that there were two ways I could have my milk steamed: latte foam or cappuccino foam. I chose latte foam, which is frothier and mixes into the coffee

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The coffee is self-serve, with about ten different flavors to choose from. better.

For my coffee, I chose a flavor called toasted coconut cream, one of their less mainstream flavors. To my surprise, the hint of coconut in the coffee was quite satisfying, and not artificial tasting like many others. I knew I liked the coffee a lot because even as the temperature cooled, I still enjoyed the coffee up until the last drop.

To match the season, Shelburne Falls has many fall drink specials. Along with having a typical pumpkin spice latte, they offer a brown sugar pecan latte, a pumpkin spice cold brew and caramel apple cider.

In addition to their cof-

fee, Shelburne offers many other drinks and foods on their menu. They serve fresh squeezed juices, tea and hot chocolate. Plus, they have a variety of breakfast sandwiches, as well as yogurt parfaits and bagels.

The Hadley location is open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. As a first time customer, Shelburne Falls definitely left me wanting more, and I am sure to return for my toasted coconut cream café au lait again soon.

Jessica Chaiken can be reached at jchaiken@umass.edu.

FITNESS

Top five places to go for a hike in Western Massachusetts Walk away all of your school stress

By Hudson Smith Collegian Correspondent Stress can be debilitating. No one can completely free themselves from it, especially with upcoming midterms. However, there are some fantastic and helpful ways to cope with stress.

One of my personal favorite methods of relief from an overanxious mind is to take a hike. No, I am not being sassy by saying “take a hike,” I mean it literally and wholeheartedly. When life feels like the walls are closing in on you, you can escape these barriers by exploring the outdoors. The fresh chill of fall days will awaken your mind and allow you to see the beauty surrounding you. The expansiveness of nature will never cease to amaze and luckily, Amherst has a multitude of hiking gems waiting to be discovered.

trail is perfect. The onemile-long hike never fails to take my breath away, literally. Though short, the trail consists of a steep and quick ascension that will keep your gluteus maximus sore for at least a day.

The incredible views will leave you in awe. Do not let lack of time excuse you from some self-care. A little will go a long way, and a visit to Bare Mountain will help accomplish this.

Amethyst Brook Conversation Area

As a well-traveled section of the Robert Frost Trail to Mount Orient, Amethyst Brook has the flexibility of being a short walk or long hike depending on what you desire.

Bring a book or journal and embrace the calming effects of the oxygen-rich environment around you.

Another therapeutic element, besides the wooden bridges and picturesque brooks, is its dog policy.

Many dogs and their owners frequent Amethyst due to the accessibility and tranquility. Why wait for Bare Mountain, the therapy dog days in Holyoke Mountain the Student Union if you Range can visit Amethyst any If you do not have too time and make some furry much time available, but acquaintances? are looking to exert yourself, the Bare Mountain Mount Sugarloaf

a walk or bike ride over, and relax in the fields of endless greenery.

The g rounds are extremely well-kept, and a perfect place to have the kind of self-reflective, lying-in-the-grass moment.

Looking up at the clouds while lying in a bed of plush grass is an ideal way to vacation from everyday anxieties and troubles.

Sometimes the fundamentals can be forgotten, and a 15 minute meditation period can remind us all of the peacefulness found in simplicity.

Winter is coming soon, so do not wait for the weather to get too cold before exploring some of these great locations. MidJAY ADAN/FLICKR Oct. may be one of the Just imagine the beautiful, breathtaking views that you can see once you climb to the top of Mount Sugarloaf. best times to hike around the Pioneer Valley due to One of the more well- Library on a clear day.

The Massachusetts the colorful and exuberknown hikes around Center for ant foliage. I highly recThe Summit House Amherst, Mount Sugarloaf Interdisciplinary ommend taking a camera does not need much descrip- Do not let a lack of motiRenaissance Studies when visiting any of the tion. The sights speak for vation prevent you from Not everyone has access above, but do not forget to themselves, and actually experiencing nature. If you to a car, or time to figure take mental snapshots too. received such great praise are not feeling a hike, you out the bus schedule. For The beauty of these vistas that Mel Gibson used the can drive up to the Summit those people though, there can occupy your mind just mountain to film the movie House at Mount Holyoke are still options. A quick enough for all your other on their paved roads. The walk off the northeast stresses and anxieties to “Edge of Darkness.”

From the sum- Summit House provides an side of campus leads to slip away. Whether you are mit, you can see the array of sights. The pure the Massachusetts Center looking for a physical or Connecticut River Valley, history of the well-pre- for Interdisciplinary mental escape, take a hike. the Berkshires, most of served, 19th century archi- Renaissance Studies. If South Deerfield, and pos- tecture is only one of the you just need to get away Hudson Smith can be reached at sibly even W.E.B. Du Bois many intriguing elements. from responsibilities, take hudsonsmith@umass.edu.

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Andy Isabella emerging at top receiver for UM Sophomore has 28 receptions on year

the most humble and quiet members of the Minutemen, and reverts almost any praise shed on him to working hard, how he carries

By Andrew Cyr himself and his work ethic.

Collegian Staff At the hallway point of When taking a quick the season for UMass (1-5), glance up and down the Isabella, a sophomore, has Massachusetts football emerged as the Minutemen’s team’s roster, there isn’t top receiver leading the team much that sticks out about in both receiving yards (385) 5-foot-9, 186-pound wide and touchdowns (four), and is tied for first with 28 recepreceiver Andy Isabella.

In person, he’s one of tions. But what’s even more

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Andrew Ford (7) and Andy Isabella (23) celebrate after a first quarter touchdown in the Minutemen’s 31-23 victory against Tulane on Sept. 17.

WILDCATS to play the full 90 minutes,” Babin said. “If we just stay tuned in the whole time everything else will come together.”

Thursdays game in North Carolina is set to start at 7 p.m.

Minutewomen earn academic award The Minutewomen were recently honored as one of 578 institutions to win the 2015-16 National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA) academic award.

The award marks the 12th time in the last 13 years

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that one of Matz’s programs (UMass and Northeastern) has received the honor.

“It’s something that these kids should be doing and we’re proud,” Matz said. “We take our academics seriously and they do too.”

Collectively, the team achieved a 3.34 grade-point average for the 2015-16 academic year to qualify for the prestigious recognition.

“We do a lot work on and off the field, it’s something we take pride in.”

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gave all the credit to his back line, and more specifically the leader of that group. “[Josh Jess] does well every single game,” Becerra said. “What he does, the crowd doesn’t always see, and it doesn’t always show outside the pitch. But all the runs he makes, the steps he makes the command, he kills it every game.”

Jess and the back line had one of its best showings of the season holding the Bonnies to just 10 shots the entire game, only seven of which were on goal.

SBU only had one corner kick all afternoon, which is by far the lowest total against the Minutemen this season.

In the previous six games, UMass has only allowed a combined five goals, and O’Leary cred-

its the development of the team following a difficult early schedule.

“I think it hardens you or it breaks you,” O’Leary said. “In this case I think it hardened us, and I think it’s a credit to our lads that it didn’t break them and I think we’re better for it.”

Becerra agreed that the defense along with the rest of the team has become “harder” over the course of the season and is now hitting its stride.

“At the beginning of the season we were a little shaky giving up a lot more goals than we would have liked,” Becerra said. “Now we’re harder, we’re not a soft team in the back and we defend our set pieces well, and who knows when they’re going to score on us again.”

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impressive is the fact he came out of high school as a running back, and didn’t spend much time working on receiver routes and hand drills before coming to UMass.

When asked if in August’s preseason camp or during the offseason he ever envisioned himself to be the team’s top receiver, Isabella never saw it coming himself.

“I really don’t think so,” Isabella said. “I definitely saw myself playing a lot more and I’ve just been working my butt off every day. I guess hard work really does pay off, so I’m just going to see where it goes.”

UMass coach Mark Whipple, on the other hand, knew right from the start Isabella had the potential to be a key cog in the Minutemen’s offensive machine.

“From camp, yeah,” Whipple said. “Maybe not the first two days before Jalen [Williams] got hurt.

But he’s just come on and he’s been solid.”

In the past two weeks alone, Isabella has accumulated three touchdown passes. Last Friday against Old Dominion, Isabella had an 11-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter to make it a one-possession game. Two weeks ago against Tulane, he had a pair of 12-yard touchdowns

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in the first four minutes of contest.

“He’s done a real good job,” Whipple said. “He’s a competitor and is just carrying himself with a lot more confidence – kind of like, ‘get me the ball.”’

For quarterback Andrew Ford – who’s thrown him all four of his touchdowns – it’s been Isabella’s timing and precision that has led him to become such a prominent member of the offense, and one of his most reliable targets.

“I know exactly where he is going to be,” Ford said.

“I think our timing is really good right now. He runs crisp routes and timing is really big in coach Whipple’s offense. So knowing where he’s going to be and having a guy like Adam [Breneman] occupying two defenders on a lot of plays really opens up the window for him and I know he’s going to make plays for us.”

As the back-half of the season starts this Saturday when the Minutemen host Louisiana Tech at Gillette Stadium, Isabella expects teams are going to continue to mark where he is on offense at all times.

So far, Isabella says he’s been noticing more and more teams move their cornerbacks on him when he lines up in the slot, as his speed poses a mismatch nightmare

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Andy Isabella leads UMass in both receiving yards (385) and touchdowns (four). for any linebacker.

“Yeah … it is kind of cool,” Isabella said when asked about the feeling of having opponents game plan for him. “It’s harder for me, but I like the challenge. I like going out there and competing every day.”

Isabella added: “You have to find different spots, and also work my routes better, which has always been a challenge for me. Coming in as a running back, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced running routes, so, I have to keep running my routes better and better.”

Despite the added attention, Ford isn’t worried about Isabella and his ability to find holes in opposing team’s defenses. The quarterback said despite Isabella’s size, he feels confident in putting

the ball in the general facility of his top receiver to make a play for UMass.

“He doesn’t have the radius of a guy his size,” Ford said. “If you put it around him, he’s going to make the play – and that’s really helpful as a quarterback.

Ford added: “He’s also not afraid to go across the middle, and that’s tough for guys at this level. To see some of the strong safeties and linebackers at this level, in college football, and he has no fear. He just knows what he has to do and does his job, and it’s really awesome to have a target like that to throw to.”

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

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Minutemen tallied five shots to SBU’s four, and both goalkeepers needed to make just a pair of saves each.

O’Leary believed the team needed to take a simpler offensive approach in the second half.

“I think we just need to be a bit brighter, take a touch less,” O’Leary said.

“We were taking three, four touches, we were a bit later than our passes, so we just needed to up the tempo, start playing one or two touch, up the tempo and the overall pace. I think we did that in the second half and threatened a few times before we actually scored.”

As has been the case often during the Minutemen’s improved run of play over the past six games, UMass played sound defense. The Minutemen limited good scoring chances for the Bonnies, who took the majority of their shots from outside the box. UMass goalkeeper Jorge Becerra played well in net, tallying seven saves.

The back four adapted well to the addition of midfielder Matthew Mooney, who played at left back, filling in for typical starter sophomore Konrad Gorich, who was injured in the A-10 opener against Dayton. “[Mooney] can play anywhere, we just trust him

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Forward Kevin Boino (21) scored the Minutemen’s lone goal in their 1-0 win over SBU Wednesday afternoon. implicitly,” O’Leary said.

“He’s a terrific college player. He’s just a competitor, so he can play anywhere, and he was very, very good today against a good opponent.”

Mooney typically starts in the midfield for the Minutemen this season, but last year he spent time at left back, making it easy for the UMass defense to adapt to his presence.

“We’ve played together before, so it worked pretty well,” Mooney said about the communication between

the four Minutemen defenders and Becerra. “They’re all confident I’m there, I’m confident that they’re there, so we work well together.”

The Minutemen have now held their opponent without a goal for three straight games, the first time UMass has achieved that feat since 2011.

“We pride ourselves on trying to get clean sheets every game,” Boino said.

“We work hard for each other, it’s not just the back four and Jorge, it’s everyone as a team, pressing and

working with each other, plugging holes. It’s a total team effort to get a clean sheet.”

The Minutemen now have a record of 4-1-1 in the past six games and it appears UMass has found its stride at the right time with conference play in full force.The Minutemen travel to Davidson on Saturday for their next match. Opening kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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FINDING THEIR STRIDE

Minutemen host La. Tech Saturday Bulldogs own top 10 offense in FBS

By Adam Aucoin Collegian Staff

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The Minutemen improved to 4-1-1 in their last six games after defeating Atlantic-10 foe St. Bonaventure 1-0 Wednesday afternoon at Rudd Field.

UMass secures UM improves to first A-10 win 4-1-1 over last six Kevin Boino scores games in shutout goal in 69th minute work for every day in practice, work on our set pieces every day or hope for a little piece of magic every game, and we’ve been getting it.”

By Jamie Cushman In addition to the lone Collegian Staff goal of the game, Boino also Through the first 75 per- had the Minutemen’s best cent of the Massachusetts scoring chance of the first men’s soccer match half when his shot banged against St. Bonaventure off the left post in the 12th on Wednesday afternoon, minute.

UMass appeared destined Boino has now found the for another 0-0 game as nei- back of the net three times ther the Minutemen nor the against St. Bonaventure, as Bonnies generated many the sophomore also powered scoring chances. the Minutemen to a 2-0 vic Then the magic happened. tory over the Bonnies last In the 69th minute mid- year when he scored both fielder Henry Steinkamp goals. found forward Kevin Boino “Just keep scoring against making a run to the right everyone else now,” UMass post where Boino received coach Fran the ball about five O’Leary said with yards out from UMass 1 a laugh. “It was the net, before a terrific goal.

Boino beat the Kevin did very SBU 0 SBU goalkeeper well, particularly with a shot to the in the second half far post, scoring today. He led the line very the lone goal in a 1-0 UMass well.” win.

Both UMass (4-6-2, 1-0-1 “Like coach [Fran Atlantic 10) and the Bonnies O’Leary] says, if we keep get(2-9-2, 1-2-1 A-10) came out ting clean sheets all we need looking sluggish offenis a little piece of magic or sively in the first half. The something off a set piece,” Boino said. “It’s what we see SOCCER on page 7

By Nicholas Souza Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts men’s soccer team accomplished something defensively that has not been done since October of 2011.

UMass (4-6-2, 1-0-1 Atlantic 10) held St. Bonaventure scoreless en route to a 1-0 victory, witch marks the first time in five years – almost exactly to the day – the Minutemen have put together three consecutive shut outs. This is also the fourth shut out in the past six games for the Minutemen, as they have gone 4-1-1 during the stretch.

The strong performance by the defensive back line and senior goalkeeper Jorge Becerra was necessary for victory against the Bonnies (2-92, 1-2-1 A-10), who were coming off a 3-2 win over Davidson in their last outing.

SBU came in with the reputation for hitting long shots from outside the box, which is exactly what it threw at UMass, as Becerra was forced to make seven saves, the majority of which came from outside the box.

“They’re a terrific longrange team,” Minutemen head coach Fran O’Leary said. “Sometimes your keeper has an easy shutout, but today he had to make six or seven huge saves so he had a huge role in it today.”

“Usually you just have to stay ready,” Becerra said about the preparation for a team favoring long-range shots. “We told our guys to step up on them once they had the ball and they’re dangerous once they get close to the goal.”

While Becerra had to put in quite a bit of work to earn his fourth shutout of the season, as usual he see

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makes plays. His ball placement is really good and he probably has a stronger arm than it looks on tape.”

Whipple added: “The guys around him have a lot of skill. They have big guys that run, so we got to keep the ball in front of us and not give up big plays and tackle well in space.” La. Tech’s defense has been a different case and has shown inconsistency throughout the first half of the year. The Bulldogs have seen games where they hold their opponent to a touchdown, like they did against Texas El Paso, but they have also had games where they have given up multiple scores, like the 52 points they surrendered last week against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

Despite the opposition’s inconsistencies, UMass quarterback Andrew Ford is not going to take the Bulldogs defense lightly going into Saturday’s game.

“They’re a very talented defense from top to bottom,” Ford said. “They have a lot of depth. We don’t look too much at the scores.

We just watch the tape and see that they have a lot of great playmakers all over the field.”

After losing three straight and five of their first six games, it would be easy for the Minutemen to pack it in and think about next year, but the team refuses to give up on this season.

“For us, this is the halfway point of the season.

We’ve got six games left and we just got to take what we learned in the first six games and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes,” Ford said. “Each week is a new opportunity.

Good or bad, whatever happens in the past you have to put it behind you.”

“We’re pretty good at gathering each other up and moving on,” Breneman added. “We’re looking at this as a new six-game season. We think we left every game on the field, we could have won in all five losses.

We’re going to take it one week at a time and look at this as a fresh start for us.”

Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. at Gillette Stadium on Saturday.

During the first half of the 2016 season, the Massachusetts football team has faced some of the best defenses in the nation.

From the stout secondary of Florida to the strong linebacker core of Boston College, UMass has faced the best of the best in defensive fronts.

Saturday’s matchup against Louisiana Tech at Gillette Stadium provides the Minutemen (1-5) with a completely different kind of challenge. All eyes will be on the UMass defense as it tries to slow down one of the nation’s top offenses. The Bulldogs rank seventh in the nation in total offense and are coming off a 55-point performance last week against Western Kentucky. La. Tech has scored more than 40 points on three separate occasions this season.

Minutemen tight end Adam Breneman knows the UMass offense will have to be at the top of its game if they want to compete with the Bulldogs Saturday.

“Their offense has been pretty well-documented as one of the best in the country, so we’re going to have put a lot of points on the board,” Breneman said.

“Our offense has shown flashes of what we can do.

You look at the start of the Tulane game, scoring twice in two minutes. We can move the ball down the field. We just have to cut down on the mistakes.”

A big reason for La. Tech’s success on offense has been the combination of quarterback Ryan Higgins and wide receiver Trent Taylor. Higgins ranks eighth in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in passing yards (1,869) and sixth in touchdown passes (17).

Taylor ranks second in the FBS in receiving touchdowns (8), receptions (66) and receiving yards (861).

Minutemen coach Mark Whipple is well aware of the impact the two Bulldogs can have on any given game.

“Those guys are really good. [Ryan] Higgins is really accurate, athletic and he makes plays,” Whipple Adam Aucoin can be reached at said. “They don’t really run aaucoin@umass.edu and followed him that much, but he just on Twitter @aaucoin34.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minutewomen head south for matchup with Davidson UMass winless in last seven contests

By Mollie Walker Collegian Staff

The Massachusetts women’s soccer team is back on the road this week, stopping down south in Davidson Thursday night before heading back up north to face Rhode Island Sunday afternoon.

UMass (2-8-1, 0-4-0 Atlantic 10) is coming off of its first pair of home games so far in A-10 play. Although the ending results were not in the Minutewomen’s favor with losses against George Washington and George Mason, they did manage to break their four-game scor-

ing drought off a free-position kick by Daniela Alvarez in their double-overtime loss to the Patriots.

“We have six games left,” both UMass coach Ed Matz and goalkeeper Cassidy Babin acknowledged.

“Every one that you don’t get, puts that much pressure on the next one,” Matz said.

“It’s a game on the road that we have to go down and get those three points.”

Davidson (4-8-1, 0-3-1 A-10) returns home after its 2-0 loss against Duquesne this past Sunday, dropping its record on the road to 1-50.

Like UMass, the Wildcats have struggled on the offensive end this season. Heading into Thursday’s game,

Davidson has been without a goal since its A-10 opener Sept. 29 against Virginia Commonwealth.

Wildcats freshman Seeley Yoo currently leads the team with three goals this season, sizing up UMass’ top scorer, junior Gabriela Kenyon, who has two of the Minutewomen’s five total goals this season.

Babin expressed her excitement about the upcoming game and noted that regardless of the two teams playing, A-10 soccer is always entertaining to watch. She believes her team is prepared and they’re hoping for a positive result to get UMass on track on its journey to the conference championships.

“With the A-10 anything can go, so I don’t think we should be discouraged right now just because of how we started,” Babin said.

The two teams have only faced a common opponent this season in La Salle.

Davidson emerged with a 0-0 tie, while UMass fell short 1-0.

Davidson’s goalkeeper Alex Carpenter pushed her save total of the season to 56 after having a sevensave game in the Wildcats’ most recent outing against Duquesne. Only one save short of Carpenter, Babin stands with 55 saves this season.

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Goalkeeper Cassidy Babin has recorded 55 saves for UMass this season.